PAEROA DISTRICT NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11110, 8 July 1899, Page 5

PAEROA DISTRICT NEWS.

[BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Paeroa, Friday. These has been a better demand for land about Paeroa lately. The new publio library and readingroom is to be opened publicly on Thursday next. The site settled upon for the Paeroa creamery is on land belonging to Mr. J. i'lnlUps, Un '' almost °PP° sito the racecourse. Mr. opragg purchased the land yesterdav , 'or® is every probability of a butter and cheese factory being established hero also, Strict 8 th<! centre ° the creameries „J' 10 d, ; i . sioa of tho County Council to erect pubbo abattoirs has given universal satisfaction. The tenders lor the buildings month 0t ' 1 ° b^ * of ne xt The lighting ot Paeroa streets is to bo further improved by three additional lamps, one in Cassells-street, one opposite the post office, and 0116 , at tlle junction of Corbett Church tS ' Uear th ° Prosb s' tetian The opening of a new Druids' Lodge at kino took place last night, and Droved a very successful function. Brother McHugli, district president, was installing officer, astol6 7i 6 offi S?, rs of " 10 Paoroa and Waihi Lodges. The following were the officers elected:— Druid, Brother Fenton; Vice-Arch Druid, Brother Montgomery; secretary, Brother R. Gillespie* treasurer, Brother Bright; inside guardian Brother Bell; outside guardian, Brother Hughes; minute secretary, Brother Hawkesby; auditors, Brothers Maiden and Rowlands; surgeon, Dr. Wright. After tho ceremony concluded the lodge was closed, and a splendid supper provided by Brother Montgomery, was partaken of.

now IT IS.

In the streets of the town where I live \ sometimes meet a poor fellow who is bo badly* off that his appeal for a penny or two is hardly to be resisted. Ho has lost both legs above the knees and punts himself alone; tho pavement with his hands, like a loaded barge in shallow water. Thank Mercy, one doesn't often see human hulks like him. Where there is a single instance of a man having lost both legs or both arms there are a dozen Where only one limb of tho pair is missing. And where there is a disease of the latter sort there are a hundred cases of people who aro lame, or more or less disabled, by disease or minor injuries which we scarcely noticeable, yet in the I"tig run very serious to those so afflicted.

Consequently, when we sum up both classes we perceive that it isn't the total wrecks and the incurables that are most expensive to society, but the prodigious host which must work, and does work, yet always under difficulties and against hindrances. Men and women regularly employed, but who are continually breaking down in a small way, thus losing fragments of time and fractions of wages, are of the kind I mean. The amount of income lost in this way ill one year in England is immense. And so far as the cause of all this is disease, and not accident or born bodily imperfection, it is almost always preventible and generally curable. Look at this, for example, and take heart. "In the spring of this year (1897)," the writer says, "my health began to fail me. My appetite was poor, and after meals I had pain and weight at the chest. I could not sleep owing to the pain, and I got weaker every day. I bad so much pain that I dared not eat, and rapidly lost flesh. " I was in agony night and day, and often sat by the fire at night as I could not rest in bed. I had a deal of muscular pain, particularly in tile arms. I gradually got Worse and worse, and in two months lost two score pounds weight. "I saw a doctor who gave me medicines and injected morphia to ease the pain; but I was no better for it. Then I met with a friend who told me of the great benefit ho had derived from the use of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Syrup. I got a bottle of it from Mr. S. Richardson, Chemist, Bridgmanstreet, and in a week I could eat well, and food no longer distressed me. Therefore ■ I kept on with the medicine, and soon was strong and well. I am now in the best of health, and recommend this remedy to all I meet with. You are at liberty to publish this letter as you like."—(Signed) William Bridge, Grocer and Baker, 65, Bridgman-street, Bolton, October 5, 1897. Here we have an illustration of the proposition with which this article sots out. From Mr. Bridge's account of his own case wo see that lie lost a considerable time from bis business. How much that represents in money he does not say; nor is it important to the argument. For two months or more he lost from his business practically all he was worth to it; and what that situation would have signified, had it been indefinitely continued, any intelligent person can imagine. Men frequently becOme stricken with poverty as with illness in that way. However well any business may be managed in an emergency by others, it is not to bo supposed that it gets on as prosperously as when the proprietor is himself at the helm. And he cannot be there while lie is suffering agonies from disease. This is true even if we mako no calculation of the direct expenses created by illness, nor of the suffering experienced— latter not computable in terms of money. Now, please remark how quickly Mr. Bridge was cured of his ailment—bad as it seemed and really was. Dating from the time he began using Mother Seigel's Syrup, he says;—"ln a week I could eat well, and the food no longer distressed me." Hi? trouble was of the digestion only (acute dyspepsia), for which this preparation long ago proved itself a specific. Had he known of and employed i* when the attack began he would have lost no time, felt no pain. The lesson of the case is this:—As indigestion is a common complaint, and dangerous also when neglected, the remedy should bo at hand for immediate use when needed. The more valuable the treasure the more strict should be the guard over it. And health is a jewel compared with which rubie3 are as the glass beads of savages.