, 1881-06-26
THE RANCH-CURE.
The Price of Renewed Health to the
Dyspeptic.
He Must Live Like a Bohemian, and
Rough 1t.

prospect. Four years before That Time, ncaltll
had suddenly forsaken lle, and had never re-
turned, except rs 4 tantalizlng, deceptive
visitor for 4 day or two. 4 long period Of
sedentary life, OF very close confinement, OF
severe mental application and disregard Of
exercise, had reached natural elimination.
One evening, strength and courage suddenly
failed, as if shattered BY Il blow; and then
followed the weary years of that unmanage-
able illness Which is commonly called
GENERAL NERVOUS DEB1L{rY,
taking all Joy and usefulness out Ut life. The
victims of this common disorder seem rarely
to endure any acute physical suffering; they
drag out their existence witt, little outward
Indications of Illness; they generally have
many UPS and downs, and hopes and fears:
but with djscouragements recurring month
after month aud year after year. III spite Of
physicians assurances that they may be
cured, they must in time inevitably drift into
a hopeless, valetudilarian state Of mind.
And oft was through my four irksone years
Of waiting for health; aud at the end
health seemed farther away than at the
beginning The situation w;ts nearly that Of
the unfortunate patient who mad spent all
her living upon physicians, neither could
be healed Of any, Every variety. OF change
to tit, Tropics, year III Europe. wintering
i'll Italy and Sicily, sululleriug in Swi1zer-
land and England without any perlns-
neut good effect Tile result Of advice from
!. dozen physicians OH both sides of the Al
lantic, and the benefit ut pounds of pills and
ollarts OF putIons. had been so slight that tie
occasional Temporary improvements scented
most commonly to come in these Intervals
when all remedies wero dropped IN despair
OF any good effect from tlle.u. At last it
came to ti.al appeal. There was a doctor
whose reputation was great; his success had
been especially striking in just such tiresome
and battling cases: he had cured 4 friend of
mine whose morbi,l nervous condition lad
been prutrac1ed through so many years that
ITO one looked fur her perfect restoration. II
i,c should fail, then it would seem that all
human aitt must fail. What wonder, then,
that alter three consecutive days OF co,lsulta-
tion 1he st,spl,,se which had been lighted with
hope ended il, keen disappointment when the
final sr1lte11ce came, to take two more kinds
OF medicine that ''lli:.ht not do any good"
and to try another change Of climate! There
wlt, made comparatively little impression
ut The tinc,-to live OIL 4 ranch, to he much
out Of doors. to take all possible physical
exercise, to keep away from town aud So
ciuty, to
1,r.n THE 1.rt, oF 4 nAr:EAH1AS.-
,,,],s ..;or ;,,,,eo,1 +1,o ne.anco If ,h,t ,visp
Micit WeIt !oeeu .e 9i''t' w., -. 10y - hr;nc
~, M .'''s. ~ a;r.,d rns,,it ~ restor1
.lS ; t,ls .sAS S.,It, troru ,nanei I'm,
i!,i1 tn vigorous lsatl.. 4!e'c sGes ~, ta
itte aliierence bstweet ali r 'eg t.;,e,, lu lug lug
o'solts ".e ,s - :, ara,. seGnss. h.,t
10 isps1G n,,lcn vpe & Ul *, ro'.ti,ns ,,nsr
T. w ~! :. ,'i ,a e.'< est r. he
,,s.1 l.f,,, ,i,,uiorin.r 1nn. o The final
ia'oi'!o!e n!itsvc " .;,,. !r, ~ cth.
Mehl tIe Ittuisillc em!lea ~ 4tt.L f - =;
ing tne ci!thSt VI :ltsil.a's M M.I' , tha q
suooth'natE enc ~ :; NV, "'''
w uonGs ,,.,, uo H., ;nst liz. WV. hmt
~. nno ''.a, - ~ ,hn ,,,auo, nrofps
lGM I1;.n th ~ ~ ;nvaiis1n If
ft;s tS,,. 1n,rss thrv ha,I, hrcn on tie Con-
ti1u11I III Eurou.: anil have met everywhere
in the common resorts Of travellers tie ilulti-
tutics Of Aulcrica1l men and women of I'LL
ase: wllost, participation Ill active life l:ss
been suddenly cut short by (. failure OF lery-
aus strength. and who arc seeking rcstura-
1i0n l)y frc,ucnI change of scene ,ld long .S
liz, generally without success, Therefore,
All outline Of aco'trse Of lite which l;.s :i.: re-.
every man who las had courage to persist III
i, NAV In. regarded as Il matter of general i'll
trresi
Tile natural remedy for the illness or III
excessive Mental strain, and other conditions
mia oynroi,ir II, healthy animal life which be-
long to i !lighiy-orgall1zed social state, or, in
other wor,ls, too intel, civilization; is simply
In Tt3u3tst INTO tElrDnfIS1tl. lJC. " ClF JILL
chrlIs rmirrutly sensible and popular tract
II; Caml,-Curc has drawn public attention
strongly to this fact, and no doubt has done
m,lcll to hcll, ut the ever-increasillg disposi-
t1oi, among faggad-out city men To spend
thsir SUMMERS iii camp. But tile difficulty
will the c;,up-cure for inyaltls who lave
bprll running in old unhealthy ruts for years
il simply that it cannot last long enough.
The warm. dry season in tile woods of North
crn Maine and Michigan is too short to per.
mauclltly cure deeply-rootcn disorder. II
r. \ summer Of cal,lp-cure there be added all
autumn aud winter and spring Of. .rapcil-cure,
there is little doubt that
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TAKEN colailuonsly ltg },rIa eM ,io,t and ti9h1
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that hfst c1H m,l ~ IL n.,j,m.;nsm nf the
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