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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3942, 19 October 1891, Page 3

Little of the Gun; Nothing of the Dog. "When Hip Van Winkle awoko from his nap in the.Catskill Mountains in America, he found himself an old man. His dog was dead long ago, ind nothing was left of his gun but the lock and barrel. And when he went back to the village of Falling Water, where he used to live,noDody recognised him. His wife, believing him dead, had married the innkeeper. Bight enough too, for Rip had lain on the mountain side, sound asleep for twenty years A long snooze ; bnfc it seems to me I'd rather be asleep half my life at a stretch than to stop awake and be miserable. Yet here is a woman who say? "I can truthfully say that for eighteen years I was never free from pain for a single day.". Mercy 1 think of that. What a wretched way to live! Yet I suppose millions of folk crawl along.through the world in that Btyle. Jiot because tbey want to. Heavens, no ! But because they can't help it. This was her situation, and an army of other women (besides crowds of men) can sympathise with her. She says: "For over twenty years I was weak and sick. At first I had a bad taste in my mouth, poor appetite aud an uncomfortable feeling at my chest and sides, and often tried to obtain ease by holding up my sides with my hands. After eating I had great pain : it was like a load at my chest, and I could not bear it until I vomited all my food up. 1 would be quite faint from the want of food but Was afraid to eat. At times 1 had bad attacks of spasms which nearly doubled me up, and 1 rambled up and down the house for nours together, for I could Dot even he down. Of course I lost a deal of sleep, and in a morning was so weak and faint I scarcely knew how '.o get out of bed and downstairs. For eighteeen years I teas never free from pain for a single day. " 1 saw doctor after doctor, and took a great quantity of medicine without finding any real relief. They would not , say what was the cause of my ailment. I was fast wasting away, and did not think I could live much longer, when one day in 1881 ray husband heard from Mr Joseph Cooper, of Bourne, of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, which he said bad cured him. 'lf I am spared," I said to my husband, ' I will try it.' I did so and before I had taken the first bottle I found relief, and after taking four bottles more I was quite well and strong. " That is now ten years ago, and I have been in good health, ever since, taking just an occasional dose of the syrup. After my recovery the clergyman said to my husband, ' Your missus ?ets about do,' and he told him that Mother Seigel's Syrup had wrought the cure. People tell me I look better than I did twenty years ago, and I feel so sttongthat 1 can now dig potatoes and do the work of anyone, notwithstanding lam 65 years of age. " My husband suffered terribly from rheumatism and flux, and has found wonderful benefit from the same medicine. He says he would have been in the churchyard long ago but f° r Mother Seigel's Syrup. For myself I can say it saved my life, and I wish others ic know what it has done for me and mine, (Signed), Mrs. Esther Aye, wife of William Ayr, near Bourne, Lincolnshire,'' In this brief and simple way Mrs Ayr tells a story the full details of which would fill a bo.»k. What hopes and fears ! what hours of keen sorrow and deep darkness she must have experienced. Yes, indeed. None can eytn imagine it except those who belong to the great Sisterhood of Suffering, where she mentions one symptom of her hisease she actually could have named dalf a dozen. For her malady—the fearfully common and fatal one, iudjgeß tion and dyspepsia—has as many signs and forms as the mini has fancies, or the heavens have clouds. From it, as from sin, come a thousand pangs and pains to torment and to crush helpleaß humanity. Seeing what her great dia* covery has accomplished in this and multitudes of like cases, how good a friend to her kind was Mother Seigel! Rip Van Winkle awoke from his nap to find himself old ; Mrs Ayr awoke from her long night of illness to find herself young again. Is not the moral plain enough for all the suffering millions in i Bpeland.J. - ■ '

THEATRE ROYAL. ~ FIXTURES. WEDNESDAY"—Rinkinff. FRlDAY—Private Rinking Party. SATURDAY l T -^:-.«,i WAIRARAPA NORTH COUNTY. tC raise a loan of i£loo for widening apd imprpy«y? the road from the' Rail way Strtion In Eketahdna to the' Mai fioad ' "OTICE is herebv given that a Poll ».»_. i : rill I—l 4 at the Rpad Bpard Office, Eketahuna, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on MONDAY, the 26th day of October, 1891. F. G. MOORE. Returning Officer. Masterton, October J 9th. 1801. MASTERTON ROAD DISTRICT. )ÜBLIC tenders will close at noon _i_ on SATURDAY, October 24th, at Road Board Office, Masterton, (where plans, &c, may be seen) for— Contract Nol. Upper JPlnin Road -16:36 chains road formation and metalling? JScti. F. G. MOORE, Clerk to the Board. Masterton, October isth 1891.