In Case of Fire.

Manawatu Herald, 8 March 1898, Page 3

In Case of Fire.

• ! Your house takps fire. What burns first ? The lightest and most inflammable stuff, I of course— furniture, doors, sht-lves, floors, i panels, and other woodwork. If it is a stone or brick house the walla will probably remain standing — a melancholy sight. i Were not this a principle of universal application Mr Meedings would never have compared himself to a skeleton, as he does i in the letter to which your attention in now invited. j "In the the autumn of 1891," he say? ' "I fell into alow, weak state of healh. I My ordinary energy appeared to have gone out of me. I always felt tired and languid i and could .'t account for it. Nothing , seemed to rest me. I was as tired in the morning as when I went to bed. I had a t bad taste in tbe mouth, my appetite was poor, and af lev meals I had a pain at my chest and left side. j " I was in this condition until the 14th of March, 1892, and then I had to give up work. The reason was, I was too weak to / work. In fact, I was so weak that it was \ about as much as I could do to walk across the floor. Besides this I had a dry, hacking cough ; and at n : ght I sweat so the bedclothes were wet. Sometimes during the day cold, clammy sweats would break out all over me. "1 lost flesh rapidly, until I was like a skeleton. My muscles seemed to be shrunken aod withered. There wa3 r.o . feeling of warmth in me ; it was as though my blood had gone cool and thin. I was too freble and helpless to wash or dress £ myself, and people said I was wasting j away, as though they expected to see the / end of it presently. * " I consulted two doctors and they gave me medicine, but it d d me no good. One day my aunt, Mra Benton, of Fiancia Street, Wahall, ctlled, and in the course of talk she said that the medicine that did her good when she was ill was Mother ■ S igel's Cura ive Syrup. Although it didn't look reasonable to believe that it could cure a case as bad as mine, never- f theless my wjfe got me a bottle from Mr Grove, the chfmist in Park S reet. and I j commenced taking it. In a few days I i ] found myself much better; my appetite was better, and I had gained a little streng h. j "To make the story short, I kept on taking the Syrup and contnupd to get 1 better. As soon as I could digest my food the night Bweate and the cough abated, ■ and in a few werks I was able to go back to my work. That is two yeara ago, and since then I have been in good health for which I have to thank Mo' her Seigel'g Symp. (,-igned). Arthur Thomas MeddiDgs, 115, Faningdon Sreet, Walsall, March 6th, 1594." In a fire, a* we said, it is the light, in- ■ flammable stuff that burns first. That's ' why Mr Meddings got lo be so ghastly thin. The flesh or fat is the fuel of the body. In hrallh it keeps up the waimth and furnishes the power. And toKcep up the furl we must eat.. Now, disease is a conflagration ; it tries to burn the house up, and often does it. And it always burns the flesh up, more or lets of it. The fat goes first, the muscles, &c. , afterwa ds. That's the way of it. About that time the tenant mown out. Our friend was wtH on towards that point. But it wasn't lung disease that ailed him, albeil he had the congli and the sweat?. They go n!so with indiges'inn and dyspepsia— his real and only malady. He got feeble and thin because liis disease wouldn't allow ih Q stomach t"> digest food. Henoe he consumed all the flesh hr> had stored up, and then (luckily for him) he b gan tn take Mother Sc'g la Curative Nvrup, which set his Btomaoh and liver