The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-26

my delivery from doath being due TO the
wonderful discovery in an medical sG;ienGHo ;n
front rank of his follow workers-unoIualed
by any in my own opinion. That !, who
heretofore have ever been the most orthodox
believer in tho old school of medicine, its
| application and results, should thus recant
in favor of that which is ,sneered at by old
practitioners, may startlo you, but "seeing is
believing" and when recount the attack
made on my old hulk, how near l came to
lowering my colors, and tho final volloy
which, through the agency above mentioned,
gave me victory, you will at least credit mo
with just cause for sincerity if my thankful
ness and belief. will also spin my yarn
nnent my China cruise, and altogether. ex-
pect to entertain rs we'll as bo entertained
by you. With bost wishes,
! Sincerely yours,
Rear Admiral U. s. Navy.
| Hon. GEOR9E WENDELL,
Sinclair Place, Boston.
An autumnal afternoon in tho year 18S-
found tho taut flagship Nomad rounding
tho troachorous and dangerous extremity of
South America. And this day certainly in
its predecessors marked stormy, its nasti-
ness i'll wind and weather giving oil hands
on board the flagship thoir fl in hard work
and discomforts: Tho record Of tho Nomad
ing on her homeward bound passage to Bos-
ton, had boon most disagrooable, whom con-
siderod in tho light of hoavy weather work
From Suez to Alden, thon on to Bombay,
ii, Point aG do Gallo, , SSingapore nGpng Kong,
balance sheet stood largely in favor of old
Noptunr's rough characteristics, but with
remarkable evenness tho health and original
roster of tho ships company stood this day
rs it did noarly three years ago-with ono
exception. Throughout the divorso and
varied exposures incidental TO cruising over
the Asiatio station, where cholera, fovors,
! liver complaints, malaria, and colds of all
degrees reign in full force, mono of tho crew
| had suffered moro than temporary incon-
vcnience, and thus it scomed worry hard that
now, in tho closing days of tho cruise, thoro
stood nino chances for, to ono against, vic
| tory being at last scored for tho destroying
| angel Douth. When tho Nomdd reached
Shanghai in tho early portion of hor cruise
nor admiral was tho hoalthiest man aboard.
A grand specimen of manhood W .s he. Ovor
six feet in height, Weighing two hundred
ho rightly claimed for himself full share of
Naturos blessings. While returning lato ono
night from dpIomatIc reception IT .hn
Consulate ut Shanghai, through ovorheat-
gorous effects of tho peculiar damp and
searching night air, ho caught cold. "Only
| cold" remarked tho admiral to tho doctors
of his ship, "nnd easy to euro" So though,
tho medical officers, but with n quiet though
insidious progression, this cold clung to tho
admiral III spite of their bost efforts to Grad
| icate it, and when tho time came for leaving
Yokohama, homeward bound, tho admiral re-
| alz.d that his lungs and throat were docitl-
| cdly out of order The doctors advised re-
turning homo by mail steamer to San Fran
| CISCO, 80 that creator means for curing this
persiHtent cough might DO found in the
Naval Hospital thore; hut tho admiral pro-
ferrcd TO stick ID his slip, still imagining
como by the doctors treat,aent
No ono who looh od ut the admiral even in
| those days imagined that no would fall
victim to lung trouble. But it was tho old
cold at first; and in spite of orthodox treat
| ment the peculiar climatic effects Of China
nursed it, and hastonel tho sure result Of
such deep seated trouble. Time passed after
varying symptoms in tho udmiral's case, and
tho doctors imagined that they hold the dis
| enso in check at least But with tho forma-
ton of tuberclcs night-sweats and the now
rHp'id consumption of lung tissues, which
had set in with alarming symptoms, the pa
tient realized that his cold had laid the seeds
| Of that fell agent of Death, conSun,p ,ption
The hacking cough Of tho admiral had in
itself been sufficient food for serious consd-
! GRAFTON, and now, rs III tho warm autumn
days tho flagship galantly rode over tho
blue waters of tho Pacific, bound for Capo
| llorn, tho doctors hopod much for SUCCESS.
But this boistcrous afternoon found the good
| ship struggling with gigantic seas set off
| from tho Cnpo by iierco northory wind.
| Lcaden. were the heavens and sad tho
! heurts OF ntt nhuarti, for that morning tho
usual bulletin of the medical officers hnd set
forth this Intelligence: "lhe admiral is in
same condition rs reported last night. A
burning. fever has boon slightly reduced,
while other symptoms are as heretofore an
| nonnccd." All understood those words
without questioning. Tho beloved admiral
1@a M% during the past two weeks sunk very low.
Inc symptoms OF blood poisoning, q torpid
nver, lntonse pains throughout tho body,
eyeslght and mental faculties affected, appo-
Ite gone, through jnaction of that great rog-
uia!Gr(tho a!t liver. These were the means
which had reduced tho admiral from the
plhaele of health to tho valley and shadow OF
Death. Consumption hold full sway now,
nnd tho well-known skill of naval doctors
foiled. .'0''
The admiral had issued orders for the flag
snip 70 touch ut Montevidco for coal, and it
was tho Intention of tho doctors to land tho
admiral there for treatment. But one man
IN inc ship was wrapped in tho gloom of de-
inc poop deck he gazed absontly over tho
soothing waste Of waters. This was the ad-
mlrals son, lieutenant, and attachol to
ms fathers staff !lo feared that tho wear
strength beyond endurance, and before tho
ship could reach Montovidoo. Among u
| group OF sallors gathered around ono of tho
great guns on tho spar dcok stood tho captain
% mo lorotop, Brown, slight but healthy
looking man. His companions wore listen
ing to recital of his sufforings from con-
sumption, which had developed while he was
attached to tho sloop- of-wnr Ranger, lying
| IN tho hnrbor of Yokohama q year ago this
| yarn" having boon started by q discussion
about tho admrals condition. Tho mon had
Just returned from somo work around tho
deck, on order for which hal interrupted
Browns story few moments previously.
! A year ago this day was hove to in the
| pill mans sick bay in tho Ranger, then off
Yokohama, an toll You, pards, 'twas no
uso pipin' my number, cause was nigh on
passin in my enlistment papors for a long
cruise aloft," continued Brown. "Con-
sumption had mo fiat aback, and iho doctor
| says 1t was no uso TO stow away his lush in
my hold seein' that my bellows was con-
wrastle with"
"How did you puckcr out of it2" asked a
! "Wa'all," replied Brown, "my Chineo
| washman came to mo one mOrnin' an he
says to me, "mo hab got alice samo Mclean
man medikin, do you heap go2dn I says,
bring it of, Chang; j buy all tho samo.'
hat afternoon Chang hove up with fourteen
bottles of lush, enough to kill or cure tho
whole ships crow, an that looked fresh in
their nice Wrappers. Says Chang, China
man doctor hab got plentce moro, he make
heap good we'll with my sick, this number
ono medikon alice Same through Yokohama
| Wa'all, took the bottles an told tho doctor
I was goin' 10 try ono rs by tho sailn' or
ders on tho bottle, and tho doctcr he laughed