A Plague Victim.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 2, 5 June 1900, Page 3

A Plague Victim.

In a Sydney suburb the other day a young toian was found sitting on tbe edge of a pavement. He , had th© -drowsy, far away look of one who was drunk or composing a poem — but the passers-by prom pi w assumed that he had the ir.v.vj. From 500 to 1000 people g.Jh^.t-l round, but noboly among i'um all woulcl touch, the supposed >.*l ou. t ono. A policeman was cuvi — a policeman is a large man with ,oy wagGS who is supposed to 111 1 pldguo-picof — bub he didn't wav^ to touch the patient either. Il< went to fetch a oa-b with a vnw i> thy removal of the subject to i o m i j more mi table place, but no cabniaa would taihd the job. !>oi LAn ,r, r «,b ie bo come back with a c.b, ho Jitui't come back at all. The supposed dozed on, and the allege 1 thousand people still ga^ed at him from a safe distance. Then a doctor was tound — a doctor in a man who is expeutud to take his life in his hands attending gratis to infectious does thdfc are too ill to ovo-i give an address where the bill can be sent for non-payment. Ha inspected the patient, but os h^ couidn'fc undress him in the otree",, he asked for the iiaa of an outhousa, shed, coal-cellar, anything, so tha f . be could make a more eaiofui bxiiuunati. n. Not an acljar-ono sjai would have anything to d> with Ihe raAiCer or ien.l .u^tiun^ oven so private as a wheelb\'»rovv. Tha cro^'d, m a general sort or a way, had sent for the doctoi, bu-t no on-> e-ive b'9 ddHrp^s --md sai.l fch.it the biiJ ior attt.-na.nc3 -Jii-./'d be foi^/ardod thers. Tho uhegjd pasionfc d.owsed away an hour otmore on^the pa^pmeat before hi was removed in a corporation tijjdray. '^.hdre was no rush on Xiui 1 acb of the inteiested multitude to lift him in. * As it happened, sa\9 the Bulletin, he was a gjnunu case, and the multitude which watched him for an hour or more on cha pavement may be interestei to know he has since died.

Woods' Great Peppermint Cure lot coughs and colds never fails. Is. (3d.