What does a Spur do for a Horse.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4099, 28 April 1892, Page 3

What does a Spur do for a Horse.

Your horse Ib weak and weary with a long day's journey. You have ridden him since early morning, Impatient to reach a shelter for the night, you drive tho spur into his panting sides. He leaps forward and for a time trota onward rapidly. Wkaldid \h spur do for Aim ? Did it give him strength ? If so, why feed him? If not, what made him g,o faster? Here is a short personal statement which a man makes, Try if you can see any likeness between ths two cases.

He says.: "Up to August, 1885, Iwas always a strong healthy man. At that tirao I to feel tired, dull, and heavy, with a faint, dizzy sensation as if 1 Bhould tumble down any minute. I could not imagine what was coming over mo. There was a bad taste in my mouth, my breath was bad, mid my mouth would often fill with an offensive slimy matter. My appetite was poor, and aft<r eating I huffeied great pain, and wind would roll all over me. 1 had much pain at the stomach, and was sick every momint;, and threw up a great deal of phlegir, 1 also had a pain like the thrust of a knife cutting me between the shoulders and low down in tho back at the kidneys, When at work I got tired m Qvo minutes, and had to s.and and rest. " I kept on with my work, however, for some time as best I could, for I had a wife and family depending upon me. But it was a hard and tedious task, as even stooping made me ory out with pain, After s while I prow so weak 1 could scarcely crawl about, and wan compelled to give up ray employment. When I ventured out of doors I folt so dizzy that I had frequently to stop and rest for fear of falling, and was to bad that people would think 1 was in drink, and I had often to call at a chemist's and get a draught to help me home. I tried herbs and other medicinej, and waß attended by a doctor, but I got no better. In this dead-and-alive wsy 1 lingered on until April, 1890, when my_ wife got an almanap from' the druggist, and I feud of a case of a railway fjuard at Man? Chester, who had been cured by a medicine called Mother Seiuol'a Curative Syrup after the doctor's had up. So I Wrote to hjm, and he replied mat it had cured hiin 'and \yould, do me ?qod, TJpon this 1 got a bottle, and after a few doseß I felf better, and by keeping on using it I was soon all right and back at my work, and have been well ever since. When I feel any sign of stomach disorder tfefr doses cure me directly. I feel very grateful for the great benefit I havo received, and wish others who may be ill foknow of ut); as, if 1 had known of Mothor Beigel's Syrup at the onset I would haye been saved over four years Bufferipg. I have lived in Birkdale fifteen years, arid if aßy one writes Ito »b

I ( ball bo glad to reply, (Signed)" Thokm SreitKN, "Kitchen Range Setter, "28, Stamford Road, " Birkdalo, Southport." Now, where is the hkenoss between MriSperrin's experience and our illustration about tho horse ? It is this: The horse gains no new strength from the application of the spur, Of course we ad see that he cannot. But the pain arouses him and makes a draft on his resorved nervous power—with a corresponding degree of exhaustion to follow. This is always Nature's way. She gives nothing for nothing,. all must bo paid for. Look back at Mr Sperrin's statement whore he says; " Ihpl on at my work for I had, a wife and family depending on me." That was his spur, It was work or worse for hira, as it is with most of us. But he had to pay for labouring when ho was unable, by having to givo up work altogether, and what the end would have been bad not Seigel's Syrup coma to the rescue, nobody can say. Possibly the saddest thing wo can think of, Any way this triumphant medicine saved him, and he can work now without a spur, If the reader also has indigestion and dyspepsia, with its painful and alarming consequencos and symptoms, or knows of another who Ins, ho will be able to treat himself or advise his friend.