A PAUPER'S DYING REQUEST.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 11634, 5 November 1887, Page 2

A PAUPER'S DYING REQUEST.

PAUPIIE^DYINGiJiEQ^sii^ An amusing and jrefc patnetie ineEdeni = I in whatrthe poetUrayo»iled>'thtfatu»ET<' Jand simple annals of the poor,"w tplcl'l! by Mr John J^B. M&oklejohn, brie ot thl h t Inspectors p*; the Vqort] at LerwMrf Shetland Islands. He Bays .that .Boipfc , time ago an old woman, nnnied BarbalS f r Smith, came under the notice wthfi' - Board. She was extremely ill, and it; I' J did not look likely .&at she would lobgp need, care of any ki«d. She did nolH reside on the mainlan'^.bafc oh s sioall!\i island a few milfis'distant, and there H being no paroohial institutions m tha^n place, Barbara ueoessarly occupied ttet'? position of a pauper living oat. fXheii ' trouble i rova. whicb. she Buffered dated^ back many years. In better and tnoreV prosperous days she had in some'iwriy' : ' laid the foundation for Chronic Indigeiw : tion and Dyspepsia, and out o£ this bi^Usprung other complaints as age aaiH ; bodily infirmities crept apace uppnlbift,' n] Barbara washot ignorant, albehafaft-'^ had fallen into poverty, Iv e^lierlife^ ' she somehpw obtained the advantage of a fair education, and this added i ;tb native*. shrewdness, enabled her to use\ gpodl •' judgment in respect to her o^n situatwla^ ■ and state of health. Althbngh she Jbid long suffefed from asthma m% brpn* . chial affection Barbara was wise enough ■ to see these ailments &ta£p from tiia ! > disordered stomach and digestion, an^vi that if thfe main trouble oould he onjreA '; the others would soon leave herl liia" probable that her disease began' as othex-ft do, with the usual symptoms; head~ ' aches, bad breath the rising of sonar' fluids in the throat, oppression and famtness at the pit'of the stomach, loss of sleep, coated tongue. dulTeyes, b^ci: v taste in the mouth. 'Ac, and finally became chronic and tiopelesdi through " her not being able to find any remedy. The Inspector stated that she had been under medical treatment for years,.but. no effect. In this stait she one day made the following touching appeal to the Inspector: " I have hem suKtttbwing medicines for months. They do me no' - good. I am going on from worst to ' ; worst. I can endure it no longer, I feel that in a ivcek or two IslwMo'q dead. There is one last request I would, make qf; ■;. you; give me a bottle of Mother Seigle'v ' ' Curative Syrup: it is my only hope. If it proves a failure and does me no good, I will die in peace, and make 7if>more '.' epense to the pari&liS' It seems she had got hold of one of : Mother iSeigel's Almanacks and read of the great cures wrought by the Syrup ' in cases like hers. The Board pitied the poor lone woman and granted her petition, boliving, however, the Syrup would prove as useless as the other medicines she had already taken. What was their astonis - ment to find, in the coarße of a few daya, that she had not only bsen able ta get out of bed, but to move about oufc« side the bouse, aud had taken journeys to a considerable distance, and wwa r actually enjoying better health than' since she was first taken ill. The atshma and bronchitis, which were no morn than symptoms of her true disease (indigestion and dyspepsia), rapi'jfly abated, and it now seems that Barbara will soon he as hale and hearty as> bhe Inspector himself, and be on* of the lios&s of living witnesses to the power of Mother Seigel'a Syrup to save the;housaads who were just ready to aerish. Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup s for sale by all chemists and medicine and by the proprietors, A. J. ?vhits, Limited, 35, Parringdon Road, -tondon. B.O;