The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1884-11-28

THE MYSTERY or DEADLY ATTACK
SOLVED BY A NEWSPAPER PARAGRAPH.
Boston Herald.
GLOW are Americans liked in Eng
land ?"
And Mr.. b. f. Larrabee, of AZ Chez.
ter Square, OK director of the New
York & Boston Despatch Express
Company, who has recently returned
from considerable residence in Lon
don, answered: "lf they have good
recommendations and behave them
selves they are well treated, but they
will like the English people, any way,
when acquaintance ripens into conf
dence."
"How do the English compare with
Americans y
"The finest looking men in the
world can be seen on pleasant days of
the London season, promenading Pic
cadilly The English ladies', however,
are neither 80 neat in appearance nor
so graceful of form and movement as
the Americans, but they seem to enjoy
more robust health"
"Are English people longer lived
than our people 2
81 don't know. | have not fully in
vestgatcd. But | remember once
hearing read a newspaper paragrah en-
titled 'Why do Englishmen Live Lon
ger than Americans? 2 That paragraph,
by the way, once solved great mys.
terry for me-"
"Ah indeed, another tribute to the
power of the press?" suggested the re-
porter.
"Yes, il you please to call it. In
1879, when | was residing at the Com
monweal,h hotel, in this city, | had oc-
casion to do some business in Washing
ton street. When | got to the corner
of Franklin, / seemed to feel blow in
the breast and fell to the pavement like
a dead man When | recovered con
sciousness l was taken to my hotel |
FIRST thought perhaps 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 / was unable to lie down. |
was violently i'll, and my physicians
said would probably never walk the
streets of Boston again. did not
want to die, hut who can expect to live
when all doctors say he cannot p And
Mr.. Larabee smiled, sarcastically, and
expressed himself very freely concern
ing the number of common disorders
which are controlled by remedies which
physicians will not employ.
"But how about that paragraph 7"
Eyes, yes. When l was obliged TO
sit up in bed day and night for fear Of
suffocation, and hourly expected death,
my nurse begged the privilege OF read
ing the paragraph to me. l refused
him at first but he persisted. 1t de-
scribed my condition so exactly, that
for the first time l began to realize
what had Frustrated me. | was filled
with a strange hope. at once dis
missed my physicians and imme
diately began Warner's Safe Cure.
In few months, l was restor-
ed 10 perfect health, notwth-
standing mine was one of the worst
possible cases of Bright's disease of the
kidneys, which all my physicisns-and
had the best specialists iu Boston
said was incurable, l tell you, when a
man gets into the desperate condition
was in, he doesn't forget what rescues
him.
"But were the effects permanent 7"
That was five years ago." said Mr.
Larrabee, "anA tor thirty years | have
not been so well as during the past five
years If had known what | do now,
/ would have checked the matter long
ago, for it was in my system for years,
revealing itself in my blood, by fre-
quent attacks of chills, jaundice, verti
60, typhoid fever, nervousness, wake
full nights, etc, etc. took over forty
BOTTLES before | got up and over one
hundred and fifty before | was well.
have commended that treatment il
thousands of cases of general debility
kidney and liver disorder. etc, ano
have never heard i'll concerning it.
bank on it,
"Speaking of paragraphs, how dc
English papers compare with Ameri
can, in this particular?'
"Well, they have fewer witty para
graphs, but the smaller papers, like the
Pail Mall Gazette, St. james Gazette
and Truth, abound in sharp, incisiv'
paragraphs without wit. In general
American papers make the most o
news, the London papers make th'
most of opinion"