Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-11-24

The Mystery of a Deadly Attack Solved
by a Newspaper Paragraph.


Boston Herald.
show are Americans liked in Eng.
landYo eng
AND Mr.. b. f. Larrabec, of 40 Chester
square. ex-director of the New York and
Boston Despatch Express Company, who
mas recently returned from a considerable
residence in London, answered: SIT they
nave good recommendations and behave
themselves they are well treated, but they
viii like the English people, anyway,
When acquaintance ripens into conf
dence.'
Glow do the English compare with
Americans?'
"The finest looking men In the world
can be seen on pleasant days of the Lon
don season. promenadIng Piccadillv. The
English ladies, however, are neither so
neat IN appearance nor so graceful of
form and movement as the Americans.
but they seem to enjoy more robust
health ?'
care English people longer lived than
our peoplegp
81 don't know. have not fully inves-
tgated. But i remember once hearing
read a newspaper paragraph enti-
tied "Why do Englishmen Live Longer
tnan Americans? % That paragraph, by
the way, inc solved a great mystery for
me.o
"Ah, indeed; another tribute to the
power of the press? p" suggested the re-
porter.
Yes, if you so please to call 1t. In
1879, when l was residinga at the Common
wealth Hotel, in this city, / had occasion
TO do some business in Washington street.
When 1 got to the corner of Franklin, /
seemed to feefa blow in the breast and
fell to the pavement like a dead man.
when l recovered consciousness / was
taken TO my hotel. l first thought per-
maps some enemy had struck me, but my
physicians assured me hat such could
net be the case and advised strictest
quiet. For six long weeks l was unable
to lie down. l was violently i'll, and my
physicians said | would probably never
walk the streets of Boston again. l did
not want to die, but who can expect to
live when all doctors say he %cannot?"
And MIR. Larrabee smiled, sarcastically,
and expressed himself very freely con-
corning the number Of common disorders
which are controlled by remedies which
physicians will not employ.
But 10Y about that paragraph 2'
Yes, yes. When l was obliged to sit
up in bed day and night for fear of suffo-
cation, and hourly expected death, my
nurse begged the privilege of reading that
paragraph to me. | refused him at first,
but he persisted. 1t described my condi-
ton so exactly that Tor the first time | be-
gan to realize what had prostrated me. L
was filled with a strange hope. / at one
dismissed my physicians and Immediately
began Warmers Safe Cure. In a few
months / was restored to perfect health,
Notwithstanding mine was one of the
worst possible cases Of Bright's disease
OF the kidneys, which all my physicians
and l had the best specialists in Boston
said was incurable. / tell you, when a
man gets iGtO the desperate condition l
was in he doesn't forget what rescues
him.
But were the effects permanent"
"That was five years ago." said Mr..
Larrabee, land for thirty years l have not
been so well as during the past five years.
If / had known what l do now, l would
have checked the matter long ago, for it
was in my system for years, revealing it.
self in my blood, by frequent attacks of
chills, jaundice, vertigo, typhoid fever,
nervousness, wakeful NIGHTS, ETC., etc. /
took over forty bottles before l got up,
and over one hundred and fifty before l
was well. l have commended that treat
ment in thousands of cases of general de-
bility, kidney and liver disorder, etc., and
have never heard ill concerning it. l bank
on it."
speaking of paragraphs, how do Eng
Ilsh papers compare with American, in
this PARTICULAR"
"Well, they have fewer witty para
graphs, but the smaller papers, like the
Pdu MdU Gazette, st. James Gazette and
Truth, abound in sharp, incisIve para
graphs without wit. In general, Ameri-
can papers make the most of news, the
London papers make the most of opinion"