Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-07-21
A CHATHAM MIRACLE,
Dr.. Carl Verrinders vicissitudes of
Torture and of Health.

He Survives Them all, and Recounts His
wonderful Deliverance From Poverty
and Death, and His Ftestorati, IN to Pros
Perity and VigOr Of Mind and BODY
G cd Words for the A. O.. o. W.
Chatham Planet: In a Raleigh street
residence there lives with wife and one
chlld-a little ~ten-year-old daughter
musician known throughout Ontario,
it not the whole dominion, as a prince
among pianists, organists and choir
masters-a veritsble maestro and "Wiz-
ard OF the Ivory Keys" and no one who
has ever listened to his manipulation Of
the great organ in the Park street Metho.
dist church, or heard him evoke "msster
music's mystic melody" from the mag
nificent Decker Grand in his own draw
ing room but will declare that his emf.
hence is we'll deserved, and his peers can
be but few among the professors of d.
i Art. The door plate bears the fol-
lowing inscription
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC.
DIR. CARL LEO VERR1SDER,
Director.
10 sit, as did a Planet reporter a few
days ago, in a very atmosphere of sweet
harmony, created by DR.. Verrinder's
magician like touch was an experience
that might we'll be envied, and one CAL
culated to inspire the most sentimental
reveries. But sentimental moods finally
vanish and leave nj facing the sober
and practical side of life. The music
ceased and the conversation took a turn
leading to the resl objecto of the reporters
call.
There are stories abroad, " said the
newspaper man, " regarding some extra
ordinary deliverance from death, which
you have met with recently, doctor.
Would you object to stating what found
dation there is for them, and, if any, fur
nish me with the true facts for publ
cation" DR.. Verrinder shrugged his
shoulders and laughed. II have not,'h he
replied, "been given to seeking
newspaper notoriety, and at ffty.fve
years of age it is not likely I shall be-
gin, and yet" said a professor after
thinking a moment and consulting Mrs
Verrlnder, "perhaps it is best that
should give you the circumstances for
use in The Planet. The story of my
rescue from the grave might fittingly be
prefacei by a little of my early history.
We resided in England, where though l
was a professor of music, I was not de.
pendant on my art, as I had acquired q
competence. Ny wife was an heiress
having 100000 in her own right
Through the rascality of a broker she
was robbed almost of all her fortune
while by the bank of Glasgow failure
my money vanished forever. It became
necessary for me then to return to my
profession in order to live. I do no,
speak of it boastingly, but l stood we'll
among the musicians Of that day in the
old land. My fees were a guinea q les.
son, and it was no uncommon thing fol
me to give twenty in a day. We cam {
to America, landing in Quebec, where l
anticipated an engagement as organist
in the cathedral, but was disappointed.
subsequently we moved to st. Catharines
in which city I procured an organ and
choir and soon had a large clientele
Later, IN order as I thought to better
my fortune, I took up my residence in
London, first filling an engagement with
a Methodist church and afterwards &C.
cepting the position of organist
in St. Peters Cathedral. In those
cities [ made many warm friends
and their tributes and gifts
shall ever retain as among the most
precious of my possessions. 1t was
while living in London and pursuing
my art with much earnestness and labor
that I received a stroke Of paralysis
Perhaps'-bere the speaker rose and
stretching himself to his full height,
thus displaying his well-built and we'll.
nourished frame-"I do not look like q
paralytic. But the truth is 1 have had
three ~stokes-yes, sir, first, second and
third, and they say the third is fatal,
ninety-nine time out of one hundred.
Yet here you see before you a three
stroke victim, and a man who feels, both
in body and mind, as vigorous as he over
did in his life. My ultimate cure I at.
tribute to my testing the virtues of q
medicine whose praise I shall never
cease sounding as long as I live, and
which l shall recommend to suffering
humanity as I am now constantly doing
while I know of a case and can reach
the ear Of the patient. After removing
to Chatham I had not long been here
when my health further began to give
way. Gradually I noted the change.
felt it first and most strongly in q
stomach affection which produced con.
slant and distressing::nausea. 1t grew
worse and worse, l myself attributed it
to bad water poisoning my system. One