Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-23
What MI. and Mrs. Niles Endured
on the Residential |sthmus.
NO PROPER TREATMENT At GREYTOWN
A Quick-Witted Woman's Device
in a Desperate Situation.
SHE saw ED TWO LIVES

Among the engineers engaged in surveying the
line Of the Nicaragua canal several years ago was
Ernest Niles, a young Englshman. who was re-
eardel with great favor by his associates and
possessed professional abilities of u high character
When he was approached with the offer which
afterward took him to Central America he had
just been married to n pretty and devoted woman
He was loath to accept the proposition in spite Of
Its tempting character, because he thought it
would separate him from his bride. But Mrs. Niles
was equal to the emergency and determined to &C.
company him to Greytown. 1t was a perilous I'M
dertaking for ANY woman, and doubly SO for one
who had always lived in temperate latitude and
had pever known anything but comfort and luxury,
but She was persistent in her intention, knowing
that the worldly affairs of her husband would be
prospered, and the couple accordingly went down
to the tropics together They arrived during the
unhealthy season when the deadly swamp fever
was claiming victims in hundreds, and day her
husband was brought in from the field stricken with
the terrible disease
She devoted herself to nursing him back into
health. and her sleepless attention and the cease
less care with which she attended to his wants
wasted all her vigorous young system and she was
taken with the fever too.
You would not recognize In US now the ghostlise
people who came back to New York three years
ago." said Mrs. Niles to q Star reporter in her
home at 1888 9th street northwest. MY husband
Is not in Washington at present having gone south
on railroad business, but is the heartiest look
ing man know. As for myself don't know what
Ill health means The fever and the lack Of
proper Treatment. at Greytown left US perfect
wrecks. l weigh something more than las pounds
now. Three years ago weighed o.. I was never
free from pain. My joints felt us If they were
being pulled apart a rack and were swollen
twice their natural size
Il saw picture once which represented a man
suffering from neuralgia. 1t presented him with
wild eyes and agonized expression tearing his hair
while an army Of grinnng devils were hammering
sharp needles into his skull. The way suffered
with my head always reminded me of that picture
cannot begin to describe the torture suffered In
my limbs and head, while my stomach felt as II
u never ceasng fire burning in 1t. 1 do not
e1aggerate al all in telling you this. I SIM
ply existing in u living death.
Ernest was but little better of, and we were
both as yellow as saffron. We got in q
house on Goth street In New York and spent nearly
all Our money on doctors and medicine, but nothing
seemed to help and we were thinking Of apply
uS iof aumlslon 10 d noSpltaI Wncre We could Mt
least die in comfort, when I in a paper a
testimonial to the efficacy of Paincs celery conf
pound as a blood and stomach specific. I sent a
servant to buy bottle in spite Ct Efnest's objee-
tions and We both began to take it. In three or
four days its good effects began to be apparent,
and before we had taken half dozen bottles we
were both on the way to recovery. You ,aay he
sure we continued use it relisiously, and after
six months we were both in splendid condition and
did not know what sickness was except as a hor-
ribls memory. I firmly believe Paine's celery com
pound saved both Ernest and myself from the
grave, and I'm sure 1t will build up any broken
down system after 1t performed such q miracle for
u.s..