Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-11
A NEW CURE.

If the experiences of Alfred Y. Allen an old Toronto boy, are any criterion, he has discovered a cure for, consump- ton that leaves Koch and other lymph compounds in the "also started" list. His remedy is certainly an heroic one, and, efficacious as he found it,. is scarcely likely to become popular. This is his story:
 MOn being told by a doctor at San Francisco that his lungs were almost used tip and he had better go home to die, MT Allen retired to his room to see what he would do. Many would have done nothing, or committed suicide; while idly pondering over how to spend his few remaining days, however, sudden inspiration came to MT Allen. He decided to take Walk-back to his old Canadian home ill Toronto.
 He at once decided to try the exper- iment and the next day, Aug 8, 1901, he started out, with his best suit on, one lung out of business, $1 in his pockets, and gross tonnage over all Iof eighty-one pounds. He was very weak at first, and found it hard work to cover mile and a half day. For two months he walked along, keeping y T |spectable no one would take it, but when he became more weather-worn and needy looking it soon went. So weak was he that on one occasion he got permission to cut wood for a meal, but was unable to handle the axe. Slowly and painfully he tramped on, following the ties north through Cali fornia and Oregon. Then he left the h Eself two days and a night in the dense forests, but in spite of it all he'started to gain strength, and was soon able to leverage thirty-five miles day, one lday actually walking fifty-one miles. In Oregon he earned SIT cooking for lEsome hungry sheep herders, strangers to dyspepsia, and started off again, rich once more, until he reached Idaho. There he had a terrible experience tramping across 173 miles of blazing hot desert, without food or water, un- til he reached an oasis, where some ad-' venturous spirit had by irrigation re- claimed enough land to produce scan 1 ty living
 By this time Aliens tongue was lparched and swollen, his lips cracked, and he was completely exhausted by
 
 lseveral days of water and food to put him in shape to continue his walk With the aid of a big water bottle he managed to cross the rest of the arid, sun-parched plain, and crossed into Utah. through which state he strolled lInosp1tabiy received everywhere by the lonely railroad section men, to whom the sight of face from the outside world was real godsend. In fact. at
 one place, where he had to face 2 IearTuI cold snap, with snow waist deep, family took him in and kent
 nm three weeks. When finally he did
 start off the lady of the house gave hiA,
 KISS and fiye-dollar bill to cheer
 his lonely pilgrimage. The money has gone, put the memory of that kiss is Istill fresh.
 | Through storm and snow, wind and ram, ne plodded along, traversing Iowa lnto Illinois, through Illinois to Michi-
 gan and at Detroit he crossed to Wind lsor, once more in Canada. FromWind- | sof ne walked across to Buffalo, from | BuHalo to Lewiston, where he crossed the old Suspension bridge and once lagam landed on Canadian soil There he took the Grand Trunk ties and Iand- led In Toronto last Wednesday, weath- ierWorn and weary, but we'll man. l weighing l36 pounds of hard, healthy manhood, and without a trace of his
 old foe, consumption.
 | During his long tramp MT Allen
 walked through thirty-five pairs of boots and used up more clothes than he
 could keep track of. He was much i'm
 pressed with the unfailing kindness he lmet with everywhere, having always Iplenty of food and clothes. on only one occasion did he lack a house to sleep lin-When he was lost in Oregon wilds. MT Allen has been examined by phy- lsicians, who have been amazed to find him perfectly free from the white
 plague, and still more astounded at
 the extraordinary method by which he
 cured himself. Toronto Mail and Elm
 pire.