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REV. DR. TALHAGE.
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HI y SERVOS’.
Siilijccl: “From Dungeon to Paine**.''
, Tk , IT: m r -r' °f m V d'P'irture it at
band.—ll. Timothy iv.,
The way out of this world is so blocked up
with coffin and hears.-, and undertaker?
Wdl V " r ', fhat tho can
V’ 1 - 1 * 1 Of tbo most cheerful
passage in all his history. We hane-h^-v
guoa man get* his last vjcpory. We stand
°l er , a hria i’” f '‘tains which the freed
soul has shaken off, and we say: “.Poor
hands'" ha n * pit / il was he h “ d to come
t Uils Come to what? By the time
*H! , r , . hav ? as ' embll at the obsequies
•h. 0...11 has been three days so happy
** a , the t '°y . of wth accumulated
dd | K ‘ wretchedness beside it. S.nd he
might better weep ov.-r you because you
have to stay, than you over him be
lS^( haS * o ’ Ul a fortunate
’ that a good rnnn does not have to wait
osoo his own Obsequies, they would be so
‘ us ? wn x pe rl, ce. If the
. B,l ° u m B° hack to Egypt and mourn
'’T Up* bnck kilns they once left,they would
not D.: any more Hilly than that Christian
who should forsake heaven and come down
and mourn because he had to leave this
wend. Our ideas of the Christian's doath
are morbid and sickly. We look ujon it as a
dark hole, in which a man stumbles when his
I .rmt h Rives out. This whole subject is odor
. .ir , with varnish and disinfectants, instead of
Is ing sweet with mignonette. Paul, in my
b-xt, takes that great clod of a word, “death n
•uid throws it away, and speaks of his “de
parture” a beautiful, bright, suggestive
word, descriptive of every Christian's re
lease.
Now, departure implies a starting place
ami a pioce of destination. When Paul left
tins world what was the starting point' It
was a scene of great physical distress. It was
he iullianum, the lower dungeon of tho
alamort mo prison. Tho top dungeon was
had enough, it having no means of ingress or
egi ess hut through an opening in the top.
Ilwoiieii that the prisoner was lowered, and
t hrough that came all the food and air and
light regenod. It was a terrible plaee that
upper dungeon; hut the Tallinn irn was
Mi - lower dungeon, ami that was still
more wretched, t.lO only light and tho
'uiivit"- coming through the roof, and that
K.r t.he floor oi the upper dungeon. That
!LS 1 uul s >nst earthly rosidenco. It was a
dungeon ju-st Six feet and a half high. It was
a doleful place. It had the chill of long
centuries of dampness. It was filthy with the
I-- 1; incarceration of miserable wretches. It
>.%as ti,' re that Paul spent his last days on
- mill, and it is there that I soo him to-day
in 1 lie leadul dungeon, shivering, blue with
i-‘ cold, waiting for that old overcoat which
I l '' lu ‘ l M | >t for up to Troas, and which they
not . y et down, notwithstanding he
I m I written for it.
I! s ae.i skilful surgeon should go into that
iimnpMM whore l’aul is incarcerated,we might
End out wn.it are the prosjiects of Paul’s liv
ing through the rough irnprisonment. In tho
*ll >: place, 110 is an old man, only two yoars
'tioi-t ot seventy. At that very time when he
most needs t he warmth and tho sunlight, and
the fresh air, he is shut out from the sun.
hat are those scars eii hfc ankles' Why,
tliose wore gotten when he was fast, his feet
in I lie stocks. Every time he turned, the
llesli on nts ankles started. What are
“ s . ( ' ars his ~!U-k; You know ho
'' as " liipjied five times, each time getting
Miiriy nine strokes—l9s bruises on the
iai k (count tlioni!) made by tlio Jews with
f . s 1,1 °bnw(K)d, e;u-li one of the 105 strokes
"in mg the bloovl. I.ook ut I’aul’s face and
on. at Ins arms. Where did ho get those
I 'iins,*., l think it was when he was strug
g.mg asiiore amidst tlio shiverod timbers of
th'-shipwreck. 1 see a g !ls h in Paul’s side.
'Where dill lie get that? 1 think he got that
m tin- Missel with highwaymen, for he had
< lin p.-ril o: robbers and he had money of
II (I'M!, lie was a mechanic as well as an
a 1" 1 -1 a- and I think the tents lie made were
,ls ,,'r l " ’** ~s his sermons.
I hen- ".vs a wanness about Paul’s looks,
'bakes that.' I think ft part of that
came from the fact that he was for
V'V'ty-four hours on a plank in the
.■(ulitenanenn sea, suffering terribly, bo
fciv lie was rescued; for he says posi
-iivcly: *-| was ft night and a day in the
■deep. ' Oh, worn out, emaciated old
man! surely you must be melancholy,
No constitution could endure this and be
cmvrful. But I press my way through the
prison until Iconic up close to where ho is,
and by the faint light that streams through
the opening 1 see on his face a supernatural
■3°. v i ami l bmv lie fore him, and l say:
Aged in,an, how can you keep cheerful
amidst ail this gloom;” His voice startles
th darkness of the place as he
vrie, out: “1 nm now ready to lie
•offered, and tho time of my departure is at
hand. Hark! what is that shuttling of feet
in the upper dungeon? Why, Paul has an
invitation to a banquet, aiul le is going to
dun- today with the king. Those
shuttling feet are the feet of the execit
tioners. They come, and they cry down
through the hole of the dtmgeron: “Hurry
HP, old man. Come now; get yourself
ready. Why, Paul was ready. He had
nothing to pack up. lie had no Ivaggage to
*-iko. He ha l been ready a good while. 1
s.v him ri dug up, and straightening out
hi stiffened limbs, and pushing back his
white ha r from his creviced forehead, and
1 see him lo iking up through the hole in the
roaf < the du 1 o m into the face of his
execution, and hear him say: “I am
now ready to be offered, at the time of
my departure is at hand.” Then they lift
him out of the dungeon, and they start
w <th him to the place of execution. They
ni> : “Hurry along, old man, or you will
le -l the weight of our spear. Hurry
along." “How far is it,” says Paul, “we
b ive to travel?” “Three miles.” Three
miles is a good way for an old
man to travel after lie has beer,
whipped and crippled with mal
treat, r.eat. But they soon get to the place
o execution—Acquae Talvia—and he is
fa gened to the pillar of martyrdom. It
does not take any strength to tie him fast.
He makes no resistance. O Paul! why
uot strike for your life? You have a great
many friends here. With that withered
hand just launch the thunderbolt of the peo
ple ip-on tin se infamous soldiers. Xo! Paul
was 11 t going to interfere with his own coro
nation. He was t<x> glad to go. 1 see him
looking up into the face of his executioner,
and, as the grim official draws the sword,
Paul calmly savs: “1 am now ready to l>e
offered, and the time of my departure is
at hand.” But I put my liana over my
eyes. I want not to see that last struggle.
One sharp, keen stroke, and Paul does go to
the banquet and Paul does dine with the
King.
A\ hat a transition it was! From the
malaria of Rome to the finest climate in
all the universe the zone of eternal
beauty and health. His ashes were put
in tlie catacombs of Rome, but in one
moment the air of heaven bathed from
his soul the last ache. From shipwreck,
from dungeon, from the biting pain of the
elm wood rods, from the sharp sword
th - headsman, he goes into the most brilliant
assemblage of heaven, a king among kings,
nniltitiiiies of the sainthood rushing out and
stretching forth hands of welcome; for I do
really think that as on the right hand of God
is Christ, so 011 the right hand of Christ is
Paul, the second great in heaven.
He changed kings likewise. Before the
hour of death ana up to the last moment
he was under Nero, the thick necked, the
crue: eyed, the filthy lipped; the sculptured
features of that man bringing down
very day the horrible
possibilities of his nature —seated as he
was amidst pictured marbles of Egypt,
under a roof adorned with mother of
pearl, in a dining r-x-m, which by ma
chinery was kept whirling day and night
witn most bewitching tuiignificenoe; 'his
lmrses standing in stalls of solid gold, and
the grounds around his palace lighted at
n;gh; by its victims, who had been - daubed
wit : t and pitch and then set fire to il
lumine the darkness. That was Paul's
k: ig. Bui the next moment he goes into the
realm of Him whose reign is love, and
whose courts are paved 'with love, and
whose throne is ?t on pillars of love, and
whose scepter is adorned with jewels of
I’ve, and whose p dace is lighted with
love, and who-e lifetime is an eternity of
love. When Paul was leaving so much
on this side the pillar of martvnlom to
gain so much on the other side, do you
wonder at the cheerful valedictory of the
text: "The time of mv departure is at
hand?”
Now, why cannot all the old people of
tins congregation have the same holy glee
the monroe advertiser: forsyth, ga., Tuesday, tuly 26, isst. —eight pages.
“ ‘iS a *l l , h T n , h *V Charl I-. when
hair, an 1 a £? a^Jouu4 & a - v
K'SI'HS, JjJ oW really %ke
fear th,. strw "h V ° a - v 7 on musi
and body“ R„ t tae the soul
dured timt nut millions have cn
weuf lW m ?r n th r o?i Dot 88
'An we b .mi, t , with it. and so
agree in all medical men
at ] j ‘ ” t' iat a “ rf ‘ is probably no
much tmAi tai he , la f "wment-not so
signs of di tres v P nck °t a pin. the seeming
utvoi o iV 1? involuntary*
- about uncer
r P ' ;t T° u sa^: “I cannot bear to think of
you • hive°'m n,n r' S h T'” If
Lm JntfTL 1 ’ f . n - wU !n heaven than
large in oensl - Take some
T 1- ? nd in to record
, - names of those who have emiirrated
S'-hool 6hor ‘" tiie companions
a£ K' 7-' wirl - v ousinesß asso'i
nmrerP f , l ? ends of mid hfe and those who
tl PI 1 4 K y Wi ‘ nt aw:, y Can it be that
thev have been gone ,0 long vou do not
an tT m ° r " a ‘f ut them and vou do not
ivi r T'" ty? ~h' no Ihere have
cr ,11 V h “ n you have fed that you
from 'l'irtr , anothei ' noinent away
from their blessed **ompanion-hip They
to hri° nP 'ii U , ' ay - v, ’ u w,,ul i not like
t?n„M g t lCr "- ' ack 10 this world of
W m 11 yo, ‘ lm,t the power. It
Tot ;“ 0t <lo to trust y° u - God would
not give you re-ui-rt;,,„ TO , v ,. r Before
to-morrow morning you would be rat
at, of the cemetery, cryincp
h * departed: “Come back to the cradle
where you rieptl Come back to the hall
Pi .\ t 0,1 l us '■ to play! Come back to
the table where you used to sit! ” and there
would be a great burglary in heaven. Xo,
no. (><ml will not trust you with resurrection
power, but he co upromises the matter and
Kiiys „ : ~u caimot bring them where you
tc”'. , “” y an-more lovely now than ever.
Here luey b-'-autiful here, they are more
beautiful there.
1 eedes t hat, it is more healthy there for
you Ina 11 here, age-1 man; better climate
t!i<re t.ian thive hot summers and cold
vvinb-rs and late springs; better hearing;
tr-i ter cy,- sight; more tonic in the air;
more perfume in the bloom: more sweet
ness m the song. Do you not feel, aged
man. sometimes, as though you would like to
g t your arm and foot free? Do you uot
h-c! as though you would like to throw away
spectacles and canes ami crutches? Would
you not like to feel the spring and elas
tu-ity and mirth of an eternal boy
hood? IV hen the point at which you start
from this world is old age, and the point to
-in h you go is eternal juvenescence,aged
man, clap your hands at the anticipation,
and say, in perfect rapture of soul: “The
Dine ot my departure is at hand.”
I remark, again, all those ought to feel
this joy ot the text who have a holy curi
osity t-> know what is beyond this earthly
terminus. And who lias not any curiosity
about it? I’aul, I suppose, had the most
satisfactory view of heaven, and lie savs:
‘it doth not yet appear what we shall be.”
it is like looking through a broken tele
s.-(>i, ■: ‘Xow wo see through a glass
U irkiy. ’ Can you tell me anything about
that heavenly place ? You ask me a
tho i- 111 qu -tions about it that I cannot
an :w'-r. 1 ask you a thousand questions
about it that you cannot answer. And do
3ou wonder that Tau! was so glad when
martyrdom gave him a chance to go over
and make discoveries in that blessed
country?
I hope some (lay, by tho grace of God, to go
over and see for myself; but not now. No
well man, no prospered man, I think, wants
to go now. But the time will come, I think,
when I shall go over. I want to see
what they do there, and I want to see
how they do it. Ido not want to be look
ing through the gates ajar forever. I
want them to swing open. There are
10,000 things I want explained—about you,
about myself, about, the government
of this world, about God, about
everything. Wo start in a plain
path of what we know, and in a
minute come up against a high wall of
what we do not know. I wonder how it
looks over there. Somebody tells me it is
like a paved ciiy—paved with gold; and
another man tells me it is like a fountain,
and it is like a tree, and it is like a tri
umphal procession, and the next man I
meet tells me it is all figurative. I really
want to know, after the body is resur
rected, what they wear and what they
cat ; and I have an immeasurable curiosity
to know what it is. and how- it is, and
where it is. Columbus risked his life to
find this continent, and shall we shudder
to go out 011 a voyage of discovery which
shall reveal a vaster and more different
country ? John Franklin risked his
life to fin 1 a passage between
icebergs, and shall w-e ilroad to find a pas
sage to eternal summer? Men in Swit
zerland travel up the heights of the Mat
terhorn with alpenstock and guides and
rocket, and ropes, and getting half wav
up. stumble and fall down in a terrible
massacre. They just want to say they
had been on the tops of those high peaks.
And shall w-e fear to go gut for the aseMit
of the eternal hills, which start a thou
sand miles beyond where stop the highest
.peaks of the Alps, and when in that as
cent there is no peril? A man doomed to
die stepped on the scaffold and said in joy:
“Xow, in ten minutes 1 wall know the
great secret.” One minute after the vital
functions ceased the little child that died last
mglit in Montague street knew- more than
Jonathan Edwards, or St. Paul him
self, before ho died. Friends, the exit from
this world, or death, if \-ou please to call
it to the Christian is glorious expla
nation. It is demonstration. It is illu
mination. It is sunburst. It is the opening
of all the windows. It is shutting up
tho catechism of doubt and the unrolling
of all the scrolls of positive and ac
curate information. Instead of stand
ing at the foot of the ladder and looking
tip, it is standing at the top of tho
ladder and looking down. It is the last
nij'sterv taken out of botany, and geology-,
and astronomy, and theology. Oh, will it
uot be grand to have all questions an
swered! The perpetually re urring inter
rogation point changed for the mark of
exclamation. All riddles solved. Who
will tear to go out on that discovery when all
the questions are to In- decided which we have
l‘yen discussing all our lives? Who shall not
clap liis hands in the anticipation of that
blessed couutry.it it be no Ix-tter than through
holy curiosity, crying: "The time of my de
parture is at hand:'’
1 remark,again, w-e ought to have the joy of
the text, because, leaving this world.we move
into the best society of the universe. You see
a great crowd of people in some street, and
you say: " Who is passing there? What Gen
eral. what Prince is going up there?'’ Well, I
see a great throng in heaven. I say: “Wno
is the focus of all that admiration? Who
is the centre of that glittering company;”
It is Jesus, the champion of all worlds, the
favorite of all ages. Do you know what
is the first question the sotil will ask when
it comes through the gate of heaven? I
think the first question will be: "Where
is Jesus, the Saviour that pardoned mv sin;
that carried my sorrows; that fought my
battles; that won my victories?” O radiant
One! how 1 would like to see Thee! Thou of
the manger, but without its humiliation;
Thou of the cross, but without its pongs;
Thou of the grave, but without its darkness.
The Bible intimates that we will talk
with Jesus in heaven just as a brother
talks with a brother. Xow, what will
you ask him first; I do not know. I can
think what I would ask Paul first, if I saw
him in heaven. I think 1 would like to
hear him describe the storm that came
upon the ship when there were 275 souls
on the vessel, Paul being the only man on
board cool enough to describe the storm.
There is a fascination about a ship and the
sea that I shall never get over, and I think
I would like to hear him talk about that
first. But when 1 meet my Lord Jesus
Christ, of what shall I first delight to hear
Him speak? Now I think what it is. I
shall first want to hear the tragedy of his
last hours; and then Luke's account of the
crucifixion, and Mark's account of the
crucifixion, and John's account of the cru
cifixion will be nothing, while from the
living lips of Christ the' story shall be told
of the gloom that fell, and the devils that
arose, and the fact that upon his endurance
depended the resueeof a race: and there was
darkness in the sky.and there was darkness in
the soul.and the pain t voame more sharp, and
the burdens liecame more heaw.until the mob
began to swim away from the cl ring vision of
Christ, and the cursing of the mob came to
his ear more faintly, and his hands
were fastened to the horizontal piece of
the cross, and his feet were fastened to
the perpendicular piece of the cross, and
his head fell forward in a swoon as he
utterexi the last moan and cried; "It is
' finished!” All heaven will atop to listen
until th© story is done, and every harp
will be put down, and every lip*close>l,
. and all eyea fixed upon the divine narra
tor, until the story is done: aud then, at
the tap of the baton, the eternal orchestra
will rouse up; finger on string of harp, and
lips to the mouth of trumpet, there shall roll
forth the oratorio of the Messiah: “Worthy
is the Lamb that was slain to receive bless
in&i and riches, and honor, and glory and
power, world without end 1”
What he endured, ob, who can tell.
To save oar soala from death and hell!
When there was between Paul an 1 that
magnificent personage ofalv the thinness
of the sharp Qdgfe df the sword of the exe
cutioner, do you wonder that he wanted to
go? Oh, my Lord Jesus, let one wave
of that glory roll over this auditory! Hark!
I hear the wedding bells of heaven ringing
now. Th" marriage of the Lamb has come,
and the bride hath made herself readv.
A Lucky Army .Mule.
There lives in this country —to be moio
particular, at Mount Vernon, Ala.—a
unique animal. This distinguished
creature is a mule, it might be supposed
that its uniqueness lies in its kicking, but
this is not the ca-e. It is unique because
it has been regularly pensioned by the
United States Government. This lucky
mule’s name is Mexique. lie has had a
long and useful career lie has certainly
served his country in-two wars, and it is
believed that he enlisted in the army
even as early as the war of 1812. When
application was made for a pension for
Mexique, his record was transmitted to
the War Department, the fact being ob
tained from the special books in which
the careers of army horses and mules are
recorded. Mexique is now a white mule,
but he was a sorrel when, according to
the records, he entered the service during
the Mexican war. A part of the army
when on its homeward march in 1849 left
him at Tampa, Florida.
When the civil war broke out he was
still at Tampa, and during the war he
served throughout the region between
that place and Key West. In 1882 the
post at Tampa was abandoned, and Mex
ique about Christmas time arrived with
Battery E. 'Third Artillery, at the bar
racks, Mount Vernon, Ala. He was not
in good condition, for shortly before
leaving I’ampa, he got a severe kicking
from a mare for attacking her colt.
THE PENSIONED MULE.
Soon afterward the officer in command
at Mount Vernon barracks was ordered
to sell all unserviceable draught animals
at auction. This would have included
Mexique. In consideration of the dis
tinguished services of this mule the com
mandant petitioned the Quartermaster-
General that Mexique be allowed to re
main in the service, with full rank and
uay, as the officers of the post were will
ing to raise a fund for that purpose.
The petition, going up through v; rious
departments, reached General Sherman,
who, in referring the matter to the War
Department, wrote:
“I have seen that mule, and whether
the story be true or false, tt.j soldiers be
lieve it was left at Big Spring, where
Mount Vernon barracks now are, at the
time General Jackson encamped there
about 1819 to 1820. Tradition says it
was once a sorrel, but now it is white
from age. The Quartermaster's Depart
ment will be chargeable with ingratitude
if that mule is sold, or the care or main
tenance of it thrown on the charitable
officers of the post. I advise that it be
kept in the department, fed and main
tained till death. I think the mule was
at Fort Morgan when I was there in
1842.”
,:n n this the Secretary of War issued
tx.„ order:
“Let this mule be well cared for as
long as he lives.”
Mexique is now feeble. According to
General Sherman he is nearly seventy
years old. He has never recovered from
the mare's kick. He has the liberty of
the reservation and many distinguished
strangers have called on him. He is a
very lucky mule. —New York Sun.
Tlie Picture of Impudence.
jiii 1
4!fl! ifL
“ M‘"S, may I dare invite myself to be
come your escort ?”
“Thanks, I await my friend.”
“Permit me then, gracious lady, to
help you wait.” —F egende BlaetUr'
Tue same diversity of opinion as to
the best form of locomotive for general
use appears to prevail in England as in
America. While coupled wheels are
mostly preferred for passenger engines,
five feet to six feet six inches diameter,
a few leading American engineers prefer
single drivers, and are disposed to revert
to even seven feet, a diameter which has
been tried and abandoned in the past
as not meeting the expectations enter
tained of it. About fifteen years is the
estimated average life of an American
locomotive. It is generally admitted
that railway trains in England are driven
at a faster rate speed than in the United
States—say about twenty per cent, in
excess of the latter. There are express
trains, however, between some of our
principal cities, that compare favorably
with those in England.
The National Bureau of Statistics j
shows that on the 8700,(>00,000 which
innually passes into the tills of the re
tailers of intoxicating liquors in this
sountiy, there is a profit of 133} per :
sent. If poor people had to pay such a I
ax as that ou bread there would be a
rebellion. But when a man tosses oil'a
rfass of whisky and pays 5 cents for the j
Irink and 7 or 8 cent> to the barkeeprer j
or the trouble of handing it to hkn, he
jeneraliy thinks the barkeeper an
kWtfuilx good fellow
Picture of an Eviction.
A force of police and military set out
for the townlnn 1 of Ballyedonoghue,About
a mile from Bo lykc on the road towards
Limerick, in Irclami, for the purpose of
evicting a man named Bolton. The
troops and police were very much fa
tigued, to the long marches al
rcdv made with a fierce, tropical heat
beating down on them all the way. and
they were rested for a start when they
turned off the main road into the one
leading over the fields and hillside to the
tenant's house. The column, instead of
advancing to the farm in a body and
then forming itself into cordons, ap
proached the place in sections of compa
nies, Col. Turner, mounted on horseback,
directing the operations, assisted by Col.
Miller and Capt. Welsh. To the surprise
of the sheriff and those conducting the
campaign, it was found that not the
Slightest preparation had been made to
give any resistance. As the forces were
defiling down the fields towards Tenant
Bolton’s house some policemen left the
ranks for the purpose of filling their
water-bottles from the well close by.
Some young women who observed the
men approaching at once stirred up the
water in the well so as to dirty it. A
policeman threatened to duck one of the
girls in the well, and Col. Miller coming
up 6aid he felt inclined to give the women
a good kicking for their conduct Two
countrymen commenced to groan at the
police and call them names. Col. Tur
ner, who observed the latter incident,
ordered the policemen with staves to be
down ou them and arrest them. The
countrymen, however, had taken time by
the wing, and weie far away before some
fifty- constables were chasing after them
to no purpose over the fields. There
being no resistance offered, the eviction
was carried out without anything what
ever of the excitement at siinil ir previous
occurrences. The few sticks of furniture
in the house were put out, but previous
to the sheriff giving up possession to the
agent, a son of the tenant was found
concealed in the premises, and dragged
out by the police. Bolton resented their
rough treatment, whereupon he was taken
into custody.
Electric Street Cars.
A successful exhibition of a street car
propelled by electricity from storage bat
teries placed under the seats, was made
in Philadelphia. The batteries, consist
of eighty-four small cells, each being of
the size of about one-quarter of a cubic
foot. The track upon which the car was
run is 1,000 feet in length with four curv
es, one of which has a radius of thirty
three feet. Immediately upon leaving
this curve a gradient commences with a
rise of 5 per cent, which is equal to 264
feet pe. mile. There was no brake use
ed, the car being controlled entirely by
electricity7 through tlie medium of a small
handle which was turned as the occasion
required so as to regulate the speed, stop,-
or start the car as might be wished. The
stored electric energy is sufficient, it is
claimed, to run the car over on ordinary
street car track thirty miles without ex
changing the battery. It can run upon
ordinary street car tracks where horse
cars will nm.
Marvelous Growth.
IN 1880 the South had 180 cotton mills,
while it now has 7153. In 13S0 there were
34, 562 manufactories in the South, pro
ducing $315,924,794, against 51,419 now,
producing $505,892,000. In 1880 the
South mined 6,000, OOOumr wf coal and
in 1886 over 15,000,00 ft, I wmle during the
same period $600,000,000 have been spent
in building new railroads and improving
old ones, the present mileage in the
Southern states being 33,767 miles,
against 20,642 in 1880.
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INVALIDS’ ROTELsSURGICAL INSTITUVE
No. 663 Main Street, BUFFALO, N. V.
Not a llospitnl, but a pleasant Remedial Home, organized with
A FULL STAFF OF EIGHTEEN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
And exclusively devoted to the treatment of all Chronic Diseases.
This imposing Establishment was designed and erected to accommodate the large number of invalids who visit Buffalo from
'• > State and Territory, as well as from many foreign lands, that they may avail themselves of the professional services of
■ -Staff of skilled specialists in medicine and surgery that compose the Faculty of this widely-celebrated institution.
A FAIR A*3o BUSINESS-LIKE OFFER TO INVALIDS.
We earnestly Invito you to come, see and examine /or yourself, our institutions, appliances, advantage* and success in curing
chronic diseases. Have a mind of your own. Do not listen to or'beed the counsel of skeptical friends or jealous physicians, who
know nothing of us, our system of treatment, or means of cure, yet who never lose an opportunity to misiTprtsent an(l endeavor
to prejudice people against us. We are responsible to you for what we represent, and if you coine and via?t us, and find that
we have misrepresented, in any jxirticiUar, our institutions, advantages or success, we will promptly to you
all expenses of your trip. We court honest, sincere investigation, have no secrets, and are ouiy too glad to show ad
interested and candid people what we are doing for suffering humanity.
NOT ALWAYS NECESSARY TO SEE PATIENTS.
Rr our original system of diagnosis, we can treat many chronic
diseases just as successfully without as with a personal con
sultation. While we are always glad to see our patients, and
become acquainted with them, show them our institutions, and
familiarize them with our system of treatment, yet we have not
seen one person in five hundred whom we have cured. The per
fect accuracy with which scientists are enablea to deduce the
most minute particulars In their several departments, appears
almost miraculous, if we view it in the light of the early ages.
Take, for example, tho electro-magnetic telegraph, tho greatest
invention of the age. Is it not a marvelous degree of accuracy
which enables an operator to exactly locate a fracture in a sub
marine cable nearly three thousand miles long ? Our venerable
“clerk of tho weather” has become so thoroughly familiar with
the most wayward elements of nature that he can accurately
predict their movements. He can sit in Washington and foretell
what the weather will be in Florida or New York as well as if
several hundred miles did not intervene between him and the
places named. And so in ail departments of modern science,
what is required is the knowledge of certain
n 9 signs. From these scientists deduce accurate con-
NjQJJS QF I elusions regardless of distance. So, also, in tnedi-
I cal science, diseases have certain unmistakable
a [bif A | signs, or symptoms, and by reason of this fact, we
1 have been enabled to originate and perfect a sys
-n- vmS tem of determining, with the greatest accuracy,
the nature of chronic diseases, without seeing and personally
COMMON SENSE AS APPLIED TO MEDICINE.
It is a well-known fact, and one that appeals to the judgment of every thinking person, that the physician who devotes
his whole time to the study and investigation of a certain class of diseases, must become better qualified to treat such
diseases than he who attempts to treat every ill to which flesh is heir, without giving special attention to any class of diseases.
Me a, in all ages of the world, who have become famous, have devoted their Jives to some special branch of science, art, or
literature.
By thorough organization, and subdividing the practice of medicine and surgery in this institution, every invalid is treated
by a specialist—one who devotes his undivided attention to the particular class of diseases to which the ease belongs. The
advantage of this arrangement must be obvious. Medical science offers a vast field for investigation, and no physician can,
within the brief limits of a life-time, achieve the highest degree of success in the treatment of every malady incident to humanity.
OUR FIEL2J OF SUCCESS.
I M.I.T t"""*!! " rlie treatment of Hiaeases of tlie
1 SmS&L HROAT £. lr Plages aud l ungs, such as
1 1 ... nnuHl Chronic Nasal Catarrh, Laryn-
AkH gitis, Kroncliitis, Asthma, and
ISn Consumption* both through corre-
I LuMu UIRFASPS spondenoe and at our institutions, consti
| fcuflu moum-a, tutes an important specialty.
nniin.li ivincnMmu We publish three separate booke on Nasal,
Throat and Lung Diseases, which give much valuable information,
viz: (1) A Treatise on Consumption, Laryngitis and Bronchitis;
price, post-paid, ten cents. (2) A Treatise on Asthma, or Phthisic,
giving new and successful treatment; price, post-paid, ten cents.
(3) A Treatise on Chronic Nasal Catarrh; price, post-paid, two cents.
f n '"'"'"i Byspepsia, “ f,iver Complaint,” Ob
-1 li SEuSES OF 1 Constipation, Chronic Diar
-1 _ 1 rhea, Tape-worms, and kindred affections
S
-3 DlUj-Q I lull. | cessful treatment of which our specialists have
lECTEiYisMaßKaeimsaa attained great success. Many of the diseases
affecting the liver and other organs contributing in their func
tions to the process of digestion, are very obscure, and are not
infrequently mistaken by both laymen and physicians for other
maladies, and treatment is employed directed to the removal of a
disease which does not exist. Our Complete Treatise on Diseases
of the Digestive Organs will be sent to any 7 address on receipt of
ten cents in postage stamps.
f w 1 DISEASE, DIABETES, and
RmMFV § kln , dred maladies, have been very largely treated,
a and cures effected in thousands of cases which had
qiCC'Otf | been pronounced beyond hope. These diseases are
* U13&&3L0. | readily diagnosticated, or determined, by chemical
s™™*™*** analysis of the urine, without a personal examina
tion of patients, wlio can, therefore, generally be
successfully treated at their homes. 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 in diseases of the urinary
organs. Probably no other institution in the world has been, so
largely patronized by suffers from this class of maladies as the old
and world-famed World’s Dispensary and Invalids’ Hotel. Our
specialists have acquired, through a vast and varied experience,
great expertness in determining the exact nature of each case
and, hence, have been successful in nicely adapting their remedies
for the cure of each individual case.
n " " '""i . These delicate diseases should be carefully treated
L’ftlJT OH S a specmlist thoroughly familiar with them, and
I who is competent to ascertain the exact condition
and stage of advancement which the disease has
made (which can only be ascertained by a careful chemical and
microscopical examination of the urine), for medicines which are
curative in one stage or condition are known to do positive injury
in others. We have never, therefore, attempted to put up anything
for geuerai sale through druggists, recommending to cure these
diseases, although possessing very superior remedies, knowing-full
well from an extensive experience that the only safe and success
ful course is to carefully determine the disease and its progress in
each case by a chemical and microscopical examination of the
urine, and then adapt our medicines to the exact stage of the dis
ease and condition of our patient.
nn7!"7Trrrri To tkis wise course of action we attribute the
S nONDEHFUL iparvelous success attained by our specialists in
| _ that important and extensive Department of our
I .vIPITQ? institutions devoted exclusively to the treatment
j WdUULOJ. of diseases of the kidneys and bladder. The treats
merit of diseases of the urinary organs having
constituted a leading branch of our practice at the Invalids’ Hotel
and Surgical Institute, and, being in constant receipt of numerous
inquiries for a complete work on the nature and curability of these
maladies, written in a style to be easily understood, we have pub
lished a large Illustrated Treatise on these diseases, which will be
sent to any address on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps.
i Di unnrn INFLAMMATION OF TJIF, BLAD.
S Bladder f.k, stone i>- the bladder,
8 _ travel, Enlarged Prostate Gland, Re
-1 tention of Grilse, and kindred affections,
j •J.wLHO-o. may be included among those in the cure of which
b" 1 " 'j 1 our specialists have achieved extraordinary suc
cess. These are fully treated of in our illustrated pamphlet on
Urinary Diseases. Sent by mail for ten cents in stamps.
| STRICTURES AND GRINARY FIX.
1 STRIHTIISF I TELL. —Hundreds of cases of the worst form
1 1 j| of strictures, many of them greatly aggravated
t-
of inexperienced physicians and surgeons, causing false passages,
urinary fistula 7 , and other complications, annually consult us for
relief and cure. That no case of this class is too difficult for the
skill of our specialists is proved by cures reported in our illus
trated treaties 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 of your case and ten cents in stamps
for a large, illustrated treaties containing many testimonials.
' """" 11,1 '"s Epileptic Convulsions, or Fits, Pa.
NERVOUS 1 raly*s* or Palsy, Locomotor Ataxia,
| s , vitus’s Dance, Insomnia, or inability
jjIOCStJCO 1 to sleep, and threatened insanity. Nervous
UIoLroLO) | Debility, arising from overstudy, excesses, and
1,1,11111 ■ l “■ ■ other causes, and every variety of nervous affec
tion. are treated by our specialists for these diseases with unusual
ucces3. Sec numerous cases reported in our different illustrated
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examining our patients. In recognizing diseases without a
personal examination of the patient, we elnim to post- s no
miraculous powers. We obtain our knowledge of the patient's
disease by the practical application, to the practice f m> d:-
cine, of well-established principles of modern science?. And it
is to the accuracy with which this system bus endowed Us that
we owe our almost world-wide reputation of skillfully treating
lingering or chronic affections. Tliis system of practice, ami
tho marvelous success which lias been attained
8 fji = puri nijnl through it. demonstrate the fact that diseases
U ItlßUiCLuLldl display certain phenomena, which, being eub
g Qonnrea I jected to scientific analysis, furnish abundant
ul-UliLOo. | and unmistakable data, to guide the judgnu nt
IneiaKsMl of the skillful practitioner aright in determining
the nature of 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 lie or she may reside from the physicians making the treat
ment of such affeciions a specialty. Full part iculars of our origi
nal, scientific system of examining and treating patients at a dis
tance are contained in “TTec People’s Common Sense
Medical Adviser.” By K. V. Pierce, M. D. 1000 pages and
over 1500 colored and other illustrations. Sent, post-paid, for $1.50.
Or write and describe your symptoms, inclosing ten cents in
stamps, and a complete treatise, on your particular disease, will
be sent you, with our terms lor treatment and all particulajs.
pamphlets on nervous diseases, any one of which will be sept for
ten centsin postage stamps, when request for them is accompanied
with ;t statement of a case for consultation, so that we nitty kffOW
which one of our Treatises to send.
uni We have a special Department, thoroughly
Hi...... 1 organized, and devoted exclusively to the treat-
UiitflOLd CF 1 meat of Diseases of Women. Every case con-
I suiting oor specialists, whether by letter or in
WnsiCM 1 person, is given the most careful and consider-
SUfnE.ija | a t(. attention. Important cases (and we get few
. wumj-rd yy-pieh have not already bailled the skill of all
the home physicians) has the benefit of a full Council, of skilled
specialists, iiooms for ludies in the Invalids’ Hotel are very pri
vate. Send ton cents in stamps for our large Complete Treatise
on Diseases of Women, illustrated with numerous wood-cuts and
colored plates (100 pages).
1 KAMRAI liilßF matter of how long standing, or of what size,
8 m *" wul11 " is promptly and permanently cured by
S f!£ KilCTiipp our specialists, without the knife and
lUT nuriunt. without dependence upon triiHkcu.
Abundant references, (Send ten cents for
Illustrated Treatise.
PIL.ES, MS'* 11.JE, and other diseases affecting the lower
bowels, are treated with wonderful success. The worst cases of
f)ile tumor? ore permai/ utly cured in fifteen to twenty days.
Sand ten cents for Illustrated Treatise.
Organic weakness, nervous debility, premature’
I UEL DATE I decline of the manly powers, involuntary vital
I ' I losses, impaired memory, mental anxiety, abs'-nce
J 1 of will-power, melancholy, weak back, and kin-
I UIOEMOLO. § <jred affections, are speedily, thoroughly and per
■ 1,1 “”**'* manently cured.
To those acquainted with our institutions, it is 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 most largely patronized and widely celebrated institutions in
the world for the treatment and cure of those affections which
arise from youthful indiscretions and pernicious, solitary practices.
We, many years ago, established a special Department for the
treatment of these diseases, under the management of some of
the most skillful physicians and surgeons on our btuff, in order
that all who apply to us might receive ail the advantages of a full
Council of the most experienced specialists.
' u.l We offer no apology for devoting so-mneb
11 L UFFfR attention to this neglected class of diseases,
.. , ' believing no condition of humanity is top
NR April nr-V wretched to merit the sympathy and best
iiU HrULUUi. services of the noble profession 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 suc h eases,
we cannot imagine. Why any one should conside r it otherwise
than most honorable to cure the worst cases of these diseases,
we cannot understand; and yet of all the other maladies which
afflict mankind there is probably none about which physicians in
general practice know so little. We shall, therefore, continue, as
eretofore, to treat with our best consideration, sympathy, and skill,
all applicants who are suffering from any of these delicate diseases.
Hunm it Unur Most of these cases can be treated when at a
Li Until ft i ISUmC. distance just as well as if here in person.
A Complete Treatise (138 pages) oq these diseases pent. realed,
in plain envelope, secure from, observation, on receipt of onij' ten
cents, in stamps, for postage.
p Hundreds of the most difficult operations known
uURGiGAL t° modern surgery are annually performed in the
most skillful manner, by our Surgeon-epecial-
Pp*PT ! f‘P ists. Large Stom-s are safely removed from the
rnCU I :UC, Bladder, by crushing, washing and pumping them
mrasaaEi out, thus avoiding the great dange r of cutting.
Our specialists, remove cataract from the eye, thereby curing blind
ness. They also straighten cross-eyes and insert artificial ones
when needed. Many Ovarian and also Fibroid Tumors of the
Uterus are arrested in growth and cured by electrolysis, coupled
with other means of our invention, whereby the great danger of
cutting operations in these cases is avoided.
Especially has the success of our improved operations for Vari
cocele, Hydrocele, Fistula?, Ruptured Cervix Uteri, and for Rup
tured Perineum, t>eeu alike gratifying both to ourselves and our
patients. Not less so have been the results of numerous operations
for Stricture of the Cervical Canal, a condition in the female gen
erally resulting in Barrenness, or Sterility, and the cure of which,
by a "safe and painless operation, removes this commonest of im
pediments to the bearing of offspring.
A Complete Treatise on any one of the above maladies will be
sent on receipt of ten cents in stamps.
1 2 ft Although we have in the preceding para
-8 ALL uHhQnIG graphs made mention of some of the special
1 n ailments to which particular attention i3
lIRFAXFS given by the specialists at the Invalids’
I mwi'SJLu Hotel and Surgical Institute, yet the iristi
£ h Qs’TliiTV tution abounds in skill, facilities, and ap
ji h Urt-lilfiLl f. paratu? for the successful treatment of
BBsreEMMnMT-ri—-.** every form of chronic ailment, whether re
quiring for its cure medical or surgical means.
Ail letters of inquiry, or of consultation, should be addressed to
WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION,
663 Main Street, BUFFALO. N. Y.
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