TEE ENGINES OF SHIPS AND OF MEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8580, 30 May 1891, Page 6

TEE ENGINES OF SHIPS AND OF MEN.

In the month of March, the great and beautiful steamship ■". City of Paris," while on her voyage from Now York to Liver-Jl pool, met: with an accident by which-hot v engines were completely disabled, leaving her helpless on. the sea. She carried a ; large number of v passengers, and great anxiety , was felt concerning i her in Europe' and America. : How she was finally towed into Queenstown harbour will be remem-' beted by the public. "Well, what of it?" you say. '«TLey ,- afterwards " found out how it happeoarf, and repaired the engines, and no lives were ;•, lost." ' Very true, but wait a moment. Because | you never go- to sea, do you think tho | sudden destruction of a ship's engine has | no lesson for you ? How shortsighted meu ', are ! Did you ever lie on your bed at home, I or on a cot in a hospital, helpless as a log: What ailed you ? : Some disease. What 'u disease? It .is an accident to your vital machinery. What do the doctors try to do for you ? To " cure" you. Yes, of course. Suppose Ave say "repair" you : it-comes to the same thing, for we are kept-alive and j going by certain organs or engines inside the body. When they are out of order and 7! s work badly, we are ill; when they stop, we die. Do you see the force of the illustration?, ~,;.'

Sometimes a man's-machinery is never right from the Hour of his birth. Here is a short story one .man tells about ■ himself :< which will show what we mean. He says: "One ship is never weak because another is, but a baby may be weak because its parents were, or some other of its ancestors. It is spoken of in the family that when 3 was an infant, I did nothing but sleep. .Now, a healthy infant ought to sleep most of the time, but not all the time. He should laugh, play, cry, kick, and take notice oi things. My mother was bothered about it, and saw the doctor, who said it was owing to the sluggish state of my liver. Nevertheless, I lived and grew upas millions of children do. But inherited disease make* its mark sooner or later, according to circumstances.

"About five years ago I began to feel bad, I didn't know what was the matter witl me. I had a bad taste in my mouth, a slimy tongue, aud felt languid and tired, and had no ambition for work. My appetite failed, and when I did eat, under a sorb oi compulsion, 1 had great pain after it. 1 went on in this way until the spring of 1888, when 1 had a.very severe attack, mid was , , treated in Bartholomew's Hospital for some ■'.'. time. But I came out still weak, and little later on I-was so bad I broke down completely, and took to my bed. Matters now looked very serious for me. " The first doctor who came to see me - was not able to ;give any; relief, and my [ people fetched 'another, as my condition had }, become alarming. I got worse, and was in : great agony. I had pains all over me, bat •more particularly in the bowels, where the Jpain was intense. The bowels were stopped <or. constipated, and * the * doctor seemed piuzzled. One. day he said, ' I cannot ac- s, count for your condition.'- 1 now began to think what was be3t to be done. Yet what ciouldldo? :\ "I had heard of a medicine called Mother gpeigel's Curative Syrup, which was said to b;e a most remarkable cure for deep-seated aspd chronic complaints where all other remedies were unavailing, but I had never it, and why should I believe in it? y.'et how strangely we are sometimes led »to paths we have" never travelled before.' - i: " About. this time I picked up a newspaper, and read of a case similar to my o<ivn that had been". cured— the write? stiUd—by Mother Seigel's Syrup. I decided , risk it, 'and sent- over to Mr. Dyer, the . chemist, in Acre Lane, West' Brixton, ana gf>t a bottle, and in ten min Ues after iam ttfe. first dose I felt relief. . i "In my excitement and satisfaction I" 8 ", chared, This is the right thing! . . „ | " After taking six bottles I found my#" in perfect health. lam a new man. *.. /never was in better health in my life, &na ,'all the members of my family think of my <fcure as all the more wonderful owing to »y ?having suffered with I liver complaint {r ?'° (iriy infancy. I will gladly answer any i " /quiries about Mother Seigel's Syrup. « n what it did for me." (Signed) W. * spink, 126, Acre-Lane, Brixton, an-Tachbrook-street, Pimlico. , {' Mr. Gpldspink is a pork butcher, ana £ . : ... well known and highly respected. An dition to his inherited weakness of the a he suffered from deep-seated w*^ 8 ? 0 f and dyspepsia, with, an acute attac _ constipation, a dangerous and often Uai"complication.' For this almost ?"S ;¥ maladyoften mistaken for other airf*—Seigel's Syrup is the only remedy *>, relied upon. Look in the papers ana r j ; the testimony, of witnesses from jJ» f j o'GroaVs to Land's End. f