Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1884 — Page 2

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STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP. Greeneastle Puzzled Over ;i Yonthfnl Traveler of Unknown Nationality. Cdweinsion of the .Sale of Thoroughbred Live Stock at Lexington, 111. —Minor Gleanings in Two States. INDIANA. A. Tv*elve-Yer-Oil Emigrant With. Whom Nobody Can Converse. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. VIR.I wNcASTL.E. May 2.—A boy apparent twelve years old. an emigrant. reached here to day. by a Yamialia train. The conductor stated that his ticket was from the Castle Garden ticket, office. New York city. As yet., uo one bas l>een fouml who can converse with him, or who knows what country he is from. He tan been tried rn German. Swedish. French, Swiss and Italian. A Seif-Appointed Delegate. Special to the Indiauapolta Journal. BLOOMINGTON, May 2.—A good deal of merriment was caused here by the report that (George ElHott. one of the most prominent Tnibana delegntes to the national colored men’s conference, had declared for McDonald. and that the eolored voters from this part of the Stato were in favor of forming aji independent party. The facts are that George Elliott is an unknown person who has been .'•boot town for less than a year, and who. self-appointed, decided to go to Pittsburg, and accordingly a week ago went about* the square begging money to pay his expenses. Were a real representative of the colored oeople to make sneh statements it would cause considerable indignation, and rightfully. too, for in Mtuiroe eu-umty. what three hundred colored voters reside, not oue votes any other than the Republican ticket, and many are among the most enthusiastic workers in the party. Minor Mention. George Mney. of Richmond, who had his hand mashed a week ago white coupling freight cars, died yesterday morning from hvdqa.'w. Several NTuncie boys have gone to .join the New York and. New Orleans show, with which they wiTTgo during the season as the "champion, skaters of the worhL*’ A team driven bj- Mrs. Samuel Wilkinson, wife of a prominent farmer five miles sorrthcastof Portland, ran away, throwing her uiuler the wheels, causing instant deal li. George Coffman. living near Gulma. in Floyd conn tv. has been arre.-tti on a charge preferred bv Mrs. Vimma Gallamore. of tteMWih and battery with intent to commit, rape. A number of Louisville gentlemen have been in New Albauv making arrangements for_ summer residences. hill tops preferred. Two Louisville gentlemen hove made arnuagentonts to build cottages oa. the knobs. Mrs. Nancy Brown, a widow, of Edinburg, took a large dose of solution of arsenic on Thursday morning and died a few hours later. It woa proscribed by a physician for the hives. Being an able to real the directions, she took, an overdose. A man giving the name of Joseph Cook procured a sorrel mure and side-bar brigyv ut J. T. UJeirtry’s livery stable at Conner sville. on Tuesday, and absconded with it. A mail and ri?* answering the description were afterward seen at Sheiliyvifle. George Blast and Buck Davrs. who were taken from New Albany to Jeffersonville throe weeks ago to escape a threatened mob, have been brouglTt buck from the penitentiary and lodged in the county jail to await a preliminary hearing when the Circuit Court meets ou Monday next. Both men are charged with murder. James M. Reynolds, of Lafayette, has purchased fifty Hereford heifers from Rolwrt J^rmpies the great cattle king. and. shipped them to hi ranch m the Indian Territory. Dr. W. H. Arm strong- rmrehaa edfrom fche-ssune j warty a bull and two Hereford cows fw sl.500. He also purchased two Hereford, eowsand acslt at Indianapolis, for The convocation of the Northern Deanery of Indiana has been in sesaioa at St. Thomas Church in Plymouth for the lust week. It is considered a very successful meeting. There were present from abroad Bishop Knickerbocker, Dean Farm®. of Michigan City, the Rev. Messrs. Tate, of Nile, Mich., Webb, of Fort Wayne, Orphen, of Lima, 0.. Raymond, of Goshen, Eastman, of La Porte, and PrentisM. erf Elkhart. Miss Julia Bparr, formerly of Sum bwt for fire years a resident of Foo Cliow, China, where she practiced medicine, and August J. Coffin, formerly of Boston, Mass., but also for about fire years living at Foo Chow, were married on Thursday, at Miurcie, at the residence of the bride's parents. Immediately after the ceremony Mr. and Airs.. Coffin left for San Francisco from which place tliey will sail for Foo Chow, which they will make their home. Cerydon Republican*. Several months ago a man. representing himself as from New York, came mt* Scott township, this county, and Uegan prospecting. On the farm of Joseph Lynch* he discovered a vein of silver ore. The ore juoved to be valuable, and would yield about S4O to the ton A few weeks ago the man returned and leased the land of Mr. Lynne and agreed to give him one-third of the profits realized. He will soon begin working the mine. Tho lands of several other parties in that vicinity have beeu leased, and the silver excitement is raging. ILLINOIS. Conclusion of the Sal® offThorouglibred Live Stock at. Lexington. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, May 2.—The conclusion of the sale of blooded .->toek, at Lexington, was marked by the same satisfactory prices that prevailed yesterday. H. Yandolab's fifteen head of imported Norman fillies soldrfor $12.030, an average of $902. He sold two imported colts, one blemished, for SBO2, making the total of his sale $12,880. Vandolah will sail for Normandy next mouth to bring to America another importation of horses. J. J. Kemp sold three import •'d mares for $3,100. and oue young stallion for $1,500 to lowa men. _ Brief Mention* The body of Mark Man love, accidentally shot a few days ago at Abilene, Tex., was boned at Weldon yesterday. Dr. George N. Kreider. of Springfield, has been appointed on the State Board of Health, vice I>r. A W. H. Reen, of Peoria. resigned. L. Parker, a well-known and wealthy farmer living near Moawequa. was thrown from a wago u and re ceived wounds that may jirove fatal. At Mount Morris, fire damaged Seibert’s HaTl. the material of the Brethren Printing Company and the stocks of Lookabaugh & Middour and Georgo Wen die to the extent of $1,200. The building* is iusured. At Metropolis, in the trial of Wm. Davis, colored, charged with stealing over two thousand dollars in gold from Robert Locke, a Gipsy, the jury returned a verdict of guilty and sentenced the defendant to a term of eight years in the Chester penitentiary. The barn of Joel Gillette, a Peoria covoty farmer, was struck by lightning, and. with its contents, consisting of a large stock of hay, valuable farming utensils, five head of heavy draft cross-breed horses, verv valuable, and six head of line milch cattle, consumed. The- loss will probably reach $5,000, insurance unknown. Win, Shepherd, alias Bill Blackburn—who killed a negro near Flora about two months ago, and escaped, since which time he lias been in hiding near that place —attempted to kill a woman there with an ax because she had threatened to expose his crime. She escaped from him. however, and immediately caused his arrest. and he is now in jail. At Colchester, Macomb county, a coal miner-named William Carroll was instantly killed by a large- stone falling from the roof of the mines upon hizm This makes four violent deaths in that county within a weak. Two farmers’ wives, in different jnirtrions of tint county. have had tliein clothing- aateii fire while b • -liing rubbish and were burned to death and a little gi? i was instantly killed by lightning. Til© Effects off Krant and Triehinar. BALTIMORE, May 2.—The entire family of Charles Ft-less, consisting of himself, wife and ft mi* sinters, has been stricken down with trichime. Mr. Fmas ha* died and three of his sisters, Mary. aged twenty years; Maggie, aged twenty-three, and Minnie. aged twenty-four, are now lying in a critical condition, with hut slight hopes of recovery. On Friday, the THfh insfc., Mrs. Friers purchased a quantity of saner kraut and pork in the market.. All the parties ate heartily of it at dinner. Shortly before retiring all -.omplained of feeling sick. They continued! to get worse until Tuesday, when a physician war summoned, At. that time they were suffering from soreness in the .stomach, and their eyes were inflamed and swollen. This morning Mr. Freiss died and the affair was made public. Dr. Reynolds, the attending physician, say*, it is a case of trichiniasis*. A Lumber of persons who bought kraut ami pork from the same persons were attacked with cramps similar to those referred to, but they have recovered! The case is the first that has occurred in Baltimore, and lias caused grout excitement. T-nigbt it is* ! thought the parties now sick will die. Their suffer ! Ing is intense. Two of the ladioa have been uncon acious since n>>r. Fort dyspepsia, or any stomach derangement, no other remedy can be found so pleasant, jjiioiiipt frtixd effective aa Ayers Cathartic Pills.

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1884—TWELVE FADES.

n IF SUCH THINGS IRE. Ail Asylum of Life—A Modern Mecca Toward Which the Sick Journey from All Parts of the Earth. By What Knowledge and What Power Are These Miraculous C'ures Performed? —Nuts for Scientists to Crack. Editor of the Traveller: 1 have certainly got the readers of the Traveller an interesting batch of nows, or. rather, an accumulation of excitiug facts. I wish to say at the outset that in obedience to your instruc tions I have ruado an extensive and exhaustive investigation of these claims and cures, and submit the cold, naked facts as they aye. I stand in an uncommitted state, thoroughly amazed. Rejecting as I do with my belief, the idea of the supernatural. I am at a loss to explain tho numerous and apparently miraculous cures which for the sake of truth I herewith record. The readers of the Travel!©., arc well ac attainted with the name of Dr. I*. C. Flower, of Boston, Mass. In fact-, no professional man in America is better known than this successful, energetic, skillful physician of the “Hub.” HIS PROFESSIONAL STANDING. Professionally, Dr. F. stands very high, and with the progressive and more liberal physicians, is pro eminently a leader. His opinion in very critical cases is regarded final. A distinguished Boston physician of forty years' practice said to your correspondent: “I regard Dr. Flower as the most wonderful of living physicians, and one of the most wonderful of men. Why, sir, I have called him at different times to see twenty-one of my patient? after I had regarded them as incur aide. and. furthermore, after 1 had submitted the cases to the best medical talent, in the city, only to have them confirm my opinion, adding that life could last but a very short time at longest. Weß. out of the twenty one eases. Dr. F., after his examinations, pronounced four incurable.” Reporter: ‘‘And did they die?*’ “Yes. sir; the longest only lived one hour and fifty minutes. Os the other seventeen he said, in his judgment, they would recover if <*ertaiH treatment was observed, He suggested treatment I had never used, and. in some instances, never heard of. 1 fallowed the directions to the letter, and. to my surprise, every one of the seventeen patients got well. I tell you, sir. there is destiny in Dr. F.’a diagnosis of disease; he reads the internal condition of a patient the same as you would an open book.” \ would not convey the idea that all physicians are friends of Dr. F.. for no man has more violent, bitter professional enemies than has Dr. Flower. A bold, independent thinker, a man who ba** tome out from tho old coties of practice, who fearlessly expresses hi# convictions and ably and successfully champions his new methods of practice, is not likely to bo without enemies. DR. E. 0, FLOWER. Personally, Dr. F. is exceedingly popular, and Iris friends being largely of the old, leading and representative families of the East, gives him greath strength at his Ixrme. He is a young mam having just past bis thirty-fourth, birthday, though to look into his clean-shaved, smiling, face; you would not judge him over twenty-five. The Doctor seems to think of nothiug hut liis practice: his patients are the absorbing theme in his mind. He always greets his patients with a smile; his countenance rs the sifinrfication of cheer and hope. I have- heard a number of patients' say that from the time they first looked intohi&eyes they began to improve. I have spent at your request THREE SOLID MONTHS Investigating Dr. Flower's cures and elaims and his patients from various sections of the East I have made the acquaintance of his patients from every State in the Union, from the British Provinces, from South America, Australia, the West Indies and from all p;*rts off Europe, and I never saw srach cheerful, hopeful and happy peo pie in my life Dr. F.’s patients are of the worst character (as a rule) when they come to him, though in. a short time you would not think they had been sick. 1 have seen the Doctor MAKE OVER 200 EXAMINATIONS. In each ease he described the difficulties without asking a question, and in every instance tho patients were strangers to him. I have seen men, women and children brought upon their crutches who had had but partial or no use of their limbs for years, and some had never walked, in a little while cured, and leaving tfaeir crutches behind, went away shouting and skipping. Consumptives brought upon their beds, cancer cases in advanced stages, tumorous, scrofulous, heart, nervous, spinal, kidney and rheumatic diseases, treated in apparently the same miraculous, way. and in an incredibly short time cured and sent home. A HAPPY FRENCHMAN. Avery highly educated and cultured Frenchman from Le Due street. Nazareth, Parte, came to see Dr. F. a tern t his rheumatic limbs; his feet were twisted out of shape and ho could only get about with crutch and cane; ho had been in this condition for upwards of sixteen years. After the Doctor hid examined him, he'laughingly said “Well, sir. since you have come so far W>be treated, we will see if we can cure you in ha ls an hour.’’ At this he rubbed a few drops of a preparation into each joint, then held his hands ni his for a few minutes, then took each foot and straightened tho toes. then, waiving his hand over the man, said to him, “You are well now.” The Frenclunan jumped up, and, to his surprise, he walked as well as he ever had. “My God. ray God, what have you dooef r ana ho danced for joy as though he might have discovered a world. “ ’Tis well done,” he continued;** I never saw anything like it; what sort of a man are you, where did you come from, how did you do it? The best physicians of the old world had declared my case incurable. Now, will you tell mo what I must pay you for your valuable service?” “Oil,” said Dr. F., with a twinkle in hr? eye, about 4.000 franco.” “Four thousand females! 4.000 francs! My God. my God, you ought to have charged me 100,000 francs: but here are 10, 000 franes, and you have my best wishes, the best wishes of all my friends, and may the blessings of Paris be yours forever.” A TOUGHING SCENE. Ono of the most touching incidents I ever witnessed was that of a patient from near Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. F. C. Bailey; she was a lovely little woman; thirty seven years of age, a perfect type of Southern beanty. She was small and frail; her difficulties were cancerous, oue largo and three lesser cancers in the left breast and one on the lip. She had been treated by four of the leading physicians of the South and West, each off which had given her case up as hopeless, two of them stating, that under tho most favorable circumstances she could not live more than sixty days. In addition to this she had a heart trouble, peculiar in the family, two sisters and her mother iiaving died with it. After making a thorough examination, Dr. F. said: “Weil, madam, you will panion me* for being plain, but this is a time for extreme candor; nearly :*U the chances are against your getting well: there is, however, in my judgment, a few chances in your favor. I would very much rather not take your case; but if you still desire me to. I will, though l ean only promise to do for you tin* best 1 can.” “This is all we expect you to do," said the husband, “and with it, whatever the' result is, we will be satisfied.” “You are my only nopE," Continued the woman: “I have come a long way to see you; if you can’t help me I must go home to be eaten up by these horrid cancers.” Then bursting into tears, she* sobbed, “Oh, sir. for my sake, for the sake of my husband, for theof my six littlo children, oh,, won’t you save me?” This was more than the Doctor could stand; ho fairly broke down, notwithstanding he sees such a variety of touchiug scenes every dnjr, lie paced the. room in. a thoughtful nervous miuuiev, breaking his fingers through his well-combed and even locks. Then, taking a seat by the sufferer, her luind gently in his, he said: “Don’t cry, dear woman; put your trust implicitly and lovingly in a higher, wiser and stronger power than that of earth. I will stand between you and death at any cost, and by the aid of the unseen, summoning to the rescue all tho power 1 have and can draw, I will break death’s sceptre so that his spear shall not hurt thee, AND I SWEAR that for the sake of thy home, thy tears, and for the sake of thy helpless babo„ tfiou shalt got well” Those were terrible words, and upou the (sirs of all they fell like words from the sky. If they wore idle words they were mockery, if true

they seemed more than the voice of man. Im mediately ho commenced the treatment and faithfully was it attended to, and in ten \veeks and two days every cancer was removed clear and clean from the breast and the one from the lip, and the heart, trouble well under control and to day sho is in excellent health. Another wonderful cancer cure was tiiat of Mrs. W. H. Shaw, of Portland. Me. This phil anthropic woman is well-known throughout the East, and by her friends as well as her physicians' regarded for some time as meurablo. Dr. F. with such skill removed the three largo railcel's as well as thoroughly cleansing her system that many regard the cure miraculous. Mrs. Shaw told your correspondent that she wished ever sick person in the world knew what Dr. Flower had done for ner, and what he can do and is doing every day for the sick. “Why,” continued this enthusiastic lady, “look what he has done for me. I eametohim. nearly dead, to-day lam in better health than I have been since early fife. He snatched me from the jaws at death and cured rae of my diseases with the ease that a March wind would lift a straw. I toll you, sir, he is a remarkable man; to come into his pres ence is health, to touch his hand is cure.” iti. F.’s patients are numbered by thousands. This may sound loud, but it is true. He has thousands of patients all the time; of course the xna jority of these patients the Doctor has never seem they are treated at their homes in all parts of the country. The Doctor, through correspondence, acquaints himself thoroughly with tho patient's condition, which enables him to treat at a distance a large number of his patients as successfully as if they wore at his place, and when I tell you he sends thousands of boxes of remedies weekly to his patients iu all parts of the world, I may convey some idea of his foreign practice. Among his patients are all classes, from tho millionaire to the poor and helpless, and all receive alike the same just, impartial and tender consideration at his hands. A noticeable feature is that prominent among his professional patients are ACTORS AND MINISTERS. Tn the treatment &n& cure of actors the Doctor has been remarkably successful, and many of our leading aetors, actresses and opera singers owe not only their present ability to appear upon the stage, but their lives, to Dr. F.’s superior treatment. Possibly one reason the Doctor takes such an interest in ministers, in their sickness, is th<wt liis father and two of his brothers are ministers. At any rate. I believe he cures more ministers than any hundred doctors. Os course the gratitude of these ministers is very great, and they bring to this hearing siloam the sick of their acquaintance from all sections. I heard the Doctor say on one occasion, after a pitiful case had left his door. “I tell you my heart bleeds for these old preachers; they work hard, don't get half paid, and when they get old and .tick they are fortunate if they are not turned out to shift for themselves. To contribute something to their comfort is my joy. The following te an extract from a tetter written last August by the wife of one of the leading Unitarian ministers of Boston: “My Dear Dr. Flower—l can never express to yon my sincere gratitude for your successful treatment of my case. Oh what relief I have experienced —my life is a pleasure uow. Your treatment in my case was as successful as other treatments were unsuccessful. I sigcerely hope the tick and suffering everywhere will consult you for their own good. Believe me gratefully yours, * * * ” I witnessed tne treatment and cure of a lady from Bloomington. HI. She came to see the Doctor at the suggestion of MV. }. W. PHELPSy A distinguislxed Methodist minister of Chicago, who has been a patient of the Doctor’s himself, and had been most happily cured of some very serious troubles. The difficulty of this lady patient was the loss of her sight of the right eye and partially of the left, the cause being the settling of scarlet fever in the eyes. They were botfly inflamed and swollen* the right eye being entirely closed. In this condition site had been for mouths. While making a casual oxaminaof the- eyes, tho Doctor queried, “Could not jour home physician cure you?” sir." “What did they finally say about your recov“They said I would soon lose the use of the other eye and then it would go to my brain, and then the only tliiog that could tovw ny life would bo to REMOVE MY EYES.” “Did you think I could cure you?" “I hoped so; yes, I believe you can." “As you believe, so shall it be.” Then dipping Iris hands in water he held them over tho eyes for a few moments; taking them off ha said quickly, “Open your eyes.” She did so, to the wonderment of all. and, what was still better, she saw with both eyes. “Close your eyes." said the Doctor, then putting a strong medicated bandage over the eyes, he btule her wear it until the second morning rem;u*king at the same time, “th6n you will be well.” Two days after she could see perfectly, the inflammu tiou had all gone down, and tie was as sound and well as she ever had been. These* Me. Editor, are facts given in an unvarnished way; this is an exhibition of his powers. Call it what you may* but when it comes to a m.ui standing in the presence of a dying patient, all oaten up and racked with pain, making a prophecy as to the* future of the patient, and then going to work and fulfill his own prophecy, which is apparently tho changing of natural and inevitable events, I say when it comes to a man doing tins constantly, it calls for the honest investigation of tho ?iubiic, rather than sneering criticisms from proessional rivals. Dr. F.’s greatest powers are seen in desperate cases and moments of great emergencies. He is frequently called from the city to various places ami at times to distant points to either consult with other physicians or as a. last resort to save the life itself. An old countryman came one stormy day BREATHLESS TO THIt DOCTOR** OFTCH. “I want to see Dr. R, C. Flower,” be said, with abated breath. “I am the Doctor,” was tho reply, “what can Ido for you?” 1 “Well, air, I want you to go up to the bills of New Hampshire and see my wife; it is a last resort, though I tell you sho is nigh mi to gone. Some off the neighbors think you can help her, juid she has an idea you might do something, but she is nigh on to gone, I tell you. Say, Doctor, lam an honest man, and propose to pay you whatever I promise to, and would like to know what you will charge me for the trip.” “1 would charge you one hundred dollars por hour if I go during ray office hours: if I select ray own time, after the rest of the day’s work is-over, I would charge fifty dollars per hour. About how long would it take me to make the trip to your place and back?” “About ten or twelve hours. “Well, selecting my own time. 1 would go for five hundred dollars. ”■ “That strikes me as a big charge: our country doctor would doctor you for six mouths for fvve hundred dollars.” “Your home physician's charges have nothing to do with my charges; my time is worth to me one hundred dollars per hour during office hours, and from fifty dollars upward between office hours. If Igo with you I will have to neglect a great many patients whose lives are* just as important to them as your wife's is to you” “Well,” replied the obi man, “wait until after your office haul’s, but start as soon as you cun.” About 6 o’clock that evening the Doctor started with the old man for his home, which they reached about 11 o’clock in A TERRIBLE STOBM. He found ITw patient in a feeble, prostrate condition. She was suffering from a second attack of paralysis, nervous prostration and valvular trouble of the heart; for some days she hail not been able to retain anything upon her stomach. and she was only able to speak her name in a stuttered whisper. Her breathing was labored and her throat tilling constantly with mucus. After an examination anil a consultation with the family physician, who rendered all’ tho service he could. Dr. F. applied his electrical appli awes to the soles of the feet, base of spine and Hrain. and prescribed stiWi internal remedies as he regarded necosary to control the immediately dangerous symptoms, then placing one hand on tin*, head, the other ovrr tho heart, seated himself by her tide to watch for changes. THEY CAME. Boon the breathing became easy, the strangling sensation m the* throat abated, the patient foil into a natural steep, the first time for many weeks. At r*3tf o'clock that mo riving the Doctor announced that in his judgment she was out of all immorfiarte danger, that now she needed thorough treatment for her chronic, troubles. After giving further directions and promising to .send, as soon as ho returned, all incited remedies, Ue boarded t hod o'clock express,, reaching homo at 11 o’clock. So rapidly did his patient recover that within eight weeks she made two visits, to Boston, and to day sho is enjoying as good health as would seem possible for au old lady sixty-seven ti> enjoy. So costly as his time may have appeared to the old farmer, yet boldly stands forth tho fact that he

did more for tho old man’s wife in a short timo than all the other doctors had done in a year and a half previous. THE REPQKTERS INTERVIEW. When your correspondent first visited Dr. Flower he presented himself as on© of the afflicted ones in need of a physician, and that he was anxious to see if the Doctor ho had read so much about could tell him his troubles without asking him any questions. “Step this way,” said the Doctor, pointing to his private room; then, taking your humble servant’s hand, placing it to his ear for a few moments, ho said: “When yon were a young man from about your sixteenth to your twenty-fourth year you led a very indiscreet life. During the time you injured yourself and almost broke your constitution down. About six years ago you had typhoid fever, which settled in part in your kidneys, and from that time to this you have not seen a day when you did not have pain in .Top 7 kidneys.” He then went into details in such a startling' manner that I was compelled to say, * ’hold up Doctor,” as I felt the few hairs around my bald rim. fairly rising ou ends. “What do yon know about me Dr. FT I asked; “did you. ever see me, did any one ever tell yon about mes” “I know you?”’ ho replied; “what do you mean? You know T do not. I never saw you nor heard af you before. ’’ I was thoroughly amaze!, but. satisfied myself from that moment that Dr. F'*s practice ’ and euros opened a rich field for investigation. I placed my.self under his c;:re, soon became well acquainted with the Doctor, and by extra efforts on. my part and by court c-tics shown me by the Doctor as well as several off his natients. 1 have been enabled to make a most thorough internal anti external investigation of tho most wonderful practice in modem records, A few days ago f said to Dr. F.. “I have, from several friends, letters of inquiry about your practice, and many points I am not able to answer: would yon kindly allow me to ask you a few questions. Dr. F'” **lf you wilt come to my private office at. 10 p. m., I will take pleasure in answering your questions." Promptly at the hour I WAS AT HAND. “First, Doctor, how add are you?” “I have Just reached my thirty-fourth year;” “Do you really like your practice!” ‘ Yes. sir-, my life is wrapped up in saving my patient*.” “How many patients have you. l " **l don't know exactly—between twenty and thirty thousand." “Have you seen allT’ “No, not iiaif of them.” “Ho-w do-you treat the patients you have never seen who rive at a distance?” “1 send them a full list of questions to- answer and return, which enables me to judge pretty thoroughly their condition, I then make a iwwd of the case, and begin tlm treatments: all letters retreived afterwards are filed with record.” “What is your specialty?" “It is bard to say, as 1 have my slket* of all diseases and take them as they comes.” “Are vora called from home much in tlie interest off your patio utaff* ‘ ‘Yes, in bad cases lam frequently called abroad. I generally take the night for these trips so as not to be absent during office hours.” “Do you ever visit professionally other cities?"* “Yes, l sometimes vitit Cleveland. Chicago, Indianapolis, Louisville. Cincinnati and Philadelphia. I make these visits occasionally to accommodate my patients in distant “Wall, Doctor, do vo*i cure all your patients?” “No. sir. lam sorry to say Ido not. Ido not lose mare than one in bum Iritis, however. Whenever Ido lose a patient it almost kills ra; I never have one that l cannot save that I do not feel that 1 would not willingly go in their stead. This to the unpleasant- part off practice, thougli lam glad to say it don't occur often. 1 * “Your patients are- those given up by other physicians, are they not?’ “Yes. largely so; after they have doctored every where else, they come to me as a last resort.*” “Who attends to yoxrr patients when you are absent?”" “Dr. R O. Flower, my brother; he tnnier&tands ®y patients ar*d my practice ahrtoet as well *s I do my self; anal with tho assistance of Dr. It. VV. Gray, and tho- electrteiaiua and magnetirers aill their work thoroughly, I have no difficulty at ML* “'WVIt, Doctor, I should think you would triwt vacations frequently necessary, soar you seem to do the work of & hundred men. I wonder your practice don’t kill you.” *‘l have not taken a day’s vacation for years; of co urge I feel the need of rest and i may have to stop and take it, but as long as I have strength I '£e*4 that I should give it. to my patientsr.* “But your friends, seem anxious about your overdoing?” “Yes, f know it; but I feel that tho strength wbieh has sustained mo through all I hava done will never fctif me. But you must excuse nw uow; I must. atfce*d to my correspondence,” and at this the Doctor waved your correspondent out and called in a stenographer. The Chicago Inter Oe*un >£ the Bth of fast April contains a lengthy artielo about Dr. F. and his cures; it wsis a rigid investigation of Dr. F.’s practice, and contained the testimonials of many prominent Eastern ladies and gentlemen. The following extracts will speak fur themselves: A. A. Rowe, a woiainent Boston business man, residing at 4 ’Wellington street, was loud in his praises of Dr. Flower. In answer to the question “What do you know of Dr. Flower as a jriiyticianl” ‘ 4 VVliy, sir, he cured me of a disease of fieYvfols prostration and depression, also a stomach trouble which was the curse of my life. Those trouble* wholly unfitted me for business. My friends feared I NKVER COULD BK CURED. I doctored with the best physicians of Boston and Philadelphia; I traveled for my health; but all to no purpose. I grew worse and worse, until life became a burden. I was induced to call *rpon Dt. Flower. Without asking me a question, he told me ray difficulties better than I could tell them myself. I placed myself under lii treatment at once. Ho lias made a complete rare of my ease; lam enjoying to-day the best of health, what I never expected to enjoy two years ago. I know of a great many Dr. Flower performed the same wonderful cure tor as he did for mo. His practice is immense. He (Toes more business than any twenty doctors I know anything about. His patients are of the first and best people of the country.” Mr. C. Seabury. a prominent jeweler,, doing business, at 05 Court street, was next asked ‘ ‘if it were true, as has been stated, that he had been treated and cured by Dr. Ik C. Flower. ” “Yes," replied Mr. Seabury, “I am among that happy number. Some five years since I had an uncommonly severe attack of pneumonia, from the shock of which I was left a physical imbecile almost. Every change of temperature would bring on some disorder or another. I did not care to live, two years ago, so feeble and sickly luullgrown. I chaneed to see an .account of Dr. Flower’s cures? consulted him; took his remedits to the letter; and he has made me* as you see; a healthy, hearty man. Dr. Flower is the- most remarkable man 1 have ever sew; the courtly and polished gentleman one can imagine; a valued friend; an eminent physician —in short, sir, ▲ MAN WITHOUT A PEER, Taken from any stand point ” HON. B. r. MARTIN, Os Manchester, N. H., said: “I was in miserable health: my friend* as well as my physicians had given me up; my troubles were Over, stomach, kidneys, muscular and nervous. I consulted Dr. P. at the suggestion of J. Willard Rice, off Boston. When Dr. Flower begun to treat me I did not care tso live as l then was, but now I have gained my health, strength, weight, in fact all I ever lost. I now hope and expect to approximate at least to the age off my father,, who died at the ripe old age of 25, sir." Reporter—May I tell tho readers of the Liter Ocean of this, Mr. Marrtitr? “Yes, sir. I only wish every sick person could sec Dr. Flower." Uetiu umg to Boston. Mr. J. Willard Ricei of the welL-kui/wn firm, of Hite, Kendall & Cos. was visited. Tho jvbove stab-ment. of Mr. Martin was shown hint. “What have you to say about thte remark.urblu statement?" qiqaried tho man of the quill. Mr. Rice—Everything stated by Mr. Martin is true. 1 have had from the beginning a thorough ;*d ueraoredf knowUwige of the whole matter. “Are you acquainted with Dr. Flower, Mr. Hicer “I am, sir, and I know of MANY KKMABKAM4) CURES,. Both of btdies and gentlemen, effected by Dr. Flower, whom I unhesitatingly declare to boa wonderful physician, an elegant gentleman and a valued friend.” ii. T. Hawley, a resident of Bridgeport and sui>eriiiteudeut of a silvor-plating company there, stated that “one year ago 1 carried my little boy (five years of age), who was sick unto death with heart trouble and fever, to Dr. . Flower. Tho doctors had snid ho could live but a few days, and had given Ids case up. I carried him upon a pillow; he was too feeble to tit up. Dr. Flower did not say ho could cure him. but said Uo would try. After treating him a few

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