WHY HE DID NOT GO TO THE HOSPITAL.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 20, 6 September 1889, Page 31

WHY HE DID NOT GO TO THE HOSPITAL.

HE COULD LEAP THROUGH THE AIR.

My object in writing is twofold : to express my gratitude for a great benefit, and to tell a short story which cannot fail to Interest the feelings of many others. It is all about myßelf, but I have remarked that when a man tells the honest truth about himself he is all the more likely to be of use to his fellow creatures. To begin then, yon must 1 had long been more or less subject to attacks of bronchitis, a complaint that you are aware is very common in Great Britain in certain seasons of the year. Some months ago I had a very severe turn of it, worse, I think, than I ever had before. It was probably brought on by my catching cold, as we are all apt to do when we least expect it. Weeks passed by, and my trouble proved to be ver j obstinate. It would not yield to medicine, and as I also began to have violent racking pains ia my limbs and back, I became greatly* alarmed. I could neither eat nor sleep. If I bad been a feeble* sickly man, 1 should have thought less strangely of it ; but as, on the contrary, I was hearty and robust, I feared some new and terrible thing had got hold of me, which might make my strength of no avail against it. I say, that was the way I thought.

Presently, I could not even lie down for the pain all over my body, I asked my doctor what he thought of my condition, and he fraokly said, " I am sorry to have to tell you that you are getting worse I" This so frightened my friends, as well as myself, that they said " Thomas, you must go to the Hospital ; it may be your only chance for life !"

But I didn't want to go to the hospital. Who does, when he thinks he can possibly get along without doing it ? lam a labouring man, with a large family depending on me for support, and I might almost as well be in my grave as to be laid on my back in a hospital unable to lift a hand for months, or God only knows how long. Right at tt is point I had a thought flash across my mind like a streak of sunshine in a cloudy day. I had heard and read a good deal about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and 1 resolved, before consenting to be taken to the hospital, I would try that well-known remedy. On this 1 gave up the doctor's medicine and began taking the Syrup. Mark the wonderful result! I had taken but threo doses within twenty-four hours when I was seized with a fit of cough* ing, and threw up the phlegm and mucus off my chest by the mouthful. The Syrup had loosened and broken it up. Continuing with the Syrup, the racking pain, which I belive came from the bitter and poison humours in my blood and joints, soon left me entirely, and elt like going to sleep, and I did sleep sound and quiet. Then I* felt hungry, with a natural appetite, and as I ate I soon got strong and well. I felt I could leap through the air with delight. In a week I was able to go to my work again. It doesn't seem possible, yet it is true, and the neighbours know it. There are plenty of witnesses to prove it. And, therefore, when I preach the good news of the great power of Seigel's Syrup to cure paain and disease far and wide, nobody will wonder at me. Thomas Canning. 76 Military-road, Canterbury, Kent. Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup is for eale by all chemists and medicine vendors ; and by the proprietors, A. J. White, Limited, 35, Farringdon road, London, K.C., England'

DEAF. —A person cured of deafness and noises in the head of 23 years' standing by a Simple remedy, will send description of it free to any person who applies to Nicholson, 65 William street, Melbourne. O'Donovan Rossa was shut up in the Tombs, New York, lately at the instance of Patrick Sarsfield Cassidy, who charges him with criminal libel. Some time ago Rossa had Casa dy arrested for calling him a liar, a traitor and a British spy. Cassidy's lawyer produced evidence in court which showed that Rossa had received money from Red Jim McDermott, the British spy. This disclosure knocked the bottom out of Rossa's case, and Caasidy was discharged. Bjssa at once tried to get back at him by calling him an " Englisb-McDermott-Le Caron spy" in the United Irishman. This expression constitutes Mr. Rossa's libel upon Mr. Cassitty's character. Cassidy'a complaint also charged Roßsa with iuciting to murder, inasmuch as it was claimed that if Dr. Cronin was assassinatei for being a British spy Cassidy for the same reason should have met a similar fale long ago. Boasn was liberated on parole to give &00 dole, fruit