IMPRISONED ON A SHIP. '

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10198, 2 January 1895, Page 4

IMPRISONED ON A SHIP. '

Tllß steamship Aforviannvi from Hamburg arrived in the port of New York on SatuHay, ' ept. 3rd, 1892, with cases of cholera on board Many of the ship's compiny had died on tin passage. At [ tlamburg and elsewhere in Europe tbe ! disease was raging-. The authorities in j America were ' alarmed lest tlio scourge j should l>3 iniroduced into that coun'ry. El' nco they quarantined' the N'ormannia with every soul of her passengers ard cr-.v. Tin writer was a passenger. It was an awful time. Duatli wa-* among us and on all sides of us Nobody knew who next would fall. We wore im prisoned. Liberty never geemed so fair nor so fa r. Wo could nei'lier fight nor fly, There we were — hundreds of vs — perfectly well, and yet bound together as with chains, that the health officer ' of the port might see whether the plngue would not \et break out in our midst. When at list— after « eeks of this— we were set on slmre, men lifted then- hats and reverently i said, " Thank God I" This waß being shut up under cOnj ditions to make it horrible and fearful. j Yet any form of incarceration, is bad i enough. Here is a woman, for example, who says, " I neve? moved a yard from my own doorstep fur tuceniy weeks /" Her own bouse was a prison to her. "Who had sentenced her ? A judge ? No ; a power greater and more pitiless than any judge. Her tale runs thus : In April. 1882, !" hilst living at Lnsher's Farm, O'd Samford, Esses, a fire broke ont, and the \ family were burned ont of house and t home We bave no call to remark on such a calamity. Thi very thought of it is fit to make one 6hivpr with dread. For most of us it in like the word coming to an end to experience such a disaster. Woll, what, happened after that tho hdy shall tell in her own f sliion— the best of all fashion", because it is plain and straight to tho ppo t. fc'ho ea^s :— ''Owing to our bedding being damp with exposure, I took a bad cold, wuiuh brought on rbeunvtic fever. For fourteen days I was confined to my bed, and for twenty weeks I never moved a >anl from my own floorat p- Alter a timo the fever abated, lewiu^ mo weik, languid, and low. At first I had a sickening taste in the mouth ard a poor appetite. No matter how siinplr ami Hj;ht tho food was, 1 was afraid to cat, for it was sure to give me piin ut the chest and sides ; so I often had to loosen uoy corset and undrrss myself during the 'day. I could not bear the weight of my slothing. " I was constantly spitting up a sour, frothy fluid, and bad a gnawing pain at the pit of the stomach— like hun£or, and yet different. It was witb difficulty I voided the kidney secretion, and my bowels, anklf r, and legs began to B*el'. I got worsi ; I was in agony night and day, and couli not put my foot on tbo ground. Soon afterwards a husky cough took ma, ssnd my throat filled with a thick phlegm. I could not sleep, and wad nover easy. Lntor on I had often to hit up in bed, for I felt aa if I should choko. " Year after year 1 conti-ned to suffer in this way, gi owing worse and worse, until I despaired of ever being well again. But who can toll when trouble^ will come, or when relief ? A wondorful Providence h over all. "Ono day in Juno a book camo by pont describing Mother Keigel's Curative Syrnp an-1 what it had done for many poor Biifferern. I got a bo'.tlo from Mr Suckling medicine dealer, and after taking it lor a Bliort time all pain ieft me, and I gradnally gained strength.^ By taking <:n occasional dose I have wince kept in £?oo<l health, and can eat ami digont any kind o food. (Signed) .Mrs Lydia Giu;kn, Moor End", Great Sanu.ford. via Br.iiotieo, l?s o ex. Ang 24th, 1892." Now in order that Mis Green's clear and truthful statement may be of uso tT others (a» she desires it to be), wo must add a worl or two. Tho bad cold she caught at the fir. 1 no doubt " brought on" the rheumatic fever (as Bhc relates), I'tit there was something back of the cnld, for a raid 7itver causes rheumatism. 1 lio rhuuniatic wsedu. or poison must already lie in tho blood ; and that poison is always created by pre exi»ling indigestion and dyspepsia, whether tho sufforor knows it or not. This is proved by tho fact that MraGreen'n chief ailment for ton years aft r tlio liro wim net rhounvitißin, but indisostiou and dyspepsia and dropsy, which is one oi' its results and bymptoms. When tho digestion was finally righted by tho remedy eho allu(?ec to, all her apparent maladiet ceu-ed together. Why ?^ Because sho had bu't'one, as wo havo said. Ab,yes. Disease in a atcrn jailor. And liOA'Hweet (and cheap) is liberty, obtained by Mother* Boigel's help.

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