WHAT STRUCK HIM.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2065, 28 June 1890, Page 1

WHAT STRUCK HIM.

[Boston Heralc.] " How aro Americans liked in England!" And Mr B. F. Larrabee, of 42 Cheaper Square, ex director of the *' New York and Boston D<ispUch Kxpress Company," who has recen'ly returned from a considerable residence in London, answered: "If they have good recomendatioijs and behave themselves.they are well treated, but they will like the English people, any way, when acquaintance ripens into confidence." " How do the Englisd compare with Americans 1" " The finest looking men in the world can be seen on pleasant days of the London season promenading Piccadilly. The Engl sh ladies, honever.are neither so neit in appearance nor so graceful of form and movement as the Americans, but they sef'tn to enjoy more robust health."

" Are English people linger lived than our people ! "

' l I don't know. I have not fully investigated. But I remember once hearing read a ne«s paper pharagraph entitled, ' Why do Englishmen live longer than Americans !' That paragraph by the way, once solved a greit mystery for ma." " Ah, indeed, another attribute to the power of the Press ?" suggested the reporter.

" Yes, if yon so please to call it. In 1879, when I was residing at the Commonwealth Hotel, in this City. I had occasion to do some busimss in Washington-street. When I got to the corner of Franklin, I seetned to feel a blow in the breast and fell to the pavement like a dead man. vVheu I recovered consciousness I was taken to my hotel. 1 first thought perhaps some eneoay had struck ni6, but my physicians assured me that such could not be the case, ar.d advised strictest quiet. For six long weeks I was unable to lie down. I was violently ill, and my physicians said 1 would probably never walk the streets of Boston again. I did not want to die, but who can expect to live when all doctors say ha cannot. And Mr Lirrabee 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 ! " "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, ft described my position so exactly that for the first time 1 began to realise what had prostrated me, I was filled wnh a strange hope. lat 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 1 had the best specialists in Boston,— said was incurable. I tell you, when a man gets into the desperate condition T was in he doesn't forget what rescues him."

"But were the effects permanent! " "That was five years ago," said Mr Larrabee, " and for thirty years I have not been so well as during the past five years. If 1 had known what Ido now, I would have checked the matter long ago, for it was in my system for years" revealing itself in my blood, by frequent attack? of chill*, jaundice, vertigo, typhoid fever, nervousness, wakeful nights, etc , etc. I took over forty bottle* before I got up and over one hundred and fifty before I was well. 1 have oommended that treatment in thousands of cases of general debility, kidney and liver disorder, etc., and have never heard ill concening it! I bank on it." "Speaking of paragraphs, how do .English papers compare with American in this particular f '' " Well, they have- fewer witty paragraphs, but the amalW papers like the Pall Mall Gsaatte, St James Gazette, and Truth, abound in sharp, incisive paragraphs without wit. In general, American papers make the moat of pe.ws, the London papers nuke, the most of opinion.