THE HANDFULL OF THINGS WE KNOW.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1361, 21 May 1895, Page 6

THE HANDFULL OF THINGS WE KNOW.

* Several years ago an American humorist and poet published some verses called “ Little Breeches.” This was an odd name given to a very small boy who was caught out in a tremendous snowstorm, and finally found in some hay quite a distance from the house. However the boy got there bothered everoodv to explain. It was certain he uover could have walked. So his father ,aid the angels must have done it; “ they just stooped down and toted him to where it was safe and warm, he said.” The poetry about it (supposed to have been written by the youngster’s father) starts otf in [this wayp—--1 don’t go much on religion, I never ain’t nad no show ; But I’ve a middling tight grip, sir, On the haudiul of things 1 know. That’s it; the handful of things we know. There aren’t many of ’em, but there are a few. And one of them is this : That for a uundred results there is only one cause, Nature develops and makes differences; never a new force. j Here, for example, is an incident which shows our meaning. About Christmas, 1889, Mr E. B. Wright had an attack ot influenza. Previous to this he had always been strong and hearty. Weil, he got over Lhe influenza ; still, it had given him (as he isays) “a shake.” After tnis he got along fairly well, until February of this year (1892) when the influenza attacked him ■again. Tnis time the malady “ meant •easiness.” Nearly every bone and muscle sin his body ached like sore teeth. His skin ijwas hot auJ dry, and io bed lie was obliged "to go. For sixteen days he was under a doctor. Ac the end ot cnat time he found juimself alive ana that was about all you could say for nim. | in his letter be goes on to tell what happened next. “ 1 had a foul taste in the Imouth,” he says, “and my teeth were Covered wicn a tnick slimy phlegm, iVly 'wife says my tongue was like an oyster shell, land i’m sure it was rough as a nutmeg grater. What I ate, which wasn’t much, 'gave me pain in the chest and sides. Alter ja mouthful or two 1 felt lull and blown oat, land 1 used to swell to a great size. By-and-joy a hacking cough set in and my breathing 'got short and quick. At night 1 lay for hours gasping for breath, and often coughed so 1 was afraid 1 should burst a blood vessel. K got weaker and weaker and was like a hroksn-winded horse. Tnc doctor said it was asthma, but no wasn’t able to relieve it. Although 1 live only two minutes’ walk from the factory where 1 work. 1 had to stop and rest on my way many a time. “ Thus matters went with me until June 1892. Then one day I took up the Mlssex Newsman, and read of a man living at IhJarsham, near Bungay, having been cured by Mother rfeigel’s Curative *yrup. I got some of this medicine from the lnternatio..al Tea Company Baiutree. After a few doses my breathing grew easier, and by keeping on with the Bymp my food soon digested, tUe cough left me, and i gained streugtn. L am now as strong as ever, can eat anything, dnd walk for mhos. 1 am a brusumaker imd work at the factory of Messrs Joan ■West and Sous, High Street Baiutree, and have lived in this town over lorty years. (Signed) E. B. Wuigiit, Sandpit Load Baiutree, Essex, Angus.. 2drd, 1892.” j ■ Now let us see now this illustrates the proposition we started out with. For almost three years Mr VVright was ill with what teemed like a series of different diseases. He had the influenza twice, the asthma once, and another disease which he gives no name to—even if he recognised it. Lome for a moment at the variety and incongruity of the paius ami troubles he mentions, and he dosen’t describe them all, either. You would fancy he had half a dozen ailments at least. Yethehad&wt one— indigestion and dyspepsia—of which all his bodily disturbances (influenza included—a blood disease) were symptoms. All came out of );he stomach, and when Seigel’s fSyrup set that right the others quietly departed, j What, then, is one thing of “the handful ol things we know ?" Answer : That nearly all sorts of diseases are really symptoms of indigestion and dyspepsia, and that Mother Beigel’s Curative Byrup cures it. .Double the fact up iu your list and hold on to it tight.