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# WORTHIKK88. ^ «r oiuus a o'louxf. ^ . ̂ rT-4 whatever lacks Porpoae is evil; a pool with­ out pebbles breedsnliine; Hot any one step hath Chance fashioned on _ the infinite stairway of Time; Nor ever came Good without Labor, in Toil, or in Seienoaor Art: It must be wroMrtit out thro* the muscles-- f " born OHtac(h*s«ul and the heart. •-Kffcy plow In the stubble with plowshares?-- a . why winnow the chaff fropi the grain.* Ah, eioee all of His (rifts must be toiled for, since Truth is not born without painl He giveth not to the unworthy, the weak, or the foolish tn dwdi; Who jriveth but chaff at the saed-time shall reap but a harvest of weeds. As the pyramid builded'of vapor is blown by His whirlwinds to naught. Bo the song without Truth is forgotten; His fxCm to llan is Man's thought. Whatever is Strang with a purpose, in taim- % ; bleness woven, soutpure, ' "r • £- Si known to the MdCCT of Mngeiti flfe . - toucheth it Baylae^"Endttrer ++lhe XJurrent ytr4':\? «".*r CtRCHISTAHCES. 1*^ Atetraet or John B. (tough's Famous » Lecture. . Circumstances is a term so common M to be on most men's lips every day. The word is never a hermit, and is al­ ways dependent on others. It is al­ ways an adjunct, and never a principal, Let us see what there is of interest and •alue in this well trodden path. Some­ times a trifling circumstance may give » new torn to one's whole life. I well remember one night while in Glasgow, Scotland, I was the guest of one of the merchant princes of the city. I spoke that evening to 2,500 people. It was ay last night bat one in Scotland. When the lecture was over my friend Mde me take my seat in his carriage, while waiting for the ladies. Several men and women gathered round to •hake my hand. One of the men who approached me was covered with rags and dirt. His face was almost ghastly. His white lips parted showed the whiter tongue. Holding out hie dirty trem­ bling hand he asked me, "Do you know me?" I placed my hand in his and looked into that miserable face. I called him bjr name. In 1812 he and I worked together in a book bindery at "Vforoeiter. I remembered him well for be was a better workman than L As I lit tnere in that gorgeous carriage, drawn by silver caparisoned horses, sur­ rounded by luxury on every hand, with the applause of the people still ringing in my ear* and my hand still warm with the grasp of friends, I could but think of our change condition, of the gulf that separated us; my mind went back sixteen years to a single circum­ stance that made the difference; it was the dart of a pen on a temperance pledge. That changed my destiny for fae and eternity. Circumstances arige bur relations to each other. I remember what an old colored man once told me. Said he; "Three years ago I subscribed $5 to the church and everybody took off their hats when they met me and called me 'Brother Dixon.' The next year I subscribed $3. and they said, 'How do you do, Dixon ?' *The next year I had sickness in the family ana I was unable to give a cent and when they came around I put down nothing. Now they say, 'There goes ©jd nigger Dixon.'" Circumstances often change quickly. A learned professor met a sailor on a boat and fell into conversation with him. "Have yon ever studied the Na- ittral Sciences?" "No," replied the sailor. "Then half your life is lost." In a few minutes the boat began to sink and the sailor asked the professor, "Can you swim?" "No," said he. to^Then all your life will be lost," re­ torted the sailrr. ' Facts can never be altered by circum- , Stances. It is an advantage to be able 30 make the best of circumstances. Sometimes it is hard to do this. I am reminded of the old n^gro woman who Was asked kow she could live in such a smoke. She answered that she was thankful to have something to make a smoke with. Perhaps you have heard of the young man who was to be mar­ ried by the Episcopal service and learned the responses. Lnluckilv he learned the responses in the baptismal service, and when the parson asked "Do you take this woman to be your Wedded wife?" the bashful vouth re- tpoade i: "I renounce them all." "You iwre a fool," interrupted the minister. "All this I do believe," was the young adan's response. A thoughtless word has often stained a reputation and part­ ed friends. Faith has been changed to doubt through a word' of scandal and the miserable mutterings of gossip. The meanest thing on earth is a scan­ dalizing. gossiping man or woman. Don't touch a pure reputation. Char­ acter can never be touched. A man is What he is, not what men say he is. Reputation is foj time, but character is lor eternity. Young men, it is im­ portant to keep a'clean record. If you have a spot on it your enemies will go to it and mapnify it. I am (57 years of age. I have iived sixty years. I lost seven years and more than wasted it in strong drink. One can never wholly ^fecover frrtn such a thing. A stained reputation -wilt stare you in the face when you don't want it to. Often an Unkind word has crushed ambition, and a generous word has made a man BUccesuful. In 1842, forty-two years ago last October, on the morning alter I had signed the pledge I began a ter­ rible struggle, but I conquered. E. U. Bailey, city missionary in London, was hKkce a priee tighter. A man said a kind Word to liim when he signed the pledge and gave him a lodging. Change of circumstances sometimes ffccas on a change of conduct. In a sleeping car on one of our great rail- roads was an old bachelor, and you - know tome old bachelors are cross and ©rusty and most of them hate babies. On the Mtuie car was a baby who cried •nd jelled to the annoyance of every passenger. At last the old bachelor,' nnable to stalid it any longer, put his head out of the curtains and said that he wished the mother of that child Would take care of it and give other people a chance to sleep. At this the father of the baby stepped into the aisle Baying, "Sir. the mother of this baby is in her casket in the baggage car of this train. I have been traveling for two days and nights with this infant to take it and its mother to the child's grandparents. I will do my best not •to annoy you, for I have not had sleep since we started." Instantly the knowl­ edge of the circumstances changed the crusty old bachelor's behavior. He insisted on taking the child to his own berth and caring for it, that the weary father might have the needed rest. Those of you who know how old bachelors hate children know how great was his sacrifioe. Knowl­ edge of circumstances often will change our conduct. It is wrong to form too hard and harsh a judgment of other men. -1 In New York city a printing house employed sixty men. - One of them begged the privilege of sleeping on the heaps of .paper in the office, to save the Expense of lodgings. He ate the mean- 'dawn on by his fellows and shopmates. They made Inn of him and ridiculed him, but be bore it all meekly and pleas­ antly. At length, one day in June, they stood at the imposing stone count­ ing their money as they had just been paid. It was the custom of the shop to have an annual excursion, and one of the number proposed that it be held soon. It was suggested that a barge be chartered and that they sail up the river or down the bay. A paper was started and all but one signed it, and he said he could not. One of the men insulted him beyond endurance and he struck him to the floor. Then speak­ ing to the young men standing by, he said: "I suppose I have made this place too hot to hold me, and, in this crisis, before I leave the shop, I will tell you why I have done as I have. My sister and I were left orphans, and I worked hard that she might go to school and receive an education. She was at a young iadies seminary and making rapid advancement when she was stricken blind. I learned that in Paris there is a physician who is very skillful in the treatment of just such cases as hers, and can restore their sight. I am saving all I can to take her to Paris, and in two months more I will have enough and hope to go." The effect of his words was like magic. The man whom he had knocked down was the first to speak. Said he: "Boys, we will have no excursion this year. The money shall go to take that poor girl to Paris. Put down your names for $10, every man." And they did. The money was given and the voyage begun. The operation was successful, and sight was restored, and that sister returned like one coming from the dead. Before you judge, know the circum­ stances, and it may change your opin­ ion. Take into consideration all the facts of the case. Ex-Secretary Chase once asked me what was the saddest sight I ever saw, and I answered an old child--a little one made prema­ turely old. Under rags and dirt there may be a noble heart Education and training make all the difference in the world. The' little street boys are the smartest lads in your city. Some of them are brave little fellows. They learn by hard knocks. When you deal with them remember their circum­ stances. One day some years ago I secured admission into a London prison. In the party was a fine appearing gentle­ men who, as we passed along, suddenly stopped, his eyes rivetted on the occu­ pant of a cell near us. The prisoner was a young woman, who grasped the iron grating and gazed fixedly at the visitor. The gentleman turned and left the prison Without speaking. The officer in charge spoke to the girl and she said, "You saw that man look at me ? Well he might. He ruined me. Before I knew him.I was a pure and happy girl in my mother's home, and see where I am." If you brand a woman a criminal, burn the brand just as deep in the fore­ head of the man. In the journey of life two men start together. One is good, the other bad. Sometimes men are negatively good. Men are not to blame for having a fiery temper, but they are tc blame if they do not control it. Some men go through life and always look as if they were just coming out of a band-box. Others meet and overcome the obstacles in the way. The latter is the worthier of the two. Sometimes, too, there are un­ pleasant circumstances. Men often have to drop their dignity as the man did when another asked him, "Pardon me.but are you anybody in particular ?" It is an important thing to endeavor to overcome circumstances. Once,when lecturing on temperance in Dundee,.I spoke to an audience of 800 outcasts. In the front row sat a brazen-faced, muscular - looking woman. I was warned t hat she would make a disturb­ ance and that she was the most aban­ doned woman in the city. She was ab­ solutely incorrigible and was feared by all. The committee told me that I 'must not speak to her if she addressed me. At the close of the lecture an op­ portunity was given for those that wished to sign the pledge, and this fearful woman came on the stage. She spoke to me. but I did not answer her. She asked me if I would give her a pledge, and turning to the committee I a*ked for one. The gentlemen told me she would not keep ft a day, and that she would be drunk before she slept. I said to her: "One of the gentlemen says you will not keep the pledge if you do sign it. Will you keep it?" She answered: "I'll keep it if I say I will, and I will." She signed the pledge and kept it. She earned a living sew­ ing bags and spent all her spafte time in rescuing fallen women. When she died theie were hundreds at her fu­ neral. Magistrates and ministers were there to pay their tribute of respect to the Scotchwoman who kept the pledge when she said she would. Will power can accomplish anything. Young men, if you are bound by any habit, stop it, and you can if you say you will. Your neighbor is every hu­ man being on this earth. You are bound to help him to the best of your ability. I don't believe in coddling men that do wrong. It often does as much harm as good, when men determinedly do what they know to be wrong. If a "man can leave liquor alone for six weeks he can leave it alone for six months or sixty years. Help men, stoop to their weakness, but not to their de­ termined wickedness. We are bound to do the best we can for all mankind. Use kindness when you can. Some people are afraid of coming in contact, witli and touching these poor, degraded creatures. They have souls worth more than alt the diamonds in the world. Clean linen may be a means of grace as well as a prayer. If you would save souls you must come in contact with them. Supply their necessities and then give them spiritual attendance. It is a great tiling to save a human life. On a rockbound coast,a windy winter's night a ship was in distress and its crew in danger. All was beneath the waves save a few spars where hung the half frozen sailors. On shore the wreck could be seen and the cry went up "Man the life boat," and one by one volun­ teers came forward to breast the storm and save a human life. They are out on that treacherous sea and can only guide their course by the sound of the voices as they are wafted on the wind from tho wreck. Now a lull in the storm reveals the mast--"Steady, boys, steady." Now they are under those spars and the half dead men fall into the life boat and again they face the fearful storm to gain the shore. The sailors bend to their ashen oars and hum a weird sea song. "Are they saved?" comes from the anxious watchers on the land. "Aye, aye," is the response and a shout of thanksgiving goes up. It is noble to save a human life, but it is nobler still to save a soul that is wrecked on life's great sea. Let us seek to over­ come circumstances and achieve a vic­ tory ia spito of • KEMIMSCEKCES Of PUBLIC ME*. BY BKR: PKHLEY POORS. Twenty-four years ago, as the period for the inauguration of Abraham Lin­ coln approached, the country was drift­ ing into civil war, yet Mr. Seward, hopeful that something would tnrn up to arrest the collision, assumed great levity of manner and speecli. When the owner of the Star of the Went went to him, and in the most earnest manner besought him to give some positive assurance of what Lincoln's policy would be, Seward replied: "I tell you what you do. Buy a ticket for the Lincoln inauguration ball. Head the list with your name, and that will bring peace to the country!" The man retired, nauseated at such folly. As for Douglas, his power to cope with the issue before him might have been judged from what he said to Critten­ den : "How this thing is to be settled, we don't know. But settled it will be, somehow. We feel it in our bones, don't we, Mr. Crittenden, that all will be well ?" When Andrew Johnson returned to the Senate, in 1876, he was greeted by, the following Senators who voted guilty on the articles of impeachment pre­ sented against him when he was Presi­ dent of the United States, namely: Messrs. Anthony, Cameron, Conkling, Howe, Cragin, Edmunds, Frelinghuy- sen, Ferry, of Connecticut; Morrill, of Maine; Morrill, of Vermont; Morton, and Sherman, twelve in all of the thir­ ty-five. None of the nineteen Senators who voted "not guilty" were present, except Mr. McCreery, of Kentucky. As the summer of 1861 advanced, it became necessary to organize a de­ tective system of espionage for the protection of the United States Gov­ ernment against the adherents of the Confederate cause. The reports made by this corps of detectives to the De­ partment of State showed the daring acts of the Southern sympathizers, several of whom were ladies of wealth and fashion. How they watched and waited at official doors till they had 1 bagged the important secret of state they wanted; how they stole military maps and plans from the War Depart­ ment, and from under the very nose of Oen. Scott; how they listened, and eavesdropped, and took copies of official documents; how they smuggled the precious news of the* Government's strength and movements in the linings of honest-looking coats; and how they hid army secrets in the meshes of in­ nocent and unprotected crinoline; how they burned signal-lights from upper windows; how they sneaked about the camps, talking Union, with facile "Drake De Kay's" passes in their pock­ ets, and explored the nakedness of the land; how they crossed the Potomac far down, at dead of night, and with muffled oars, or smuggled the newspa­ pers over in the capacious receptacles of market women's clothes--all these became familiar facts, almost ceasing to excite remark or surprise. Of this band of active and useful plotters, who were constantly engaged playing into the hands of the Confed­ erates, under the very shadow of^ the Capitol, some of the women of Wash­ ington were the busiest and most use­ ful. The intriguing nature of these dames appears to have found especial delight and scope in forwarding the schemes of the leaders in the move ment to overthrow the Washington Government It mattered not that most of them owed all they possessed of fortune and position to that Fed­ eral Government, and to the patronage which, directly or indirectly, they had received from it. This very fact lent a spice of daring to the deed, while an irresistible attraction was furnished in the fact that they were plotting the ruin of a government which had fallen into the hands of that Northern ma jority whom, with all the lofty scorn of "patrician" blood, they despised and detested. There was Mrs. Greenliow, a busy emissary of this treason, who spent days and nights in contriving and oxecuting missions to the camp oi Beauregard. There was Mrs. Phillips, wife of a millionaire, who was the center of a throng of mingled beauty and disloyalty. There was Mrs. Hass ler, the Superintendent of a Southern mail which employed the capacious hoops of female emissaries for its missives between Maryland and Vir­ ginia. There was Mrs. Gwin, wife of the California Senator, whose house was the rendezvous of Ben McCulloch, Jacob Thompson, John B. Floyd, John M. Mason, and other conspirators whe drew the gold of that Government they were secretly leagued to overthrow. Then there were the artful complot- ters of the secessionists all about Washington, like the Misses S , oi Alexandria, whose blandishments Be- duced a Connecticut Captain from his camp and made him prisoner to the rebel army. All the arts and fascina­ tions c!f the sex were employed upon officers, both civil and military, to for ward the ends of the Confederate junto which had its headquarters at Rich­ mond, and its lesser court in the salons of Washington and Baltimore. Matrimouj by the Boston Route. Sixty years ago, and even later, the shortest path to lame and a wealthy wife in Boston was a course in the Harvard College Divinity school. A previous graduation from the college is self was a great, but not an indis­ pensable, help. It* best substitute was the attainment of a Harvard Pro­ fessorship. In this case the ministerial programme mtgi t be omitted. Still, ilie rich merchants of Boston, who ob­ jected to the sons of their wealthy neighbors as extravagant and dissi­ pated, and who were equally averse to muking sons-in-law of their impecu­ nious, if promising, clerks, regarded yonn^ Unitarian divii es as both re­ spectable and sa'e. Edward Everett found it easy to woo and win the daugh­ ter of the millionaire, Peter C. Brooks; Jiired Sparks espoused the wealthy Miss Silsbee. of Salem: George Ban­ croft, who was then a preacher, also married money, and a second Miss Brooks smiled' on the offers of the Kev. N. L. Frothingham, father of the noted radical of our day, the Rev. Oc- tavius Brooks Frothingham. The Rev. Andrews Norton, father of Charles Eliot Norton, married a second Miss Eliot, and lived to become one of the ablest of Unitarian polemics, assailing with equal energy old-fusliioned ortho­ doxy and Emersonian transcendental­ ism, which li j stigmatized >• s "the latest form of infidelity." I might extend the list of fortune-winning clergymen, but the above-named specimens are suf­ ficient The professional route to matrimony has often proved a very successful one, though, cf course, there never have been as many college chairs as pulpits to tempt the ambi­ tious scholar.--From a Box ton Latter. A tocxo lady requested to bo released from her marriage en­ gagement on the ground that when she contracted it she believed her lover was "a duck," but bad since found him to be a goose. Preventing Centagiea ia the Rcheeli. In London, the medical officers of school associations having drawn up a code of rules for the prevention of con­ tagions and infectious diseases in schools.the following rules are indorsed, provided patient and clothing are thoroughly disinfected: "A pupil may go home, or rejoin the school, after scarlet-fever, in not less than six weeks from the date of the rash, if desquama­ tion have completely ceased, and there be no appearance of sore throat; measles, in not less than three weeks from the date of the rash, if all des­ quamation and cough have ceased; Ger­ man measles (Rotheln, or epidemio roseola), in two or three weeks, the ex­ act time depending upon the nature of the attack; small-pox and chicken-pox, when every scab has fallen off; mumps in four weeks from the commencement, if all swelling has subsided; whooping- cough, after six weeks from the com­ mencement of the whooping, provided the characteristic spasmodic cough and the whooping have ceased, or earlier, if all cough has completely passed away; diphtheria, in not less than three weeks, when convalescence is completed, there being no longer any form of sore throat, or any kind of discharge from the throat nose, eyes, ears, eta, and no albuminuria.'7 -- Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. A No disease which does not. confino a man to his bed so completely Unfits hi in for business dyspepsia. M hen the stomach Is foul, the brain is always muddy and confused, and, a* the cares and anxieties ot life are a sufficient burden for the orfrans ot thought to bear, withf oat being tormented by the miseries born of indirection, it is highly desirable ior tho brain's sake, as well as for the sake of every otber port tion of the system, that the disordered stomach should be restored with the utmost dispatch to a healthy, vigorous condition. This object can always be accomplished by a course ot Hostet-t, ter's Stomach Hitters, the purest and best oft vegetable specifics, which evacuates the morbi<J> him or* through the bowels, rouses and tones the torpjd stomach and regulates the liver, im parts brmness to the nerves, and clears tho 8ensorium of its mental cobwebs. Persons sub­ ject to attacks of indigestion, bilious headache, irregularity of the bowels, sickness ot the stomach, or "the blues," should take the Bitter* once or twice a day throughout the present! season. He Explains. "Why is it the sophs and freshmen never meet on the college green with­ out fighting?" Because there's always a storm be­ fore the cam pus," he replied, and she immediately thereafter knew he used rose pomatum on the seventeen hairs comprising his moustache. --Pittsburg h Chronicle. The blue gingham umbrella has done heaps of good and saved many a bon net, but has never been embowered in poesy Instead of fooling away inspiration on the beastly weather, sonje of the spring warblers might toss off a little melody now and then in honor of genuine merit . - "Shoot Polly as She Flies," --Pop. was the way it appeared in the proof-slip. The argus-cyed proof-reader, however, knew the quotation intended and changcd ft to read: "Shoot Folly as she flies.--t\>p\ Ot course it was an error, jet how many are da ly eommtttinsf much graver errors by allowing the tlrst symptoms of consumption to go unheeded. If afflicted with loss of appetite, chilly sensations, or hacking cough, it is suicidal to delay a single moment the use of Dr. Pierce's "Golden Med.cal Discovery," --the great and only reliable remedy yet known for this terribly fatal malady. Send two letter stamps for J>r. Picrce's complete treatise on this di ease. Address World's DiSr pensary Medical Association, buffalo, N. Y. A saloon that Is closed up may not be haunted, but it is a place of departed spirits. "Laugh and tirow Fat," is a precept easily preached, but notao easy to practice. If a person lias no appetite, but a distressing nausea, sick headache, dyspep­ sia. boils, or any other ill resulting from Inaction of the bowels, it is impossible to get up such a laugh as will produce aidermanio corpulence, in order to laugh satisfactorily you must bo well, and to be well, you must have your bowels in good order. You cua do this and laugh heartily with Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pel.ets," the little regu­ lators or the liver and bowels and best pro­ moters of jollity. An unprofitable admission--a tree ticket to the show. County Clbrks may be smart, but they are generally fee-bill minded. INVALIDS' HOTEL»SURGICAL INSTITUTE Ho. 663 Main Street, BUFFALO, N. 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Do not listen to or heed the counsel of skeptical friends or jealous physicians, know nothing of us, our system of to prejudice people against us. treatment, or means of cure, yet who never lose an opportunity to misrepresent and endeavor Wo are responsible to you for what wo represent, and if you_come and .visit us, and find tan refnnd to y« glad to show 1 we have misrepresented, in any particular, our institutions, advantages or success, we will promptly • •II expenses ef jour trip. We court honest, sincere investigation, have no secrets, and are only too interested and candid people what wo are doing for suffering humanity. NOT ALWAYS NECESSARY TO SEE PATIENTS. By our original system of diagnosis, we can treat many chronic acqua familiarise them with our system of treatment, yet we have not seen one person in five hunored whom we have cured. Tho per­ fect accuracy with which cientlstB are enabled to deduce the most minute particulars ia their several departments, appears almost miraculous, if we fiow it in the light of the early ages. Take, for example, the < ieetro-magnetie telegraph, the greatest invention of the age. Is it not a marvelous degree ot accuracy which enables an operator to exactly locate a fracture in a sub­ marine cable nearly three thousand m'.les long ? Our venerable " clerk of the weather " has become so thoroughly familiar with the most wavward elements of nature that ne can accurately predict their'movements. Ho can sit in Washington and foretell what the weather will bo in Florida or New York as well as if several hundred miles did not intervene between him and the places named. And so in all departments of modern science, what is required is the knowledge of certain siyiiv. Prom these scientists deduce accurate con­ clusions regardless of distance. So, also, in medi­ cal science, diseases have certain unmistakable signs, or symptoms, and by reason of this fact, wo have been enabled to originate and perfect a sys- tern of determining, with tho greatest aecuraev, the nature of chronic diseases, without seeing and personally examining our patients. In recognizing diseases without • personal examination of the patient, we claim to possess no miraculous powers. We obtain our knowledge of the patient's disease by the practical application, to the practice of medi­ cine, of well-established principles of modern science. And It is to the accuracy with which this system has endowed us that we owe our almost world-wide reputation of skillfully treating lingering or chronic affections. This system of practice, ana the marvelous success which has been attained through it, demonstrate the fact that diseases display certain phenomena, w*iich, being sub­ jected to scientific analysis, furnish abundant and unmistakable data, to guide the judgment of the skillful practitioner aright in determining the nature ot diseased conditions. The most ample resources for treating lingering or chronic diseases, and the greatest skill, are thus placed within the easy reach of every invalid, however distant he or she may reside from t' ment of such affections a specialty. nal, scientific system of examining „ . tance are contained in "The People's Common Sense medical Adviser." By It. V. Pierce, M. ~ over 300 colored and other illustrations. Sent, 1 . Or write sqd describe your symptoms, inclosing stamps, and a complete treatise, on your particular disease, sfl|< " ' * for treatment and all particulars* : tummoD senas . 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Kecommended by physicians, ministers, and lurses, and In fact by everybody who hasgiv- 111 them a good trial. They never fail to bring •elief. HOPS & MALT B1TTEH8 CO., Detroit, With. Recognizing the fact that no great institu­ tion dedicated exclusively to the treatment of chronic diseases, would meet the needs of the aillicted of our land, without the most perfect, complete and extensive provision for the most improved treatment of diseases of the air-passages and lungs, such as Chronic Natul Catarrh; Lnryng* ltls, Bronchitis, AmIUmiu, and Consumption, we have made this branch of our institution one of the leading Depart­ ments. We have every kind of useful instrument for examining the organs involved, such as rhinoseopos, laryngoscopes, stetho­ scopes, spirometers, etc., etc., as well as all of the most approved kinds of apparatus for the application of sprays, fumigations, atomizations, pulverizations, inlialations, and all other forms of hoi Tfl«J " / ieians) has the benefit of a full Council, composed at aj^jroved medicinal applications. DISEASES OF publish three separate books on Nasal, Throat and Lung diseases, viz.: A Treatise on Consumption, Laryngitis and Bron­ chitis; price, postpaid, ten cents; A treatise on Asthma, or Phthisic, giving new and successful treatment; price, postpaid, ten cents; A treatise on Chronic Masai Catarrh, price, postpaid, two cents. Dyspepsia, "Liver Complaint," Ob­ stinate Constipation* Chronic Diar­ rhea, Tape-worms, and kindred affections an: among those* chronic diseases in the suc­ cessful treatment of which our specialists have attained unparalleled success. Many of the dis­ eases affecting- the liver and other organs con­ tributing in their functions to the process of digestion, are very obscure, and are not infrcqently mistaken by both laymen and physicians tor other maladies, and treatment is employed directed to the removal of a disease which does not exist. Our Complete Treatise on diseases of the Digest ive Organs will be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps. BRIGHT'S DISEASE, DIABETES, and Ifinyrv kindred maladies, have been very largely treated, MURtl and cures effected in thousands of cases which had been pronounced beyond hope. The study and practice of chemical analysis and microscopical examination of the urine in our consideration of cases, with reference to correct diagnosis, in which our institution long ago became famous, has naturally led to a very extensive practice ia diseases of the urinary organs. Our specialists have acquired, through a vast and varied experi­ ence, great expertness in determining tho exact nature of each case, and, hence, have been successful in nicely adapting their remedies for the cure of each individual case. The treatment of diseases of the urinary organs having consti­ tuted a prominent branch, or specialty, of our practice at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, and, being in constant re­ ceipt of numerous inquiries for a complete but concise work on the nature and curability of these maladies, we have published a large illustrated treatise on these diseases, which will be sent to any address on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps. I N F L A M M A T I O N O F T H E BLADDER, Oravel. Enlarged Pros­ tate Gland, Ketentfon of I'rliie, and kindred affections may be included among those in the cure of which our specialists have achieved marvelous success. These are fully treated of in our illustr.it <1 pamphlet on Urinary Diseases. It Includes numerous testimonials from well-known people. Sent by ""»<< for ten cents in stamps. Send for it at once. STRICTURES AND URINARY FIS. I TIJLjE.-Hundreds of eases of the worst form ! of strictures, many of them greatly aggravated bv the careless use of instruments in tne hands of inexperienced physicians and surgeons, caus­ ing false passages, urinary fistula', and other complications, annu­ ally consult us for relief and cure. That no ease of this class is too difficult for the skill of our specialists is proved by cures re­ ported iti our illustrated treatise on these maladies, to which we refer with pride. To intrust this class of cases to physicians of small experience, is a dangerous proceeding. Many a man has been ruined for life by so doing, while thousands annually lose their lives through unskillful treatment. Send particulars or your case and ten cents in postage stamps, for a large, illustrated trea­ tise containing many testimonials. Epileptic Convulsions, or Fits, Pa­ ralysis, or Palsy, Locomotor Ataxia, Sit. Vitns's Dance, Insomnia, or inability to sleep, and threatened insanity. Nervous Debility, arising from overstudv, excesses, and other causes, and every variety of nervous affec­ tion, are treated by our specialists for these dis­ eases with a measure of success heretofore regarded as impossible. See numerous cases reported in our different illustrated pani- ohlets on nervous diseases, any one of which will be sent for ten cents in postage stamps, when request for them is accompanied with a statement of a case for consultation, so that wo may know which one ot our Treatises to send. So alarmingly prevalent are those chronic dis­ eases peculiar to females, and so famous have our institutions become for their cure that we were long ago obliged to create a special depart­ ment, thoroughly organized, ana devoted ex­ clusively to the treatment of these cases. The physicians and surgeons in this Department have made these delicate diseases their sole study. Hundreds are brought to our institutions from Car distant States on beds, and they go home well and strong. Every case consult­ ing our specialists, whether by letter or in penon, is given the most careful and considerate attention. Every important case («n/» yre get few which have not already baffled the skill of all the DISEASES. I STRICTURE. | mm/mmmmmmmmmKm , DISEASES. DISUSES OF WOMEN. ne physic skilled specialists. Our Department and rooms for ladies in this Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute are so arranged as to ha very private, and free from the annoyances so common in otber institutions. Send ten cents in postage stamps for our Complete Treatise on Diseases ot \V omen, illustrated with num»> rous wood-cuts and colored plates. PILES, FISTULA IN ANO, and other dtt» eases affecting the region of the lower bowel, are largely treated, and with marvelous success, by specialists, who give their whole time to the study and treatment of this class of affections. We never fail to cuif pile tumors, however large. When tin patient can come here for treatment, we will guarantee a cure. Fortunately for suffering humanity, a method of treatment has been perfected and thoroughly tested in our institutions, by which in from six to fifteen days radical and perfect cures of the worst forms of piles are effected without causing any severe suffering. Send ten cents in stamps for our large illustrated Treatise on Piles. Hernia (Breach), or Rupture, no matter oi how long standing, of what size, or what the an of the patient may Im- (if not under four years), is speedily and radically cared In every case undertaken by onr specialist** tlie kniTe, without dependence Dpop I RUPTURE.| without „ trusses, without pain, audi without dangert TuDMM AuiIV There is no longer any need of wearing clumsy,, InlfUn llWAl awkward, chatiug, old trusses, which, at best, gis» Tmieecc only partial relief, which never cure, but often inlliflt I nUOota. great injury and induce inflammation and strangula­ tion, from which thousands annually die. NaT There is no safety in depending upon any kind of truss, RUI though, no doubt, every man who has suffered the agonies Dipt of a strangulated hernia, and died, thought himself safe. OarC.. Both the rupture and the truss keep up a mental strain and induce nervous debility and various organic weaknesses of the kidneys, bladder, and associate organs. i CURES GUARANTEED in every case undertakes* Can any sufferer ask for greater inducements than these f Notwithstanding the great number of ruptures treated In the % M " A ,4i v3 three years past, many of them of immense size and of such a iciter led, every case to which this portec has been thoroughly applied, has been perfectly cured. Only a charac succeede that no other plan of treatment could possibly have every case to which this perfected system of treatment few days residence at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical institute is neccssary. Abundant references, by permission of those whom we haw cured, will be furnished to any one wishing to call upon or write them. An illustrated treatise on Rupture sent to any address upon receipt af tea cents. * Organic weakness, nervous debility, prematura decline of the manly powers, involuntary vital losses, and kindred affections, are speedily, thor­ oughly and permanently cured. To those acquainted with our institutions it li hardly necessary to say that the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, with the branch establishment located at No. 3 New Oxford Street, London, England, have, for many years, enjoyed the distinction of being the mast largely patronized and widely celebrated institutions in the world tor tha treat ment and cure of those affections which arise from youthftll indiscretions and pernicious, solitary practices. We, many years ago, established a special Department for the treatment or these diseases, under the management of some of the most skillful physicians and surgeons on our Staff; in order that all who apply to 11s might receive all the advantages of a full Council of the most experienced medical men. Up firm, We offer no apology for dev lit Ui rtn tion to this neglected ftln Anni nav no condition of humanity I1U ArULUb I. the sympathy and best services of the noble pro­ fession to which we belong. Many who suffer from these terrible diseases contract them innocently. Why any medical man intent on doing good, and alleviating suffering, should Shun stieh cases, we cannot imagine. Why any one should consider it otherwise than most honoraL le to cure the worst cases of these diseases, we cannot understand; and vet of all the other maladies which afflict mankind there are probably none about which physicians in gear eral practice know so little. We fully agree with tho celebrated Dr, Bartholow. who says, "I- think it a reproach to our profession that this subject has . . . . . - j -- for devoting so much attefr clam of diseases, believinir inity is too wretched to men permitted, in a measure by our own indifference, to paw into the Hands of unscrupulous pretenders. Because the subject groeable, competent physicians are loath to be concerned The same unnecessary fastidiousness causes the treatment of tins malady to be avoided in private practice." We shall, therefore, continue, as heretofore, to treat with ottr best consideration, sympathy, and skill, all applicants who are suf* fering from any of these delicate diseases. ,̂ „ Our Complete and Illustrated Treatise on tliese subjects is seat to any address on receipt of ten cents in stamps. ALL CHRONIC DISEASES A U>ECIALTT^AHkoaA we have, in the preceding paragraphs, made mention of some af the special ailments to which particular attention is given by the specialists at the Invalids* Hotel and Surgical Institute, jet the institution abounds in skill, facilities, and apparatus for the successful treatment of every form of chronic ailment, wbethes requiring for its cure medical or surgical means. . , Ait letters of inquiry or of oonsultation should be addressed fl))r VOILO'S DISPENSARY IE0I6AL ASSOCIATION, 663 Main Btrest. BOTTCTALO. V. Y- A ' •'?; Davy Jones' Locker. ! Sailors call the sea "Davy Jones' i Locker" because the dead are thrown there. Davy is a corruption of "duffy," by which name ghosts Or spirits are known among the West Indian negroes, and Jones is a corruption of the name of the Prophet Jonah, who was thrown into the sea. Locker, in seaman's parlance, means any recaptacle for private stores. 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