Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-01-31
4 DANGEROUS AMBUSCADE.
Discovered Barely In T1me-The Most
Deceptive and Luring of Modern
Evils Graphically Described.
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| tSWdc,tse Journal.
| Something of a sensation was caused in
this city yesterday by rumor that one of
our best known citizens was about to pub
| lish statement concerning some unusual
| experiences during his residence in SYRIA
| cuse. How the rumor originated it is i'm.
| possible to say, but a reporter Immediate
| ly sought DIR. S. G. Martin. the gen leman
| in question, and secured the following in
| terview:
"What about this rumor, Doctor, that
you are going &c make public statement
OF some Important mat ers:"
| Just about the same as you will find in
| all rumors-some truth; some fiction.
had contemplated making publication of
| some remarkable episodes that have &C.
CURED in my life, but have not completed
| it as yet"
"What is the nature Of it, may inquire 20
Why, the fact that am human being
| instead of a spirit. have passed through
| one Of the most wonder. ul ordeals that per-
haps ever occurred to any man. The first
intimation / had of it was sew ral years
ago, when l began to feel chilly at night
and restless after retiring. Occasionally
this would be varied by soreness of the
muscles and cramps i'll my aims aud legs.
thought, as most people would think, that
it was only cold and SO pail as little at
tentiOn to it as possible. Shortly after
this noticed a peculiar catarrhal trouble
and my throat also became Unframed. As
If this were not variety enough felt sharp
pairs in my chest, and a constant tendency
TO eidache."
Why didn't you take the matter in hand
and check it right where it was"
"Why doesn't everybody do SO? Sim
ply because they think it is only some tri-
fling and passing disorder. These troubles
did not come all at once and l thought it
unmauly to heed them. I have found.
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 were giants OF agony. became
more nervous; had strange fluttering OF
the heart, an inability to draw 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"
land did you do nothing"
eyes, Travelled. In tho spring of 1879
went to Kansas and Colorado, and while
in Denver, l was attacked with a mysteri-
GUS hemorrhage of the urinary organs and
lost twelty pounds of tles': in three weeks.
One day after my return l was taken with
a terrible chill and at once advanced TO Il
very severe attack of pneumonia. My left
lung soon entiiely ii led with water and
my legs and body became twice their nat
ural size. l was OIL ged 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 suffocatiOn."
And did you still make no attempt to
save YOURSELF"
Eyes, made frantic efforts. Tried ev-
cry thing that seemed to offer the least
prospect of relief. / called a council Of
doctors and had them max an exhaustive
chemical and microscopical examination
of my condition. Five of the best physi.
clans of Syracuse and several from anoth-
err cit, said l must die!
1t 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 a cold,
clammy death sweat, and | read Ely fate
in the anxious expressions OF my family
and friends"
but the .fnale?"
"Came at last. My wife, aroused to
desperation, began to administer remedy
upon her own responsibility and while
grew better very SLOWLY, gained ground
surely until, in brief, have no trace of the
terrible Brights di ease from which l was
dying, and am a perfectly we'll man. This
may sound like romance, but it is true,
amt my life, health and what am are due
to Warmers Safe Cure, which l wish was
known to and use by the thousands vino,
l believe, are ffe"iIg this minute as l was
originally. Does not such an experience
as this justify me in making pubic state
ment:"
"Itcertainly does. But then Bright's dis.
ease is not common complaint, doctor"
"Not common! On the contrary it is
one of the most common. The trouble is,
few people know they have it. It 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 il. 1t is quite natural
should feel enthusiastic over this remedy
while my wife is even more so than am.
She knows Of its being used with surpris-
ing results by many ladies for their own
peculiar ailments, over which it has singu.
lar power"
The statement drawn out by the above
Interview is amply confirm by very
many of our most prominent citizens,
among them being Judge Reigcl. and
Colonel James S. Goodrich, of the Times,
while General Dwight H. Bruce and Rev.
Pro-. w. Z. Coddington, D. D., give the
remedy their heartiest endorsement. In
this age of wonders, surprising things are
quite common but an experience so unusual
as that of DIR. Martins and occurring here
in our midst. may well cause comment and
teach lesson. 1t shows the necessity Of
guarding the slightest approach of p5ysi.
cal disorder and by the means which has
been proven the most reliable and efficient.
Il shows the depth to which one can sink
and vet be rescued and it proves that few
people neel suffer if these truths are OBJ
served.