A Lesson for the Weak.

Manawatu Herald, 14 June 1898, Page 3

A Lesson for the Weak.

• r Do yon see that locomotive engine stand i> ing on the side-track? Something ha broken down about it. There is not a hie ' of steam from its valves ; it is still and ooi 1 as a dead whale on the beach ; it can' f draw a train ; it can't move itself. Nov. 3 tell me, do you believe that any amount o j tinkering and hammering at it would mak it go ? Not a bit. Nothing on earth wil • make it go except steam in the boiler, an 1 even that won't unless the engine is i; , order. Everybody knows that, you say i Do tbey ? Then why don't they act on thi j principle in every case where it applies ? Here i 3 such a case. Writing concernin, f his wife, a gentleman says : "In th i autumn of 1880 my wife fell into a low i desponding state through family bereave ment. Her appetite was poor, and no food * however light, agreed with her. After eat " ing she had tightness at the chest, and : I sense of fulness as if swollen around th -, waist. She was much troubled witl . flatulence, and had pain at the heart ant palpitation. At times she was so pros tra te< 1 that she was confined to her room for day: , together, and had barely strength to move , " At first she consulted a doctor at Ferr; ' Hill, but getting worse, she went to see i physician at Newcastle. Tbe latter gavi 1 her some relief, but etill she did not get hei strength up: and after being under hi: , treatment for six months she discontinue* , going to him. Better and worse, shi continued to suffer over a year, when shi heard of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup She began taking it, and soon her appetite revived and her food gave her strength. Ii , a short time she was quite a new woman Since tbat time (now nearly twelve yean ago) I have always kept this medicine ir the house, and if any of my f amily ail any thing a few doses puts us right, — Your: I truly, (signed) George Walker, Grooer, &c. Ferry Hill, near Durham, October 24th 1 1893." 1 We call attention especially to those ' words in Mr Walker's letter which an printed in italices. You can pick them ou at a glance. They Bhow how fully he under ' stands where human strength comes from— that it comes from digested food and no 1 from any medicines the dootor or any om else oan give us. Let us have no mistake or confusion of mind on this impor tarn point. 1 For example, Mrs Walker was ill with indigestion and dyspepsia. Her symptom! and how she suffered, her husband tell, us. The disease destroyed her power t< obtain any strength from food, and Natun suspended her appetite in order that sh< might not make bad worse by eating whai could only ferment in the stomach and fil her blood witb the resulting poisons. Thi only ontcome of suoh a state of things mus, be pain and weakness— weakness which, continued long enough, must end in absolute prostration and certain death. Well, then, she failed to get up hei strength under the treatment of eithei dootor. Why? Simply because th< medicines they gave her — whatever thej 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 when she tool Seigel's Syrup.' But the trouble i* 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 thesa rare and effective medicines. If there is another at good the publio bas not yet been made acquainted with the fact. But even tiu Syrup does not impart strength ; it is not a so-called " tonic ; " there is no such thing. It (the Syrup) cures the diseases, drives oui the poison repairs tbe 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 ; tben the stoker gets uj the steam. And of the human body— the noblest ol all machines — Mother Seigel's Syrup is the skilled mechanic.