Four Hours too Late.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4751, 19 June 1894, Page 3

Four Hours too Late.

■ "•01i J .Gocl!if I could recall the past three or four hours. See what troubles amaiiiiiayoiiiigitpoiihinisolf all iu'ii moment." , ~ i.. Mr James Cuvtiss and Mr C. S. Bennett, both of Sim Fiv.uciico. had: beoii intimate friends for years. lusi summer tlioy qunurcJ.led ibr tlio-first ;imr. each accusing the oilier ot wrong. Belief thoughts., preiailed, and (hoy raj reconciled.. But you can't undo whiles oni'6 done. Memory kent'the record o : ii her .slate. They avoided each other a? much as possible. Still, living as neighbours, men muvt meet some time. These two met in the«.' rect. The quarrel was renewed. Bittc iv •As (lew fust and thick, and Gw, bew'c himself w : .h rage, drew his pijol and sliot Bcuucitdead on the spot. Late;', in the day he used the aborcla.ngiwgc—so laden with self-reproach and Yet, how Uioless, tiow hopeless liow vain. But was Curtis right in saying that ■ ttoiioto may cohie'nll in a moment ? True, it ■ often seems so, but is there not a deeper fact which wc don't sec? It matters nothing what.: lie. nature of the trouble is. The 'e.'oic let us consider a different case ou the. same principle, i An intclbgeiit' nontou says :-•' In October, 1890,1 hrd anaitnclc of illncis fromwliicli I licrer exported to recover. I had aching mm all over me and a cough that 'nearly shook mc to piece,. I obtained no good sleep night or dny.nnd had to take to my bed. I was fed with liquor food t'wm en invalid's cup, for I could not raise my.-clf in bra. My licait fluifc-Mi so you could licrr it beaton the pillow, and oliea. pains struck through it a? though somebody hid stabbed me. I lay perfectly helpless and could scarcely b:TOi.l'c.' A docior attended mo ;ovcrn month, butl g.'cw weaker and we;,ker. Sometimes at ni'.lit I wrs so bid he feared I would no! five til' moviiin?.' Ho called in aconsuLmgi physician and both agreed that my con" ilit'ou was critical." I was fed with brandy to keep me alive. Mr husbiad and daughter stryed mill mo almost eonstsni.Y Kone .of the medicines cdmhikorcd hrd nay effect I wps olmost pi dcrl'i's tloov. .

•' At tin's i-.mcJlwKpelj'iij of Mutlcy, near Plymouth, a f?cnd o'; hi'hip. vvwi mc to f'y f> medicine railed MoiTiei' Sehel'sC.i'.'f-ve Symp. I p.wiral a bplllcj. and al'lcr (i. few dry? I vus nWc lo trlio mid digest sufficient food to giro me some and the wo-'st symp. toiiiswereg:'nily abated. After having used six hollies of ;he Syi-up my hci'llh vps completely re>iored, ami I have since jeU k<itr ih'u fin; (ncpiYDioi! dirty ijew. My two dnu'dfe's have also ken bmed of imi'jev'ioi'i by it. I mil gladly ansnev any enquue-!" (Signed) Mrs lonise Jac';so:>, Unit l tiers' Arras Hole!, B.klge llord,, Heminersmith, London,.Juminry llih, 1892. In the letter fi'ora which'the above is an extract, Mrs Jackson fnvther says that for over twenty ycirs befoe t'lio attaek of October, 1890, shehad suffered from a disordered stomach and livcri She had had a bod taste iu the mouth, a poor appetite, and .what little' she ate gave her pain. She felt dull, languid; amUired; and lind a miserable sinking feeling in tho stomach, great pain in the chest and sides, palpitation, giddiness; aurf pqmnlhj fdlinlkitretimd had to be miitcd home

So Tircpprccivc'tlint inhcrcasca cause long in operation, at last produced the crisis .which came near ending he life. It is always thus, whether we rciognLe the cause or not. The crime commuted by Curtis was the sudden passionate act of a man who allowed. thoughts of hate and vengeance to take i>osscssiou of his mind and breed tlio condition which made murder possible. In the very' different case of this lady's illness tf was an enemy of her body, indigestion and dyspepsia, which at length broke out into violence. ■■

The lesson is the same. Watch the beginning of evil and check itwhilo yet t may be easily controlled.