The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-02-05
A FLIGHT ACROSS The con.
TINEHf
To Save a Beautiful Womau's Life
THE MAGIC TOUCH IN THE
DEATH ROOM.

Wit Chew was queer old miner known
throughout the Rockies from the caves of
Spokana to the caves of Mexico. For 30
years lin following mining) he had gone to
bed poor, expecting to be rich the next
day. But his turn came. Simultaneous
/ ly i'm three of his mines he struck heavy
bodies of gold and silver, From the sale
OF his mines in seven weeks he received,
it is said,
SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS.
He now had money to burn, and not
withstandiHg hewas on the shady side Of
sixty, with his hair and beard long and
unkempt, he was considered a great
catch by the mothers OF marriageable
daughters.
BY the aid OF barber, few Turkish
baths and a tailor, Wit Chew was chang
ed from the rough, eyl-looking man Of
the caves to a very respectable, ine-look-
ing elderly gentlemen.
In this improved coalition he returned
to his old home in the east where 30 years
before he had left a sweetheart, to whom
he had vowed he would return and make
her his wife This beautiful girl wished
eight years for Wit Chew to return. Dur
ing the last three years she had not re-
ceiyed a word from her neglected lover.
Giving him up for dead she married a
prosperous merchant. Her husband died
during the war. She died in 1867, leaving
an only child, a beautiful daughter. On
the old miners return he found the moth
er dead, but in her stead this beautiful
daughter (her exact image
His love for the child knew no bounds.
He could scarcely realize that she was
not his old sweetheart of 30 years ago.
BY his devotion and attention possibly
aided by his goldl he soon distanced all
rivals, and Imogene Middleton became
Imogene Chew.
Never was man happier than the old
miner with his girl bride. Though he
was warned by his physician that
she was going into "a decline" and could
not live long, he. refused to believe it and
added to her happiness by laying in her
lap the wealth Of millions
She grew fearfully and rapidly worse.
Many of the leading physicians of this
country and Europe were consulted No
two agreed as to her trouble. "A heart
difficulty said one with a grave look. "A
complication Of difficulties, involving the
heart and spleen, said second, while a
third diagnosed the case as "a complicat-
ed and peculiar condition of lung trou-
BILE"
In September of 1888, Wit Chew and his
dying wife visited Boston to consult as a
last resort, noted specialist Of the Hub.
The physician was absent for three weeks
and the disappointed couple returned tC
following month new symptoms develop.
ed, and after a consultation of physicians
Wit Chew was advised that his
PRETTY WIFE
was dying, "She may live day or two
said the elder physician, "but she canno
last long"
Then it was that Wit Chew sent to DR.
R. C. Flower, of Boston, who was then a
the Palmer House, Chicago, on profes
sional visit, the following telegram;
"My wife is dying. Doctors have giver
} her up. Come quick, come quick! Fo
Gods sake save her! Do save her! Sparc
no expense. Answer Quick!"
DR.. Flower answered.
81 come. Your wife will not die till
, arrive" In thirty minutes he was in hi
private car, drawn by a special engine
track cleared, and flying at the rate o
forty miles an hour.
1t was a
RACE FOR LIFE
The doctor refused to talk to any ont
on the way, and apparently was kecpns
his mind on the dying woman.
} He reached Denver at 1905 noon. Wa,
met at the depot by'Wit Chew, who, be.
tween sobS said 81 am gald to see you
but you are too late; Imogene is dying
She is unconscious.
Let us hasten to the house." said the
] doctor. Hefound his patient propped W
in bed gasping for breath, two nurses fan
ming her, cold up to her knees, and in {
half unconscious state.
In less than a minute Dr., Flower said
81 discover a great accumulation OF mat
ter of pus, which is drowning out the lunl
and heart
He realized that the woman was nearly
gono. In less time than it takes to write
it, his instruments were brought into
play He made deep ncsSion; the
heavy pus matter poured forth until
nearly two pnts had discharged. In
twenty minutes the patient was comfort
able, conscious aud free from labored
, breathing. In forty minutes she ate a
light lunch. After inserting drain tube
giving directions to nurses, he pronounce
ed the woman out Of danger, bade the
family good bye, and in just one hour and
, hfty-hyc minutes from the time the cal
stopped at the depot, he pulled ont for
Chicago over the Burlington road.
Mrs. Chew improved rapidly, and in a
few month, under Dr. Flowers care
through correspondence, was entirely
cured and is TO this day a wonderful II.
= lustration to the phenomnal skill Of the
most remarkable physician of this age
Had Dr.. Flower arrived an hour later
Mrs. Chew would have been dead. Had
he not by his seeming supernatural power
detected accurately her exact condition
his coming would have been Of no avail
state nothing new when say DR., r, c.
Flower, OF Boston, can describe to any
man, woman or child the nature Of then
disease better than they can tell him.
without asking question or being told a
word. No wonder he cures his patients