NOT HEAVY TO HIM.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2278, 15 September 1899, Page 8

NOT HEAVY TO HIM.

The man on the elephant's hack is nothing to the *!• p tant. The beast doesn't mind lim any more than one if those immense lr ty horses you see in London minds the l >r;tps ornaments on his harness. Vet on my hack or yours the man would he a load ; and, 'f fastened to a l-wk's wings, the little brasses •vt;uI(1 hol 1 him to the earth

Thus Wf are reminded, my thoughtful friends, tint tlirre are i.o absolute fict<. The ind -n depend* on the back. Albeit Samson u..lked off with the tatei ef (!az.», an ordin arv garden gat would, 1 am sure, prove all that we should want to lug. It follows that W'-itht or heaviness c*n. as the alvrrtisenn ots say, '"be sui plied in r. variety of st \ !«"*."

When, for example, Mr Sidney Challangd mentions in a If'Vr thM 'i f a•• rta l " >•< rio-1

he wis "heave."' Ic Hoi-s m t i 'bat he tii-u'd the c "il,-« nt a »t"up or ••.vr> ni"'e th in 11-'.ial His horse w«iil 11: ivf f-lttl'it. 'II cav h-'rode one ; bnt the truth i : that "t the tim»> Tvf-rrcd to h- 5 was actually under his proper weight by several pounds.

Whit he wants its to understand is that he wis h-avy to himself: it was not an increase of weight but an increase of weakness, having practical!v the same result. Hh expi mit ion is that iu the early part of 1800 he began to f. .-I ill and out- of sorts. He went about in a mazy way. f.-elinff badlv without knowing what the trouble was or how to account for it.

'• I had," Mr Chaliinger gorson to tell us. " a nasty t;s f ein tho mouth and no relish fo- my m■■!:." Hut e;.t we all must, or st:.rve :a >d c.-.t he did. Net mu.-h though At her-t it Mas a for ed biv-incss. Nothing ti-t.-d ratnril or good, and he took jn-1 mi nigh to keep him toiug until the next nva' time 'hould come r und. "And even f..r that I had to suffer," h said. " After getting it d*wn. I had, a!mo»t immediately. a sen s e of fulness or distension a' the stomach and pain at the chest as if a bit of focd h id lodged there—which couldn't br. " \o, nothing lodged anywh'T2. \\ hat there was of it went straight down into Mr C'l.-.llanjer'.s st-tin ich, where it at once be

!".'i to firniC't a"d pndiioe a ga< whi.'li ca'is'-d the fcelincr of fu!nes<\ wh le the irrita'e l nerve* nt up the pain. It was not too m.:'h food, but food mt digested —food turned sour in the stunach —with the whole body 1 chil d if failing of the needed stimulus and nouri limfiit food, and wondering what th" matter \n». I' ""is this state of matters tlat maHe him, to use his own words, "heavy, drowsv, and languid." Any river in Kncl uid, after a longdroucht in summer, looks just as Mr fhalleneer felt heavy, drowsy, and l trgii'd. And for an id-ntical rea«on—the 10-kof ncc""sary supplies. Wait an instant, though ! Don't miss the p./int. The rain, when it cam°s, fills the river by a 'housaod little channels fallincr directly into it. Not so as to food and body. Between th"m is a process ; a mechanical, chemical, and vital operation—digestion. Mark you th it, and act accordingly. Whether in the skv or on the ground, water is water—the same thing.

Rut food and body are not the same thing. The must be transmuted into the second by the miracle called digestion ; for of all (lod's ways in nature none is more awful, more amazing, more glorious. And, when impeded or overborne, none which punishes the interference more certainlv and swift. " I little or no sleep," continues our friend, "a»d awoke in the morning tired out, as after a hard day's work. Presently I could hardly walk, for very weakness, and from time to time had to give up work altogether. No medicine helped me—and I tried plenty. "After threr wretched years of this, Mrs B : rd, of Tal'istorn, told my wife about Mother Seigel'. Syrup, and through her, advised me to try it. She said my ailment was indigestion and the Syrup would cure it. And it did. One bottle greatly relieved me. I could eat freely, and food agreed with me. I persevered with the remedy and cr<>; .strong as ever. All the p;:in and heaviness left me, and I felt light and energetic, although I have gained fin weight."—(Signed) Sidsky Cuamanokr, Gladstone Viila, Cwm. near Waunll.vyd, Mon., Augusl SOcli, 1898,