The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-28
HOW A LITTLE STORY GREW.
Additions and EIabOrRtiOns Made
IL n Highly COIored Romance.


From the New York Tribune.
There is a welI-known manufacturer.
courteous man, who In his bachelor apart
ments often has an evening at home. at
which many entertaining people are to
be met Not long ago there was a small
gathering OF the aforementioned set" in
the apartments Of Mr.. 8. One story after
another was told, each story-teller in
non-obstruslve way trying to outyarn the
last entertainer. Many Of the stories told
were. "ohestnuts," but the following, II
not exactly new. at least furnishes an ex-
ample Of how a good story loses nothing
by being passed around.
Il just heard DR.. NJ. tell a story that
sounds like fairy tale" said one of the
men present. The doctor vouches for its
truth, and here are his sponsors"
With this the speaker drew from his
pocket a slip of paper that had some
thing written thereon. OF course, no
one in the company wished TO place, even
the slight doubt Of his verify that looking
at the paper would imply. Thus encourage
ed, he went on to relate the following
story:
lawyer. Perhaps you don't all know that
some thirty years ago Mr.. 3. was at the
point of death from cancer, and was cured
IN a way tndl was truly MARVELLOUS MT
b. had consulted physicians here, In Eu-
rope and in Asia and Africa, too, for
ought 1 know He had cancer of the
tongue, and no one thought he could be
cured. His physician advised him to go
to a cooler climate than New York, so he
started for Canada. But first must give
you an understanding of how bad off he
really was.
bed for a great many months His tongue
was swollen to an enormous size. and
when he attempted to lie down II fell back
in his throat and choked him. He had
frame made and they strapped him in this
frame in a sitting posture, with his head
resting on a support Of some kind, his
tongue hanging out. In this way the poor
man got what little sleep he could catch.
"rhe journey fatigued Mr.. b., so he
stopped at st. Adams, VT, to rest. They
stayed at a hotel In that place, and no one
who saw the poor man thought that he
could live to reach Canada. He was sit
ting in his frame, and It WAS about 2
| o'clock in the morning when the night
| clerk knocked at the door. Mrs. b. open
| ed the door. The clerk Informed her that
| there was a woman in No who wished
| to see her a [ once What for? The clerk
| did not know All that he knew was that
! she had rung her bell as If her room was
| on fire. When he answered the call she
had asked If there was woman and
| man by the name Of B. in the hotel? And
| was not the man tll2
When told her, said the clerk, that
| tnerG was SQcn "A man anu lndN ne was III
| a bad state, If there was anything in
| appearances, she told me to come right
down here and wake you up, and say that
| she wanted to see Mrs. B., and that she
| had something of the utmost Importance
relating to Mr.. BIS health to tell to you.
Mrs. B. dressed herself and went TO
| the rooms of the strange woman. There
the following conversation passed;
Mrs. B., l have been impressed so
strongly that l could not resist, nor yet
wait for morning to see you and tell you
| something that l am convinced will cure
| your husband am stranger to you.
| When / went to bed tonight 1 did not
| know that such a woman as yourself
| lived In my sleep and in dream or
| trance or something which l can in no
| way explain, I saw you and your husband
| in your room. He, In his frame, poor man.
and you with an anxious look of care on
| your face that not even sleep could BAN
| ish.
| 1.-The scene of your rooms and the per-
| sons within 1t changed in an instant and
| l was in the woods. l cannot tell you
| where, but there were trees around. Then
| l noticed three springs of water. At one
| of them which some voice in my dream
| seemed to call the A spring, l saw three
| diseased dogs, and q brindle cow that had
| an enormous white swelling on one of her
| fore legs, Even while looked the cow
and the dogs left off their diseased looks
and became plump and well. Then some
thing said to me, This Is the place that
| Mr. b. has been divlnely guided to. Here
| by only drinking and bathing in this
| water he can be cured of his cancer
! Awake now and tell his wife, for they in
| tend to leave early in the morning Then
1 sent for you. l hope you are not often
| ed by my persistencyT
Mrs. b. was far from being offended
| She told her husband of the strange wo-
! man. He expected to die, but he was per-
! fectly willing to stay there and try to find
! the pool of health.
In the morning. Mrs. B. sent out ten
| men to look for the spring, which they
! would know by the three dogs and the COW
| with the swelling on her knee. She told
| each man that she would give IS to him at
| night, and to the man who should find the
| spring she would give $40. At night they
| all came home without finding anything.
| And a second morning the scouts all start
| ed again. That night one of the men re-
| ported that he had found the spring. and
| the three dogs. and the COW. Mrs. b. was
| so delighted that she gave $50 to the lucky
| man, instead of $40. They brought some
| of the water to Mr.. b. who began to use
il with beneficial results. In less than six
months he returned to New York a we'll
| man, went into court, argued a ten-thou-
| sand dollar case and won II.
| You may well believe that he was de-
/ lighted He bought the springs for a mere
| nothing, built hotel on the grounds that
cost him 500. 200. When this hotel was COM
| pleted, but before Mr. b. had got his insur-
| ance. ii took fire and was burned to the
ground, so that snug little sum was lost
Then the property went into law, where it
| has beeu ever since. 1t was this same prop
| erty that figured so conspicuously in the
the circles of Upper Bohemia, not long
ago"
That IS the story as 1t was told at Mr.. SIS
AT Home" There happened TO be a re-
| porter present, who thought that if he
could verify this story it would be worth