HOW DID THE THIEF GET IN?

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2069, 10 July 1896, Page 3

HOW DID THE THIEF GET IN?

- . , ' July'7th. .Mr C. W. Walker gave notice that on nest pitting day ho would move for the ap-j poihtment of a Select Banking Ootri'mi't'e. consisting of ten members," ti inquire, into matters relating to the 'B ink of'Nf-w-Zia-l'ind, ihe t-sn members beinjsf the- Hon. J < Kirr. H. Feldwick, J:Rigg,"F. Arkwrigbt, W. T; Jennings, W.C. Walker, TV Kelly, J. D. ; Orrtiorid," El'C'"J."Stevens, and L'

'■"You wake up some morning and miss your = watch, your purse, your best clothra and othe r valuables. Yet neither you nor any member of your family heard a sound dining thenight. Neither is there a aign of how the thief got into the house nor by what road he decamped. You rush round and tell the police, and also decide to keep a dog and a shot gunYou will It thieves know they muan't come fooling aroun 1 your premises after this. A : sensible procedure. Meanwhile your watch, i . your money,"&c are gone. Quite so. Now suppose I should t-11 y-'U that fcbe tlref who , sWe your propeity mver entered your house at all; that he 'waslmrn in it; Jiad lived twenty years in it ; never had been ■* ■ out of it till he went off with your things, albeit not a soul of you had ever seen or heard of him. What would you say to me ? You would call me an idiot and threaten to have me sent back to the asylum. But don't 'be too sure. ' Later on,' says Mr Heakin.' ihemna'tism : struck into my system and 1 had pains all ■ over me. I vvos confined to my bed for three months with it and could not dress myself. _ In this general condition I remained lor five "■ years. One after another I was treated by fouiteen doctors in that'time, but ther medicines did me li'tle or no good. At one time I went to thelnfirmary at Shrewsbury, where they treated me for heart disease; but-I got worse, and feeling anxious returned home.' How he was finally cured we will mention in a minute. First, however, about his rheuEve'y intelligent person knows that rheumatism and gout (its; in brother) *% is virtually a universal ailment. It does its ■ cue! and body-racking wok in cv ty country anil climate. No other malady causes so vast an aggregate of suffering and disability. Whatever will cure it is wo'th more money — in England than a gold mine in every country. But does rheuma'iam strike into the system as a bullet or a knife might sttike into it ? No. Rheumat : sm is a thief who steals away our comfort ; but is a thief, as I said, who :is born on the premises. In other words, it is

one _ an d only one— of the di'ect consequences of indigestion and. dyspepsia. And. this is * the why and. wherefore : Indigestion creates a poison called uric acid ; thi3 acid combines with the chloride of sodium to form a salt; this salt is urate of sodium, which is deposited in the form of sharp crystals in the muscles — and joints. Then comes inflammation and "' agony, otherwise rheumatism. Thus you perceive that it doesn't come from the outside but from the inside—from the stomach. Our friend's cold, caught in the mine, didn't produce his it closged his skin and so kept all the poison in his body instead of letting part of it outi ; fc» Here ig our' very good friend Mr Kichard Heakin, of Pentervin, Salop, who expresses an opinion in this l'ne. Let us have his exact word?. He says : ' Rheumatism struck into - m y system.' Of course we understand that he jk • speaks of men. You know *T vjq talk of being attacked by this, that and the other complaint, ss though diseases were ■ soldiers or wildbsasts. ' Doesn't make'any odds' do>you say? Beg pardon, but it does odds. For it teaches-us to look in 1 the'wrbng direction. Do you see now ? •Thirteen years ago, in the spring of ; 1880, A "whilst working in the Kdman Gravel Lead ~ --Mines; Mr Heakin took a bad cold. He got over the cold, but not.over what followed it.

He was feeble, without appe'iie, and had a • deal of pain in the chest and sides. His eyes m and skin were tinted yellow, and his hands *" and feet we cnld and clammy. Frequently he would break'into a cold petgpiiation, as a man does on receiving a nervous shock caused by something fearful or horrible. He was also troubled with pain at the heart and hid spells of difficult breathing—what medical men,

■ call asthma. , .. , , fc Mr Heakin adds: « I was cured at last T* by Mother Seigel's Curative Syuip. and without it I believe I should have been dead lonft Very, like'y, very likely ; for this thief, : &i'houghhe.may wait I'-nfJ for his opportuniiy, ; isn't always.satisfied, to run away with ouv comfort and oxir money :-he o't'n late' hie -.-too.^