News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25
WHAT STRUCK HIM?
The Mystery of Deadly Attack Solved
by a Newspaper Paragraph.
boston Herald

Boston Herald
elbow are Americans liked in England"
And Mr.. B. F. Larrabee, of AZ Chester Square,
ex-d1rector of the New York & Boston Despatch
Express Company, who has recently returned
from a considerable residence in London, an
swered: ''If they have good recommendations
and behave themselves they are well treated,
but they will like the English people, any way,
when acquaintance ripens into confidence
How do the English compare with Amer
icans?"
s.The finest looking men in the world can be
seen on pleasant DAYS of the London season,
promenading Piccadilly. The English ladies,
however, are neither so neat in appearance nor
so graceful of form and movement as the Amer
leans, but they seem to enjoy more robust
health"
care English people longer lived than our
people?"
81 don't know have not fully investigated.
But remember once hearing read newspaper
paragraph entitled Why do Engllshmen Live
Longer than AmericansY That paragraph,
by the way, once solved great mystery for
me-"
''Ah, indeed, another tribute to the power
of the press p suggested the reporter.
eyes If you 50 please to call it, In 1879,
when l was re,idng at the Commonwealth
Hotel in this city, haG occasion to do some
business in Washington street. When | got to
the corner of Franklin, seemed to feel blow
in the breast and fell to the pavement like
dead man. When recovered consciousness L
was ken to my hotel. l first thought per-
hans some enemy had struck me, but my
PHYSICIANS assured me that such could not be
the case and advised striCtest quiet For SIX
long weeks I was unable to lie down. L was
violently i'll, and my physicians said L would
probab Y never walk the streets of Boston
again. I did not want to die, but who can ex-
pect to live when all doctors say he cannot p
And Mr. Larrabee smiled, sarcasticaNy, and
expressed himself very freely concerning the
number of common disorders which are con-
trolled by remedies which physicians will not
employ.
''Bnt how about that paragraph
eyes yes. When was obliged to sit up IN
bed day and night for fear of suffocatlon, and
hourly expected death, my nurse begged the
privilege of reading that paragraph to me. L
refused him at first but he persisted. 1t de-
scribed my condition so exactly, that for the
first time began to realize what had Frustrated
me. I was filled with a strange hop'. L at once
dismissed my physicians and immediately began
Warmers safe cure. In few months L was
restored to perfect health, notwithstanding
mine was one of the worst possible cases
of Brght's disease of the.l1idneys, which all my
physicians-and / had the best specialists IN
Boston-sajd was incurable l tell you, when
a man gets INTO the d sperate condition was
in he doesn't forget what rescues MN
s.But were tie effects permanent?
tThat was five years ago." said Mr.. LARA
boe .and for thirty years [ have not been so
well as during the past five yesrs. II l had
known what 1 do now, would have checked
the matter long ago, for it was in my system
for years, revealing itself in my blood, by fire.
ouent attacks of chills. jaundice, vertigo, ty-
phoid fever, nervousness, wakeful nights, etc,
etc. took over forty bottles before got up
and over one hundred aud fifty before l was well.
have commended that treatment in thou
sands of cases of general debility, kidney and
liver disorder, ETC., and have never heard i'll
concerning it. | bank on it.
Speaking of paragraphs, how DO English
papers compare with American, in this
particular?'
"Well, they have fewer witty paragraphs,
but the smaller papers, like the Pail Mall
Gazette, st. James Gazette, and Truth, abound
in sharp, incisive paragraphs without wit. In
general, American papers make the most Of
opinion