The Phoenix herald., 1882-07-21
Friend to the ErIendie.s.

4 Friend to the ErIendIess. Sorrow and sickness is the too con-
 mon heritage of humanity, and when
 we see how little is done to alleviate the miseries of the great mass Of hu-
 nanity We are almost ont Of patience
 with life. Even where the iuten-
 lions arc the best, ignorance is prone
 to bid the afflicted "sufer and be
 strong" instead of "ministering to
 the mind diseased" or laying hand
 of healing on the poor tortured b'Ndy.
 An, when Science and Philanthro-
 py, with love and sympathy and
 skill, come to the aid of the suffer-
 CTS, they feel as though the angel of annunoialian had drawn uca-
 Samaritan Nervine really is salva- tion to thousands. I speak from 2 full heart when I say it, for friends very near and dear to me have been restored to health and happiness by means Of f.
 "God bless Dr. Richmond" said one of them to mo the other day. q feel as I know the man in the Scrip ture must have felt when he went from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves, and when robbed and at the point of death, was befriended and restored to health by the Good Samaritan"
 -Yes," he continued, "thst was e1- .aetly my condition. I had spent 8 fortune in doctors bills and patent medicines. Everything I could hear of tried, so desperate was my situ- ation, but I grew worse steadily, un- til some kind friend told me of the Samaritan Nervine. Since taking it I am, as you sec. restored to perfect health.
 With such incontrovertible proof of the beneficent nature of the reme- dy, it is not strange that an editor, always solicitous for an accurate knowledge of what could benefit the world in general, should take the earliest opportunity of visiting the inventor and proprietor of the medi- cine at the Worlds Epileptic Insti- ute.
 We found the doctor in his elegant private office busily engaged in su- perintending the gentleman whose business t is to attend 10 the details of the immense correspondence which is g natural result of hIs wide spread reputation.
 On making known our wishes, he very kindly accompanied us in our | tour of inspection through the mag 1igcent building and grounds.
 Almost as soon as we entered the office, our attention was arrested by < wonderful collection of photo l graphs, numbering somewhere in the thousands. Aii nations ages and | stations were represented. The e1e- gant ccrte of the society leader was side by side with the picture of the humble artisan; innocent childhood and withered old age showed in their presentments the grati- -ude they could not speak; doctors, awyers. ministers of the Gospel, sol Hers, labolers plain mothers of fam lies, baughty children of wealth. -ich and poor, high and low, black md white. all were represented. l. .emiaded he of the miracle cures of ,f Europe, only instead of the crutch- s, bandsges, gold. silver, and wax mages cf the rec1perated pilgrims, eft before the shrine of the miracle yorker. pr. Richmond has as his tes imonials the pictures of his deeply grateful patients.
 "You must feel very happy, doctor, vhen you look at this collection" re said.
 "Ahl yes" said the doctor pleas -ntly, but if you like my Art Gal cry, what would you say to my Li- ,rary:'
 He led the way to the next apart nent. and we followed, expecting to ee perhaps one bookcase filled with Lusty tonnes of abstract science. In- tead, the walls were lined with very handsome bookcases, containing over me hundred thousand unsolicited from those whom the Iervine had cured.
 "How wonderfully fortunate as yell as talented you are," we ex- laimed to anazement. "The Nerv- ne has proved a perfect gold mine.
 The doctor looked at us reproach- ully.
 "I am not one to underestimate the Talue of wealth" he said, for I have zuown what it is to be witt oI-t it ,ut what is the most colossal fortune hat was ever in the grasp of mortal ran in comparison to the good my -emedy Is doing? Picture to your 'elf, if you can, what mnst be the ceiling of an epileptic. Think of 1im with his dreadful disease so ong pronounced incurable. He can