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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3726, 3 February 1891, Page 3

"We Can Only say tnat His Initials are *• J. D-"

MBjoost Ute When a woman travels ten miles merely to ask a few questions we may assume that her curiosity is excited. In the year ISB3, o story went forth from Leverstock Green, Hamel Hempstead, Hert?, which aroused great interest in all the region thereabout, Peop!e came from various directions to enquire into the matter; what was alleged to have occurred had to do ostly with one man. If the story ed out to be true some good was tly to come of it ; if false, it would ly put the community more oil their guard against all sorts of wild rumours. Among the women who were bound to get at the foundation of it was one from St Albans and a cook from Lacgley. How strangely things work out iu this queer world. Seven years have passed and the facts are now to become generally public for the first time.- Jt appears that about the first of January, 1883, an old resident of the place above Darned was said, ar.d commonly believed to be in a dying condition. For five liitnihsau able and clever physician had been attending him constantly, no medical man could have done more. His ailment "was decided to be pout and rheumatism, which are now held to be practically the same malady differently locatedWell, this began back in July, 1882. As time' ran along the patient grew worse. The doctor's ability and experience didn't seem to count. The sufferer's ankles, feet, and hands became badly swollen. "We all know this must have been a scary symptom because that the fluids of his body (and the body i 3 nearly all fluid anyway)—instead of being carried off as they naturaHy should be, were flowing over their channels and iuundatmg the parts around them, just as a stream does after heavy rains. The doctor said the danger of this state of things lay in the fact that when the water reached the heart or lung 3 it might end in sudden death. The cause of dropsy is the refusal of the kidney to carry off the water ; so much is plaiu. But what makes the kidneys strike work ? We now know the reason of that. It is because they are partially paralysed by a poison in the blood

arising from undigested food in the stomach. In plain English, chronic state of indigestion and dyspepsia was responsible for results which now threatened our unknown friend's life. It was reported —and of its truth there isn't any doubt—that his abdomen was blown like a bladder on account of the water which soaked all through his flesh. In conversation a few weeKs ago, he said, "Alimy friends now looked upon me as a dying man." And reasonably enough too; for what chance is there for a man who is gradually drowning in this way I—For that is what it was—drowning and nothing else in the world. Medicine appeared to be of no use, aud the phpsician suggested that possibly the poor man might be benefitted if he could go away from home and try the baths, mineral waters, and change of scene and air. But nobody believed in that plan, and in honest truth, it is hardly likely that the wise physician believed in it himself. At all events the idea wasn't put into practice.

About this time the patient's wife happened to be in the shop of a chemist at Hampstead, and he gave her a little book, and said she might like to read it. She did read it, and found it a full description of the very complaint that was fast sending her husband to the grave, and also the name of what was asserted to be. a remedy for it. After some trouble she got him to consent to try it, and sent for a bottle-. He began, and kept it up for tour months,taking twenty six bottles altogether. At the end of that time he was a well, sound man, and is so to day. The whole neighbourhood was amazed. ' E.is recovery, when ho had been looked upon as a dead man, set toneues wagging all round the country. He now says : "I should not have been here now, if it had riot been for Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup." Oiir friend requests us not ti publish his full name, but we may print his initials, which are "J.D." Address; Leverstock Green, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. He will answer letters.

MAUBICEVILLE ROAD BOARD TENDERS will be received up to noon of February 27th at Mr. G. Gunderson's, Mouriceville Railway Station, where specifications, may be seen, ior, Metalling about 45 chains Dryer's Rock Roach Metalling about 40 cltains Jackson's Road. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. W. GRA.Y, Clerk. Mauriceville, Feb. 2nd, 1891. MAURICEVILLE ROAD BOARD. SPECIAL ORDER. "VTOTICE is hereby giyen that it is jji intended to make the following Special Order, at a meeting of the Board to be held on the 28th cf Feb. 1891:- ■■'■'' t . That, to secure the repayment ot a Loan of £3OO, borrowed under the Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886, for the purpose of fellin? and forming Mt Munro Road East, a special » rate of 5 and J pence in the £, be made and levied on the rateable value for the time being of Sections 173,175, 176, .Block I XIII Mangaone, and Section 10, Block I, Kopuaranga. Such special rate shall be an annually recurring rate for 20 years, or until Loan is rapaid ; and shall be paid in two half yearly instalments on the Ist of January and Ist of July iu each year. ,W. GRAY, Clerk, Mauriceville, Feb. 2nd, 1891. MASTERTON ROAD DISTRICT. 3T7BLIC tenders will close at Jioou _L of Saturday, 7th Feb., at the Road Board office, Masterton (where ana etc may be seen), for . . Contract No 2 JCakaoamu Valley Road, 143 Chains of road formation etc. F. G. MOORE, Clerk to the Board. Masterton, 29th Jan., 1891.