Two Buckets and a Pipe.
Take two common water-buckets ; connect them at the bottom with a small pipe. Now undertake to fill one of them with water • you perceive at once that the water tends to fill the other pail also. " What's the use of saying that .' you ask me " Every fool knows that water in connected reservoirs will assume the fame j level " Quite so. Yet the wisest men on j earth didn't know it once. If the ancient ■ Romans had known it they wouldn't have \ gone to the trouble and expense of building , their great acqueducts. Oh dear I oh, , dear ! After a thing is pointed out what a ir>+ nf neowlo are able to see it. . 1O Buttoseeitthe^. time? Ah I : that , tikes eves. To explain it the first time ? , Ah that takes brains. The blood circulated | through pipes in the human body thousands of yeaw before anybody even suspected it. . Isn't that queer ? Now, there is a matter- I But et's have an example or two first, and . the theory afterwards. A father writes thus about his daughter : . •• During the summer of 1890. my I daughter, Bebecca. got into a weak, lan- i grid way. Her appetite was poor ami after eating she had so much pain at the ; chest and sides that she didn't know where ?o put hersef. She also complained of Zin in the nit of the stomach, in the K£a? »aS*he back of the neck. Cold, clammy sweats used to break out all over her Her breathing became short and laboured, and at times she could not even He in bed on account of it. She consulted two physicians, who prescribed for her without avai. . «' 1 his was her general condition until January, 1893, when she began taking Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. This ; pre- , Sion certainly had a remarkable effect. , One bottle alone greatly relieved her. She ; relished her food, and got stronger. By simply continuing to use this medicine m three months she was completely cured. Since then she has been well as ever she was My married daughter, who has , suffered from indigestion for a long time, seeing what this remedy had done for Rebecca, took it also, with the same good results. Yours truly, (Signed) Bartholomew Bell Grocer, &c, Brompton, Northallerton. October 25th. 1893." " All my life," writes a women, I have suffered more or less from sickness and spasms. I always felt weak, tired, and languid, and had no desire for company. 138 a bad taste in the mouth, and frequently felt sick and prostrate. I had no rdish for food, and, after eating had pain at the chest and side. Such was my manner of life for years. Two yea™ ago my sister tcld me of Seigel's Syrup ; I tried it and even a few doses relieved me. I continued taking it. and soon my appetite improved, and my food digested. Since that tim° I have felt quite a new being— tlXhcarted and stray,. What a pity or me that I didn't know of Seigel's Swap years before. But better late than neve?. Yours truly, (Signed) Mrs Annie Goodger. 20, Bardolph Street, Leicester, May 10th, 1893." ••From childhood," says another, "I have suffered from indigestion and sick headaches. I never felt as if I wanted food and after eating I experienced the uCI P^ns and distresses of the confirmed dvsneptic. The attacks of sickness and heXche were often no les 3 than dreadful So called medicines and remedies were, at the best only temporarily useful. In January. IfISHU friend, living at Hackney toS me of Scigel's Syrup. I used it, and t cured me / never felt so well mmy fc/e as Ido now. (Signed Miss L. White 92 Barnsburyßoad.lsington. London, April 2 °Sow lß9 see'. Evidence like the above (though much more impressive) proves hat Mother Seigel's Syrup either cures or relieves amost every known comp aint. Yetit never was (nor is it ?° w ) "T™ mended for any disease except indigestion Sid dyspepsia What is the inference? That Srly every known complaint is
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Manawatu Herald, 31 May 1898, Page 3
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676Two Buckets and a Pipe. Manawatu Herald, 31 May 1898, Page 3
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