lottery tickets with the paper, on that cou-! Here isa quotation from an old friend of dition, his paper would be allowed to exist. ' mine and of yours—a doctor, one of. the—Four men were charged with attempt wisest, most kindly-hearted, and successful of ing to extort Tls. 5 from_" congee show; the men who compose his useful profession, proprietor. Invpector Wi Said the! One thing," he says, '*J have been telling meu hud produced papers showing thole: My patients for the past forty years, that, so authority from the president or headman at least as the science of medicine the Congee Guild to collect the money. vame for a group of brain functions. The The Guild is situated outside the Settle. mame for soup of brain functions. The ment at the West City ware, Complainaht; (tain nerve centres, and this. is, myster, who bad only been in business a few days Hously worked up into what we call lesson suid he was not a member of any Guild {Ju other words, the condition of the mind hor did lie dire to be so The Masi trate depends upon that of the body. dismissed the four men avd ord red complaint to pay the Tis. Sor have his shop ' there are people who are troubled by "For example," continues the doctor,
closed, Inspector Wilsin pointed out; irritability, great mental depression, sleep-that such action was unprecedented, The; lessness, "mental hallucination, and those Assessor suggested that the matter be SYmptoms expressed by the general term reported to the Captain Superintendent of" ie Police as he was not quite sure that such ho might either avoid sach sutorings or be proceeding was permissible in the Settle- {N"hottom of the whole business ie polarons mont.—On Friday morning (24th i stant) Henducts of imperfect per before Mr. Chang (Mayisteate) and Dr. ere ae ait the eases of mental dud ncrrone Forke (German Assessor), the three men ailments in persons under pifty are directly due charged on Tuesday with being steamer 0 dyspepsia." thieves were again before te Court. Now we will en, to Mr. George Bath, Inspector Mellows stated that an officer of the steamer Mvishun had heard & commotis below and upon going down found Women passengers who complained thst they had been robbed of some bracelet The articles were eventually found upon these three men, sud when the steamer rived in port they were handed over to the River Police," Two of the men had been charged before and bamboved. 'The Court sentenced the men yo 300 blows, three months' imprisonment and to be deported.—A man was accused of stealing A copper tank, formerly belonging w the ill-fated steamer Sobraon, from the P.& O steamer Coromandel. An officer of the Coromandel attended and said the tank was a small one, valued ab 85°, and used in slite-bent. Accused had thrown it into sampan and hind tried to follow. Ie had alo taken several coi's of rope. There were several other men with accused at the time, but they had succeeded in esexping.
quartermaster was present. who had seen the mn throw the tank into the satnpan, The officer stated he had lost a clock and a pair of opera glasses from his room the same day and suspected accused belonged to a 2%, who were continually stealing on bourd. Inspector Mullows stated there was an organised gang who threw articles stolen from ships overboard, and were in league with the drag boats in the harbour. Mr. E. A. Hewett of the P. & 0, Company had requested him to usk for severe punishment in order make an example. Accused was sen tenced to 200 blows and one month's imprisonment.—On Tuesday (23th inst.) morning before Mr. Chang (Magistrate) and Dr. Barchet (American Assessor), coolie was accused of being in pos-ossian of a watch belonging to the Superintendent of the French Police, Inspector ier said the gentleman had lost the watch on the Nanking Road and it had been picked up by accused who tried to sell it. Accused pleaded that he did not know he had to Teturn it, He was given two days' imprisonment to date from the time of his arrest.—Three men were accused of being in possession of swords. Sergt. Bourke said the men had the weapons in the Ynngtzepoo district, and upon heir questioned said they were left by another party to be taken care "f, but upon further enquiry it was found thet thornen intended paying a visit to a man who owed one of their friend's money, and to threaten him into paying. The Court ordered the men to ig "my life was ti At first: note and mote severe as the years rolled by, until at last I was a mere physical wreck, a ready: prey for every disease." My head was racked with pain, fierce, darting, stabbing, rend pains, that almost drove me frantic. I hud no relish for food, and what more! 1 did swallow tilled ly body with wind and caused A most oppressive sense of fulness on the chest.
"What with a distressing sense of sinking the stomach, and a constant. feeling of sickness, through the foul state of my t Ifelt, as Looked, ofall men most miserable.
"Thin wretched existence—it wasn't life dragged on for twenty years with just a hart respite now and then. Each year the disease tightened its grip, sapping my. strength and vitality. Doctors examined me and gave me medicine. They lightened my purse but not my ill, At times I turned depressed that I scarcely dared venture out nite dizzy and faint, and got so nervous and
of doors, "My whole nervous system seemed unstrung; the slightest noise distressed me. Why, the ticking of a clock in another room was sufficient to keep me awake for hours, anda knock at the door would make me jump and tremble all over.
"Friends shook their heads as they saw me tottering about more dead than alive, and said Hath has not long to live, poor fellow. That was six years ago, but I'm alive sti and very much alive too. Why, I seem to be getting" younger every day. Though I am now mens years of age, Tam so_brimful of energy and animal spirits that I feel equal to anything. It was Seigel's syrup that wrought the change, nothing el 3 I owe my life to its wonderful power.
"Now, forty clocks ticking wouldn't spoil my sleep, and food must be very indigestible indeed to upset me. I would rate lose £50 than be without Seigel's Syrup, for it has made a man of me, and added years of happiness tomy life." George Bath, Trefusis Villa, Windmill Road, New Brompton, Kent, April 25th, 1900.
No word of the writer's can add one jot or tittle to Mr. Bath's frank and eloquent statement, the truth of which is vouched for by many independent witnesses, among them being Mr. John Serace, Relieving Officer, Medway Union, Chatham, and" Mr. A! Durrant, Short Street, Luton Road, Chatham,
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both' of whom Sir. Bath is personally Now turn back to the quotation from the old doctor, and you will learn what Mr. Bath's disease was. No, never mind, I will set it down here—it was dyspepsia. ' Oh, if my voice could but reach all the sutlering; Remedios and H. Bonchoup. men and women in dear old England, how Twould shout to them the old doctor's deep saying and the story of Mr. Bath's illness and cure, But, as it is, we must take the chanees of their seeing this report in print. (3) 15,22 &29my 273
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