What does a Spur do for a Horse.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4102, 2 May 1892, Page 3

What does a Spur do for a Horse.

Your horse is weak and weary with a long day's journey. You havo ridden him since early morning. Impatient to reach a shelter for tho night, you drive tho spur into his panting sides, He leaps forward and for a time trots onward rapidly. IVktdid fVie spur do for him ? Did it give him strength ? If so, why feed him ! If not, what made him go faster? Here is a short personal state* lnontwhichuiiiaiimakea. Try if you can see any likeness between the two cases. i He says: "Tip to August, 1885, I was always a strong, healthy man, At that timolbegau to feel tired, dull, and hoavy, with a faint, dizzy sensation S3 if 1 should tumble down any minute. I could not imagine what was coming over mo. There was a bad taßte in my mouth, my breath was bad, mid 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, j had much pain at the stomach, and was sick every morning, and throw up a great deal of phlegrr. 1 also had a pain like tho 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 five minutes, and had to stand and res',. " I kept on with my work, however, fir somo tirno as best I could, for 1 had a wife and family depending upon me, But it was a bird and tedious task, as even stooping made me cry out with (lain, lifter»whilo litow bo weak 1 could scarcely crawl about, and was compulled to givo up my employment, When I ventured out of doors I felt so dizzy that 1 had frequently to Btup and rest for fear of falling, and was so bad that people would think 1 was in drink, aud I had often to call at a chomist's and get a draught to help me home. I tried herbs and other medicines, and was attendea by a doctor, but I got no bettor, In this dead-and-alive way 1 lingered on until April, 1890, whon my wife got an almanao from the druggist, and I read of a case of a railway guard at Man- ■ cheater, who hid been cured by a ' medicmo called Mother Seigel's Curative ■ Syrup after the doctors had up, So I ' wrote to him, and he replied that it had . cured him and would do me good. - Upon this 1 got a bottle, and aftera few doses 1 felt bettor, 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 a few doses cure me directly. I feel very ' grateful for tho great benefit I havo 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, t havo lived in Birkdale fifteen years, and if any one writes to me I shall be glad to reply, (Signed) •' Thomas Spbrmk, " Kitchen Range Setter, "28, Stamford Road, "Birkdale, Southporfc." Now, where Is tho likeness betweon Mr Sperrin's experience and our illus- i (ration about the horse ? It is this: The horse gains no new strength from the application of the spur, Of course wo all see that he cannot. But the pain arouses him and makea 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, nil must be paid for, Look back at Mr Sperrin's statement where he says:" I kept on ul my work, for I had a wi/c and family depending on me," That was his »pur, It was work or worße lor him, as- it is with most of us, But he had to pay for labouting when ho was unable, by having to give up work altogether, and what tho end would have beon had not Seigel's Syrup come 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 aleu has indigestioh and dyspepsia,, with its painful and alarming consequences and symptoms, or knows of another who has, he will be able to treat himself or advise his friend.