FOUR ROUES TOO LATE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 30, 3 February 1894, Page 2

FOUR ROUES TOO LATE.

11 Oh, God ! if I could recall the past three or four hoars. See what trouble a man may bring upon-himself all in a moment." Mr James C'urbia and- Mr C. S. Bennefcb, both of San Francisco, had been intimate, friends for years. Lasb summer they quarrelled for the firab time, each accusing the other of wrong. Better thoughts prevailed and they were reconciled. Bub you can't undo what is once done. Memory kepb the record on hor slate. They avoided each other aa much as possible. Still, living as naighbourß, men must meet some time. Those two met in tho street. The quarrel was renewed. Bitter words flew fast and thick, and Curtis, beside himself with rage, drew his pistol, and shot Bennett dead on the spot. Later in tho day he used the above language—sbladen with self-reproach and sorrow. Yet how useless, how hopeloaa, how vain. Bub wa3 Curtis right in- saying that trouble may cornd all in a taoment ? True, ib often seems bo, but is there nob a deeper fact which we don't see? 16 matters nothing what the nature of the trouble is. Therefore let us consider a different case on the same principle. An intelligent woman says :—" In October, 1890, I had an attack of illness from which I never expected to recover. I had aching paiiis all over me, and a cough thab nearly shook me to pieces. I obtained no good sleep night or day, and had to take to my bed. I was fed with liquid food from an invalid's cup, for I could not raise myself in bed. My heart fluttered so you could hear ib beat on the pillow, and often pains etruck through ib as though somebody had stabbed me. I lay perfectly helpless and could scarcely breathe. A doctor attended me over a month; bub I grew weaker and weaker. Sometimes at night I was so bad he feared I would nob live till morning. He called in a consulting physician, and both agreed thab my condition was critical. I was fed with brandy to keep me alive. My husband and daughter stayed with hie almost constantly. None of the medicines administered had any effect. I was almost ab ', .'uth's door. ... ; "Ab this time Mrs Keeling, of Mubley,, near Plymouth, a friend of mine, v ged me to try a medicine called Mother Seigbl'a Curative Syrup. I procured a bottle* and after a iew days I was able to take and digest sufficient food to give mo some strength, and the wdrsb, symptoms were greatly abated. After having usod six bobbles jof the Syrup, my health was.completely restored, and I have since felt better than for the previous t.hirtrj years. My two daughters have also been cured of indigestion by it. I will gladly answer: any j enquiries." I (Signed) Mrs Loutee Jackson, Builders' Arms Hotel, Bridge Road, Hammersmith, London, January 14th, 1892. In the letter from which the above is an extract, Mrs Jackson further says that for j over twenty years before the attack of Odbobor, 1890, she had suffered from a disordered stomach and liver. She had a bad taste in the mouth, a poor appetite, and whob little she ate" gave her pain. She felt dull, languid, and tired, arid had & miserable sinking feeling in the stbmnch, great < pain in the chest arid sides, palpitation, j giddiness, and frequently fell in the street j and had to be assisted home. So we perceive thab in her case a cause, long in operation, at lasb produced the crisis which came near ending her life. Ib is always thus, whether wo recognise the causa or nob. The crime committed by Curtis was the* sudden passionate act of a | man who allowed thoughts, of hate and vengeance to take possession of his mind and breed the condition which modo mut- I der possible. In tho very difierenb case of j this lady's illness ib was an enemy, of her \. body, indigestion^and dyspepsia, which tit ! length broke out into violence. i The lesson is the B.4me. Watch the be-I ginning of evil, and check ib while yet it way be easily controlled.