The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-06-07

rial comrade Wilson. II r. oratifvir, :,
me to reflect that We Travelled in consid
cradle style; We Wentin the Pioneer coach
and my trieUd took all his baggage will
h'm. consisting of two excellent sill
handkerchief and a daguerreotype of hi
grandmother. We sailed and hunted apc
hsbed and danced all day aud / doctorec
my cough all night. By mahaging il
this way. l made out to improve ever,
hour in the twenty four. But nv disess,
continued to grow worse.
A sheet bath was recommended
bad never refused a remedy vet, and 4
seemed poor policy TO commence then
therefore | determined to take a sheet
bath, Notwithstanding I bad no idea wbar
sort of an arrangement il was.
twas administered at midnight. and
the weather was very frosty. Nv bressl
and back were barred. and a sheet Ghere
appeared to be thousand yards of il
soaked IN ice water was wound round ms
until resembled a swab for Coiumbiad
1t is a cruel expedient When the
chilly rag touches ones warm flesh, it
makes him start with sudden violence and
gasp for breath Just ss.smen do in The
death agony. 1t froze the marrow ip my
bones and stopped the beating of nv
heart. l thought my time bad come.
Young Wilson said the circumstanc &C
reminded him of an anecdote about a ne-
gro who was being baptized, and who
slipped from the parsons grasp. and came
near being drowned. He foundered
around, though, and finally rose up out
of the wafer considerably strangled and
luriously angry, and started ashore al
once, sporting water like a whale, aud re
marking, with gaeat asperity. that "One
o. these days some gen'lman's Niger
gwyne to git killed wild jes' such dam
foolishness as disl'
Never take sheet bath-never. Next
to meeting lady acquaintance, who, for
reasons best known to herself don't see
you " hen she looks at you, and don't know
you when she does see you, il is the most
uncomfortable thing in the world.
But, as l was saying, when the sheet
bath failed to cure my cough, a lady
friend recommended the application of 9
mustard plaster to my breast. l believe
that would have cured me effectually, il
it had not been for young Wilson. When
l went to bed, put my mustard plaster
which was very gorgeous one, eigh-
teen inches square-where could reach
it when l was ready for it. But young
Wilson got hungry in the night and ale
it up. am confident that lunatic would
have eaten me if had been healthy.
Alter sojourning a week at Lake Big
Ter. went to Steamboat Springs, and be
side the steam baths, l took lot of the
vilest medicines that were ever concocted
They would have cured me, but had to
go back to Virginia, where, notwith-
standing the variety of new remedies !
absorbed every day, I managed to aggra :
vate my disease by carelessoess aud un.
due exposure.
finally concluded to visit San Fran
cisco, and the first day got there lady
at the Lick House told me TO drink a
quart OF whiskey every twenty four hours
aud friend at the Occidental recommend
ed precisely the same course. Each ad
vised me to take quart; that made hal
gallon. l did it, and still live.
Now, with the kindest motives in The
world, l offer for the consideration Of
cousumptive patients the variegatec
course of treatment 1 have lately gon,
through Let them try it; if 1t don
cure them, it can't more than kill them.