A PAUPER'S DYING REQUEST.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1657, 8 November 1887, Page 3

A PAUPER'S DYING REQUEST.

An amuiing and jet psthetio incident in what the poet Gray called the “ abort and simple annals of the poor,” is told by Mt John J. Bi Mioklejohn, one of the I> apector. of the Poor, at Lerwick, Shetland lelanda* He says that some time ago an old woman, named Barbara Smith, came under the notice of the Board. She was extremely ill, and it did not look likely that she would long need oare of any kind. She did net reside on the mainland, but on a small island a few miles distant, and there being no parochial institutions in that place, Barbara necessarily occupied the position of a pauper living out. The trouble from which she suffered dated back many years. In better and more prosperous days she had in some way laid the foundation for Chronic Indigestion and Dyspepsia, and ont of this had sprung other comp amts as age and bodily infirmities orept apace upon her. Barbara was not ignorant, albeit she had fallen into poverty. In earlier life ehe 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 of health. Although she had long Buffered from asthma and a bronchial affection, Barbara was wise enough to see that thoee ailments aross from the disordered stomach and digestion, and that if the main trouble could be oared the others would soon leave her- It is probable that her disease began as others do, with the nsaal symptoms; headMhes, bad brsatb, the rising of sour fluids in te throat, oppression and faintness at the pit of the stomach, loss of sleep, coated ti-ngne, dull eyes, bad taste in the mouth, A and finally became chronic and hopeless through her not being able to find any raxedj. The Inspector states that she had been under medical treatment for years, but to no effect. In this strait she one day made the following touching appeal to the Inspector : " I have been swallowing medicines for "months. They do me no good. I am “ going on from worse to worse. I can en".dure it no longer. I feel that in a week or " two I shall be dead. There is one last " request I would make of you: give me a “ bottle of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup } "it is my only hope. If it proves a failure " and does me no good I will die in peace, 11 and make no more expense to the parish." It seems she had got bold of one of Mother Seigel’i Almanacks and read of the great cures wrought by the Syrup in cases like here,

The Board pitied the poor lone woman and granted her petition, believing, however, the Syrup would prove as useless as the other mediolnee ehe had already taken. What was their astonishment to find, in the course of a few dayi, that she had not only been able to get out of bed, but to move about outside the house, and had taken journeys to a considerable distance, and was actually enjoying better health than since she was first taken ill. The asthma and bronchitis, which were no more than symptoms of her true disease (indigestion and dyspepsia), rapidly abated, aod it now seemi that Barbara will soon be ae hale and hearty as the Inspector himself, and be one of the hosts of living witnesses to the power of Mother Seigel’e Syrnp to save the thousands who were just ready to perish. Mother Seigel’e Curative Syrnp is for sale by all chemists and medicine vendors, and by the proprietors, A. J. White, Limited, 85, Fsrringdon Road, Loudon, E.O.