The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1885-02-19
20, sleep, it is a blessed thing,
Beloved from pole to pole"


The man who regularly enjoys sound and
refreshing sleep has no adequate conception OF
all these words imply. 1t is to the sufferer
who, in sleepless weariness, losses on his bed
half the night, and toward daylight snatches a
little unsatisfactory slumber. that their full
meaning is apparent. The man who digests
well and sleeps well can stand almost any
amount of hard work. 1t is not work that
kills people-it is worry. The work that is
followed by rcstful sleep brings good health
and strength, for the daily waste of the body
is repaired during the night. But the worry
that Expresses the victim of insomnia during 4
seepless night is what rlcks the system, wears
out the muscles. torments the nerves and be-
wilders the brain, so that life seems hardly
worth living.
Insomnia is a growing evil. In this busy
age, when active men are all the time over
working themselves there are five times as
many people tormcnted with inability to sleep
as there were generation ago. We are living
under high pressure. Insomnia" is of differ
ent kinds, and proceeds from different mental
and physical causes But most of it may be
summed up as to character in the words I" can t
sleep" and, as to cause, in indigestion or over
worked brain and nerves.
A most marked case of Insomnia, and recOv-
cry from it, is that of Arthur Hagar, esq, the
we'll known wholesale tobacconist of Philadel-
phia. Mr.. Hagan is one of the largest dealers
in tobacco, and is the Philadelphia representa-
tive of the great Baltimore house of G. w. Gail
& AK. In the interest of those who are inquir-
ing the best way to secure sound sleep and to
triumph over the torments of insomnia, one of
our editors called on Mr. Hagan at his store on
North Front street If he had been looking
among party of gentlemen for one who had
been badly run down by dyspepsia and insom-
MIA. Mr.. Hagan would not have been the one
selected. That gentleman now looks in such
excellent physical condition that nobody would
suppose him ever to have suffered from days
illness or nights loss of rest. In response to
questions as to his past aud present experience
Mr.. Hagan said to our editor:
My case was one of severe and long -contin-
ued insomnia, proceeding largely from dys-
pepsia, the result of too great application to
business. My system was very badly run down.
Sleep became almost an impossibilty. My
physical distress during the night, from being
unable to secure refreshing slumber, was dread
full. 1t weakened and distracted me during
the day, and made attention to business slow
martyrdOm. For five or six years l was from
time to time under the care of different physi-
clans, receiving occasionally some measure of
benefit, yet ON the whole gaining no material
advantage. was put on very low and simple
diet, consisting principally of skinned milk
After passing through long variety of ex-
periences as to physic and diet one day hap
pened to passthe Office of Drs. Starkey & Palen,
and / noticed the ign of " Compound Oxygen"
AS other modes of treatment had failed l
thought this one could do no worse, and it might
do better. So went in at a venture and made
trial of it. For some time | had been enduring
the agony OF dyspepsia, and for weeks had not
been able to sleep without the aid of choral or
other drugs. The Oxygen did not work an
immediate miracle in me. But soon saw that
it was doing me good. and so l resolved to per-
N m and IN trix hn- urt al pa
fore long began to know the pleasure of real
sleep. 1t was by degrees THAI my dyspepsia left
me, and the power to sleep returned. | was
greatly encouraged by my partial Improvement,
and this stimulated me to, go on with great
regularity and PERSISTENCE If my recovery
was slow, it was real. ii had the best of home
nursing aud attention and that was, of course,
material aid TO me. For several months regu
larry took the Compound Oxygen Treatment
carefully obeying the directiens and constantly
gaining strength and freedom from disease
My system received the vtalizing which it so
badly needed. ~
About two years ago this took place, and
have en- Dyed prime condition of health since.
l have been able TO attend with pleasure and
satisfaction to my business. / have no need
now to resort to the Compound Oxygen Treat
ment, except occasionally for a cold or for some
other temporary disorder. take an abundance
ofexercise, and eat and sleep as well as man
can wish to.
II have recommended Compound Oxygen to
number of friends who have tried it with en-
tire satisfaction. My friend, Mr.. +. w. Edwards
of this city, is notably one of these. He was
badly run down by Bright's Disease and other
infrmities but was brought into good shape by
the Compound Oxygen, and is now attending
to business with ease and comfort. As a COM
plete vtalizer of the system, the Oxygen is all
that can be desired. 1t drives out disease by
restoring vital action and putting the system
in such state of strength that disease has no
chance to stay"
The reader will naturally seek more informa-
ton on this interesting subject. 1t can be had
in pamphlet which is published by Doctors
Starkey & Palen 11O9 & I'LL Girard Street,
Philadelphia, and which will be mailed to any
address on application.