Not Heavy to Him.

Manawatu Herald, 26 September 1899, Page 3

Not Heavy to Him.

—♦- — • The man on the elephant's back is not ing to fr.e elephant. Tlie big beast dosen't mind him any more than one of those immense dray horses you see in London minds the brass ornament 3 on Ins harness. Yet on my back or yours the man would be a load - and. if fastened to a lark' 3 wings, the little brasses would hold him to the earth. Thus, we are reminded, my thoughtful friends, that there are no absolute facts. The burden depends on the back. Albeit Samson waked 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 cay, " be supplied in a variety of styles." When, for example,. Mr Sidney Chalhv>ger mentions in a letter that at a, certain period he was " heavy," he does not mean that be tipped the scales at a stone or two move 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 of weight but an increase of weakness, having prao'ically the same result. His emanation is that in the early part of 1890 he began to feel ill and out of sorts. Be went about in a nasty way, feeling badly wiihout knowing what the trouble was or how to account for it. " I had," Mt Challanger goes on to teli us " a nasty taste in the month and no relish for my meals." But eat we all 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 him going until the next meal should come round. •' And even for that I had to suffer," he says. "After getting it down I 'had, almost immediately, a sense of fulness or distensien at 'the stomach and pain at the chest aa if a bit of food had lodged there— which couldn't be." No nothing lodged anywhere. What there was of it went straight down into Mr Challanger's stomach, where it at once began to ferment and produce a gas which caused the feeliog of fullness, while the irrita'ed 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 arid nourishment of food, and wondering what the matter was. It wag this state of matters that made him, ti nss his words, "bravj, drowsy, and languid." , %,, , Any river in England after a long drought it summer, lools just as Mr Challenger/*/*— heavy, drowsy, and languid And for an identical reason- tho lack of necessary supplies, Wait an instant, though ! Don't miss tho point. , The rain, when it comep, fil s the river by a thousand ittle channels faMing'directly in-oit. Not so as to food and body. Between them is a process ; a mechanical, | chemica 1 . and vital operation- digestion. | mark you that, and act accordingly.! Wh»'her in the.fky or on the ground water is water-ihe same thing. But f"od,and body are not the same thing. The first must be trans-rm'ed l into she second hy the mirace ca'l d digestion ; for of all God's ways in nature none is more awful, more omazing, more g onon». And when impedtd or overborne, none which punished the interference more certainly and swift. " I got li tie or no seep," continues our friend, " amd awoke in the morning tired cut, as after a hard day's wok. Presently I conld hardly wa'k, for very weakness, and from time to time had to give up work a together No medicine helped nr— and I tried plenty. „, "After three wretch d years of this, Mrs Bird, of Tallistorn, tod my wife about Mother Seigel's Syrup, and through her xidvised me to try it She sid my ailment was indigestion and the Syrup would cure it And it did. One bott'e greatly re'ieved me. I could eat freely, and food agree with me. I persevered with the remedy and got strong as evr*. Ail tne nain and heaviness left me. I persevered with the remedy and got strong as ever. AH the pain and heaviness 'eft me and I felt light r.nd energetic, a'though I have 1 Lined in wesght.»-(Signed) Sidney Cham-anger, G adstone Villa, Cwm, near Waunilwyd, Mon., Augnst 30th, 1898.