The National tribune., 1886-04-01
The limited States Nail.

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| gestivo picture, in two panels, giving the old
and the new ways of delivering the United
States mails.
The one indicates a very little to do, with
| leisure in which to do it. The other, much to
do, for which haste is required To one who is
| familiar with the growth of the postal service
this picture starts q very interesting train OF
thoughts. One of these brings back the old
stage coach and the horseback rider and the
| fact that between these two the work of dis
| tributing the mails of the country were di-
vided. O~er against these come to mind the
facilities of the present day, with the high rate
of postage reduced TO figures hardly more than
nominal by comparison. From the external
mechanical changes the mind turns to the con-
tents of the letters both of the old time and the
new.
One of the most engrossng topics, in which
people everywhere always have had and al
ways will have common interest, is the matter
of personal health.
| A large class of writers seeing in the public
press the statements of cures by the Compound
| Oxygen Treatment. which has been so widely
| advertised at once write to the references for
| fuller particulars. The patients who have been
cured are so numerous and they have so freely
spoken of their restored health, that the di-
vided task has been to many light one. But
one lady in Maine writes us that she has an
swered letters from nearly every State, and
| from some sections very many.
Hon. William ID. Kelley, Member of Con-
| gress answers a very large number, saying that
| he owes the good health he has enjoyed for ten
| years to the treatment. Hon. William Penn
Nixon, Editor Of the Chicago Inter Ocean, re-
Ceives hundreds of inquiries as to the genuine
ness of his testimonials, and as to the perma-
hence of results. These he answers through
the mail, as it was through letter received
from a relative in Boston that he learned first
of the value of the remedy. Once in n while
one too hard pressed finds it necessary to ask
relief from part of the task rs in the case of a
prominent member of the bar of Topeka, Kan
sas, Hon. III. p. VrO0man, whose title came
through service in the courts for a term as
Judge. He is also prominent in temperance
| work, being Chairman of the State Executive
Committee of the Prohibition Party of Kansas.
In one of his letters he says, 81 have been in
terrupted about twenty times since commencing
writing" This brief statement gives some idea
of the value Of his time. The reason for his
being called upon on this subject, and letters
written to him, is found in letter to Doctors
Starkey & Palen, June 81, 1882, telling of the
benefits his wife had received from their Com
pound Oxygen Treatment. We quote exactly :
" In the interest of suffering humanity. l send
you for publication an account of the almost
miraculous cure which your Compound Oxygen
performed in the case of my wife. Her condi-
ton was a very peculiar one. She had COM
liver complaint, as her physicians have always
called it, and general nervous prostration.
If you will refer to my description of her
case VIXEN l made the first order for your
Treatment, in December, 1877, you will see
that she was suffering from severe attacks of
collie and vomiting. These attacks first came
once in two or three months, when she would
vomit herself almost to deaths door, and until
she would raise large amount of green bile.
When her stomach was relieved from this she
would become better ut once. But as soon as a
certain amount of bile would again accumulate,
there would be another attack of collie and
vomiting. Each time the attacks came at
shorter intervals, and were. more severe, until
she became so weak and exhausted that we are
sure she could not hare liped many days longer had
not yoHr Oxygen Treatment come Just as IL did and
sared her, for the collie and vomiting had become
almost perpetual, and her strength and life acre
nearly exhausted.
We could see a change in her condition from the
first inhalatiOn for she never had so severe an
attack of collie afterward, and had more strength
to endure the pain and retching. She con-
tinued to gain steadily, and for the past four
years has had no severe attacks. If she is
threatened with one, she takes an inhalation or
two, and 80 escapes any severe paroXysms.
1--WE have used in all nearly five Home
Treatments in four years. One of our boys,
fourteen years of age, had an attack of infam-
LltttOIl Vi tuc DONtiS, WHICH lCiU ulU III u very
bad condition. The Treatment did him nearly,
if not quite, as much good as it did Mrs. Vroo-
man.
al think it but right that we should make
known to others what Compound Oxygen has
done for us, and therefore send you this state
ment for publication"
Such a statement of necessity attracted wide
attention, especially among invalids, who nat
urally wanted particulars. These Judge Vroo-
man has in all cases cheerfuily given, SO far as
his time would permit. This he has continued
to do for nearly four years, to the qualification
of all who need such aid. At the same time
his business engagements have made it deSir-
able that q portion of the time thus occupied
might be saved. This wish he expresses in a
letter, dated February G4th, 1856. 1t is as fol-
lows:
since | sent you my testimonial, which you
published in June, 1882, | have received scores
of letters from all parts of the United States
asking almost all kinds of questions about the
Oxygen, etc. bat the main thing most of them
wished to know was whether / do really exist,
whether | am mere myth and you only
humbugging the people with fictitious names
for the purpose of deceiving them.
And now wish TO say to the public further
tif you will publish it,, to save my answering
SO many letters, that my wife has not been
compelled to take any more treatment for nearly
five years, since which time her health has
pcch CouStdntly iilpIOFinS,anu she weighs more
than she ever has before, and has borne fine,
healthy boy, now almost four years old, who, of
course, is smart. he being the seventh son.
u impart this information to show the pub
lie that the Compound Oxygen is not merely
temporary relief, but that it will permanently
cure and give new life and vitality to the whole
system; and if any are still sOicitous to
know whether l am or not, l will say, in the
language of Daniel Webster, " still live" and
may be found with my law sign still out at 155
Kansas ave-, Topeka Kansas.
Il hope what l have said may remove some
doubts concerning the permanency of the cures
performed by Compound Oxygen, and that af-
ticted ones may not delay too long in testing
its efficacy"
The request that Judge VroOman makes that
We print his statement we cheerfully comply
with, and agree with his thought that what he
has said should remove some doubts. What he
has written to patients has undoubtedly
helped many to accept the evidence so freely
and abundantly G ven of the curative power of
Compound Oxygen. There are others coming
forward to divide the task with him, and q
very interesting letter just at hand, giving in
one report the record of results in three cases,
one thousand miles apart, will serve to show
how this relief is coming. The writer, Rev.
Isaac Leonard, of Sperry, Iowa, says:
II have been able ito labor in my old field
beyond all my expectations. Some Sabbaths
have four services and some weeks preaching
every evening. q.
MY old friends express their surprise that
appear so young and vigorous. For this | am