THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
at the table, for my nerves were in such a 
state that the rattling of the knives and forks 
distressed me and compelled me to leave the 
dining-room. The little I was able to eat was 
brought to my room. I could take a little 
meat, but no vegetables; and I can assure 
you that eating was uot a pleasure to me. 
“Did I take much medical treatment? Oh, 
yes, but I cannot say that it did me any ap¬ 
parent good, unless, perhaps, in case of the 
last physician who attended me. Ho brought 
me up to a condition in which there was 
something iu me for the Compound Oxygen 
to take hold of.” 
“Compound Oxygen? Did you try that; 
and what did it do for you?” 
“Yes, that was what brought mo to where 
you see me now. It was this wav: I was iu a 
very exhausted condition, and my friend, Mr. 
Hagen, of Front Street, who had been made a 
new man by it, told me that ho thought there 
would be some chance for me if I would try 
Compound Oxygen. The prospect did not at 
first seem very encouraging, yet I thought I 
would make the trial. So prostrated was I 
that walking from the St. George Hotel to 
Starkey & Palen’s office, which is not over half 
a mile, completely used me up, and I had to 
rest for two hours after making the effort. 
This was my first attempt at going out. 
After this, when l went to the office for treat¬ 
ment, 1 took a cab, for the first few visits. 
But the necessity for the cab did not last a 
great while. The Compound Oxygen did not 
begin to do its work suddeuly, but what it did 
it did well. In about ten days the severe 
pains in my head were greatly relieved, aud be¬ 
fore many more days they were gone. Then 
1 began to gain in strength. Gradually the 
rheumatic pains went away, my digestion im¬ 
proved, so that eating was not the torment 
it had been. I soon became able to enjoy 
refreshing sleep, and this added to my com¬ 
fort aud gave me new strength.” 
“For two months I took the Oxygen Treat¬ 
ment at Starkey & Paten's office, daily gain¬ 
ing. When I first began to take it 1 was so 
weak that I could uot inhale for more than 
ten or fifteen seconds. By steady practice 
and with increasing strength, I found myself 
able to inhale for nearly a minute at a time. 
1 began in March, 18S2, and I finished iu May. 
By this time I was so well that I needed no 
more treatment.” 
“Have you ever had occasion to resort to 
the treatment again?” 
“Never but once. Then I thought I felt 
some indication of a return of my old trouble. 
The use of the Compound Oxygen for a very 
short time set me to rights. Now I urn able 
to attend to business regularly and cheerfully. 
1 live in the country aud come to town every 
day. 1 sleep soundly, take a good deal of ac¬ 
tive exercise, eat pretty much everything 1 
want aud my digestion is good. What more 
can I ask for?” 
“You Bre a firm believer in Compound Oxy¬ 
gon, then, Mr. Edwards?” 
“Most certaiuly and thoroughly. After 
what it has done for me 1 am free to speak 
well of it, aud to recommend it to others as a 
great vitali 2 er and restorer.” 
3ucb a case as this one is surely calculated 
to make people think. Thinking is good; act¬ 
ing is better. In such diseases as “Bright’s” 
there is no time to be lost. If you have even 
p;i,$’rcUancau,$ gutvfrti.&ittg 
Who was Bright? 
The name of Bright is frequently on the 
tongues of people who know nothing, or little, 
of who “Bright” was, or the nature of the pe¬ 
culiar derangement of vital functions with 
which his name has long been linked. Dr. 
Bright was a famous British surgeon and an¬ 
atomist. He made the kidneys aud their dis¬ 
orders his special study. He first pointed out 
the nature of the grauular degeneration of the 
tissues of the kidneys, and showed the demor¬ 
alization of these organa when in such a con¬ 
dition that their secreting powers are so im¬ 
paired that the urea is not sufficiently separ¬ 
ated from the blood. In the unpleasant con¬ 
dition of the internal economy which is known 
as “Bright’s disease,” albumen is carried off 
with the watery excretions from the bladder. 
This impoverishes the system almost as greatly 
as would copious and systematic bleeding, for 
the albumen is needed in the body, being, in 
fact, one of the great agents in nutrition. 
Those who labor under the disadvantage of 
“Bright’s disease” are liable to grievous con¬ 
gestion aud inflammation, not only of the 
kidneys but of other important organs. Coma, 
convulsions, aud apoplexy may occur as part 
of the progress of the disease. Thus it will be 
seen that the malady is not a mere kidney ail¬ 
ment, but one involving the decay of the vital 
forces of the body. 
“Bright’s disease” is proverbially hard to 
cure. Nay, more than that, it is generally 
pronounced incurable. As soon as the patient 
begins to show clear evidences of being afflict¬ 
ed with this malady, the doctors give him up 
and tell him to prepare for death. They can 
alleviate his sufferings, and do something to 
temporarily arrest his inevitable decay, but 
beyond this they give him no hope. Au emi¬ 
nent physician in a recent address before the 
New Jersey Medical Society, said: “The mod¬ 
ern physiciaD, in his multitudinous drugs,finds 
few remedies. * * * Medicine finds its 
highest triumphs in the prevention, not iu the 
cure,of disease. * * * Who cures rheuma¬ 
tism, or typhoid fever, or chronical Bright’s 
disease? * * * and yet, who refrains from 
prescribing?” 
Now we will all agree that a prevention is a 
great deal better than cure. But when we 
find some fellow mortal actually in the power 
of a terrible disease, “Bright’s” for instance, 
it is too late to talk of preventive measures. 
Something must be done towards cure, if cure 
be possible. To thousands of anxious men and 
women the vital question today is, “Can 
A CITY GARDEN, 
Dear Uncle Mark:— The Garden Trea¬ 
sures, which we received with the Rural la-t 
year, were planted with care, but it was so 
dry and hot that they did not grow very well. 
I did not know the names of many of the 
flowers. The vegetable seeds^all did very 
well, but the peas and tomatoes were the 
nicest. People said the tomatoes were as nice 
as any they had ever seen. 
Papa has taken your good paper for a long 
time, and we all like to read it ever so much, 
I read the letters from the Cousins the first 
thing after vve get the paper. I go to school 
almost every day, and I like to go. I have 
one sister who is older than I, and three 
cousins who live at my house; one is a baby a 
little more than a year old. I have some 
pets, a large dog, a cat and some pet sheep. 
Your affectionate niece, 
CARRIE GARRETT. 
Washington Co., Pa. 
Dear Uncle Mark: The Winter has been 
very severe since Christmas. 1 he great snow 
storm of February 13th and 14th reached us 
too. Snow fell all day the 22d of March and 
part of the 23d. 
Demorests 1 Magazine had au article on the 
New Orleans Exposition which says of a bird 
from Guatamala called Quetzel: “This little 
creature is not uulike the parrot in appearance 
and is so constructed that if but one of its 
feathers is plucked It dies instantly, while if 
one is caught and an attempt made to cage it, 
it deliberately commits suicide, pulling its own 
feathers for that purpose, thus showing that 
it prefers death to life, deprived of liberty.” 
Please tell me if there is really such a bird ? 
I am very glad the Rural is cut and pasted. 
It was my duty to sew and cut it, and I am 
always so eager to get a peep into its pages 1 
thought it took a long time to sew it sometimes. 
We heard a mink in the hen house one night 
lately, but my brother got there before he had 
done much mischief. We have never been 
able to catch or kill one so resorted to the 
usual preventive, that is, hung a lighted lant¬ 
ern iu tbex'e Beveral nights, which scares the 
mink off and be does not return for a long 
time. The boys have planted a good many 
trees this vVinter; some forest trees and more 
than fifty plums and damsons. One of my 
little sisters has a white hen that laid iu the 
barn and set on her own eggs aud hatched a 
black chickeD. I made a very pretty quilt 
last Winter, and am at work on another as a 
present for two of my little sisters. We are 
very much pleased with the new seed papa 
has justreceived from the Rural. Will give 
all of them fair trial, especially the grape seed 
in the Garden Treasures. I planted some cut¬ 
tings of the Le Conte Pear lately and hope I 
can raise them. Papa has a large number of 
young pears he grafted, among them almost 
all the fine varieties, both early and late. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS, 
cucumbers. I had 12 hills. I picked them 
every other day. They brought me 31 60, 
which I think pretty good for 12 hills. I 
planted quite a good many beans, but the late 
frosts injured them. I have about 15 young 
currant bushes, which are growing splendidly, 
and which yielded eight quarts of currants. I 
wonder if Uncle Mark or the Cousins could 
tell me what is the matter with our peony, 
Every vear it grows well and buds, but when 
the buds get to be about the size of a pea, 
little black ants come on them and kill them 
We have tried dusting it with insect powder 
but it did uot do any good. 
Your niece, bessie underbill. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
[Examine the peonies carefully this Spring, 
if the ants trouble them, to discover if there 
are any aphides (green plant lice) on the buds: 
for 1 think it is perhaps those, the ants are 
after, and not the flowers. The aphides mul¬ 
tiply so fast sometimes that it is almost im¬ 
possible to get rid of them. A strong tea of 
tobacco will sometimes kill them.— uncle 
mark.] __ 
Dear Uncle Mark:—I am a little girl six 
years old, and am interested in the letters the 
boys and girls write to the Rural. If lam 
old enough, 1 should like to join the Youth’s 
Horticultural Club. My aunt has to write 
this letter for me, but I ain going to learn to 
read and write for myself, right away. 
Mv Grandma has taken the Rural ever 
ail-jce 1 can remember, and she says for years 
^ffore, and somebody has to read Uncle 
Maik’s letters to me every week. We have a 
fino^ace for a flower garden, and my little 
brotiJ^ aud sister and myself want to have a 
flowerbed. Your little niece, 
JESSIE HERRON. 
Chautaquua Co., N. Y. 
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Dear Uncle Mark:—I received the flower 
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