WHAT DOES A SPUR DO FOR A HORSE?

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 90, 19 April 1893, Page 4

WHAT DOES A SPUR DO FOR A HORSE?

»., . . Yocb horse ie weak and weary with a lopg day's journey. You have ridden him since early morning. Impatient to reach a shelter fcr the night, you drive the fpur into his panting sides. He leaps forward, and for a time trots onward rapidly, What did the spur do for him"! Di> it tave bin strength? It so, why feed him? It n<» what made him gof aster ? Here is a 8b" personal Btatemem which a man makes Try and see if you O3n see any likenes between the iwo casea. He says : •• Up to August. 1885, 1 wap always a eirong, healihv man. at thai time I be?an tc feel tired, dull, and he*vj •with a faiat dizzy sensation as if I ehonld tumble down any minute. I could noi imagine what was coming over me. 'I here was a bad taste m my mouth, my bieatb was bad, sud my mouth would often fill with an offensive slimy matter. My ajpetite was poor, and after esting I suffered great pain, and wind would roll all over me I had much pain at the stomach, and wa* sick every moraine, and threw np a great deal of phlegm. I also had a pain like the tbr jst of a knife cutting me between ih shoidera and low down m the back atthkidneys. Wbeo at work I got tired m fi-e minutes, and had to stand and rest. " I fcept on with my work, however, for some time as best I could, for I had a wife god family depending upon me. But i: was & bard and tedious Uuk, as even stooping made me cry out with pain. After a whfls I grew so weak I oonld scarcely craw Bbout, and was compelled to give up my employ aent. I ventured out cf doors I felt co dizzy that I had frequently to step and rest for fear of falling, and wa>eo bad that people would think I was iD drink, and I hai often to call at a chemist's and get a draught to nelp me home. J tried herbs and oth r medicines, and was attended by a doctor, bat I got no better. In tbis dead-and-alive way I lingers! on nntil April, 1890, when my wife got an almanao from the druggist, and I read of a case of a railway guard at Manchester, who had been cured by a medicine called Mother Beigel's Turative Syrup after the dootors had given him up. So I wrote to him, and he replied that it bad our d him and would do me good. Upon ihia I got a bottle, and after a few doee3 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 signs of Etom&oh disorder a few dozes eet me right directly. 1 feel very grateful for the great benefit I have received, and wish other? who may be ill to know of it ; as, if I had known of Mother Seigel's Syrnp at tha onteet I wonlfj have heen saved over f -nr year's suffering. I have 1 ved m Birkdale fifteen yeari-, and if any one writeß to me I Bhall be gl^d to reply. (Signed) " Tbosias Sjebbis, " Xi chen Ringe Setter, • Stamford Road, '•Birkdale, Southpori." JJoWs where is the likeness between Mr Sperrin's experienca and onr illustration about tho horse? It is this: The horse gains no new strength from the application c! the spur. Of coarse we ail see that he cannot. But the pain arouses him and makes a draft on bis reserved nervous fewer— with a corresponding degree of ex baust:on to follow. This is always Nature's way. She gives nothing for nothing. All mast be paid for. Look back »t Mr Sperrin's statement where be Bays : " I kept on at my work, for I had a wife and family depending on me." That was bis spur. It wss woik or worse vitb him, es it is with mo.-t of us. But he hid to psy for labouring when he was unable, by having to Rive up wcrk alogcther. and what the end w uid have been hid not Seigel's Syrup come to tha retoue noboiy can say. Possibly the saddest thing we can think of. Any way tbis triumphant medicine saved bim c and he caa work now without a spur.