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Temuka Leader, Issue 1889, 9 May 1889, Page 3

WHY HE DID NOT QU 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 myself, but I have remarked that when a man tells the honest truth about himself ho is all the more likely to be of use tohisiellow creature*. To begin, then, you must know I had been long more or less subject to attacks of bronchitis, a complaint that you are aware is very common and troublesome in Great Britain in certain seasons of the year. Some months ago I. had a very severe turn of it, worjie, I think, than I ever had before. It was probably brought on by my catching cold, as we are all apt to do when wo least expect it. Weeks passed by and my trouble proved to be very obstinate. It would not yield to medicine, and as I also began to have violent racking pains in my limbs and back I became greatly alarmed. I could neither eat nor sleep. If I had been I a feeble, sickly man, I 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 bold 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 He down for the pain all over my body. I asked my doctor what he thought of my condition, and ho frankly said, “I am sorry to have to tell you that you are getting worse 1” This so frightened my friends, as well as myself, that they said “ Thomas, voir must go to ths Hospital ; it may be voue only Chance poe Life !" But I didn’t want to go to the hospital. Who does, when he thinks he can possibly get along without it P lam a laboring 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 Qod only knows how long. Eight at this point I had a thought Hash across my mind like a streak of sunshine in a cloudy day. I had heard and read a good deal about Mother Ssigcl’a Curative Syrup, and I resolved, before consenting to ba taken to the hospital, I would try that well-known remedy. On this I gave up the doctor's medicine and began taking the Syrup. Mark the wonderful result J I had taken