IMPRISONED ON A SHIP.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 10199, 3 January 1895, Page 4

IMPRISONED ON A SHIP.

Ths steams'iip Mormannii from Hamburg arrived in the poit of New York o a Saturday, c ept. 3rd,1 892. with cases of cholera on 'board. Many of the ship's eomp'iny had died on tha passage. At Hamburg and elsewhere in Europe the disease was raging. The authorities in Amorica wero alarmed lest the scourge should ba introduced into that country. H'noe thoy quarantined the Normannia with every soul of hor passengers nod cr-nv. Th-* writer was a passenger. It was an awful timo. Death wa* among us aud on all sides of us. Nobody knew who next would fall. We wore im prisoned. Liberty never seemed so fair. nor so fair. We could nei her fight nor fly. There we wore — hundreds of us— • Ptrfecth mil. and yet bound 'osethef as with champ, that tho health officer of tha port might see whether the pl.igue would not et break out in our midst. When at last— after weeks of this— wo were set on shnro, m»n lifted their hats and reverently said, " Thank Qud !" This was boing shut up under conditions to make it horrible and fearful. Yet any fo r m of incarceration is bad cough. Here is a.wotnan, for example, who says. " / ntve! moved n. yard from my own dooraUpforfwenly weeks /" Her own house was a prison ' to hor. Who had sentenced her ? A judge ? No ; a power greator and more pitiless than any jadge. Her tale runs thus : In April. 1882, whilst living at Lasher's Farm, Old Samford, Esaer, a fire broke oat, and the family were burned out of house nnd home. Wo have no call to remark on snch a calamity. The very thought of it ia fit to make one shiver with dread. For most of us it in like the word c:ming to an end to experience such a dißas'er.

Well, what happened aft*r that the lady shall toll in her own f shion — the best of all fashions, because it is plain aod straight to the poi t, Pha save :—•' Owing to our bedding being damp with exposure, I took a bad cold, which brought on rheumitic fever. For fourteen days I was confined to my bed, and for twenty weeks I never moved a yard from my own doorst-p- After a time the fever abated, leaving me weik, kn»uid, and low. At first I had « sickening taste in (.he mouth end a poor appetite. No matter how simple and light the food was, 1 was afraid to eai, for it was Bure to give me pfin at the chest and sides ; so I often had to loosen my corset and undress myself during-the day % I cou'd not bear the weight of mj olothing.

" I was cons'antly epitiiog up a sour, frothy finid, and had a gnawing pain at the pit of the stomach— like hunger, ond yet different. It waa with difficulty I voided the kidney Eecrelion, and my bowels, ankles, and legs began to s woll. I got wors > ; I was in agony night and day, and coaU Dot put my foot on the ground, Soon afterwards a husky cough tookmej nnd my throat filled with a thick phlegm. 1 could not sleep, and was never easy. Liter on I had often to sit up in bed, for I felt us if I should choke. " Year after year I continued to suffer in this way, growing worsa and worse. until I despaired of ever being well agnin. But who can tell when trouble will c me, or when relief ? A wonderful Providence b over all.

" One day in June a book came by post dos-ribing Mother f-'eigel's Curative Syrnp an-J what it had done for many poor sufferers. I got a bo tie from Mr Suckling medicine dealer, and aftor taking it for a short timo all pain loft me, and I gradually gained strength ._ By taking an occasional dose 1 hove flinch kept in good health, and can eat and digest any kind o food. (Signed) Mrs LrDiA Gheen, Moor "End, Great Sampford. via Br.iinuea, Essex. Aog 24:h, 1892." f'.ow ia order tlut Mrs Green's c'oarand truthful statement may be of u?o ti nthors (as ahe desires ir to bf), wo must add a wor Jor two ThM had cold she caught at the fif no doiitt '' brought on" the rheum itic f uver (na she relates"). ' ut there was something la It of the i-nltl, for a <ohl n'ver causes ihevmutum J lie rhf-uruntic sp'flo. or poison must airetnly lie in the blood ; and that poison is always created by pre erietinff indigestion and ilyiipepiia. whether tho sufferer knows it or not. This is proved by the fact that Mrs Green's chief ailment for ten ytata aft'r the firo was not rheumatism, bat indigestion and dyspepsia and dropsy, which is one of its results and symptoms, When the digestion was finally righted by the remedy she allndeH to, all her apparent maladies ceii'od togothor. Why? BoeauHe she had but one, ns we have said. Alices, Disnase ib a .stern jailor. And how sweet (and cheap) ia liberty, ob'ained by Mather Boigel's help.