St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-02-23
A DANGEROUS AMBUSCADE.
Discovered Barely in Timc-The Most
Deceptive and Luring Of Modern
Evils Graphically Described.
fSITdcuSe Journal

loVdeuS JOWRU.
Something of sensation was caused in
this city yesterday by rumor that one of
our best known citizens was about to pub
lish a statement concerning some unusual
experiences during his residence in SYRIA
cuSe. How the rumor orr. inated it is inn
/ possible to say, but reporter Immediate
/ ly sought Dir. S. &. Martin. tie gen leman
/ i'll question, and secured the following in.
/ terview:
"What about this rumor, Doctor, that
you are going to make a plblic statement
OF SOM important mat ers:"
Just about the same as you will find in
all rumors-some truth; some fiction. I
had contemplated making Iu .ic zion nf
some remarkable episodes ia. Inv. oc-
Cured in my llfe, bul have not competed
it as vet"
What is the nature of it, may inquirer"
Why, the fact that am a human being
instead OF a spirit. have passed through
one Of the most wonder ul ordeals that er.
haps ever occurred 10 any man. The first
intimation / had of it was several years
ago, wien l began TO feel chilly at night
and estiess after retiring. Occasionally
this would be varied by soreness of the
muscles and cramps in my arms and legs.
l thought, as most people would think, that
1t was only cold and 50 pail as little ut.
tention to it as possible. Shortly after
this noticed peculiar catarrhal trouble
and my throat also became iufiamed As
II this were not variety enough ielt sharp
pains in my chest, and u constant tendency
10 lie idacae."
Why didn't you take the matterin Land
and check it right where it wasp
Why doesn't everybody do so? Sim.
ply because they think it is only some tri-
fling and passing di order. These troubles
DID not come all at once and I thought it
RI han I L..,
though, that every physical neglect must
be paid for and with large interest. Men
can not draw drafts on their constitution
without honoring them sometimes. These
minor symptoms l have described, grew
until they We're giants OF agony. became
more nervous; had a strange fiuttering of |
the 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 as not to under |
stand what this meant can not imagine"
And did you do nothlng:"
Yes, Travelled. In the spring of 1879
l went to Kansas and Colorado, and while
In Denver, was attacked with a mysteri.
Gus hemorrhage of the urinary organs and
lost twelty pounds of fieSr in three weeks.
One day after my return was taken with
a terrible chill and at once advanced to
lung soon entirely ii led with water and
my legs and body became twice their nat
lral size. l was obi ged to sit upright in
bed for several weeks in the midst of the
'everest agony, with my arms over my
head, and i'll constant fear of suffocation.O
And did you still make no attempt to
ave yourseli."
Yes, made frantic efforts. tried ey.
Try thing that seemed to offer the least
prospect of relief. l called a council Of
ioetors and had them maka an exhaustive
hemical and microscopical examination
u my condition. Five of the best physi-
lans of Syracuse and several from anoth.
r city said l must die!
IL seemed as though their assertion was
rue for my feet became cold, my mouth
'arched, my eyes wore a fixed CLASSY
tare, my body was covered with a cold.
iammy death sweat, and l read nv fate
4 the anxious expressions Of my family
nd friends"
But the .fnale?"
Game at last. My wife, aroused to
bean to administer q remedy
pom her own responsibility and while I
rev better very SLOWLY, l gained ground
lrely until, in brief, have no truce of the
'rrible Brights di ease from VIII ch | was
wing, and am perfectly well man. This
Jay sound like a romance, but it is true, |
nj my life, health and what am are due
arner's Safe Cure, which l wish was 8
lown 10 and use by the thousands who, d
believe, are suffering this minute as was
'iginally. Does not such an experience .
this justify me in making public state J
ent." :
" l. certainly does. But then Bright,s dis.
Sc is not common complaint, doctor.n
:" Not common. On the contrary it is
e of the most common. The trouble is.
" people know they have it. 1t has so /
" marked symptoms until its final stages eh
at person may have it for years, each =.
ar .tting more and more in its power Il
d not suspect it. 1t is quite natural I ID
ould feel enthusiastic over this remedy j..
HE my wife is even more so than l am. -
e knows of its being used with surpris. ~,
: results by many ladies for their own ST
culiar ailments, over which it las singu. =
power" e
The statement drawn out by the above \
erv.ew is amply confirmad by very
NY Of our most prominent citizens. VI
opS them being Judge Reigel. and -
loaei Jamns S. Goodrich. of the Times. -
lie General Dwight II. Bruce and Rev. =
D. w. T. Coddington, d. D.. give the
nedy their heartiest endorsement. In
5 age of wonders, surprising things are
lie common but an experience SO unusual
that of DIR. Martins and occurring here q
'ur midst. may well cause comment and
ch a lesson. 1t shows the necessity of
riding the slightest approach of physi-
disorder and by the means which has FIo
n proven the most reliable and efficient. peri
hows the depth to which one can sink Atis
yet be rescued and it proves that few
pie need suffer il these truths are OBJ =
red.