"Solitude and serpents, torrid heat and work galore.
Await the folks who I them on Queensland's sunny shore.
So wrote a young man who, with a light heart, a heavy purse, and a grand constitution, came out from Englind to make a fortune, but instead returned to the land of his birth a year Ister with a light pure, a heavy heart, and debilitated liver, This young man's experiences were like those of hundreds of others, but his method of expressing them is different. We city-bred Colomals who resolve to try our fortunes on the land do not generally fare better than people used fo the invigorating breezes of green, temperate old England. Certainly Mrs. F. Summers did not. This indy, who now resides at No. 1, Quay Street, Ultimo, N.S.W., is a native of Sydney, and the mathe: of five fine child-Her pioneering record in Queens-lind, and particularly the effect upon her health of the hardships she endured, is very interesting. Writing on November 12: h, 1901, Mrs. Summers says:—In 1897 my husband determined to try his luck upon the land. He took selection near Reen-leigh, Queensland. With our three little lads, our goods, and a month's provisions, my husband and I arrived there at sunset. I shall never forget my dismay at first sight of our new home—a log shanty reofed with hark, doorless, windowless, with gohannas and jew-lizards crawling on floor. No other habitation was. in ight—nothing but giant trees ard scrubby undergrowth. The selection swarmed with snakes, adders, "possums, &c. One day on turning down the blankets we discovered a brown snake, four feet long, in the hed. But my worst fright was caused by a "possum running over my face in the night. Ishrieked, and so did the children, while my good man endeavoured to find the matches, which, of course, were mis laid. The terrified "possum, in' its efforts to escape,, knocked our crockery off the shelves. At length a light was obtained and the disturber hunted down."
To live for five months in such a spot this, with a thermometer registering 112 Fah. in the shal awhile on cored beef, damp of whick had to auth began to nuously from nervous headache, and a disordered condition of the bowels. The latter performed their functions in a very irregular manner, and a period of constipation would be followed by diarrhoea, An eruption appeared upon uy face, and T was frequently tortured by neuralgia, My health becoming steadily worse, my husband decided to return to de: y, where shortly afterwards I underent xu operation for the removal of an ternal trouble peculiar to motherhood, which left me in a very feeble condition, he indigestion which I had contracted in Queensland became so severe-that I positively dreaded food. The physicians at. the Sydney Hospital were powerless to relieve me, and it was thought Thad not long to live, when a neighbour recommended Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I took her advice, but for the first few days derived no benefit. " Soon afterwards, however, I noticed a change for the better, so. con inued its use, thonzh I camlet re: member hew many bariles I tock, but this Lean say: that within six months Mother
thoroughly healthy condition."
el's Curative Syrup restored me to a Grander testimony then this it would hard t" find. Mrs, Summers' experiences in Queensland are such as fall to the lot of few women, but countless women suffered the same tortures as she was Med upon to endure—which arise from un infinite variety of causes, many of them traceable and others not, Thousands have found relief in the way that Mrs, Summers found it; and that, too, when all other failed.
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