Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 15 July 1882 — Page 6

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THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

THE HEADSMAN.

HIS GHASTLY DUTIES ON GIBBET AND IN TORTURE-CHAMBER^—RICH REWARDS OF BLOOD-

MONET.

JIov He Jsipped People to Pieces and Flayed Them Alive—Men (Jrxked in Hailing Oil—Regicides Torn

Apart ami Murderers Crucified.

The profession of Public Executioner nowadays, though invested with a sinister interest quite natural to the ghastly xrraft, possesses none of the elements of romance which attached to it up to a «entury or so ago. In France, for in stance, in the olden time, the Executioner of High Justice, as he was called from the fact that only Supremeor Royal Judges bad the power to decree death was a personage whose ways and duties were as fascinating as they wero revolting. In.Spain, from the earliest time the office of executioner was hereditary bylaw. In France the law was created by custom. No one would associate -with the children of the headsman, who could learn no'craft but that of their lathar. 80 rigidly was this rule adhered to that when Charles Sanson died, leaving his eldest son, only seven years old, tlx* child hud to stand beside his adult assistant 011 the scaffold atul sanction "his acts by his presence. When the exe -eutionor had only daughters, the bus hand of the eldest succeeded his father-in-law. It was only by the complete extinction of a family that immunity from the horrible fealty to Death could "be so cured.

THK HBADHMAN'S PKIVILKUK8 AND OA INS.

In the early days in Franco the executioner held his ollice bj' letter patent signed by the King. Ho was only nominated after close inquiry into his person and habits. When the appointment of an executioner was made out the papors were thrown 011 the tablo in the High Chancellor's ortice, and the now headsman pickcd them up. He was then solemnly sworn to his duties. As a rule ho was not allowed to ro-udo in town 01 rity unless he took up his resilience in the house of torture. In certain localities he woro a livery, consisting of a jacket (waring tho arms of the town and a laddor on tho broast, and a gibbet embroiderod on tho hack. In Franco the ex ecutioner of tho 'ity of Paris ranked lirst, for thore was an aristocracy even of the gibbet. Tho headsmen bore the names of tho places they served, being termed in public life and documents Monsieur do Paris, do Khcims, and so on.

Tho office of executioner was endowed with many pecuniary advantages. His chief right was that of haver (from aroir, to have). This consisted of as much corn Mold in the market as he could take with his hands,and had been granted to help him in obtaining provi-ions, which he 1*011 Id not oasily procure otherwise, people declining money from such hands us his. The executioner could employ assistants to collect his tax his right in certain towns was exchanged for a yearly allowance of money.

Many other privileges were attached t* tlm oflico. Hy an order 0' the Chatelot, dated ITxtO, the Kxccutionerof Paris IUM!

a right of taxation on fruit, grapes, nuts, hay, eggs and wool also a toll on tln a tax on barges, a sum for •aeli pAtiont sulVcring from leprosy,a mint on brooius, cftals, oysters, fish, rukns of lOpiphany, water-cress sellers, hu1 o* Atttoy pius. When one of his wrrvuntH captured a pig, he took it to the ll'ttoi (Mou,and either the head or a sum of money was given in return. The executioner hud also a right to a pirt of the apjviroi of the culprits who sutl'ired by hi* hands, at first only clothes below the wnint

were

In the National Convention bv a k**«w issue*! on June 13, divided thai"an exeinitionershould bo attached to each department of the Republic. The salary or executioners was to be paid bv the State. In towns of which the population did not exo:wsl 50 000 inhabitants, the fnalarv was ttxod at 2.400 livres in those numbering from 50 000 to 100,000 nimbitantn, 4,000 livros and, lastlv, tlieemnlnlnents of th« executioner of Paris wero

TUB HKADSMAN'S MTIRS.

Howrever much he made, the old-time **xe«rutiooerearned it. The list of puninhments he has at one time and another been called upon to Inflict cannot be road without a ahtidder. Decapitation h« a pnntahiuent as old as the world. It was the form ofdoath privileged to titled criminal*. Oonm ia malefactors were banged, as were tlm disgraced nobles. Orttciftxion was an ancient and cruei form ot Fre«ch punishment. In 1127. by order of Ixutia the Fat, Rertholde, the). murderer of Charles the Righteous, was ordered crucified. Jew* and heretics were the! marked chief victims of the cnm.

until the victim was torn apart at the joints. Breaking at the wheel was tying the culprit on a wheel, breaking his limbs, ana leaving bim on the wheel until he expired. But it often happened that the judges ordered by a retentuni that he should be strangled before his limbs were broken. The punishment was most frequent in France, and many innocent men suffered by it, among others the nufortunate Galas. The wheel was abolished in 1780. Drowning was meted out to w'itcbes and sorcerers. Philippe Auguste extended it to untitled people who swore, and Charles I. to those guilty of sedition. After the reign of Louis XI. it was abolished.

FLAYING ALIVE

was restored to freely for treason. The Constable of Armagnac was thus put to death when he was captured. Impalement and stoning to death, -were also in vogue in the early days. Under Francis I. the punishment of estrapade, which consisted in letting the culprit fall from such a height as to break his limbs, was invented. Boiling coiners in oil or water was not abolished till 1791. The punishment to la cale consisted in hoisting the victim by a publicy and letting bim suddenly fall.

It is worth noticing that the middle ages provided a supreme] protection against death even at the foot of tbescaffold. The culprit might, if he succeeded in slipping through tho hands of his keepers, seek refuge in a church, and his 1 person was sacred so long as he abided there. The church was very jealous of this privilege of wholly sanctuary. He {could be still more efficiently preserved if a woman consented to marry him, and a belief in the continuance of that form ,of salvation still existing among many of the lower aiders abroad.

There were almost nuifiberless punishments not followed by death. Flagellation in public was not abolished till 1789. The pillory was a post set up in a public place, where the offender was exposed, chained to tho fusillade of the stone-throwing mob. Some pillories were wooden cages, which revolved upon a pivot. Very henious offenders were fastened to the pillory by an iron collar. Bankruptcy, forgery, bigamy, fraud, robbery of fruit, cheatingat cards, blasphemy, and a hundred other incongruous offenses entitled a man to be pilloried. The amende honorable consisted of parading the victim in a cart through the streets, and was frequently tho prelude of severe punishment. In the middle ages a husband who suffered his wife to beat him, was made to ride about the streets on a donkey with his head toward the tail. Cutting the tableloth before whoever had com mi ted an act of cowardice was another usago of tho same kind. This was dono to William of Hainant at the King of France's own tablo, because he had not avenged the murder of his grand Uncle.

I)EOKKDATION AND I1RANDINO.

Degradation was a penalty which al ways preceeded tho ceremony of death. P.y'degredation the culprit wasignominiously (stripped of all earthly honors. Thus when Marshal do Biron was on the scaffold the Chancellor of France deprived him of his insignia of tho order of tho Holy (lliost.

The degradation of a nobleman wna always attended with much solemnity. Thirty knights of provod courage ta'et in council, and summoned to their presence the nobleman charged with felony.

A king or a-herald-at-arms pronounced tho accusation of treason, of broken faith, and if the charge was not met dogredation too place. Two scaffolds were erected in public on one the judges wei'e assembled, surrounded by heralds, and mon-at-arms on the other stood the culprit, fully armed, with his shield stuck in a spike before him. He was then stripped of nil his weapons, beginning with tho helmet his shield was broken in three pieces his spurs broken on a dung-hill tho Jihg-at-arms poured a hasiu of hot water on his head, and priests sang the servieo of the dead. 1'ho judges then clad in mourning, then went to church, whither tho culprit was borne on a litter. After a I)r l*rrfwuli.s he

WHS

given him, but ovcutually ho

ol/aitmd tho whole apparel. In cortnln cities the executioner levied A

tux on women of loose life. The monks of NVmt Martin ^avehim Jive loaves and five liottlcH of wine for every execution on tholr lands Other monkish orgnnimtions paid him a stated yearly sum. Ho als rtveivod a sum of money from tlw» State for each execution. In 17J1 all ilx*«o privileges were abolished, and he nsvived a salary of Hi.000 livres. special feiw for executions outside of tho city, and full expensoallowance. 'Ilir* carpenters was also an important jxtsitiori. Hi* business was to Mistnct, n*f»»lr and koep the seatl.l.l- mid instrumiiit of torture in order. Mis salai •w»s from 10,000 to .VUKH) francs. The \ooutioner'H assistants wen* cither his own servants or apprentices, who were bxl and lx»ardod but not p.ud.

tfiven up to tho yal Judge to

dealt with by High Justice. On some occasions ho was allowed to outlive his infancy, as in tho casoof Captain Frango, a (lascon gentleman, who had treacheruslv surrendered l'ontarobia to the Spaniard". Ho was degraded at Lyons in 1 V25 in the manner described," and afterwards set fie *.

Subsequently degradation was abandoned, because the sentence in itself was understood to imply the stigma. It was resumed in lTM tinder the name of civil degradation. The clause was thus worded "The culprit shall be led to the public place, where sit the tribunal that passed sentence upon him. The Clerk of tho Court shall address him in these words: 'Your country has found you uuiltv of an infamous act the law and the Court strip you of your titie of French citizen.'

In olden times a culprit, no matter what his crime, was branded with a redhot iron with the tlenr de lis 011 leg, arm, bread, breast, cheek, or even forehead. Afterward tho letter V" was branded on the shoulders of thpsespeclally guilty of theft. Criminals sent to the galleys were branded gal., for galero. These marks writs all merged in the general one of the letters T. F., standing for travail «, which were used till branding was tinnlly abolished by the law of April 2S, 18.52.

diminished from.10.000 to 10,000 livres. 1701. when it was decreed that he should paid on the same 1k» taken to execution with his face His »HM»tiinta were *c«le. During the Reign of Terror, how ever, a aporial fee of s.000

A paraside had his fist amputated til!

taken to

francs

were

added to hit* aalary. It was not loo much for what he had to do then. The last reform tn the position of execntioner was enacted in IS4s», when the ?mlary of the executioner of Paris was lowered to .S.000 francs, the executioner of Lvons received 4,000 francs, those of ISonfoax, Rouen and Toulouse 3.0C0 -franc*, and the gang of less important hettdstnen ouch 2 400 francs. It will be #ecn that we are far from the time when M. de Paris collected -V1.000 francs for his right of Antw alone. There exist still, Iwjwover, by a species of judicial sufloranoo, certain privileges of free lodging and the like which eke the French Jack Ketch's income out some JO or St* per cent.

covered with a black cloth. In 1810 amputation was resumed, and continued till lS:t2. Criminal# condemned for murder and arson went to execution in a red shirt.

SAVAOK PKNAI/NKS OF MFTII.ATIO.V. Mutilation was a common form of an cient punishment. There is scarcely a single part of the body that has not been subject to a separate and special torture: the eyes, mouth, tongue, ears, teeth, arms, hands, feet and heart have been so many sources of suffering by lire and iron." Blindness resorted to under the first two races of French Kings, was inflicted by princes upon high personage whose attacks they feared, but whose lives they dared not take. Blindness applied to Bernard, King of Italy, grandson of Charlemagne, and the Parliament of Senlis in 873 order that the rebelious son of Charles the Bald should be deprived of his sight.

A red-hot iron passed before the eyes until, to use Joinvilie's expression, they were cooked: s4eel point which was plunged in the center of the organ the plucking out from the socket—such were the instruments and means resorted to bv justice and revenge, which in barbarous ages were often confounded.

The tongue has at ail times been practiced upon by the law. Louis IX. that blasphemers should be on the brow, that their lips

Burning at should be burned and tjieir tongue

till the seventeenth century. Quarter- Uhment he invented a round-shapped hig was last inflicted on |t**ni«M»«, the iron, which the executioner applied to •woqd-he Kwalti oft/wb XV., in I7*7.1 tti* lips of the culprit after beating It. jt ornMrlstcd in tying the convict by the l/»uis IT., the "father of tbe people," red eight

torn out, and Louis XIV. re-established the law. Among the Huguenots burned alive on January 21, 1635, in the presence of the'King, was a man named Antoine Poile whose tongue was pierced and attached to his cheek with an iron pin. The in diction usually took place before a church.

The amputation of the ear was a common punishment in the middle ages. It was practiced on the serf who displeased his master. Sauval gives the following account of it "The amputation of one ear was inflicted on dishonest servants and cut purses a second offense cost them the other ear death was the penalty of the third offense. When the first larcency was considerable it waa the left ear which was cropped."

The teeth were also within reach of the executioner. It was the wont to pull the teeth of Jews to make them give up their money and Louis XI, alter the death of Jacques d'Armagnac, whom he caused to be skinned alive, ordered that his children should be taken to the Bastilee and have their teeth extracted Amputation of the feet was common as well as the hands. They were simply chopped off with sword or ax, and the stump plunged in boiling oil or cau terized with an iron. These punish ments are frequently inflicted on worn en.

Pouring boiling oil on the feet was a form of torture. Death was caused by pouring boiling oil into the ears, the nostrils and the throat. Molten lead was applied to the same purpose. One executioner received a liberal reward for inventing a crescent-shaped knile, by means of which a criminal's heart might be ripped out so rapidly that he had not time to die under the operation.

Cases were common in which the victim had his lips lopped off one by one and being ripped open and disemboweled before the death-stroke was given

TORTURES OF VARIED FIENDISUNESS.

It would take a volume to enumerate the tortures the devilish ingenuity of man was father to in those ghastly times. The Parliament of Paris applied only two kinds—water and the boot. I11 Brittany the sufferer was tied to an iron chair, and his legs brought by degrees in contact with the tire. At Bosancon, the horse, which consisted of mounting the victim on a log garnished with spikes was in use. Kstrapade prevailed at Or leans. At Rouen, the thumb, lingers and legs were crushed.

The boot was an instrument consisting of four planks pierced with holes, through which ropes were passed to hold them together. Between the two innermost planks the victim's leg was fitted. The executioner then drove wedges between tne outer ones. Ordinary torture included four wedges, but 011 extra occasions eight wedges were used. At any rate, the leg was reduced to a pulp of riven flesh and muscle and splintered bone.

Torture by water consisted in seating the culprit 011 a stone stool, after his sentence had been read to him. His wrists were attached behind his back to two iron rings, distant from each other. All the cords then entwined round his limbs and body wore pulled as much as possible, and'when the body of the sufferer could not be stretched any moron trestle was placed under his back. The questionaire held a horn in one hand, ami with tho othor he poured water in, and obliged the criminal to swallow four pints in question ordinaire and eight pints in qurstion extraordinaire. Death was commonly the result of ttyis torment.

Toituro comprised several graduated torments inflicted upon a prisoner, either to compel him to confess his crime or to obtain tho names of his accomplices. While he was subjected to those sufferings, a Judge, standing close to the tor turer or questionaire. called upon the accused to say the truth, and wrote down his declarations, whence the name of question which was given to this torture. Question was of two sorts, either definite or preliminary. These two categories were subdivided into question ordinaire and extraordinaire. Through the first it was sought to exact from the accused the confession of his guilt through the accused it was endeavored to discover the names of the accomplices who had helped him in the perpetration of his crime. Torment carried to a certain limit constituted question ordinaire: it was doubled in question extraordinaire which, as a rule, was only inflicted upon culprits previously sentenced to death. Yet there are people who regret the "good old times!"

Ex-San:fary Com. Kufus K. Hireman, of New Orleans, was cured of a severe attack ot rheumatism by St. Jacobs Oil, so we see by an item in the Columbus (Oa.) ICoquirer-Sun.

1 'O C'NG 0 VE'.S EA M. Detroit Free Press. They are young married "people, and have just gone to housekeeping, and the neighbors who assemble at their window to witness tho harrowing sight of their parting for tho day declnre that the following is a verbatim account of their conversation "}ood-bye, Charlie, now be careful tho street cars don run off the track with you and—kiss me, Charlie—there was something I wanted to tell you—let me see. Was it hair-pins? No," I got them w-h-a-t could it have been "I'm duo at the office, pet," says Charlie, bracing up ami looking veryhandsome and manly was it something to eat?" "Why. of course it was there isn't a bit of mashed potatoes in the house, nor a mouthful of bread aHd butter. We want half a yard of beefsteak—see and have it cut bias, so it will le tender and a loaf of sweet bread, Charlie* and a strawberry short-cake, dear, and—and an3'thing"else vou think of dear." '•But. my little wife," says Charlie, looking very wise, "these things must all l»e made before we can eat them." "Mnst they? oh, dear, and I never learned to do fancy work! I never crocheted a biscait fit to cat. and I couldn't paint a tomato to stive my life. Oh, Charlie, go to the ready-made stores, do. them's a darling

He did: and they had a picturesque meal of «nd strawberries, with

m™. o, .lobster UOSMT

I AI severe attacks of gravel and kidney troubls" was unable to get any medicine or doctor to cure me until I used Hop Bitters, and they cured me in a short time.—A distinguished Lawyer of Wayne Co..

TAKE

unwtiKi to four honw*. which en*cu* that whoever uttered eight I the use of Lydia E. Piokham's Vegetav Barclay Street, New York. Send for their mere thau driven In different direct ion 4 blasphemies should have his tongue We Compound. cataJofoe and foil particular*.

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of a purgative, for Constipation, Indigestion, Headache and liver Complaint. Bv universal accord, they are tbe best of til purgatives for family use.

TEKRE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL

MATRIMONIAL SUPERSTITIONS.

There is no period in a woman's life that so completely changes her whole existence as marriage, aud for that very reason she is apt to He moresuperstitious and fanciful at that time than at any other and while superstitious are fast becoming a something of the past, there are very few women who will not hesitate before making Friday their wedding day, or will not rejoice at the sunshine, for "happy is the bride that the sun shinesou. June and October have always been held as the most propituous months in the twelve, a happy result being rendered doubly certain "if the ceremoney was timed so as to take place at tbe full moon, or when the sun and moon were in conjunction.

The Romans were very superstitious about marrying in May or February they avoided all celebration days, and the"Calends, Nones, and Ides of every month. The day of the week 011 which the 14th of May fell was considered very urxlucky in many parts of merry old Englan'd, aud in Orkney a bride selects her wedding day so that its evening may have a growing moon and a flowing tide.

In Scotland the last day of the year is thought to be lucky, and if the moon should happen to be full at any time when a wedding takes place, the bride's cup of happiness is expected to be always •full. In Perthshire the couple who h-ive had their banns published at the end of one and are married at the beginning ot another quarter ol a year can expect nothing but ends.

The day of the week is also of great importance,Sunday being a groat favorite in some parts of England and Ireland. And although an English lass would not marry on Friday, the French girl thinks the first Fridav'in the month particularly fortunate. Most of usknow the old saving concerning the weddingday "Monday for wealth,

Tuesday for health, Wednesday is the best day of all, Thursday for crosses,

Friday tor losses,

Saturday no luck at all."

In Yorkshire, when the bride is on the point of crossing her father's threshold, after returning from church, a plate containing a few square pieces of cake is thrown from an upper window of the house by a male relative if the plate is broken "she will be happy, if notsheVill not expect to escape misery.

In Sweden a bride must carry bread in her pocket, and as many pieces of it as she can throw away, just so much trouble does sho cast from her but it is no luck to gather the pieces. But should tho bride loso her slipper, then she will lose old troubles, only in this case the person who picks it up will gain lic'.ies. The Manxmen put salt in their pockets, and the Italians blessed charms.

It is an unhappy omen for a wedding to be put off when the day has been fixed and it is believed much harm will ensue if a bridegroom stands at the junction of cross-roads or beside a closed gato upon his wedding morn. In England it is thought to be a bad sign if the bride fails to shed tears on tho happy day, or if she indulges herself by taking a last glance at the looking-glass after her toilet is completed but she may gratify her vanity without danger if she leaves ono hand ungloved. To look back or go back before gaining the church door, to marry in green, or while there is an open grave iu the church yard, are all unfortunate, and the bride "must be careful to go in at one door and out another.

When the brideuinid.s undress the bride, they must throw away and lose all the pins. Woe to tho bride if a.'ingle no be left about her! Nothing will go right. Woe also to the bridemaids if they keep one of tlieni! for they will not be tunrried before Whitsuntide or till the Easter following at

thesQonest.

If the bridal party venture off dry land, they must go up stream. The bride must, to be luck3', wear •Something old nnd something ireV,'

Something gold and something biuC." If she should sooa strange cat or hear a at sneeze on her wedding day, then she will be very happy and if on her wedding morning she Kteps from her bed on tosoinething higher, and again onto something higher still, she will from that moment rise in the world. For this purpose a tablo is placed beside the bod, md if it can stund near the dresser or something higher than it, then she must step from the table to that which is higher. But woe botide her should sho fall!

In leaving the house and church, she must be very careful to put her right foot forward, and on no account allow inv one to speak to her husband until she has called him by name.

To break the wedding ring is an omen that the wearer will soon boa widow but. "A'» your wedding ring wears, wll wear awuy your aires."

AN EA 111. UREA KFAST. In these days of wide-spread malaria is wise to adopt any precautions that are likely to mitigate the evil,or pre%*ent it from attacking us. It wns a principle of Dr. W. W. Hall in his most sensi)le works on health that the stomach should be set to work as soon as possible afterone arose, that this greatly lessened the liabilities to take In malarious diseases. How many hours tho busy housewife often toils Ix)fore she sits down to breakfast. How weary and faint she often becomes before sho is ready to eat. These things ought not to be. "When the (ire is ablaze, and the breakfast for others is on, she should prepare her own cup of coffee and a bit of anything appetizing she has in tho house, and sit down composedly fora few moments and eat it. No dainty she has the house is too good for mother, no cup of jelly, or new-laid egg in the winter is an extravagance 'or her. If she rises early, as most housewives do, she can take her little meal in quiet, undisturbed. No matter if it is a solitary meal,

.-vraw.«rn«, w,

has written to his mother to come and make them a long visit, they are so delightfully situated tbev cau make it pleasant for ber now, be says.

it does her good. Ity and by she can Hit down ith the rest, and sip her cup of coffee and wait on the children with a new vigor and patience, which is good both for them and for her. The smallest things that make for one's home peace and bodily health are of reallv great importance, and the early breakfast is not one of theleast of these. Trv the experi-

PKOJ*LK

subject to loss of rest use Lie-

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A Happy Wife.

"Mv dear husband. I never slept so soundly as I do now, after using the German Hop Bitters." (2m

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THE IMPENDING FATE.

AS INTERESTING CHAPTER FROM THE LIFE OF A PROMINENT BOSTONIAN.

Boston Globe.

The readers of this paper were more or less amazed at a most remarkable statement from ono of our leading citizens which appeared in yesterday's issue. So unusual were tbe circumstances connected with it, and so much comment did it occasion on the street and in social circles, thata representative of this paper was commissioned to investigate its details and verify its facts. The article referred to was a statement made by Mr. B. F. Larrabeo, of tho New' York and Boston Dispatch Express company, whose office is on Arch street. Mr. Larrabee was found by tho newspaper inau in his private office, and on being ques tion said: "Well, sir, logically I have been dead, but really I am as 3*011 see me. A little overa \*ear ago I 'was taken sick. My trouble was not severe at tirst aud thought it was the result of a slight cold Somehow I felt unaccountably tired at times although I took an abundance of sleep. Then, again, I had dull and strange pains in various parts of my bod3*. My appetite was good one daj* and I had none whatever the next and 1113* head pained tne more or less much of tho time. A while afterward I noticed much that was peculiar about the Huids I was passing and that a sediment, scum and a strange accumulation appeared in it. Still I did not realize that these things meant an3*thing sorious and I allowed the illness "to run along until on the 28th day of October 1 fell prostrate while walking along Tremont streot. I was carried home aud did not go out of the house until the middle of December. I then went down town and attempted to attend to my business until the i:Uh of last January, when 1 was taken with a very severe relapse. Mv symptoms were terrible. I was fearfulh* bloated. 1 suffered severe pains in all parts of mv body and it was almost impossible to get my breath. For six days I never laid down and neverslept. I was constantly attended by my regular physician. Doctor Johnson, and Doctor Bowd itch also came to see me near 13* every day. Tlu-re was 110 doubt that I was suffering from Bright's disease of the kidnc3's in its worst form and last stages, accompanied by other troubles in 1113' liver and heart. In spite, however, of tho skill of thft ph3*sicians. I kept growing worse and finally they tapped mv side in the vicinity of the heart, taking away forty-six ounces of water. This relieved mo for the time, but I soon became as bad as before. Then the doctor gave me up entirely. declared I could »ot live more than twenty-four hours and my daughter, who was residing in Paris, was telegraphed for. Still I lingered along for several weeks, far nioredoad than alive, but never giving up hope.

One night—it was on the 20th of April I veiy' well remember—my attendant, who "was roading the paper to 1110, began an article which described my disease and sullerings exactly. It told how some severe cases of Height's disease had been cured, and so clearly and sensibly did it state tho case, that I determined to tiy the means of cure which it dcM-iihcd. So I sent my man to the drug store, procured a bott le of tho medicine, unknown to my pl^ysieians and friends, and took the first doso at ton o'clock. At that time I was suffering intensely. I could not sleep: I had short breaths and could scarcely got any air into mv lungs. 1 was terribly bloated from head to foot, and the motion of my heart was irregular and painful. The next morning I was able to breathe freelv the pain began to ioavo me and the bloating decreased. I continued to take the medicine, and to-day, sir, I am as well as I ever was in mv lifo, and wholly owing to tho wonderful, almost miraculous power ol Winners Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. I do not know what this medicine is made of, or anything else alnnit it, but I know that it saved my life when I was given up by the doctors, and had really been dead for weeks that, it has kept me in perfect health ever since and has cured many of my friends to whom I have recommended if. Then' area number of veiy remarkable crises in Lynn and Salem, as well as in this city, that it has cured. My recovery is so remarkable that it hasexcitod much attention, nnd physicians as well as others have investigated it thoroughly. 1 am glad they have, for I feel that the results of such a wonderful cure should be known to the thou^nnds in all parts of the land who are suffering from troubles of the kidneys, liver or heart, in someof their many Vlangerqus forms."

Tho representative of thepro*sthanked Mr. Lwaliee

his very

frank

his

not lbe

better forit^nd if you Jin not do more work with better cheer on the strength

of that food than on a later meal taken when you feel worn down with tbe morning's work.

many

posed to

his sicknesn.

Messrs. Brugh A Carter are the propiietors.r.nd I asked them about Mr. Larra bee's case. Mr. Brugh pointed to the electric annunciator awl said: 'Why, for weeks and weeks every time that bell rang I said: "That means the death of Mr. Iarrabee." No one around the hotel ever dreamed that he would recover, and when the doctopi would come down from

room they would shake their

heads and say there was no hope. Tho arrangements for the funeral were made, and his recovery was simply a miracle.''

I then called on Dr. Johnson, wbosaid that Mr. Larrabee's case was a very remarkable one. Ho was bis family physician, and expected hisdeath every hour for a number of weeks, and never called toseo bim during tbat time but be was prepared for it. Tbe doctor said the recovery was due to Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and if be_ bad friends, male or female, troubled with Albumen or any kidney troubles he shoukl certainly advise them to nse this remedy. Dr. Jobnsen said kidney difficulties are more common than most people think, and that

symptoms which are sup

other diseases arise from the

kidneys. He said tbat ladies, after gestation, are specially subject to albuminous troubles wnich require prompt attention.

Well, I then came down and called .»n Dr. H. Ingersoll Bowditcb on Boyistoi. street. Tbe old doctor was inclined to be

reticent tout f°Hy confirmed all I hwl

learned, lie had attended Mr. Larrabee.

and supposed him beyond all hope, and

I by Warner's Safe Kidney and Cure. I next went to see Dr. Melville

Webb, at tho Hotel CIU113', for vou si was determined to be thorough int matter. I found Dr. Webb a mostel headed and well-informed gen'lom.t and he said: "I know of Mr. Larrabee's c.i«e fro having thoroughly investigated it medical director »f a Lifo Insurai companj-, and it is one of the most markable*cases I have ever met. Larrabee had all the manifestations complication of diseases, and in tl worst forms. He had albumen aud ca in the urine, ami a terribh* diseased liv and spleen. Indeed, he was so bad tn he threw himself upon the tloor, iu with his head upon a hassock, strug* for breath. It was on the night he was so bad aud when all hi.s med advisers had long given him up that began using Warner's Safe Kidney a' Liver Cure. Tho next morning at o'clock he was able to breathe reel 3% hi has been ever since. I subjected film the most thorough examination possi: after his recovery, and 'I inn tind 0 about him.' His kidneys, liver, lun and heart are perfect^ well and soun 1 can only add that from what I Inn seen, I would unhesitatingly rocvt mend this remeiU*."

Tho conclusions from the statemeu above made, which come to tbe new paper man as well as the general publi must be two-fold. First that a iiioder miracle of healing has been perfori%» in our midst, and that, too, by t. simplest means and ono which is withi the reach of every one. It should 1 remembered that Blight's disease is usually a sudden complaint. Its legii nings*are slight land its growth sl The symptoms by which it may detected aro different with di!V6rr persons, no two people usually havir the same. This fact was manifest in case of Mr. Larrabee, aud he had uoiili of the terrible complaint which had a tacked him until it became fixed up him. Secondly, testimonials of su high character, and so out-spoken tone, conclusively prove the value of tl remedy and its superior nature to tl proprietary articles with which the pu lichavolxHMi flooded. "The greater ii eludes tho less," and tho remedy whic has been proven so valuable and lit saved a life after if was brought dow to death's door, must unquestionably certain in all minor troubles which at so disastrous unless taken in time.

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statement, and was about to leave the otlice when a gentleman stepped up to him and inquired if he were seeking information about.Mr. Larrabee's sickness and recovery. Tho scribe replied that he was, whereupon the gentleman said: "And so am I, and I nave come all tho wav from Chicago for that very purpose. Kidney troubles soem to be alarmingly increasing all over tho country, and I have a very neawelative who isafllicted much as Mr. Larrabeo was. I have leen to see the physicians of whom Mr. l^arrabee speaks, and I tell you, sir, it issimplv wonderful." "•'What did they say?" asked the man of nows. "Say! why, sir, they fully confirm everything Mr. I^rrabee has stated. I went to see Dr. I». A. Johnson, at-0 Worcester street. Ho was absent when I called, and so stepped into the Commonwealth hotel, where Mr. T^irralx-e was living at the time of

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