What does a Spur do for a Horse.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4101, 30 April 1892, Page 3

What does a Spur do for a Horse.

Your horse is 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 torward and for a time trots onward rapidly. What did ihc spur do for him? Did it give him strength ? If so,' why feed him ? If not, wbat made him go faster ? Here is a short personal statement which a man makes. Try. if you can see any likeness between tho two oases.

He says: "Up to August, 1885, I was always a strong, healthy msn, At fhat time I began to feel tired, dull, arid heavy, with a faint, dizzy sensation as if I should tpible down any minute. I could not imagine what was coming ovtr mo. There was a bad taste in my mouth, my breath was bad, and my mouth would often fill with an offensive slimy matter My appetite was poor, and after eating I buffeted great pain, and wind would roll all over me. I had much pain at the stomach, and was siok every morning, 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 the back at the kidneys. When at work I got tired in fiyo minutes, and had to stand and rest.

"Ikept 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 cry out with pain. After a while I prow bo wbak-,1 could soarcely orawl about, and wan com" pelled to give up my employment, When I ventured out of doors I felt so dizzy that I had frequently to stop and rest for fear of falling, and was so 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 medicines, and was attended by a doctor! hut .1 got uo better.' In this dead-and-alive way 1 lingered on until April, 1890, when my wife got an almanao from the druggist, and I read of t case of a railway guard at Man<

cheater, who hid been oured by a medicine called Mother Bezel's Curative , Syrup after the doctors had up. Bo I wrote to him, and he replied that it had ' cured him and would do me good. 3 Upon this 1 got a bottle, and after a fow . doses 1 felt better, and by keeping on 3 using it I was soon, all right and back at I my work, and have been well over since. When I feel any sign ofstomaoh disorder a fow doses cure mo directly. I feel very grateful for tho great benefit I have received, and wish others who may.be ill to know of it; as, if I had known of Mother Seigel's Syrup at the onset I would haye been saved over four years suffering. I have lived in Birkdale fifteen years, and if any one writes to me , I shall be glad to reply. : (Signed) '* Thomas 1 " Kitchen Range Setter, . . "28, Stamford Road, " Birkdale, Southport," Now, where ls;the likeness between MrSporrin's experience and our . illustration about the horse 1 It Jb this: Tho horse gains no new strength from the application of tho spur.. Of course we all seo that he catiuot... : But the pain arouses him .and, makes a . draft, on hia reserved nervous powor-rWi.th, a Corresponding degreo, of exhaustion to' follow. This is always Nature's . way,. She gives nothing for, nothing. all must bo paid fori Look back at Mr Sperrin'a statement where he says; I kept on at I wife and family; (icjjcnttjoitiitc," That waa Ins spur, It'was work or w'orso. for him, as it is with most of us.., sut ho had to pay for labouring when ho was unablo, by having, tojUivi; up-, work altogether, and ; what tbe end would' have been had not iJoifrel's Syrup coma to tho rescue, no« ; body can say. Possibly tho sadcleat thing m can think, of, Any- way, this triumphant medicine saved him, and lie can work now. without a spur. » If tho reader also has indigestion and dyspepsia, with its painful and alarming eonsuquencos and symptoms, or knows of'another who has, he will bo ablo to treat himself or advise his friend.