The Brookhaven leader. [volume], April 22, 1886, Image 4

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TALMAGETS SERMON.
Discount® ou the Trlels of News
paper Editors and Reporters.
Tt. Shim Th.r See and the TtmptMltM
They Meet In Their Search for News—
Aa rnderpald Clem.a* a Rule, and
■ Their SoaU -tohody'i Care.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, In a recent
aertnon, took up the cudgel for the news*
paper men, illustrating their trials, temp
tations and almost ceaseless labors in the
fight for current news in a forcible man
ner. He took for his text: .
Tt-hnld a flying roll!—Zacharlah v.,1.
Dr. Talmage said: This winged sheet of
the text h*d on it a prophecy. The flying
roll to-day is the newspaper. In calcu
lating the influeneea that affect society
you can no more afford to ignore it than
you can ignore the noonday son or the
Atlantic Ocean.
It is high time that I preach a sermon
expressing my appreciation of what the
n-wspaper press has done and is doing.
No man. living or dead, is nr has been so
indebted to it as I am, for it gives me
perpetual audience in every city, town
and neighborhood of Christendom, and I
take this opportunity before Clod and this
people to thank the editors and publishers,
and compositors and type-setters the
world over, and I give fair notice thet I
shall take everv opportunity of enlarging
this field, whether by stenographic report
on the Sabbath, or galley-proofs on Mon
day. or previous dictation. I have said
aeain and again to the officers of this
church, whoever else are crowded, don’t
let the reporters be crowded. Each re
sponsible and intelligent reporter is ten
or fifteen churches built on to this church.
Ninety-five per cent, of the newspa
pers are. now my friends, and
do me full justice and more than justice,
»nd the other five of the hiuidre^are such
notorious liars that nobody believes them.
It was in self-defense that sixteen rears
ago I employed an official stenographer of
my own because of the appalling misrep
resentations of mjrself and church. From
that things haw miraculously ohanged,
until now it is just as appalling in the
marvelous opportunity opened.
iu? nt?w is iur i
tie nineteenth century. There is no force
compared with it. It is book, pulpit, plat
form. forum, all in one. And there is not
an interest—religious, literary, commer
cial, scientific, agricultural or mechanical
—that is not within its grasp. All our
churches, and schools, and colleges, and
asylums, and art galleries feel the quak
ing of the printing press.
The institution of newspapers arose in
Italy. In Venice the first newspaper was
published, and monthly, during the time
that Venice was warring against Solyman
the Second, in Dalmatia, it was printed
for the purpose of giving military and
commercial information to the Venetians.
The first newspaper published in England
was in 1588. and calltd the English Mer
cury. Others were styled the Weekly Dis
coverer, the Secret Owl, Heraclitus Hid-ns,
etc.
Who can estimate the political, scientific,
commercial and religious revolutions
roused up in England for many years past
by Hell's Weekly Dispatch, the Standard,
the Morning Chronicle, the Pt/st and the
London Times?
The first attempt at this institution in
France was in 1631, by a physician, who
published the Hews for the amusement and
health of his patients. The French nation
understood fully how to appreciate this
power. Napoleon, with his own hand>
wrote articles for the press, and so early as
in 1829 there were in l^ris 109 journals.
But in the United States the newspaper
has cometounlimited sway. Though in 1775
there were but thirty-seven in the whole
country, the number of published journals
is now counted by thousands; and to-day
—we may as well acknowledge it as not—
the religious and secular newspapers are
the great educators of the country.
I find no difficulty in accounting for the
world’s advance. Four centuries ago, in
(iermanv, in courts of justice, men fought
with their fists to see who should have the
decision of the court; and if the judge’s
decision was unsatisfactory, then the
judge fought with counsel. Many of the
lords could not read the deeds of their own
estates. What has made the change?
‘Books, you say.
No, sir! The vast majority of citizens
do not read books. Take this audience, or
any other promiscuous assemblage, and
how many histories have they read? How
many treatises on constitutional law, or
political economy, or works of science?
How many elaborate poems or books of
travel? How much of Boyle, of De
Tocqueville, Xenophon, or Herodotus, or
Percival? Not many.
In the United States the people would
not average one such book a year for each
individual.
Whence, then, this intelligence—this ca
pacity to talk about all themes, secular
and religious—this acquaintance with
science and art—this power to appreciate
the beautiful and grand? Next to the
Bible the newspaper—swift-winged and
everywhere present, flying over the fences,
shoved under the door, tossed into the
counting-house, laid ou the work-bench,
hawked through the cars. All read it:
white and black, German, Irishman, Swiss,
Spanish, American, old and young, good
and bad, sick and well, before breakfast
and after tea, Monday morning, Saturday
night, Sunday and week day.
I now declare that I consider the news
paper to be the grand agency by which
gospel is to be preached, ignorance cast
out, oppression dethroned, crime extir
pated, the world raised, Heaven rejoiced
and God glorified.
In tbe clanking of the printing press, as
the sheets fly out, I hear the voice of the
Lord Almighty proclaiming to all tbe dead
nations of the earth, “Lazarus, come
forth!” and to the retreating surges of
darkness, “Let there be light!” In many
of our city newspapers, professing no more
than secular information, there have ap
peared during the past ten years some of
the grandest appeals in behalf of religion,
and some of the most effective interpreta
tions of God’s government among the
nations.
There are only two kinds of newspapers
—the ooe good, very good, the other bad,
very bad. A newspaper may be started
with an undecided character, hut after it
has been going on for years everybody
finds out just what it is; and it is very
good or it is very bad. The one paper ia
the embodiment of news, the ally of vir
tue, the foe of crime, the delectation of ele
vated taste, the mightiest agency on earth
for making the world better. The other
paper is a brigand amid moral forces; it is
a beslimer of reputation; it is the right
arm of death and hell; it ia the mightiest
agency in the universe for making tbe
world worse and battling the cause of God.
Tbe one an angel of intelligence and mer
cy; tbe other a fiend of darkness. Between
this Archangel and this Fury is to he
fougtU the great battle vhich is to decide
the fate of the world. If you have any
doubt as to which is to be the victor, ask
the prophecies, ask God; the chief bat
teries with which be would vindicate the
right and thunder down the wrong, hare
not yet been unllmbered. The great Anua
f edUo* of tbs i**tloo» l» out to bo fought
with gsrords, but with steel pens; not with
ballot*, bat with type; not with cannon,
bat with lightning perfecting presses; and
the Somters. and the Moultrie*, and the
Pulaski*. and the Gibralters of that con
flict will be the editorial and reportorial
rooms of oar groat newspaper establish
ment*. Men of the press, under God rot
are to decide whether the hnman raco
shall be saved or lost. God ha* put a
more stupendous responsibility upon you
than upon any other class of person*.
What long stride* vour profession has
made in influence and power since the day
when Peter Schceffer invented cast metal
type, and because two book* were found
Just alike they were ascribed to the work
of the devil; and books were printed on
strips of bamboo: and Rev. Jesse Glover
originated the first American printing
press: and the Common Council of New
York, in solemn resolution, offered forty j
pounds to any printer who would come
there and lire: and when th** Speaker of
the Hduse of Parliament in England an
nounced with indignation that the public i
I prints had recognised some of their do
I ing*: until in this dav. when we have in
i this country aliout five hundred skilled
i phonograplier*. and about thirteen thou
! sand newspapers, printing in onevear2..V*>,
I OllO.nnn copies. The press and the telegraph
■ have gnn»down info the same great harvest
: field to reap, and the tel-graph Say* to the
newspaper: “I'll rake while you bind:”
and the iron teeth of the telegraph arc s“l
down at one end of the harvest field and
: drawn clean across, an t the newspaper
| gathers un the sheaves, seating down one
sheaf on the breakfast table in the shape
ofa morning newspaper, and i tilting down
another sheaf on the tea table 'n the shape
! of an evening newspaper: and that man
who neither reads nor takes a
newspaper would be a curiosity.
What vast progress since the
day when Cardinal Wolsev declared
that either the printing pres* must go
down or the Church of God must go dow n,
to this time, when the printing preas and
pulpit are in combination, and a man on
, the Sabbath day may preach the Goffpel to
five hundred peojje, while on Monday
morning, thron^h the secular journals, he
i itiav preach that Gospel to millions.
Notwithstanding all this that von have
I gained in position and influence, men of
the press, how many words of sympathy j
do you get during a year-' No* ten. How
many sermons of practical helpfulness for
i your profession are preached din ing the
, twelve months?” Not one. How many
iv.words of excoriation, and denuneiation,
and hyper-criticism do yon get in the |
same length of time? Ahout ten thousand.
If you arc a tvpe-setter and got th»* type
in the wrong font the foreman storm* at
you. If yon are a foreman and can not
surmount the insurmountable and j^t
the “forms” readv at just the time,
the publisher denounces von. If you
ar»‘ * pulJisher and make mismanage
ment. then the owners of th^ *p*«r will be
hard on you for lack of div i- “id. If you
are an editor and you r.nnniwoe an un
popular sentiment, all the pen-* *f Christen
1 dom are flung at you. If vouar-* a reporter,
j you shall be held responsible for the in
distinctness of public speak* rs. and for flic
blunders of type-setters, and f >r th ■ fact
that you can not work jitite so well in the
flickering gaslight and after midnir.*ht as
! you do in the noonday. If ymi nr** a proof
reader, upon von shall come th4* united
wrath of editor, reporter and ronder, be
cause you do not j»r p.’rlv arrange the
periods, and the semi'- ‘Ion-, and the ex
clamation points, anl the a*terisks.
Plenty of abuse for von, but no svm
pathv. Having been in a p«*siHon where
I could see these things -_*»ing on fi t m
year to year, I hav** thought that this
morning I would preach a sermon on
the trials of the newsjw«*r pr ifes ion.
praying that Hod mav Me^s th- sermon
; to all those to whom this message may
| come, and leading those not in the pro
fession to a more kin llv and lenient bear
j ing toward those who are.
I One of the great trials of this newgpa
j per profession is the fact that they are
compelled to see more of th** shams of the
world than any other profession. Through
| every newspaper office, dav by day,
go the weaknesses of the world, the
vanities that want to be puff* l, the re
venges that want to be wreaked, all the
mistakes that want to be correct°d. all the
dull speakers who want to be thought
eloquent, all the meanness *ha wants to
get its wafes notice! gratis in the edi
torial columns in order to sav^ the tax
of the advertising column, all the men
! who want to be set ri .ht who never were
right, all the crack-’ rained philosophers,
! with story as Ion? a* t* 1 • ii* 4iair and as
; gloomy as their finger-nads. in mourning
! because bereft of soap; all the itinerant
bores who coine to stay five minute*; and
stop an hour. From the editorial and
reportbiial rooms, all the follies and
shams of the world are seen day
by dav, and the temptation is to believe
neither in God, man nor woman. It is no !
surprise to me that in your profession there
are some skeptical men. I onlv wonder
that you believe anythin?. Unless an edi
tor or a reporter has in his present or hiR
early home a model of earnest character,
or he throw himself upon the upholding j
grace of God. he must make temporal and
! eternal shipwreck.
Another great trial of the newspaper
profession is inadequate compensati' n,
; Since the days of Hazlitt an l Sheridan and
John Milton and the wailings of Grubb
street, London, literary toil, with very few
exceptions, has not been properly n -piited. j
When Oliver Goldsmith reeeiv d a fiiend
in his house he. the author, had to sit on
the window, because there was < ily one
chair. Linaces sold bis splendid w irk for '
a ducat. De Foe, the author of t w ■ hun
dred and eighteen volumes, died •* rmi
less. The learned Johnson dined be!, i u l a
screen because his clothes were too shabby
to allow him dine with the gentlemen who,
on the other side of the screen, were ap
plauding his works. And so on down to
the present time, literary toil is a great
| struggle for bread. The world seems to
; have a grudge against a man who, as they
say, gets his living by his wits; and the
! day laborer says to the man of literary
toil: “You come down here, and shove a
plane, and hammer a shoe-last, and break
cobblestones, and earn an honest living as 1
do, instead of sitting there in idlen -s scrib
bling.” But God knows that there are no
harder worked men in all the earth then !
1 the newspaper people of this country. It ,
| is not a matter of hard times; it is char
j acteristic of all tim* s. Men have a better .
( appreciation for that n hieh appeals to the
stomach than for that which appeals to '
the brain. They have no idea of the im
mense financial and intellectual exhaus
tions of the newspaper press. They grum
ble because they have to pay five cents a
; copy, and wish they had onl\ to pay tiiree,
| or paying three, they wish they had only
j to pay one. While there are a few excep
: tions—and some few do make large for- ■
[ tunes—the vast majority of newspaper
' p60ple in this day have a struggle for a
! livelihood; and if in their hardship and *
exasperation they sometimes write things j
they ought nol to write, let those facts be j
an alleviation. O men of the press, it will
be a great help to you if, when you come
home late at night, fagged out and nervous |
with your work, you would just kueei *
down and comnieud your case to God, !
who has watched all the fatigue of the
day, and who has promised to be your ’
Qod and the God of your children forever.
Another great uiai of the newspaper :
profession is the appetite for uu- i
•» -■ i *
healthy Intelligence Yoa ' I lame t*o
newspaper press tor giving sttch promt*
nettc* to murders and scandajs. Do you
suppose that so many papers would give
prominence to these things if the people
did not demand them? I go into the meat
market of a foreign city, and 1 find that
the butchers hang up on the most conspic
uous hooks meat that is tainted, while the
meat that is fresh and savory is put away
without any especial care. 1 come to the
conclusion that the people of that city
love tainted meat. You know very well
that if the great mass of people in this
country get hold of a newspaper and there
are in it no runaway matches, no broken
up families, no defamation of men in high
position, they pronounce the paper in
sipid. They say. “It is shockingly dull
to-night.” 1 believe It is one of th* trials
of the newspaper press, that th» people of
this country demand moral slush instead
of healthy, intellectual food. Now, voU
are a respectable man, atl intelligent man,
and a paper come* into your hand. T ou
open It, and there are three col
umns of splendidlv written edi
torial. recommending some moral
sentiment, or evolving some scientific
theory. In the next column there is a mis
erable. contemptible divorce case. U iiieh
do vou read first? You dip into the edi
torial long enough to say: “Well, that’s
verv sblv written." atld you read the
divorce case from tn» “long primer" type
at the ton, to the “nonpareil” type at the
bottom, and then you ask your wife if she
has read it! O. it is only a case of supply
and demand. Newspaper men are no fools.
Thev know what you want, and thev give
it to yon. I believe that if the church and
the w orld bought nothing but pure, honest
and healthful newspapers, nothing but
pure, honest and healthful newspap-r*
would be published. If you should gather
all the edit >r* and reporters Of this coun
try in one great convention, and then ask
of them what kind of a paper thev Would
prefor to publish, I believe thev would
unanimously say: “We would prefer to
publish an elevated paper.” So long as
there is an inquitous d> ntand. there will be
an inquitous supply. I make no apology
for a debauched new«pap *r. ' tit 1 am sav
ing these things in order to divide the re
sponsibility between those that print and
those who read.
profession is the great allurement that
%urrpund« them. E*erv occupation and
profession has temptations peculiar to
itself, and the newspaper profession is not
an exception. The great draught, as you
know, is on the nervous forces, and the
brain is racked. The blundering political
speech must read well for the sake of the
party, and so the reporter, or the editor*
1:t\to make it read well, although every
sentence was a catastrophe to the English
language. The reporter must hear ail that
an inau lible speaker, who thinks it i* vul
gar to speak out, says; and it must be
right the next morning or the next night
in the papers, though the night before the
whole audience sat with its hand behind
its ear in vain trying to catch it. This
man nuist go through killing night-work.
He must go into heated assemblages, and
into unventilated audience-rooms that are
enough to take th»* life out of him. Ho
must visit court-rooms which are almost
always disgusting with rum an 1 tobacco.
He must expose bim-elf at the fire. He
must write in betid alley-ways. Added
to ad that he must have has*y
mash ation and irregular habits. To
bear up under this tremendous neiv
ous strain thev are tempted to arti
ficial stimulus, an l how many thousands
have gone down under that pressure God
only knows. They must have something
to counteract the wet, thev must have
something to k»*ep out the chill, and after a
scant night’s sleep they must have some*
thing to revive them for the morning’s
work. That is what made Horace Greeley
such a stout temperance man.
Another trial of this profession is the
fact that no one seems to care for their
souls. They feel bitterly about it, though
they laugh. People sometimes laugh the
loudest when they feel tin* worst. They
are expected to gather up religious pro
ceedings and to dis uss religious doctrines
in the editorial columns, but who expects
them to be saved by the sermons they pho
nograph, or bv th* doctrines they discuss
in the editorial columns? The world looks
upon them as professional. Who preac hes
to reporters and editors? Some of th*m
came from religious home-, and when th«V
left the paternal rool. whoever regarded of
disregarded, they come off with a father’s
benediction and a mother's prayer. They
never think of those good old times, but
tears come into their eyes, and they move
around this great, roaring metropolis
helpful thing it is for a man to put his
weary head down on the bo-' -11 of a sym
pathetic Christ! He knows how nervous
and tired you are. He has a heart large
enough to take in all your interests in this
world and the next. O, men of the news
paper press, you sometimes get sick of this
world, it seems sohollow and unsatisfying.
If there are any people in all the earth that
need God, you are the men, and you shall
have Him if only this day you implore HU
mercy.
* Let me ask all men connected with the
printing press that they help us more ami
more in the effort to make the world bet
ter. I charge you in the name of God, be
fore whom vou must account for the tre
mendous influence you hold in this
oc,untry, to consecrate yourselves to
higher endeavors. You are the men to
fight back this invasi. u • o irupt lit
erature. Lift up your right hand and
swear new allegiance to the cau-e of phil
anthropy and religion. Ami when, at
last, standing on the plains of judgment
you look out upon the unnumbered throngs
over whom you have had influence, nicy
it be found that yon were among the
mightiest energies that lifted men upon
the exalted pathway that leads to the re
nown of Heaven. Eetter than to have sat
in editorial chair, from which, with the
finger of type, you decided the destinies
of empires, but decided them wrong, that
you hud been some dungeoned exile, who,
by the light of window iron-grated, or
-craps of a New Testament leaf, picked up
from the hearth, spelled out the story of
Him who taketh away the sins of the
world.
In eternity- Dives is the beggar!
Well, mv friends, we will all soon get
through writing and printing ami proof
reading. What then? Our life is a book.
Our years are the chapters. Our months
are the paragraphs. Our days are the
sentences. Our doubts are the interroga
tion points. Our imitation of others the
quotation marks. Our attempts at <1 is
play a dash. Death the period. Kternity
the perorati n. O God, where
will we spend it? Have you
heard the news, more staitliug
than any found in the journals of the !a<t
six weeks? It is the tidings that man is
lost. Have you head the news, the glad
dest that was ever announced, coming this
day from the throne of God, lightning
couriers leaping from the palace gate?
The news! The glorious uews! That there
is pardon for all and comfort for all
trouble. Set it up in “double leaded’’ col
umns and direct it to the w hole race.
—A Georgia paper injudioiou-iy
boasted that it had sixty subscribers iu
the insane asylum. Of course the r ■ cl
paper across the way at once rerun o !
that nobody out of «n ip sane M'i.oj
would take such a paper.
■ ssA ■ ■ 1 — -- A . I . --
A Pretty Pent tn a W»tt
tltarnesvilles (Ua.) Mall/]
t,a*t Sunday mortiing, aboot threa
> clock. Captain Powell wa* aroused by
in unusual noise ont at hit statfle* among
bit horses. Going out he found hit beau
tiful black mare, Daisy,gteatly distressed;
He couldn’t understand her uneasiness
until he began looking around for her colt.
Failing to find the little fellow, the thought
occurred to him that may be it had fallen
into a well which was near by. His fears
proved true, for down in the deep, dark
well the brave little Percheron was floun
dering al-out. The Captain aroused sev
eral hands on the place, and in a short
while the colt was drawn to the surface,
wrapped in warm blanket* and soon re
stored. No limb* were brokert, strange to
*aV, frdm t^ie headlong plunge. This is A
neiV. and novel way to “raise" coltS;
w # w
4n Affectionate Goose,
(X. 0. 1‘icayune.]
In the Louisiana lowlands there livea
an old man whose object of affection in
this life is a large gray goose. The goo-e
is never so-happv as when at bis owner’s
feet, bis long neck stretched upward and
his head resliug against Hie old man’s
knee.
t,tVV.-SEN tTciK Fust, Canadian parlia
ment. Says: St. Jacobs Oil uct-tike ft charnl.
Kev. TV. M. Loftwicb, It. D., Nashville,
publicly endorses lied Star Cough Cure.
l'Ace, twenty-five cents a liottle.
Isn’t an attempt to prove an alibi self
denial}—.V. }'. Journal.
So Opium in I’iso’s Cure for Consump
tion. Cures where other remedies fail. Hoc.
ftostON finds her glory in the past be
cause she belongs to the "had beaus.”—
Washington t'ritic.
Not a faded or gray bair to be so#h, after
Using Hall’s Hair Rehewen.
A powerful remedy for lung troubles.
Safe for young or bid. Ayer’s Cherry
Pectoral:
The headquarters of ignorance—An in
telligence office.
If afflicted w ith Sore Eyes use I)r. Isaac
Thompson's Eye W ater. Driiggi-tssell it. iV*.
TnE mariner is not liable to censure if ho
leads a w reckless life.
Pfhfc sTwvtft hue Drop* rurei-’ > minute. 2fic
Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and tieniitifies. 25t:
Germ an Co.itft Remove a kills Corns & Human*
THE MARKETS.
Skw York. April 17, 1**6.
CATTLE—Native Steers.f 4 2u a 6 40
1 COTTON—Middling. ft '• 4
f*LOl- U-Good ♦o Ciioice...... 160 ft 525
; WHEAT—No 2 lied. <*2
1 CORN—No. 2. 45«;« 46’»
OATS—Western Mixed. :’6‘, a
PORK—New Mess.. 11 50 ft 11 62‘,
>T. LOUIS.
COTTON—Middling.
BEEVES—liood tn Choice.... 5 10 ft 5 o
Fair to Medium_ 4 w5 *i 5 00
Common to Select.... 3 w ft 4 ui
Ml EEP—F:iir to Choice. 4 50 <> 6 oo
FLOCK-Patent*. 4 '.*> ft ' :M
Medium t » Straight 3 *n ft 4 <•
i WHEAT—No. *2 Red Winter.*. ■**»'• , a
NO. 3 11 •* ... s*2*, a M‘,
CORN—No. 2 Mlxe 1. ft 33 >4
OAT!*—No. 2 2»»t'« 31
1 RYE—No. 2. ft 5*;
TOBACCO—Lugs. * 25 ft « vi
Leaf—Medium... 5 50 ft s 5o
II \Y—Choice Timothy.13 <»• ft 13 50
BUTTER—Choice l»an v. 24 ft 25
E«Fi e*h.*. 9 ft 9««'
l'oi.'K—New Mess. 9 mi a 9 7'*
BACON— Clear Rib. 5 * ft a
LAKH—Pi Imo Steam. 5. ft 5*4
niic \go
' CATTLE —Shinning. 4 01 h 6 <"0
I HOGS—Good to "li ve? . 4 20 3 4 4*1
SHEF'.P—Good to i hoieP....»» 3 50 ft 6 no
FLock—Winter. 4 in ft 4 75
Patents. 4 6' ft 5 *>o
WHEAT—No. 2 Spring. 731, ft 76
CORN—No. 2. 33s ft -6
Oats—No. 2 White. 2*G» 2'";
PORK—New Me--*. ... :♦ 95 ft 9 10
KANSAS CITY.
CATTLF7—Shipping steers- 4 6o u 5.30
HOGS—Sale* at.... 3 70 ft 4 2<»
WHKVT— No. 2. 61 *4 ft 6,2
CORN—No. 2....*. 27 ft 27’4
OATS—No. 2. 27'Jft 28
NEW ORLEANS.
FLOUR—High Grades*. 4 3ft ft 3 4
CORN —White. 45 ft 46
OATS— (inoice Western.* ft 39
1! \Y -Choice. 17 50 a 1* 5u
PnRK—New Mess... ... ft P» 123
BACON—: dear Rib. O'* * '<lA
COTTON—Middi in i. ft >Ji
LOUISVILLE.
WHE AT—No. 2 Red. ft 86
CORN—No. 2 Mixed. ft '*•'*
OATS— No. 2 Mixed. ft 32
PORK—Mess. ft 9
BACON—Clear Rib. ft of;
Boils
And pimple*, and other like affection* caused by Im
pure blood, are readily cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla
While It purifies, this medicine also vitalizes and en
riches the blood, and builds up every function of th«
body. Mfcrufula, humors of all kinds, swellings in the
neck, hive*, ringworm, tetter, abscesses, ulcers, sore*
salt rheum, scaMhcad, etc., are also cured by this ex
celled blood-purlfler.
Purify the Blood
*'Last Spring I was troubled with botls, caused bj
my blood being out of order. Two bottles of Ik»od’i
Sarsaparilla cured me, and I recommend It to others
troubled- with affections of the blood.” J. Schocji.
Peoria, 111.
“Ihad been troubled with hives and pimples foi
some time. Other remedies having failed, I was ad
vised to try Hood'* .sarsaparilla. I have taken twf
bo'tlea, and am entirely cured. I think Hood’s Sarsa
pan!la has no equal as a blood purifier.” Erfie M
t Petrie, Portsmouth, Ohio.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. II; six for 45. Prepared b:
C. I. HOOU A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
IOO Doses One Dollar
rromcZeTc. , CATARRH
Mackey, :-:jd Iowa lo 1
fantry: I have now b< • • ^vrDriii Q \\Wiw
using Kly’sCream Balm HFaJCAM
for three month*, an i CURrC^Vii
am experiencing no 85 \\Y kt\
trouble from catarrh '^uJj
whatever. I have been Wf * .1
a sufferer for twenty 8HAYFEVER 2u £ ^ A
years.—C. H. Mackey, Y'™ ■
Sigourney, Iowa. BBT KrQ >£J
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with catarrh — Ely’s ««&.
t'n'.im Halm lias pr*»\ _^\f.v “* aQ /B
ed to be the article de
Mired. I believe it i s EtiiJB^C <V* ^
the only cure.—L. It usj|.
CoBi'KK, Hardware —V ■ . ■
Merchant. Tow an da. |f AY" F E V E R
A particle Is applied Into each nostril; Is agreeable t<
use. Brice f*) cents bv mall or at Druggists. Sendfo
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INVALIDS’ HOTEL^SURGICAL INSTITUTE
f No. 663 Main Street, BUFFALO, N. Y. *K
*ot a Hospital, but a pleasant Remedial Home, organized mtb
A FULL STAFF OF EIGHTEEN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
And exclusively devoted to tlie treatment of all Chronic Diseases.
This Imposing EstaMi-limont wns drsi,rn.d nnd cm trd ».. »<-*'«nirr«r*li»te terp'j I}|‘"),!,’Cru”(f,"'V,' !i|S
<—•..
A FAIR AND BUSINESS-LIKE OFFER TO INVALIDS.
NOT ALWAYS NECESSARY TO SEE PATIENTS.
fjv our original system of diagnosis, w can fruit main < hronie
disdases Jus! us successfully without as with a personal con- i
sulfation. While we are always glad to sis' but ration's. and
beeome acquainted with them, show them our institutions, and
familiarize them with our system of treatment, yet we h oc not ■
seen one person in live hundred whom we have cured. 1 h • per- i
feet accuracy with which scientists are enabled to deduce the |
most minute particular In their several departments, ay; .ms
almost miraculous u we view it in the light of the isu-ly ag< s.
Take tor example, the electr>.-magneta- b Izpraph. *h“ gr. nl. si
Invention of the age. Is it not a marvelous degree ot aU '.iia. y i
which enables an operator to exactly locate a fracture in n sole |
marine .•able nearly tlirue thousim.1 mills long? Our yen. raj.I
n I'lork of the w*iith^r " Ims Lmh.'Q.iik* s*> thoruuiflily tiiiiuliur vvitu
the most waywabl elements of nature that lie cun aecurnt. lv
predict thHr’movoim nt«. Ho.cun sit in >\ usiiinKton auu t»»retc*H
what the weather will he lit Florida or New York ns well as if
several hundred miles did not intervene between hint and the j
places named. And so in itll departments of-modern scums*.
r -what is required is the knowledge ot Certain
man*. From these scientists deduce accurate con
clusions regardless of distance. So, ais*i, in meili
eal eeii’Iifl'. diseases have is rtain umnistakal'k'
sigiLs. or svmptbms, ntld by reason of this fact, we
liave been enabled to originate mid pert'ci-t a -ys
_ trm of determining. With the greatest accuracy,
examining mir patients. In recognizing diseases witnout *
mil examination of the patient, we claim to possess no
miraculous pow- i*. We obtain our knowledge of tlic patient s
dfa-ase tiv tie- priicthul application, to the practice of tiicdi
ojoe of well-established principle* of modern science. And it
IS to the aceuraev with winch this system has endowed us that
We owe oar almost, world-wide reputation of skillfully treating
lingering or chronic affections. This system of practice, and
the marvelous success winch has lieen attained
KAinwriazip through if. demonstrate the fact that diseases
'VlAnVhLuOo display certain plienomeiia. which, tieing sub
Onnnrpp je.tcd to scientific analysis, furnish abundant
cUMztob. and unmistakable data, to guide the judgment
■ „f the Skillful practitioner aright in dct'erijnning
the nature of discus.-d conditions. The most ample resources
lor treating lingering or chronic diseases, and the greatest skill,
are thus placed within the easy reaeli of every invalid, however
distant lie or she mov n side ftoin the physicians making tlic treat
ment of sticli affections a specialty. Full particulars of our origi
nal. scientific system of examining and treating patients at a dis
tance are contaimxl in ”'f’bc People's Common Sense
medical Adviser.” By K. V. Fierce, M. B. KUO pages and
over ;ki eolored and other illustrations, jjent, |tntt-paid, for $1.50.
Or write and di serilKf void- symptoms, inclyising ten cents in
stamps, and a complete treatise, on your particular disease. wJl
.sent you, w ith our terms for treatment and all particulars.
Ull' UULUrU Ul tuniuiu lii'w .u-x miiiiuuv wvv ...r, . r ..
COMMON SENSE AS APPLIED TO MEDICINE.
It Is a well-known fact, and ono that appeals to the judgment of every thinking person, that the physician who devotes
his whole time to the study anti investigation of a certain class of discern*, must bee ome 1» tier qualified to tre-at sueh
a Lucs than he who attempts to treat every ill to which flesh is heir, without giving special attention to any class of disrases.
Men. in all ages of the world, who have become fatuous, have devoted their lives to some special branch of science, art, or
hterature. „ nr,,atiization. and subdividing the pmetiee of medicine and surgery in this institution, every invalid is treated
i ' siM>ei'ili-t one who devotes iiis undivided attention to the particular class of discuses to which the case lathings. The
within'tSo brief'flmi^o^'hfe-tSm^a^iiewe't he ^blflhc-st'degree otUsuceess''inathe treatment "of'gtkri/Vuahidy'ViicidWit to''humanity!
CUR FIELD OF SUCCESS.
Tile treatment of Disease* of the
Mtoil TUBniT Air Passages and Lungs, such as
riAOAL, innUAI Chronic Nasal Catarrh, Luryn
iun gilis, Bronchitis, Asthma, end
**“U Consumption, both through Coil'
! I nun niorACCO spondenoe and at our institutions, eonsti
LUItu UIOluOLO, tut'-* an important specialty. ,
■■wwl \V<7publish three separate books on Nasal,
Throat and Lung Diseases, which give much valuable information.
Viz: (Ti A Treatise on Consumption, Laryngitis and UrimchiU. ; ;
price, post-paid, ten rents. fib A Treatise on Asthma, or l‘fjtliisi- . ;
giving new and successful treatment; price, post-paid, tt n cents.
13) ATreatis Chronic Nasal Catarrh; price, pout-paid, two cents.
■“““““““"“"“I Dyspepsia, “ Liver ComplaiHt,” Ob- ;
F Mi nate Constipation, * lironic Diar
rhea, Tape-worm*, and kindred affections
,n> among those chronic diseases in tin* suc
cessful treatment of wliich our specialists have
■m*bsbh*I attained great success. Many of tile disoasos
affecting the liver and other organs contributing in their tunc- j
tions to the process of digestion, are very obscure, and are not ;
infrequently mistaken by both laymen and physicians tor ot.ier j
maladies, and treatment is employed directed to tile removal oi a
disease which docs not exist. Our Complete Treat wo on Diseases
of the Digestive Organs will be sent to any address on receipt ot
ten cents in postage stamps.
....11.11. I. IT.. IIIIIUIIT’S DISEtSE, DIABETES, and
tfmyry kiudreil maiadu'S. iiavc been very largely treated, ,
AlUnLI and cures effected in thousands of cases which li el
flmranm been pronounced beyond hope. These diseases are
DISEASES, readily diagnosticated, op determined, by chemical
analysis of the urine, without a persenal examina
tion of patients, who cau, therefore, generally be
surcesMiiIly treated at tlielr homes. Tile study and
practice of chemical analysis and microscopical examination of
the urine in on: consideration of coses, with reference to correct
diagnosis, in which our institution long ago is an me famous, lias
naturally I 'd to a very extensive practice in discus."S of the urinary
orgaigi. Probablv no other institution in tiie world lias ben so
largely patronized hv 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, l
great expertness iu determining the tract nature <W each case,
and. hence, have been successful iu nicely aiiapting their remedies
for the cure of each individual case.
These delicate diseases should lie carefully treated
RlllTIHM bv a specialist thoroughly familiar with them, and
UAUIIUu, who is competent to ascertain the exact condition
anj stage of advancement which the disease has
made (which can only lie asi'eruiined by a careful chemical and
microscopical examination of the urine), for medicines which are
curative iu one stage or condition are known to do injury
i„ others We 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 und guecess
' ful course is to carefully determine the disease and its progress in
each case by a chemical and microscopical exanimate>n of the,
urine, and then adapt our medicines to tho exact stage of the dts- j
ease and condition of our patient.
To this wise course of action we attribute the I
MiRVFI mis marvelous success attained by our specialists in
111 Alt I lluu o that important and extensive Department of our
QlIPPCCO institutions devoted exclusively to the treatment
OUuuLuO. ot diseases of the kidneys and bladder. The treat-'
Immotss ii'cnt of diseases of the urinary organs having
constituted a leading branch of our practice at the Invaliifs' lintel
and Surgical Institute, and. being in constant receipt of numerous !
inquiries fora complete work on the nature and curability of the e j
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 INFLAMMATION OF THE HLAD- '
HltnnFR DEB, STONE IN THE BLADDER,
ULAuuun oravel, Enlarged Proslate Bland, Be- ,
[Lericre tention of Urine, and kindred affections,
UlutAuC.0, may be included among those in the cure of which
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.
I ’“I STRICTURES AND UBIN 4RV FIS
nTRIPTIIRF I TULA:.—Hundreds of cases of the worst form
giniuium..■ 0f strictun-s, many of them greatly aggravated
by the careless use of instruments in the hands
of inexperienced physicians and surgeons, causing false passages,
urinary fistula*, and other complications, annually consult us tor
relief and cure. That no case of this class is too difficult for the
•kill 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 marfhas been ruined for life bv so
doing, while thousands annually lose thgir lives through unskillful |
treatment. Send particulars of your case and ten cents in stamps
for a large, illustrated treaties containing many testimonials.
Epileptic Convulsion*, or Fit*, Pa
ralv«i*, or Palsy, Locomotor Ataxia,
St. Vitus’s Dance, Insomnia, or inability
to sleep, aud threatened insanity. Nervous
Debility, arising from overstudy, excesses, and
; I other causes, and every variety or nervous affec
tion. are treated by our specialists fm- these diseases with unusual
success. See numerous case* reported to our different illustrated
pamphlets on nervous disease?, sny one of winch will ho Ernt for
ten cents in postage stamps, when ropiest tor them is accompanied
with a statement of a ease for eonsuliafkiu, so that we may know
which one of our Treatises to send.
—- We have a special Department, thoroughly
organ i/<al, and devoted c.n tuniPUy to the treat
ment of Dise ases of Women. Esery case con
suiting ujr specialists, whether liy letter or in
UUnyry I (.. ram, is given the most careful and et nsider
nUrntrl. I ate attention. Important cases (and we get few
winch have not already bullied the skill of gH
the home physieiansi lias the bent-lit of a full Council, of skilled
specialists. Kikiuis tor ladies in tire Invalids' Hotel are very pri
vate. Said ten cents in stamps for our large Complete Treatise
nn Ids. as. - ot v. omen, illustrated with numerous wood-cuts and
colored ))lutee (lull pages).
„. HERNIA (Breach), or REPTERE, no
KAflinAI uURF matter of how long standing, or of what size.
iiMuiuui. urns jg promptly and permanently cured by'
AC DadtIIDC our specialists. ithout the Knife nna
Ur nUrlUnC. without dependence upon trusses.
11 ■■ ... Abundant references. Send ten cents for t
Illustrated Treatise.
1‘II.ES, EIvn i.AE, and other diseases affecting the lower
bowels, are treated with wonderful success. The worst eases of
pile tumors are permanently cured in fifteen to twenty day*.
Sind ten cents for Illustrated Treatise.
Organic weakness, nervous debility, premature
decline ef the manly powers, involuntary vital
losses, impaired memory, mental anxiety, absence
ot will-power, mi liineliely, weak buck, anil kin
dred uffections. are speedily, thoroughly and per
manently cured.
To those acquainted with our institutions, it is hardly necessary
to say tliat the Imalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, with the
branch estublislnueig located at No. 3 Nt w Oxford Street, London.
England, have, for many years, enjoyed the distinction of being
Hie most largely patronized and widely celebrated institutions in
the world for the treatment and cure of those1 affections which
arise from youthful indiscri tionsand pernicious, solitary practices.
We, many years ago, established a special Department lor the
treatment of these diseases, under the management of some of
file most skillful physicians and surgeons on our Staff, in order
that all who apply to us might receive all the advantages of A full
Council of the most experienced specialists.
We offer no apology for devoting so much
attention to this mglectcd class of diseases,
tielieving no condition of humanity is too
wretched to merit the sympathy and best
services of the noble profession to which we
ticking. Many who suffer from these terrible
diseases contract them innocently. Why any medical man, intent
on yloing good and alleviating suffering, should shun such eases,
we cannot imagine. Why any one should consider it otherwise
than most honorable to cure the worst eases of these diseases,
we cannot understand; and yet of ail the other muladi-s w hich
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.
Piiocn IT Ilnur Most of these eases can be treated by us when
UUntU AI (lUrnt. at a distance just as well as if they were here
in person.
Mui-Completo and Illustrated Treatise <lfis pages) on these sub
jects is sent to any address on receipt of ten cents in stamps.
Hundreds of the most difficult operations known
to modern surgery are niihually performed in the
most skillful manner, by our Surgeon-special
ists. Large Stones are safely removed from the
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 and insert artificial ones
when needed. Many Ovarian and also Fibroid Tumors of the
I'terus are arrested in growth and cured by electrolysis, coupled
w ith other means of our invention, whereby the great danger of
cutting operations in these cases is avoided.
Specially has the success of our improved operations for Vari
cocele, Hydrocele, Fistulas, Ruptured Cervix Uteri, and for Rup
tured Perineum, been alike gratifying both to ourselves and our
patients. Not less so have been the results of numerous operations
for Stricture of the Cepical Canal, a condition in the female gen
erally resulting in Barrcnm-ss, or Sterility, and the cure of which,
by a safe and painless operation, removes this-eommonest of im
pediments to tne bearing of offspring.
A Complete Treatise on any one of the above maladies will be
sent on receipt of ten cents in stamps.
Although we have in the preceding para
graphs, made mention of some of the siiecial
ailments to which particular attention is
given by the specialists at the invalids’
Hotel and Surgical Institute, yet the insti
tution abounds in skill, facilities, and ap
paratus for the successful treatment of
every form of qhronip ailment, whether re
quiring for its cure medical or surgfcal means.
Ail letters of Inquiry, or of consultation, should be addressed to
WORLD’S DISPENSARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION,
«63 Mala Btrsat, BUFFALO. N, T.