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TALMAGE TALKS.
Sermon Preached in Brooklyn
Tabernacle Yesterday.
The Seventh of the I>lMcnnr»eß to the Women
of America “What Can am! What Can
not Make a Woman Happy.”
Brooklyn* February 19.—[Special/—This
morning tin* ifov. T. In-Wilt Talmage, D. D..
preached the seventh of his series of “Ser
mons to the Women of Amur -a, With Impor
tant Hints to Men.” The opening hymn
begins:
“Then let our songs abound,
And e• cry tear be dry;
We’re nnirchincr th:o*igh Immanuel's ground,
To I :r< r worlds on high."
Dr. Talmage took for his text the following
words: “She that liveth in pleasure is dead
while she liveth.” Ho said:
The editor of a Boston newspaper a few days
ago wrote, asking rne the terse questions:
‘'What is the road to happim-bs?” and, “Ought
happiness bo the chief aim of life?” My an
swer was: “The road to happiness is the con
tinuous eflott to make others happy. The
chief aim of life ought to bn u-< fulness, not
happiness, hot happiness always follows use
fulness.” J his morning’s text, in a strong
Wfty, sets fortn tho truth that a woman who
Becks in worldly advantage her chief enjoy
ment, will eome to disappointment and death.
“She that liv* th in pleasure is dead while she
liveth.”
My friends, you all want to be happy. Yon
have had a . r< it many recipes by which it is
proposed to gi\e you .satisfaction olid satis
lactiun. At times you feel a thorough unrest.
You know as w< 11 as older people
what it is to be depressed. As dark shadows
f»oinettme< fill upon the geography of
the s. bool girl as on the page of the spec
tacled philosopher. I have seen as cloudy
days m May as in Novembe. There are no
Roeper sighs breathed by the grand
mother than by the granddaughter. I
correct the. popular impression that people are
happier in childhood and youth than they
ever will bo again. If we li’.e aright, the
older the happier. Tim happiest woman that
i ever knev was a Christian oct< g« narian;
her hair v. hit'- as white could n<-: th'- sunlight
.of heaven late in the afternoon gliding the
peaks <d snow. I hav6 to say to a great many
of the young people that the most miserable
lime you arc c» rr to have is just now. As you
advance in life, as you comr out into the
world and have your head ami h* ai t all full
<-f good, honest, practical Christian work,
then yon will know what it is to begin to be
happy. There are tlm »• who u o ihi have us
Lubevc that 1 fe is cha<ng thistle down and
riasping b d.dih s. \Ve havc not found it so.
To many of us it has been discovciing dia
monds larrer than the Kohinoor, and 1 think
that, oui i<>y will continue to increase until
jiotFiing short of the rveilasting jubilee of
heaven will be aide to express it.
Hointio Giet-nough, at the close of the hard
est life a i)..'ii oyer lives the life of an Ameri
can arli.4 w-tq.-: “I don’t wont to h ave this
world until I give oinc sign that, born by the
graceofGod in this land, I have found life to bo
veiycimid thing, ami not the dark aiyl bit
t« r thing with which mv early prospects wore
Clouded.’’
Albert Hames, the good Christian, known
the world over, stood in his pulpit in Philadel
phia, at ■« ' < nty or eighty years ol age. ami
fund: “This vvorbl is so very attractive to
Xiie I am v« tv sorry I shall have to leave it.”
1 know that Solomon >aid some very dolorous
things about this world, and three times de
clared: unity of vanities, all is vanity.” I
Mipporn it was a reference to those Itimes
in bls career when his seven hundred
wives almost pestered the life out of
him. But I would rather turn to the descrip
tion ho gave after his conversation, when he
Bays in another place : “Her ways an* ways of
ideasantnrs . and all her paths are peace.’ 1 It
is reasonable to expect it will be so. The
longer the fruit hangs on the tree, tlie riper
and more mellow it ought to grow. You plant
one grain of corn ami it. will send up a stalk
with two ears, each having nine hundred and
fifty grains, so that one grain planted will pro
dm <• nineteen hundred grains. Andought not
the implantation of a grain of Christian princi
ple in a youthful soul <lev< lop into a large crop
of gl nines <>n earth and to a harvest of eternal
joy in heaven? Hear me then, while I dis
course up( n s »mo of the mistakes which young
people make in regard to happiness, and point
nut to the young women what 1 consider to be
the source ol complete satisfaction.
And. in the first ptaee, I advise you not to
build you; happiness upon mere social posi
tion. I’vr onsat your age, looking off upon
life, an* apt to think that if, by some stroke of
what is called rood luck, y ou could arrive in an
elevated and attluent position, a little higher
than that in which God has called you to live,
vou would bo completely happy. lutinite inis- '
take! The | alace lloor of Ahasuerus is red
with the blood of \ ashti’s !Token heart. There
have been i,o more scalding tears wept titan
those whi. h < ours.-d the cheeks of Jo ephine.
}l the so < l unliapny Womanhood in tin ,n at
citit » could bi- k through the tape tried wall,
that 'ob V’ , Jd co.nc along your sto-ets today
like the ...im on of the desert. Sometimes 1
have heard in the rustling of the robes on the
city pave: . nt the hi<s of the add r. that fol
lowed in the wake. You have come
out from your homo, and you have
Linked up at the great hou ■•, and covet a
lite under those arches, when, perhaps, at that
Very moment, witliin that home, there may
have been t.'u* wringing of hands, the start of
horror, and vary agony “I hell. I knew 1
Fuch an one. Iler father’s house was plain, '
most ol the people who came the: * were plain,
but, by a change in fortune such as sometimes
Comes, aha id had been offered that, led her
into a hrilLaiit sphere*. All the neighbors
rongratulated h i upon her grand prospects:
butjuha! an i whang- On hrr side it vv is a
heart (ull ot melons impulse and allei tion.
On his >; le j; was s O ;il dry and withered as
the stub de ol the field < m her side it was a
father’s hons<‘, wh« re ( b-d v\ a- h. uored and
the Saboath .:ght th>od<d the rooms with the
veiy mtiih b.eaxen. <i n his side It v\j.a
g-*i;;eous i'< ■ len- «•. am: the e< ming of mighty
Jneu to be - li .amed th re; Tut within it
wirciiaGn ami lodlo-Mie.-s. Hardly had the
orange id-- .*m - I lhe marriage fra -I lost their
fiae nee. than tin n ght of discontent began
toca< 1.-i :d tin re its shadow. Crueities
nnd uiik.ti. .e e. , hanged all those splendid
truppou Into a -‘How mockruy. The platu is
ot solid silver. tl:e caskets of miro gold, the
bead di- - gh tuning diamonds, were there.
but no Go i nopv.u e.no kind worth, uoGhtis
tian sympathy. Thef. Bt.il music that broke
on tlm capGw’s eai turn *d out to boa <lirg-,
and tin* \v: uh in the plush was a reptile coil,
nnd the upholstery that swayed in lhe wind
vas tlievin- of a destroying angel, ami the
bend t'.iops on th * pitcher were the sweat ot
everlasting despair. D, h-ov many rivalries
nud unhap.-m- sses among those who seek m
Nh nd lu-» i heir chief happiness' h matters
not how t ne>ou havethu.gs. tin re are other
people who have it finer. Taking out
your wat'h to tell the hour of the dny. some
one will c civet youi time piv- e bv pulling
out H w It< ,rn 10 rieldv chased ai d iew< lied.
itid<* in a carriage that cost you e . ht hundred
do.lars. aim before von get a mi ml the park
you wi.l me t with one that . o>t two thousand
dollars. Have on your wall a picture by Cop-
Jcv • and before night you will hear of somo one
yim has a . n tare fiesh from lhe Mtudio of
C hutch oi . - i stadt.
Ad, that toss world can do for you in silver,
In gold, in \xm iis.er plash, in Gobelin tapes
try m wi :v ha! s. in lortllv acquaintancesnin,
tvii. not g.ve >on the ten thousandth part of a
T ,ain “I “ uis'a-ti- n. The English bud.
moving it. the vary highest sphere, was one
day foam! with his cl n on bi< band
and Ins 1 1 the window sill, ng out
and saying “t». 1 w ish 1 could v\ehan-e ’duces
* .th ll.at ” * *
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loav on-.m soul 1 ha* ehui w ate and < <-n
--tinuous o • nation, and I toll the young
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tin. a <oiixr»:uiatiuu, will be
I extintjuished. When that period comes, you
I will look back to see what you did or what you
neglected to do in the way of making Lome
happy. It will be too late to correct mist.Tes.
' If you did not .month the path of your parents
, toward the tomb; if you did not make their
|la 4 da\s bright ami happy; if you
I allowed your younger brother to go out into
’ the world, unhallowed by ('hrintian and si
! Wly inf’uenc': if you allowed the younger
sisters of your family to come up without f< ■ 1-
ing that there bad been u < hri tian example
act tl:«m on your part, there v. ill be nothing
but bitt* mess of lamentatp n. 'That bitterm -s
v\i.l b- im i'-a ed by ail the surrounding, of
that Lome; by every chair, by every picture,
by the old time mantel ornann n‘s, oy every
thing you ran think of as contr - ted with that
home.. All these things will rouse up agoniz
ing memorit s. Young women, have you any
thing to do in the way of making your father’s
home happy? Now is the tune to attend to it
or leave it forever undone. 'l’imo is flying very
quickly away. I suppose you notice the v. rin
kle arc gathering ami accumulating on tho e
kindly facesthat have so long loooked upon y ou.;
there is frost in the locks: the
foot i.j not as firm in its st< j» as it used to b'*.
and they will so »n be gone. The heaviest clod
that over falls on a parent’s cotiin-iid is the
memory of an ungrab.ful daughter. <>, make
their last days bright and beautiful. Do not
act as though they were in the way. Ask
their counsel, seek their nrayers, and, after
long years have passed, ami you go out to see
the grave where* they sleep, you will find
; growing all over the mound something love
i licr than cypress, something sweeter than lhe
row, something cha>tcr than the lily—the
bright and beautiful memories of filial kind
ness performed ere tho ‘lying hand dropped
on you a benediction, and you closed the lids
over the weary eyes of the worn out pilgrim.
Better that, in the hour of your birth, you had
been struck with orphanage, and that you had
been handed over into the cold arms oi tho
world, rather than that you should
have been brought up under a
father’s care ami a mother’s tenderness
at last to scoff at their example and deride
their influence; and on the day when you fol
lowed them in long procession to the tomb, to
find that you are followed by a still larger pro
cession <»f unfilial deeds done ami wrong words
uttered. The one procession will leave its bur
den in the tomb and disband; but that longer
procession of ghastly memories will for ever
march and forever wail. O, it is a good time
for a young woman when she is in her father’s
house. Iloif careful they are of her welfare.
How v- itchfiil those parents ol all her inter
ests. .Seated at the morning repast, father at
one eml tho table, children on either side and
between, but the years will roll on, and great
changes will be effected, and one will be missed
from one eml the table, and another will be
missed from the other eml the table. God pity
that young woman’s soul who, in that dark
hour.ihas nothing but regretful recollections.
I go further, and advise you not to depend
for enjoyment upon mure personal attractions.
It would bv sheer hypocrisy, because we may
not have it ourselves, to despise, or affect to
(h spiso, beauty in others. When God gives it,
Hegivisit as a blessing and as a means of
n--(-.fulness. David and his army were coming
down fr- iii the mountains to destroy Nahal
and his flocks and vineyards. Tho beautiful
Abi ail, tho wife of Nahal, went out to arrest
him when he camo down from the mountains,
and she succeeded. < ’oining to the foot ot the
hill, she. knelt. David with his army of sworn
men came down over the cliffs, and when ho
saw her kneeling at tho foot of the hill he cried,
“halt!” to his mon, and tho caves echoed it:
“Halt! halt!” That one beautiful woman
kneeling at the foot of the cliff bad arrested all
those armed troops. Adow drop dashed back
Niagara. 'The Bible sets before us tho
portraits of Sarah and Rebecca, and Abishag.
Absalom’s sifter, and Job’s daughters, and
says: “They were fair tn look upon.” By
outdoor exercise, ami by skilful arrangement
of aj parch let woman make themselves at
tractive. 'The sloven has only one mission,
and that to excite our loathing and disgust.
But alas! for those who depend upon pertonal
charms for their happiness. Beauty is such a
subtle thing, it docs not seem to depend upon
facial proportions, or upon the sparkle of the
eye, or upon tho Hush of the cheek. You
sometimes find it among irregular features.
It is the soul shining through tho face that
makes one beautiful. But alas! for those who
det end upon mere personal charms. They
will come to disappointment and to a
great fret. There are so many differ
ent opinions about what are personal
('harms; and then sickness, and trouble,
and age, do make such ravages. The poorest
god that a woman ever worships is her own
taco. The saddest sight in all tho world is a
woman who has built everything on good
looks, when tho charms begin to vanish. <),
how they try to cover tho wrinkles and hide
the ravages of time! When Timo, with iron
shod fevt, stepson a face, the hoof-marks re
in. i’ll, and you cannot hide them. It is silly
totrx to hide them. 1 think the most repul
sive fool in all th- world is an old fool!
\\ hy. my friends should you be ashamed to
bo getting old? It is a sign -it is prim a facie
evidence that you have behaved tolerably
yell, or vmi would not have lived to this time»
The -rami' st thing, 1 think, is eternity, ami
thit is made up of countless years. When
the Bible would set forth tho attractiveness of
Jesus < hrist. it says: “His hair was white as
.‘-now.” But when the color goes from the
cheek, and tho lustre from tlio
eye. and the spring from the
step, ami the gracefulness from tho
gait, alas! for those who have built their time
and eternity upon good looks. But all tho
pa -ago i t years cannot take out of one’s face
lienignity, and kindness, and compassion, and
fa J ii. Culture your heart and you culture
y-mr fa< e. 'The brightest jjlory that cover
beamed fr< m a woman’s face is the religion of
Je-u.; Christ. In tin* last war two hundred
wounded soldiers came to Philadelphia one
ni ht, and < amo and they had to
extemporize a hospital for them, and the
Christ mu women of my church, and of other
churches, went out that night to take care of
tho poor wounded follows. That night I saw
a Christian woman go through tho
wards of tho ho pital, her sleeves rolled up,
icady lor hard work, her hair dishevelled
in the excitement of tho hour. Her face
was plain, very plain; but after the
w» ind- were washed and the new bandages
were put around the splintered limbs, and
the exhausted boy fell otl into his first pleas
ant sleep, she put her l aud on his brow, and
bi tai ted m his dream, and said: “O, I
thou ;ht an angel touched me!” There may
have been no classic eh'ganco in the features
ol Mr 1 la»’fis, who came into the hospialt
niter ti e “Seven I».iy s” awful tight, as she sat
down by a wounded drummer boy and heard
him soliloquize: “A ball through my body,
and mv poor mother will never again see her
boy. \\ bat a pity it is!” And she leaned
o\ i him and s.i’d : “Shall 1 be your mother,
ami comfort you ? \nd ho looked up and said ;
“Y< ~ l iltrx to thinkjshe’s hero. Please to
wr tc a long letter to her and tell her all about
”, ami s. nd her a lock oi my hair and comfort
hei. Uut 1 would like to have you tell her
how much 1 suffered—yes, I would like you to
do that, for she would feel so for mo. Hold my
hand while I die.” There may have Ih*ou no
classic elegance in her features, but all the hos
pitals ot Harrison’s Landing and Fortress
Monroe* would have agreed that she was beau
tiful ; and if any rough man in all the ward
had aisiilted her. some wounded soldier would
have leaped from his couch, on his best foot,
and struck him dead with a crutch.
Again I advise you not to depend for hap
pin“ss upon the flatteries of men. It is a poor
iomplimvnt toyour sex that so many men
feel obliged in your presence to offer unmean
ing compliments Men capable of elegant and
elaborate conversation elsewhere, sometimes
feel called upon nt the door of tho drawing
r»M»;n to drop their common sense and to dole
out < kcning flatteries. They say things
about your dress, and about your appearance
that vou know and they know are false. They
say you are an angc’ You know you
are nut. Determined to tell the truth
in office, and store, and shop, they con
s’. dt i it honorable to lie tu a woman. The same
thing that they have told you on this
side of the drawing-room, three minutes
ago they said to some < no on the other side of
the di aw ing room. O. let m* one trample on
your self-n sport.iThe meanest thing on which
a won an c m build her happiness is the tlat
tvrn ' - I j. on.
\g *i: 1 ch.vgeyon rot to depend for hnp
|dm <s up- :: the dvs- ipleship of v orhlliness.
1 have s. in men as vain of their old-sash lured
ui.d C < i ci -1 ntric hit a? your brainh fop
b ••! h’s dangling touk inxs. l‘n-hion
s- u lures makes a rea> mal le demand of us,
a . .e: we . nght to vu bl to it. The dx>\s
« t lie mid have th. ; i ish - u of co er ami
leaf; the honeysurkh s have their fashion nt
cardr p, trad the mmwiiakvs dung <-ut of the
wiiiiv;-'heavens have their fivbion of t vquis-
r niE M EEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA. GA. TIESDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1888.
| iteness. After the summer shower the sky
; weds ttie earth with r:n ( < of rainbow. And I
I <lo not think »•« h ve. a ri-iit to
; despise the, and l:ishi< ns
iol iliis world, especially if thc> make
■ reasonal.lo demands upon ns; hut the .liseipie-
siiip and worship ot fashion is death V> lhe
body, and death to the sold. I ..m glad t;io
! world is improving. Look at tl.e i.isi.icii
1 plate., of the sevci.leenih ami < igiitcenth een-
I turieg, and you will tiiid that tl.e world U not
Iso extravagaxt and extiaordmaiy n.,-.v a. it
i wa, then, and .di the niarvc.iixi, things that
the granddaughter will <io will ne'.em pial
that ifone by tlse grandmother. '.<• st.llfur
ther back, to tho Bible times, ami you find
j that in those times fashion wi. 1,1. d a mere t. r
| rible sceptre. Yo.i Lave only to turn to tl.e
I third chapter of ’sdali, a portion of the ; ;p
--; tires from which f once pri-acbed to you. a.ser
mon, to read ; “Because the daughteisof Zion
are haughty, and walk with strefclad-foiih
necks and wanton eyes, walking and miming
as they go, ami tanking a tink-
‘‘l‘g "ith their feet.: In that
day the f-ord will take away tho
bravery of their tinkling ornament:: about
their feet, and their cauls, and thr ir round
tires like the moor., the chains, and tl.e brace
lets, and the mutiler.s, the bonnet . and the
head-bands, ami tho tablets, and the earrings,
th'- rings, and the nose-jewels, the changeable
■suits of apparel, and the mantles, ami the
wimples, and the crisping pins, the glasses,
and the fine linen, and tlie hoods, and the
veils.” Only think of a woman having all
that on! lam glad that the world is getting
better and that fashion which has dominated
in the world so ruinously in other days has fbr
a little timt. for a little degree at any rate, re
laxed its energies. All the splendros and tho
extravaganza of this world dyed ilfto your robe
and flung over your shoulder cannot wrap
peace around your heart for a single moment.
Die gayest wardrobe will utter no voice of
condolence in the day of trouble and darkness.
That woman is grandly dressed, and only
she, who is wrapped in the robe of
a Saviour’s righteousness. Tire home may bo
very humble, the hat maybe very plain, the
frock may bo very course; but the halo of
heaven settles in the room when she wears it,
and tho faintest touch of the resurrection
angel will change that garment into raiment
exceeding white, so as no fuller on earth could
whiten it. I come to you, young women,
today, to say that this world cannot make you
happy. 1 know it is a bright world, with
glorious sunshine, and golden rivers, and tire
worked sunset, and bird orchestra, and tho
darkest cave has its crystals,and the wrathiest
wave its foam wreath, and the coldest mid
night its flaming aurora; but God will put out
all these lights with the blast of His own nos
trils, and the glories of this world will perish in
tho final conflagration. You will never bo
happy until you get your sins forgiven
and allow Christ Jesus to take full possession
of your soul. He will bo your friend in every
perplexity. Ho will bo your comfort in every
trial. Ho will be your defender in every strait.
I do not ask you to bring, like Mary, the spices
to tho sepulchre ot a dead Christ, but to bring
your all to tho feet of a living Jesus. His
word is peace. His look is love. His hand is
help. His touch is life. His smile is heaven.
O, come, then, in flocks and groups. Come,
like the south wind over banks of myrrh.
Como like the morning light tripping over tho
mountains. Wreathe all your affections on
Christ’s brow, set all your gems >n Christ’s
coronet, pour all your voices into Christ’s
song, and let this Sabbath air rustle with tho
wings of rejoicing angels, and the towers of
God ring out the news of souls saved.
‘•Tills world its fancied pearl may crave,
’ Tis not the jaurl for me;
’Twill dim its luster in tho grave,
-Twill polish in the sea.
But there's a pearl of price untold,
Which never can be bought with gold;
O, that's the pearl for mo.”
Tho snow was very deep, and it was stil
falling rapidly, when, in the first year of my
Christian ministry, I hastened to see a young
woman die. It was a very humble home. She
was an orphan; her father had been ship
wrecked on the banks of Newfoundland. Sho
had earned her own living. As I entered the
room I saw nothing attractive. No pictures.
N<> tapestry. Not oven a cushioned chair. Tho
snow on the window casement
was not whiter than tho cheek
of that dying girl. It was a face
never to be forgotten. Sweetness and majes
ty of soul and faith m God had given her a
matchless beauty, and the sculptor who could
have caught the outlines of those features and
frozen them into stone would have made him
self immortal. With her large, brown eyes
she looked calmly into the great eternity. I
sat down by her bedside ami said; “Now, tell
me all your troubles, and sorrows, and strug
gles, and doubts.” She replied: “I have no
doubts or struggles. It is all plain to mo.
Jesus has smoothed the way for my feet. I
wish when you go to your pulpit next Sunday
you would tell the young people that religion
will make them happy. ‘O death, where is
thy sting?’ Mr. Talmage, I wonder ft
this is not tho bliss of dying?’’ I
said: “Yes, I think It must be.”
1 lingered around the couch. Tho suit
was setting, ami her sister lighted a candle.
She lighted tho candle for me. Tho dying
girl, tlie dawn of heaven in her fai e,needed no
candle. J rose to go, and she said: “I tlrnnk
you for coming. Goodnight! When we meet
again it will bo in heaven—in heaven! Good
night! good night!” For her it was good
night to tears, good night to poverty, good
night to death ; but when the sun rose again it
was good morning. The light of another day
had burst in upon her soul. Good morning!
Tho angels were singing her welcome home,
and tho hand of Christ was putting upon her
brow agarland. Good morning! Her sun
rising. Her palm waving. Her spirit exult
ing before the throne of God. Good morning!
Good morning! The white lily of poor Marga
ret’s cheek had blushed into the rose of health
immortal, and the snows through which wo
carried her to tho country graveyard were
symbols of that robe which she wears, so white
that no fuller on earth could whiten it.
My sister, my daughter, may jour last end
be like hers!
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If it was Possible to go Through Life
without unco taking a cold, many of tho
minor, ami not a few of the more serious ills
of life would be avoided. But since it is idle
to hope for so happy an exemption, it is well
to icmumlx r that Dr. Jayne’s Expectorant is
a sure curative for Coughs and Colds, Asthma
and Bronchitis.
A ]>ncl In a Bedroom.
From the Philadelphia News.
Down in north Alabama they toll some un
com; liinentary stories al <nt General Joe Wheeler,
the congressman. Wheeler had a hard tight before
he succeeded in getting into congress. The first
time he ran he was defeate I. His opponent was
Will am Ix)wc, who had already served a term in
tho house. Although both nun were democrats,
the contest was a remarkably bitter one—one of tho
bitterest, it i.« said, ever known in that state » f ex
citing political rontliets. Poth candidates indulged
in personal abuse, and the excitement throughout
the district bordered on fever neat. During the
beat ot the light 1 owe challenged his antagonist
Io a incvting \\ ith pistols. Wheeler declined. His
declination was construed as cowardice, and T.owe
wns elected, largely by the votes of disaffected
W heeler men.
bhoitly after h s election I.owo was taken sick
and W l eeler sent him u challenge. Lowe was iu
Lc-1 wi.cn he n ad it.
fell General W heeler,” he said, “that I shall be
unable to meet him in the field, but will be de
lighted to exchange shots with him propped up in
, bed.”
A Juel in a bedroom would have mada a thrilling
afory, but it didn't occur. Wheeler withdrew the
ciiallenge, and when Lowe died, shortly after, he
was elected to till his old antagonist a unexpired
term
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for SV. I! Hunt.of Adairsville, Ky.. J. H. Mal
lory.ot Fort's Station, Tenn., cured his hogs of
blind staggers with it In fact this King of
Liniments is invaluable for mau and beast.
Sold by all druggists.
National Surgical Institute,
ATLANTA. GEORGIA.
Treats Dcformitli ■ and t'hroni. l>isea<es. such
as Club F. ot. !»:—a .’s cf the Hip. Sime .nd
Joints. I’aralj: s. Fite- t'atarrli. Fe-
nia'e and I‘rir.ite Pis- s. Hernia. Diseases of
the I'rinarj Orgai s. t: etc. Send for illus
trated circular. w 6m
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INVALIDS’ HOTELsSURGICAL INSTITUTE
No. 663 Main Street, BUFFALO, N. Y.
Not a Hospital, but a pleasant Reenedial ISoeric, 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 tho large number of invalids who visit Buffalo from
every State and Territory, as well as from many foreign lands, that they may avail themselves of the professional services of
the Staff of skilled specialists in medicine and surgery that compose the Faculty of this widely-celebrated institution.
A FAIR AND BUSINESS-LIKE DFFER TO INVAUDS.
Wo earnestly invite you to come, see and examine/or ymir.Klf, our institutions, appliances, advantages and success in curing
chronic diseases. Have a mind of your own. Do not listen to or heed the counsel of skeptical friends or jeuious physicians, who
know nothing of us, our system or treatment, or means of cure, yet who never lose an opportunity to misrepresent and endeavor
to prejudice people against us. We are responsible to you for what we represent, and if you come and visit us, and find that
we have misrepresented, in any particular, »ur institutions, advantages or success, wo will promptly refund to you
all expenses ot your trip. We court honest, sincere investigation, have no secrets, and are only too glad to show all
interested and candid people what we are doing for suffering humanity. e
NOT ALWAYS NECESSARY TO SEE PATIENTS.
By 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 wc have cured. The per
fect accuracy with which scientists are enabled to deduce the
most minute particulars iu their several departments, appears
almost miraculous, if wo view it in the light of the early ages.
Take, for example, the electro-magnetic telegraph, the greatest
invention ot tho 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? Gur venerable
“ clerk of the weather ” has become so thoroughly familiar with
the most wayward elements of nature that no can accurately
predict their movements. He can sit in Washington and foretell
what the weather will lie iu 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
Pimm nr stalls. From these scientists deduce accurate con
ulGnS Or elusions regardless of distance. So, also, in medi-
cal science, diseases have certain unmistakable
lIISFSRF signs, or symptoms, and by reason of this fact, wo
u>»t.aou. have been enabled to originate and perfect a sys
tein of determining, with tho greatest accuracy,
the nature of chronic diseases, without seeing aud 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 tho physician who devotes
his whole time to tho 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.
Men, in all ages of the world, who have become famous, have devoted their lives to some special branch of science, art, or
literature.
Hy 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 tho brief limits of a life-time, achieve the highest degree of success in the treatment of every malady incident to humanity:
OUR FIEI.D OE* SUCCESS.
u - The treatment of Diseases of tho
hASAI IHROAT ir i’assases and Lungs, such as
irHvHt., innuHi Chronic Nasal Catarrh, laryn-
A!jn gitis, Rroneliitis, Asthma, and
1 n U Consumption, both through corre-
I IINR spondeuce and at our institutions, consti-
uuntj Utotaofio. tutes an important specialty.
mnmrmwin 11 mi, jve publish three separate books on Nasal,
Throat and Lung Diseases, which give much valuable information,
viz: (1) A Treatise ou Consumption, Laryngitis and Bronchitis;
price, post-paid, ton cents. (3) 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.
[n""" - Dyspepsia, “ Liver Complaint,” Ol>-
IHSFARFS HF 1 stiuate Constipation, Chronic Diar
uiauKOLO ur s j hea, Tape-worms, and kindred affections
HIPFQTiny I aro among those chronic diseases in the suc-
UluCollun. I cessful treatment of which our specialists have
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 aro not
infrequently mistaken by both laymen and physicians for other
maiaaies, 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 bo sent to any address on receipt of
ten cents in postage stamps.
"1 BIIICIIT’S DISEASE, DIABETES, nnd
KinUFY kindred maladies, have been very largely treated,
niuni-l a ud cures effected iu thousands of cases which had
n>nrinrn been pronounced beyond hope. These diseases arc
Utotfloto. readily diagnosticated, or determined, by chemical
11 analysis of the urine, without a personal examina
tion of patients, who can, therefore, generally be
Rue.eeshfully treated at their homes. The study and
rractice of chemical analysis and microscopical examination of
lie 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 iu tho world lias boon so
largely patronized by suffers from this class ot maladies as tho old
ami world-famed World’s Dispensary and Invalids' Hotel. Our
specialists have acquired, through a vast aud varied experience,
givat expertness in determining the exact nature of each case,
and. lienee, have been successful iu nicely adapting their remedies
for the cure of each individual cose.
These delicate diseases should be carefully treated
uAOTION I by “ specialist thoroughly familiar with them, and
viiiinii. | w | lo j 3 competent to ascertain the exact c. edition
' 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. Wc have never, therefore, attempted to put up anything
for general 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 ease by a chemical and microscopical examination of the
urine, and then adapt our medicines to tho exact stage of the dis
ease and condition of our patient.
Uto.», n r„, To n ? ls wisp fourse of action we attribute the
WONDERFUL marvelous success attained bv our specialists in
vi.vwu. that lnl p Or f ant ail q extensive Department of our
’Jlinprs C institutions devoted exclusively to the treatment
UUUULOO. of diseases of the kidneys and bladder. The treat
ment of diseases of the urinary organs having
constituted a leading branch of our practice at the Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Inst itute, and, being in constant receipt of numerous
inquiries for a complete work on the nature and curability of these
ni.ihvlies, writton tn a style to be easily understood, we have pub
lished a large illustrated Treatise on these disqases, which will be
sent to any address on receipt of ten cents in postage stamps.
D1 . INFLAMMATION OF THE BLAD-
Bladder in the bladdek,
wkHwwh Gravel, Enlarged Prostate Gland, Hr-
tention of Prine, and kindred affections,
Uluuuouo. may bo included among those in the cure of which
our specialists have achieved extraordinary suc
cess. These are fully treated of in our illustrated pampluet on
Urinary Diseases. Sent by mail for ten cents in stamps.
I'-" "”"“n STHICTI BES AND ('BINART FIS.
I STRICTURE l T * ■•• E.— Hundreds of cases of the worst form
I mnilHUflL. | , , strictures, many i f them gn ativ aggravat. d
■ 1 11 1 " by the careless use of instruments in the hands
of inexperienced physicians and surgeons, causing false passages,
urinary tistulsc. and other complications, annually consult us for
relief and cure. That no case of this class is too difficult for the
skill ot o. r spec’alis's is nroved by cures reported m our illus
trated treat;, s 'i these maladies, to which we ret, r with pride. To
intrust tins ela-s of eases to physicians of small experience is a
dang ’rous proe.- .iine. Many a man las be n ruined for lift' bv ...
doing, wh'.h- thou.amis annia.hy lose their lives through unskillful
treatment. Send partleiil.ira of your case nnd ten cents m stamps
for a large, illustrated treaties containing many testimonials.
I" "if , "" 1 "'1 Epileptic Convnlalons, «v Fits, I»n-
NtF'O'jS | M. l are
Diseases, d, O.Hu ■
other .r. -«.an ! every variety of n. rv. ati. -
tl.m. are treated by our speciitlists for tie s, diseases with unus ial
•Ut Ot N ?e” miu;<-reus MM* >.p. tu J .n our different Ulußtr*t<Ml
examining- our patients. In recognizing- diseases without a
personal examination of the patient, we claim to possess no
miraculous powers. Wo 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 witli which this system lias endowed us that
we owe our almost world-wide reputation of skillfully treating
lingering or chronic affections. This system of practice, and
gxirz««ivthe marvelous success which has been attained
I (VhuVCi filioß through it, demonstrate the fact that diseases
| lllflufi_LUuO| display certain phenomena, which, being sub-
I ?il n r-CQQ I jectcd to scientific analysis, furnish abundant
; WliubLvO, I and unmistakable data, to guide the judgment
the skillful practitioner aright in determining
the nature of diseased conditions. The most ample resourcea
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 the physicians making the treat
ment of such affections a specialty. Full particulars of our origi
nal, scientific system of examining and treating patients at a dis
tance are contained in “The People’s Common Sense
Medical Adviser.” By H. V. Pierce, M.
over 300 colored and other illustrations. Sent, post-paid, for 81.50.
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 for treatment and all particulars.
pamphlets 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 we may know
which one of our Treatises to send.
■p—grvssKWTOg We have a special Department, thoroughly
S riior&oro nr I organized, and devoted exclusively to the treat
-8 Utotfluto Ur S ment of Diseases of Women. Every case con
j ... E suiting oar specialists, whether by letter or in
I WUMPN R person, is given the most careful and eonsider-
| 11 um-n. j a te attention. Important eases (and we get. few
which have not already baffled ihe skill of all
the home physicians) has the benefit of a full Council, of skilled
specialists. Rooms for ladies in tlie Invalids’ Hotel aro very pri
vate. Send ton cents in stamps tor our large Complete Treatise
on Diseases of Women, illustrated with numerous wood-cuts and
colored plates (100 pages).
HERNIA (Breach ), or RUPTURE, no
E haLILAL uUnE I m a,ter Ot how long standing, orot what size,
I is promptly and |>eriiiaiieiit!y cured by
5 RF KHPTIIRF I our specialists, without the knife and
6 ul llu! luu .' g without dependence upon trusses.
Abundant references. Send teu cents for
Illustrated Treatise.
PILES, FISTUL7E, and other diseases affecting the lower
bowels, are treated with wonderful success. The worst eases of
pile tumors are permanently cured iu fifteen to twenty days.
bend ten cents for Illustrated Treatise.
I Hri inirr I , °rganic weakness, nervous debility, premature
I uLLIUAIE I aechne of the manly powers, involuntary vital
I 8 n I losses, impaired memory, mental anxiety, absence
II IJIRFARFS l of will-power, melancholy, weak back, and kin-
g w-v-.m.uu. | area affections, are speedily, thoroughly and per-
■ inanently cured.
j To those acquainted with our institutions, it is hardly necessary
I to say that tlie Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, with tlie
i branch establishment located at No. 3 New Oxford Street, London,
: England, have, for many years, enjoyed the distinction of being
tlie most largely patronized mid widely celebrated institutions in
the world for tiic treatment and cure of those affections which
arise from youthful indiscretions and pernicious, solitary practices.
We, many years ago, established a special Department lor the
| treatment of these diseases, under the management of some of
1 tlie most skillful physicians and surgeons on our Staff, in order
i that all who apply to us might receive all the advantages of a full
Council of the uiost experienced specialists.
I ■ I 1 —MMKWMghW—M
UJr Hrrm ' ro offer no apology for devoting bo much
nE UrrEn attention to this neglected class of diseases,
.. . believing no condition of humanity is too
Nfl APR I iISV wretched to merit the sympathy an<. best
! nu mivlwwls 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 such cases,
we cannot imagine. Why any one should consider 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 heretofore, to treat with our
best consideration, sympathy, and skill, all applicants who are suf
fering from any of these delicate diseases.
Plincn IT UfiUC Mostof these cases can betreated by us when
UUnLU Bl HUlflt. at a distance just as well as if they were here
in person.
Our Complete and Illustrated Treatise (168 pages) on these sub
jects is sent to anj’ address on receipt of ten cents in stamps.
n. Hundreds of tl»e most difficult operations known
uUHG GAL to modern surgery are annually performed in the
most skillful manner, by our Surgeon-speeial-
rRAPTIPF * Bts - Large Stones are safely removed from the
I null l IUL, Bladder, by crushing, washing and pumping them
out, thus avoiding the great danger of cutting.
Our specialists, remove cataract from the eye, thereby curing blind
ness. They also straighten cross-eyes ami insert artificial ones
when needed. Many Ovarian and also Fibroid Tumors of the
Uterus arc 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 tor Rup
tured Perineum, been alike gratifying t>«th to ourselves nnd 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 n eate and painless operation, removes this commonest of im
pediments to the bearing of offspring.
A Cotnpbt ■ Treatise on anyone of tho above maladies will be
' sent on receipt of ten cents in stamps.
J”; " nT"** - Although we have in the preceding para
! nil liHßniiltl graphs, made mention of some of the six dal
J U nn «"'<» ailments to which particular attent -m 1*
I given by the specialists at the Invalids'
I IJIuLAOi.O ||, t ,q a ,, j Surgical Institute, yet the instl-
3 A CcCPH’TV tution abounds in skill, ianlitk-.s. and ap-
J M Or I’.ulaLl I. paratus fir the sucee.-«ful treatment of
er cry form of chronic ailment, whether re
quiring for its cure medical or surgical means.
All left ts of inquiry, or of consultation, should lie addressed to
WORLD’S DISPENSARY MEDKJAL ASSOCIATION,
663 Main Street, BUFFALO. N. Y.