The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-05-16
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A Friend to the Friendless.

~. Joseph Saturday Democrat. AM. %, 1851.
A Friend to the Friendless.
Sorrow and sickness is the too COM
. mon heritage of humanity, and when
we see how little Is done To alleviate
the miseries of the great mass of hui
, mainly We are almost out of patience
, with life. Even when the intentions
are best, Ignorance Is prone To bid the
afflicted "suffer and he strong" instead
of ''ministering To the mind diseased"
: or laying hand of healing on the poor
/ tortured body.
y All when Science and Philanthropy,
with love and sympathy and skill,
come 10 the aid of the sufferers, they
feel a. ifthe angel Of annunciation had
drawn near.
Samaritan Nervine really is saliva
ton to thousands. speak from full
heart when | say it, for friends Very
near and dear To me have been restored
To health and happiness 10y means of
| il.
"God bless DIR. Richmond" said one
of them Ia me the other day. II feel rs
1 know the man mentioned i'm scripture
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 re-
stored To health 10y the Good Samar-
itan."
"les," he continued. that is exact
ly my condition. / have spent fortune
i'm DOCTORS bills and patent medicines
/ Everything could hear of l tried, so
desperate was my situation, but grew
worse steadily, until some kind friend
told NE of the Samaritan Nervine.
Since taking it am, as YOU see, restor-
Ell 10 perfect health.
With such incOntrOvertible proof of
the beneficent nature of the remedy, il
/ is not strange that an editor, always
SOLICITORS for an accurate knowledge of
what could benefit the world i'm general.
should take the earliest opportunity
of visiting the inventor and proprietor
of the medicine at the Worlds Epi-
leptic Institute.
We found the doctor i'm his elegant
pr vate office busily engaged i'm super
intending the gentlemen whose bust
ness it is To attend to the details of the
immense correspondence which is a
natural result of his widespread repu-
tatiOn.
On making Known our wishes, he
very kindly accompanied us i'm our tour
of inspection through the magnificent
! building and grounds.
Almost a. soon AS we entered the
office our attention was arrested by
wonderful collection of photographs,
numbering somewhere i'm the thousand.
| All nations, ages and stations were
represented. The elegant carte of the
society leader was side 10y side with
the picture Of the humble artisan
innocent childhOOd and withered old
age showed i'm their counterfeit pre-
sentiments 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 AMI white, all We're represented.
Ii reminded me of the miracle cures of
Europe, only instead of the crutches,
bandages, gold, silver and wax images
of the recuperated pilgrims, left before
the shrine of the miracle worker, DIR
Richmond has as testimonials the
pictures of his deeply grateful pa tents.
You must feel very happy, doctor,
when you look at this collection" we
said.
"Ah, yes, /" said the doctor pleasantly,
''but if you like my Art Gallery, what
would you say to my Library"
He led the way to the next apart
ment, and We followed, expecting only
Ia see perhaps one bookcase filled with
dusty tones of abstract science. In
stead, the walls were lined with very
handsome bookcases, containing over
one hund red thousand unsolicited tes-
Iimonials from those whom the Nervine
had...cured.
How wonderfully fortunate as well
as talented you are" We exclaimed i'm
amazement. The Nervine has PROV
Ell aperfect gold mine."
The doctor looked at us responsibility. !,
81 am not one to underestimate the |
value of wealth." he answered, "for I |!
have known what it is to he without !
il, bnt what is the most colossal fortune |
that was ever i'm the grasp Of mortal
man i'm comparison To the good my
remedy is doing Picture to yourself, |
if you can, what MUST be the feeling of
an epileptic. Think of him with his /
dreadful disease SD long pronounced in !
durable. He cannot take part i'm the
studies, duties, employments, recrea-
tons or amusements of an ordinary fell |
low being He is all object of horror
rather than of pity to his friends. His |
malady never stands still; it is con-
stantly growing worse aud more dread
full in all its phases. Last and most |
dreadful before him stands the awful !
phantom Of insanity. Sleeping or
waking he feels that it is thee, and |
that sooner or later il will clutch him :;
and it does. An epileptic must be. |
like Job, tempted to curse Heaven and
die. Why, it would bring teams to
your eyes to read q letter l received !
from u gentleman at POtsdam, New !
York, telling how he had two thousand !
dreadful fits i'm eighteen months. and
is now, thanks to the Nervine, entire /
ly cured. That poor fellow can scarce.
ly find words strong enough to express
his feelings. That's the kind of thing /
to make man feel hapDy