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EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1896—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 21 Part I. “They'll murder you!” What? Bah! I'm not afraid.” Take my word for it, dear boy. If they can't er a ‘phistol’ or a ‘blunder- booss,’ they'll take you unawarzs some day, and knock your brains out with a ston , “Get out, croaker!” ‘No; you'll be the croaker, old fellow. 1 watehed them na ly today end saw their furitive looks. ‘They've got enough of the Gael in them to look upon you at a tyrannical landlord, and upon themsetves as the rightful owners of the soil—I the reck and bog. Consequently, they jer it a du 2 an end of yqu usurper. surper be hanged!" said John Lin-lon, a well-known young London phy bought the estaie, and have the deeds. Dor’t do all you can to set a feliow aguinst h me asking you down con to asa The comforts are poor; and i shan't r pla doctor. Have a de more whi said the d good we> drappie, thing I've foun oil it by trying to taik vod night, and the doctor's friend threw a plaid over his and shoulde’ passe¢ out into the rain and darkness, to seek his bed at a rou eott a hundred yards away, there veing no accommodation for him for sleeping, he came there for his meals. » he wouldn't talk like thai > doctor. “It's only the w a tine day, e place wil! look Loch, mountain, moor, pool, trout, hare and Why, there's everything a weary for. As for the rents rable bothies, let them go. 1 the place for that.” snuffed the tallow candle, clean, rough bed at one side 1 room, walked to the door, opened it and listened and closed it again. he muttered, and he now the lattice window, opened it, 1 ont there, listening to the of the rain which came down treaming off the mossy, rough the roof and gurgling along the -gular torrent. ying to rain for forty days and e grumbled. “Who's to shoot or er mind; one has an ark of i there are worse things than oat jled ham and trout.” nutes later he was in bed, lis- > the falling rain, which suddenly to for the young doctor, the wener snspate, was fast asleep. Yes? What's the matter?” nal Siarted up in bed, waking up on tant, medical fashion, a habit that ond nature to men who go to ng to be called up. still but the streaming and f the water from the eaves. * he muttered, and he was about to lie down again, when there was an un- mistekable tapping al the window panes. “Must be Tom,” he muttered, as he sprang out of bed and threw open the window, to dimly make out a figure close to him, his chamber being on the ground floor for the simple reason that there were no upper rooms. “That you, Tom?” Z ‘She'll chust come,” * emut- ther. slabs of the ir becomes se was said the Come where?” nspate.”” Tonight? What for?” ‘@ wumman’s deeing.”” What woman At ta bothie by ta wee bit burnie.” “nat’s the matter with her?” deeing. Ou, ay, she's deeing.” But what is it? Some fever?” There was a bit bairn four days chust deeing.”” id the doctor, closing the win- beginning to dress hurriedly. suppose. On a night Women are so unreasonable. pese I must go."” ndon literally snatched pimself vugh tweeds, laced up his heavy boots, and then slipping on a b yened the window. ed for a moment as to depart- window, but, not wishing to dis- is landlord, he stepped out, closed the lattice as well as he could, and then followed the man, who started off at once throush the steadily failing rain, depend- on him entirely for guidance, the seeming to have increased. tranger never showed the least buc went brushing through 1 heath and heather, in and and “One of my tenants, like this uneertaint the satu out among stones, and over and over again through roaring’ burns, knee deep, but pausing here to offer his companion a hand Eight long miles, that seemed in the darkn: to be twelve before, low down in the w glen a faint light was visible, just as Lindon was growing utterly ex- hausted, and he uttered a sigh of thank- fulness, That the place?” he sald. eae ae These were almost the only words drawn from the man, who had preserved a sulky silence all the way; and upon the stren: of this opening of a conversation the doc continued: s the woman a relative of yours?” {my wumman,” was the reply. counted for a deal, and the doctor aid gravely: Poor thing! Well, I hope she is better now. ‘She's just deeing!" said the man, an- grily ‘There was a low whistle at this mo- ment, the dull light was suddenly increas- ed, for the door of the cottage was cpened and the glow of a fire shone out, displaying a group of men standing in the doorway, Teady to draw back and allow the doctor to enter witn his guide, whea the door was at once closed. “What a night!” he said, as he looked round at the faces lit up, all being famil- those of men living at the rough he glen he had purchased some ore. ‘The faces were - grim, Weather beaten and scowling, as it seemed to him, and no one spoke as he slipped off his dripping mackiatosh; but, attributing y about the woman, he asked ‘st man how the sick woman =t deeing,” he said, sourly. she? Through that door?” nger tossed down his saturated plaid and nodded. “Well, you had better send these people ."" said the doctor, and he stepped to door, raised the wooden latch and then drew back, for the place was in dark- ness. As he turned and saw the group of men standing watching him in silence he eud- denly recalled his friend’s words, and an uneasy sensation attacked him. Had he been trapped; and was the barrister right? If they nt ill by him in their gross ig- norance and prejudice, what an opportun- it. lured there as he had been in the middle of the night, without a soul being ware of his coming. But the next moment he had cast out the thought as unworthy of him, and pick- ing the scowling husband— “There is no light,” he said, in a lecisive manner. ‘The man glanced around at his fellows, and slowly took a rough candlestick from the shelf, lit it with some difficulty and a great deal of flaring waste, and then hand- ed it to the doctor. “But are there no women here?” he suid, sharply. The man shook his head, and, struck by the strangeness of this dumb’ announce- ment, the thought of being trapped once more entered the doctor’s mind, but, ashamed to show what was at best only a suspicion, he turned sharply back, pushed open the door, and entered a small, stone- LLL LNENLNE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH: AN ADVENTURE FAR NORTH. BY GEORGE MANVILLE FENN. (Copsright, 1896, by the Bacheller Syndicate.) paved room, holding the smoky candle above his head. “What nonsense!” he thought the next moment, for there upon a narrow box-bed of the roughest type lay a woman, whose eyes gleamed as the light played upon them; and in the one quick glance he gave John Lindon knew that there was no trick here. The mother before him was lying with “life at the lees,” and the first mo- ment he felt that she was beyond his power to save. Exhaustion had made her an easy prey to fever, and, as their eyes met he could read in the mute appeal that, fever-stricken as she was, there was still a gleam of con- sciousness left: and he went down on one knee by the bed: the lips parted in a faint whisper: “Am I gaein’ to dee?” “Not if I can heip it,” he said, softly, and proceeded with his ministrations. Half an hour later the door was softly opened, and the messenger’s head appeared, the man glancing sharply at the bed, and “Am I gaein’ to deet” then stealing back and closing the door. John Lindon crossed to the door in time Not deid’’ in a low tone, followed by a murmur as of several voices speaking together half angrily. uzzled, for the tone of the men’s s sted disappointment. But a low sigh from the bed drew him back, and for | the next two hours his whole energy was taken up by his intense struggle with the grim specter which seemed to be batiling with him for the one poor life. Meanwhile again and again a hel was thrust in the room, and every time differ- ent to the last, as if the waiting men were anxious to verify the report made by the last comer that the patient was not “deid” yet. ‘The voices in the outer room grew so loud at last in dispute that, feeling how_neces- sary quiet was for his patient, Lindon crossed the room to go and speak to the men, and then order the husband to send them away and fetch some woman neigh- bor to the house: but as he reached the door, which the last visitor had not com- pletely closed, he stood fast, startled by the menacing aspect of the men, seen as they were by the light of a bog pine knot which suddenly blazed up. They were talking volu- bly in Gaelic, one man in particular, a wild- The Husband Sprang Before Them looking, rough, heavy fellow, gesticulating threateningly, while several of the others appeared to be in agreement with him as he spoke in flerce denunciation to the hus- band, and pointed to the inner recom. Then, all at once, five men made for the door, but the husband sprang before them, and shouted fiercely in the wild tongue, the werds belng incomprehensible to Lindon’s ear, but readily grasped all the same, for the gesture was sufficient interpretation, without his muttering afterward in his broken Englis! “Not till she’s deid—not till she’s deld.” Pi i A cold chill of horror ran through the dcctor, for it was all plain enough. He had been trapped there, though the lure was true. The men must have felt that no ordinary message would bring him there in the dead of night, ready to their hand, so they had snatched at the fact of one cf their women being sick to bring him into their midst, ir the mad belief that by get- ting rid of their new landlord they would own the land on which they and their fathers had lived. It was all plain enough, and, chilled with horror, the doctor stood by the narrow crack of the door, so close to the man who defended it that he could have toucaed his shouléer, but literally paralyzed for the time being. It was almost cataleptic, that seizure, for a few moments, but it passed away as suddenly as it had come, and, nerved by despair, he looked round for a weapon, but looked in vain. His next thought was flight, but besides the door the only means of exit was by the window close to the rough ceiling, and that was in one little pane, the opening being too small to admit of the passage of a man. The only chance seemed to be to wait till the men had settled down, and then to walk quictly into their midst as if to ask for something, seize his opportunity, dash through the door and run for his life. “To be hunted down and murdered!” he said to himself, as he thought of the little “To be hunted down and murdered!” chance he would have in a place strange, comparatively, to him, and of which every inch was known to the men who would pursue and overtake him before he had gone a hundred yards. Fer a moment or two he asked himself whetker he was not raising a bogey with his over-excited imagination, but, with sinking heart, he felt that it was all quite true, and any doubts were set aside by the action of the savage-looking crew, who were drinking heavily of potent spirit, probably of their own making. “To keep up their courage,” he thought, as he looked round once again in his de- spair, cursing the hour in which he had ever dreamed of coming to 80 savage a place, though knowing that he would have “1 shail save her life!” been ready to laugh to scorn any one who had told him such an event was possible. He was at the men’s mercy; no one could give any clue to his disappearance, and his murderers would escape, tor they would find it easy to dispose of his. bo ly—probably pitch him off the recks at che mouth of the glen, where he would be carvied out to sei He set his teeth, his hands iavoluniarily clenched, and a grim look of determination came into his face, which boded ill for some one cf the wre ‘d crew when the struggle began. ‘Then, like a flash, he saw which might save his life—ihere, by the light of the smoky candle, which was burn- ing low and gave moven tt as it flickered to the stony features of his patient. “Not ull she’s deid!” he muttered, peating the husband's words. What did that m2aa? Had they seme su- perstitious feeling against killing aim while the breath siill lingeced in the woman's breast? Perhaps so. At any rate, his life seemed to hang on hers, and he asked him- self what more he could do to prolong it, knowing full well, in a dull, apathetic way that ne had done everythiig that medicai and surgical skill could devise. lie drew a sicol to the bi e and seat- ed him: holdipg his paiient’s wrist feel the faint flutterings of the pulse; and he was seated thus, teeling that the life was departing as the camille burned lower and lower, till aft flickering up one wick fell over sidewise, to be smoth the melted fat, leaving him in darkn ie. Only for a moment, though, for the door was thrown open, and the ruddy slow from the outer room flooded the bed with light. “Wass she deid?” said the husband. “No. Bring another light,” said the doc- tor, sternly, and the man stepped back to where his companions sat muttering in Gaelic, and turned in a minute with a e! idle, the men pressing after him to zing in. 2 Wass deid growled the husband, up the light; and a low growl arose from the men behind him. The spcaker’s face was so near that his hot, whisky-inflamed b th puffed into the doctor's face; but he sat firm, as he the weapon re- to not bring here?” The man gave vent to a fierce laugh some women—some neig! hbor and held the candie over the woman's face “Ta wumman’s deid,” he said hoarsely, and his companions pressed forward, but stopped as if moved by one impulse as a low, plteous, weary sigh escaped from the sick woman's lips. “You hear?” said the doctor firmly, ‘she is not dead, for I have saved her life. Now go back, sir, and send away those drunken scoundrels. Do you want to murder the poor Woman whom I am trying to sav The man started, stared at the doctor, held the light close to his face, and then down over that of his wife, before uttering a peculiar gasping utterance and shaking head as if to clear his brain from the fumes of the whisky. “She wass not tell lees?” he whispered huskily. “She sal not de “I tell you no,” replied the doctor, stern- ly. “I shall save her life.” “Hah!” ejaculated the man, and setting down the candle he bent over the bed and kissed the inanimate face before rising up again and turning to the doctor. “She was a guid wumman,” he whispered, ‘and she sal dee for ye, doctor. Ou, ay! The man stepped fiercely back, literally driving the others before him, and returned directly with a bottle and a cup into which he poured some of the potent spirit. “She'll trink,"" he whispered, and after a moment's hesitation the doctor raised the cup to his lips and took a good burning mouthful. SS, yer 78) ce! en 02 “Dutch courage, perhaps,” he said the next day to his friend, “but that put life into me, and I felt comparatively safe, but I had one defender, I could see. He went back, closing the door after him, and there was a fierce discussion in the outer room for the next half hour, carried on in angry whispers. Then there was a silence, and I crept to the door to peer through the crack, and saw the husband seated on a three- legged stool in front of the fire, with his head down upon his hands—alone. “He came in soon after, to go on tiptoe to the bedside, turning to me after to whisper: ‘Ta wumman is no going to dee. Shall she like to sleep a wee bit?” “I shook my head, and the rough fellow laid his hand upon my shoulder to whis- ‘She’s a guid wumman. She thocht she'd dee.’ ” “And will she live?” friend. “I was in doubt when I said she would,” was the reply, “and I was thinking more of my life than of hers. By tomorrow morning I shall be quite sure.” “What! Surely you are not going among these savages again?” “I am, and at once. I want to save that poor thing if it is to be done.” “But if she dies?” “Well, she will die.” “But you?” “Oh, the poor things will not hurt me now. Do you know, old fellow, I believe I have made friends with all my tenants In the glen.” “But they had trapped you there to kill aeked the doctor's Yes, but I shall be safe among them now.” The woman did not die. That was fifty years ago, and Lindon’s son is worshiped in the glen, and spoken of by the half- Savege tenantry as “Ta Laird.” (The End.) ————+e+__ He W in Liquor. From the Loutsville Post. 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Howe, director Civilization, iy Col Dublin, Ireland Art, by’ Prof. Frank 1. y of Ch With ihe © h Traits, Uh I volumes: n specially prepared for the Chaucer jus, Itvading Cire! have JAPAN'S NEW STAMPS, Issued in Memory of Two Princes Who Fell in the War With China. From the London Sketch. However strongly the adherents of th Society for the Suppression of Speculative Stamps may feel on the subject of stamps made for collectors—“gumpaps,” the out- and-out philatelist scoffingly calls them— they will be sorely tempted to invest in the new commemorative issue of Japan. All the “advance notices” of the new stamps have spoken of them as “war stamps,” but this they do not purport to be. They are avowedly issued in commemoration of two princely Japs who died heroic deaths in the fight with China. To this extent they are war stamps, and it # not improbable that the Japanese, under the cloak of mourning, ure indulging in a little jubila- tion by postage stamp, in which case the new Issue has perhaps been properly de- scribed. The fssue consists of only two values, 2 sen and 5 sen; but of each value there are two types, in order, we suppose, that the nation’s grief shall be bestowed upon the late FP ce Arisugawa and the late Prince Kitashirikawa with scrupulous impartiality. As this is a special and, strictly speaking, “unnecessary” issue of stamps, which will be on sale at all Japa- nese post offices side by side with the or- ‘inary issue, it is safe to assume that there will be some kicking on the part of pitila- telists. If, however, it is Japan's object to make money by the issue, it must be al- lowed that Japan is not grasping. The total face value of the set is but*7d in lish money. The stamps, of artistic de- ign and beautifully engraved, form a v-vid contrast to Japan's previous efforts in pestage stamp production, and afford ample testimony to the rapid “occidental- izing” of the Jap. It stated, by the way, that the issue will eregate 14,000,000 stamps, which number should be more than sufficient to “go round.” ——_—__+ e+ _ DO NOT FEAR HARD TIMES, Young People Marry, Even Though Business May Be Dull. From the New Haven Register. Although for the past few months, fac- tories have shut down on account of lack of work, and the business situation in gen- eral has been poor, the issuing of marriage licenses at the registrar's office in the city hall continues, and according to the pres- ent outlook, the year 1896 will be a great wedding record breaker. ‘The young people have gone right on marrying this fall, lack of situations and lack of funds cutting no figure whatever. It is an old rule among those who watch marriage statistics that when times are hard weddings increase. Why is this so? Some declare that pinching times lead the young workingmen to argue that money spent in boarding houses is thrown away, and that two can practice economy better than one. Others declare that when times are hard, the marriageable giris of finan- cially embarrassed fathers throw them- selves at the young men, and with coy and winsome ways lead the breadwinners to propose matrimony. But, whatever the cause, marriages are cn the increase this fall. September's licenses were twenty in excess of the num- ber for that month last year, and for the month of October, the license clerk has been kept pretty busy. William H. Preston is the man who has charge of handing out tne papers which, according to law, allow the couple to unite in marriage. 2 “Do the hard timcs affect the number of licenses issued?” he said, repeating the question asked by the reporter. ‘Well, no. Times during the past few months have been rather dull, but business continues along at a good rate.” “What was last year’s record?” here were 925 recorded in ali “Will this year's record come up to that?” “Probably, yes,” returned the cautious register, as he reached for a pen, and start- ed to ask the reporter his age, from sheer force of habit. When asked the effect of leap year on the marriage business, Register Preston said he hadn't noticed any. According to other knowing officials in the city hall, however, leap year increases the number of I!venses issued. It is the opinion of these other men that if it was not for leap year there would be a decided depression in the mar- riage market this season, as the hard times usually has the effect of making the mar- ket dull. “How about widowers—do they remarry?” the reporter asked Mr. Preston. “In '95 107 remarried.” “Divorced men?” “Yes; nineteen took rew wives.” “Divorced women?” ve remarried.” , eighty-seven licenses were issued for them.” As to the most popular age for marrying the figures showed that out of the 925 cou- ples married, 560 brides were between twenty and thirty; 608 grooms were be- tween the same ages, while only eighteen grooms were under twenty, against 171 brides of like tender ages. ‘The majority of licenses were asked for by men. A few women apply, however. Nervousness is a symptom’ exhibited by nearly all applicants for the papers. UPON THIS DR.McCOY INSISTS As a Right Which Is His and a Duty Which Every Right- Minded Person Owes to Humanity—The Searching In- vestigation of These Cures as the Only Answer to Care- less and Dangerous Criticism. DR. McCOY’S RECORD. The Six Years of Preparation. Matriculant at University of New York. First bonor man in his class. Winner of famous Loomis prize.....February, 1879 Candidate for Bellevue Hospital appoint- ment....... Ses March, 1879 Chosen by competitive examination, open to all the doctors of the world, resident physician of Bellevue Hospital. arch, 1879 During service at Bellevue elected visiting phy- sician to training school for murses....April, 1880 Served as resident physician to Bellevue. .1 1880 Study in bospitals of London and Dublin. Formulation of regular treatment for chronic trou- bles as a result of hospital exper 2882 Formulation of regular treatment for the cure of catarrhal, bronchial and lung diseases. ....-.1883 Announcement of Dr. McCoy’s cures first introduced voluntarily by -well-known journalists, with plce- tures 2nd interviews of paticnts cured. April, 1584 Doetor McCoy treating over one thousand patients a month - < sees 1885 Extension of office facilities by employment of students from Bellevue. esos ASSS-1586 ‘The second visit to Europe for further wospital Study and: Inspection. Serving in the laboratories of Prof. Koch, at Ber- Rinrese eee Study in Chazltle Hosp!tal of Berlin and Clinte under Von Bergmann... Formulation of a system-of medicine based on the Giscovery of poison in the blood as the origin of 1891 pert jon and ment in cases sclected from Dr, McCoy's prac- The system perfected by_ xpplic: 1 1892 oy's Discovery of a cure for Deafuess September, 1895 Location of a national practice in Washing- ton. March 28, 1896 The greatest wrong that is inflicted on the splen- id work Doctor McCoy {8 doing for humanity comes from these so-called intelligent critics wh ing like this: “Oh, yes, Doctor McCoy te physielan all rig! He wal as any doctor, 1 3 more go06 than most doctors; but Le don’t ‘There is no one who by the science of medicine does cure, They may relieve symptoms and bene some degree, por! Ge fs not an ex ‘Those who talk like this are the most dangerous mies to this splendid work. The medicine that Doctor M. s does cure, uo half traths lanzeroas HGATION criticism, and that xnsw Upon that answer Doctor MeCoy insists as his right fn this as a duty 1 well- thinking peopl e noble science of medi- cine, as a duty all ihe pe owe to the that Broth these cases, Go and see them. Write to them. See and talk with the Ls nd nel, Prove the truth of these Here are these cases. They say ctor McCoy tells you they are rhood of Man. Now, when a so-called intelligent fc Inunches his dangerous skep- ticism, be prepared to answer him with this: “I have been to sce these people. I have written them, I have investigated their cases cireum- astantin’ I know all about them. I know they were cured of these dis- cases by Doctor McCoy. ‘These cases in these columns are printed for no other purpose than to answer this kind of criti- m, They are selected from different sections of the city, from people who are accessible to you, whom you can go and see, Searching investigation by intelligent right-minded people is the arswer to this dangerous though superficial skepticism, which Doctor McCoy has the rigat to demand. “4 DOCTOR McCOY CURING THE DEAF. Mrs, Ann Phill of the Boys’ Reform School, on Bladensburg road n.e., Wasbing- ton, D. C., says: When I went to Doctor MeCoy I could scarcely hear any sound at all. At that time I was so deaf I couldn't hear the engine in the laundry room of the school. I couldn't bear the bors playing in the yard. Doctor McCoy has restored my hearing. I can now hear ordinary conversation and all ordinary sound: Doctor C. P. McEnheimer, No. 402 Gth n.w., Room 22: “I had been bard of hearing for ten years. I could not bear ordinars conversation. I can now hear conversation. I can even hear a watch tick "’ Mae pe Louise Eller, No. 21 0 st: “I am twelve years old. I became deaf last April. I had buzzing sounds in my head and I could not ple talk. Now I can bear as well as any- Miss Eliza Pope, No. 910 I st. s.c.: “I was stone deaf in my right ear for eight years. My left ear was also affected. I had buzzing sounds in my head and.I could not hear conversa- tion at all. I took treatment, with the result that the sounds in my head stopped and my hear- ing {8 improving.” Miss Snilie S. Mason, No. 1531 Gth st. n.w.: “I was as deaf as @ post In my right ear and could hear but littte oat of my left car. I could not hear conversation in ordinary tones. I had a throbbing In my ears, much worse when I laid down. ‘Tbe throbbing has stopped and my hearing has been restored. Patrick McGraw, No. 214 E » (80 sears of age): “I had distressing noises in my head. I could not bear conversation. Since taking treatment I can hear everything and the noises in my head have gone. P. F. Milligan, No. 115 4th st. 8 “For eigbteen years I had been so deaf that I could not hear ordinary conversation, or even a watch tick, I can now hear as well as anybody.” Mrs. Marin D. Bradley, No. 919 F st. s.w.: “For a long time I was hopelessly deaf. I could not hear conversation. I could not hear the clock strike. As a result of treatment I can bear the clock tick. I can now bear conversation in ordinary tones without any trouble at all.” Mrs. 8. B. Macconnier, st., Georgetown, D. O. FOUR DIFFERENT DOCTORS SAID THEY COULD DO NOTHING TO RELIEVE HER ASTHMA. Mrs. 8S. B. Marconnier, No. 1073 32d st., Georgetown, D. C.: “I had been a sufferer from Asthma for years. I tried as many as four differ- ent doctors, but got no relief. They finally said they could do nothing for me. “I suffered terribly from shortness of breath. Often I would wake up at 2 o'clock in the morn- a Struggling for My Breath. This would last till § o'clock in the morning. I bad such fits of coughing that I could not sleep. “When I went to sec Doctor McCoy I felt so mis- erable that I thought I would die. His treatment has done wonders for me. I have no shortness of breath. I sleep ol at night. My appetite is fine, and since taking the treatmeat I have gained five pounds. Now my friends say, ‘My! How well you look." ates ‘i COPIES OF DR. McCOY’S MONO- GRAPH ON BEAFNESS WILL BE MAILED ON APPLICATION TO THOSE: DIRECTLY INTERESTED IN THE CURE OF THIS CONDITION. science of | DEAF FIFTEEN YEARS. STONE DEAF IN LEFT EAR. CURED OF HIS DEAFNESS. J. R. Pearno: nected with the o: No. 201 I st. s.c., com 0 nacce department, navy yard: “I bad been deaf for fifteen years, I was stone deat in my left car and my right was growing Worse all the time. “I had ringing noises in my ears. I could not hear the clock strike the time of day. not hear conversation. I had to give up going to church or piaces of amusement, bocanse T could not hear a single sound. When I wont to see Doctor MeCoy my cars wi Almost Dead to All Sound. I first knew that the tre by the in: At last they was doing u ing less and less, 1 eatirely, ame gro [~ —_— - | | | | j J.B. Pearson, 201 Ist st See | my lef Now I ean he inetly iu my left inches away DOCTOR MceCOY CURING COMMON CATARRE J. D. Robins: West Weshington: * ed from catarrh. 1 time, Tam greatly benefited. 29 20h we, years 1 had su ig Weaker all the Joxeph Hautzman, No. 225 L st. se. “I bad been a terrible suffer: had also buzzing sounds B. Joy, No. 1244 I st. mew: “I hea suffered from catarth for five ypetite and I could not sleep w were clogzed all the time, and I bad a constant Aropping in my throat, ing treatment my bad symptoms have all passed away.” T lost mi My nos’ DOCTOR Me CURING CATARRH Or C. W. Saunders, No. 1103 Park Place ne: “I had suffered from catarrh of the stoma for 12 years. I could not eat anything without vomiting. Often I could not keep down a drink of water. After a cours: at I can pow eat and drink without STOMACH, DOCTOR McCOY CURING DISTRESSING SKIN DISEASE. J. William Woodward, 1002 © at s.w., 1s an old resident of Washington and ployed tn the Bureau of Bu, “I had suffered for twenty y ing disease «f the skin, ‘The Pruritus. Nothing seemed to do uy don’t think anybody ever suffered as much as T Often I have actually torn my clothes In my © forts to relieve The Terrible Iehing. This was followed by a is st drove me fran At the tine that I went to see Doctor M I was very much run down as a result of and bowel trouble. I bad lost was ‘m- and Printing: m a distress- doctors called it avi any good. 1 a. ning sensation Coy pach 1 my app Never Free From Pain. I was so sensitive that I could not bear my clothes tight about me, “After a full course of treatment ard bowel trouble yielded readily. 1 odin appetite amt was relieved of all pain. ‘That ter- rille itching stopped, and T can safely say that T ain cured of a distressing Alsease that has troubled me for twenty years.” my stomach DOCTOR McCOY CUR BRONCHIAL CATAKRH, William H. Coleman, No. 723 Gth at. T bad been a great sufferer from catarrh bronchitis, I was never without a cough, and ghing would often last an hour. sound fn my head. Doctor Me- au the spells of I had also bissin Cox bas entirely removed the sounds in my head and my other symptoms have mostly passed a DOCTOR McCOY CURING ASTHMA. W. Kehl 418 I st. mes “I had suffered from asthma five years. I had violent its of coughing. Often I had to sit up at nights, for I could not lie down. My coughing fs relieved and I can sleep in bed at night.’ Mrs. M. R. Griffin, No. 209 A at. n.e.1 “Thad been an asthmatic sufferer for eight years Thad a bad cough. My cough has entirely me and I an. improving in every way.” DOCTOR McCOY CURING E ft ‘ZEMA. John D. Barker, No. 1310 12th si n.w.: “I suffered from eczema for three years. covered my entire body except my feet and hands. 1 was entirely cured in two months.” $3 A MONTH UNTIL JANUARY 1. The §3 rate is maintained to al for the remainder of the year. AIL patients applying for treatment a: all patients renewing treatment be- fore January Ist, will be treated til cured at the uniform rate of 83 a month, all medicines Included. This applies to Deafness and All Diseases. CONSULTATION FREE. COPIES OF DR. McCoy's MO GRAPH ON CATARRH WILL BE MAILED ON APPLICATION TO THOSE DIRECTLY INTERESTED INT CURE ©F THIS CONDITION. McCoySystem ofMedicine Dr. J. Cresap McCoy, Dr. J. M. Cowden, Consulting Physicians. 715 13th Street Northwest. 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