Page 4 Advertisements Column 1

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9669, 11 April 1893, Page 4

it's gone, all gone, and i'm Going too. Fob many a year did the same uinn sweep a certain street-crossing in Elampatead, Through all seasons and in all w eathers, there he wap, sweeping the crossing and taking such gratailies ad were given him. Time wore away, and ho camo to bo eighty years old. He appeared at his post no more, A lady district visitor looked him np at his lodgiDgs. Whnt a picture of squalid destitution No lire, do food, no friend e. Wife and family he bad none — ntv«*r h.d. The pjor old fellow was perishing of starvation, of want. Some won. y was raised for his benefit and ho was removed to a London Hospita'. Hero Lo l>y several weeks sinking daily. Ono nijit he was clearly very low. Near him stool ono o£ the hospiial physicians and a nurse. Seeing him clutch nervously at his pillow, the nurse, supposing the patient desired to be raised up, put his arm beneath him to perform ihit service. In doing so the nurse's hand cm mo in contact with an obj ; .ct which ho withdrew. It wup a dirty little cauvaß bag tied with a loilher string. As it nus laid aside the oil man perceived whit bad beea done, lifted his skeleton frame purtially from the bed and, trembling with excitement, said in a shrill whisper. "Ah my treusure, my treasure ! It's gone, all gone, end I'm going too!" and sank bnck dead. Ihe bag continued £500 in notes— tho savings of his miserly life. And he, there, dead of starvation, even more thun of age Well, what of it ? you say. The wretched old man was better dead than alive. Quito bo, but moat human events have a moral, a lesson, about them, if we keep an eye oat for it. What, for example, can we learn from the following facts?— Ono night about ten years ago a man whose name we can famish, vent to bed as usual, apparently in good heilth and spirits. A few hours later he lay unconscious on the floor. In explication he stated that be had been seized, suddenly, with a pain of snob, violence that he was compelled to rise, — a pain in tho chsst. After rii-ing he loet bis senses and uank down on the spot ■where ho bag stood. His wife aroused by the noise, struck a I'ght and sow her husband in that eituuiio i. Sbo afterwards declared he had gone black in the face, and that bis eyes looked as if they wero starting out of his head. Restoratives were applied which brought him to, bat he was not as before. So quickly and unexpectedly do we cros3 the boundary lino belwean two opposite bodily conditions. It is like stepping from the troad blaze of day into a dnitp cavern packed with darkness. Ho felt weak and sic!', with a strange •' all-gone" esnsation throughont his whole system. His mouth tasted badly, and was filled with a slimy sort of phlegm, his held ached, he was unub!e to draw a deep breath, he walked with difficult}', an'J went about bis busi neBS like a maa who is buuatcd by a paralysing dream. Perplexed and alarmed he consulted physicians, who prdßoribed for him, without, however, producing any not'coable improvement. The strong clear-beaded man of previous years was goae — changed ub bj Iha wand of a vicious magician into the feeble being ho now was. liven with this dismal prospect before Lijri our friend travelled not on level gronnl ; his path Jed downward ; Jio grew worße. In December, 1898, he had a disticct and bad attack, gave up busineep, aad went to bed. There he remained for a weary painful month — thirty days, as Jong as thirty years of power and occupation. The doctor said there was something wrong with the stomach and bowels. After ho odc9 moro rosj from his bed ha still suffered dreadful pain and could reßt neilh r day cr ni^ht. li.d)cd, Borne nights he LO7ir slept a moment. £o weak had he becomo thut when ho attempted a short walk ho was obliged to abandon the effort, return and go to bod His own words are thepo : — "To give yon an idaa how re need I had become I may mention that I lost ovei three stone weight an 1 wns wasting away. 1 lupt on like thu until January, 181)1, when Mr Everson, of Occold, <oIJ mo of a medicine called Mother ctigo! s Sjrap and the good it hid coio. I tried it and in tlroo days 1 felt hotter. Cliserul aud encoarngdd by this I continueJ to use it, with tuo result that I wi oily recoverdd from my mjs erious milady. lam now Btrong uud haartf, and businosa is again a pleusure. The Syrup did mo moro good in a few weeks than a'l my tin years; doctoring put toother." (.Signed) Albert ihorndyk-, Proprietor ot: tho "Grapes }™> •'Church Svr.o', lij t>, Suffolk. May Ist, lojl* What do wo learn from this ? Wtlearn thut while a ii.ißOrly fool like our crossing sweep r may starve for money, n wito uiaa with moro reverenjo for hin bodily ttinplp, (Oiks an'J finda •» reitedj for a tendency to starvation, induced by di ease :— that the disease was indigestion and dyspepsia, and the remedy Mother Su^ol's Syrup. Good news for tho boys and bushmen o Taranaki Watches cheaper than evci— Shcrt winding Boricu, keyless, 12s 6d first class keyless, extra finished, 21s. Call and too them, if only out of curiosity, at J. H. Parker's, watchmaker, Dovon-Btreet, flow Pjyinouth.— Advt