The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-02-27
WITH A MORAL.
The Good Young Man Died and so DID
the Had Young Man.

Tn. Cool Young Man Died and so DID
the Had Young Man.
A Clinton street physician tells a
true story OF case that came to his
notice not very long ago says tho
Brooklyn Citizen. The talk which
suggested 1t had been about the recent
so-called cures of pulmonary consump-
ton and the doctor was finally asked
II he believed that whisky drinking
had a tendency to check. or even cure.
the disease. mo l do not" he re-
piled, ..but that reminds me Of case,
rather curious and exceptional posi-
bly,. which / will tell you about, and
you may draw your own conclusion"
A young man who was a stranger
called on the doctor one day to consult
him about bad cough he had endured
and dosed for over u year.
An examination OF his lungs with q
stereoscope Immediately revealed the
fact that the man had well-developed
tupercles on both lungs or, in other
words. he was plainly u victim of old
fashioned consumption. The proba-
pility was that death would claim him
within year or eighteen months.
He appeared to be very model young
man, and it seemed more than ordina-
rily sad on account OF his promise for
the future in character and genuine
worth for him to be cut off from life
in the flower of his youth. He begged
for some remedy, some suggestion
that might show him a possible means
of escape from the fate threatening.
and in his solicitation he asked with
some diffidence II the doctor would not
recommend whisky as a last resource.
Others had recommended whisky, but
he had not dared to touch it. He had
an older brother who had become an
habitual drunkard sot worthless.
and burden to all his relatives.
The example OF his brother had
been warning to him never to touch
liquor. The doctor advised him to
continue to let it alone and he went
away sad and detected. It soon came
to pass that the doctor met people
who knew him. and he became par
ticularly interested in him. He was
an exemplary young man in every
way; a church member and a Sunday
school teacher. The brother. a ro-
bust lazy fellow. was everything the
opposite. But it was quite possible
his turn was soon to come, for con-
sumption ran in the family. and their
history medically was very bad.
Through the efforts of the good
brother however, who was visibly
dying and whose pitiful condition ex-.
cited commiseration. the reckless
brother was soon brought into the
church and converted. He stopped
short off and went to work. support
ing the sick one. In afew months he,
too. had cough; he had consumption.
And now the strangest part of the
story Is to come, for the good brother
in the meanwhile had taken to drink
on the sly, passing whole days locked
in his room in drunken stupor His
cough had disappeared; he was getting
well. But he had evidently become
saturated with alcohol and begged
for it as an opium eater will for that
drug. In six months the two brothers
had actually changed places with each
other physically and morally. Be
leive it?'' quoth the DOCTOR "Oh.
well. you can do as you like; but bear
in mind that strange things are hap
pening every day which even those
who see with their open eyes can
scarcely give credence to. That elder
brother who got converted stuck 1t
out and died of consumption; the
other died few months later from the
effects Of drinking whisky to excess
but not OF consumption.