THE HANDFUL OF THINGS WE KNOW.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 97, 26 April 1895, Page 4

THE HANDFUL OF THINGS WE KNOW.

Beverai years ago nn American humorist and poet published Borne verses called " Little Breeches." This was an odd name Riven to a very small boy who was caught out in n tremendous enowstorm, nud finally fouud in «mie hay quite a distance from the house. However the boy got there bothered every, body to explain. It was cortain he never could have walked. So Lis father raid tho angels must have done it; " thoyjust stooped down and toted him to where it was safe and warm, he Baid ,' T he poetry about it (euppc sod to havo been written by the youngster's father) starts off in this way : — I don't go much on religion, I never ain't had no show ; But I've a middling tight grip, sir, On the handful of things I know. I hat's it; the handful of things we know. There aren't many of 'em, but tboto aro a few, And oue of them ia this ; That for a hundred results there is only ono cau^e. IS nture develops and makes dif. fcrences, never a new force. Hero, for example, is an incident which sliowb our meaning. About Christmas, 1889, Mi- E. D. Wright had an attack of iufluci zi. Previous to this ho had always been strong and hearty. Well, ho got over the influenza; still, it had given him (m he sayf-) "a Bhake." After this he got along fairly well, until February of this year (1892) when the iufluecza attacked him again. This time tho malady " meant bußiues?," Nearly every bone and muscle in his body ached like sore tcsUi. His skin was hot and dry, aud to bed ho was obliged to go. For sixteen days he was under a doctor. At tho end of that liino ho found himself alive and that was about all you could suy far him. Ju his letter ho rocs on to cay whet happenod u>xr. "Ih;u a foul taste in tho mouth,' ho siys, " and my lei tb and tongue- wero covered vriili thick slimy pliUgtu. My wile Bayß my tongue wu- like uu oyster shell, aud I'm turo it was rcut"h as a nutmeg grater. What J ate, which waau'o much, guve me pain ia the obcet and Bides, After a mouthful or two I felt full and blown our., and 1 ÜBcd to swell to a great size. By-and-by a hacking cough set in aud my broathiug got short and quick. At night I lay for hours gasping tor breath, aud often couched bo 1 was afraid 1 should burst a blood vessel. I got weuker ai.d weaker nud Kits like a Ivoken-idiidid hone. The doctor said it wud asthma, but ho wasn't ablo to. rohevo it. Al. though I live ouly two minutes walk from tho fuctory where 1 work, I had to stop and rest ou my way many a time. " iLus matters wont with ;me until June, 1892. Then ono day 1 took up the Essex Kcwsman, and read of a man living M .Karsham, near I3ungay, having been cured by Mother Seigoi'6 Curative Byi up. I got BOine of this medicine from the International Tea Company, Brain, treo. After a Ilw doses my breathing grew easier, and by keeping on with the Syiup my food soon digested, iho cough lift, me, and I gained strength. lam now us strong as ever, can out uuythiug, and walk for mile?. lam a brushmaker, aud work at tho factory of 1L ssrs John Woit aud tons, High Street, Bmiutreo, and have lived in this town over lorty yeaiß. (Signed) K B. Weight, Sandpit Jtioad, Braintree, Essex, August 23rd, 1892." Aow let us sco how this illustrates tho proposition wo started out with. For almost three yours Mr Wright was ill with what scorned like v series of different di-caao?, 11 0 bad the influenza twico, the t.Bthma once, aud another disoaso whioh ho gives no name to — even if he recognised it. Look for a moment at tbo variety und incongiuity of the pains and troubles he mention!:, and he doesn't describe them all, either. You would fancy ho had halt adz .v ailments at least. Yet ho had but- one— lndigctliou aud dyspepsia — of which all his bodily disturbances (influouzi included — a blood disease) were symptoms. All camo out of the stomach, aud when Seigil'ti Syrup set that ii-;bt tho others quietly depnrted. What, then, is one thing of " tho handful of tbiiigs wo know'? Answer; That u.jntly all BOrU of diseases arcreally symptoms of indigottion aud dyspopsiit, and that Mother fcSiigel's Ouralivo tlyiupcuies it. Doublo that luct up iv your fi^t aud hold ou to it tight.