St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-02-16
A DANGEROUS AMBUSCADE.
Discovered Barely in Time-The Most
Deceptive and Luring OF Modern
Evils Graphically Described
T.Smlc,tse ,JO,irnul.1

ISnucttse Journal
Something of sensation was caused in
tits city yesterday by a runner that one of
I our best known citizens was about to pub
lish a statement concerning some unusual
experiences during his residence in syria.
cuSe. How the rumor originated 1t is i'm.
/ possible to say. but reporter immediate.
i ly sought Dr.. s. q. Martin. tie gen leman
/ in question, and secured the following in.
/ terview:
"What about this rumor, Doctor, that
/ you are going to make public statement
OF sCmh 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 ia, Inv. o.
Cured in my life, but have not competed
it as yet.o
"What is the nature of it, may inquirer"
Why, the fact that l am human being
instead of 4 spirit l have passed through
one of tine most wonder al ordeals that FER
haps ever occurred 10 any man. The first
intimation / had of it was several 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 in my arms and legs.
l thought, as most people would think, that
1t was only cold and 50 paid as little at.
tention to it as possible. Shortly after
this noticed peculiar catarrhal trouble
and my throat also became inflamed. As
If THIS We're not variety enoug ID | ielt sharp
pains in my chest, and a constant tendency
10 lie idac!. e.o
why didn't you take the matter in Lani
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 ali at once and l thought it
unmanly to heed them. / have found,
though, that every physical neglect must
be pail 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 giant of agony. became
more nervous; had a strange fiuttering of
tie heart, an inability to draw q 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 l can not imagine"
And did you do nothing."
Yes, Travelled. In the spring of 1879
l went to Kansas and Colorado, and while
In Denver, l was attacked with a mysteri-
Gus hemorrhage of the urinary organs and
lost tweaty pounds of hes: i'll three weeks.
One day after my return ! was taken with
terrible chill and at once advanced to q
very severe attack of pneumonia. Nv left
lung soon entirely ii led VITA water and
my legs and body became twice their nat
ural size. l was obi ged to sit upright in
bed for several weeks in the midst of the
severest agony, with my arms over my
head, and i'll constant fear of suffocation."
And did You still make no attempt to
save yourselt: ~
Yes, made frantic efforts. l tried ev-
cry thing that seemed to offer the least
prospect of relief. / called a council of
doctors and had them make an exhaustive
chemical and microscopical examination
OF my condition. Five of the best physi. |
clans of Syracuse and several from anoth. |
er city said / must die!
1t seemed as though their assertion was |
true for my feet became cold, my mouth |
parched, my eyes wore a fixed CLASSY |
stare, my body was covered with a cold,
clammy death sweat, and / read my fate
in the anxious expressions of my family
and friends"
But the .fndfe?"
Game ut last. My wife, aroused to
desperation, BEGAN to administer a remedy
upon her own responsibility and while 1
Few better very SLOWLY, / gained ground
surely until, in brief, have no trace of the
terrible Brights di ease from VIII CT l was
dying, and am perfectly we'll man. This
may sound like a romance, but it is true |
AMI my life, health and what am are due
10 warmers Safe Cure, which l wish vas
known 10 and use by the thousands who,
believe, are suffering this minute as was
Does not such an experience
rs this Justify me in making public state
nent."
"Itcertainly does. But then Bright's dis
Ease IS not a common complaint, dnctor0
Mot common. On the contrary it is
me OF the most common. The trouble is,
ew people know they have it. 1t has SO
ew marked symptoms until its final stages
hat person may have it for years, each
'ear 'tting more and more in its power
nd not suspect it. 1t is quite natural
hould feel enthusiastic over this remedy
shlle my wife is even more so than am
she knows of its being used with surpris-
hg results by many ladies for their own
culiar ailments, over which it has singu-
ar powpr.o
The statement drawn out by the above
nserv.ew is amply confirmad by very
lany of our most prominent citizens,
mong them being Judge Reigel. aud :
'oloa el James S. Goodrich, of the Times, /
lille General Dwight H. Bruce and Rev.
no. w. T. Coddington, ID. D., give the
emedy their heartieSt endorsement. In
his age of wonders, surprising things are
ute common but an experience so unusual
$ that of DIR. Martins and occurring here
, our midst. may well cause comment and
Zach lesson. 1t shows the necessity of
harding the slightest approach of physi-
ii disorder and by the means which has i
cen proven the most reliable and efficient | p
shows the depth to which one can sink a
nd yet be rescued and it proves that few
eople need suffer if these truths are OBJ
rived.