Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-26
A DANGEROUS AMBUsCADE,
Dissolved Barely in Time---The Most
Deceptive and Luring of Modern
Evils Graphically Described.


one Of our best known citizens was
about TO publish a statement concern
ing some unusual experiences during
MS residence in Syracuse. How the
rumor originated it is.impossible to say,
but a reporter Immediately sought DR..
$. g. Martin, the gentleman in ques>
ton, and secured the following inter
view:
"What about this rumor, Doctor,
that you are going to make public
statement Of some important matters?"
"Just about the same as you will
find in all rumors--some truth some
fiction. | had contemplated making
a publication of some remarkable cpl
sodes that have occurred in my life,
but have not completed it as yet"
What is the nature Of it may en-.
quire?"
"Why, the fact that l am human
being instead Of spirit. | have pass
ed through one of The most wonderful
ordeols ,hat perhaps ever occurred to
amy man. The first intimotion | had
.ofi, was several years ago, when be.
gam 10 feel chilly at night and restless
after retiring. Occasionally this would
he varied by soreness Of the muscles
and cramps in my arms and legs |
thought, as most people would think,
that it wa. only cold and so paid as
little attention to it as possible Shortly
after this noticed a peculiar catarral
trouble and my throat also became in.
famed, As if this were not variety
enough felt sharp pains in my chest,
and constant tendency to headache"
"Why didn't you take the matter in
hand and check it right where it
was ?'
"Wby doesn't every body do so?
Simply because they think it is only
some triAing and passing dis.
order. These troubles did not
come all at once and l thought
it unmonly to heed them. | have
found, though, that every physical neg
lect must be paid for aud with large
interest. Men cannot draw drafts on
their constitutions without honorng
them sometime. These minor symp,
toms have described, grew until they
were giants of agony. | became more
nervous; had a strange futtering of the
heart, an inability to draw a long
breath and an occasional numbnesss
that was terribly>suggestive Of paralysis
How I could have been so blind as moi
to understand what this meant can
not imagine"
"And did you do nothing
eyes, | travelled. In the spring o.
1879 | went to Kansas and Colorado
and while in Denver, | was attacked
with a mysterious hemorrhage of thu
urinary organs an lost twenty pound'
of flesh in three weeks. One day attel
} my return was taken with a terribl,
chill and at once advanced to a very
severe attack of pneumonia. My lief
lung soon entirely filled with waite
and my legs and body became twice thei
naturalsize. Twas obliged to sit uprigh
in bed fer several weeks in the midst o
the severest agony, with my arms owe
, my head and in constant fear of suffo
cation"
"And did you still make no effort t
save yourself?'
eyes | made frantic efforts. | trie,
everything that seemed to offer tn
least prospect of relief. | called
council of doctors and had them max
an exhaustive chemical and microscope
examination of my condition. Five o
the best physicians of Syracuse ant
; several from another city said mus
die
. 1t seemed as though their assertion
/ was true for my feet became cold, m.
mouth parched, my eyes wore fxet
CLASSY stare, my body was covered witt
{ a cold, clammy death sweat, and l rea'
. my fate in the anxious expressions O
j. my family and friends"
"But the f,ale'"
, Game at last Ny wife, aroused t
desperation, began to administer