IT WAS MARY SHERLOCK'S WAKE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4132, 7 June 1892, Page 3

IT WAS MARY SHERLOCK'S WAKE.

" There lays a hundred years o' peace and happiness," It waß th wake of Mary Sherlock, who had -di of old age; and it took place on'tho ught of Thursday, March 19th, 1891, in the Oity .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 yoars of peace and happiness," to whigh the party responded in chorus, 1 Faith. Mike, niver truer words did ye speak." Fur Grandma Sherlook had come to America from Ireland before any of them, and,' no doubt, was at least 105 years old when she ended her long journey. ' But she was one of the old stock and cover knew what illness was.

'How different is such a story as this, for instanco. told by a woman! " I was neyer well in my life;" slid, says, "always weak and ailing, constantly sick, and troubled with giddiness and swimming in the head. People who did not know me would at times think I was tipsy, 1 always had a poor appetite, with bad tasto in the mouth in the morning, and pain after eating. 1 had great pain and tightness in the chest and side, and was languid and tired after the least exertion, sol was unable to work or get my own living. " As to lick headache, I was seldom

free from ib, and ofton my heart would palpitate, so I had to atop and hold myself, for fear ot falling I was nearly always under the doctor, and when 1 was 80, something formed in my mouth that the doctor called ' r&niila," and I was confined in the Exeter Hospital 17 weeks with it. "From that timo I was worse than over, and after oating tho least morsel of food 1 heaved at, the stomach and would spit up a »ur fluid. " Better and worse I continued until April, 188!), whenl became much worse, and my abdomen swelled until it reached a great end a pain in tho side and back made me ecroam out. Indeed, 1 was in such agony I could not stir hand or foot. Just then my neighbour, Mrs Hams, wife of Joshua Harris, tho road contractor, came in; and 1 had to he earned to bed. So dreadful was the pain that I brokq out into a heavy sweat, and a faintness came over mo. Mis Harris stayed with me and poulticed mo, but as 1 got no better my mother, who lived at Itousdon, was sent for. She came at oncn, and sent for a doctor, as I was in terrible distress, and fighting for breath, Tho doctor said lie could not tell what was the matter, and a second doctor was sent for from Seaton by the clergyman, who thought I was dying. So critical waa my condition considered that prayerg were mado for me at the church.

The swelling of the bowels increased, and the doctor said ii thia swelling did nut go down I-could not get better,:as it must be a tumour. He seemed puzzled by my case and kept changing my medicine, but I got no relief. My brother and others who camo to see me all believed me to be dyiig. "After two months of this a lad} named Mrs Stocker, who lived at Roui-> don, came to see me and told mo about a

called Mother Seigel's Syrup, and said, 1 You try it, for it once saved my life." "Isent 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 (he swelling I have spoken of gradually went away, Aijer having taken three bottles } was able to move about, and now feel better than 1 ever did in : my life before, and am stronger than when I was a girl. But, oh, if 1 had known of Mother Seigel's Syrup soonor, it would hava saved mo years of misery. (Signed) Mita Mm Hoaub, Oombnyne, Axminater, Davon, Feb. IG, 1891.

This was a case of chronic indigestion and dyspepsia, with terrible constipation ; the swelling was caused by batter in the intestines which had probably been slowly acQumnlatins! for months. In the meantime the festering mass filled the wholo system with poison, causing all the other symptoms described. Women are subject to this far more than men, on account of their careless habits. It occasionally happens that surgical interference ia necessary, There was no' tumour of course, but in the end there might have.been, had not Seigel's Byrup removed tlio' loathsome deposit before it \Vas too late. ; ' What a pity that .women (and men too) will not check"the first symptoms of disease, and thus, like: Mary Shorlock, enjoy a hundred years of peace and' bappihoij, f • • ■ . ,1