WHAT DOES A SPUR DO FOE A HORSE?

Marlborough Express, Volume XXIX, Issue 182, 25 July 1893, Page 4

WHAT DOES A SPUR DO FOE A HORSE?

Toub horse is weak and weary with a long day's journey. You have ridden him since early morning. Impatient to reach a shelter for the night, you drive the spur into his panting sides. He leaps forward, and for & time trots onward rapidly. What did the spur do for him! Did it give him Btrength ? It so, why fetd him ? If not what made trim go faster? Here ia a short personal statement wbioh a man makes. Try and see if you can b> a any liktnese between the two cases. He says : "Up to August, 1885, 1 was Bfrays a strong, health) man. At that time I began tc feel tired, iull, and he-»vy with a faint dizzy sensation us if I should tumble down any minute. I could noi imagine what waß coming over me. ihere was a bad taste m my mouth, my breath ■stbs bad, au<i my mouth would often fill with an offensive Biimy matter. My ajpetite was poor, and afier cUing 1 suffeted great pain, and wind would roll al* over me I had muoh pain at the aeomacb, and was sick every morning, and t^rcw up a great deal ot phlegm. I also ha« a pain like the thrust of a kn f e cutting me between the eboiders and low down m the back at the faOuejß. When at work I got tired m five minutes, and had to stand and rest. "I xept on with my work, however, for some time aa best I could, for I had a wife and family depending upon me. Bui it was a bard and tedious ta:k, as even stooping made me cry out wivh pain. After a while I grew co weak I could scarcely crawl about, and was compelled to give np my employ Dent. When I ventured out cf doora I felt co dizzy that I had frequently to stop and rest for fear of fallmg, and was bo bad that people woul.i think I wa3 m dnnk, and I bai often to call at a chemist's ana" get a draogbt to £>«=lp me borne. I tried herbs and oth r medicines, and was attended by a doctor, but I got no better. In tbis dead-and-alive way I liDgered on until April, 1890, when my wife got an almanac from the droggißt, and I read ot a case of a railway guard at Manchester, who had been cured by % medic ne called Mother beigel's Curative Syrup after the doctors had given him up. So I wrote to him, and be replied that it had oorcd him and would do me good. Upon ibis I got a bottle, and after a few doses I felt better, and_ by keeping on uaiug it I was soon all right and back ai my work, and have been well ever since. When I feel any signs o! siomacli disorder a few dozes Bet 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 1 had known of Mother Seigel's Syrup at the onttet I would havß been saved over four year's Buffering. I have lived m Birkdale fifteen year:;, and if any one writes to me I shall be glad to reply. (Signed) " Thomas Spebbih, " Ehchen Range Setter, * 23, Stamford Boad, "Birkdale, Southport." Now, where ia the likeness between Mr Sperrin'a experience and our illustration about the horse? It is this: The horse gains no new strength from the application of the spar. Of course we all see that he cannot. But the pain arouEea him and makes a draft on hid reserved nervous power —with a corresponding degree of ex haußtion to follow. This ia always Nature's way. She gives nothing for nothing. All must be paid for. Look back at Mr Sperrin'a statement where be cays: " I kept on at my work, for I had a wife and family depending on me." That waH hia spur. It was work or worse with him, as it is with moat of us. But he had to pay for labouring when he was unable, by having to give up work altogether, and what the end wuuld have been had not Seigel's Syrup come to the rescue nobody can say. Possibly the saddest thing we can think of. Any way this triumphant medicine saved him, and he can work now without a spur. It the reader also has indigestion and dyepepaia, with its painful and alarming consequences and Bymptomß, or knows ot another who has, he will be abie to treat himself or advise hia friend.