"WHY HE NEVER LOOKED BEHIND HIM."

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 102, 30 April 1892, Page 2

"WHY HE NEVER LOOKED BEHIND HIM."

" After this I never looked behind me. This is a very common expression. What do people mean by it? Lot's wifelooked behind her and wa* changed into a pillar of salt. A locomotive driver in America looked behind him one duy last Rummer, and so didn't sco an open drawbridge in front of him. Hence a wreck, and great loss of life. A man in London /ailed to look behind him, and was run down by a hansom. What shall wo do as a rule? Look behind us or not? We introduce a man who says he never looked behind him—after a certain time. How ere we to take his meaning ? Why, by letting him explain it. Ho goes on to gay that iv one day in February, 1890, he was suddenly seiz&u with dizziness and pain in his head. Like all healthy people, under- similar circumstances, he didn't know what to make of it. lie saye he felt strange and queer, he shivered as though tho weather had suddenly turned cold, and then Hushed with the heat as though it had turnod hot again, j

What ailod him ? His doctor said he was attacked with influenza, and ordered him to bed. Ho went to bed. A low days later the fever left him, but the illness did nor,. It meroly assumed another form. His tongue looked like a pieco of brown leather, and his skin and the whites of his eyes became yolluw, like old parchment. We must all eat to live, but wlion this man tried to eat, the food went against him, and after ho had swallowod it by main force, it caused aucli pain in the chest, siiio, and stomach that ho wished he liad let ib alone. Then his heart beiran to palpitate, and he e-aya he felt low, languid, and tired, lie had what ho calls v sinking fooling at the pit or the stomach, and a craving which nothing satisfied. unnblo to take any but liquid food, ho (.few so weak that ho waw barely able to walk. Then his heart troubled him onco more, and, to quote his own words, "Ax I xai iii tin/ chair I could hear my heart thumping α-s , if somebody was pounding me on. tin: hack," This showed that tho heart had too much work on hand, and was ebruffjjlinc under it like a horse trying to carry two men. " I (jot very little sleep at night," he etiye, " and would Ho awake tor hours tossing about on tho bod." This sort of thinjf is very wearing, und wo are not surprisod to learn that he lost flesh until little was left of him but skin arid bone. "My cheeks," he says, "mink in until they were almost drawn together, and people shook their heads and predicted that my timo in th'ei world was nearly up. Still 1 had all confidence in my physiccun and kept on taking his medicine. From first to last 1 took some forty or fifty bottles of it (ot all kinds) ! without benefit. "Finally one day the doctor soundod my lunfjs and asked mo if any of our : family died of consumption. Hβ baid thai.: tho hoart palpitation was caused by ' dyspepsia. Then ho snid I had better j take turthor advice; ho could do no; more tor me. That was after nine months of his treatment. 1 pravo up all bopea ot j bettor, and, indeed, no onoexpected me to. " it was now wintor again, December,

1890. Ono day I found a little book or pamphlet in tho house, that I had never soon beforo. It was about a medicine callud Mother Seigel's Syrup, and described v ciiHo like mine having been cured by it - . u 'ithout troinj; into all my hows and fears on tho point it is enough to say that I got a bottle from Mr Kirkmun, chemist, Ellerby Lane, I took thocoutonts of thut bobble and certainly i'old a little botter, I look a second and began to cat solid food, which agreed with mo, i 'A//er ihix J n-.vp.r looked behind me, though my recovery wad a work of time, for J wan very much rcducsd. I stuck to tho medicine, and with pood reason, and a.! last got back to my work, strong ami well, and have romnined ko over since. When J wont back to tho works tho foreman and others gathered round mo and asked what had wrought tho wonderful change. Lan ewcrod, ' Mother Suijji l'.~ Syrup hud wrought it.' - When J said I wished to start work they told mo I must rir.-t bo examined by a doctor. Tho doctor »uiil I. was lit for work, and J went to work tho next morning and have novor lost a minutu since. "Iwih!) others to know what Seiyol's Syrup has dotio for mo, and I j_'ivo Mio proprietors pormiesion to publish this brief account of my case. lam a ciot.h prenser by trade and have worked at Messrs Hepworth and Son.", Clay Lift Lane, for four years. — Hakvky Askew, 2, Black Timber Place, Etlerby Lane, Locus." Tho doctor was right in enyinjr that the apparent heart trouble in .Mr Askew* caso arose from dyspepsia, for dy« pepsia was his only ailment. And if he had used Mother Syrup in February, IS9O. he would have had no tale to tell, for ho would have been all right directly. As it is wo aio ijlad thut after ho did try he had no relapse. He never looked hi'liimi In in.