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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9668, 10 April 1893, Page 4

IT'S GONE. ALL GONE, AND I'M GOING TOO. Fon many a year did the same man surer p a certain Btreet-orossing in Hampntcad. Through all seasons and in all « eathers, there he wap, sweeping the crossing nnd taking such gratuities as were given him. Time wore away, nnd he came to bo eighty years old. He appeared at his poet no more, A lady district visitor looked him up at bis lodgings. Whnt a piotare of squalid destitution No tire, no focd, no friends. Wife and family he Lad none — never hid. The poor old follow was perishing of starvation, of want. Some money was raised for his benefit and he was removed to a London Hoßpita'. Here he lay several neeka sinking daily. on 9 night he was cloarly very low. Near him stood one of the hospilftl phytioianß and a nurse. Seeing him clutch nervously at his pillow, the narse, supposing the patient desired to be raised op, pat his arm beneath him to perform that service. In doing so the nurse's hand came in contact with an object which he withdrew. It wap a dirty little canvas bag tied with a leather string. As it «p 8 laid aside tho oil man perceived whnt had been done, lifted hia skeleton frame portially from the bed and, trembling with excitoment, said ia a shrill whisper. "Ah my treasure, my treasure ! It's gone, all gone, and I'm going too!" and Bank beck dead. Ihe bag continued £500 in notes— tho savings of his miserly life. And he, thero, dead of starvation, even more than of age Well, what of it ? you say. The wrotched old man was better dead than alive. Quito co, but most bum an events hive a moral, a lesson, about thorn, if we keep an eye out for it. Wbaf, for example, can we learn fron the following facts?— One night abcut ten years ago a mna whose name we can f jrnish, went to bed as usual, apparently in good heilth and spirits. A few hours later he lay unconscious on the floor. In explanation he stated that he had been seized, suddenly, with a puin of each violence that be was compelled to rise, — apain in the chest. After rii-iag he lost his senses and sank down on the spot vrhere he has stood. His wife aroused by the noise, Btruok a l : ght and saw her husband in that situation. She afterwards declared he had gone black in the face, and that bis eyes looked as if they were starting out oc bis head. Restoratives were applied whioh brought him to, bat he was not a 8 before. So quickly and unexpectedly do we cross the boundary line between two opposite bodily conditions. It is like stepping from the broad blaze of day into a damp cavern packed with darkness. He felt weak and aiofr-, with a Btrange "all- gone" sensation throughout his whole system. His mouth tasted badly, and was filled with a slimy sort of phlegm, bis keid aohed, he was unable to draw a deep breath, he walked with difficulty, and went about his business like a man who is haunted- by a paralysing ('ream. Perplexed and alarmed he consulted physicians, who prescribed for him, without, however, producing any noticeable improvement. The strong clear-headed man of previous years was gone — changed as by tli3 wand of a vicious magician into the feeble being he now was. Hven with this dismal prcspoct before him our friend travelled not on level gronni ; his path lad downward ; he grew worse. In December, 1888, he had a distinct and bad attack, gave up bueineep, and went to bed. There ho remained for a weary painful month— thirty days, as long aa thirty years of power and occupation. Ihe doctor said there wbb something wrong with the stomach and bowels. After he once more rose from his bed he still suffered dreadiul pain and could rest neither day cr night. ludeed, some nights he Lever slept a moment. So weak had he become that when he attempted a ehort walk be was obliged to abandon the effort, return and go to bed. His own words aro these :—": — " To give you an idea how ro 'need I had become I may mention that I lost ovei three stone weight and was wasting away. 1 kept . ou like this until January, 1891, when Mr Everson, of Occold, told me of a medicine called Mother Beigol's Syrup and the good it had cone. I tried it and in tbree days I felt better. Cheered and encouraged by this 1 continued to nse if, with tho result that 1 wLolly recovered from my mvs erious malady. lam now strong and hearty, and business is again a pleasare. 'Ihe Syrup did me more good in a few weeks than all my tin years doctoring put lo^tther." (Signed) Albert lhorndyke, Proprietor of tho "'Grapes Inn," Church Sire o* Eye, Suffolk. May Ist, 18; l. What do wo Jearn from this ? We learn that while a miserly fool liku our crossing-sweeper may alarve for money, a who man with more reverence for hia bodily tunplp, loaks ami finds a remedy for a tendency to starvation, induced by di'ease :— tr-at the dieeoße was indigestion and rfyßprf sin, and the remedy Mother fieigel'BSjnip. Wo havo had inuchpleasuie in inspecting a consignment of Boors, Shoes, and Slippers (o suit the present season direct from the Eng'inh manufacturers, ox s.p. Indramayo, to tho order of E. Dockrill. They are now on view in his shop, next Mr Newton King's Auction Mart, and as they aro of Sttperioh Quality and will be sold at a Low Pkioe they should command a Speedy Sale. We were also pleased to notice the superiority of bis Colonial Mahufactdred Boots, Siioks, and Slippkrb ac proof of the great advance made by our Colonial factories ; and from hia woll-known low prices thoy are suro to have a largo sale, — Axjvt* Good news for the boys and bushmea o ! Twrsnaki Watches cheaper than ever— tJlicrt winding series, koyloss, 12s M first class keylosa, extra finished, 21s. Call and eeo them, if only out of curiosity, at J. H. Parkor'B, watchmaker, Devon-stre«t, NewPlymouth.— Advt Spectacles) of excellent quality, suited to a kinds of defective sight, supplied by J. II Pabkeb, "Under the Gold Spectacles, ' Dovon-street, New Plymouth. — The eyo« tested^ by " Patent Optomotor." 23 year« experience in sight-testing. Prices 2g, 3b 6d, sh, and 8s 6d per pair,— Advt