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THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET. 
Our Announcement for 1885. 
All of our readers who have watched the contents 
of the Floral Cabinet during this year, must have 
been gratified to see the large amount of matter 
prepared specially for its pages, which welmvebeen 
enabled to give from writers who are thoroughly 
familiar with the topics they discuss; whose sug¬ 
gestions are as worthy of attention, as their facts 
are authentic. 
But the past has not been so complete but room 
remains for improvement, and for 18S5, we hope to 
attain more nearly to perfection as “ A Magazine of 
Floriculture and Domestic Arts.” 
New names are to appear among the contributors, 
the number of illustrations increased, the magazine 
made more and more valuable as experience points 
out the channels for improvement, and the growing 
business warrants the additional outlays. 
In announcing our Premiums for 1885, we would 
call attention to the unusual variety placed at the 
disposal of our subscribers to select from, and also 
to the decided value of each number. 
We send, post free, to any subscriber who re¬ 
quests it at the time of subscribing, any one 
of the premiums enumerated below. Thus, if you 
want the ten packets of Flower seeds, request “Pre¬ 
mium No. 1;” if you want the beautiful novelty, 
“ Tigridia Grandiflora Alba,” request “Premium No. 
4,” etc., etc. 
Premiums for 1885. 
Flower Seeds. 
Premium No. i.— New Golden Mignonette — Hya- 
cinthus Candicans—New Dwarf Petunia—Prize 
Balsams—Prize Asters—Improved Zinnia — Gail- 
lardia Picta Lorenziana — Pansy—Fine mixed 
Cannas — Delphinium. 
Bulbs. 
Premium No. 2 .—50 Gladiolus bulblets. —Which will 
flower the second year—all from fine seedlings. 
Premium No. 3 .—10 Summer flowering Oxalis.— 
Very fine border plants. 
Premium No. 4 .—1 Tigridia Grandiflora Alby .— 
Pure white, spotted with crimson in centre, gold 
banded petals. This is one of the most showy and 
beautiful of all the summer flowering bulbs. 
Premium No. 5 —1 Bulb each of Tigridia Grandi- 
flora (red) and Tigridia Conchiflora (yellow). 
Premium No. 6—3 Pearl Tuberoses. —Flowering 
bulbs. 
Remittances to be at our risk must be in post-office 
orders, bank drafts or registered letter. 
To Club Raisers. 
THE “FLORAL KINGDOM” ON MORE FAVORABLE TERMS. 
During several months we made an offer of the 
sumptuous volume entitled “ The Floral Kingdom,” 
for clubs of Six New Yearly Subscriptions, at Si.25 
each. We have now secured a limited supply of that 
elegant book (which was published at SC.50 per copy) 
on terms more favorable than previous purchases, 
and until it is exhausted by purchasers at Five Dol¬ 
lars per copy, or by club-raisers, we will deliver (at 
our office) a copy for a club of FOUR New Names. 
The express charges on the book, to points east of 
the Mississippi River, average 35 cents. 
NEWSPAPER WAIFS. 
-A Milwaukee druggist advertises that the 
way a porous plaster acts is to retain the back firmly 
in place, while the pain crawls out between the 
holes. 
-The eternal fitness of things: Shopkeeper— 
“ ’Arf pound o’ tea, mem? Which will you have to¬ 
day, mem, black or green?” Female—“Black, 
please; it’s for a funeral.”— London Fun. 
SURPRISING RESULTS. 
About the first of last May a lady of Port Byron, 
Ill.', applied for a Treatment of Compound Oxygen. 
Her case was not a very promising one, as will be 
seen from the following extract from her letter: 
“Unable to perform my daily duties as house¬ 
keeper. If I do nothing at all am quite comfortable, 
but exertion, either mental or physical, causes pain 
and rush of blood to the head, chest, and spine, and 
if continued always ends in great prostration. At 
times, have oppressed or asthmatic respiration. 
Almost constant pain, irritation, or uneasiness in 
spine, between shoulders. Using arms or hands or 
eyes much greatly aggravates and sometimes causes 
nausea. Generally sleep well; appetite good. Tnis 
has been my condition for ten years. First, aggra¬ 
vated symptoms were brought on by a severe ner¬ 
vous shock twenty ye rs ago, followed by a nervous 
fever, which hung about me for several years. Can¬ 
not bear the least stimulant.” 
A Treatment was sent, and after its use for the 
short .period of two months, she made the follow¬ 
ing report of the great change wrought in her con¬ 
dition: 
“ I received the box of Compound .Oxygen the first 
week in May , and commenced taking it imme¬ 
diately, according to directions, and found I could 
not follow them wholly with benefit. Was obliged 
to take less, or limit to one inhalation a day for two 
weeks. The effect of the full dose was prosrcating, 
producing profuse perspiration and great languor, 
with nervous tremulousness. The third week, I 
omitted it altogether, and then commenced again, 
according to directions, and so continued to the pres¬ 
ent, with occasional interruptions. 
“ My health has decidedly improved in this time. 
The pain, which used to be constant in all my frame 
on the least exertion, is gone, and I can move about 
and work lightly without any. I think I did not 
mention chills in my letter of symptoms, but they 
were apart of my troubles; they seem to have left 
me entirely; and my skin which used to be dry and 
burning, often causing me much suffering, obliging 
me to stay in out of the sun or from a heated room, 
is now soft and moist, inclined to profuse perspira¬ 
tion. I cannot express the relief this affords. 
“ Then the pain and heat in the spine is greatly 
relieved, and a complete relief to my lungs and 
heart, so that drawing a long breath is a delight and 
a luxury. 
“ The asthmatic conditions of chest all gone, and 
the gasping for breath on lying down or on waking 
in the night gone, and I can lie with only one pillow 
under my head at night, which also is a comfort. 
“ My limbs have lost their palsied feeling that 
made me unwieldy in going up and down-stairs, so 
that I feel a spring again as 1 used in time of health. 
My arms are also stronger in this respect And now 
it would seem as if this was enough, as if it is all I 
ought to ask or expect of any remedy, to put me in 
a condition of ease after pain; but I want more. I 
want strength to do more. 
“ I am a little stronger, but strength does not seem 
to increase. I am sure that if anything can cure me 
it is the Compound Oxygen, but do you think, do you 
know, that broken or shattered nerves can be cured? 
I begin to think I must be content with a small meas¬ 
ure of strength. 
“ But it has been an unspeakable help and bless¬ 
ing to me. I thank God daily for His grace to man 
in placing the knowledge of such a remedy for many 
fleshly ills within their reach. I hope you will not 
let the secret die with you, but pass it onto future 
generations. 
“ I have written this letter without suffering, which 
would have been impossible before taking your 
remedy. I am just beginning to get tired, and the 
heat and pain have begun in my spine, but if I stop 
now no prostration will result, and with rest the pain 
will subside.” 
A Treatise on Compound Oxygen is sent free of 
charge . It contains a history of the discovery, nature, 
and action of this new remedy, and a record of many 
of the remarkable results which have so far attended 
its use. 
Drs. Starkey & Palen, 
1109 Girard St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
G. M. D. 
A MEDLEY, A MYSTERY, A MARYEL, AND A 
MIRACLE. 
THE STORY OF A DREAM. 
(l ET money honestly if youcan,butgetmoney,” 
VT was a foolish father’s advice to his son. Get 
money, if you can honestly, makes but a slight alter¬ 
ation in the order of the words, but varies the senti¬ 
ment considerably. There is no harm in making 
money. It answereth all things. Used rightly it is 
a power for good, and there is money enough in the 
world to form a lever by which the mass of h umanity 
could be lifted to a certain extent, out of its depths 
of sorrow and despair. Money we must have, for 
money makes the mare go. Some can make money 
who have no faculty for saving. Would you save 
you must know how to deny those who borrow and 
never repay, as well as those who beg simply be¬ 
cause they are too lazy to work. There are men 
who never want to see you except to ask the favor 
of a loan. They will ask for just one word with 
you, and that one word is sure to be money. An im¬ 
pecunious fellow met a rich acquaintance, and not 
liking to ask directly for a loan, said,“Friend Smith, 
if you had ten dollars in your pocket, and I was to 
ask you for the loan of five, how many would re¬ 
main in your pocket?” “Ten dollars, to be sure,” 
replied the rich man without a moment’s hesitation. 
He had gumption, and. knew too much to part with 
his money by any such rule of subtraction. 
I see, said the impecunious man thus rebuffed. 
He was able to owe. He was one of the Micaw- 
ber sort—always waiting for something to turn up. 
How like some people who are sick. They think 
to get well by letting disease take care of itself. 
But diseases do not heal themselves, and too late 
their victims full often find this out to their sorrow 
as death seizes upon them. Had they been wise in 
time they might have added many years to their 
lease of life. The cure was nigh them, as it is nigh 
to all who read this medley. These paragraphs tell 
the story, as a patient perusal will prove. Those who 
have keen insight and can read between the lines 
may solve the conundrum the sooner for it, but 
upon all, light will dawn ere they read the final word 
of our story. 
ight will dawn, we said, and so it will, light of 
hope and help. Light is what a certain individual 
wanted. Mr. Jones we will call him. He was very 
sick. Consnmption had fastened its fangs upon 
him. He had long neglected catarrh, and laughed at 
the idea of taking anything for it when advised to 
do so, and so went from bad to worse. His lungs be¬ 
came diseased, a hacking, churchyard cough racked 
him almost to pieces, and he was fast wasting away. 
A mere shadow of his former self, he scarcely slept 
at all at night, or slept only to dream horrible 
dreams. Talk of nightmare! A whole circus troupe, 
horses and all, seemed to make his bed the arena of 
their wild performances. In this case money did 
not make the mare go, for he spent a deal of money 
on doctors and physics and was nothing bettered. 
He ate little, and was fast going down to an untimely 
