“KISS ME JACK, AND LET ME GO.”

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1786, 9 November 1895, Page 3

“KISS ME JACK, AND LET ME GO.”

Once, long ago, I was witness to a duel in California. The two wen had been bosom friends, but had quaralled about (of course) , a woihan. . Splendid fellows both—young, brainy, and ambitious. As they stood in a clear space among the pine trees near Sacramento,, pale as lilies, steady as rocks, weapons in hand waiting for the word, the rising sun shining athwart the line of vision, they presented a picture too often seen in 1856. The pistols cracked simultaneously. One man'stood'erect, evidently untouched; the other fell upon his back and lay straight and still. Seconds, surgeons, and specta.rushed to his side He was * all there,* » j|& as well as body. ‘No, don’t disturb me, he said coolly to the doctor, ‘ I’m shot fatally and shall.die in five, minutes. Call Jack- and be quick.’ • Pistol in hand; his ' antagonist came' and bent over his erstwhile • chum. The exciteinent among the crowd was intense; the dying man alone was calm. ‘ Jack, my darling old boy,’ he said, * forgive me ahd fcrgive her. Kiss me and let me go A minute , more and he was dead, with Jack , lying acroßs his body, crying likep. baby. ■,>AfterCl. have' told~ you another and very V different story, I’ll show wherein they -teach .the same lesson, v There is no tragedy in this one; never■'theless it is of wider human interest ithan . the’other. A woman had been ill jnoro 'or less all her life. The details are commonplace enough; and yet they will appeal to ■ millions who care nothing for the jealousies of young men in love. At. times/ she says, I suffered from pains at the back of the head; and a senso of weight, and felt tired and weary, yet it ' was not from work only. I had a strange f eeling, too, of something hanging over me, as of some evil or danger that I could not - explain or define.. ... . ~ . My appetite variable; sometimes I . could eat anything and again I could not touch any food at all. But I was never laid np, as it were/ *' . : '

I Please mote, the last sentence. It may .'seem like' the weakest but really is the strongest point in this lady’s statement. We will tell you why in a moment. • She goes on s f ‘ Still I was often in misery, Tbut got fairly Veil'until August; 1890, when 1 had a severe attack.of rheumatism. F.rst L the great toe of ray right foot and the thu:i b of my right hand grew hot and painful. . After a. time the trouble extended to my back ahd -hips. I could not straighten myself f I was almost bent double. ". Month after month I was like this, getting little, or no.sleep at night.. Medical treatment proved of no benefit to me. In December, 1891, the pain almost drove me mad. My face was swollen to twice its natural size, . and my eyes were so covered by the enlarged lids that ! could scarcely see. There was a. constant ringing in my ears, and the doctors said I had erysipelas. .• ‘For days and days I could not walk actors the fl.-.ivr. n.nd for rataa time T was

able to move about only by taking hold of the furniture or other objects. When all • other raean3 had been tried and had failed Mother Seigels’s Qnrative Syrup was recommended, to me. . A single bottle did mo a deal Of good. I kept on with it, and soon was stronger and in better health than for forty years previously. I still take an occasional dose and continue in good health notwithstanding my age (48), and the * change of life.’ I tell everybody what the Syrup has done for me, and give you permission to publish what I have said, . Youis truly (Signed), (Mrs) Maby Jane Milnes, • 18, Walker’s Buildings. Brewerey Lane, Thornhill Lees, near Dowsdury, Yorkshire, October 12th, 1892.’ ' i Now for the lesson of both these incidents; what is it ? ' This; that it is not people in desperate extremities who- suffer most. Pain is in proportion to the resistance to disease. Those who surrender,. who are in despair, who give up, have presont punishment largely remitted, Dying persons "are the most comfortable of all. Hopelessness and dissolution administer their own anodynes. Those who are not laid up, who are ill, and yet work and struggle, need pity and help. This lady was one, and to such Mother Seigel always proves a friend.