The Warrington & Mid-Cheshire Examiner. — 1893-07-29 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

FOUR HOURS TOO LATE.  " Oh, God ! .if I could recall the past three or four hours. See See schattrouble a man may briny upon himself el', in a moment."  Mr. James Curtis and Mr. C. S. Bennett, both of Sin Francisco, had been intimate friends for years. Last summer they quarrelled for‘the first time, each accusing the other of wrong. Better thoughts prevailed and they were reconciled. But you can't undo what is oncc done. Memory kept. the record on her slate. Thy avoided each other as much as possible. Still, living as. neighbours, merrmust meet some time. These two met in the street. The quarrel was renewed. Bitter words flew fast mid thick, and Curtis beside himself with rage drew his pistol and slit Bennett dead on the spot. Later in the day he usad the above language—so laden with self-reproach and. sorrow. Yet how useless, how hopeless, how va!u.  But was Curtis right in saying that trouble may come all in a moment? True, it often seems so, but is there not a deeper fact which we don't sec? It matters nothing what the nature of the trouble is. Therefore let'us consider a different case on the same principle.  An intelligent, woman says :—"ln October, 1890, I had an attack of illness from which I never expected to recover. I bad aching pains all over me and a cough that nearly shook me to pieces. I obtained no good sleep night or day, and had to take to my bad. I was fed with liquid food from an invalid's cup; for I could not raise myself in bed. My heart fluttered so you could hear it beat on the pillow, and often pains struck through it as though somebody had stabbcd me. I lay perfectly helpless and could scarcely breathe. A (lector attended me over a month, but I grew weaker and weaker. Sometimes at night I Was so bad he feared I would not live till morning. He called in a consulting physician and both agreed that my condition was critical. I was fed yvith brandy to keep me alive. My husband and daughter stayed with me almost constantly. None ot the medicines administered had any effect. I was almost at death's door.  "At this time Mrs. Keeling, of Mutley, near Plymouth, a friend of mine, urged me to try a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I procured a bottle, and after a few days I was able to take and digest sufficient food to give me some strength, and the worst symptoms were greatly abated. After having used six bottles of the Syrup my health was completely restored, and I have since felt better than for the previous thirty years. My two daughters have also been cured of indigestion by it. I will gladly answer any enquiries.  (Signed) Mrs. Louise Jackson, HuiiderS' Arms Hotel,. Bridge-road, fLuntnerscnith, London, Jati. 14t.h,-1892.  In the letter from which the above is an extract, Mrs. Jackson further says that for over tikenty years before the attack of October, 1890, she had suffered from a disordered stomach and liver. She had a bad taste in her mouth, a poor appetite, and what little she ate gave her pain. She felt dull, languid, and tired,.and had a miserable sinking feeling in the stomach, great pain in the chest and sides, p.dpitation, giddiness, and fee • qmmtly fell in the street and had to be assisted hch So we perceive that in her case a cause, long in operation, at last produced the crisis which came near ending her life. It is always thus, whether we recognise the eat& 'oriaot. The crime csmmitted by Curtis was the suuden passionate act ofil, man who allowed thought of hate and vengeance to take possession of his mind and breed the condition uhich made murder possible, In the very different case of this lady's illness it was an. enemy of her body, indigestion and dyspepsia, which at length broke out into violence.  The lessonis the same. Watch the beginning of evil, and check it while yet it may te easily controlled. •.