"Good Advice and a Wooden Leg."

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4773, 14 July 1894, Page 3

" Good Advice and a Wooden Leg."

If I hadn't given my friend Jim Smalley tho best piece oE advice one young fellow couldgivc another we should be friend slill-4lint is, if Jim could have lived without the advice. This may sound rather strango and mixed to you, hut it's all right when yon take it by the handle.

-You sec it was this way. Jim was a handsomo chap,-.25 years old, foppish and dressy, fond of society, had plenty of money, butwith the seeds of consumption in him. _ Got 'cm from his mother, who died of it.

Well, Jim began to cough, and run down hill fast. The doctors couldn't help him, nnd told him so, One day he wns talking to me about it, nud actually broke down and cried. " Jim," says 1, " there's just one chnneo for you, and I want you to jump for it right away. That's to go out Wut in America and live on the slopes of the liocky Mountains, in the pine woods, iu a hut or a tent, and stay there till you arc dead Or well. Don't write to ine for a ycnr.thcn come back or let mchcar from your." Bidding a sad farewell to the young girl he was engaged to bo married to, Jim went.

Two years afterwards I met liiin in ' town i lie was as hearty as a buck; but walked with a limp. He bad lost bis | riglit leg below the knee, iu a fight with a grizzly bear, and now hobbled around j on a wooden one " And its all your j fault," he said," IE it hadn't been for your advice I'd never gone there. Now ■ Edith won't marry me. Says she don't 1 rant a husband with a wooden leg, and I don't want a friend who gave nic the rooden leg." Well, there! I was never so taken back. My advico had saved Jim's ifc and restored Ids health, yet because .0 couldn't have two sound legs and a rife besides, ho threw me overboard. I owed I'd never give anybody a bit of ;ood advice again. I'd let cm die first, lut that's where I was hasty and wrong, t's a man's duty to keep on doing good rhethcr people arc grateful or not, Icrc is Mr Prank Stanley Langman, lis wife gave him a niece of good adico and he was sensible enough to act ut it, In June, 1882, it was that ho fell 11. He felt weak, tired, and weary, ritliout any outside reason for it. His ppetitc was poor, thcro was a bitter nstc in his mouth, and a bad pain in lie chest and ..siomach after eating, ioniclimes he would break out .into a wcat and feel so prostrated he'd have to ic down. It was feared ho had some ntcrnal tumour. Once ho had an ataek at the railway station and pcoplo rowded round luin, thinking he was lyingDuring another attack he kissed his hild, believing his time had come. A loctor examined him for heart disease, int couldn't find any. He advised hangman to take only milk and brandy, iiilk and water, and such slops. Still he ad those frightful periodic attacks, liter attending him somo time, the loctor said, " I cau't find out what is the miter with you; you had better sec a Vest End physician," Mr Langman id so, and tlie West End doctor saidthe aticnt's liver mado too much bile, and rdcral a milk diet.

Two moro doctors were consulted with no better result, and the unhappy man rcmaiucd in that same miserable form for seven years. In February, 1889, he read in a newspaper of a caso like his own having' been cured' by Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, but inasmuch as the best medical advice in London was of no use, what could be expected from au advertised medicine ?" Nothing, of course," said Mr Langman. His wife thought differently. " You iry Hcigd'aSymp," she said," Everybody tmh tcdl of it," He did try it, and-iu throe- mouths ho was well, and has been woll ever since. In' n letter dated Decomber 17th, 1891, ho says, "Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup saved my life,", and signs his namo to' what he says'— " Frauk Stanloy Langnum, U, CbrabM' ford,Koad, -;* J : y ;"-"

■tis malady was not. heart .disease or, tßwufs.jbjitjnaigMtip&niid dyspepsia/ tlßc'ausoof nimbst'all pangs'and pains, W i .''. ' ■rLangman.WflssWedby good;adyiftind a good medicine, for which he is grHjul.: Sol;tako..noticethat ovoryLjfcwi'tvlike Jim Smnlloy, with his ffiHybearandMs.woodenlcg.'i ~ '< ..,■;■..',.,;,;,, :..: G.W.C. jldon, February, 1892. ■. <