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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1895. week in the circle of book-bu: iness, in fact the eagerne publishers to accept nd print t rks of Miss Elizabeth K. t “Her Majesty.” Al < Tompkins is a native daugh- 1l State there were few o knew of her identity. - A STAR IN THE WEST. pkins, A Her Majesty.” Is a Cal an, 1 Leandro, in a cozy nook of ed by the wide-spread- v a oak, dwells t Tompkins, a young lady in the field of 1y critics of the ke inquiries concern- Tompk qive vesterday, where a CALL ; with credentials from s respects to the author of Her greeting was gr She talked of her pu on in hife in a stra; le manner, and exy that ber two books b wat her publishers e return some questions 1erself she said : e S Juliet Wil than I A r in 1591 Sheis : clever 1n writ short | stories, and they are readily accepted by | the 1 ines.” She has great talent, I| ¥ s s, but she is young yet and plots complicated. Her short ‘On the Way North,%in the October highly praised. The editor that it was the best in 2000 more of the s: Hary other publication About yourself,” e kind. She writes rs’ Young People the first, but my publishers, G. P. am’s Sons, New York, suzgested that 1 so ‘Her Majesty’ came rk on ‘Her Majesty last and had it fims y It was all in I did most of the in a shad le mook, but the light hurt my ey i The Eastern papers praised sty’’ away beyond its merits, or, beyond my expectations. ork Tribune, the Boston Herald i the Rochester papers reviewed it at gth and very favorably Here is a nd a half in Life about it.” e course of an extended review Droch says of the book: ““The latest comer royal retinue is ‘Her Majesty’ (Put- ), by Ehzabeth Knight Tompkins. the love story of a young queen, red of playing her lonely part and k a ten days’ holiday and mingled with ber people. She is a very modern young an, and has all the ideas and some of the slang that are easily acquired at erican girls’ college. True, she missed texperience, but she had an advanced erness who put her sion of the an novels. The story is written with a charming style; it has grace and ease and very un- spected turn of expression. Moreover, and said he would like & hun- | an | there is a gentle and pervasive sense of humor that saves the whole tale from the category of artificial thir and makes it real, human and sympathe R It is a satisfaction to say that ‘Her Majesty’ is a far better novel than most of the for- eign atrocities that have been pushed into popularit It has the good fortune to be written with intell t skill; it sparkles with delicious fan and itisa clear-minded love sto that is neither pradish nor stupialy Philistine. e not discovered any effort to ‘boom’ it by personal par: or e -ated comparisons. The opinion of no solemn authority has been invoked | in its behalf. But it wi | creasing favor by the | appreciative people, y L “Moreover, we who 1 vay, worth baving fore, ple yress comment on_the book. kins, when asked if it had bee id the publi copy t ronaut. review rers were the Examir ¥ Ar- iled to make any mention of it gonaut whatever. “I have no feeling in this matter,” said Miss Tompkins. “Of course, I want to achieve ail the success my efforts can win. \ \ | © | Latest Portrait of Stanley J. Weyman. [From Chap Book I am more anxious, perhaps, to make money than to acquire literary f want my sell to ra m which I need to keep up this place. When manuscript of mine is rejected I take it as part of the business and do not ¢ against the injustice of publisherg. take no stock in the idea of negl genius. If one writes and writes for and years, failing ali the time to get anything accepted, I am inclined to b lieve that the writing is not good, or that the writing ability is not in the pe When I write a story that comes back unavailable 1 letit rest until it gets cold Then I take it up and review it myself. Generally 1 find that the macazi |in rejecting it. I shall write any whether my books are published or not. books to ol and humorous tch but she is too young to deal with 2 complicated plot, | and perhaps thinks too much of societ But she has a quaint and delightful touch of humor, and I predict that she will be- come what is called a genius. She is | writing a song and my brother is compos- me. I| “My sister writes short stories, songs | ing the music for it. 1t will be sung by Joshua in the play of ‘The 0ld Homestead’ when it is produced again in Chicago.” ““Are you writing another book?” asked the reporter. “Oh, ves, T am writing all the time, but will rest now for a while. My next book will be called ‘The Young ldea.’ It is shed, and 1 have a romance in my head. I shall keep on writing. I don’t say- that my books will teach a moral lessop, but I will write nothing immoral or indecent. Asa matter of taste, if not of principle, I will not write indecent literature. “Yes, our family has lived here many, many years. My father, Edward Tomp- kins, who died twenty-five years ago, was a regent of the State University and very well known in public life. The title of this place, known as Souther fari, has only resided in four persons or interests—first the King of Spain, second Ignatio Peralta, third Edgar Souther, and now in the hands of my mother, two sisters, a brother and myself.” “Do you admire Gibson’s girls?” asked the scribe. Ido indeed,” replied the authorof “‘Her Majesty,” whose pose for an instant brought vividly to mind Gibson's ideal American gi As she bade the reporter adieu she ob- | served that her younger sister Juliet would make a name in literature, as she possessed a clever sense of humor which added to the charm of her style. R S BOOKS FOR ALL. Notwithstanding the fact that 1894 wasa d vear for book-publishers, there were 7 new books published in this count d 647 new editions of old books, making a total issue of 4434 books. If the average i issue of each book were 1200 copies—a very conservative estimate—the total number of volumes printed was 5,380,800, 1n the print- ing of which $300,000 or $400,000 worth of paper was used. This was a considerable falling off from 1893, says the American Paper Trade, when the new books num- bered 4281, or, including new editions, 5134, The decrease was evidently owing to the hard times, for when depression comes one of the first manifestations of economy is in cutting off the purchase of books. It was also true that the printing of books | had been very largely overdone. Of every | fifty published, it is safe to say that not | more than one is worth reading. | The figures for America are large, but re larzer in Encland, while France ns the great publishing center of the | world. It would be an interesting calenla- | tion ‘to show how ch the printing | presses turn out in the course of a year, but the fact that if a single person were to sit down and read all the newspapers ihat are published in this country in the course of a twelvemonth, reading twelve hours daily, he would be nearly 3000 years old before he concluded the task, gives some sort of an idea of how long it would take the same person toread everything that comes from the presses from the Ist of | January to the 1st of Decem ber. The old question as to where the pins go is almost repeated in the books and papers and periodicals. For some time recently the cheap publishers have been turning | out volumes by the million, and it is pos- | sible to purchase any of the classics for 3 |or 5 cents. In nothing is competition more keen than in the selling of books. We find the prices of the most reputable publishers cut down more than one-half, while the prices of books of inferior con- struction have reached a sum already in- conceivabi cheapness. d yet, com- pared with the Sunday spapers, these books are all expensive. It is probably the bulk of the Sunday papér which has had a great effect upon the price of books. At any rate, if the average person is not well read in these days 1t is his own fault. R HERO TALES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY. To maintain the traditions of American patriotism is a pre-eminently worthy work and one whose purpose isadmirably served by such volumes as this by Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge. The | volume consists of twenty-six stories, ne THE AUTHOR OF “HER MAJESTY” IN HER THE WIDE-SPREADING OAK. FAVéBITE RESTING-PLACE, THE STILE BENEATH founded upon heroic incidents in Ameri- can history. Some of them will be new to most readers; some of them have not been heretofore published, and others are fa- miliar tous all, and all have a distinct value as telling in a straightforward, manly way, for American readers, of Americans who have distinguished themselyes for simple, manly bravery. The stories are distinctively American, rather than partisan. In “The Death of Stonewall Jackson” Mr. Roosevelt pays a high tribute to one of the bravest men brought to the light by our last war. There are other tales calcuiated to thrill the nerves and quicken the pulse of every loyal American. The burning of the Phii- adelphia, the cruise of the Wasp, the storming of Stony Point, the destruction of the Albemarle by Lieutenant Cushing and Farragut’s achievements in Mobile Bay are incidents in American history that should never be forgotten. It is well that we are afforded this acceptablefre- minder of them from the pens of two such zealous Americans as Theodore Rocsevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge. The authors bave not confined themselves altogetber to characters famous in history. Some of the tales are of comparatively obscure heroes, but they all bear testimony to the courage, coolness, loyalty and faith” which it is well for us to believe are the birthright of every true American man or woman. The book is a particularly wholesome and stimulating one for young readers, and that boy is to be congratulated into whose hands it finds its way., The pub- lishers have gotten it out in handsome shape, and the volume should not be over- looked by book-buyers for the approaching lcmliduy scasim. [?’e\t; Y(I)rk: The Century ompany. For sale by Doxey, San Fran- cisco. Price $1 50.] 0 —_—— JACK BENSON'S Lo, Another good book for boys, by Charles Tedyard Norton. The story is that of a boy who served the flag afloat in 1861, He does not have any of the marvelous adventures that usnally distinguish this sortof narrative. In fact, the story is so moderate, so realistic and so altogether vish and interesting as to suggest that in reality the reminiscences of a naval an. The historic veracities are well maintained, and a very clear idea is given of many of the important naval events of those stirring times. [Boston: W. A. Wilde & Co. Price $1 25.] —_—— WASHINGTON IN LINCOLN'S TIME, Will the people of America ever tire of book About Abrahem Lincoln? [t seems Not even the exhaustive labors of :, the Martyr v executors, have tired the interest of the millions of people whose pulses still quicken and whose hearts thrill with loving, patriotic feeling at the name of Lincoln. It will be many long years, we believe, before Americans sigh for surcease from Lincoln literature. But the interest of this new book Noah Brooks, “Washington in Lincoln’s Time,”” does not wholly rest in the com- manding, picturesque personality that is in the very nature of thingsits central figure. Itscharmis due in a very great measure to its graphic reslity, its perfect contemvoraneousness. Perhaps only a newspaper man could have written just such a book as Mr. Brooks has given us, presenting, as it does, an intense, vivid, and yet almost wholly impersonal view of the salient events of a single period, se- lected with the true newspaper man’s un- erring instinct for “what the people want to know.” Mr. Brooks went to Washing- ton in 1862 as correspondent of the Sacra- mento Union, then the great newspaper power of the Pacific Coast. He re- mained there until after the ciose of the Civil War and saw _ the be- ginning of the stormy Presidential career of Andrew Johnson. During that momentous period he wrote newspaper letters nearly every day, and the resulting scrapbooks, with other materials carefully kept, form the basis of the reminescences of which his book is made up. He had the advantage of personal friendship, amount- ing almost to intimacy, with Lincoln, and enjoyed unusual facilities for arriving at well-authenticated information. Hisbook is a series of exceedingly realistic pictures of life in the Capital City during the try- s from hig arrival there up to the of the great tragedy of the night of Avpril 14, 1865. Here is his account. of his first glimpse of the President in Wash- ington: Naturally my first thought * * * was to see hoyw far the President resembied the Lincoln of Ilinois before the war. . The change in his personal appearance was marked and sorrow- ful. * '+ % Jliseyes were almost deathly in their gloomy depths, and on his visage was an air of profound sadness. His face was color- less and drawn, and newly grown whiskers added to the agedness of his appearance. When I had seen him last, in Illinois, his face, although always sallow, wore a tinge of rosi- nessin the cheeks, but now it was pale and colorle: Hearing from a friend that I was in the city he immediately sent word that he would like to see me *“for old times’ sake,” and nothing could have been more gratifying than the cordiality and bonhomie of his greeting wiren I called at the White House. “Do you suppose I ever forget an old acquaintance? I reckon not,” he seid, when we met. Washington, at that time, was a great military camp, a city of barracksand hospi- tals. The city was under military govern- ment and the wayiarer was liable to be halted anywhere, in public buildings or on the outskirts of the city, who curtly asked, ““What is your business here?” The hos- pitals were never empty and after every great battle came an influx to the city of the maimed and wounded in squads of hundreds or more, streaming back, a great wave of sorrow, from the fields of slaughter. The sessions of Congress at that time were of intense interest, and Mr. Brooks gives us many stirring glimples at the law-makers of the day. The book abounds in capital descriptions and happy touches. He goes at some length into the details, as he had them from Lincoln’s lips, of the President’s many encoun- ters with Secretary of the Treas- ury (afterward Chief Justice) Chase. It" would appear that Mr. Chase believed that his position in the Govern- ment was absolutely necessary to the wel- fare of the country and that he would not be permitted to resign, as his loss to the Cabinet would involve inevitable disaster. He insisted strenuously upon having his own way in every minor detail of bis de- partment, and held over Mr. Lincoln’s head constant threats of resignation, even when crossed in such trifles as the remoyal of some petty official on the North Pacific | Uoast. At last, wearied beyond endur- ance, Lincoln accepted one of Chase’s many written resignations in June, 1864, ana Congress learned for the first time the relations that had existed between the President and the Secretary of the Treas- ury and the course of ill-tempered, tyran- ni testiness by which the latter had tried the Executive’s much-enduring pa- tience during nearly his entire administra- tion. After the death of Roger B. Taney the admirers of Chase at once brought for- ward the ex-Secretary’s name for the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the pros and cons of such an appointment were debated hotly between them and the iriends of Lincoln, the latter all hastening to remind the President that Chase had “not behaved well,” etc. Mr. Brooks says: ‘While the matter was pending I had occasion to call on the President, and the rumors of Chase’s appointment naturally came up for discussion. Mr. Lincoln haed 'been, for him, very gay and cheery, but as soon as 'Chase and the Chief Justiceship were mentioned his vis- age lengthened and with great seriousness he pointed 1o a pile of teiegrams and letters on is table and said: ‘‘I have been all day and yesterday and the day before besieged by mes- fages from my friends all over the country, as if there were & determination to put up the bars between Governor Chase and myself.” Then, after a pause, he added, “But I shall nominate him for Chief Justice, nevertheless.” ‘It was therefore with amusement,” adds Mr. Brooks, “‘that I learned from one of Chase’s most ardent friends, about an hour later, that ‘Lincoln was not great enough to nominate Chase as Chief Jus- tice.” Mr. Brooks' reminiscences close with the Jast grand review of the armies of the Po- tomac and of the Mississippi, after which the two or three hundred thousand men composing these great fighting bodies “‘melted back into the heart of the peo- ple,” whence they had emerged at their country’s call. In all the three hundred and odd pages of his boek is not one dull one, and his work is singularly free from any undue exploitation of his own person- ality. Itis written in a clear, nervous and vivid style that carries the reader along on a current of delighted interest, and will undoubtedly find deserved popularity. [New York: The Century Company. For sale by all booksellers,” San Francisco. Price $2.] e A SHERBURNE ROMANCE. “A Sherburne Romance” is the last of a delightful series by Amanda M. Douglas. This book, with its simple style, purity of diction and healthful tone, stands out in sharp conrrast to the sensational novels of the day, which constitute the sole reading of so many of our young women. The heroine of this beautiful romance finds herself at the age of 21 in a position of great honor, and possessed of much wealth. Being the last representative of a very aristocratic family to bear the name of ‘‘Sherburne,” with the untold pride of the blue blood which is theirs, she 1s expected to marry a favorite cousin,who really covets the old family hall. After vainly trying to imagine true love as existing in their hearts these two, at the risk of woundin all their clan, decide for themselves an choose other mates. The heroine marries a rising young physician, whose life work is in the midst of the turmoil of a great city, thereby making it necessary for her to ieave “Sherburne Hall,” of which she is mistress, and follow her husband’s for- tunes. In order to keep the grand old vlace alive with joy and happiness she be- stows it upon her cousin and his wife as a wedding gift. All through the book run the noble purposes of the young woman richly endowed “in physical, mental and moral gifts, striving after the really best in life, and finding happiness when finally crowned as a true_wife and mother. The series is published by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. e STORY OF CAP'N THISTLETOP. This is the latest volume from the pen of Sophia Swett, author. of “Flying Hill,”’ “Captain Polly,” ‘“Mate of the Mary Ann,” etc. Miss Swett has won a remarkable and deserved popularity for the strong and wholesome stories of young people which she has written. In her stories she be- lieves in introducing girls as well as bo; and it is this feature.of her work that give her stories their naturalness and much of their interest. In her latest book, “‘Cap’'n Thistletop,” the principal characters are a boy and gizl, brother and sister, mew comers in the New England village of Barberry Bend, who are thrown into Theodore Roosevelt. association with another boy and girl, brother and sister, who are natives of the place. Each has his own individu- ality, and the story portrays with remark- able fidelity the life and thought of the average boy and girl of to-d: The story of their doings is very interesting and ex citing, but there is alesson taught which works itself out in the course of the sto: naturally and forcibly. Margaret I Sangster says of Miss Swett's work that she *‘has the knack of telling a story so naturally and in so interesting a manner that you cannot put her books down until vou are at the very end of the last chap- ter, and then you sigh and wish there was a sequel.” [Published by W Wilde & Co,, 25 Broomfield street, 282 pages; four illustrations. Price, $1 25.] S WOMEN WHO LAUGE. This little story might, with equal pro- priety, have been called *‘Women Who Cry.”” The title, as a matter of fact, bears no very pertinent relation to the contents. The story is an unpleasant one, of an aged and amiable roue, whose tardily quickened conscience prompts him to search for the daughter he had abandoned in her in- fancy. He finds her in the person of a danseuse whose ruin he has attempted. The whole story is rather feebly improb: ble, and even the reflected lights of Paris, where the scene is laid, fails to infuse into it any local life or color. The author, Ella M. Powell, favors the public with her por- trait, which hardly redeems the inanity of her book. [New York and London: The Trans-Atlantic Publishing Company.] s ELECTRICITY FOR EVERYBODY. An admirable little book, giving a sim- ple but comprehensive study of a subject that is as little understood by the world at large as is its correlative in physiology, the nervous system. The author, Philip Atkinson, does not tell us what electricity is. The nature of this myterious force is perhaps as mysterious as is life itself, but its laws are now as fuily and clearly un- derstood as are those of heat, light and gravity, and of these he gives a very clear and adequate idea. The theory prevalent some years ago that electricity is a fluid is now known to be an error; but Mr. At- Victorien Sardou. (From the London Sketch.} MISS ELIZABETH ENIGHT, WHO WROTE “HER MAJESTY.” [From a photograph.] r kinson’s little book is the first treatise we [ a very stirring description of the destruc- have seen tha; seems adapted to make clear, to the popular mind, the 1dea of electricity as molecular energy. author has been _particula tunate in his avoidance of calities, while' at the same scientific accuracy is in no way sacrificed. The book will be found an admirable aid to understanding the intricacies of this sub- ject, fr the electric for- techni- 1 ton: to the once-mysterious phe- The | time | | the anthor. workings of the familiar | nomena of the aurora borealis and the | subtleties of the induction current. It is well and amply illustrated. [New York: The Century Compan Price $1 50.] JACK BALLISTER'S FORTUNES. A good story of the type of adventurous romance is Howard Fyle’s latest work, «Jack Ballister’s Fortunes.”” It appeared originally as a serial in St. Nicholas, but in that form was somewhat condensed to adapt it for maga ion. In the volume now publ been restored to its true proportions and will be found among the more attr. e romances of the day. A special interest in the work 1s given to American readers from the fact that the scenes are nearly all laid in this country, and as the incidents ocenr during the colonial period the story makes a good study of the conditions of life in Virginia at that time. One of the ng characters of the book is the pi e, Captain Teach, the famous “Blackbeard,” who harried the coast of the American colonies in the be- gnning of the eighteenth century. The hero of the storyis an is kidnaped and shipped servant, or ‘‘redemptioner,” His mas as a bon to_Virginia. er treats him badly and he runs away, only to fall into the hands of Cap- tain Teach. He is full of pluck, and so he escapes from the pirates, at the same time rescuing a young woman who had been captured and held for ransom. There is nelish lad, who | tion of the piratical erew by Lieutenant Maynard, a bit of sober history that well fits into the romance. Mr. Pyle’s pictures as the narrative. ’ by Howard Jallister’s Fortune: With fifteen fully Svo, 47 The Century Compa Pyle. n - THE PRINCESS SONIA. Life among art students in the Latin Quarter of Paris has been so often de- scribed under its erratic and immoral aspects that it is pleasant to find a novel ich depicts a pure and wholesome pha: of it and shows us students to whom art is 1ot a realm of licentiousness but a domain ated to high aims and noble en- Such a novel Julia Magruder has g in “The Princess Sonia.”” The two leading characters of the book are voung women who meet as fellow-students in one of the noted studios of the Latin Quarter, and soon form a friendship which ially affects the liv of both. It1s not, however, a story of artistic aspirations but one of love, and the sketches of life in the studios are but fe Taken altogether the story is a rom; e in the truest sense of that term. No artist could be better qualified to illustrate such a book than Mr. Gibson, and his twenty pictures are not the least pleasing portion of the work. “The Princess Sor by Julia Magruder, with illustrations by bson 12mo, 230 pp. The Century Company. NO PROOF. A highly sensational tale of the de- tective order, wherein mystery, murder and misunderstanding ifollow each other with the ready ease and cert f romance in “The Chamberm [New York and Ch ' & Co.] THE COST OF TREATMENT. The $5 a Month Plan Criticized----Physicians’ Fees Com- pared. A Few Plain Words on ThisSubject, Aiso a Few Remarks Con~ cerning Advertising. been in the ems to be un- The question of fees has alw: profession a matter of what slicacy. Among some doctors it is believed to patient all that they can get, making the fee be just and right to charge a | heavier according to the gravity of the disease | and the desperate condition of the patient. Among “specialists” the matter of charges has had absolutely no limit or reason and we be- lieve there are many whose claims to being specialists” rest principally upon the fact that they charge special fees When_Drs. land nounced that they would treat all diseses and furnish medicines at the rate of £ a month those who were secustomed to_heavy doctor’s fees, and no less heavy bills at the drugstores, were astonished. One or two, who it must be feared, were not entirely disinterested, were heard to declare “it’s unprofession Well, it may be unprofessional, but it's busi- ness. Withall due respectto wiat is profes sional, Drs. Copeland. Neal ‘and Winn can see no legitimate reason why a sick man should not know what it is going to cost him to get cured, justas well as a hungry man_ what it wWill cost him to be fed, or a man in old clothes wha it will cost him 10 buy new ones. At_any rate, Drs. Copelund, Nealjand Winn think it 1s far Mmoreimportant to please the pub- lic than the doctors, and as they have laid themselyes open 10 the charge of being unpro- fessional once they will do it again. They will contiane to) treat atlicases at # & month, ix Cluding necessary medicines, until a cure is effected. Itis the public who are paying the bills, and_the public are entitled to kniow just how much they will have to pay and what they are paying for. AS TO ADYI “Why wouldn't Dr: Winn be just as su ing? are constantly sending their friends and neigh- borsto be treated. 1don't see the need of their advertising at all?"” These remarks were made by a patient under the care of these physicians and contein a cer- tain element of truth. Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn ha cessful_as_physicians and_ speeialists without the aid of ndvertising. They were successful and prosperous before their names appeared in papers. They were specialists first, ers afterward. They did not attempt the feat, which their imitators sometimes es- say, of advertising themselves into specialists. 3 Copeland. Neal and Winn were suc- hout advertising, but the: T8ING. Copeland, Neal and essful without advertis- been sue- cessful w were more successful, their specialties and their | skillare better known to the general public and their field for usefulnessand power for doing good is more widely extended by its aid. Conscientiously, as honorable physicians and as honest men, they believe in advertising. By systematical, truthiul and unquestionable adveriising—advertising that will stand fire and investigation—they say troma basis of printed columns containing thousands o timonials from worthy and reputable citizens of this cit; “This is the work we do. These are the re- snlis we accomplish. We ask to be judged by them.’ REGARDING PATENT MEDICINES. There has been for years a bitter fight be- tween manufacturers of patent medicines and the retail druggists on account of the latter substituting “something just as good” for the more popular patent medicines and pro- prietary articies advertised to cure certain and all diseases. In a measure patent medicines have been a blessing to the poorer classes, but with the dawning of a new era concerning hysician’s fees they are no longer necessarsy. When an invalid can secure the services of an eminent and skilliul physician and all the necessary medicines to last a month for the cost of a few bottles of patent medicine which may and may not cure him, more likely the latter, the guestion of substituting “someihing {pat s go " by retail druggists has but very ttle interest. Patent medicines never did and tes- | | and patients, old as well as n eal and Winn an- | I'm sure the patients under their care | never will cure catarrh. and medicines especial different forms of catarrh to_effect a cure. During the four years that Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn nave been established in this City thousands of cases have been cured after pafent medicines had been , and in nearly every case they had simply aggravated the symptoms. THE NEW TREATMENT. A cordial invitation is extended by Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn to all their friends to call and est the new treatment. 1t has passed the stage eriment and has been demonstrated a complete success, particularly in those cases which have withstood the other and older methods of treatment. They have added to their already complete offices the new appli- ances, and are ready to treat all those more stubborn_cases which in the past have been thought incurable. It is to their financial in- terest, as well as_their medical fame, to cure, for one cured patient is worth many dollars of advertising. They have the best treatment and the new and direct meansof using it. THEIR CREDENTIALS. Dr. W. H. Copeland is a graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York Ci s president of his class in that famous institution, and, after hospital training and ex- devoted his time and attention al lines of practice. Dr. Neal and . Winn passed through a similar course, and have for years been asso- ciated with Dr. Copeland. G. Neal won first honors in_col- lege, and was appointed resident physi- cian of the City Hospital. He filled the position with honor and received the hospital diploma. He also holds several gold medals for zpecial excellence in various branches of medicine, and after graduation was elected an adjunct professor of his college. Dr. A. C. Winn isa graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and of the medical department of the University of Missouri. They have devoted them- selves entirely to the treatment of their specialties. Years of experience in these special lines, preceded by extensive hospital work, have fitted them in a notable degree for the practice of their Pprofession. TREATMENT BY MAIL. For those desiring the treatment by mail_the Sirst step is to drop aline to Drs. Copeland, Neal and Winn for & question list or symptom blank. Return same with answers filled out and treat- ment may be commenced at once. Every mail brings additional proof of the success of the mail treatment. 6 $5 A MONTH. No fee larger than 5 a month esked for any disease. Our motto 1 v Fee. Quick Cure. Mild and Painless T The Copeland Medical Tnstitats, PERMANENTLY LOCATED IN THE COLUMBIAN BUILDING, SECOND FLOOR, 916 Market St, Next to Baldwin Hotel, Over Beamish's. . COPELAND, M.D. G. NEAL, M.D. . WINN, M.D. —Catarrh and all diseases of the Eye, Ear, Throat and Lungs. Nervous Dis- eases, Skin Diseases, Chronie Diseases. Office hours—9A. M. to 1 P. ¥,2t05P. X, 7t08:30 P. M. Sunday—10 A. M. 102 P. M. Catarrh troubles and kindred diseases treated successfully by mail. Send 4 cents in stamps Zor question circulars. It requires treatment adapted to the many us