NATURE -SLOWLY MAKES READY.

Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2280, 11 November 1897, Page 8

NATURE -SLOWLY MAKES READY.

You have probably never seen a volcano in eruption. Ib is a magnificent spectacle. Where do all those torrents of red-hot lava come from ? Nobody can tell, exoept that they come front somewhere down deep ia tha earth. But one thing we kaow— namely, that eruptions of any one volcano are -far apart. Between whiles Nat uro is getting ready for them ; she is preparing for the tremendous demonstration. '

Just so it is with all her processes. la the cold of winter she is arranging the forces which are to make the heat; and the harvests of the following Bummer, and bo on.

From May, 1890, to February, 1892, ia * period of 21 mouths. The two dates will long remain cPear in the micd of Mrs Martha Bowles, ""of' 182 Llangyfelaeh road, Morriston, neae Swansea. For Ihe' first was the beginning and the second the euding of an experience which was bad enough in itself, jet only the introduction to something vastly worse. It was like the time of getting ready for a great trouble to come.

Her first sense of this was indefinite and vague, like the low mubberiog of thunder below the horizon while the skies are yet clear. She expresses it thu», iv the very words most of us use on similar occaslous, " I felb that something was wrong with me— something hanging over me." *

Ah ! dear me. How often we think such feelings are a warning sent to the spirit, when ■ in fact they are caused entirely by the condition of our bodies. She felt heavy, languid,' and tired, and mentally depressed. This was nob only melancholy to her, bub new, as she had always been strong and healthy. Then came the discomforts which there could be no mistake aboufc. They ace .common enough to be &ut?o. Oh, yes But isn't that all the more a reason why we should understand what they in "an ? •• Cc-rt\inly," you will cay. Wei), then, there was that bad, offensive taste in the mouth that so many of us have had ; the failure of the appetite, and the pain ia the cb> st and sidt s altar eating. The worst pain was in the right side, where it was very 1 heavy. That pointed to the liver, which is located on that side ; and when anything ails, the liver it is its though the big water-wheel of * , mill had got fixed so as nob to turn round. For tbe liver does half a dozen kinds of work, and when it strikes work tho rest of the organs take , a sorb of rainy holiday. Presently her ekiu and the white of her eyes turned yellp-v as autumn leaves., That meant; bile in \the blood ; the" 1 liver „waß off- itsdatyttbab is a~Bure Mgu. The -kidney secretion', was the colour of blood instead of a clear amber, which meant th&b the trouble had already reached .those important organs. 'Then : the ■ stomach was upset' and refused (o take kind] jr to food^i-As (hough the miller sent your grain back, declining to grind it. She vomited a> sour, bitter fluid, which was acid bile, avtay, out of its proper track. On and on along this line, constantly getting farther and farther from the happy laud of health, thia was the history of those 21 mon'hs— all bad enough, yot all pre- ' para';ovy for worse ones. "Ooe day in February, 1892," she s&ys ia her letter of August 18, 1893, •• I began to have, dreadful pain and cramp. Ib beg&n in the right side, and extended access the sbomach. Foehours together I was in the greatest agony. , What I suffered is past description. When the* pain eased a little I was cold as death, and shivered uatil the bed shook uuder me. Ihadf hot iron plates applied to my feet, and held hob irons in my hands but nothing g*ve me much relief. My stomach was to irritable that 1 could keep no food on it. I was cow co&fiaecl i to my bed, and the doctor attending me Baid I [ waR p&ssing gall stouss. He wanted me to go I to Swacsea. Hospital and ba operated upon, but I was afraid I might not live through it. " I next had two other' doctors at Morrißton and also three from Swansea, who all gave me medicines, and ea : d nothing more could be done for me. For six months I loy in bed undergoing i tha greatest agony ; ntvec free from pain moi c than two or tbre-> hones at a time. During tke whole of this lime I was fed on nothing but milk and water. I had ecarcely any ltte op strenebh left in me. All who saw me said I never tcould .by any chance get better in this world. . "I lingered oq like tbie until Augu&t 189Z,. , when nay daughtrr brought me a book telling ot Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. In this bookshe read of a case like mine baviog been cured^ by this medicine. My husband gut.a bottle fromf Me ifeVAU, the chemisb, and after taking a few dows * felt a little relief. "I kept on with ib,, and soon the pains left me, my appetite returned, ar.d my food ngceed with me. After taking the Syrup for three months I was a new creature and stroDg as ever. I can now eafc anything, and nothing disagrees with me. Aftec I was well, our minister one day said : 'Mrs Bowles, I never thought to see you alive.' I said: 'Mother Seigel's Syrup saved my life.' You may publish my case, and I will gladly answer inquiries. — (Signed) Martha Bowles." Thia case — one of acute indigestion and dyspepsia, with liver and kidney compUinta — is. well known in the district. The lady's husband is a gardener, well known and respected. Do we need, to point out the mwal of this, wonderful cure ? No. You can see ib for yourself.

A Native company of mounted rifles Is beingformed at Masterfcon by Taiwhio Te Tau, one of the Native contingent. The police have come to the conclusion that the supposed drowning of a boy named Morris, at Auckland wharf is a hoax, and have ceased dragging for the body. None' of the boy's relaMods ha^a called at the police station, and,th« police have been unable to find them. Tha. boy who started the story has gone away north. . . _ San Francisco papers contain particulars ot the sensational death of BJrs ' Mary Ana Calvert, who had a number of friends in,Aucklfcnd, some of her huaband's family residing^ there. She lit a fire with a.piece of paper partly saturated with coal oil, which caused an expla» sion and seb Mrs Culvert's clothing on fire. Aisistance was soon rendered by neighbours, but before the fl»mes were extinguished the un« fortunate woman had sustained fatal iDJufiej, and she died at the hospital. Ths body was one mass of burns. Deceased was married ia. San Francisco about five years previously. She was 36 yeirs of age and a native of Wiltshire*. England.