WE MUST HAVE THE TOOLS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2105, 20 November 1896, Page 3

WE MUST HAVE THE TOOLS.

A fiOBiNSON Crusok, ypu remember, made big boat or canoe out of the trunk of a tree Itww alabortdus and tedius job. A'ndtha ' ' wasn't thUwOJfst of it. l When he got the boa ' doneiVbe'ibbtJJdrUot lauaeh -it.'. It was toi heayy foTr tfnjttaau toJiandie. * It he-hadwj . ' had ad; arrangement-like the capstatt'bf fc'snij ..managed. yHerrfindwftobt ' how to d# it but licked the ioole. -How oftet • we.fiha.oflrselvca at a forthai • came Tejtoon, "'Lefme'give you tion tied;-up fora'moment in the following letter which must be resd "before we'*cat rightly come lo the point. , ' • In the spring of 1884/ says bur corires- ,* pondent, *T git into a- low weak way,: no! being able to imagine what had happened .tc me. l My letrengtb. , k?pt ebbing 1 r scarcely/tad (he'deaire or ability to do any- * ' thing. I felt tired as'if I - had-just , arrived *■' from a long hard journey, yet no tax more than usual of any kind had been Idid upon me. My mind too was weary ; so" that I ' turned from things which obliged me to ' think, plan or consider. • Side'by side; so to speak, with all this " was the failure of roy appetite,: Of course , I " continued to eat, or made an effort to eat; but food no longer tempted "me as if does' a ai person-in health, * J picked and minced over my meals;knd the little I took neither iasted ■- good nor did me any good after I had eaten -'-It. ■•' Instead 'of warming, comforting '■ and ■ stimulating me as it : used to do it gave me at the stomach, pain , at v tuVcheet and a singuTarfeeling of tightness around the ' wlist as though a belt were buckled too anug ■ around me. . ' ;;.-■».. '"- ' i After a time the oonditiotf of my stomaea ! eeemed to grow worse. ' There was that sense oi gniwing so often mentioned by other*; and. v occasionally a Ueling of f aintnese>nd sinking • almost like the ground giving way under ooe'e • feet. [Remark : An eminent Londbn physidan, oneof bis bobks, deeotibea this '•feeling as one'of the most , appalling and frightful that it ie possible to experience. It 'is not'the body but the mind that ..suffers' ' I present writer" have had two attacks of it • and pray to' have no more. ' It is l'ke unto the ' overshadowing of : the - Death Angel's wing with the mind fully conscious of the situation. The cause ia uric acid poison in the of the products of prolonged in- ' digestiiii.] • When this sinking feeling oame on,' con- - tiuues the3etter;.-'it weighed me down like *S nightmarei JFinally I got to be so weak I " could only walk slowly and feebly. The • doctor who prescribed for me said my ctfmplaint was dyspepsia, but his medfcine'had no f perceptible effect. . ( ¥ 1 1 continued-like this for right years ; not the same but now better and Mien wotbp. Yet in all that time therewae not a ■ day when I could say I was wolL No mcdi- ' cine or treatment seemed right for me, and , * I almost began to think I should never re- ' cover my former health. 'In March 1892 .Mother" Seigel's SyrUp 'was to me as having done ' wonders in cases like mine even when they -wereof long•- standing and everything else had failed. No hatm to try it we thought, **and got a bottle from Mr Grime, the chemist, in Bolton Eoad : and after taking it. I felt r greatrelief. My appetite.quickly improved, and I could eat without pain. When! had ! taken two or three bottles more the bad symptoree had all gone and I was as wellas ever. My husband also took the medicine with the same gddd rfeaults. "Youmsy pub-'lieh-'my l letter and refer inquirers to me. '■ (Signed) (Mrs) Elizabeth Wilson, 5 Northcote Street Bolton Road, Darwen, March let 1895.' . .. . . . l The lesson in' this interesting narrative is "too plain for u« to miss it» Our old friend Crusoe was not able to launch his boat for • the want bf "machinery. Similarly the •doctor wfio"attended Mrs Wilson was not ' able to cure her he did not possess the right teniedy. 'Hie opinion as to hoc complaint was *"enttire;ly correct. She was auffeung front chronic'dyspepsia precisely as 'he told berx But-alfia! it is one thing to ' know what ought *to be done and qui'e another , to" have the'-knowledge-atid means to do it. ■ . .. , Between these two Things (over this'wide gap) stands Mother Seigel's Syrup just an beS&een the sides fc£ the Tham«e stands London •Bridge, ~,.,...