Plump Against a Big Fact.

Manawatu Herald, 13 April 1897, Page 3

Plump Against a Big Fact.

It is not properly any part of my business to enforce lessons in ethics ; therefore I commonly leave that responsible task to those whose vocation it is. Bot no man oan continually write on the subjeot whioh constitutes the harden of these essays withoat now and then running plump against a mighty fact in morals. If you will be good enough to read the following short letters 1 will then try to show why I was moved to speak as I have spoken :— "My daughter Annie Jane," writes that young girl's mother, " now five years of .age, was a fine healthy child up to March, 1891, wben she began to sicken and fall away. She had no oppetite and every particle of food she took oame up. She lost strength rapidly and within a fortnight she was thin as a rake, being not muoh else than skin and bone. For days and days she laid in a half conscious condition, scarcely moving hand or foot, and to all appearances lifeless. I had a dootor attending her for four weeks, and he said the ohild was suffering from indigestion, yet, so far as we could see, his treatment had no effeot. My husband and I, and all that saw the poor baby, thought she was slowly dying, and we were almost heartbroken at tbe thought of losing her. " Nothing that we gave her did the slightest good, and the ohild was fading away, when one day, towards the end of April, a lady called, and after seeing Annie Jane, advised us to use Mother Siegel's Syrup. She said she had known the lives of many ohildren saved by thiß medioine who were down with the came complaint. I harried to get a bottle from Mr Boutly, the chemist, in Susan's Boad, and began giving it in small doses. In less than twenty-four hours the ohild began to eat, the siokness stopped", and we oould see a ohange for the better. We kept on giving the Byrup, and in two weeks Annie was well as ever, and fast getting back her fiesh. Sinoe that time— now four years ago— she has never been ill: We consider that Mother Siegel's Syrup saved her life. Yon can publish this statement and refer anyone to me. (Signed) Mrs Annie Alexander, 35, Melbourne Boad, Eastbourne, Augast Ist, 1895," "My son Joseph," writes Mr Joseph Bond, of Salter's Greeu, Mayfield, Sussex, " waa never strong. He did not come on like other ohildren. He was weak, sickly, wi puny. He ate but little, and was usually in pain until he vomited most of it up again. Nothing gave him strength. l£ February, 1894, his feet and ankles began to fester. Next three abscesses formed on bia neok and under the chin, xaskiag deep holes. He was merely skin and bone. The abscesses seemed to be a _ hausting his life's blood. He was in a doctor's five months, but got no better.

Prom July (1894) he had four months' treatment at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital, without benefit. Tbe doctor gave him medicines and cod-liver oil, but nothing strengthened him. "In December (1894) I concluded to take the case into my own hands, and gave him a medicine that cured my wifeMother Siegel's Syrup. To our astonishment and delight he began to improve in a few days. He could eat and was stronger f>r it. We kept giving him the Syrup, and he grew better every day. The abscesses soon healed, and he is now a flue healthy boy, nine years old, and strong for the first time since he was bom. Publish this letter if you wish and refer inquirers to me. (Sigued) Joseph Bond. July 26:h, 1895." What, now, is that mighty fact in morals? Ask yourself the question. What justice was there in the suffering of these two.little children ? For whose sake was it? Why do the majority of the human race die in infancy and childhood ? That bundle of law and forces called " nature " has uo pity, no mercy. Obey and live ; disobey ana perish, that's the whole stoi'y. Then how does Mother Siegel's Syrup cure ? It cures by bringing the diseased and suffering body back where nature's hand can reach it. It puts the derailed coach back on the metals, it re-launches _.c stranded ship. The radical trouble of both* Annie Alexander and Joseph Bond was of the digestion, the first (a mere baby then) having been seized with acute indigestion, and the boy having, as his father telis us, been born with a feeble stomach. Hence, in hia case, the bad blood and the abscesses by which nature sought to remove it. Will parents take warning from these instances ? I hope so. Watch the lit le one a and use Mother Siegel's Syrup whenever you see them inclined to droop or languish.