WE MUST HAVE THE TOOLS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10595, 12 September 1896, Page 3

WE MUST HAVE THE TOOLS.

Eobinson Ousoa, you remember, made • Hf boat or canoe oat of the trunk of a tree. It wat a laborions and tedious joK - And that wasn't the worst of it. When he got th* boat dono he couldn't launch it. It was too heavy ' for ouo man to handle. If he had only had an .arrangement like tha capstan of a ship Ikl I might have managed. Re understood how t« do it, but lacked the tools. How often we tad ourselves at a dead stand for that same reason. I Let me give you a fresh illustration, tied up foe tile moment in the following letter, which moat first ba road before we can rightly come at Urn point. "In the spring of 1884," say* ear correspondent, "I got into a low, weak way. Dot o<td| able to imagine what had happened to me. My strength kept ebbing away, till I had searcelj the'desire or ability to do anything. I felt at tired as if I had just arrived home from a long, hard journey, yet no: tax more than osnal of any kind hid been laid upon me. My mind, too, was weary; so that I turned Etna tkingi'that obliged me to think, plan, or consider. " Side by side, so to speak, with all titi* war the failure of my appetite. Of coarse I continued to e&t, or make an effort to eat, but food no longer tempted me as *it don a parson in health. I picked and minced <. over my meale, and the little I took neither tasted good nor did me any good after I hat eaten it. Instead of warming, comforting, ao4 stimulating me, as it aged to do, it gave me <li#tress at the - stomach, pain at the cbeat, and a singular feeling of tightness around tha waist, ' as though a belt were buckled too snug around! me. "After a time the condition of my storaaefc , seemed to grow worse. There was. that seam of gnawing, so often mentioned by others, and occasionally a feeling of fniatness and making, ' almost like the ground giving way under one't feet." , ■ V ' [Remark : An eminent London physician, sa one of his books, describes thin sinking feeling as one of the most appalling and frightful that' it is possible to experience. It is not the body, but the mind that suffers. I, the present writer, have had two attacks of it, and pray ta have no more. It is like unto the overshadow* ing of the Death Angel's wing, with the mit^i fully ■ conscious of tiu situation. The cauu if ' uric acid poison in the blood, one of the products of prolonged indigestion, j "When this sinking feeling c»me on," con* tinues the letter, "it weighed me down like a nightmare. Finally I got to ba so weak I eouM only walk slowly and feebly. The doctor lekt prescribed for me said my complaint iocs dyspipsia, but his medicine had no perceptible effect. "I continued like this for eight yean; out always tbe same, but now better and tbea worse. Yet in all that long time there was not a day when I could say I was well. No medicine or treatment seemed right for me, and I almost began to think I cover should recover my former health. " In March 1892 Mother-Seigel's Syrup was recommended to me as having done wonders in cases like mine, even when they were of long standing and everything else had failed. No harm to try it, we thought, and got a bottl* from Mr Grime, tbe chemist, in Boltoh road i and after t.ikiog it I felt great relief. My appetite qui.'kly improved, and I could eat without pain. When I had taken two or three bottles more' the bad symptorni had all gone, and I was as well as ever. My husband also took thi medicine, with the same good results. You may publish my letter and refer inquirer* to me. • (Signed) (Mrs) Elizabeth Wilson, 5 Northeot* Btrf-et, Button road, Darwen, March 1, 1895." The lesson in the interesting narrative i* too plain for us to miss it. Our old friend Crnioa was not able to launch his boat for the want of machinery. Similarly the doctor who attended Mrs Wilson was not able to cure her because ht did not possess the right remedy.. His opinion ai ■ to her complaint was entirely oorrest. She was suffering from chronic dyspepsia, precisely as ha, told bar. But alas! it is one thing to know what ought to be done and quite another to have, the knowledge and means to do it. ,

Between 'Vise two thiDgs (orer this wida gap) stand .tlotECL' Saigel's Syrup, just at between the tiro sides of the Thames stands London Bridge.