The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-22
A Friend TO the rriena,ess.

! Sorrow and sickness is the too common herit.
! age OF the great mass Of humanity, ana when
we see how little is done TO alleviate The miseries
oil me great mass OF humanity, we are almost
out OF pauence with life Even where the in
tenuons are best ignorance IS prone Ia hid the
afflicted 'snler and be strong instead Of min.
lsterinE To The mind diseased or laying a hand
oi meaning ON The poor tortured body
An when Scieure and Philanthropy with love
aud sympathy and skill, come to the aid OF the
sufferers, they feel as If the angel OF annuncia.
uou had drawn near
samaritan NeIyine really Is salvation to thou.
sanlS speak from full heart when | say it.
for friends very near and dear 10 me have been
reslored 10 health aud happiness by means of IL
Dod bless DR., Richmond" said one Of them
10 me the other day Il feel as know the man
went from Jerusalem TO Jericho aud 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, shat was exactly nv
condition, | had spent fortune in doctors bills
anu patent medicines Everything could hear
| OF tried, SO desperate was my situation hut |
grew worse steadily, until some kind friend told
me of the Samaritan Nervine Since taking il /
am, as you see, restored to perfect health +"
with such incontrovertible proof OF the benn
cent nature OF the remedy, 1t is not strange that
an editor, always sclicitous 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 medl.
cine at the Worlds Epilep,c Institute.
We found the doctor in his elegant private
once, busily engaged in experimenting the gem
tlcman whose business II Is to attend To the de.
tails OF the immense correspondence which is a
natural result of his widespread reputation.
ON making known our wishes, he very kindly
accompanied us IN our tom otinspectiOn through
the magnificent building and grounds.
Almost as soon as we entered the Office our nj.
tention was arrested by wonderful collection of
phoiographs, numbering somewhere in the thou
sands. All nations, ages and stations were rep
resented. The elegant carte of the society leader
was side by side with the picture of the humble
artisan; innocent childhood and withered old
| age showed in their counterfeit presentments 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 and low, black and white,
all were represented, II reminded me of the
miracle cures of Europe, only instead of the
crulches, bandaGes., gold. silver and wax images
OF the recupemted pilgrims, left before the
shrine of the miracle worker, DR. Richmond has
as testimonials the pictures of his deeply CRATE
full patients.
You must feel very happy, Doctor when you
look al this collection" we said.
All! yes, said the doctor pleasantly; but II
you Ike my Art Gallery, what would you say to
my LibraryT'
He led the waysto the next apartment, and we
followed expecting only to see perhaps one book
case filed with dusty tones of abstract science
Instead, the walls were lined with very hand.
some bookcases, containing over one hundred
thousand uns licited testimonials from those
whom the Nervine had cured
How wonderfully fortunate as welas talented
you are " we exclaimed in amazement The
Nervine has proveda perfect gold mine"
The doctor looked at us reproachfully.
II am not one to underestimate the value of
wealth, he answered. "for have known what
II is TO be without it, but what is the most col.
lossal fortune that was ever in the grasp of NOR
tai man compared to the good my remedy is do
ing? Picture 10 yourself, If you can. what must
be the feeling of an eplcptic. Think of him
with his dreadful disease so long pronounced in
durable, lie cannot take part In the studies
duties, empl0ymcnts, recrealions or amusements
oftln ordinary fellow being. lie is an object of
! horror rather than of pity to his friends His
malady never stands still; 1t is constantly grow
Ing worse and more dreadful in all its phases.
Last and most dreadful stands before him the
awful phantom of insanity. Sleeping or waking,
he feels that 1t is there and that sooner or later
II Will clutch him, and 1t does. An cpileptic must
be, like Job, tempted to curse Heaven and die
why, II would bring tears 10 your eyes to read n
letter received from gentleman at Potsdam
/ New York, telling how he had two thousand
dreadful fits in eighteen months, and is now
thanks to the Nervine, entirely cured Tha
poor fellow can scarcely find words TO express hi.
feelings That's the kind of n thing to make
man ieel happy "-Lst. Joseph Saturday Demo
/ crat August o7 ISSl.