THE HISTORY OR A SCAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10267, 26 January 1895, Page 2

THE HISTORY OR A SCAR

On ths hack of my righ/ hand—juet about the middle of it—there is a small scar, half as big as a threepenny piece, perhaps. You would never notice it unless I shpwed it to you, and even then you would have to look nharp to see it. But it's there, all the same, and will be until the hand is returned to dust. It datet back 40 yosrs, that sear does. Going hums from school one day another boy and 1 quarrelled and fought. Strange to say, it wasn't about a girl either. Any way, he drew his jack-knife and stabbed me iv the back of the right hand. The wound, I remember, was slow to heal. It was sore and inflamed ioi months, and bardly a day but something bit it, or I knocked it against something, and so made it worse. My whole available body appeared to be concentrated in that sore. You know how such things are. Th?y are like boils, and if there ia aoy comforttble spot to have a bnil there are loads of inouey waiting for tha fellow wbo discovers it.

Lufcly "we have received two' letters, both conttilling a-" identical' expression—namely, this: " Kveiythimj seemed a trouble to me." Now, nnne of us are bo tough as to be proof against tr ;üb!e, but when everything is a troubla to a iu.ni I hi very heart iuskieot him mast be tender ami touchy. And, mercy knows, it is so oftan fnoiiiih. Grief will do it, worry will da it, and illr ess too. One of tbesft letter!, or at least the writer of it, gde* onto fay :—" It was iv Blarch 1830 that I felt tired and languid, and without toy usual ennrgy. Before th»t I bad always been strong and active. Now I was iow-spirittd and melancholy ; everything sei-med a trouble to me. At first I hal a bai toste in the mouth, a poor appetite, and 'all I ate gavn oiu grest pain in tha che3t a-..d >-id-s. Even fish and poultry gave me as much d stress as mnre solid food. I was constantly snitiiiiifl up a sour acid fluid which caused a miserable iesiiug in my throat ami mouth. - ■ ,-. ;

"After 1 bad beea for some time in this condition 1 "*a« atsncke&with gout in my hands and feet, which confined me to the bouse now and again for n week or two at a tfms. The parts became inflamed and swollen, and gave me excruciating agony." I cotffd not be4r anything to touch th.m. For four years I was subject ta these atttcks, The doctor who attended ma was able to ease me temporarily, but I was bood as bad as <wer.

" In tliu middle of April 1888 I read that cases like mine had been cured by Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and I thought I would try it. I hadn't twh more than half a bottle when I felt'relieved. This encouraged me to keep on with the Syrup) and in a comparatively short time all (lyrnptomd of the disease left me. Since- then I have enjoyed excellent health, »nd whenever I feel » tvvmge of my old enemy a dof cor two of ' Mother Seigel' soon sets me right—Yours truly, (signed) M. Leahy., 49 Grosvenor terracft,- Grosvenor Park, Cambfrwell, London, September 22, 1592." So murh for thefactsaVJJlr Leahy felt them. What hat science to offer, in explanation of them P This : Gout, rheumatism, and biliousnees are three - complaints arising indirectly from E.u overworked liver, or, more properly, from indige-tion and dyspepsia. The poisons so engendered may lis hidden ' and . unfelt for .a ' long time,[ and' then be suddenly re'dared active by mental worryi exposure, ovu-eatiog, wrong .eating; or any of a dozeu other causes. The kidneys fail (following the'ftomseh and' liVer),, the acid poison remains in the blood and nets' up Inflammation in the joints, "and the retained fluids'produce dropsy. All sorts of disturbances are apt to ga with this condition of things, every one less a disease in itself than a symptom of the one caust —indigestion and dyspepsia. The heart and lungs are often attacked in, sympathy. Cure the torpid digestion, and an aU-ronnd improvej ment at once eucceeds. To do'this is in the power of Mother Eeig'el's Curative Syrup—as, perhaps, in the power of pothing.else. It was most unfortunate that'this gentleman i suffered forefght years; »nd no wonder, mean- | while, that his mind was sensitive as bis body to every approach. Knowing what he now knows he feels safe, 2]Aer« is no darkness but it/norance, and the, German Nuise shows "Tho Way Out." : ■•'■■• J.M.J?.

London, October 1892;