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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11191, 13 August 1898, Page 3

THINGS SLOWLY LEARNED. There is a man in Scotland whonsed'to write , many readable and instructive things. He sighed himself "A Country Parson," and a bright parson-he is. One of - his essays is entitled, " Things Slowly Learned," a good line ■ of thought for anybody. Well, here is one of the things slowly learned--that diseasedoesn't jump on a man like a wild cat ont of a tree, but develops from seeds and conditions, jast as roses and weeds do. We who write andprint the essays of which these lines are one have said tbis a hundred times; but all the people don't seem to have thoroughly , grasped tbe idea yet. ' For if Mr Theodore Treasure alone had done so, he wouldn't have suffered iO years from ■' 'attacks of rheumatic fevej. In November, 1891, he says he had a fearful time of it. . He tells us. . in a letter that he had dreadful pains all over his body, and was so sore he coaldn't bear anything to touch him. Even the bedclothes hurt i him, like a feather against a sore eye. " I got: little or no sleep," he says, " tossing all the night long, and trying to get ease by a shift oE, position. ' ••'.-' "I had a foul taste in the mouth, acd spat. up a great quantity of slimy phlegm. My appetite left me, and the littlo food I forced down gave me .great.pain at the chest and sides.. For five months I was confined to my room, most of the time unable to leave my bed, and what'l suffered during that time I have no words to describe." Anyone who has ever been through that sort' of thing can easily believe, what Mr Treasure saya; for when every muscle and joint in a' '.man's body is throbbing with inflammation, it. isn't any common collection of words that can . set forth his feelings. It is agony and torment :in the mpreme degree. Yet we ought to know-, better than,to bavo it. But we don't—not yet. "I was perfectly helpless," continues onr; friend, " and could scarcely moyc. In fact, the people had to move me frcm one side of the bed tb the other. Month after month I was laid up and Buffering in this way. I had a doctor attending me, but he wasn't able to co much'to relieve me. " Finally, to cut the story she-nt, I came to. hear of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I read about- it in a book tbat was left at my houae. The book said tbis medicine was good for rheumatism,- and so my wifo got me a bottle from Mr Ford, tbe grocer, at Oakbill. After taking it for a week I felt great relief. Then I kept on taking it, and not long afterwards I found it had cured me; it had completely driven tke rheumatism out of'ivy system. lam willing yon - should publish theso Jacts, and you can refer any inquirers to me. (Signed) Theodore Treasure (Waggon and Horns lun). Dculting, Shepton Mallett. November 3rd, 1893." Now let's hark back a moment. To the thoughtful reader Mr Treasure's slory may look a trifle confused and raised. Tbat is, he describes tbe symptoms of rheumatism proper in connection with a lot of other symptoms which wouldn't seem at the first Blush to have anything to do with rheumatism. But there's where Mr Treasure is right and tbe reader,, wrong. His account, shows that he was a victim of chronic indigestion, dyspepsia, and torpid liver—and that covers.tbe whole ground. Rheumatism (and this is ike slowly learned lesson) is merely a nasty symptom of a dyspeptic condition of the digestive organs. At the outset it means too much eating and drinking. This results in the. formation of a poisonous acid which fills the body and produces tbe local outbreak called rheumatism. Hence we cure ifc from within not from without. And this true idea is also a new idea—do you see ? Try to get tbis lesson by heart. You can prevent rheumatism by Seigel's Syrup ; you can cure it by Siegel's Syrup. But it is more comfortable tp prevent it. — There are more than 2000 German ■; waiters in the hotols and restaurants of London. — The Duke of Wellington declared that the people of England liked a big butcher's bill, and he was not far from the truth, we expect. This does not mean, of course, that the people of this country now, or at any other time, actually want to bear of their friends or their enemies being destroyed. It merely means that they like the excitement of war. on the great scale, and thSt thereforo a bloodless or comparatively bloodless action seems to them a tame an-, dull affair, and so not worth troubling about.—Spectator. j THE HABIT OF HEALTH. I If we think of soap as a means of cleanliness i only oven then Pears' Soap is a matter, of j course. It is the only soap that is all soap j and nothing but soap —no free fat nor free i alkali in it. But what does cleanliness lead i to? It leads to a wholesome Docly and mind; i to clean thoughts; to tho habjt of health, |to manly aud womanly beauty. Pure Soaa.-^ ■ rEAiuj' Soap,