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Catalogues, etc,, received. 
Child's, John Lewis: Queens, N. Y.—Annual Illus¬ 
trated Catalogue of Flower and Vegetable Seeds. 
Bulbs, Plauts and Small Fruits. A very neat 
publication of seventy pages, containing a list of 
all that is desirable for the Ornamental or Vege¬ 
table Garden, including several novelties, among 
them the Akelia Alba Flore Pleno, formerly known 
as Achillea Ptarmica , a very useful hardy her¬ 
baceous plant. Catalogues free to all applicants. 
Thorburx & Titus: 15S Chambers Street, N. Y.— 
Retail Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, 
Bulbs, and Plants. 
Xel tor's Fruit and Floicer Grower .—A Quarterly 
Magazine, devoted to the interests of Nursery¬ 
men, Seedsmen, and Florists. Turner’s Junction, 
Dl. 75 cents per year. 
"Nellis, A. C.: Canajoharie, N. Y.—Annual Catalogue 
of Garden, Field, and Flower Seeds. Sent free 
on application. 
Purdy. A. 31.: Palmyra, X. Y.—Descriptive and Re¬ 
tail Catalogue of Small Fruits, Vegetable, and 
Flower Seeds. This is a well-known establish¬ 
ment, being oue of the oldest in this State, devoted 
exclusively (for many years) to small fruits. 
Prize Essays on Onion Culture: D. Landreth & Sons. 
Philadelphia. Pa—A handsome pamphlet of SO 
pages, giving in a plain, concise way, all the 
information that a practical gardener would 
require to grow successfully the vegetable upon 
. which it treats. 
Prize Essays on Celery Culture, uniform with the 
above, by the same publishers. These publi¬ 
cations cannot but be useful to the amateur hor¬ 
ticulturist. Price, 25 cents each, postpaid. 
The Rocky Mountain Rural , D. S. Grimes, Editor and 
Publisher: Denver, Colorado.—A monthly jour¬ 
nal, devoted to the horticultural and rural inter¬ 
ests of Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico. 
The contents of the first number are of sufficient 
interest to those engaged in the various branches 
of horticulture and forestry, to entitle it a large 
circulation among the farmers, gardeners, and 
nurserymen of the West. 
FRAUDS AND IMITATIONS. 
Scarcely any higher assurance of the value of a 
useful discovery or invention can be given than the 
fact that unscrupulous persons attempt to deceive 
the public by offering them an article to which they 
give the same name, and to which they attribute the 
same qualities. The intrinsic value of a thing be¬ 
comes evident in the efforts to make gain through 
an imitation or counterfeit. Our new Compound 
Oxygen Treatment is no exception to the rule. No 
sooner was its great curative value demonstrated be¬ 
yond the reach of cavil or contradiction, than frauds 
and imitations began to appear, and worthless 
articles were offered to the public as the genuine 
Compound Oxygen. 
In one instance an individual engaged in this dis¬ 
reputable business actually puts forth the claim 
that he was employed by us in a confidential posi¬ 
tion through which he was able, in a surreptitious 
manner, to discover the secret of its manufacture ! 
And, with a dullness of perception equalled only by 
his moral obliquity, asks the public to credit his 
assertion, while at the same time claiming to pos¬ 
sess the secret of making Compound Oxygen 
through a betrayal of confidence ! As if the public 
would put faith in a man who declares himself to be 
untrustworthy! 
But there is not a word of truth in this man’s 
assertion. He was never employed in our labora¬ 
tory, and if he had been there was no possible way 
in which he could discover the substance used by 
us to give to the new compound the vitalizing ele¬ 
ment and curative force it contains. That is a secret 
which we do uot communicate to any one employed 
in our laboratory. 
Iu another case a Western physician dispensed 
au imitation of our Treatment which he called 
Compound Oxygen, aud then took a number 
of our testimonials and reports of cases and pub-. 
lished them as having been given for cures made by 
his spurious preparation, a threat to publicly ex- 
ose him caused him to withdraw, so far as we 
now, our testimonials, but he still offers the public 
his worthless article. 
Aud, in still another case, a dishonest imitator not 
only used our testimonials, but actually took some 
forty or fifty pages bodily from our Treatise on Com- 
pound Oxygen, and published them as if written by 
nimself as an exposition of the science and theory 
on which his pretended cure was based! 
In most of the cases which have come under our 
observation, the spurious substance is offered at 
lower prices than we ask for the genuine article. 
We have refrained up to this time from taking any 
notice of these frauds, but in consequence of re¬ 
peated communications and inquiries from those 
who have tried these imitations aud found them 
worthless, we deem it only a common duty to warn 
the public against them. 
A moment's reflection will make it clear to auy 
one that a man who tries to rob another of the fair 
reward to which any new invention or discovery 
may entitle him is not a man whom the public can 
afford to trust. His moral sense is perverted—he 
has neither true honor nor honesty, and will cheat 
and deceive those who trust him whenever he finds 
it to his interest to do so. 
Let it be clearly understood that Compouud Oxy- , 
gen is only manufactured in Philadelphia , at 1109 | 
and 1111 Girard Street, by Drs. Starkey d> Palcn. 
Any substance made elsewhere and called Compound 
Oxygen is spurious and worthless . and those who 
buy it simply throw away their money , as they will 
in the end discover. 
For the sake of suffering humanity, as well as in 
regard to our own interests, we meet at once this 
matter of frauds aud imitations, and at the same 
time offer to send free our ** Treatise on Compound 
Oxygen ;' m our pamphlet, containing over fifty 
" Unsolicited Testimonials" to its wonderful cura¬ 
tive value from persons who have used it, and 
*• Health and Life, our Quarterly Record of Cases 
and cures, in which will be found, as reported by 
patients themselves, and open for verification. 
more remarkable results under the Compound Oxy¬ 
gen Treatment in a single period of three months, 
than all the medical journals of the United States 
can show in a year! 
Drs. STARKEY & PALEN, 
1109 and 1111 Girard St., 
Philadelphia. 
BUSINESS BREVITIES. 
Liver Diseases, headache, and constipation, caused 
by bad digestion, quickly cured by Brown’s Iron 
Bitters. 
“Young Achilles” wants to know if t; we think 
cigarette smoking is injurious to the brain ” Oh, 
no, not a bit of it, “Young Achilles.” No man with 
brains enough to hurt will be guilty of smoking 
paper .—Burlington Hawkeyc. 
Nothing so simple and perfect for coloring as the 
Diamond Dyes. For carpet rags, better and cheaper 
than any other dye-stuffs. 
"When old Captain 3Iarlinspike heard that his friend 
the schoolmaster was in the habit of punishing the ' 
unruly lads by seating them with the girls, ho shook 
; his head as he remarked: “A misplaced buoy is; 
' always dangerous, my friend.” 
! Not a drink, not sold in bar-rooms, but a reliable 
j non-alcoholic tonic medicine, useful at all times, and 
. in all seasons, is Brown’s Iron Bitters. 
| It is customary to picture a gorilla with the limb 
; of a tree in his hand, which is a gratuitous insult on 
the young man who carries a cane, and should no 
longer escape the frown of an intelligent, humane 
and justice-loving community. 
“Do not^rasp at the shadow' and lose the sub¬ 
stance.” Kidney-Wort is ablo to convert you from a 
shadow' of your former self into the substance of es¬ 
tablished health. Said a sufferer from kidney-trouble 
when asked to try Kidney-Wort for a remedy: “ I’ll 
try it, but it willle my last dose.” It cured him. and 
now he recommends it to all. If you have disordered 
kidneys, don’t fail to try it. 
Noted Men ! 
Dr. John F. Hancock, 
late President of the National Phar¬ 
maceutical Association of the United 
States, says: 
"Brown’s Iron Bitters has a 
heavy sale, is conceded to be a fine 
tonic; the character of the manu¬ 
facturers is a voucher for its purity 
and medicinal excellence." 
Dr. Joseph Roberts, 
President Baltimore Pharmaceutical 
College, says: 
" I indorse it as a fine medicine, 
reliable as a strengthening tonic, 
free front alcoholic poisons.” 
Dr. J. Paris Moore, Pii. 
13., Professor of Pharmacy, Balti¬ 
more Pharmaceutical College, says: 
" Brown’s Iron Bitters is a safe 
and reliable medicine, positively 
free from alcoholic poisons, and can 
be recommended as a tonic for use 
among those who oppose alcohol." 
Dr. Edward Earickson, 
Secretary Baltimore College of Phar¬ 
macy, says • 
" I indorse it as an excellent 
medicine, a good digestive agent, 
and a non-intoxicant in the fullest 
sense.” 
Dr. Richard Sapington, 
one of Baltimore’s oldest and most 
reliable physicians, says : 
" All who have used it praise Its 
standard virtues, and the well- 
known character of the house which 
makes it is a sufficient guarantee 
of its being all that is claimed, for 
they arc men who could not be in¬ 
duced to offer anything else but au 
reliable medicine for public use." 
A Druggist Cured. 
Boonsboro, Md., Oct. is, iSSo. 
Gentlemen: Brown's Iron Bit¬ 
ters cured me of a bad attack of 
Indigestion and fullness in the stom¬ 
ach. Having tested it, I take pleas¬ 
ure in recommending it to my cus¬ 
tomers, and am glad to say it gives 
entire satisfaction to all." 
Geo. W. Hopfman, Druggist. 
Ask your Druggist for Brown’s 
Ikon Bitters, and take no other. 
One trial will convince you that it 
is just what you need. 
SEYMOUR'S SHEARS & SCISS 
^Diamond Edge Warranted, are the most -. 
durable. “ The best are the cheapest. 
Ask your merchant to get them for you.^ 
or w’e will send for ttl.25, post-paid, 
a pair of Family Shears, 8 inches in 
length, full nickel-plated, or maroon 
japanned handles, Jil.OO. Address: 
Henry Seymour Cutlery Co., HOLxO*^ 
