Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-05-20 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

HOW DID THEY COME TO DO IT.  Only to think that any man—in the daytime, with his eyes open, not beinz crazy and not wanting to commit suicide—ehould walk straight into a canal or river I Only to think of that, I say I Yet a good many did it in and around London in Christmas week. 1891. The dense fog it was, of course, that made them. People could hardly see six feet ahead of their noses; maybe less at times, and in some spots. For you understand the difference between mere darkness and a fog I In the dark, no matter how black it is you can always see the lights if there are any. But a fog A fog is to have your eyes put out • it is blindness. As for shipwrecks anti other calamities due ty fogs—why, there's no end to them. The London papers have wondered why somebody hula% invented a way to scatter fogs. Ah, yes, why .1 Here's a woman's story about a fog, one of those thick mists that hang over most of u 3 twelve months in the year. She says that from April to September, 1889, she was too ill to have any pleasure or comfort. This was a thin; to ti itioe, inasmuch as her disposition was naturally cheerful and livale. The trouble, whatever you call it, came on her gradually, much as a fog rises. At last she simply felt languid. Very little exertion made her tired. Her breath came to be very short too, and she often felt faint. She couldn't oat; that is, not with any relish, and her sleep was broken up into naps and snatches instead of being solid ant straight away, ag good sleep always is. Her spirits were dull and depressed to be sure, how else could they be? Sue had great pain in the region of the heart, which frightened her, as it would you, for the heart is a vital organ and we are properly soared when there's anything ailing it. Every morsel she ate distressed her. Even the swallowing of a mouthful of water was a painful matter, for several weeks she went on in this fashon. She kept on with her work in the house and shop (a bakery), but it was as much as ever. Simple medicines, such as we all know of —thee) she tried, but no good came of it. So she next can• enlted the f unily doctor, a min who has a I tree practice and is considered very clever. He examine I her carefully and then said, • Mrs Plonoriyht, you ! you are sufferin girom congestion of the liver, heart disease, and debility.' 1 his was a statement fit to make the poor woman give up in despair. Indeed, it nearly did. Bat the doctor was right ; that is from his point uf view. He treated the patient for some time. For a short space, ocessionally, he relieved her; then she was as bad as ever. 'On ein a while' she says, •my heart almost stepped betting, and I looked and felt like a dying person.' This, Prie was told, w,e the inourable complaint called angina pectoris ; but it wasn't, nor anything like it. Still it was serious and dangeroue. liar letter 91118 in thesewords : 1 hal read in a book about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, an I nay husban I had taken some of it and thought hiehly of it, but I had not much faith in it. I began by taking fifteen drops but as this had no effect I took thirty drops and followed the directions. This dose suited me, and after having used up the bottle I felt better. I could eat and digest food, the pain in my chest and eide gradually went away, and after taking two bottlee more I was well, and have been well ever since.' (Signed) Mae, PLOWHIGHT, wife of Mr. William Plowright, of the Linoolnehire Bakery, 2:i, Oheeteam Street, North street, Oaeet• ham, Maucheeter. What are we to think of tWs °as) ? We nre t think th it this latty'n • heart ilisearie' was weat is fa tiled ' fuuut ion I,' not ' organic' In plain English, the heart's action vras disturbe I by the blood poi on ornate 1 het in iigeetion and dyspapsi a her oval and only malady. rhe liver tiouble ant debility were parts of the same puzzle. Ant so was the astn Now, whit is the worst fog that ever darkened England? It is the fog which keeps doctors and people from seeing that nearly all complaints they suffer from are uotb:n; mire or less thAn ayeaptoue of in ligera,ion sod dyepepsia. au I cu-abie by the remedy men ioued by Mrs Plow' ight. /ey reason of Otis joy Ras ;calk g(j''i ato open, griteet—. C 1207 (14/k