WHY HE DID NOT GO TO THE HOSPITAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1924, 1 August 1889, Page 3

WHY HE DID NOT GO TO THE HOSPITAL.

HE COULD LEAP THEOCGH THE AIR. My object in writing is twofold : to express my gratitude for a great benefit, and to tell a short story whioh cannot fail to interest the feelings of many others: It is all about myself, but I have remarked that when a i man tells the honest truth about hiinself he is all the more likely to be of uie to his fellow oreatures. To begin, then, you must know I had been long more or lets subject to attaoks of bronchitis, a oomplaint that you are aware is very common and troublesome in Great Britain in oertain seasons of the year. Bone months ago I had a very severe turn of it, worse, I think, than I evor had before. It was probably brought on by my cstching oold, aa we are all apt to do whei:. we least expect it. Weeks pasned by and my trouble proved to be very obstinate. It would not yield to medioine, and as I also began to have violent raoking pains in my limbs and back I became greatly alarmed, I could neither pat nor sleep. If I had been a feeble, sickly man, I should have thought less strangely of it j but as, on the oontrary, 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 lie down for the pain all-over my body, I asked my doctor what he thought of iny oondition, and he frankly said, " I am sorry to have to tell you tHWt you are getting worse 1" This so frightened my friendi, as well as myself, that they said " THOMAS, YOU MUST GO TO thb eospitai; it may be your oniy Ohanob fob Liph!"

But I didn't want to go to the hospital. Who does, when he thinks be can possibly get along without it ? lam a laboring man. with a large family depending on me for support, arid I might a'most 8s well bo in my »« to be laid on my bock in a hospftal, unable to lift a hand for months, or God only knows how long. Eight at this point I had a, thought flash across my mind like a streak of sunshine in a cloudy day. I had heard and read a good deal about Mother Soigel's Curative Syrup, and I resolved, before Consenting to be taken to the hospital, I would try that well-known remedy. .iOflJtbii' I gave up the dootor's medioine and began taking the Syrup. Mark the wonderful result 1 I had taken but three doses within twenty-four hours when I was seized with a fib of coughing,' and threw up the phlegm and mucous off my chest by the mouthful. The Syrup had loosened and broken it up. Oontinuing,with the Syrup, the racking pain, whioh I believe came from the bitter and poison humors in my blood and j iints, soon left me entirely, and I felt like going to sleep, and I did sleep sound and quiet. Then I felt hungry, with a natural appetite, and as 1 ate I soon got strong and well. "I pbec. I cottid Leap Thbough thb Aib with Delight!" In a week I was able to go to my work again. It doesn't seem possible, yet it is true, and the neighbors know it. There are plenty of witnesses to prove it. And, thero> fore, when I say I preach the good news of the great power of Seigel's Syrup to cure pain and disease far and wide, nobody will wonder at me. Thomas Canning, 75, Military Eoad, Canterbury, Kent. Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup is for sale by all ohemists and medicine vendors ; and by the Proprietors, A. J. White, Limited, 35, Farringdon Eoad, London, E.G., England.

Telegrams report fchocks of earthquake at Westport and Reefton at 9.30 on Tuesday night. i The steamer Elderalie, 3360 tons, arrived at Oamnru yesterday morning from Melbourne, which port she left on Friday last. The Cape Foulwind labour difficulty has been settled. The contractors agree to the Union terms, viz., that all employees on the works must be union men, the standard rate of wages will be paid, and an agreement to this effect has been signed. Fon-Unionists will be eligible for admission into the union. At *he Wellington Resident Magistrate's Court, yesterday morning, Robert Bullen, ex-Inspector of Police, was charged with assaulting Mrs Mclnder. He was bound over to keep the peace for six months, himself in £lo® and two sureties of £SO each. The chßrge of breaking and entering Mrs Mclnder's house will be heard on Thursday. Typhoid fever is prevalent in the Thorndon end of the Wellington city. Captain Somerville has passed hia examination as Major. McDonald, one of the Selwyn team, broke his collar bone in a football match at Auckland on Saturday. A four-year-old girl of Mr W. I\ Boyes, Waikaia, Southland, was burned to death on Sunday, having set fire to some tussocks, the flames from which enveloped her. .Mrs Ann King, wife of a farmer at Eichmond, Nelson, was found dead in bed on Monday morning early. At the inquest a verdict of death from natural causes was returned. The Eoseville (Otago) Dairy Pac tory Company is to be wound up. The Company lost £SOOO in 18 months—£4oo within the last fortnight owing to the bankruptcy of a firm. A fire occurred early yesterday morniag in Grlen Wornington, Dunedin, by which Currie's general store and dwelling house attached, and also a four roomed cottage adjoining, were burnt to the ground. The flames spread to the cottage adjoining, occupied by Mr Howes and family, but some of the effects were saved. The stock in the store was insured for £650, and Currie's furniture for £SO, while the furniture of Howes was insured for £IBO. A bachelor of 43, who " promises to be a kind husband," advertises in a contemporary for "a loving orphan or a lonely lady with means." Ho wants the sweets without the bitters, the bride, etc., without the relations-in-law. That youth has cut hia \ wisdom teeth to some purpose.