"KISS ME, JACK, AND LET MR GO;

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8168, 24 April 1895, Page 4

"KISS ME, JACK, AND LET MR GO;

Oao»>, long »go, I wai witness to a duel in California. The tiro man h»d been Worn frioJdi, bat h»d quarrelled about (of course) a woman. Splendid M!owi both— young, brainy, ami ambitious. At tney irool in a ol«ar spa no amon? the pine trots near Saoramanto, pnlo m lilies, itcady M rooks, weapoui in. hand waiting tor tho ' word, the riling Ban shining athwart tho line of vlit'on, tlmy nresnntel a pio*;iiro tio often toon in 1858 The piatola oraokad almost ■imultauuoasly. 000 mnn «toid oreot, evidently untouched ; tho other fell apoa hii back and lay itra'ght and etiil. Seoondi, iur.ione, and spectators rashed to hia side. Ho was " all thoro," mind a» wo'l ns body. " No, aon't disturb me," ho said cool y to the doctor, •' I'm flhot fatftl'y uni shiU da in five minutes. Gall Jack and he quick." Pistol still in hand, his nntagouut camo and bont over hit or»t« whilo ohum. The oxoifcoarnt among tho ofowd woa Intjuho ; tho dying man alouo WJB calm. •« Jack, my dnrliog old boy " ho said, " forgive me and forgive her. Ki«i me and let mo go " A minute moro and ho was df&l, with Jack lying aoross his body, crying tiko a osby. After I hwo "told yoa an^tlnr and very differo t etory. l'<l «how whorein thoy toaoh tli3 iftmo lesion. There ia no tragedy in this one ; novor* tholotft it i* of wider human Interest than the other ( A woman hua Loon ill moro or lets all hor life. Tho deta li aro conm-in-place onoagh, and yet th y will appeal to million! who oare nothing for tho joalouiios of young men in love. •'At timei," the says, " I suffered from pains at the baok o f the head, and a son c of weight, and felt tirod and woary, yet It was not from wor only. I had » str.ingo fooling, too, of Bomotliiug hant^lag over me, %n ol 60' mo evil or danger thut I could not explain or define, "My nppotito was variable; nnmetimes I could eat anything and again I oould not touoh any food tit all. But I was never laid up, as if were " F ejse noto tho last s ntenoa. H may ■eem like the weakest, but really is tho (strongest p int iv thu lady's st-jtomont. We will tel you why i . a m >mont. She goet on: " btill I was of ton in mitery, but got a'ong filrly w il until Auguat 1890, wb.ni I had a sevoro attack of rliumauam First tho groat too of my right foot and tho thumb • f my right hand grew hot onl painrful. After a timo tho troubln extended to my bnck and hips, I could not sttdighton myself ; I waa almoit bent do ib«. Month aftor ironth I wai liko thi', ge'tin^ little or no »lcep at night Medioil tre tment prov«d o' no benefit to mo. Jn ueoamb r, 1891, thu pain almost drove we mad, My fuoj wa« swollen to nearly »wico iti natural bizo, and my oyos were «o covered by ihe enlar^on iids th^t I oould •o'vrcely see. There was a oonstiat ringing in my em, and the dootora said I had e?ynipetns. ° For daya and dayi I coa)d not walk acrosi tho floor, and for some timo I wa* ablo to movo about only by taking hold of the furniture o* otho objoots. When a 1 other moans h»d beca tried and had failed Mother Soigol's Curative Byrup w»a recommonded to mo. A linglo bottle did mo a dual of good. I kept on with it, and soon wai otrongor aud in better health than fo forty year* previously. I still Uke an occasional do*o, and cont'nuo in good h alth notwithstanding my aga (JS), and the ' ohange of life.' I to.l evoryono what the Syrup Ims done for me and givo you permnsi n to publish wh«t I have said. Yours tiuly (Signed), (Mr*) MaKY Janh Miineh, IS, W lker'a Building!, 15,-owery Lino, Thornhiil Lees, noar Dowaburyj Yorkshiro, October 12th, 1892." Now for the lesson of both theie incidents ; what it it? This, that it is not people in desperate oxtromitiea who suffoi most, i'ain is in proportion to tho resistanoo to ( uea*e. Those who eurrenoer, who aro in despair, who givo up, havo proBoot puni hment largo y remitted Dyins porsns aro the mo t oomfortablo of all. iJoptlegineoi and disso'utinn adaiinistor the.r nwa anodynei. Those who arc not laid up, who are ill, and yot work ant] fc>rug B io, need pity »»d holp^ This lady was ono, dnd to auoh Mot..or fe'elgel alwayi provoa * frtoad.