HOW DID THE THIEF GET IN?

Otago Witness, Issue 2201, 7 May 1896, Page 53

HOW DID THE THIEF GET IN?

You wake up some morning and miss your watch, your purse, your best olothes, and other valuables. Yet neither -you nor any member 61 your family heard a sound during the night. Neither is there a sigu of how the taief got into the house nor by -what road he decamped. Yoa rush round and tell tbe police, and also decide to keep a dog and a shot gun. You will let thieves know they mustn't come fooling around your premieeu aftor this. A sensible procedure. Meanwhile your watch, your money, bo., ax& gone. Quite so.

Now suppose I should tell you that the thiet 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 he weut off with your things, albeit not a soul of you had .ever seen or beard of him, what would you cay to me ? You would call me an idiot and threaten- to have me seat bsok to the asylum. But don't be too sure.

11 Later on," says Mr Heakin, •• rheumatism struck into my system and Lhad puius ell over me. I 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 doctors in th*t time, but their medicines did me little or no good. At one time I went to the infirmary at Shrewsbury, where they treated me for heart disease ; but I got worse, and feeling anxious, returned home."

How he was finally oured we will mention in a minute. First, however, about his rheumatism. Every intelligent person, knows that rheumatism aud gout (its twin 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 is worth more money in England than a gold mine in every country.

But does rheumatism " strike into " the system as a bullet or a knife might strike into it ! No, Rheumatism is a thief who steals away out comfort and 'strength ; but it is a thief, as I said, who is born on the premises. In otbez words, it is one—and only one — of tbe direct consequences of indigestion and dyspepsia. Aud this is the why and wherefore : li)diges> tion creates a poison called uric .acid ; this acid combines with the chloride of sodium to form a salt; this -salt us .urate of sodium, -which is deposited in the form of sharp crystals in the muscles <and joints. Then comes inflamnaa.tioa and agony, otherwise rheumatism. Thus you perceive that it doesn't come from the outside, but from the inside— from the stomach. Our friend's cold, .caught in the mine, didn't pro* duce his rheumatism, it clogged his akin and so kept all the poison in his body instead of letting ' part,of it.out. Here is our very good 'friend Mr Richard Heakin, -of Peatervm, Salop, who expresses anopinion in this line. Let us have his exact word*. He says t " Rheumatism struck into my system." Of course we understand that ha speaks afterthe manner of nnen. You know wi talkofrbeing "attacked" by .this, that, and s tha .other complaint, as though diseases were like soldiers or .wild beaste. " Doesn't mrtke any odds," do 1 you say ? Beg pardon, hnt it doesheavy odda. For it teaches us to look in thi •wrong direction for danger. Do you see nos" ? Thirteen years Bgo, 'in the spring of 1880, -whilst working in the Roman Gravel Lead Mines, Mr Heakin took a bad cold. 'He got over the cold, but not > over 'what -followed it. He was feeble, without 'appetite, and had x deal of pain in the chest and sides. His ejef and skin were tinted yellow, and his hands and feet were cold and clammy. Fsequently h( would break out into a cold perspiration, as ( man does on receiving a nervous shock c&ueei. by something fearful or .horrible. He was ,al«fl -troubled with painaf the heart, and had spelli of difficult breathing— what medical men call asthma.

Mr Heakin adds : " I was cured at last by Mother Seigel's Curative 'Syiup, anS without it 'I believe I should have been dead long Ago."

Very likely, very likely ; for this thief, -aUhough'he may sraitilong f.or,hiSfop.portanity, isn't always satisfied to ran away with our comfort and our .money s he often takes life too. The Colonial ZDreasurer gives notice jbhfcs ott Wednesday, May 20, he will be prepared to con* sider applications -from local bodies for loans under the act. .Applications must be posted so a*, to arrive at the Treasury on oc before ths ,19th May. Applications .received between th< present date and the 16th May will be con* sidered on the 20th May. ■At c meatingof the Auckland Charitable Aid Board, the.Ghairman. (BJr John Bollard) stated that,2oo children in Auckland and suburb* wera being brought ap as prostitutes and thieves. He urged that these children be taken from their parents by the State, »nd put in* special home. The expenditure would fee £3000 « year.

It is probable that at the next meeting of tbe Wellington College Governors a preparatory school will be established at the southern end »f tbe city in connection with the Girls' High School, as it is fcl^that tbe present building is in an inconvenient part of the oitj for the great talk of the people.

Mr Moss Jonas, ex-Major of Timaru and a prominent townsman, gave a grand ball on Thursday night in celebration of his silver wedding. Visitors were present from all over Canterbury. The arrangements were most extensive, and the ball the most brilliant ever gWea in Titauo,