Telegram-herald., 1891-04-17
VERY NEAR TO SUICIDE.



When q newspaper hears rumors OF
any unusual occurrence. It's plain duty
- 10 investigate thoroughly, AID let
TIE public know the ialslty or truth OF
suen reports. 90 when lt Was whis
perei about that q weil-knoun railroad
conductor had recently met With an
unusual experience, News fepfesen-
tstlve mas Instructed TO look into the
matter.
Alter many inquiries he found that
the conductor IN question lived in Esca-
naba. Our representative took the iirst
train Tor that place. anxious 10 get u
scoop" on our esteemed contemporary
les. In Eseanaba he WAS directed TO
the pleasant home OF Mr.. Thomas Fow-
Ter. a conductor on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad. Mr.. Fowler
has lived in Escanaba fo- ten years, and
Is widely ana tayorably known by the
travelling public o. the Northwest.
tie told our reporter that there had
been so many conflicting statements of
his experience, and so many had asked
about it, that he was glad OF the oppor-
tunity of 4 public hearing. lie pre-
pared the following statement, which
We publish over his signature:
EscAsaE., Mich.
To the Editor: On Monday l was
taken very slcS with heavy, dull pain
over the region OF the heart. Is MAS IN
the night, just one hour after retiring.
Ny vile got up. made a fire. boiled
some water and pa: lot cloths sprlnkled
with turpentine over the painful part,
and continued this for an hour and
thirty minutes before the pain subsidized. .
During the following day l felt all
right until 1890 .. M, when the pain
came again worse than before. i rolled
III bed. moaned and wished that death
would relieve me ii nothing else would
Tie hot cloths were again resorted 10
and continued until daylight. when l
fell asleep for several hours. TIE next
morning went TO a doctor, described
my symptoms, got some medicine, paid
IS cents, anu went home with feeling
of confidence in the doctors diagnosis
and prognosis. But, alas, when night
came, though | had taken the powders
and pills regularly. the pain came
again little worse tnan before. Though
have always been hopeful and cour-
ageous, and called suicides crazy, fools,
Inmates, ETC., nov began to think
that the man who would endure such
torture when he could relieve 1t by u
momentary voluntary action was by
far the greatest fool. l thought TO
myself | could easily see Why men
made away with themselves. The next
day / went to the doctor, told him the
effect of his doses, and said that / was
going TO undertake my own case. So
left hun, went to drug store and pur-
chased remedy that has effected many
startling cures. After the first dose
had no pain. That night slept as
sound as / ever did in my life, and
have had no pain whatever since. At
tins writing am feeling az we'll a. ever,
only . little tenderness about the
region of the heart, consequent, of
course, on the excessive weakening pain
endured. My cure is due entirely to
Pane's Celery Compound, the most re-
markable remedy / have ever known;
and especially pleasing it must be to
all those who take it to know that il is
q purely vegetable extract. 1t only
needs to be known TO be used IN every
family. The doctors may well praise
it, for they know they have not any
thing as good. 1t is my earnest wish
that the sick everywhere iaay know of
and receive that benefit which Was re-
ceived by me.
Yours very truly,
THOMAS FOWLER.