Wrecked on the Godwins.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4060, 11 March 1892, Page 3

Wrecked on the Godwins.

Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of the famous Charles Darwin, the naturalist, inscribed on his seal the significant words, "Omnia ut conch is"— all thin? prjso from oysters, Ijufc from what dos oysters arise) What is the origin of matter) Ah J nobody knows. . Yet cne thing is getting plainer everyday, Let the man's stoiy show, He (joes on to say: On the 17ih of December, 1872, whilst acting as ship's

carpontor on board tho s'eamship Sorronto, I wrb wracked ou tho Goodwin Sands, Tho shook to my sj'Rtcm was bo »reat, as to produce an effect 1 novel' felt before. IMI into a low, weak, state, ind was seized with, giddiness mid, a sinking, fainting feeling.. I had,n bad taeto in tho mouth, weight at tho oliest, Mid groat pain after eating, and my lace would burn (ike fire, I had difficulty in breathing and palpitation, and of lon a pam lucid to ru:i from the heart through to my shoulder. I had a kind of rumbling all over me, and a choking sensation at the throat, with a rush of blood ;o tho head, " 1 slept very badly, and after a time t got so nervous and weak that I wat ifraid to go about and would sit in a ihair quito powerless, I saw a doctoi ivho treated me for a time, and thou lent mo to a hospital in Battlebonn jlaco, London, where I was under troutncnt for three mouths, but gob n< letter. 1 thou put mysolf under a local looter, who said 1 was suffering from lervous debility. ■ Ho patched me up foi i little whilo, but said to my wife, ' Your husband is in a critical condniun, uid may die at any time," " However, I gut to work for a short line, and then was bs bad as ever, 1 ingered on in this way for years—now i little hotter, nowworso, but never well "About 1880, whilst working al fears Wests ood and Bailey's, Millwall i mate who saw my sufferings told me ol i medicine called Mother Seigel's Cito ■ive Syrup, and he brought mo a bottle \ftor taking tho first botilo I found raj !ood agroed with me, and I began to im prove. All nervous feeling gradually eft mo, and by persevering with tin medicine I was soon cured, From tha time to this I havo been a strong man and dono harder work than over in mi life before. I have since kept Motho Seigel's Syrup in tho house, and mj wife, ivho w:i9 a great sufferer froii rhoumatism and dropsy, has found mori relief from it than anything else, Ifanj of my family ever ail anything, a fev (loses soon sets them right." 'l'ho statomoJ from which the fore going is an extract was, made by M: William Hill, ship's carpenter, 108, St Annie's Eoa.i, London, B, Now, what is the thing that wo said i getting plainer overv day ? Why this that almost an infinite number of diffo rent results ariso from a single cause Like the majority of people in all rank of life, Mr flill hail in Ins digostivi organs tho sceds-or what women, whoi they buy dress goods, call' the makings ofdispepsia. Up to the winter of 188! it may not have troubled him much but tho excitement and exposuro of th •shipwreck was more than tho systen could bear. We must remember, too that all shocks to the mind or body, o to both act directly on tho. stomach Who can eat when under tho influent of a great worry or a great sorrow ? Atv if this worry or sorrow coninues long; it upsets tho digestion, permanently im paiis or destroys the appetite, and thu brings on an apparently incurable dy« pepsia and nervous debility. Y:"h,y gtacious goodness! tbero are millions o women and lota of men. crawling abou undor this thing in England every day i: thoyeir. And this is to them we ar talking ? Thoy aro half dead, and w want them to come to life, and get s >m good out of their existence. Wlmt S i lt tho ailment is called, you may bo th indigestion and dyspepsia is al an bottom of it, as in Mr Hi'l's case, what cured, him will euro you.