HOW DID THE THIEF GET IN?

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1262, 7 May 1896, Page 16

HOW DID THE THIEF GET IN?

You wake up some morning and miss your watch, .your purse, your best clothes and other valuables. Yet neither you nor any member of your family heard a sound during tho night. Neither is there a sign of bow the thief got into the house, nor by what road ho decamped. You rush round and tell the police, and also decide to keep a dog and a shot gun. You will let thieves know they mustn't come fooling around your premises after this. A sensible procedure. Meanwhile your watch, your money, &c, are gone. Quito so. Now, suppose 1 should tell you that tho thief who stole your property never entered your house at all ; that he was born in it ; had lived twenty years in it ; never had been out of it till ho went off with your things, albeit not a soul of you had ever seen or heard of him. AVhat would you say to me ? You would call me ■in idiot and threaten to have mo sent back to the asylum. But don't be too sure. " Later on," says Mr J feakin, " rheumatism struck into my system, and 1 had pains all over me. 1 was confined to my bed for three months with it and could not dress myself. In this general condition 1 continued for five years. One after another I was treated by fourteen doctor:; in that time, but their medicines did mo little or no good,. At one time I went to the I nlirmary at Shrewsbury, whero they treated me for heart disease; but I got worse, and, feeling anxious, returned home."

Hov he was finally cured wo will mention in a minute. First,honovor, about his rheumatism. Every intelligent person knows that rheumatism and gout (its twill brother) is virtually a universal ailment. It does its cruel and body-racking work in every country and climate No other malady causes so vast an aggregate of suffering and disability. "Whatever will cure it is worth more money in England than a gold mine in every country. Hut does rheumatism "strike info" tho system as a bullet or a knife might strike into it? No, rheumatism is a thief who ideals away our comfort and strength; but it is a thief, as 1 said, wdio is born on the premises. In other words, it is one—and only one—of tho direct consequences of indigestion and dyspepsia. And this is tho why and wherefore: Indigestion creates a poison called uric acid ; this acid combines with tho chloride of sodium to form a salt; this salt is urate of sodium, which is deposited in tho form of show crystals in tho muscles and joints. Thou comes inflammation and agony, otherwise rheumatism. Thus you preceivo that it doesn't come from the outside, but from tho inside—from the stomach. Our friend's cold, caught in tho mine, didn't produce his rheumatism, it clogged ids skin, and so kept all tho poison in hia body instead of letting part of it out. Hero is our very good friend Mr Richard Jleakin, of Pentorvin, Salop, who expresses an opinion in this line. Let us have his exact words. He says "Rheumatism ilruck into my system." Of course wo understand that ho speaks after tho manner of men. You know wo talk of being

"attacked" by this, that, and tho other complaint as though diseases were liko soldiers or wild beasts. "Doesn't make any odds," do you say? Beg pardon, but it does—heavy odds. For il teaches us to \,„<k in the wrong direction for danger.

Do you sec now Y Thirteen years ago, in the spring of 1880, whilst working in the Roman Gravel Leal .Alines, Mr lioakin took a bad cold. Ho got over the cold, but not over what followed it. He was feeble, without appetite, and bad a deal of pain in tho chest and sides. His eyes and skin wero tinted yellow, and his hands and feet were cold and clammy. Frequently ho would break out into a cold perspiration, as a- man does on receiving a nervous shock caused by something fearful or horrible. Ho was also troubled with pain at tho heart and had spells of difficult breathing-what medical men call asthma. Mr 1 leakin adds: "I was cured at last by Mother Seigol's Curative Syrup, and without it 1 believe I should have been dead long ago." Very likely, very likely; for this thief, although he may wait long for his opportunity, isn't always satisfied to run away with our comfort and our money; he often takes life too,

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