CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 154, 3 July 1888, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor of the " Evening Maiii.'»

Sib.— lt would be a great comfort to people living on the higher levels if they oould have their share of water during the morning. Twice in five days, from 9 a.m. till after one: o'clock, the water has been stopped, and this is constantly the case. Is it too difficult for the City Council to find out the reason, or do they not care? They expect the tax to bB paid whether the water is used or not. Hop. ing not to have to trouble you again on the subject, I am &a , "Water Tax •' College Hill, Nelson, July 20th. To the Editor of the " Evening Mail." Silt— l have noticed tba 1 ; your columns are always open for the puroose of f.dvoca ting recognition of sorviusß r«oder-d, ami mos^partioularly iv bW mirier of t\\n rxiioabion and pr< vm ion or fires in oar tni 'at. Now, Sir, as an <-yo wi'Dess of the recent fire in the premises of Mr Saanderc, BridgeB'reet, I do think that the services of the two lada who workei so hard with wftsr and buckets, and notnally hud tb^ fir»'nnt before the Brigade arrived, <!esorve at the hands of tbe luauranoo Cotnpnni"H come slight recognition, if only of thanks, for preventing what might have pur. tbem to a serious loss, ia addition to their customers' inconvenience, who are neighbors of Mr Saunderp. By inserting this yon will have tha thanks of tbe properly holders in tbe immediate vicinity. — Yours, &0., Citizen.

To THE EDITOB OS 1 THE • EVENING MAIL "

Sib, — Ab" several of your readers have expressed much interest in the account of the case described \by Br Martin Doyle, and related ir your issue of the 30th ult., I have reason to believe another oaße bearing on the same subject will interest them still more. " A young man, Paineas P. Gage, at 25, was engaged in tamping a blasting charge in a reel with a pointed iron bar, Sf t 7in in length, l|in in diameter, and weighing 13Jlbs, when the charge suddenly exploded. The bar projected point end first, entered at tbe left angle of the patient's jaw, and passed clean through the top of his head, and was picked np at some distance covered with blood and brains. He was for the moment stunned, but within an hour was able to walk up a long flight of stairs and give the surgeon an intelligible account of the accident. Though for a long time despaired of, he ultimately recovered, and lived twelve years and a half afterwards. He died (of epileptic convulsions) at, unfortunately, a distance from medical supervision, and thus no post mortem examination of the brain was made, but, through the exertions of Dr. Harlow, the skull was exhumed and preserved. This case has been frequently quoted as one in whioh the patient suffered no damage bodily or mental. With regard to the former he lost the eight of the left eye, and with regard to the latter, Dr Harlow says the change in his mind became bo marked that from being a most, intelligent workman his contractors

oould not give him his place again. The equilibrium between his intellectual faculties and animal propensities seemed to have been destroyed. 80 greatly was bis mind changed that his acquaintances said he was " no longer ' Gage." — I am, &0., Alfred Coleman. July 2nd, 1888.

TO THE EDITOE OE 1 THE "EVENING MAIL."

Sir— l woo pUased to see your little notioo of the Rev Canon Stanford s sermong ai the Cathedral on Sunday. Unlike the ordinary sermon iv whioh the preaoher h too often content to give n .ligeat of certain books whose authors have traa"ed thesubject under disousaion" from their o#n particular point, of view whioh, of o ur«p, is the one from whioh he looks upon it — the reverend gemlemau is evid ntly capable of reßpec iig the arguments ?>nd f' elinge of those whose minds ore filled with honest doubts, which he combats like a scholar, & gentlema'', end a liberal minded man, who has thought for himself, is not shocked because others do not think as he doe?, and is not satisfied to aocept iho'diota of those who are ge*-et»llv acoppted as aothorilies without pnttiog them to the test. I recommend cot only my co-religionists, bat nil who rany wish to enjoy au intell«otusl treat, to avail themsnlveß of the opportunity of doing so whioh will be afforded them tbie < veniug aud on Sunday nexf. Youre, &0., A Churchman;

Nelson, Jaly 3.