National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-01-11
A DANGEROUS AMBUscADE.
Discovered Barely i'm Time-Tho Most De-
cepttve and LurIng OF Modern Evils
Graphically Described.


Graphically Described.
SlrJcuse journal.
Something of a sensation was caused in this
city yesterday by rumor that one of our
best known citizens was about to publish
statement concerning some unusual expert
ences during his residence in Syracuse. How
tho rumor originated IL is impossible TO say,
but reporter Immediately sought DIR. S. G..
Martin, the gentleman in question, and Sc
cured the following interview:
"What about this rumor, doctor, that you
are going to make public statement OF some
important mattersW
Just about the same as you will find in
all rumors-some truth some fiction. / had
contemplated making a publication of some
remarkable episodes that have occurred in
my life, but have not completed 1t as yet"
What Is the nature of IL, may | inquirer
why, the fact that am human being
instead of q spirit. / have passed through
one of the most wonderful ordeals that per-
haps ever occurred to any man. The first
intimation had of it was several years ago,
when began TO feel chilly at night and
restless after retiring. Occasionally this
would be varied by soreness of the muscles
and cramps in my arms and legs l thought,
us most people would think, that 1t was only
cold, and so paid as little attention to 1t as
possible. Shortly after this noticed pecu-
liar catarrhal trouble and my throat also be-
came inf1amed. As IL this were not variety
enough, felt sharp pains in my chest and
constant tendency to headache"
why didn't you take the matter in hand
and check 1t right where IL was"
why doesn't everybody do so? Simply
because they think it is only some trihing
and passing disorder. These troubles did not
come all at once, and l thought IL unmanly
to heed them. l have found, though, that
every physical neglect must be paid for, and
with large interest. Men cannot draw drafts
on their constitutions without honoring them
sometime. These minor symptoms l have
described grew until they were giants Of
agony. | became more nervous; had q
strange Tutoring of tho heart, an inability
to draw a long breath. and an occasional
numbness that was terribly suggestive of
paralysis. How l could have been so blind
rs not to understand what this meant can
not imagine"
And did you do nothingf"
Yes, travelled In the spring of 1879
went to Kansas and Colorado, and while in
Denver l was attacked with q mysterious
hemorrhage Of the urinary organs, and lost
twenty pounds of flesh in three weeks. Ono
day after my return was taken with ter
rible chill and at once advanced to very Sc
we're attack of pneumonia. My left lung soon
entirely filed with water aud my legs and
body became twice their natural size. j was
obliged to sit upright in bed for several weeks
in the midst of the severest agony, with my
arms over my head, and in constant fear of
sutiocation."
"And did you still make no attempt to save
| yourself?"
Eyes, made frantic efforts. tried every
thing that seemed to offer the least prospect
of relief. l called council of doctors and
had them make an exhaustive chemical and
microscopical examination of my condition.
| Eiva Df the hest nh yairiana nf and
several from another city said must die!
ut seemed as though their assertion was
| true, for my feet became cold, my mouth
parched, my eyes Wore fixed, CLASSY stare,
my body was covered with n cold, clamny
death sweat, and read my fate in the anx-
but the finsle?"
Game at last. My wife, aroused to despe-
ration, began to administer remedy upon
her own responsibility, and while grew bet
ter very slowly, gained ground surely, un-
til, in brief, have no trace of the terrible
Bright's disease. from which 1 was dying,
and am II perfectly well man. This may
sound like romance. but it is true, and my
! life, health, and what / am are due to War
ner's Safe Cure, which wish was known to
and used by the thousands who, ] believe
are suffering this minute as l was originally.
Does not such an experience as this justify
me in making public statements"
1t certainly does. But then Bright's dis
ease is not n common complaint, doctor"
Not common On the contrary, it 10 one
of tho most common. The trouble is, few
people know they have 1t. 1t has so few
marked symptoms until its final stages that
a person may have it for years. each year
getting more and more in its power, and not
suspect it, 1t is quite natural should feel
enthusiastic over this remedy while my wife
is even more so than l am. She knows of its
being used with surprising results by many
ladies for their own peculiar ailments, over
which it has singular power"
The statement drawn out by the above in
terview is amply confirmed by very many of
our most prominent citizens, among them
being Judge Reigel, and Col James s. Good
rich, of the Times, while Gen. Dwight H.
Bruce, and Rev. Prof. w. p. Coddington, ID.
d., give the remedy their hearticst indorse-
ment. In this age of wonders, surprising
things are quite common, but an experience
so unusual as that Of DR.. Martins, and occur
ring here in our midst, may we'll cause COM
ment and teach lesson. 1t shows the
necessity of guarding the slightest approach
of physical disorder, and by the means which
has been proven the most reliable and eff
cient. 1t shows the depth to which one can
sink and yet be rescued, and it proves that
few people need suffer If these truths are OBJ
served.