HOW DID THE THEIF GET IN?

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8483, 28 May 1896, Page 4

HOW DID THE THEIF GET IN?

Yon wake np some morniner nnd ml»s pour watoh, your purpo, yonr beßt clothes, md ot er valuables. Yet neither you nor my m<*mber of your family heard a Bound during the night. Nrither'i* therb » aife -■> of howjtho thief got Into the house nor by what road he decamped. Yon'rnsh round and tell the police, and also deolde to koep a dog and a shotgun. You v^ill let thieves know tbey murm't como fooling aronnd your promises aftior thiß. A eenxible p»-o« jedure. Meanwhile your watoh, your money, &c, are gone. Quite bo. Now suppose I should tell you that the thief who stole yonr property never entered j your house at all ; that he was born m II : I had lived twenty yearo m it ; never had been out of it till he went off with your things, albeit not a soul of you had ever Been or heard of him. What would you say to me ? Yon would call me an idiot and threaten to have me rent baok to the asylum. But don't be too sure, " Later on," says Mr Heakin, " rh«umatiam struck into my system and I had pains aU over me. I was oonfined to my bed for hree months with it and oonld not dresß nyself. In this general condition I continued for five years. One after another I waß treated by fourteen dootors m that time, but their medioineß did me little or no good. At one time I went to the Infirmary at Shrewsbury, where they treated me for heart disease ; but I got worse and feeling anxious, returned home." How he was finally cured we will mention m a minute. First, however, about hia rheumatism. Fvery in'elligent person knows that rheumatism and gout (ita twin brother) ia virtually a universal ailment. It does its oruel and body-raoking wok m every oountry and climate, No other malady eauaes bo vast an average of suffering and disability. Whatever will oure ib ia worth more money In England than a gold mine m every oountry; But does rhenmatißin "strike into" the system as a bullet or a knife might strike into it ? No, rheumatism ia the thief who ( steals away our comfort and strength ; bat it is a thief, as I said, who is ' born on the premises. In other words, 1 it is one— and only one— of the direot oon* , sequences of indigestion and dyspepsia. And this ia the wby and wherefore : Indigestion createa a poison called uric aoid ; this acid combines with the ohloride of sodium to form a salt ; this salt is urate of sodium, which ia depoaited m the form of rharp crystals m the muscles and joints. Then comes inflammation and agony, otherwise rheumatism. Thus you peroeive that it doesn't come from the outside but from the inside — from the stomaoh. Our friend's oold, caught m the mine, didn't produce his rheumatism, it ologged his tkin and so kept all the poison m his body instead of letting part of it out. Here is our very good friend Mr Richard Heakin, of Pentervin, Salop, who expresses an opinion m this line. Let ub have bis exaot words. He says : " Rheumatism struok into my system." Of course we understand that he speakß after the manner of men. You know we talk of being " attaoked" by this, that, and tbe other complaint, as theagh diseases were like soldiers or wild beasts. " Doesn't make any odds," do yon Bay ? Beg pardon, but it does— heavy odda For it teaohes na to look m the wrong direotion for danger. Do yon see It now ? Thirteen years ago, m the spring of 1880, whilst working m the Roman Gravel Lead Mines, Mr Heakin took a bad oold. He got over tbe cold, bub nut over what fo'lowed it. He was feeble, without appetite, and had a deal of pain m the oheßt and sides. His eyea and skin were tinted yellow, and hiß hands and feet were oold and o'ammy. Frequently he would break oat into a oold perspiration, as a man doea on receiving a nervous shook caused by something tearful or hirrible. He was also troubled with pain at the heart and had spells of diffioult breathing — what medical men oall »stbma. Mr Heakin adds: "I was cured ab laßt by Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup, and without it I believe I should have been dead long ago." Very likely, very likely ; for thia thief, although he may wait long for his opportunity, isn't always satisfied ta rnn away with our oomfert and our money ; he often J takes life too.