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Manawatu Herald, 4 July 1899, Page 3

How it Is. ♦__ In the streets of the town where I live I sometimes meet a poor fellow who is so bad y off that h : s appeal for a penny or two is hard'y to be resisted. He has lost both his legs abjve the knees and punts himself along the pavement with his hands, like a load d barge in shallow water, thank Mercy, one dosan't often see human htfks like him. Where there is a single instance of n man having lost bo;h legs or both aims there area dozen where only one limb of tha pair is missinp. And where there is a single case of the latter sort there are a hundred cases of people who are lame, or more or less disabled, by disease or minor injuries which are scarcely noticable, yet in the long run very serious to these so afflicted. Consequently, when we sum up both c'asses we perceive that it isn't the total ! wrecks and the incurables that are most expensive to society, but the prodigious hosi which must work, and does work, yet always under difficulties and against • hindrances. Men and women regularly J employed, but who are continually '. breaking down in a small way, thus losing ] fragments of t : me and fractions of wages, < are of the kind I mean. The amount of j income lost in this way in one year in « England is immense. And so far as the j cause of a'l this is disease, and not accident or born bodi y imperfection, it is ! almost always preventib'.e and generally ■ curable. Look at this, for example, and ; take heart. I "In the spring of this year, (1897)," the j wi'er says, "my health began to fail me. j My appetite was poor, and after meals I had pain and weig tat the chest. I could not sleep owing 10 the pain, and I got weaker every day. I had eo much pain that I dared not eat, and rapidly lost flesh. " I was in agony night and day, and often sat by the fire at night as I c mid not rest in b'd. I had a deal of muscuar pain, particularly in the arms. I gradually go' wors-3 and worse and in two months, ! lost two s ore pounds weight. j " I saw a doc" or who gave me medicines and injee'ed morphia to ease the pain; but I was no better for it. Then I met with a friend who to!d ms of great benefit ! h ■ had derived from the use of a medicine ca'kd Mother Seige 's Syrup. 1 got a bottle of it from Mr S. Richardson, ' Chemist, Brid^man Street, and in a week I cou d eat we'l ar.d food no longer distressed me. Th refurc I kept on with the \ the medicine, and sjon was strong and j well, lam now in the best of health and recommend this remedy to a I I m°et with. You are at iib^r'y to publish this letter as you like." -(Signed) William Bridge, Grocer and Biker, 66, Brklgman Street, I Boltou, Octob-r sth, 1897. | Hre we have an illustra'ion of the propositi >n with which t .is article s-ts out. From Mr Bridge's account of his ; own case we see that he lost a considerable J time fiom his business. How much that represents in money he does not say ; nor \ Uit important to ths argument. For two nonihs or more he lost from his business \ practical y a'l he was worth to it ; and what that situation wou d have signified, had it b^en indefinitely continued, any intilligent p rson enn imagine. M>n frequently became stricken with poverty as with illnest in that way. Howevor wj 1 any bnsin ss may be managed in a emergency by ot itrs, it is not to be supposed that it gets on as prosperous y as when the proprietor is himse'f at the helm, And he cannot be the i- e whi'e he is suffering agonies from disease, T is is true even if we make no calcilat on of the duvet expens?s created by illnes , nor of suffering experienc. d — the latter not computable in terms of money. Now, please to remark how quickly Mr Bridge was cur. d of hs ailment — bad as it seemed and really wa . Dating from the time he began using Mother Seigel's Syrup he paws: — " In a %veek I could eat well, and food no 1 nger distressed me." , His trouble was of the digrstion only (acute dyspf'P'ia) for which this pre-para'ion long ago proved itself a specific. Had he known of and employed it when the attack b^gan he wou d have lost no time, felt ni pain. The lesson of the case it this : — As indigestion is a common complaint, and dangerous also when neglected, the remfdy should be t lA e guard over it. And hea'th is a jewel compared with which rubies are as the g a^s beads of savages.

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