The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-06-02
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4 Friend TO the Frlendless.
St Joseph Saturday Democrat. Aug. q, 1881.
Sorrow and sickness Is this too common
,eritape of humanity and when we see
Low little is done to alleviate the mlserles
OF the great mass of humanity we are almost
out of patience with life Even where the
intentions are best, ignorance is prone to
bid the afflicted "suffer and be strong, in
stead of sslnnistering to the mind diseased,
or laying hand of healing on the poor tor.
tured body.
All! when Science and philanthropy, With
love and sympathy and skill, come to the
aid of the sufferers, they feel as II the angel
of anaunciation had drawn near.
Samaritan Nervine really is salvation to
thousands speak from a full heart when
say it, fer friends very near and dear to
me have been restored to health and happl-
ness by means of 1t.
.sC4od bless Dr. Richmond" said one of
them to me the other day. q feel as
know the man mentioned in Scripture must
have felt when he went from Jerusalem to
Jericho and fell annong thieves. and when
robbed and at the point o. death, was be.
friendel and restored to health by the Good
Samaritan.
eyes, he continued, ''that was exactly
my condition I had spent a fortune in
doctors bills and patent medicines. Eve
rything I could hear Of tried, so desperate
was my situation, but grew worse stead
lily, until some kind friend toll me OF the
Samaritan Nervine. Since taking it am,
as you see, restored to perfect health.
With such incontrovertible proof of the
beneficent nature of the remedy. it is not
strange that an editor, always solicitous tor
| an accurate knowledge OF what could bene-
tit the world in general. should take the
earliest opportunity of visiting the inven-
tor and proprietor OF the medicine at the
Worlds Epile.tic Institute.
We found the doctor in his elegant pri :
| vate Office busily engaged in superinten ling
| the gentleman whose business it is to attend
| to the details of the immense correspon-
| d. nee which is a natural result Of his wide
spread reputation.
| On making known our Wishes, he very
kindly accompanied us III our tour OF IN
| spection through the magnificent building
| and grounds.
| Almost as soon as we entered the office
our attention was arrested by wonderful
collection of photographs, numbering some
where in the thousands. All nations, ages
and stations were represented. The ele-
| giant carte of the society leader was side by
side with the picture Of the humble artisan;
| innocent childhood and witherea old ag4
showed in their counterfeit presentlments
| the gratitude they could not speak; doctors,
lawyers, ministers of the gospel, soldiers,
| laborers, plain mothers of families, naughty
| children of wealth, rich and POOR, high an
t low, black and white. all were represented
/ It reminded me of the miracle cures OF Eu-
rope. only instead IF the crutches, bandages
| gold, silver and wax images OF the recupe-
rated pilgrims, left before the shrine OF the
miracle worker, Dr. Richmond has as ttstl,
monials the pictures of his deeply grateful
patients.
"You must feel very happy, doctor, when
you look at this collection, we said.
| .sAh! yes" said the doctor pleasantly
| s'but if YOU like my Art Gallery, what
would you say to my Library!'
He led the way to the next apartment,
and we followed, expecting only to see
perhaps one bookcase filed with dusty
| tonnes of abstract science. Instead, the
walls were lined with very handsome book
eases, containing over one hundred thous-
and unsolicited testimonials from those
whom the Nervine had cured.
: .'How wonderfully fortunate as well as
! talented you are" we exclaimed IN amaze.
ment '.The Nervine has proved perfect
gold mine.
The doctor looked at us reproachfuu.
81 am not one to underestimate the value
! OF wealth., nc anSWeFeu, koi AsssC hiio" Ii
what it is to be without it, but what Is the
most Colossal fortune that was ever in the
grasp of mortal man in comparison to the
| good my remedy is doing! Picture to your
SELF if you can, what must be the feeling
| of an epileptic. Think of him with his
dreadful disease so long pronounced incura-
ble he cannot take part in the studies,
duties, employments, recreations or amuse-
| ments of an ord nary fellow being He is
an object of horror rather than of pity to
his friends His malady never stands still;
| it is constantly growing worse and more
dreadful in all its phases. Last and most
dreadful before him stands the awful phan-
tom of insanity. Sleeping or waking he
feels that it is there, and that sooner or
later it will clutch HIM; and it does. An
epileptic must be, like Job, tempteffo c'nfse
Heaven and die. Why, it-~'would bring
tears to your eyes to,zead letter received
| from gentlema,l at Potsdam, New York
telling how kle had two thousand dreadful
| fits in eighteen months, and is now, thank:
to the Nervine entirely cured. That pool
fGHiow can scarcely find words stron:
enough to express his feelings. That's tn!
kind of a thing to make man feel happy.