HOW DID THEY COME TO DO IT?

Otago Witness, Issue 2069, 19 October 1893, Page 40

HOW DID THEY COME TO DO IT?

Only to think that any man — in the daybime, wibh his eyes open, not being crazy and not wanting f o commit suicide — should walk straight into a canal or a river ! Only to think of that, I say ! Yet a good many did i*; iv and around London in Christmas week 1891. The elense fog it was, of course, bhat maele them. People could hardly see 6ft ahead of their noses ; maybe ltss at times and in some spots. For you uudorsfcanel bhe difference between mere darkness and a fog. Iv the dark, no matter how black ifc is, you can always see the lights if there are any. Bub a fog ! A fog is to have your eyes put out ; ib is — b'iucluess. As for shipwrecks and other calamities due to fogs — why, there's no end to them. The London papers haye wondered why somebody hasn't invented a way bo scatter fogs. Ah, yes, why ?

Here's a woman's story about a fog — one of those thick mists that hang over most of in 12 months in the year. She gays bhab from April to September 1889, she was too ill to have any pleasure or comfort. Thiß wag a bhing to notice, inasmuch as her disposition was naturally cheerful and lively. The trouble, whatever you call it, came on her gradually, much as a fog rises. At firsb she simply felb languid. Very little exertion made her tired. Her breath came to be very shorb, too, and she often felt faint. She couldn't eat ; that is, nob with any relish, and her sleep was broken up into naps and snatches instead of being solid and straight away, as good sleep always is. Her spirits were dull and depressed. To be sure. How else could they hi?

She had great pain in the region of the heart, which frightened her, as it would you, for the hearb is a vibal organ and we are properly scared when there's anything ailing ib. Every morsel she ate disbressed her. Even the swallowing of a mouthful of water was a painful matter. For several weeks she went on in this fashion. She kept on with her work in the house aud shop (a bakery), but it was as much as ever. Simple medicines, such as we all know of — ■ these she tried, bub no good came of ib. So she next consulted the family doctor, a man who has a large practice and is considered very clever. He examined her carefully and then said, " JlTrs Plowriyht, you are svffuriny from congestion of the liicr, heart disease, and debility ."

This was a statement fib to make the poor woman give up in despair. Indeed, it nearly did. But the doctor was, right ; that is, irom his point of view. He treated the patient for some time. For a short space, occasionally, he relieved her ; then she was bad as ever. " Once in a while," she says, " my heart almost stopped beatiDg, and I looked and felt like a djiug person " This, she was told, was the iucurable complaint called angina pectoris ; but it wasn't, nor anything like ib. Still ifc was serious and dangerous.

Her letter ends in these words : " I had read in a book about Mot her Seigel's Curative Syrup, and my husband had taken some of it and thought highly of it. But I had not much faith in it. I began by taking 15 drops, bub as this had no effect I took 30 drops and followed tbe directions. This dobc suited me, and after having used up ihe bottle I felt better. I could, eat and dige-,t food, the pain in my chest anel side gradually went away, and after taking two bottles more I was well, and have been well ever since."

(Signed) Mrs Prowßinirr, wife of Mr William Plowright, of the Lincolnshire Bakery, 23 Cheetham street, North street, Cheobbarti, Manchester.

What aro we to think of this case ? We are to thiukthat this lady's " h( art disease" was what is calK.d " functional," not ''organic dhca.se. In plain English, the hemt'.s action was disturbed by tho blood poison created by indigestion and dyspepsia — her real and only malady. The liver trouble cind debility were pirts of the same puzzle. Aud to was the asthma.

Now, what is the worst fog that ever darkened EDglaiT"! ? l*i is the fog which kef p?doctors and people from seeing that riCcirly all the complaints they suffer from are nothing more or less fchau symptoms of indigestion and dyspepsia, aud curable by the remedy mentioned by Mrs Plowright. Bii reason of thibfoij folks walk straight into open (/rates — every day.

— While ih a , 'spoon is an insigrißcint article to look at, it has probably cainod more stir in the world than any o"her one thing.

— The old adage " a pint's a pound the world around," is ao untrue a? {jur'-r^l sayings aro upt to ho Ayitjt of cc mmou coffee weighs 12( • ; a i<iafc of flour, i'O ; pi^t of boown siijur, 13oz ; pipi- rf gi. n-iLv.cc 1 .. Hoz ; pint of chopped uioat] 10 ■/ la >i.i fv c <k>e;s a pin!-, of. anything exactly equal <•. roincl.

— One of tho w\ys to r<\u\i a good old a' p c would suem to b« to joiu the afiny. Thorn are Til pavi'ht ou ILo retired list fully half a dozen mor.ai;i}ii..riiuis. It carries the mind far b-u-U \o read that Coloiu-1 Povatz fought with the 30th Vool in the Peninsula 78 years a^o, th.ifc General Sir William Oavaye entered the sc-%-ice 75yeats ago, am! that Gonerr.l Thcopbilus Love ib only a year ox two fens junior.