Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-22
A MODERN RESURRECTION.
Miracle that Took Place I'm Our Midst
Unknown TO the Public--Ths
Details I'm Full.

Detroit Free Press.)
One Of the most remarkable occurrences
ever given to the public, which took place
here in our midst, has just come to our
knowledge and will undoubtedly awaken
as much surprise and attract as great at
tention as it has already in newspaper
circles. The facts are, briefly, as follows:
Mr.. William A. Crombie, q young man
formerly residing at Birmingham, suburb
OF Detroit, and now living at 2S7 Michigan
Avenue In this city, can truthfully say that
he has looked into the future world and yet
returned to this. A representative of this
paper has interviewed him upon this i'm
portant subject and his experiences are
given to the public for the first time. He
said:
% had been having most peculiar sensa-
tlSns for long while. My head felt dull
and heavy; my eyesight did not seem so
clear as formerly; my appetite was uncer-
tain and was unaccountably tired. 1t
was an effort to arise in the morning and
yet could not sleep at night. My mouth
tasted badly, had faint all-gone sensa-
tion in the pit of my stomach tnat food did
not satisfy, while my hands and feet felt
cold and clammy. i was nervous and fri.
table, and lost all enthusiasm. At times
my head would seem to whirl and my heart
palpitated terribly. ] had no energy, no
ambition. and 1 seemed Indifferent OF tho
present and thoughtless for the future. /
tried to shake the feeling of and pursuade
myself IL was simply q cold or a little ma
laria. But it would not go. l was deter
mined not 10 give up, and so time passed
along and all the while was getting worse.
1t was about this time that l noticed had
begun to bloat fearfully. My limbs were
swollen so that by pressing my fingers
upon them deep depressions would be
continued to until could scarcely see out
of my eyes. One of my friends, describ-
ing my appearance at that time, said: 1T
is an animated something, but / should like
to know what In this condition passed
several weeks of tie greatest agony.
FINALLY, one Saturday night, the misery
eliminated. Nature could endure no more.
i became irrational and apparently insensi-
BILE. Cold sweat gathered on my forehead;
my eyes became glazed and my throat
ratified; l seemed to be in another sphere
and with other surroundings. / knew
nothing OF what occurred around me, al
though i have since learned 1t was con-
sidered as death by those who stood by.
II was to me quiet state, and yet one of
great agony. l was helpless, hopeless, aud
pain was my only companion. i remem-
Ter trying to see what was beyond me, but
the mist before my eyes was too great. 1
tried to reason, but l had lost ali power. !
felt that it was death, and realized how
terrible it was. At last the strain upon
my mind gave way and all was blank.
How long this continued l do not know,
hut at last Irealized the presence OF friends
and recognized my mother. / then thought
IL was earth, but was not certain. grad
ualiy regained consciousness, however, and
the pain lessened. l found that my friends
had, during my inconsistencies, been CIV
ing Inc preparation had never taken be-
fore, and the next day, under the influence
OF this treatment, the bloating began to
disappear and from that time on l steadily
improved, until to-day am as well as ever
before in my life, have no traces of the
terrible acute Brights disease, which SO
nearly killed me, and all through the won
derful instrumentality of Warmers Safe
Cure, the remedy that brought me 10 life
after l was virtually in another world"
You have had an unusual experience,
Mr.. Crombie," said the writer who had
been breathlessly listening to the recital.
Yes, i think / have" was the reply,
land it has been a valuable lesson TO me.
j am certain, though, there are thousands
OF men aud women at this very moment
who have the same ailment which came so
near killing me, and they do not know il.
believe kidney disease is the most decsp-
tive trouble in the world. 1t comes like a
thief in the night. It has no certain symp-
toms, but seems to attack each one diffeI<
emily. 1t is quiet, treacherous, and all the
moro dangerous. 1t is killing more people,
to-day, than any other one complaint. IL
had the power 1 would warn the entire
world against it and urge them to remove
it from tho system before it is too late"
One of the members of the firm of White
head & Mitchell, proprietors of the Bir-
mingham Eccentric, paid fraternal visit
to this Office yesterday, and in the course
OF conversation, Mr.. Crombie's name was
mentioned.
knew about his Sickness" said the
editor, 3" and his remarkable recovery.
had his obituary all in type and announced
in the Eccentric that he could not live until
its next issue. 1t was certainly most
wonderful case"
Rev. A. II. Bartlett, formerly pastor of
the NJ. Z. Church, at Birmingham, and now
of Schoolcraft, Mich, in response to tele-
gram, replied:
Mr.. w. A. Crombie was a member of
my congregation at the time of his sick.
ness. The prayers of the church were re-
4uested for him on two different occasions.
/ was with him the day he was reported by
his physicians as dying, and consider his
recovery almost q miracle"
Not one person in a million ever comes
so near death as did Mr. Crombie and then
recover, but the mon and women who are
drifting toward the same end are legion.
To note the-slightest symptoms, to realize
their significance and to meet them in time
by the remedy which has been shown to be
most efficient, is a duty from which there
can be no escape. They are fortunate who
do this; they are on the sure road to death
who neglect it.