What does a spur do for a horse?

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1881, 1 July 1892, Page 6

What does a spur do for a horse?

Your horse is weak and weary with a long day s jouruev. Von have ridden hint since early mornmi. impatient to reach a shelter for the night, y«.n dine the »pur into his panting sides. He leaps forward, and for a time trots onwardly rapidly. What >liil the .tpur <lo for him ? Did it give him stiength? If so, why feed him? If not, what made him go faster ? Here is a short personal statement which a man makes. Try if you can see any likeness between the two cases.

He says : " Up to August, 18So, I WW always a strong, healthy man. At that time I tagan to feel dull, and heavy, with a faint, dizzy sensation as if I should tumble down any minute. I could not imagine what was coming over me. There was a bad taste in my mouth, my breath was bad, and my mouth would oft« n fill with an offensive slimy matter. My appetite was poor, and after eating I suffered great pain, and wiud would roll all over me. I had much pain at the stomach, aud was sick every morning, and threw up a great deal of phlegm. I also had a pain like the thrust of a knife cutting me between the shoulders and low down in the back at the kidneys. W hen 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 best I could, for I had a wife and family depending upon me. But it was a hard and tedious task, as even stooping made me cry out with pain. After a while I grew so weak I could scarcely crawl about, and was compelled to give up my emplovment. When I ventured out of doors I felt so dizzy that I had free<juently f .o 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 a chemist's and get a draught to help me home. I tried herbs and other medicines, and was attended l»y a doc tot, but I got no better. In this dead-and-alive way I lingered on until April, 1890, when my wife got an Almanac from the druggist, and I read •if a case of a railway guard at Manchester, who had been cured by a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup after the doctors had given him up So I wrote to him. and he replied that it had cured l.im and would do me good. Upon this I got a little, and after a fuW 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 any sitns of stomach disorder a few doses set me right directly. I feci very grateful for the great benefit I have received, and wish others who may l>e ill to know of it; as, if I had known of Mother Seigel's Syrup at the outset I would have saved over four years' suffering. I have lived in Rirkdale fifteen years, and if any one writes to me I shall be glad to reply. (Signed) " Thomas Spkrrin, " Kitchen-Rang" Setter, '"2 B. Stamford road, " Rirkdale,"Southport." Now, where is the likeness between Mr Sperrin s experience and our illustration about the horse ? It is this : The horse gains no new strength from the application of the spur. Of course we all see that he cannot. Rut the pain arouses him and makes a draft on his reseived nervous power—with a corresponding depree of exaustion to follow. This is always Nature's way. She gives nothing for nothing. All must be paid for. Lookback at Mr Sperrin's statement where he says : I kept on at my work, for / had a wife mid family depending on me." That was his spur. It was work or worse with him, as it is with most of is. Rut he had to pay for labouring when he was unable, by having to gi*e up work altogether, aud what the end would have been had not Seigel's Sj rup come to the rescue nobody can say. Possibly the s.iddest thing we tan think of. Any way this triumphant medicine saved him, and he c;in work now without a spur. If the reader also has indigestion and dyspepsia, with its painful and alainiing consequences aud symptoms, or knows of another who has, he will be able to treat himself or advise his friend.