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Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1457, 9 June 1902, Page 4

AS OLD AS fcUEEN VICTORIA There is a great cumber of people living in this country who were born iv the same year a-j (Jueen Victoria. Those who entered the world so long ago at at 1819 and are atill with us hale nnd hearty are undoubtedly in tho running to become centenarians. A notable example of this very smill band h Mrs Elizabeth Fuller, of No 44, Ryder Street, Surey Hills, Sydney. Ibis venerable old lady was born in England and came to Australia with ber husband before she had attained her eighteenth year, loDg previons to the great gold rush. She has, therefore, already reached tho fall ace attained by Wellington, Goethe, Victor Hugo, Bismark. and Tennyson, men who found time to acomplisb a vast amount of enduring work wbicL establishes the fact that it is not among the most uneventful or less suffering lives we must not look for examples ol longevity. If tbat were not so, we should not now be writing of Mr 3 Fuller's career. To work strenuously for many years building up a competency, to succeed in that effort, and then to bave tbe proceeds of your industry swept away by tbe miserable process of litigation is disheartening 'g tbe last degree. Tbat is wbat happen ed to Mrs. Fuller. A weaker mind tban hers would have become unbalanced by such disaster. But that is not all. It is proverbial that troubles come not as siugle spies but in whole battalions, and so it was in this case. Enjoying excellent health, scarce knowing what; serious illoess was during tbe Brsfc 71 years of her life, Mrs Fuller now met with an accident. Losing her footing while ascending tbe stairs^ she sustained a fractured arm and collarbone a serious calamity to befall anybody, but specially a woman 71 years of age. Mrs. Fuller thus writes of her experiences consequent upon ber accideat: "I become an inmate of tbe Sydney Hospital, and after being in some degree patched up there was discharged within two months as cared, My worst troubl«a, however, were only just beginning. The fall must have wrenched my back and injured my kidneys, for a dull continuous pain set in in that region wbicb allowed me no rest by day or night, producing urinary difficulties of a most distressing nature, aud an obstinate constipation, I visited the leading hospitals as an outdoor patient, and was at one time under treatment at my own home by a lady doctor None of the plasters, liniments, lotion?, or other medicines they gave cue proved of any service. As time passed the pain in my back increased so much that tbe agony 1 indured was intolerable, and I felt as if I could bave welcomed death to end my sufferings. In this wretched condition I remained two years. Then my danghter, Mrs W. Johnston, of Arden street, Waverley, bought me tbree boxes of Mother Keigel's Soothing Plasters, a box of Mojher SeigePa Operating Pills, and a bottle of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. 5-he did this on the advice of a friend, who said be was sure they would relieve my sufler ings if given a fair trial. Happily for me tbe accuracy of this belief was soon established, for tbe plasters used in conjunction with tbe Syrnp and Pills, at once reduced the backache to a tolerable degree, and in two months had quite mastered it. I was once more ablo to eat, Bleep, and get about in comfort. After so long an illness, and at my advanced age, a quick restoration to perfect health and strength was not to expected, but I persevered with the three Seigi-1 remedies for six months, and was rewarded by a daily improvement in my condition. At the end of tbat time I felt as well as a person of my years could hope to bo, and I bave remained well from that dav to this." Tbe loss of Mrs Fuller's well-earned sayings has been in some degree repaired by the grant of an Old Age Pension by tho beneficent State of New South Wales— a boou extended only to those who baye resided in tbe btate continuously for a least 25 years, ana in itself a sure wrarant of the respectibility and honor of tbe recipient. A good thing, and one to be devoutedly thankful for, without doubt, but less wonderful than that other relief which Mrs Fuller has so well described and acknowledged. S. PATERSON & CO., WELLINGTON. Wholesale Import and Export Merchants. Buyers of HEMP, BUTTER, CHEESE, AND ALL FARM PKODUCE. Sole Agents for Timara Milling Co-s Celebrated "Silver Dust" Flourr> Diamond" Oatmeal, Bran, Pollard, &a Law, Union, asd Crown Insurance Co. (Ptre). Risks accepted at lowest current rates Losses promptly settled. Jervois Quay, Wellington. S. 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