NOT HEAVY TO HIM.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2279, 22 September 1899, Page 8

NOT HEAVY TO HIM.

Tho mnn nn the elephant's back is nothing to the rl piant. The big beast doesn't mind him any mere titan one of those immense' dray horses yui see in London minds the l>ra?a ornament 1 ' on his harness. Vet on my back or yours the man would be a load ; ami, if fastened to a 1 uk's wings, the little brasses would hoi 1 him to the earth. Thus we are reminded, my thoughtful friends, that there are 1.0 absolute facts. The burden depends on the back. Albeit Samson walked off with the gates of Gaza, an ordinary garden gate would, I am sure, prove all that we should want to lug. It follows thai weiglit or heaviness can, as the advertisements say, "be suppli r >l in a variety of Sl>les." When, for example, Mr Sidney Challanger mentions in a letter that at ;i c< rtaiu period he W'S " heavy," he does not mean that he t'pned the scales at a stone or two more thin u'u'il. His horse would have felt that, in case he rode one ; but the truth is that at the time referred to he was actually under his proper weight by several pounds. What lie wants us to understand is that he was heavy to himself; it was not an increase of weight hut an increase of weakness, having practicady the same result. His explanation is that in rhe early part of IS9O he began to feel ill and out of sorts. He went about in a m»?V way. f. eliu • h.a 11". without know'tig wiiat i,a trouble was or how to account for it. " I had," Mr Challenger roes rn to tell us. "a nasty taste in the month and no relish for my meals." But eat we all must, or starve : and eat he did. Not much though. At best it was a for c-d business. >,'<thirrj tested natural or good, and he took jnsi enough to keep him 2ning uutil the next mrj! time should come round. "And even for that I had to suffer," hj" said. " After getting it down, I had, almost immediately, a sense of fulnes3 or distension at the stomach and pain at the chest as if a bit of food had lodged there—which couldn't be." No, nothing lodged anywhera. What there was of it went straight down into Mr Coallamrer's stomach, where it at once began to ferment and produce a gas which caused the feeling of fulness, while the irritated nerves set up the pain. It was not too much food, hut food nr.t digested—food turned sour in the stimach—with the whole body behind it failing of the needed stimulus and nourishment food, and wondering what the matter was. It was this state of matters that made him, to use his own words, •'heavy, drowsy, and languid." Anyriver in England, after a long drought in summer, looks just as Mr Challenger felt - heavy, drowsy, and languid. And for an identical reason—the lack if necessary supplies. Wait an instant, though ! Don't miss the point. The rain, when it comes, fills the river by a thousand little channels falling directly into it. Not so as to food and body. Between them is a process ; a mechanical, chemical, and vital operation—digestion. Mark you that, and act accordingly. Whether in the sky or on the ground, water is water—the same thing.

But food and body are not the same thing. The first must be transmuted into the second by the miracle called digestion ; for of all God's ways in nature none is more awful, more amazing, more glorious. And, when impeded or overborne, none which punishes the interference more certainly and swift. " I got little or no sleep," continues our friend, "and awoke in the mornini: 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 three wretched years of this, Mrs Bird, of Tallistorn, told my wife about Mother Seigel's 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 got strong as ever. All the pain and heaviness left me, and I felt light and energetic, although I have gained ;in weight."—(Signed) Sidney Challanger, Gladstone Villa, Cwm, near Waunllwyd, Mon., August 30th, 1898.