WITH THE CONDEMNED.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2646, 14 April 1894, Page 4

WITH THE CONDEMNED.

Victor Hugo, the genius to-whom the world is grateful for the marvellous conception of Jean Valjean, makes one of his most thrilling and analytical sketches on the thoughts of a condemned criminal. It is a wonderful thiug—you could believe after reading it that the author had been himself the central figure of a condemned cell. The agony of waiting—the frightful suspense—-the daily death the prisoner dies in-his fear of the one material death that is to coine—all are delineated with a terrible mad coolness. And after all the death is really not what the man fears, it is the certainty of it, the setting apart of a day when he will cease to be, the thought that after next Tuesday or Wednesday he will be incapable of thought—these are the terrors. It is not the consummation but the preparation wherein lies the punishment. We are all under sentence of death, only we are respited indefinitely, and we do not know the date fixed for our execution. Leaving aside accident and old age the extension of the respite is in our own hands. With ordinary care, rational living, and immediate attention to the liver or kidney trouble or the broken nervous system which seems so trifling at the outset, the conservation of life to the limits of old age is within the reach of everyone. Warner’s Safe Remedies are of all medicines the key to longevity. Their constituents are such that they assimilate directly with the enfeebled system, and lerd it back from the grave to 'the sunlight. Mr J. 6. Doxey, Produce Merchant, Seymour, whose letter we publish below, gives the experiences of his truly serious condition and happy recovery :—“ For thirty years I suffered from liver, kidney and gravel diseases, and it would be impossible to give even a faint idea of the misery and pain I endured during that time. Iw as treated by several of the leading doctors in Melbourne, but not one of them could give me any hope of a recovery. They expected, my complaints to develop into Bright’s disease. My back and loins always seemed cold. After taking a few bottles of Safe Cure 1 passed a quantity of quantity of clotted blood, after which 1 had ease. 1 was so irritable that I could hot bdar to have any one come near me or speak to me. I continued taking the Safe Cure for twelve mouths; 1 then felt I was quite cured. My wife was afraid that the disease would return and advised me to continue the medicine in half doses for a farther period, which I did. This was about three years ago, and since then I have hot felt anything of the old trouble and now am able to eat, drink, sleep and work with pleasure. My friends never expected to see me alive to-day, much less in the full enjoyment of all my bodily powers. I ani well known in this district, having resided here for about 25 years, and hundreds can testify to the truth of these statements. I now weigh a stone and a- half more than before taking the medicine.”