THE HANDFUL OF THINGS WE KNOW.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1362, 28 May 1895, Page 6

THE HANDFUL OF THINGS WE KNOW.

Several years ago an American humorist and poet published some verses callnd " Little Breeob.es." This was an odd name given to a very small boy who was caught out in a tremendous snowstorm, and fiually found in some hay quite a distance from the house. However the boy got there bothered everbody to explaiu. It was certain he never could have walked. So his father said the augels 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 uy che youugster's father) starts otf in' this wayj:— I don't go much on religion, I never ain'c nad no show; But I've a middling tight grip, sir, On the handful of things 1 know. That's it; the Jitmdfal of things we know. : There aren't many of 'em, but there are a i few. And one of them is this : That for a i hundred results there is only one cause, \ iSlature develops and makes differences; .' never a new force. Here, for example, is an incident which : shows our meaning. About Christmas, ,;1889, Mr E. B. Wright had an attack of t mfluenza. Previous to this he had always ■ been strong and hearty. Weil, he got over | ohe influenza ; still, it had given him (as he |says) "a shake." After this he got along j fairly well, until February of this year (1892) when the influenza attacked him 'again. This time the malady "meant lousiness." Nearly every bone and muscle 'in his body ached like sore teeth. His skin | was hot and dry, and lo bed he was obliged jto go. For sixteen days he was under a ;' doctor. At the end of that time he found jnimself alive and that was about all you | could say for him. Id his letter he goes on to tell what : happened next. '' 1 had a foul taste in the Unouth," he says, "and my teeth were 'covered wita a thick slimy phlegm. My I wife says my tongue was like an oyster shell. : and I'm sure it. was rough as a nutmeg I grater. What I ate, which wasn't mucn, gave me pain in the chest and sides. Alter | a, mouthful or two i felt full and blown out, j and I used to swell to a great size. By-and-j oy a hacking cough set in and my breathing got short and quick. At night 1 lay for ' nuurs gasping for breath, and often coughed i so 1 was afraid I should burst a blood vessel. ; I got weaker and weaker and was like a | broken-winded horse. The doctor said it was : asthma, but ho wasn't able to relieve it. I Although i live only two minutes' walk from I the factory where 1 work. I had to stop and ! rest on my way many a time. ] " Thus matters went with me until June i 1592. Then one day I took up the JUssex \ Newsman, and read of a man living at Kara ham, near Bungay, having been cured :by Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I got I some of this medicine from the international | Tea Company Baintree. After a few doses ;my breathing grew easier, and by keeping on with the Syrup my food soon digested, • the cough left me, and I gained strength. 1i am now as strong as ever, can eat anything, ; and walk for miles. 1 am a brusumaker land work at the factory of Messrs John West aud Sous, High Street Baintree, and ! have lived iu this town over lorty years. (Sigued) E. B. W bight, Sandpit iioad Baintree, Essex, Augus u 23rd, 1892." \ .Now let us see now this illustrates the proposition we started out with. For almost three years Mr Wright was ill with what seemed 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. Look for a moment at the variety and incongruity of the pains and troubles he mentions, aud he dosen't describe them all, either. You would fancy he had half a dozen ailments at least. Yet he had but one—indigestion and dyspepsia—of which all his bodily disturbances (influenza, included—a blood disease) were symptoms. All came out of the stomach, and when Seigel's Syrup set that right the others quietly departed. What, then, is one thing oj "the handful of things we know ?" Answer : That nearly all sorts of diseases are really symptoms of indigestiou and dyspepsia, and that Mother Seigel's (Jorative Syrup cures it. .Double the fact up in your fist and hold on to it tight.