THE LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET. 
29 
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TO CLUB RAISERS. 
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-“ Do you know why your liver fails to act ? ” 
asks a patent medicine ad. Certainly we do. Our 
liver hasn’t the slightest dramatic ability.— Boston 
Post. 
-“If my employer does not retract what he 
said to me this morning I shall leave his house.” 
“ Why, what did he say ? ” “ He told me I couldlook 
for another place.”— Jiniblecute. 
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through having too much chalk in his bones. Now 
that the milkman can see the possible result of his 
peculiar manner of doing business, we trust that he 
will be more careful in future. 
-A mendicant approached a Westchester man 
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you.” Husband (going to the door)—“ You are mis¬ 
taken, dear. I suppose the present, whatever it is, 
will come by mail.” “But what did the wagon 
bring?” “Only the bill, my love.”— Philadelphia 
Call. 
LIFE IN SIAM. 
I N 1841, a young man named Jno. H. Chandler felt 
-L it to be his duty to go to Burmah and join in the 
work of. Baptist missions in that country. The 
name of Chandler is an honored one in the literature 
and labor of the Baptist Church ; and on this gentle¬ 
man and his accomplished wife has fallen a just 
share of the honor which follows devoted toil. Mr. 
Chandler at first went only as a lay missionary, but 
subsequently entered the ministry as a regularly 
ordained clergyman. He was soon transferred to 
Siam, and made his home at Bangkok, the capital of 
the Kingdom. Here his ready facility for acquiring 
the language made him both useful and busy. He 
wrote several religious and scientific works in Sia¬ 
mese, and rendered himself valuable to the King 
and his Court as translator of important documents. 
One of the almost inevitable results of mission- 
work is the breaking down of the health of those 
engaged in it. The Rev. Mr. Chandler and his wife 
were no exceptions in this respect to the ordinary 
lot of missionaries. Their labors had been arduous 
and various. Mr. Chandler had served with the 
Foreign Missionary Society till 1856. Then he was 
occupied with various evangelical and literary duties 
until, in 1859, he became the United States Consul at 
Bangkok. He was also tutor to the present King of 
Siam. 
The undermining of Mr. Chandler’s health v/ent on 
gradually for years, until in 1872 he entirely broke 
down. In Bangkok he received medical treatment, 
and also on his way to this country and back again 
in 1876. But the effect of all this was rather to patch 
up than to cure. It was not until 1880 that he and 
his wife began to experience substantial relief. But 
we will let them tell their own story, which will be 
found exceedingly interesting. Recently, a corre¬ 
spondent of one of our daily papers visited them at 
their home in Camden, N. J., at which place they 
have been residing since their return from Siam. 
The Rev. Mr Chandler, conversing freely about his 
experience, said substantially : 
“ After coming to this country in 1876, I returned 
to Siam with somewhat improved health, intending 
to stay six years. Such was my condition, however, 
and that of my wife, that we were compelled to re¬ 
turn in three. I was a complete wreck. My lung 
weakness was so great that for months at a time I 
could not write or read. The nerves of my stomach 
were totally demoralized. My food could not digest. 
I had to lay aside all my teaching and missionary 
labor. I required an attendant all the time, and was 
unable to do either mental or physical work. My 
sleep was broken and unsatisfactory. I was also 
troubled with palpitation of the heart, with diabetes, 
and with an obstinate catarrh of ten year 3 ' standing. 
Altogether, I was a very , very sick man. 
“ While thus a sufferer, the Rev. Dr. MacFarland, 
a Presbyterian missionary at Bangkok, called my at¬ 
tention to ‘ Compound Oxygen.’ 
“ While I was on my way home I found myself in 
a very critical condition, and almost gave up the hope 
of recovering health. On reaching Philadelphia I 
consulted Drs. Starkey & Palen, and at once began 
the use of Compound Oxygen. It acted like a charm. 
Very soon I felt signs of returning strength. In the 
matter of diabetes the relief was particularly notice¬ 
able. Improvement went on gradually, but surely. 
I became so that I could eat with regularity and 
really enjoy my food. In time my old symptoms of 
wretchedness and weariness passed away and I was 
myself again. 
“ You may judge of my strength and health when I 
tell you that I was with the Siamese Embassy in 
New York and Washington a few months ago, travel¬ 
ing with them and going about as freely and ener¬ 
getically as any of them Compound Oxygen had so 
recruited my system that the unusual exercise of 
travel had no unpleasant effect on me ; nor was I in 
any respect the worse for my journey. I think I 
am now able to endure almost as severe labor as 
at any period of my life.” 
Mrs. Chandler then cheerfully gave her experi¬ 
ence. She said in substance : 
“So arduous were my labors that my health, which 
had for some time been failing, broke down in 1873. 
I had been of buoyant spirit, but my nerves were ex¬ 
hausted and I sank down. Vitality gave out. En¬ 
durance failed. I gave up all my work. I was so 
low that on arriving in this country in 1876 no phy¬ 
sician would give me any encouragement. 
“When I returned to Siam it was with only par¬ 
tially restored health. I broke down again , and for 
months was absolutely helpless. I was nervous to a 
frightful extent , and, in spite of the most earnest en¬ 
deavors, could not obtain satisfactory sleep. We 
could not see our way clear to leave Bangkok until 
1880. 
“ On arriving here I at once sought Starkey & Palen, 
procured a Home Treatment, and faithfully followed 
the directions. Has it done me good ? Look at me 
now. I am restored to my old good health There 
could have been no severer test than in my case.” 
A “ Treatise on Compound Oxygen ,” containing a 
history of the discovery and mode of action of this 
remarkable curative agent, and a large record of 
surprising cures in consumption, catarrh, neuralgia , 
bronchitis, asthma, etc., and a wide range of dis¬ 
eases, will be sent free. Address 
Drs. STARKEY & PALEN, 
1109 Girard street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
