HE DID NOT GO TO AUSTRALIA.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3624, 15 November 1897, Page 2

HE DID NOT GO TO AUSTRALIA.

Nothing is easier than to recommend a man to go to Australia. A doran words or bo -out of your mouth an* you hare done it. But for him to aot m your advice -thatis a grey hone of another colour You s*,, A u«rali« i Half- way round th 8 world; and topuU up stakes here aud go there-fcJL interest* and .all -is a j ob no ffit Jj takes in hand save for the strong,* iort <i reasons. 8 Yet that is what Mr. Emrya Morgan Price, grooer and tea merchant of Trehaford IW, Haford, 8 Walef was adviaed to do by a doctor al Jiertbyr. No «r, we don'r, say bat that the result, if Mr Price had g Oae , woa ,J have proved the dootor's judgment to be_ sound; but as it happToed Mr Pri"e came out all rigbt io the end br just staying at home. ' The faots are briefly the«- f» August, 1881. the ou<tomar 7 Ao£ oompetitioa took place at Aberg^oao? acd Mr. Prwe attended. la some wi» —he fails to state how, ani it doesn't matter— he took cold and had a ohil! When he arrived home at Dowlaw ha ,-.ould scarcely breathe. To draw hi, lungs full of air was quite impo^ible. 1q fact he felt ai if he were suffocw. lug. Of course, there was no more thought of singing; the qunation wu one of getting breath enou,ra to li»e on ?\. at , onoß , Wed tha ' good' old.' fashioned remedy, musUrd plaster, puttiog them on his cheat and perhaiS v?^ 8 b m. k the shouMeS blades. They relieved him forth" time, as we might oxpeot Bat mustered pla-ters do one thing-no more. They dra tt some blood from the inflamed parta to thn surface; tbatV all. When they have set up a bit of mild oouutor-irritatiou they are donethey doa't get down to deep causes! And here there was a deep cause We will point it out presently. There was a constant whistling noise in his throat, he saya. You hear it in children when they h*ve oroup It means that the air passages are contracted and the bieath has to paw violently through a small orifice. DiaT euge has often strangled people to death that way. "Next," he say*, «» violent cough set in. I oomrhed M d 8p m " P tniok phlegm ni^ht and dar. This me -tnt more and worse inflammition, and shows us the spectacle of Nature trying to get rid of the product —the ptuegm or mucus. But to oou/rh night and day ! Think of it. Whw be. comes of a man's appetite and sleep P You can imagine. No wonder tee dootorat Jtferthyr w«* anxious *ad suggested a change of air. Still, Mr. Price, ac we have sud, nroamed at home and consulted other physiciaus, one at Dowlaisand one at flafod. All the doctors agreed that their pifcient was suffering from acutebronchitis, and very properly treated him for that, Yet somehow tbeir medioinea failed to effjot any ieil and r.iical good. That they were tern* porally helpful we may not doubt. But, you see. brooohitU, once seated, is an obasinate and progressive ailmunt. It has a tendtjney to take np new groind nnd to get down on tho lv.,g 8 , the reason being that tbe lining, of the air passages aDd of the lungs in all one thiug. So an affection ot any part of it. if not cured,, spreads like fire in dry grass. "Aa time went on," «ay« Mr. Price "I got weaker an) weaker and roy breathing became distrtwsiug to hear. Ail my friends thought I was in a oon« and as a eister of mine had died of that complaint, 1 naturally felt *Uraed. Indeed, on 3 night iv July, 1885, I was »o bad that my wife thought I was dying/ Happily the lady was mistaken, yei death sometimes com** with fearful suddenness in ttmt complunt, and her fe»r was very reasonable. At that time, please remember, our good friend had suffered about four years, and wal i«i a mate of low vitality. Ibe whole body was feeble and exhausred. and there would hava been n . thiug furprising in a fatal termination. But ft better result was in store, as we shall now see. Mr. Price's letter, dated August 16th, 1893, concludes in these words : "Batter and worse I continued in the power of this malady year afcer year, and hid given all hopes of ever getting batter. In Ftbruary, 18S7, after having <rodured it b\ years I read of a person at Pantyf>ool havinx b»n cured of the same thing by Mother Seigel's Curative Byrup. I got a supply of it, and inafewdayslfslt relief. I kept on with it and gradually improved. /• tix twmtht themtgh had left tne mil wot a well man. Since then I have br«a sound as a bell. II you like you m»f publish my statement aad I wUI gUJIy answer any inqoiriw, (a%ned) Smn Morgan PHoe, *

uTHSIijIAItONI) ROBBERY iyr , uovv- IV. WAS raiPETIIATEI). O* 1 of tlie cleverest jewel ToboVri^ tliat ever took place in America was that of the EatcherW"ikon Company, jewellers, New York <)ne afternoon in December the cashier asked all tho -' clerks to stay and work an hour lonWr than' usual at night. The office, as a rule, closed at 6 o'clock, but the boys agreed. About 6.50 o'clock the cashier opened the window 'to get a breath of air,' he said- A moments later one of the clerks, who was washing him, suddenly saw him spring over the •tfindow" ledge and disappear in the darknes?. All of them rushed to the window, but so dark was it below that nothing could be distinguished. Hastily calling one of their number to watch the place, they ran for the elevator, and shot down to reach the sidewalk just as a policeman rushed up and took charge of the prostrate body lying there. Life was extinct, and it was sent to the At the inquest next day all or the clerks identified the mangled remains as those of the cashier, because of the clothes,, an emerald pin, and a peculiar ring on the finger. His relatives were abroad, and the family attorney had him buried in his father's lot. No more was thought of it until the firm discovered that diamonds to the value of £8,000 were missing. The cashier waa the only one who had access to the vaults where these were kept. He was dead, they said, but he might have sold them to someone from whom they might recover them. Therefore a detective waa hired. The detective made reports about one 0 a week for six months. One day he walked in, and told - Batche/he knew where the gems ■ffere, but could not recover them. He said the cashier was not dead, hut had skipped with the stones and taken passage from South America on the Pacific liner La Eepublica, which had been lost at sea. When asked for evidence he produced the janitor of the building who told his story. It seems the cashier went to him, promised money and secrecy, and then told his plans. He (the cashier) was to bring a bundle to the building, and at a given signal the janitor, having taken it to the roof, was to drop it. That was his part of the agreement, and for it he was to receive £40. The " bundle arrived. It was wrapped in carpet, and the janitor, on undoing it. according to instructions, was horrified to find it was a corpse. He hastened to the : cashier, who quieted him with more rnonoy, and told him to follow instructions. At (i o'clock that night the janitor was on the roof. After waiting nearly an hour he saw a match ilash in the darkness several storeys bolow him. It was the signal He threw the bundle over, thon leanod across the ledge and watched. He saw a figure climb out on the cornice which ran round the building at every storey, crawl along on it to the fire escape and clamber down into the darkness. When he came down from the roof he heard of the ' accident ' for the first time, and said nothing until bribed by the detective to tell his story. Slowly the detective traced the case from the places where the cashier had had duplicate jewellery made and bought a suit of clothes like those he wore when he disappeared from the window to 'Frisco, where he took passage. And now, I suppose, thosediamonds are lying at the bottom of the Pacific.