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Otago Daily Times, Issue 9905, 25 November 1893, Page 5 (Supplement)

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-■ ' » ■ f TO-DAY'S FIXTURES^ .. ■ \■ - Grange First v. Carisbrook A, at CarisbrookJ \ at 2.3o.—Grange : Baker, Best, Grawfurd, Dawee/ \ A. Downes, Fish, Frith, Haydon, JohnstoDg \ Parker, Turnbull. Carisbrook: MacNeil (captain),' - Austin, Clayton, Cooke, Hope, M'Lennan, Rose,' I Fisher, Rattray, Scott, Stronach, Liggins. ! Opoho First v. Dunedin First, at Caledonian j ground. — Opoho: Boddington (2), "Wellp,l MGlashan, M'Kenzie, Doig, White, Croxford'* 1 Crawford Burton, M'Lean. Dunedin: Kinvig? " §c?. fc. Fieldnig, M'Crorie. Skitch. CampbeU, Low"' • Philip, Morrison, M'Kinley, Aitken. f Opoho Second v. Dunedin Second, at Opoho.— { SS?£?i: a °^ ch' ,Drewe. Strong, Webb, Fenwick? M'MUlan, Cough, Wain, Wilson, Jelly, Thomson ; i emergencies-J. Sharp, H'Arthur. Dunedin; J M Lean, Fraer, M'lntosh, Burt, Smith, Morrison- ( brlemster, Grouden, Montgomery, Greigg, M'Kerw I zie; emergency—Skitch. "' \ Port Chalmers v. Burnside, at Port Chalmers.— I 1 ort: Anderson, J. H. Crawford, Dobie, HendryS j Hunter, M'Lean, M'Donnell, Keil, Pinder, Smith. ! Waters. Burnside : Freeman, Leary, Donaldsori, t A- Harraway, G. Harraway. Nye, Stott, P. G. t Morgan, White, G. Morgan, Kerr; emergencies— I Wilson, K. U. Morgan, Pringle. f O^eana v. Anderson's Bay, at Oval.—Oceana : J *'• > ys^G- Sniyth, Richardson, Hodges (car- s tain), M'Fariane, Butler, Mitchell, Austin, Ws ( Thomson, Graham, W. King. Anderson's Bay: Simeon, Jas. Smith (captain), North, Leith, S Andrews, Lonmer, Hartnett, Walden, Clark, \ a ~?■ Nlcllo11 emergencies—John Smith, Reidi I Albion Second v. Brewers, at North ground.— s Albion : Harrison, Williams (captain), Matthew?.1 I Pizey, Hutchinson, Hitchcock-PuUar, White, G? ! Gray, R. M'Donaid, Snence. Brewers: Joel (cap* tain), Doyle, Imrie. Keasfc (2), Cogan, Aitken, T.: warren, Sutherland, M'Gavin, 0. Speight: eraer-gencies-Grsenslade, G. Smith. Albion First v. Oarisbrook B Team, at North, f ground.—Albion : Gollar (captain), Black, Carrie, ? Turnbull, Crawford, Ritchie, Duncan, Hislop, { Alexander, Smyth, Gibson. Carisbrook: Cheese* I man (captain), Cato, Fenwick, Harraway, Smith,' t Hudson. Lawton, M'lvor, Orbell, Somerville, f Kingston. i XT Grange Third v. Dunedin Third, on the 1 North ground.-Grange: Barron, T. E. Downey, f Smith (2). Lawson, Wright, Macalister, Kenny, I Orosbie, Marsh, M'Connick; emergency—Dean. I Dunedin: Skitch, M'Lean, Fergusson, Stubbs, j Stevens, M'Farlane, Fielding, Cameron, Edwards, \ Mouat, Wader; emergencies — Sheppard and, f •Broad. \ Port Chalmers Second v. Opoho Third, at Port i Chalmers.—Port: Ainge, A. Bell, W. J. Bell, T. [ at Crawford, A- w- Crawford, Main, MacMe,, j JNoble, A, Pickard, Stevenson, Wilson. } Grange Second v. High School, on the Asylum ground.-Grange : Williams, Weitzel, Restieaux, T. Downes, Haig, Lawlor, M'Connochie, Macl donald, Esquilant, Dowdall, Henry. LarißbrookD v Ravensbourne, at Carisbrook.— Carisbrook: Sale, Cooke, Auatin, Kingston, bualter, Thomson, Moore, Neale, Strouacb. Marw'att PraeK°n' cmcr Sencieß ~Hamann ana t 9-° eang Seo°nd v. Mosgiel, at Mosgiel.—Oceana: J.Kmg.SummereU, Rosenbrock, Munden,O'Raw, TwJT 111 \ rV n ®' HamWeton, M'Kelvey, J,' SSEjy&J* Irme; TheFernhill play a practice match at Monte* cillo, when sides will be picked on the ground. " JACK KNOWLBS'S FORTY FRIENDS.! A friend in need is a friend indeed, says the old saw. Quite so. Fair weather friends ara plentiful enough, goodness knows; the kind that drop in on you, talk to you, bother yon, and borrow things from you; the kind that never bring back that Jive shillings, but ask for five more "just to make ifc ten"—that breed c£ tnends, I say, are as thick as flies over a erneae bowl. Bub the sort who stick by you when you ' are down on your luck, who put their shoulders against your carb wheels ab a nasty spot in the road—why, you want to hunt for them with spectacles and a lantern. Yet, after all, suoh friends do exist, and forty of them turned up, without any hunting, when Mr Knowles needed, them badly. How it happened he tells us in the following statement. I, Jonathan Knowles, of Lotton Fen, near Ramsey, Hunts, do solemnly and sincerely de- S clare as follows: —I was always a strong healthy man up to April 1889, when I began to feel ill. At first I felt dull, low-spirited, and had no energy. I had a poor appetite, and for days and days could eat nothing. What I did eat laid like lead on my chest. I had a gnawing, sinking feeling at. the pit of the stomach, and was constantly sick, vomiting up a green fluid. At times the heaving and straining waa so great that blood came up: My hands and 3 fetfc were always cold, and clammy sweats used i ' to break out all over me. I never felt warmeven when I sat before the fire. Next, a hacklog dry cough, witi? severe pains at my chest and lungs, began to trouble me, and my breathing became shorfe and hurried. I soon got so weas that I had to give up "my work, for I could only walk a few yards without stop* ping to take my breath. The cough and short* ness of breath got gradually worse and woree," and I began to lose, flesh rapidly. At first ji a doctor from Ramsey came to see me; he gava f me medicines and cod liver oil, but held out no / hope of my getting better, and after attending ( me three months he recommended me to go to s the hospital. I gob a recommendation from f my master, Mr David Corney, Wellington ' House, St. Mary's, and went to the Peter- I borough Infirmary. I had to be taken in a trap I to the railway station, such was my weak state. I The doctors at the infirmary had me stripped t and sounded my lungs, and said oae of my J lungs was almost gone, and that I was in a con- f sumption. They gave me medicines, also cod I liver oil, but nothing did me any good. Aftbr '< being under their care and treatment for three 5 months I was discharged as incurable. My £ wife and relations now lost all hope of my ever fc getting well again, and everyone who saw me looked upon me as being in a decline. My I cheeka had sunk, and I had wasted away until '. I was only a shadow of my former self; you | ' could even see the sinews through my flesh I I' "• was nothing but skin and bone, having lost 3st § in weight. I got up'every day, bat had to sit I : man armchair all daylong. I could only move I : a few yards, and that with the aid of a stick. • I■ : In this half-dead, half-alive state I continued t ; for nearly two years, and was looked upon as | j doomed. During the latter part my wife did 8 ; not think I should live from one week to I ; another, aud friends who came to see me used f i to say, "Poor Jack will never come out aliro I ''■■ again." In December 1890, when I was at my I worst, a neighbour of mine, -Mrs Kino-. I True Briton Inn, told me of a medicine *' ' called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, I and gave me half a bottle of it. I had no |' faith in anything doing me any good, bu6 I I took it. Having been so long out of ■ | work I could not get money for more of tha | Syrup. So strongly were my friends convinced I that the medicine would do me good that a I subscription was started and over forty people t . subscribed to enable me to get a further supply. i Mrs King got the Syrup from Mr J. FreemaD, 1 chemist, Ramsey, and kept me supplied with it. I : After I had taken three bottles of the Syrup I I ■. felt benefited. I kept oa with the medicine "1 and gradually got stronger and stronger, and I got back to my work. Of course ib took a long I time before I properly got up my strength. L- • f • can now do any kind of work, and feel so strong I that I often walk H miles a day, for which I | thank God and Mother Siegel's Syrup. Every- 5 one in the district is astonished at my recovery. I 1 tell them all that Seigel's Syrup has brought I ma back to life. I wish others to know of what * has done bo much for me, and I give permission " to the proprietors of the medicine to make what i use they think fit of this statement; and I make | this solemn declaration conscientiously believ- % ing the same to be true. By yirtue of the " Statutory Declaration Act 1835 " (Will. IV, c * 62). • Subscribed and declared \ at Peterboro', in the '- County of Northamp- _ F ton, this 29 th day of >-<' January, 1892, before .„. me, (Signed) L. J. )- , (Signed) :> Deacon, a eommis-' JoNATHA» Settles} sioner to administer S oaths in the Supreme Court of Judicature in England. You take notice of course that Mr Knowles makes a solemn legal declaration to the truth of his remarkable story. It is so full of suggeßtive facts that I could write a book about it. - But there is no time nor room now to do that" The points to remember are thesa:—lf the doc« tors thought "Poor Jack" had consumption they were mistaken. The fact that he got well shows he had no consumption. A man who cart now walk 14 miles a day has got two good lungs S Doctors have no business to make such blunders-' and scare patients out of all courage and hope But there! Ignorance is ignorauce, no matter where you run across it. What ailed Mr Knowles was indigestiou and dyspepsianothing else. The cough and loss of flesh were symptoms of that, not of the destruction of lung substance. Nest, keep bearing in mind that all our common maladies signify that our machinery for digesting food is out of order. It is so when it doesn't look so, the sama as when | it does. That is the secret of the success of Mother Seigel's Syrup. It cleanses the cistern and the pipes, and then the water of life runs clear and sweet. Those forty sensible friends believed in that. Mr J. Knowles is a very respectable hardworking man. He is a farm labourer and has a small allotment of land, which he cultivates. The persons who subscribed to get him the Syrup are principally farm labourers and farmers residing in the district of Ramsey. The > case is well known to all the people round ♦■ about where Knowles Jives. Mrs Knowles, in speaking of her husband's long illness, stated that she never for one moment expected bis '* recovery. She could see him gradually dwindling away, and herself and children could not take their meals for tears when they saw the dreadful condition Mr Knowles was in, for they expected losing him ev<?ry week. — A French railway company, the Chemin de Perdu Midi, is in a terrible fix just now. A short time ago a fire broke out in a pine forest in the south of France, and £75,000 damage was dono. The fire was caused by sparks from a locomotive. For all this damage the company » is held to be respousible-'u French law. — This is a popular saying witfi ifee~2ilfe§^. "It is hard for a man to forget the house he " was bora iv." — The street beggars in Bareclor.a have entered into a solemn covenant to withdraw from circulation all the two centime pieces which they receive from the charitable public so as to compel their benefactors to give them the coin next in value—viz., five centimes.