The plague of rats.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3456, 11 March 1890, Page 3

The plague of rats.

' r A P ro F 3 ot tlie Mt -Pl*gi» in tho Mid lands, England, which is said to be duu ti the deportation ol so many tods am weasels to. New Zealand, an old Nov Zoalandor, sighing himself B. L C, write: to tho Standard:—" In order (0 outwit tin wily rodent, here ia another trap which nr father used to eulogise as being highlj successful in clearing his " store "df'rati many years ago in New Zealand. Itwai cpmtiosed ot a halt barrel three parli '-j- filled with water, in which nbriok set m :;» reaohed to within an inch or two ofthi .' surface, Over the top of tho barrel stretcli tightly a sheet of stout cartridge paper, Mawng a cross cut some oin in Icngll across the centre; over this cut, by means of string, hang s6mo savoury morsel, ami set np a sloping bA»d tor the rats to cliiu t up._ No. 1 comes along, and just as bo is nosing the bait his treacherous footing gives way,and ho goes souce into the water rinds tho brick and sits on it, Tho stiO paper having closed up immediately he cannot jump out. No. 2 arrives and goes through the same performance, except that ho, having no brick to sit upon, tries . to evict No. 1, Now tho mischief begins, ' L for their squeaking brings all of their kin * ond kind to seo what the row is about, and / the result is that not a rat is left to tell tho tale."—Telegraph. TEN MONTHS SUFFERING IN A HOSPITAL. _ Thoro is nn old layingthat physicians aro a class of mon who pour drugs, of whlchthey know little, into bodies of which thoy know -less. This is both true and unruo at tho same time. There aro good and poor lawyers, and good and poor doctors. Tho troublo with these .judical gentlemen as a profession i 3 jfthat they aro clannish, and apt to lie conceited. Thoy don't like to be beacon at their own trade by outsiders who have nover studied medicino, Thoy therefore pay, by their frequent failures, the penalty of rofusitig instruction unless the teacher bears their own "Hall Mark." An eminent physician—Sr BrownSequard, of Paris-states the fact accurately when he Bays: "Tho medical profession are so bound up in their self-conlidenco and conceit that they allow tho diamond truths of ecieiice bo picked up by persons entirely outside thoir ranks." Wenivo n most interesting incident, which illustrates this important truth. Tho steamship "Concordia" of tho Donaldson Line, sailed from Glasgow for Baltimore in 1887, having on board £ as.i fireman a man named liichard Wado of Glasgow, He had been a fireman for fourteen years on various ships sailin;! from America, China and India Ho had borno tho hard and exhausting labour, and had been healthy nud strong, On the trip wo now namo he began for tho first time to feel weak and ill. His appetite failed and he suffered from drowsinese, heartburn, a bad tasto tijjn tho mouth and costiveness and h . Tirresmlarity of the bowels. Sometimes 1 when at work Jio had attacks of giddiness but supposed it to bo caused by the heat of the fire-room, Quito often ho was sick and felt like vomiting, and had somo pain in tho head. Later during the passage ho grew worse, oud when the ship reached Halifax he was placod iu tho Victoria General Hospital, and tho ship sailed away without him. Tho house surgeon gave him some powders to stop tho vomiting, and tho next day tho visiting physician ?ave him a mixture to take every four hours, Within . two days Wade was so much worse that the doctors [stopped both tho powders and tho mixture. , A month passed, the poor fireman getting worso and worse. Then came another doctor, who was to bo visiting physician for tho next

uve raontha. He tpe other medicines but not innch relief. Neatly nil tha timo Wade suffered great torture; ho digested nothing, throwing npall he ate. There was terrible pain in jtho bowels, burning heat in the throat, heartburn, f and racking headache, The patient was now taking a mixture evory four hours, powders one after each meal to digest the food, operating pills one every night, ijnd temporature pills two each night to -%op tho cold sweats. If drugs could cure him at all, litchard had an idea that he took enough to do it, But oh the other hand pleurisy set in and t/ie doclort tool: ninety ounces of matter fnmhit right mk, and then told him ho was sure to die. Five month moro rolled by, and there was another change of visiting physicians. The new one gavo Wade a mixture which he widmmfe/iim tmnbk lih a leaf ona tree. At this crisis Wado's Scotch blood asserted itself. Ho refused to stand any more dosing, and told the doctors that if he must dio ho could die as well without them as with them. By this lime a cup of milk would turn sour on his stomach, and lie there for dajs. Our friend from Glasgow was like a wreck on a shoal, fast going to pieces, Wo will let him tell the rest of his experience in the.words in which he communicated it to tho pres3, He says; " When I was In this stato i lady whom I had never aeon caineto tho hospital and talked with me. She prjved to bo an angel of mercy, for without her I should not now bo alivo

Sho 'told me of a medicine called / Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' nud me a bottlo next day. I started with it, without consulting tho doctor, andiiKHityd fmdap' timcTu'as oiifo/ mL^"- 1 - 1 - calling forham aiirf ajys forkmifml WTroiii that time, keeping on with Mother Seigel's great remedy, I got well fast, and was Boon able to leavo the hospital and come home to Glasgow. I now feel as if a was in another world, and have no illneaaof any kind." The above facts are calmly and impartially stated, and the reader may draw his own conclusion. We deom it best to vjße no names, although Mr Wade gavo them in his original deposition. His'address is No. 244, Stobcross Street, Glasgow, where letters will reach him. Umtdk.