Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-03
WHAT STRUCK HIM
The Mystery Of Deadly Attack Solved
by Newspaper Paragraph.

The Mystery of q Deadly Attack Solved
by q Newspaper Paragraph.
(Boston Herald
"How are Americans liked in England"
And Mr.. B. +. Larrabee, of AZ Chester
Square, ex director Of the New YORK q Boston
Dispatch Express Company, who has recently
returned rom considerable residence IN Lon
don, answered: eff they have good recon-
mendations and behave themselves they are
well treated, but they will like the English peo-
pie. anyway, when acquaintance rlpens lnto
confidence"
''How do the English compare with Amerl-
cans?"
1.-The finest looking men in the world can pe
seen on pleasant DAYS of the London season,
promenading Piccadily. The English ladies',
however, are neither SO neat in appearance nor
SO graceful of form and movement as the
Americans, but they seem to enjoy more robust
health"
care English people longer lived than our
people ?"
II don't know. have not fully investigated.
But remember once hearing read newspaper
paragraph entitled 'Why do Englishmen Live
Longer than Americans That paragraph, by
the way once solved great mystery for me. 4"
"Ah, indeed, another tribute to the power
of the press ?" suggested the reporter.
''Yes, if you SO please to call it. In 1879,
when was residing at the Commonwealth Ho-
tel, in this city. had occasion to do some bust
ness in Washington 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 consciousness [ 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. l was violently i'll, and
nv physicians said I would probably never
walk the streets of Boston again. | did not
want to die, but who can expect to live when
all doctors say he cannot?" And Mr.. Larrabee
smiled, sarcasticalIy, and expressed himself
very freely concerning the number of common
disorders which are controlled by remedies
which physicians will not employ.
But how about that paragraph"
''Yes, 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-
ecribed my condition so exactly, that for the
first time began to realize what had Frustrated
ne. was filed with a strange hope [ at
once dismissed my physicians and Immediately
began Warmers safe cure. In a few month";, L
was restored to perfect health, notwithstand-
ing niue was one of the worst possible cases Of
Brights disease of the kidneys, which all my
physicians-and I had the best specialists in
Boston-said was incurable. tell you, when
a man gets into the desperate condition l was
in, he doesn't forget what rescues him."
"But were the effects permanentY
'Inat was I'VE years ago. sald MI. LARA
bee, " and for thirty years I have not been so
well as during the past five years. If | had
known what l do nov, I would have checked
the matter long ago, for it was in my system for
years, revealing itself in my blood, by frequent
attacks of chills, janndice, vertigo, typhoid fe-
yer, nervousness, wakeful nights, ETC., etc. l
took over forty Bottles before got up and over
one hundred and fifty before was well.
have commended that treatment in thousands
of cases of general debility, kidney and liver
disorder, ETC.. and have never heard i'll concern
ing it. I bank on it."
speaking OF paragraphs, how do English
papers compare with American, IN this partlcu-
lar"
"Well, they have fewer wittv 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
news, the London papers make the most of
opinion"