The Osceola times., 1881-03-05
StLF-DENIAL.
How a Proud and Worthy Man Was Mar
tyr for His Principles.
Washington Cor. Boston Herald.

Washington Cor. Boston Herald.
Yesterday afternoon well-dressed
man Of a very good appearance entered
the War Department, and, ascending by
the elevator TO the second floor, alighted
When in front of the Secretary's door
he was seen TO stagger and then fell
belplessly on the marble tiling. He was
found TO be unconscious, and was carried
by the messengers TO an adjoining room
and laid on the lounge. DIR. Lowe, from
nm stairs. was summond, and as soon as
he saw the unconscious stranger, he at
once said
"Why, the man is starving"
lie had partially regained his con-
sciousness. bat was still in a stupor. The
doctor at once called for brandy, which
the man at first refused to take, as it was
afterward found, from temperance scru-
ples. A glass of diluted brandy was
however, placed to his mouth and his
laws closed upon it with such force as to
nearly shatter the glass. A sandwich
was then offered him, which he seized
with ayidity, and was about TO swallow
it all without mastication, when he was
prevented. The sandwich was fed to
him in small pieces, which he ate like a
famished beast, and then second sand
wich He was then fed with some
oyster soup and removed upstairs,
where at once went TO sleep. lie awoke
In the course of an hour, feeling much
better but still weak. The doctor said
that he was suffering from irritation of
the stomach, caused by the gastric iuice
working on the walls of his stomach.
Ae was in the first stages Of starvation,
and his pulse had run down TO forty
two. After he had recovered sufficient
strength to talk, he told the circun.
stances by which he had been reduced TO
such miserable condition. At the
same time be eyinced great anxiety that
the matter should not be made public.
His conversation showed him TO be a
man of education and culture, as his
clothes indicated.
lie said that he belonged to a respect
able family residing near Boston. He had
been in the army during the war, and
lost an arm in the service. Since the
war he had been practicing medicine in
his native town, but becoming unpopular
for the decided stand he took on the
temperance question, he determined to
come to this city and begin the practice
of medicine here. At the same time
he applied for clerkship in the War
Department. His sister, an invalid, ac-
companied him, and they reside on
Seventh street, where he opened an
office Soon after his arrival his funds
began to fail, and he had no means Of
replenishing them. lie found that lie
could not purchase food enough for
both, and so invented an excuse for not
eating with his sirter; that he got his
meals down town. This device worked
well, and his sister was COM
pletely deceived. He brought home food
for her to eat, but slowly starved him
self Yesterday he spent his last money
in the purchase Of a bone, from which
his sister made soup, but he refused to
take any. He said that the night before
he attended a meeting Of Masonic
lodge, but was too proud TO reveal his
condition and ask for help. His appear
ance and manner gave the impress of
truth TO his statement. His war record
was looked up and found TO be an honor
able one. His case was brought to the
attention of the Secretary Of War, and
he appointed him TO a clerkship in the
Surgeon Generals Office. The circum-
stance excited great interest in the De-
partment.