HOW A GOOD SHir WAS LOST.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 20, 13 February 1891, Page 29

HOW A GOOD SHir WAS LOST.

On the night of October 27th, 1842, the good ship " Mary Compton," of Bristol, Ecgland, was struggling with a fearful gale off the coast of North America. The wind blew furiously, but the weather was clear, and the Captain expected every moment to get sight of the light in the ligbth mse on the Iron Rock Shoals. This lighthouse marked the entrance to the harbour. Once there, and they were sife. Sure of his position, he sailed on confidently. Five minutes later the ship struck with a fearful shock and went to piece?. Four men, including the Captam. were saved. Cn reaching the shore they fouud ,i strange thing ha i happened An enemy of the lighihouse keeper had bjund him hand and f >ot and extinyuis ied the light. Siul*, as well a-i ships, s'xcr by rhe uhN. Hope is the most imp )rtant lighthouse in the world. What snail be said of the man wbo i"u'k^nq it in ihe tace uf a s orm-tosafd spirit I " Yin/ art h i/omf human aid ' flies >wu is were said by a physician to a wo:n »v who hid c >me to cmdi.thun. Admitting that he th;i.f."it s'», had he the right to say so? No; for he might be wrong — i^.d in any case he had no busm^si to pit ou T the light

i'his woman had been ill for BTn» two?. In June, 1359. she wag greuly alarmed by h t symptoms. Her heirt palpitate!, and she was»oeiidy she could scarcely stan t. Her h-ai whirle I ll and," she said, •• all objects peeme Ito gnatja cloud." She had to hold berseli up or sit down for fear of falling. She broke out in a sweat although cold as death. A dieadml cou^h racked her frame so that she could not he down in bid and sleep.

" I could scarcely crawl about the h juse," she says. " I was so weak.' 1 1 tnel iliff»rent remedies an 1 medicines without avail. I we-at to the LVperutry at New Bright- and askc i the doctor to tel me the worst. His answer wis, ' I have mixed you some medicn 1 -' : \ou cm take it or leave it, I took it for three weeks, then givi 1 up in despair.

11 I talked wi h two other physicians. The last one said, ' You a i < jui^t human an/.'

" My neait iank within m^, for I hwe five little children, and my de\th would lrave them without a mother's loveand care. Iwent home ami met till I wa« sick. Ihai no appetite an i had lost flash ill / >ras thin a,< a (jhoit\ My mother came to see me and did not know nif>. My •■km was of a trreen and yellow colour, and when I ateanyth'ng v sei-med to sties in my tnroat. About this time I cmi ntiiL-i' i v renting, and wha f I threw up wis tinged with blood. On,v I b s,Mu v) vomit at nine o'clock oi a fcunday morning arid sscuoly got rt.s f from v until Monday morning.

•' At this time I remembered that Mrs. Wilson, with whom I formally w >iked in Crawford's Mill, H E ist Stree . Le^ls (where I l.v. ), dad been cured by Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup. So I sent to Mr. Jesso'i's the Cnemi^t, in lire it Garden Street, and got a bott c. A fi-w doses stopped the vomiting, and by decrees from day to day I felt better. Soon I coa d eat a dry crust, and by the time I had ti nehel the second bottle I had got over all my bad symptoms and was fast getting my strength biek. I am now (April, iS'JO), ia bjttiT health tnan ever bt fore in my life. "1 should have taken Mother Suigel's Curative Syrup sooner, but mv husband was i ut of work and we had only a trifle coming in from his club, but I tbank God I did get it at last, and it cured me, bad off as I was. All my fnenis and neighbours know the facts I have related, and I will reply to any letters of erquiry," (Signed), Mrs. Ann Mnl«, 40. Bread Street, York Road, Leeds.

This was a case of indig stion and dyspepsia, with symptoms shoeing how fi r it had affected the nervous system. A few months, or pos-stoly weeks more, and Mrs Mills would have had no tale to tell, did wrong to wait one hour for any reason, after having known whit Mother seigel's Curative Syrup had done for her fiifud Mrs. Wilson