WHAT STRUCK HIM!

Clutha Leader, Volume XVII, Issue 833, 4 July 1890, Page 7

WHAT STRUCK HIM !

(Boston Herald.) ' How are Americana liked in England V And Mr B. F. Larrabee, of 42 Chester Square, ex-director of the c New York and Boston Despatch Express Company,' who has recently returned from a considerable residence in London, answered : ( If they have good recommendations and behave themselves they are well treated, but they will like the English people, any way, when acquaintance ripens into confidence. 7 ' How do the English compare witli Americans V 1 The finest looking men in the world can be seen on pleasant days of the London season promenading Piccadilly. The English ladies, however, are neither so neat in appearance nor so graceful of form and movement as the Americans, but they seem to enjoy more robust health.' «

' Are English people longer lived than our people V

( I don,t know. I have not fully investigated. But I remember once hearing read a newspaper paragraph entitled, " Why do .Englishmen live longer than Americans ?" That paragraph, by tho way, once solved a great mystery for me.'

' Ah, indeed, another tribute to the power of the Press V suggested tlu* re-

porter.

1 Yes, if you so please to cull it. In 1879, when I was residing at tho Commonwealth Hotel in this city, I had occasion to do some business in Washington street. When I got to the corner of Franklin, I seemed to feel a blow in the breast, and fell to the pavement like a dead man. When I recovered consciousness I was taken to my hotel. I first thought perhaps some enemy had struck mo, but my physicians assured me that such could not bo the case, and advised strictest quiet. For six long weeks I was unable to lie clown. I was violently ill, ond my physicians said I would probably never walk the streets of Boston again. I did not want to die, but who can expect to live when, all the doctors say he cannot V And Mr Larrabee smiled sarcastically, and expressed himself very freely concerning the number of common disorders which are controlled by remedies which physicians will not employ.

' But how about that paragraph V

' Yes, yes. When I was obliged to sit up in bed day and night for fear of suffocation, and hourly expected death, my nurse begged the privilege of reading that paragraph to me. I refused him at first, but he persisted. It described my condition so exactly, that for the first time I began to realise what had prostrated me ; I was filled with a strange hope. I at once dismissed my physician and immediately began Warner's safe cure. In a few months I was restored to perfect health, notwithstanding mine was one of the worst possible cases of Bright's disease of the kidneys, which all my physicians — and X had the best specialists in Boston — said was incurable. I tell you, when a man gets into the desperate condition I was in, he doesn't forget what rescues him.'

* But wen? the effects permanent?'

'That was five years ago,' said Mr Larrabee, ' and for 30 years I have not been so well as during the past five years. If T had known what Ido now, I would have checked tho matter long ago, for it was in my system for years, revealing itself in my blood, by frequent attacks of chills, jaundice, vertigo, typhoid fever, nervousness, wakeful nights, etc., etc. I took over 40 bottles before I got up and over 150 before I was well. I have commended that treatment in thousands of cases of general debility, kidney and liver disorder, etc, and have never heard ill concerning it. T bank on it.'

'Speaking of paragraphs, how do English papers compare with American in this particular V

'Well, they have fewer witty para-, graphs, but the smaller papers, like tho Pall Mall Gazette, St. .James! Gazette, and Truth, abound in sharp/ incisive paragraphs without wit. In general, American papers make the most of news, the London papers make the most of opinion.'