How it Is.

Manawatu Herald, 11 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 his appeal for a penny or two is hardly to be resisted. He has lost both his tegs ab >ye the knees and punts himself along the pavement with bis hands, like a loaded barge in shallow water, lhank Mercy, one dosen't often s;e human hulks tike him. Where there i° a single instance of a man having lost bo.h legs or both aims there are a dozen where only one limb of the pair is missinc. And where there id a single ca c * of (he 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 noticablej yet in the long run very serious to those so afflicted.

Consequently, when We sum tip both Glasses We percave that it isn't the total wrecks and the incurables that are most expensive to society, but (he prodigious host which must work, and does work, yet always under difficulties and against hindrances. Men and women regularly employed, but who are continually breaking down in a small way, thus losing fragments of time and fractions of wages, are of the kind I mean. The amount of income lost in this way in one year in England is immense. And so far as the cause of all this is disease, and not accident or born bodi y imperfection, it is almost always preventive and generally curab'e. Look at this, for example, and lake heart.

"In the spring of th& year, (1897)," the writer says, " my health began to fail me. My appetite was poor, and after meals I had pain and weight at the chest. I could not sleep owing to the pain, and I got weaker every day. I had co 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 csuld not rest in bed. I had a deal of muscu'ar pain, particularly in the arms. I gradually got worse and worse and in two months, lost two so/re pounds weight. " I saw a doctor who gave me medicines and injected morphia to ease the pain ; but I was no better for it. Then I met with a friend who told me of great benefit he had derived from the use of a medicine called Mother Seigel'a Syrup. 1 got a bottle of it from Mr S. Richardson, Chemist, Bridgman Street, and in a week I cou'd eat well and food no longer distressed me. Thf refore I kept on with the the medicine, and soon was strong and well, lam now in the best of health and recommend this remedy to all I meet with. You are at liberty to publish this letter as you like." -(Signed) William Bridge, Grocer and Baker, 66, Bridgman Street, Bolton, October sth, 1897. Here we have an illustration of the proposition with which tin's article sets out, From Mr Bridge's account of his own case we see that he lost a considerable time from his business. How much that represents in money he does not say ; nor is it important to the argument. For two months or more be lost from his business practically all he was worth to it ; and what that situation wou'd have signified, had it been indefinitely continued, any intelligent person onn (imagine. Men frequently became stricken with poverty aa with illnestin that way. However well any bnsimss may be managed in a emergency by ot'icrs, it is not to be supposed that it geta on as prosperous'y as when the proprietor is himself at the helm, And he cannot be there while he is suffering agonies from disease, This ia true ovea if we make no caloulat'on of the direct expenses created by illnes •, nor of suffering experienced — 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 \va*. Dating from the time he began using Mother Seigel's Syrup he saws:—" In a week I could eat well, and food no linger distressed me." His trouble was of the digestion only (acute dyspepsia) for which this preparation long ago proved itself a specific. Had he known of and employed it when the attack began he wou d have 'ost no time, felt no pain.

The lesson of the case it this : — Aa indigestion is a common complaint, and dangerous also when neglected, the remedy should be thegnard over it. And heath is a jewel compared with whioh rubies ate as the g'ass beads of savages.

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