THE POWER THAT PULLS DOWN.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2149, 7 May 1897, Page 2

THE POWER THAT PULLS DOWN.

I WAS* to prevent a single idea in the fewest and dearest word* at my command. Here goes f#r ft try at it. F*om the time you are flr*t able to etacd en year feet, up to the time yo* «a» stand bo ioagtr, there ia alwaye c, power palling yen backward and downward. Yoh reeist, end it persists. 1C wine partial victorias ever yom every day, I and fiaally it lays ye* by" the heeia. Now; I what ia the name of that power f. Don't, be ' too quick with yoar anew**. It is the overconfident erieketer wh* f et* hewled put. Perhaps the reading ef these letters may help yon. "in the spring ef 1891," Bays « woman, '• my health, previoasly good, hegaa to fail. I am natorally a* eaergeti* e> scat persons and enjoy being ap aad doing. bs(s bow for some reaeon I felt lew, weak {aad tiredi I had no reliia for food «f any kind, and what I ate gave me paia at the cheat and a feeling of tightness and oppreeeien aretmd the waist, with shortaees ef breath. " After a time the poiae went to my shoulders and all ever me. The distress after eating wm so great that I hesitated before ■ wallow ing a moathfal, well knowing what the result would be. I took many, medicine* but none of them gave me any 1 ease.* Aβ time went on I became weaker and weaker, often leaving my household work for a bit so as to tie down en the coach for a rest. And &■ this inability increased npon me my spells of work got ehorter and my spells of rest longer. • -Sometime* feeling a trifle better and then again worse, this was practically my condition month after month. I saw a doctor, bob his medicines 'did me little or no good. Hβ Baid I was suffering from Weakness and would have to get my strength baok gradually. The autumn and winter of 1891-2 slowly passed and I was about the same, only mere thin and feeble. I had almost given up hope of getttag really well again. <• In April (1892) I was in our shop one day and heard a customer apeak about; Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup and what remarkable cures of different ailments it had done in the district. *It may be the right thing for me,'l said, and sent for it that very day. After taking one bottle I could eat better, without any distress or pain to come after it.. With the additional food I gained strength, and one week after|*nother, while keeping on with Mother Seigel'e Syrup, I found myself able to do more work and needing less rest between times. I took only the'Seigel'e, , no other medicine. I could Bt&nd and walk once more withoufcjthinking about it, and was soon in as good health and epiritß' as ever. You are free to print my letter if you desire. (Signed) Mm Emma Gottingham, wife of Gγ. W. Cofctinghara,|Grocer and Ironmonger Soottsr. Linooln, April 29th, 1895." "For over four years, ,, says another, "I suffered from constant weakness. '. My natural strength was gone, and nothing I did or. took seemed to bring it back. My food~ and l;ate but little, having no appetite—did not go to the spot, as we say. I was none the better or stronger for eating it. Indeed i was worse; for it oaueed me great pain and distress in the stomach, chest, sites and back, t was. working in the mill and never quite gave up my employment; but I did taj frock in the face of pain and weakness, ffcudty, I was eered by Mother

~ Seigel'e Syrap. -1 heard of it by meane of a Htble book. The Syrup stopped the pain titter eating, and coon I was another and a <% brighter woman. My strength oame baok, And I can walk, stand and work with ease. 4Signod) Mrs Elizabeth Jackson, Silk Street, Glossop, .October lQrh, 1895." Now what was the power §that fulled theee womea down ? •♦ Weakness," you say, and they say it's weakness. But. what ia weakness? Iβ it a disease? No, old age age always .brings it, and. it U one of the xeaultu of disease. Strength, the opposite of . weakneeß, is created ooly by digested food. Nothing else under the sum will produce it. >Loae the ability to digest your food and soon i ?'our legs tremble beneath you, your fingers , oee their grip, your head its steadiness, { k -and your niiM its «'vl co«f"Hi;e. The word ' weaknese " comde from a Saxon word meaning to yield, to fail, to give way. By itt wondrous virtue in correcting the

maobioory of oigestiou und enabling .the aystem to get 'the good' of its daily food— £ byithia, I cay, Mother Seigol't Syrup used iv time oversonea weakness Jand grestoree sfcreugth, But, mark you! there is a mystery in this simple explanation, co deep that we must reserve the diaoussioo of it for another oooasion.