Show CURED OF CONSUMPTION BY CATCHING YELLOW FEVER Remarkable Story Told by Florida Man lan Who Cites Witnesses to Prove Truth of His Assertions This Is the strange but hut true story of or a man who was cured of ef ca consumption I by catching yellow ellow fe fever said William Basten of et Jacksonville Fla byWay eto of et o Introduction to a coterie of friends s In the Knutsford toda today To nip in the the narrator In Informed Informed informed In- In bud any Incredulity that might manifest t itself formed his au audience that he had the story straight from fram Tom Atkins a Bohemian Bohemian Bohe Bohe- mian law lawyer cr at nt on one time a partner of ot Bob Tob Ingersoll Without further pre nrc- face fac Mr air Baster Basten plunged Into his tale tule Jim Jim Sp Spencer of or Ne New Orleans had a n. very bad case of ef quick consumption The did not net allow him a very long IonS sta stay on en this earth lIe He was a hand handsome ome fellow Torn Tem said sahl about i 55 W or er CO years ears old He was about five Ove feet ten hall had a dark must mustache che good gead teeth and black cur curly hair Some wiseacres who had lived lI for or years In Cuba told toll Jim one day dar that he ho had heard of er consumptives catching yellow fever and If It they pulled through the fever the they came me out with a a. whole pair sair of Ot lungs it was wa heads The Thc drowning or tails with Jim TIm Spencer They sa say a l man will catch at a straw lose he nn and Spencer decided that as he hc had nothing to might t as well take a l chance to win Spencer made the most mast methodical arrangements He hired three nurses and engaged two doctors to examine him every day as man many times a as It might be necessary lIe He deposited d In a bank as the doctors told him that he could not last longer than three months and he hc wanted to have everything c sat sat- tory Well Wc sir do you OU know th that t fellow chow had the hardest time catching the fever He lie actually lived on germs lie He had microbes for fer breakfast bacteria for fer lunch and bacilli for Cor dinner But he did not nol seem to thrive on this diet hiet and he began begano to o think he was wa Immune Eventually E the old saw aw Where theres there's a will theres there's theresa a wa way a asserted Itself Ir Spencer caught cl the yellow V fever fe and he hI got it bad He lIe vent through the siege till the turn of or the black vomit came on This Is ha the thc I critical stage e of the disease It lasts last about four hours The doctors thought It t was all up with Jim Th 3 y about an hour to live H He lie was laid on en cracked ice and covered over O Ith it In fifteen minutes he showed sl signs lR of or Improvement Im pre provement nl and fell into a comatose condition In half halt an nn hour ho lie hoaR was vas over the crisis Well AVell to cut a long story short he survived sur and went vent Into business In Galveston lie He went broke and left leU the he city and that was the last of Ot Spencer for fer fori fora a i long Ions tire time titre until he turned up rich In Now York York |