THEY ROLLED ON THE FLOOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 1966, 29 October 1891, Page 32

THEY ROLLED ON THE FLOOR.

On Monday, November ,24th, 1890 «,« American papers published the l oliowFng' J£ I Mrs Sarah S. Hensler, of No R7* w. D t n. Hundred-and-Thirty-fourth BtreaJ '£ v T shot and killed herseU yesterday iShTg XX ° 8 ? c was a lady of excellent character and high booM position, and a member of the Rev. USSSA Presbyterian Church. She was well-to-dTand very active m various puUio and private chanties. Since last July she had suffered l feaVfully from indigestion and dysr^peii^gL brought on melancholia and then a kind of^iS sanity, under the influence of which she took Her own lire. Here is another story, not so tracim! t»twith the same moral. The narSor fi ifc^f tumselF. " Mostly," to says, «• we dread and fear death, yet once I prayed to die, and the reason was^J this wise : Up to Christmas 1888, 1 had been » healthy man, but at that time. (a period. o? rejoicing with so many) I felt depressed, languid, and tired. My appetite left mo, and I was much distressed after eating the lightest dark yellow colour, and the kidney secretion was like blood. The pain in my stomach was almost unbearable, and often lasted from 12 to 14 hours [without intermission. Sometimes I was in pain night and day, and was so bad that m* wife had to sit up with me through tb* nfeht I was constantly sick and troubled with & stomach cough, and expectorated a quantity ©f green phlegm. • " In spite of warm clothing and every comfort.I was always chilled ; the cold shivers runnuwJ through me as if my blood were thin and now I coqld take no solid food; I lived oa b&I milk puddings, &o. and after each, meal f had empty, gnawing, windy pains at the stomach, which nothing relieved. '•After a time an intolerable itching of the skin spread all over me, as if my blood were poisoned. Our family physician attended me for about a year. Acting upon his advice I went to Harrogate, where I consulted another doctor* •nd drank the waters, but feeling worse I returned home. The bath attendant at Harrogate and others told me I was suffering from blood poisoning, bat this the doctors never mentioned. The first doctor said it was the passing of gallstones that gave me each dregful para... "I nojw consulted an. eminent specialist at Manchester who confirmed what the other doctor had told, me, but none of them afforded me any relief. "In this miserable way I dragged on for sir months more, and heeAme so much reduced I could scarcely put one.footfbeftwe the other, and so thin that the hinqs yßuc off mt fihqbbst and eoixhd on thb fioos. I was in suoh pum that % yiuyED to die, and one of the doctors told a friend of mine I could not recover "In August of last year (1890), whilst my sufferings were at the worst, a book was sent tome by post telling of a medicine called Mother SeigePs Curative Syrup. I determined to try it, and sent to Mr Evans, chemist, Lymm, for a supply. After taking the first bottle I felt & little better, and by persevering with the remedy I recovered my appetite and gradually gained strength. My natural colour is now returned and I feel as well as I ever did ia my life— in faot, as weU m J did when a boy. I can eat any kind of food without in-* convenience, and have gained 801b in weight during the past three months. I may add that previous to taking this medicine I was so much altered that my friends, and even my pupils, scarcely recognised me. I tell everyone what Beigel's Syrup did for me." The gentleman who makes the foregoing statement is a person of position and known to. all the people of Lymm. He declines to permit; the publication of his name, but tbe perfect-, truth of what is here related is vouched for b« Mr J. H. Evans, the chemist abovenamed. The case was an aggravated one of indigee* fcion and dyspepsia and its natural consequeneea. The whole system had been poisoned and disordered by the acids engendered by fermentation in thestomaob, and, bad not Seigel'a Syrup come to the rescue just as it did, a fatal result must have followed in a brief time.

Mrs Kelly, the first white woman to settle in Southland, died on Tuesday, aged 81. She was an immigrant by the Philip Laing, one of the first ships to Otago, being then Mra Niven. She left two sons, one daughter, 30 grandchildren, and 24 great-graadobildren. She was the orfoinal owner of a large part of the land which now comprises the suburbs of Invereaxgill. — Speotroscopy has not only opened an a totally new subject in the chemical analysE of the heavenly bodies, bat dm also given a Seat and unexpected power of advance alongthe lines, of the older astronomy, and this has teen amongst ito Uteat whievemente.~AtoeS B S^