The Warner Weekly Sun

Cancer Like Grant's Is Fatal.

Gustave De Paetz, a German actor, died in New York, recently of a cancer at the root of the tongue similar to that which afflicts General Grant. "There was a marked similarity in the two cases," said the physician, "even to the apparent partial recovery of the actor. He was first taken sick about a year ago, with a feeling, or irritation, as though a fly had lodged in his throat. He gradually grew weak, and had every symptom which the physicians of General Grant say he had. He sank rapidly, and three months ago I thought he could not live 48 hours. He rallied, however, and in a fortnight he could walk. It was necessary then for me to see him only once a week. His strength was kept up on the yolks of raw eggs beaten. He took also small quantities of wine and beer.

"He took the greatest interest in General Grant's sickness, and on awaking every morning he wanted his morning newspaper brought to him, that he might learn how his disease was progressing. When General Grant was recovering from his severe attack, M. De Paetz was sinking.

"'Ah,' he said, 'General Grant cannot get well; I know he can't, if I can't.'

Hemorrhages from the throat gradually weakened him. He remained for days in a dying condition, and finally died of exhaustion.