THE STEWARD JUMPED OVERBOARD.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 7474, 25 July 1891, Page 3

THE STEWARD JUMPED OVERBOARD.

In its issue of Monday, September 15, 1890, The Express and Telegraph, published in Adelaide, South Australia, prints the following : " The ship Lord Canning WO3 on her voyage from Liverpool to Australia. The steward, named James I Crookß, an excellent man who had served with Captain Stevenson for over three years, whb much troubled with iudigestion. He was frequently heard to say he would jump overboard to put himself out of his pain, but no particular notice was taken of the threat. One morning the second officer met him carrying a 141 b weight out of the cabin. Suddenly the officer saw the man on the rail with tho weight made fast round his nock, and before he could reach the spot I the steward jumped overboard. An alarm was given, but owing to the heavy sea a boat could not be lowered. This is certainly & aid but not a surprising incident. Suicides from the same cause, the faots being admitted, are often brought to the public attention, and no doubt hundreds or cases of self-destruotion besides these would be accounted for in the same way if the actual circumstances were ascertained, for there is no pow-er or cause that works so vast an amount of mischief as indigestion and dyspepsia, as it acts j directly upon the nervous centres and produces mania and insanity. Mr Eille Norwood, 8.A., who sends us the newspaper clipping containing the story | of Steward Crooks' death, writes from Adelaide under date of September 17th, 1890, and says : "It may interest you to know that my father was for many years a sufferer from internal neuralgia, a kind of gout in the stomach, and after enduring this with no seeming prospect of euro, he tried Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and from tbat day to this, an interval of six years, he has never had another attack. On my arrival in Australia about sixteen months ago, I was very near death with this agonising pain — gout in the stomach. Finally I took ' Mother Seigel ' regularly, and since then I have never had the slightest return of this torturing ailment, which used to attack me about ever three months. " I find the best way to take Seigel's Syrup directly after eating is to carry a smull bottle full of it in the coat ticketpockot, and then it ia handy to use just after a meal ; and this bottle, when empty, can of course be easily replenished from the larger one sold by the chemist. " I have been the means of introducing Mother Seigel's Syrup to hundreds of sufferers, not in your interests, as you are strangers to me, but in theirs, and I have never beard of its failing. I thought on reading of tho suicide of the poor steward of the ship ' Lord Canning," if he had only known and used your medioinehe would be alive and well this minute. " It has long boen on my conscience that I ought to write and say how much good my father, my friends, and I have derived from ' Mother Seigel j' and when I tell you that I am an actor, exposed to draughty stages, damp dressing-rooms, and the perils of travelling in varying climates, you will understand how often my health is out of gear ; lint I feel secure with your medicine. ' "My best wishes and thanks are yours, and rest assured I will do all 1 can to bring [ it to the notice of others, who, like myself, | once doubted [ "Yours faithfully, EILIB NOBWOOD." Mr Norwood's letter came to us enclosed in one from Mr Jno. F. Clark,of 6O,Franois Street, Leeds, who mentions that he was afflicted with the same malady as his friend in Australia, and has been greatly benefited by using Seigels Syrup. It is desirable only to say tbat gout and rheumatism, which are easentially the same, though they attack different parts of the tystem, are caused by uric acid in the blood, a poison produced by indigestion and dyspepsia and torpid liver. The Syrup effects a cure by imparting their normal vigour to the digestive functions.