A Lesson for the Weak.

Manawatu Herald, 7 June 1898, Page 3

A Lesson for the Weak.

Do you see that locomotive engine standing on the side-track ? Something has broken down about it. There is not a hiss of steam from its valves ; it ia still and cold as a dead whale on the beaoh ; it can't draw a train ;it can't move itself. Now, tell me, do you believe that any amount- of tinkering and hammering at it would make it go? Not a bit. Nothing on earth will make it go except steam in the boiler, and even that won't unless the engine is in order. Everybody knows that, you say. Do they ? Then why don't they act on this principle in every case where it applies ? Here is such a case. Writing concerning his wife, a gentleman says : "In the autumn of 1880 my wife fell into a low, desponding- state through family bereavement. Her appetite was poor, and no food, however light, agreed with her. After eating she had tightness, at the chest, and a sense of fulness as if swollen around the waist. She was much troubled with flatulence, and had pain at the heart and palpitation. At times shewas bo prostrated that : she was confined to her room for days together, and had barely strength to move. " At first she consulted a doctor at Ferry Hill, but getting worse, she went to see a physician at Newcastle. The latter gave her some, relief, : but etill she did not get her strength' up: and after being under his treatment for six months she discontinued going ,to him. Better and worse, she continued to suffer over a year,. when she heard of Mother SaigePs Curative Syrup. She began taking it, and soon her apperop revived and. her food gave her 'strength. In a short time she was quite a new woman. Since that time (now nearly twelve years , ago) I have always kept this medicine in the house, and if any of my family ail anything a few doses puts us right, — Tours truly, (signed) George Walker, Grocer, &c, Ferry Hill, near Durham, October 24th, 1893." ■ ' We oall attention especially to those words in Mr Walker's letter which are printed in italices. You can pick them out at a glance. They show how fully he understands where human strength comes from — that it comes from ' digested food and not from any medicines the dootor or any one else can give us. Let us have no mistake or confusion of mind on this important point. For example, Mrs Walker was ill with indigestion and dyspepsia. -Her symptoms and how she Buffered, her husband tells us. The disease destroyed her power to obtain any strength from food, and Nature suspended her appetite in order that she might not make bad worse by eating what could only ferment in the stomach and fill her blood with the resulting poisons. The only outcome of such a state of things must be pain and weakness — weakness which, continued long enough, must end in absolute prostration and certain death. Well, then, she. failed to get up her strength under the treatment of either doctor. Why? Simply because the medicines they gave her — whatever they may have been— did not cure the torpid and inflamed stomach. If they had cured it then she would have got up her strength exactly as she afterwards did wh«n she took SeigePs Syrup. But the trouble is this ; Medicines that will do this are rare. If the doctors possess them, they won't use them, and cure people with them, of course, Mother Seigel's is one of these rare and effective medicines. If there is another as good the public has not yet been made acquainted with the fact. But even the Syrup does not impart strength ; it is not a so-called " tonic ; " there is no such thing. It (the Syrup) cures the diseases, drives out the poison repairs the machine. Then comes the appetite (all of itself) and digestion and strength. You see the order— the sequence. Ye°. Well, please bear it, in mind. The mechanics sets the engine in order ; then the stoker gets up the steam. And of the human body—the noblest of all machines — Mother Seigel's Syrup is the skilled mechanic.