What Does a Spur Do for a Horse

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3122, 12 May 1892, Page 4

What Does a Spur Do for a Horse

Your horse is weak and weary with a long day's journey. You have ridden him since early morning. Impatient to reach a shelter for the night, you drive the spur into his panting sides. ! He leaps forward, and for a time trots

onward rapidly. What did the spur do for himP Did it give Irim strength? If so, why feed him P If noi, what made him go faster P Here is a short personal statement which a man makes. Try if yon can see any likeneßs between the two cases. He says : "Up to August, 1885, 1 was always a Btrong healthy man. At tnat time I began to feel tired, and heavy, with a faint, dizzy sensation as if I ehonld tumble down any minute. I could not imagine what was ooming over me. There was a bad taste in my mouth, my breath was bad, and my mouth would often fill with an offensive slimy matter. My appetite was poor, and after eatinc I suffered great pain, and wind would roll all over me. I had much * ' pain at the stomach, and was sick every

morning, and threw up a great deal of v; phlegm. I also had a pain like the thrnst of a knife cutting me between the . ahonldera and low down in the back at the kidneys. When at work I got tired in five minutes, and had to stand and rest. "I kept on with my work, however, for some time as beßt I could, for' I had • a wife and family depending upon me. But it wbb a hard and tedious task, as even stooping made me cry out with pain. After a while I grew so weak I cbuia scarcely crawl about, and was compelled to give up my employment. When I ventured out of doors I felt so

dizzy that I had frequently to stop and rest for fear of falling, and was so bad that people would think I was in drink, and I had often to call at achemist.a ; and get a draught to help me borne. I tried herbs and other medicines, and was attended by a doctor, but I got no better. In this dead-and-alive way I lingered on ■ nntill April, 1890, when my wife got an almanack from the druggist; and I read ■ of a case of a railway guard at Manohester, who had been cured by a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative 1 Syrup after the doctors had given him up. So I wrote to him, and he replied that it had cured him and would do me •. good. TTpon this I got a bottle, and •■ after a few doses I felt better, and by keeping on using it I was soon all right ..and back at my work, and have been well ever . since. When I feel ajiy signs of stomacb/.disorder a few doses set me Tight directly. I feel very grateful for . the great benefit I have received, and "•■ ' wish others' who may be ill to know of it ; if I had known of Mother Seigel's '. » Syrup at the outset I would have b^en saved over four years' suffering. I have .lived in Birkdale fifteen years, anct if any one, writes to me I shall be glad to reply. , (Signed) " Thomas Sperbin, " Kitchen Range Setter, "28, Stamford Road, "Birkdale, Southport.,' Now, where is the likeness ' between Mr. Sperrin's experience and our illustration about the horse P It is this : The horse gains no new strength from the.:application of the spur. Of oourse we aIV see that he cannot. But the pain aroußeß him ana makes a draft on his

reserved nervous 1 power— with a corresponding idegree of exhaustion to follow. . ■ This is always Nature's Way. She gives nothing for nothing. All must be paid for. Look back at Mr. Sperrin's statement where he says : " I kept on at my work, for 1 bad a wife and family depending on me. " That was the spur. •It waß work or worse with him, as it is with most of U6.< But he had to pay for labouring when he.waß unable, by f having to give up work altogether, and what the end would have been had not Seigel's* Byrnp come to the rescue nobody can ■ say. Posßibly the Baddest thing we can think of. Any way this triumphant medicine saved him, and he can work now. without a spar. If the reader also has indigestion and dyspepsia, with itß painful and alarming ; Consequences and symptomß. or kno.wß of another who has, he will be able to treat himself or advise big friend.