You wake up some morning and miss your watch, your purse, your best clothes and other valuables, Yet neither your nor any member of your family heard a sound during the night. Neither is there a sign of how the thief got into the house nor by what road hedecamped. You rush round and tell the police, and also decide to keep a dog and a shot gun. You will let thieves know they mustn't. come fooling around your premises after this, A sensible procedure. Meanwhile your watch, your money, ete., are gone. Quite Now support I should toll you that the thief who stole your property aever entered your house at all; that he was born in it: had lived twenty years in it; never had been out of if till he went off with your things, albeit not a soul of you had ever seen or heard of him. What would you say to me? You would call me an idiot and threaten to have me seat back to the asylum. But don't be too sure.
Here is oar very good friend Mr. Richard Heakin, of Pentervin, Salop, who expresses an opinion in this line. Let us have his exact words. He says: ' Rheumatism struck into my system." 'Of course we under stand that he speaks after the manner of men, You know we talk of being "attacked" by this, that, and the other complaint, as though diseases were like soldiers or wild beasts.' Doesn't make any odds," do say? Beg pardon, but it does—heavy odds. For it teaches us to look in the wrong direction for danger. Do you see now?
Thirteen- igo, in the spring of 1830, whilst work log in the Roman Gravel Lead Mines, Mr. Heakin took a bad cold. He got over the cold, but not over what followed it. He was feeble, without appetite, and had a cal of pain in the chest and sides. His eyes and skin were tinted yellow, and his hands and feet were cold and clammy. Frequently he would break out into a cold perspiration, asa man does on receiving a nervous shock caused by something fearful or horrible. He was also troubled with pain at the heart and had. spells of difficult breathing—what medical men call asthma.
"Later on," says Mr. Heakin, "rheumatism struck into my system and I had pains all Jover me. I was confined to my bed for three
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