Not Heavy to Him.

Manawatu Herald, 19 September 1899, Page 3

Not Heavy to Him.

The man on the elephant's back is nothing to the elephant. The big beast dosen't mind him any more than one of those immense dray horsea you see in London minds the brass ornaments on his harness. Yet on my back or yours the man \roald be a load ; and, if fastened to a lark's wings, the little brasses would hold him to the earth. Thus, we are reminded, my thoughtful friends, that there are no abso'nte facts. The burden depends on the back. Albeit Samson walked off with the gates of Gaza, an ordinary garden gate would I am sure prove all that we shou'd want to lug. It follows that weight or heaviness can, as the advertisements say, " be supplied in a variety of styleß." When, for example, Mr Sidney Challanger mentions in a letter that at a certain period he was " heavy," he does not mean that be tipped the soales at a stone or two more than usual. His horse , would have felt that, in case he rode one ; but the truth is that at the time referred to he was actually under his proper weight by several pounds. What he wants us to understand is that | he way hearg to himself; it was not an increase ol weight but an in&easa of weak- \ ness, having pracically the same result His exp'anatio'i is that in the early part of 1890 he began to feel ill and out of sorts. He went about in a nasty way, feeling badly without knowing what the trouble was or how to account for it. "I had," Mr Cha'langer goes on to teL U3, " a nasty taste in the mouth and no relish for my meals." But eat we ail must or starve; and eat he did. Not much though. At best it was a forced business. Nothing tasted natural or good, and he took just enough to keep hi:n going until the next meal should come round. " And even for that I had to Buffer," ha Bays. "After getting it down I had, almost immediately, a sense of fulness or distension at the stomach and pain at the chest as if a bit of food bad lodged there— which couldn't be." No, nothing lodged anywhere. What there was of it went strainght down into Mr Cballanger's stomach, where it at onoe began to ferment and produce a gas which caused the feeling of fuPness, while the irritated nerves set up the pain. It was not too much food, but food not digested — food turned sour in the stomach — while the whole body behind it failing of the needed stimulus and nourishment of food, and wondering what the matter was. It was this state of matters that made him, t > use his words, "heavy, drowsy, and languid." Any rim in England, after a long | drought in summer, looks just at Mr Challenger/eft — heavy, drowsy, and languid And for an identical reaion— the lack of necessary supplies. Wait an instant, though ! Don't miss the point. The rain, when it come*, fit's the river by ft thousand little channels fa' 'ingjdirectly into it. Not so a3 to food and body. Between them is a process ; a mechanical, ehemioa', and vital operation— digestion, mark you that, and act accordingly. Whe her in the sky or on the ground water is water — the same thing. But food and body are not the" same thing. The first must be transmu'ed into the second by the mirac'e call d digestion ; for of all God's ways in nature non 9is more awful, more amazing, more g orious. And when impeded or 'overborne, none which punished the interference more certainly and swift. " I got litt'e or no sleep," continues oar friend, "amd awoke in the morning tired out, as after a bard day's work. Presently I conld hardly walk, for very weakness, and from time to time had to give up work a together No medicine helped me — and I tried plenty. " After three wretohtd years of this, Mrs Bird, of Tallistorn, told my w,ife about Mother Seigel's Syrup, and through her, advised me to try it. She said my ailment was indigestion and the Syrup would cure it. And it did. One bottle greatly relieved me. I could eat freely, and food agree with me. I persevered with the remedy and got strong as ever. All the pain and heaviness left me. I persevered with the remedy and got strong as ever. All the pain and heaviness left me. and I felt light and energetic, although I have gained in weight." — (Signed) Stdnky Chaixangeb, G adstone Villa, Cwm, near Waunllwyd, Mon., August 30th, 1898.