THINGS SLOWLY LEARNED.

Lake County Press, Issue 786, 16 December 1897, Page 7

THINGS SLOWLY LEARNED.

There ia a mau iu Scotland who used to write many readable and instructive things. He signed himself “ A Country Parson,” and a bright parson he is. One of bis essays is entitled, “ Things Slowly Learned,” a good line of thought for anybody. Well, here is one of the things slowly learned—that disease doesn’t jump on a

ea wild cat oat of a tree, but defrom seeds and conditions, just as nd weeds do. We who write and ,ne essays of which these lines are ive said tins a hundred times ; but people don’t seem to have thoroughly .■> i the idea yet. '■( if Mr Theodore Treasure alone had jo, he wouldn’t have suffered ten •ora attacks of rheumatic fever. In her, 1891, he says he had a fearful ith it. He tells us in a letter that he ■eadful pains all over his > oily, and sore he couldn’t bear anything to uni. Even the bedclothes hurt him, feather against a sore eye. “I got _r no sleep,” he says, “ tossing all the night long, and trying to get ease by a shift of position. “ I had a foul taste in the mouth, and spat up a great quantity of slimy phlegm. My appetite left me, and the little food I forced down gave me great pain at the chest and sides. For five, months I was confined to my room, most of the time unable to leave my bed, and what I suffered during that time I have no words to describe.’’

Any one who has ever been through that sort of thing can easily believe what Mr Treasure says ; for when every muscle and joint in a man’s body is throbbing with inflammation, it isn’t any common collection of words that can set forth Ins feelings. It is agony and torment in the supreme degree. Yet we ought to know better than tc have it. But we don’t—not yet. “ I M'as perfectly helpless,” continues our friend, “ and could scarcely move. In fact, the people had to move me from one side of the bed to the other. Month after month I was laid up and suffering in this way. I had a doctor attending me, but he wasn’t able to do muc to relieve me.

F naily, to cut the story short, I came to hear of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup, I read about it in a book that was left at my house. The book said this medicine was good for rheumatism, and so my wife got me a bottle from Mr Ford the grocer at Oak hill. After taking it for a week I felt great relief. Then I kept on taking it and not long afterwards I found it had cured me ; it had completely driven the rheumatism out of my system. lam willing you should publish these facts, anrt von can refer any inquirers to me. (Sinned) Theodore Treasure (Wagcon and Horses Inn), Doulting, Shepton Malletl, November 3r ', 1393.” Now let’s hark back a moment. To the thoughtful reader Mr Treasure’s story may look a trifle confused and mixed. That is, he describes the symptoms which xvouldn’t seem at the first blush to have anything to do with rheumatism. But there’s where Mr Treasure is right and the reader wrong His account shows that he was a victim of chronic indigestion, dyspepsia, and torpid liver—and that covers the whole ground. Rheumatjsmfand this is the. slowly learned lesson) is merely a nasty symptoms of a dyspeptic condition of the digestive organs. At the outset it means too much eating and drinking. This results in the formation of a poisonous acid which fills the body and produces the local outbreak called rheumatism Hence we cure it from within not from without. And this true idea is also a new idea—do you see ? Try to get this lesson by heart. You can prevent rheumatism by Seigel’s Syrup : you can cure it by Seigel’s Syrup. But it is more comfortable to prevent it.