don't believe there ix a word of truth in it."
That's the way certain foolish people talk when they hear of anything unusual, or out—side the limits of their own observation or experience. They are of the sort who laughed -at Stephenson when he introduced the railway, and at Morse when' he said that we could communicate by means of electricity. Yet they don't laugh at those things now. They make use of them daily.
Some months ago the case of Mrs, Mary Cuddy was first published. The great public accepted the facts, as they had every reason todo. Others, a very few (professional men perhaps) pretended to doubt, and sent emissaries to inquire of the lady herself whether her allegations had not been added to, or altered, for the sake of popular effect.
Here is her answer! She repeats what she at first said, and puts a quietus on all who called her words in question. It will be observed that her statement is as plain and solemn as language can make it.
Mary Cuddy, of 28, Catherine Street, Richmond Road,' Leeds, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows Ever since I was a girl I have suffered from illness. I always bad a pain both before and after eating, and never seemed able to gain and keep my strength, and felt that something was pulling me down. [had a nasty queer feeling in my stomach. Sometimes food seemed to ease it, and at other times it made me feel worse, and often I went without food, for I was' afraid to eat. Commonly when food was placed before me I could not touch and I often fainted at the very sight of it. Alter a while I became 20 weak I could scarcely stand or walk. I thought it was coni on by degrees and I took ines to try and get relief, but it was of no use, and I got tired of taking Patiness was ao urgent that Iwas compelled sic, for I had lost all faith in it. My to be at work, otherwise I would have laid in bed, 80 weak had I become. With the weakness and loss of appetite there were other feelings and siges that were bad and alarmed me greatly. Among them were these:—A yellowish colour of the skin and eyes, sometimes a cold clammy perspiration, pains and aches in the sides, the chest and back, headache, " kind of wind or gas coming up into my throat and mouth that was so sour and sickening I could scarcely bear it. Once in a while I would have a strange fluttering and virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declaration Act (Will. IV., c. 62)
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.