The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-27
{. Joseph Saturday Democrat, Aug. 81, 1851.
A Friend to the Friendless,

A Friend to the Friendless.
Sorrow and sick ness 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 hu-
manity we are almost out of patience
with life. Even when the intentions
are best, ignorance is prone To- bid the
afflicted "suffer and be strong" instead
of 'ministering to the mind diseased"
or laying hand of healing on the poor
tortured body.
All when Science and Philanthropy,
with love and sympathy and skill,
come TO the aid of the sufferers, they
feel as 'fthe angel of annunciation had
drawn near.
Samaritan Nervine really is saliva
ton To- thousands. speak from a full
heart when ! say it, for friends very
near AMI dear To- me Ina We been restored
10 health and happiness by means Of
it.
''GOd bless DR. Richmond" said one
of them To me the other day. II feel as
i know the man mentioned i'm Scripture
must have ielt 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 by the Good Samar-
itan.n
ayes" he continued. that is exact
ly my condition. / have spent fortune
in doctors bills and patent medicines
Everything could hear of / tried, so
desperate was my situation, but / grew
worse steadily, until some kind friend
told me of the Samaritan Nervine.
Since taking it am, as you see, restOr-
ed to perfect health.
With such incOntrOvertible proof OF
the beneficent nature of the remedy, it
is not strange that an editor, always
solicitOus 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
private office busily engaged in super
intending the gentlemen whose BUSH
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 as soon as We entered the
office our attention was arrested by q
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 by side with
the picture of the humble artisan !.
innocent childhood and withered old
age showed in their counterfeit pre-
sentiments the gratitude they could not
speak doctors. lawyers, ministers OF
the gospel, soldiers, lakOrers. plain
mothers of families. naughty children
of wealth, rich and poor, high and low,
black and white, all were represented.
1t 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 patients.
"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
to see perhaps one bookcase filled with
dusty tones of abstract science. IN
stead, the walls were lined with very
handsome bookcases, containing over
one humid red thousand unsolicited tes-
timOnials from those whom the Nervine
had cured.
How wonderfully fortunate as well
as talented you are" We exclaimed I'D
amazement. THE Nervine has prov
ed perfect gold mine."
The doctor looked at us reprOachfully-
81 am not one to underestimate the
value of wealth." he answered, "fOr /
have known what it is to be without
it, but what is the most colossal fortune
that was ever i'm the grasp of mortal
man in comparison to the good my
remedy is doing Picture to yourself,
if you can, what must be the feelingof
an epileptic. Think of him with his
dreadful disease SO long pronounced in
durable. He cannot take part in the
studies, duties, emplOyments; recrea-
tons or amusements Ofan ordinary fel-
low being He is an object of horror
rather than of pity to his friends. His
malady never stands still it is con-
stantly growing worse and more dread
full i'm all it's phases. Last and most
dreadful before him stands the awful
phantom 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, tempted to curse Heaven and
die. Why, it would bring tears to
your eyes to read letter l received
from a gentleman at POtsdam, New
York, telling how he had two thousand
dreadful fits in eighteen months, and
is now, thanks to the Nervine, entire
ly cured. ThatpOO fellow can scarce
ly find words strong enough to express
his feelings. That's the kind of thing
to make man feel happy.