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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 163, 12 July 1899, Page 6

HOW IT IS. » In the street* of the tows wberf I live I sometimes meet • poor fellow who is so badly off that his appeal for a penny or two is hardly to be i resisted. He has lost both his legg above the knees and punts himself along the pavement with his hands, like a loaded barge in shallow water. Thank Mercy, one doesn't often set human hulks like him. Where there is a single instance of aman having* lost both legs or both arms there ara a dozen where only one limb of the pair ie missing. And where there is a single eaea of the latter sort there are a hundred cases of people wh» are lame, or more or less disabled, by disease or minor injuries which ar» scarcely noticeable, yet in the long run very serious to those so afflicted. Consequently, when we sum up both classes we perceive that it isn't the total wrecks and the incurables that are most expensive to society, but the prodigious host that must work, and does work, yet always under difficulties and against hindrances. Men and women who are regularly employed, but who are continu•ally breaking dowu in a small way, thus losing fragments of time and fractions of wages, are of the kind I mean. The amount of income lost in this way in one year in England is immense. And so far as.thu cause of all this is disease, and not aocident or born bodily imperfection, it is almost always preventible and generally curable. Look at this tot example and take heart. "In the spring of this year (1897)," the writer says, "my health began to fail me. My appetite was poor, and after meals I had pain and weight at the chest. I could not sleep owing to the pain, and I got weaker every day. I had so much pain that I dared not eat, and rapidly lost fleab," "I was in agony night aad day, and often sat by the fire at night as I could not rest in bed. t had a deal of muscular pain, particularly in the arms. I graduaily got worse and worse, and in two months lost two score pounds weight. "I saw a doctor, who gave ms medicines and injected morphia to ease the pain; but I was no, better foe it. Then I met with a friend wfco told me of the great benefit he had derived from the use of a medicine called Mother Seuel'g Syrup. I got a bottle of it from Mr S, Kichardson, Chemist, Bridgman Street, and in a week I could eat well and food no longer distressed me. Therefore I kept on. with 'the medicine, and »oon was strong and well. I aoa now in the best of health, and recommend this remedy to all I meet with. You are at liberty to* publish this letter as you iike."—(Signed) William Bridge, Grocer and Balder, 65, Bridgman Street, Bolton, October sth, 18»7. Here we have an Illustratioiji of the proposition with which this article sets out. From Mr Bridge's .account of his own case we see that he lost a considerable time from his business* How much that represent* Jur money he does not say; nor is it important to the argument. For two months or more he lost from his business practically all he was worth to it; and what thut situation would !*▼• signified, had it been Indefinitely continued, atoy intelligent person pan imagine. Men frequently become stricken with poverty as with iilnes* in that way. However -:yr ell *any busi* ness may be_ managed in an'^emergency by others, it is not to be supposed that it gets oa aa prosperously as when the proprietor is himself at the helm. And he cannot be tfc.er» while he is suffering agonies Irbta disease. This is true even if we m&ka no calculation of the direct expenses created by illness, nor of the suffer* ing experienced—the latter aot earn* putable in terms of money. Now, please remark how quickly! Mr Bridge was cured of his.ailment —'bad as it seemed and really was. Dating from the time he began using; Mother Seigel's • Syrup, he says:—-"In a week I could eat well, and the food no longer distressed me," His trouble was of the. digestion only (aouta dyspepsia), for which this prepara* tion long ago proved itself a specific. Had he known of and employed, it when the attack began he would hay» lost no time, felt no pain. The lesson of the 'case' is this:—As indigestion is a common complaint, and dangerous, also when neglected, the remedy should be at hand fotf immediate use when "needed. The more valuable the treasure tie more strict should be the guard over it. And health is a jewel compared with which rubies are aa the glass beads of savages. \ : , ■„,* ■j iMi ...... - lasurasLo*. Victoria insurance; company. ' m limited. em?, (Established 18*9) ~ . Head Offices for New Zealand: BOND-STREET, DUNEDIN. JAMES EDGAR, i Manager for New Zealand. 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