More Likely to Break Down.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4691, 10 April 1894, Page 3

More Likely to Break Down.

Who hasn't heard d tho good old Deacon in America, and his idea of how a ohaiso should bo built so as to run for ever without repairs ? I dare say we all have, yot he hasn't quitogone stale yet, He said, you remember, that tho reason chaises broke down and didn't wear out was that there was always a woakestspr/somewhere about them. Now, said the f)eacon, the way to fix it Is to make thd spot as strong as the rest. Then the vehicle might wear put, but couldn't breakdown, He built a chaise on that principle; it never broke down; it ran a hundred years exactly, and then one day it went to pieces all at onoo; all at once and nothing first, just as bubbles do when thoy burst, Its time was come; for, as the man says who once told the story in rhyme," little of all we value htrc.wakes on the morn of its hundredth year, without both feeling and looking <iueer. rts Yes, and long before that time most of us begin to look and feel queer, And it's all on account of that weak spot, too. If it wasn ! . for that we should bo like the Deacon's chaise—we should run tjU we wear out, As it is we break .down on the road, often beyond repair, But not always, Otherwise a certain man could nover have used these words: ''lfalai young to-daii as I did thirty years ago," His story, in his own words, runs this way j- " From my youth I was never properly well, I had a bad tasto in the mouth and pain after eating. Often I couldn't tou-4 food when it was set before mo, I felt a gnawing at the stomach arid a tightness at the chest and sides. Sometimes my bowels wero so swollen I had to loose my clothes. I had violent pains in my head for days together, This continued for years and years. About thirty years ago I began to have rheumatic pains all over me, especially in tho back and legs, I got so bad I couldn't wolk without a stick, and on my way to and from ray work I had to sit down and rest,

" I got no proper slerp at night owing to the pain, Day nor night, 1 never knew what it was to bo free (rom pain, As time went by I became quito crippled. Doctor after doctor gavo me medicines and rubbing bottles, but none of the things I tried did any good. The doctors said my ailment was rheumatismlandlumbagoandmadeligbtolit.but it was serious enough to me- For thirty yeots I suffered dreadfully, My wifo used to rub me before the fire night after night and apply flannels, relioving me only for the time. I gave up all hope of ever being well again, when in November, 1887,1 read of the good Mother Seigel's Syrup had done in so many cases, I began to use it, and attor taking a few bottles all my aches and pains leftme and have never returned since. This medioine seems to have driven all the poisonout oi my sjatem, audi leeks smart to-day as I did thirty years ago, for which I thank God and Seigel's Syrup. Had I used it sooner I ahorid have been saved 'years of Buffeting.' l (Signed) William Sioddabi, near Cork, Ireland. January 7th, 1892, • Mr Stoddart is gardner at Mrs Edwards', the Island, Eochestown, and has a shop at Douglas. He is a very respectable man »nd has been in service at Mrs. Edwards' twenty yeara. In his letter ho further states that from boyhood ho was a victim to indigestion and dyspepsia, This fact explains the rheumatism, ns it was the cauße of it. The bilo acids from the torpid storaaeh and liver filled the blood, lodged in the joints and muscles, and gave rise to all the consonances he described, The effect of the hyrup was to expelihe aoids from the body, and set the-digestwe machinery healthily at work, for the first time in this man's life, This was the way tho human vehicle broke down in Mr Stoddarl's case, but fortunatoly for him he came across something that had power to repair it, Better watch the weak spots. Delays are dangerous,