An amusing and yet pathetic incident in what the poet Gray called the short and simple annals of the poor," is told by Mr. John J, R. Micklejolm, one of the Inspeetors of the Poor, at Lerwick, Shetland Is'ands, He says that some time ago an old woman, named Barbara Smith, came under the notice of the Board. She was extremely il, and it did not look that she would long need care of any kind. She did not reside on the mainland, but on a small island a few miles distant, and there being no parochial institutions in that place, Barbara necessarily occupied the position of a pauper living out. The trouble from which she suffered dated back many years. In better and more prosperous days she in some way laid the foundation for Chronic Indigestion and Dyspepsia, and out of this had sprung other complaints as age and bodily infirmities erept apace upon her.
Barbara was not ignorant, albeit she had fallen into poverty. In earlier life she somehow obtained the advantage of a fair education, and this, added to native shrewdness, nabled her' to use good judgment t to her own situation and state Although she had long suffered ma_anda bronchial affection, Barbara was wise enough to sce that there ailments arose from the disordered stomach and digestion, and that if the main trouble could be cured the others would soon leave her. It is probable that her disease began as others do, with the usual symptoms; headaches, bad breath, the rising of sour fluids in the throat, oppression and faintness at the pit of the stomach, loss of sleep, coated tongue, dull eyes, bad taste in the mouth, &e., and finally became chronic and hopeless through her not being able to find any remedy. The Inspector states that she had been under medical treament for years, but tone effect. In this strait she one day made the following touching appeal to the Inspector: I have been sreallowing medicines for months. They do me no good. Tam going on from worse to corse. I can endure into longer. I feel that in a reek or two I shall be dowf, There is one last request I oontd make of you: give me a bottle of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup; it is my only hope. Uf it proves @ failure and does tne no god X silt die in peace, and maba nu more expense to the pari scena. she bad got hold of one of Mother Seigel's Almanacks and read of the rear cures wrought by the Syrup in cases ike hers.
The Doard pitied the poor lone woman and granted her petition, believing, however, the Syrup would prove as useless as the other medicines she had already taken. What was their astonishment to find, in the course of a few days, that she had not only been able to get out of bed, but to move about outside the house, and had taken journeys to a considerable distance, and was actually enjoying better health than since she was first taken ill. The asthma and bronchitis, which were no more than symptoms of her true disease (indigestion and dyspepsia), rapidly abated, and it now seems that Barbara will soon be as hale and hearty as the Inspector himself, and be one of the hosts of living witnesses to the power of Mother Seigel's Syrup to save the thousands who were just ready to perish, Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup is for sale by all chemists and medicine vendors, and by the proprietors, A. J. White, Ld., 35, Farringdon Road, London. E.C.
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Wore Growixe rv Fraxce.—According to the report of one of the large brandy shippers (Messrs. Rouyer, Guillet & Ca., of Cognac), this year's' vintage is now complete, and the result is satisfactory. The wines are strong and the quality is the best made for many years, The vines all over the C district are fast rer covering themselves from phylloxera, and presented this summer a most luxuriant appearance. In a few yenrs, at this rate, the vintages will reach their former splendour, and Cognac brandy, which is always consumed to the fullest extent of supplies, will be plentiful.
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