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THE LADIES' FLORAL CABINET 
THE CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY, 
aad its well-known adjunct, "The Albert Lea Route,” have placed 
on sale at all important points throughout the country, tourist tickets 
to the resorts they reach in Minuesota and the Northwest, notably 
Minnetonka and the charming Spirit Luke region, in Iowa. They also 
sell to all Colorado resorts, and to the Yosemite and Yellowstone. 
This route is the only direct way to the Spirit Lake region, just uow 
the best hunting and fishing point- in the Northwest. 
The Rock Island is also the only line reaching the famous Colfax 
Mineral Springs, noted for their curative properties in rheumatic, 
kidney and nervous affections. Excursion tickets are on sale at all 
principal points East and West, and the facilities extended by the 
line for reaching all western aud northwestern resorts are unex¬ 
celled. 
THE CHICAGO, BURLINGTON AND QUINCY RAILROAD, 
with the advantage of its immense mileage, offers the summer tour¬ 
ist places of resort almost innumerable, either or all of which have 
several emulators, many imitators, a few equals, but no superiors, 
as delightful and secure retreats where health's ingredients are indi¬ 
genous and pure, pleasure’s constituents obedient to enjoyment's 
command, and the heat and ennui of summer come not. Though 
scattered over the illimitable West, they are all on or are reached 
by the Grand Burlington Route; aud health or pleasure-seeker, lover 
of the sublime in Nature, Nimrod or Walton holding an excursion- 
ticket over it, can reach the far-famed and unsurpassed elysiiuns in 
the '^wonderland of the West,” the superb '‘summer home” of the 
United States—Colorado, the “Rocky MouutainState;” or, if nearer 
delights though lesser grandeurs are sought, the lovely inland 
seas ”—Clear, Spirit and Okoboji Lakes in Dickenson Couuty, Iowa; 
or, those ** liquid beautes.” Minnetonka, White Bear, Prior and Como 
Lakes in Minnesota; or. the “ twin cities'’ St. Paul and Minneapolis; 
or the "zenith city of the unsalted sea,” Duluth, on Lake Superior, 
or the wonderful Nat’onal Park and Yellowstone Valley. 
It will pay eve r y traveler, whether in search of either health, or 
pleasure or business, or all. to procure and read two excellent little 
works entitled “Through the Heart of the Continent” and "-Land¬ 
scape Wonders of the Western World,” which have been published 
by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, and are 
sent free upon application to Mr. Perceval Lowell, General Passen¬ 
ger Agent. Chicago. 
TOURIST’S AGENCY’. 
We travel no more. We are traveled, that is to say, that without 
the slightest exertion on our part, every preparation is made for our 
comfort and pleasure. Among those who have made the conven¬ 
ience of tourists their special study, Messrs. Leve & Alden, of *207 
Broadway. N. Y., stand prominent. 'A few years ago this enter¬ 
prising firm established a tourist agency on a small scale, which 
hag grown to such dimensions, that, besides having their own offices 
in almost every important city of the United States and Canada, 
they have over one hundred compositors and printers at work at 
their Publication Department, where their American Tourist 
Gazette and other matter is published. 
Those who intend taking a trip will do well to send for the Gazette , 
as besides containing information about almost every imaginable 
trip, it is full of useful general information. 
The tickets issued by Messrs. Leve & Alden are not limited to time, 
but are good till used, thus giving passengers the option of breaking 
their journey wherever and whenever they please, and should any 
portion of their tickets not be used, their full value will be repaid 
by this enterprising fir m. _ 
The Strangeb in London. —That the great city will ere long be 
hardly recognizable by its former denizens, all the world has heard. 
The visitor passing up the the Thames how finds his eye gratified 
by the many handsome edifices recently erected. As he reaches 
the famous Victoria Embankment, there rises over him on the right 
han d the new Times office, and on the left hand the new tower- 
crowned works of Messrs. James Epps & Co., both phases of Italian 
architecture. It may be said that these two buildings are types of 
the far-reaching business energy of the nineteenth century, for it 
resulted from such means that these two establishments have 
brought themselves to the fore, and that the annual issue of each 
has come to be estimated by millions. During the last year, the 
number of copies of the Times issued is estimated at 10,27(5,000, 
while the number of packets of Epp’s Cocoa sent off in the same 
period is computed at 14,749,616. The latter is a large total, when it 
is borne in mind that in 1830 the consumption of cocoa throughout 
the whole kingdom was but 425,382 lbs., there then existing no pre¬ 
paration of it such as this, which by the simple addition of boiling 
*wat2r would yield a palatable drink. Truly time may be said to 
work many changes. 
A SAFE REMEDY. 
To those who have never used the Compound Oxygon Treatment 
and who are debating the question as to whether they shall givo it a 
trial or not, wo offer it as an entirely safe remedy. Ifnobenodt 
should be received (a case of rare occurrence), n ) harm will bo done. 
There will bo no shock to the system; no weakening of the vital 
forces; no legacy of evil, as when crude drugs uro taken. It does 
not cure one disease by substituting anothor, which often is less 
curable than the one whose action it susponds. As wo liavo said in 
our Treatise , “It contains no medicament, unless the elements of 
pure air are medicines; and its administration introduces iuto the 
body nothing which the system does not wolcomo as a friend, accopt 
with avidity, appropriate as entirely homogeneous to itsolf, aud 
claim as its own birthright.” 
In this freedom from all shocks, exhausting reactions, or drug¬ 
poisoning, the Compound Oxygen Treatment stands alone, with the 
single exception of that administered by the homroopatbic school of 
medicine. It- never leaves a patient in a worso condition than that 
in which it found him, but always in some smaller or larger degree 
better. It sends its subtle agent to the invisible centres of life, where 
diseases originate through obstructions in the first wonderfully mi¬ 
nute organic forms which receive life from the soul, and removes 
the obstructions which were hindering its perfect reception and dis¬ 
pensation to the whole body. These removed, the influent life de¬ 
scends again, and health is restored. This is the simple philosophy 
of cure which lies at the foundation of our Treatment, aud is the one 
upon which Homoeopathy also rests. Any other method of cure is 
attacking effects and not causes, and in all of its varied forms is 
more or less hurtful to the body. That disastrous results to health 
follow, in a large number of cases, the administration of crude drugs 
by physicians is too well kuown. There is scarcely a person in any 
community who cannot point you to some relative, friend, or neigh¬ 
bor who is a sufferer from this cause. Many of these have been 
wounded past recovery, and doomed to a life of suffering and weary 
invalidism. Of this class are large numbers of our patients, and 
they are the most difficult to help ; but even these find, with few 
exceptions, a measure of relief under the effects of our Treatment, 
and many of them, when there is enough vitality remaining, come 
slowly back along the road to health. Could anything show more 
conclusively that our Treatment is based on the true law of cure, 
viz.: that which regards causes and not effects; which goes to the 
internal seat and origin of disease, instead of attacking with violence 
the suffering body and reducing its strength; nay, worse, setting up 
within it, in too many instances, a new disease which may prove a 
worse enemy than the one sought to be dislodged ? 
There is one thing in our Compound Oxygen Treatment to which 
we have repeatedly called attention, viz.: its action in arresting the 
progress of disease. The testimony of patients on this head is, with 
rare exceptions, uniform. No matter how great the suffering and 
exhaustion, the cases are few in which an almost immediate amelio¬ 
ration of the worst symptoms does not take place on commencing 
the use of this Treatment, and so long as it is continued the patient 
generally finds himself in a better and more comfortable position 
than before. 
If the progress of disease can be arrested through the agency of 
Compound Oxygen after it has made serious inroads and the vital 
forces impaired, how much more readily must this be done while 
disease is yet only in its earlier stages. In cases where the lungs are 
threatened, a prompt use of this vitalizing Treatment will, with 
scarcely an exception—we might say without an exception—ward 
off the attack. So in the beginning of almost any disease, which, if 
suffered to et a lodgment, might progress until it gained a chronic 
condition. Asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis, neuralgia, rheumatism, 
nervous weakness, and, in fact, nearly all diseases may be checked 
on their first presentation; and not only this, be held permanent’y 
in check if, whenever from any cause signs of their return become 
apparent, the Oxygen is at once resorted to. 
Our treatise on Compound Oxygen is sent free. It contains a 
history of the discovery, nature, and action of this new remedy, and 
the record of a large number of remarkable cures which have been 
made in chronic cases under its use during the past twelve or thir-. 
teen years. Address 
DRS. STARKEY & PALEN, 
1100 Girard St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
