A PAUPER'S DYING REQUEST.

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 2, 27 October 1887, Page 3

A PAUPER'S DYING REQUEST.

An amusing and yet pathetic incident in what the poet Gray called “ the short and simple annals of the poor,” is told hy 3VL John J. It. Mickiejohn, one of the Inspectors of the Poor, et Lerwick, Shetland Ilamia. Ho says that some time ago un old woman, named Barbara Smith, cam under the notice of the Board. Sin; was extremely ill, and it did not look likeh that aim would long need care of any kin She di' l not reside on the mainland, but on a small island a few miles distant, an there being no parochial institutions i that place, Barbara nmssariiy occupie the position of a pauper living out. The trouble from which she suffered dated badmany years. In better and mote prosper ousdays she had in some way laid tin foundation for Chronic Indigestion imu Dyspepsia, and out of this had sprung other complaints as age and olner infirmities crept apace on her. Barbara was not ignorant, albeit she had fallen into poverty. In earlier life she Somehow obtained the advantage of a fair education, and this added to native shrewdness, enabled her to use good judgment in respect to her own situation and state ot health. Although she had long suffered from asthma and a bronchial affection, Biubnra was wise enough to see that these ailments arose from the disordered stomach and digestion, and that if the main trouble could be cured the others would soon leavi her. It is probable llu.t her disease begun as others do, wih the usual symptoms; headaches, bi.d breath, the lising of sou, ■fluids in the tlnoat, oppression and faintness at the pit of the stomach, loss o! smep, coated tongue, dull eyes, bad taste in the month, «.Vc., and finally became chronic and hopeless through her not being able to find any remedy. The Inspector stales that she had been under medical treatment for years, but to im effect. In lids straight she one day made the following touching appeal to the Inspector ; “ I have, been evaUmviwj medicine* J\ r mouth <. 'I hey do me no yard. lam gob y onjroin worse to worse . I van an. are (I no tuny tv. J fed that in a week ov two I thill Iff dead. Then is < nf last request

| 1 vronld make of you : (jive me a holllc of 1 J; other Seiyrl’s Curative Syrup : it is my 1 only hope. Jf it proves a failure and dors ■ me no yond / mill die in. ],eacc, find make no more c.rpiiise to the parish.'" It s-c;ns she had "ot hold of one of Mother Keigeib Almanacks and road of the great cure s wrought by the Syrup in cases like hors. The Board pitied the poor lone w.-man and grained her petition, believing, love ever, the Syrup would prove as useless as die other ui'ifhcine.s >-he had .-dioa ?y tak.-n. Wliat v. Os dn.-ir astonisliiiu id to iind in 1 ii>;■ coiuse of u few days, Uud sh<‘ In d no: | only been aide to get on oi I cd, hut to | move about outside th house-, a:.d had < taken joarn'-ys to a rommeraole distance, I am! was actually enjoying better health than since she was first (.'.ken ill. 'Jim asthma am< biouehitis, which wore no more I than symptoms of her true disease fiud)- | gestion and dyspepsia), rapidly abated I and new ic seems that Barbara wib soon | j be as halv and iu-arty as >!j j Insp-i ctor j j hj m elf, and !>« one of the hosts of living witnesses to tho ; ower of Mother bleigel’s Syrup to save the thousands who wen-just ready to f erish . Mother beigel’s Curative Syrup is for sate by edi tin mists and medicine venders. | and by the propiictors, A. J. V. bite, Limited, So, Fairiugdon Load. London, E.C.