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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12445, 30 August 1902, Page 5

»WfflT PROn DCfITH T0 LITE. 1 | EXPOSURE AND ITS PENALTY. LET THIS STORY MAKE YOU CAREFUI.

Fho Gasa ©f Mr. I. McCABEHY. {By a Dutiedtn lUftrlcr.) It is quite a common tiling for foot--ailors to start, and finish a match with coming down in torrents. Rowing ten likewise, in their armicss jerseys ud fins linen pants, are frequently exossd to drenching rains and cold bleak mds, but the honour and glory attach•d to placing so much daylight between hcmsolvos and their opponents at the inning post quite outweigh any con.deratioiis respecting the risk they run a iujuring their health. As a rule, thletes have more pluck than prudence a these matters, a, fact which is often rought under thtiir notice.in after life y such unwelcome visitors as those hich paid Mr. Michael McCarthy so iiich attention. Mr. McCarthy resides ' Ko. 5 Ct'whi Cottages, a terrace of aiisca r ing off Great King-street, uno'l: , was here that the above;ifled j. ...icmau and our reporter met, ie athletic frame and generally robust ipearaace of- the former giving the lie rect to the reports which had been 'ought under the writer's notice. In :sw4r to a question, Mr. McCarthy id: "My troubles started two years ;o or thereabouts. I have done a let ' work in the country in iny time, and 11 usually toqk contracts for work I m natnrajly. anxious t» get through it i soan.as possible. Consequently 1 was ten; employed outsido when I should ivo--I)faen inside out of the rain. Like ostvyoung fellows I .was a bit careloss joufc !.my -'liea-lth. I did not feel any 'imodiritc'eflects from these soakings, id I- began rhink myself a physical lenoraeno:.; .tit continual oxposure > all sorts u weather got me down at st. ;Ihe vigorous spirit with which I ' ed' to' work gradually began to wane, ■id J used -to fie in bed ranch longer in 1 10 mornings 'than. I ought to have m'e. Tlie truth of -tie matter is that had'Doinclination to work. I used to ay. away : from-it one day and then ra up and-cii a 'little the next, but entorily.-'I. got so miserably worn eut •.at Igayej-upiwopk altogether. Violent s of vomiting attacked me early every ordinal'whilst. I had frequent micThe act of urinating is extremely'difficult, the general iHsations showing that my kidneys were ;easedvvery badly. My chest became ito sore through a dreadful dry cough licli caine on at frequent intervals, a cat amount af phlegm also being spat i. My lungs were fairly clogged up : .th cekl, a cii'cumstanoe which adi'Eoiy affeotcd my respiratory organs, yend the symptoms I have mentioned ■lo not remember suffering any other ments f>n: a week or two." •' What i \ happened then, Mr. Car thy?" 'I was then prostrated with acute ins.;in/,.my?back, which'were so tor•.ntingvt&ai 'I could neither sit nor nd,up ; straight. When I wanted to Ik anywtere.l had to go along deublup & aa old man. But I could '.'er proceed very far without being .-fectJy exhausted, when I had stand and gasp for breath. ri'ible dartiag pains used to Idenly seize mo in the knees, and •wn I dropped as though I had been at. My head used to ache so intense-that-I could not bear the least noise, ides feeling awfully bad-tempered .1 cress without knowing why. I was :cedingly:restless in bed owing to the ickirig pains which never ceased for moment.. Sleep I could not, in spite ■' the r ;' 1 nut I was drowsy and listless 1 <!;. ' s od did not seem to taste -8 it t- •! (o. probably on account «f 7 tonguo being so unclean. I very ate anything, yet when I did I ad to vomit it all up again shortly •fterwards. In the pit of my stomaoh here-'was a sense of weight and opressien as ,thougb a lump of clay was Rationed tjj'ere. On three ot four actions I fill asleep'for' a little while, ' ad eaoh time I' had the west ugly ; 'reams you could .conceive v '■ -Such a . umber of-horrible ideas w;,. ihrough.: -sp Jjead in ::tbsfclb£ief. spaw. r,nat wiea^'