More Likely to Break Down.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4697, 17 April 1894, Page 3

More Likely to Break Down.

Who hasn't heard of tbe good old Deacon m America, and his idea of how a chaise should be built so as to run for ever without repairs ? I dare say we all have, yet be hasn't quite gone stale yet, , He said, you remember, that the reason chaises broke down and didn't wear out was -thal.therejtas,alwayiiawii(iteUj;o'„6Tiic. where about theini Now, said the Deacon, the way to fix it is to make that spot as strong as the rest. Then the vehicle might mar out, but couldn't break down, He built a chaise on that principle; it never broke down; it ran a hundred years exact'y, and then one day it went to pieces all at once; all at once and nothing first, just as bubbles do when they burst. Its time was come j for, as the man says who once told the story in rhyme," little of all we value htre, wakes on the moru of its hundredth year, without both feeling and looking queer." Yes, and long before that time most of us begin to look anil feel queer, And it's all on account of that weak spot, too, If It wasn't

for that we should be liko the Deacon's cliaiso—wo should run till we wear out. As it is we break down on the road, often beyond repair. But not always, Otherwise a certain man could never havo used these words: "Ifed a* young to-day as / did thirty years ago," His story, in hi's own words, runs this way ; 11 From my youth I was never properly well, I bada bad taste in the mouth and pain after eating, Often I couldn't touch food when it was set before mo. I felt a gnawing at the stomach and a tightness at the chest and sides, Sometimes my bowels were so swollen I had to loose my clothes, I had violent pains in my tod for days toother. This continued for years and years, About thirty years ago I began to have rheumatic pains all over me, especially in the back and legs. I got so bad I couldn't walk without a stick, anil on my way to and from my work I had to sit down and rest,

"I got no proper sleep at night owing to I the pain. Day nor night, 1 never knew what | it was to be free from pain. As time went by I becamo quite crippled. Doctor after doctor gave mo medicines and rubbing battles, but none of the things I tried did any good. Thcdoctors said my ailment was rhcumatisitfand lumbago and made light oi it.but it was serious enough to mo For thirty years I suffered dreadfully, My wile used to rub me before the tiro night after night and apply flannels, relieving me only for the lime,- I gave up allhopo of ever being well again, when In November, 1887, I read of tho good Mother Seigel's Syrup had done in so many cases. I began to use it, and after taking a few bottles all my aches and I pains left mo and have never returned Bince. This medicine seems to have driven all the poison out of my system, and I fed as s'miirf to-day as I did thirty years ago, for which I thank God and Seigel's Syrup. Had I used it sooner I shoi:ld have been saved years of suffering. 1 ' (Signed) William Sioddari, near Cork, Jreland. January 7th, 1892. Mr Stoddatl is gainer at Mrs Edwards', the Island, liocheslown, and has a shop at Douglas- He is a very respectable man and has beon in service at Mrs. Edwards' twenty years, In his lotter ho further states that from boyhood he was a victim to indigestion and dyspepsia, This fact explains the rheumatism, as it was the cause of it, The bile acids from the torpid stomach and liver filled the blood, lodged in the Joints and muscles, and gave riso to all tbe consequences he described, The effect of tbe tsyrup was to expel the acids from the body, and set the digestive machinery healthily at work, for tho first time in this man's life, This was the way the human vehicle broke down in Mr Stoddarl's case, but fortunately for him he came across something that had power to repair it. Bettor watch tho weak spots. Dclaysvarc dangerous,