A stick and " crust of bread. Like clock these two articles told the oded the ation and when the crust was further occasion for the Albeit ha was a young fellow of twenty-six, you would be wrong in supposing this stick to have been in the nature of a weapon for attack or defence, In that case the crust and the stick would have harmonise. ft was, they did not. For the stick wass support, not " club.
ow, when man tecla the pressure of eighty or ninety years he is spt to want a travelling companion of that sort; but one in the very heyday of youth, not suffering from any injury and not constitutionally feeble, or malformed, should commonly be able to walk without a stick. And so thi young man had always done up to, the time when he fell out with the crust and with all that the crust stood for or represented.
His own account of the circumstances runs thus:—''Up to October 1893, I had been a strong, healthy, snd active man. Then I commenced to feel weak and out of sorts. I was heavy, tired, and had no ambition or What had come over me I could not imagine. I had s foul, nasty taste in the mouth and was constantly spitting up thick, dirty phlegm. My appetite left m and what little I ate lay on iny stomach ing me great pain about the Aoshort, distressing cough settled upon m and troubled me day and night.
'At night my sleep was disturbed and broken with night sweat and frightful dreams. Iliad great pain at the left side around' the heart, and my breathing was hurried aid short, Next I began to spic blood and was greatly alarmed at it. I wasted away rapidly, losing over a stens weight in a month, and became so weak that I was unable to rise on my feet without oettAtthough. onl of 1 six T'was obliged to hobble about with a each, "ale only 8 young man of twenty-and could walk but a short distance even at that. Worried ant anxious I attended the York County Hospital, where the doctors" sounded me and said I was in a consumption.
Here we have another of the serious and often fatal mistakes thet are made in cases like this. Misled by symptoms which in tome respects resemble those of consumption, medical men hastily decide that the lunge are affected, treat the patient perfunctorily for the hopeless disease he is not aficted with, and leave the result to chance, Hence he often dies of dyspepsia and its complications—his true diseasc—which, unlike cousumption, is easily curable by the remedy our friend finally employed.
"They gare me Cod-liver Oil," he continued, and medicines, but I got no better. Indeed, I was ao low-spirited and miserable I didn't care what became of me. As time passed I grow weaker and weak After [had endured ten months of this, Mr. R. W. Dickinson, the chemist in Walmate, advised me to try Mother Seigel's syrup, After taking it a fow days I felt much petite reviving and my food giving me no pain. I continued to take thie medicine only, and soon the cough and breathing trouble left me and I began to gain strength and flesh. When I had taken three bottles I was as strong as ever, and could eat and enjoy even a dry crust. T have since had good health. You are at liberty to publish this letter and refer all inquirers to me, (Signed) Isaiah Lewis, 124, Walmgate, York, April 8th, 1804."
If the reader wonders how a man could suffer 20 much, become so emaciated and weak, und be pushed #0 near the grave's edge through what is sometimes Gippantly called gestion," he has yet to learn that or of life and death digested, otod it means wis to substitute stick. It cared hia dyspepsia. (8) 29my, 5 & 12ju crude for the
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