IT WAS MARY SHERLOCK'S WAKE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4121, 26 May 1892, Page 3

IT WAS MARY SHERLOCK'S WAKE.

" Thwe lays a hundred years o' peace and happiness." It was tho wake of Mary Sherlock, who had died of old age; and it touk place on the night of Thursday, March 19th, 1891, in the City of flew York. The room was crowded with men and women, old and young, and an aged junkman, who sat on a keg in the middle of the room, said to every new-comer, "There lays a hundred years of peace and happiness," to which the party re> sponded in chorus,' Faith. Mike, nivor truer words did ye speak." For Grandma Sherlock had come to America from Ireland beforo any of them, and, no doubt, was at least 105 yeara old when she ended her long journey. But phe was one of the old stock and nover knew what illness was.

How different ia such a story as this, for instance, told by a woman! "I was never well in my life," she says, "always weak and ailing; constantly sick, and troubled with giddiness and swimming in the head, '.People who did not know mo would at times think I was tipsy, 1 always Had a poor appetite, with bad taste in the mouth in die morning, and pain after eating. I had great pain and tightness in the chest and side, and was languid and tired after the least exertion, so I was unable to work or get my own living. " As to gick headache, I was seldom free from it, and often my heart would palpitate, so I had to stop and hold myself, for fear ot falling: I was nearly always under the doctor, and when 1 was bo, something formod in my mouth that the doctor called ' ranula," and I was confined in the Exeter Hospital 17 weeke with it, ' "From that time I was worse than ever, and after eating the least morsel of food I heaved at the stomach and would spit up a 3our fluid, 11 Better and worse I continued until April, 1889, when 1 became much worse, and my abdomen swelled until it reached a great size, and a pain in the side and back made me scream out, Indeed, I was in such agony I could not stir hand or foot, Just then my neighbour, Mrs Hams, wife of Joshua Harris, the road contractor, camo in, and 1 had to he carried to bed. So dreadful was the pain that I broke out into a heavy sweat, and a faintness came over me.' Mtß Harris stayed with me and poulticed me, hut as 1 got no better my mother, who lived at Bousdon, was sent for, She came at once, and sent for a doctor, as I was in terrible distress, and fighting for breath, The doctor said he could not tell what was the matter, and a second doctor was sent for from Seaton by the elorgyman, who thought L was dying, So. critical was my condition considered that prayers were made for me at the church. "The swelling of the bowels increased, and the doctor said if this swelling did not go down I could not get better, as it must be a tumour. He seemed puzzled by my case and kept changing my medi. cine, but I got no relief. My brother and others-who oWojo seer .me. "all believed nie to b'e dyjt/g. "After two months of (his a: lady named Mrs Stoofcer, who lived at Bo«i----dqn, camo to Bee me and told mo about a medicine called Mother Seigel'a Syrup, and said, • You try it, for it onqe Baved ray life," . " I sent to Mr Gage, the grocer at Seaton, and got a bottle, and before I had taken the contents I felt better, the pain was easier, and tho swelling I have spoken of gradually ' went away. Alter having taken three bottles 1 was, able to move. about, and now feel better ' than 1 ever did in : ray. life before, and anf Btronger than when' I was a girl. But, oh, if I had known of Mother Seigel's Syrup sooiior, It would have saved mo years of misery. .' (signsd) Mhs Mahy Hoabb, Combpyne. Axminst'er,'Davpii, ' ';' "■ " v ''Feb.JO,'lß9l. Th's was a case qf chronic indigestion and dyspepsia, with terrible, constipation ; the swelling was caused by matter hi the intestines which had probably beon- slowly accumnlatinj; for, month's, In "the m'gantirne tho festering mass ailed "the wholo system with poison, causing all the other symptoms described. Women are subject to this far more than men,, on accuunt of thoir careless habits, > It occasionally happens that surgical interference is necessary, There was no tumour of course, tut in the end there might haye been, had not .fjeigel's Byrup removed .the loathsome deposit before it" wis.too late.'. ' ",' ; . ' What a' pity tjiat women (and too) will not check 'the first syrriptom?. of disease, and thus,ljlfo' JJary ,S)ierldbk, : enjoy, ft 'jiipred years v\ peajse arid happiness, ' V?.: '•.. ■ ;-.;rv.v;' ; .