HOW A GOOD SHIP WAS LOST.

Western Star, Issue 1541, 4 March 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)

HOW A GOOD SHIP WAS LOST.

On the night of October 27th, 1842, the good ship " Mary Comptou," of Bristol, Eng- ( land, was struggling with a fearful gale off the ( coast of North America. Tho wind blew furiously, bi.t the weather was clear, and the Captain expected every moment to get sight of the light in the lighthouse on the Iron Rock Shoals. This lighthouse marked the entrance to the harbor. Once tbere, and they • were safe. Sure of his position, he sailed on confidently. Five minutes later the ship struck with a fearful shock and wmt to pieces. Four men, including the Captain' were saved. On reaching the shore they found a strange thing had happened. An enemy of the lighthouse keeper had bound him hand and foot and extinguished the light. , • , Souls, a 3 well as ships, steer by tie lights. Hope is the most important lighthouse in the world. What shall be said of the man who darkens it in the face of a storm-toesed spirit ? " You are beyond human aid." Those words were said by a physician to a woman > ■who had come to consult him. Admitting I that he thought so, had he the right to say '. so ? No; for he might be wrong—and in » any ease he had no business to put out the I light. This woman had been ill for some time. In June, 1889, she was greatly alarmed by he?, symptoms. Her heart palpitated, and I she was so giddy she could scarcely stand. Her Head whirled "and," she said, "all j objects seemed to go into a cloud." She had ' to hold herself up or sit down for fear of { falling. She broke out in a sweat although , cold as death. A dreadful cough racked her frame so that she could not lie down in bed and sleep. "I could scarcely crawl about the house, ehe says " I was so weak. I tried different remedies and medicines without avail. I went to the Dispensary at New Biiggale and j asked the doctor to tell me the worst. His ; answer was, ' I have mixed you some medicine, < you can take it or leave it.' I took it for j three weeks, then gave up in despair. " I talked with two other physicians. The : last one said, ' You are past human aid' i "My heart sink within me, for I had five ' litt'e children, and my death would leave them without a mother's love and care. I , went home and cried till I was sick. I had no appetite and had lost flesh . ill I mas thin as a ghost ! My mother came to see me and di not know me. My skin w:.s of a grer-n a ud yellow color, a- d when I ate anything it seemed to stick in my throat. About this time I c mmenced vomiting, and what I threw ' up was tinged with blood. Once I began to vomit at nine o'cljckok a .Saturday morning ■ and scarcely g t rest from it until Monday , morning. iiij.nr "At this time I remembered that Mrs Wilson, with whom I had formerly worked , ia Crawford Mill, in Fast Stre. t, Leeds j (where I live, had been cured by Mother j Seigel's Curative Syrup. So I sent to Mr i Jessou's, the Chemist, in Great G.rden street, ' and got a A few doses sjopped t'e vomiting, and by degrees from day to day I i felt better. Soon I could oat a dry crust, j and by the time I had finished the second | bottle I had; got over all my bad symptoms, and was fast getting my strength hack. I am now (April, 1890) in better health than ever before in my life. "I suoul.l hvo taken Mother Seigel s Curative Syrup sooner, hut my husband was cut of work and we had only a trifle coming! in from his club, but I thank Go . I did get it at last, and it. cured me, bad off as I was. AH my frisn :s and neighbours know the tacts I have rcliled, and I wi'l reply to any letters of enquiry." (dfcned), Mrs Awn Mill?, 40, Broad Street, York ltoad, Leeds. This wa3 a case of indigestion and dyspepgia, with symptoms showing how far it uad affected the nervous system. A few months or possibly weeks more, and Mrs Mills would have no tale to lull. She did wrong to wait one hour for any reason, after having known that Mother Sefrel's Curative Syrup had done for her friend Mrs Wilson. Tommy's Complaint ieaelier How do you spend your Sunday, Tommy ? Tommy—l can't spend it at all. Pa makes us keep the Sabbath. The best? Remedy ion Ixmgestion.— Norton's Camomile Pills are confidently recommended as a Simple Kerned j for Indigeelion, which is the cause oi nearly all ths diseases to which we are subject, i.orton e Pills, with justice called the ' Natural Strengthener of the Stomach," act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient, are mild in then operation, and safe under any circumstances Sold in bottles, at Is IK 2s 9d, lis, by all Medicine Vendors throughout tho World.