More Likely to Break Down.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4707, 1 May 1894, Page 3

More Likely to Break Down.

Who hasn't heard of tho good old Deacon in America, and his idea ot how a chaise should be built so as to run for ever without repairs ? I daro say we all have, yet ho hasn't quits gono stale yot. Ho eaid, you remember, that tho reason chaises broke down and didn't wear out was that there was always a weakest spot somewhere about them. Now, said the Deacon, the way to fix it is to make that spot as strong as the rest. Then the vehicle might wear out, but couldn't breakdown. He built a chaise on tlwt principle; it never broke down; it ran a hundred years exactly, and then ono day it went to pieces all nt once; all at once aud nothing first, just as bubbles do when they burst, Its time was come; tor, M tho man says whoonco told the story in rhyme," littlo of all we value heio.wakes on the morn of its hundredth year, without both feeling and looking queer." Yes, and long before that time most of us begin to look and feel queer. And it's all on account of that weal- spot, too, If it wasn't for that we should be liko' the Deacon's oliniso—we should run till wo wear out, A3 it is we break down on tho road, often beyond repair. But not always.

Otherwise a certain man could never have used these words: "1 feel w> young to-day as / did thirty yean ayo." His story, in Mb own words, runs this way ; '•From my youth I was never properly well, I had a bad taste in the mouth and pain after eating, Often I couldn't touch food when it was set before mo. Helta 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 bud violent pains in my head for days together. This continued lor 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 had I couldn't walk without a stick, and on my way to and from my work I had to sit down and rest. . "I got no propor sic p at night owing to the pain. Day nor night, 1 never knew what it was to be free from pain. As time went by I became quite crippled. Doctor after doctor gavo me medicines and rubbing buttles, but none of the things I tried did any good. The doctors said my ailment was rheumatism and lumbago and made light o it,but it was serious enough to mo For thirty | years 1 suffered dreadfully. My wife used to rub me before tbo tiro night after night and apply flannels, relieving mo only for the time. 1 gave up all hope of ever being well again, when in November, 1887, I read of the good Mother Seigel's Syrup had done in so many oases. I began to use it, and after taking a few bottles alt my aches and pains left me and have never returned since. This medioiue seems to have driven all the poison out of my systom, and 1 feel as smart to-day as I did thirty years ago, for which I thank God and Seigel's Syrup. Had lined it sooner I shodd have been saved years of suffering." (Signed) William Stomuht, near Cork, Ireland. January 7th, 1892,