PLUMP AGAINST A BIG FACT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2250, 15 April 1897, Page 52

PLUMP AGAINST A BIG FACT.

It is not properly any part of my business to enforce lesions in ethics; therefore I commonly leave that responsible task to those whose vocation it is. Bad no man can continually write on tha subject which constitutes ths burden of these essays without now and then ranning p!uoap sgaiust a mighty fact in morals. If you will b-j g )od oaough to read the following short letter* I will tlrsn try to show why I was moved to speak as I have spoken. "My daughter Annie Jane," write 3 that young girl's mother, "now five years of aije, was a tine healthy child up to March 3891 when she besan to sicken aud fall away. She had no appetite, and every particle of food she took came up. She lo^t strength rapidly, and within a fortnight she was thin as a rake, bring not much elae than skin and bone. For days and days she laid in a half-conscious oondition, scarcely moving hand or foot, and to all .ippiarauce lifeless. I had a doctor attending her for four weeks, and he said the child was suffering from indigestion, yet, ao far as wa could see, hi* treatment had no effect. My husband and I, and all that aaw the poor b*by, thought she was slowly dying, aad we wete I almost heart-broken at the thought of Josiog her. I " Nothing that we gave her did the slightest good, and the child was fading away, when on» day, towards the cud of April, a lady called, and after seeing Annie Jane advised us to use Mother Sei?el'«t Symp. She said she had known the livs of many children saved by this medicine who were dosrn with the same complaint. I hurried to geb a botble from Mr lioufclr, the chemist, in Su-au's road, and bsgan giving ib in small doses. In less than 24 hours the child began to eat, the sickness stopped, and we could see a change for tho better. We kept on giving the Syrup, and in two weeks Annie was well as ever, and fast getting bick her fl-eah. Since thab time— now four years ago — »he has never been ill. We consider that Mother Seigel's Sjrup savedJier life. You can publish thi-» statement and refer anyone to me. (Signed) Mrs Annie Alexander, 35 Melbourne road, Eastbourne, August 1, 1895 " '' My son Joseph," writes Mr Joseph Bond, of Baiter's Green, Mayfield, Sussex, " was never strong. He did not come on like other children. He was weak, sickly, and puny. He ate bafe little, and was usually in pain until he vomited mosb of ib ud again Nothing gave him strength. In February 1891 his feet and ankles began to fesler. Nf-xt, three abscesses formed on his neck and under the chin, making deep holes. He was merely skin and bone. The abscesses seemed to be exhausting his life* blood. He was in a doctor's care five months, but gob no better. From July 1894- he had four months' treatment at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital, withoub benefit. The doctors gave him medicines and cod-liver oil, but nothing strengthened him. " In Decembjr 189* I concluded to take tha case into my own hands, an^ gave him a msdicine that had cured my wife -Mother Beigel'« Syrup. To our astonishment and delight ha began to improve in a few days. He could eat, and was stronger for it. We kept giving bim the syrup, and ha graw better every day. The abscesses soon healed, and he is now a fine healthy boy, nine years old, aud strong for the first time since he ivas lorn. Publish this letter if you wi*h and refer inquirers to me. (Signed) Joseph Bjnd, July 26, 1895." What, now, is that mighty fact in morals r Ask yourself the que^tioa. *What justice was there in the suffering of these two little children ? For whose sake was it ? Why do the majority of the human race die in infancy and childhood ? That bundle of laws and forcei called " Nature" has no pity, no mercy. Obey and live ; disobey and perish — that's the whola story. Then how does Mother Seigel's Syrup care ? It cures by bringing the diseased and suffering body back where Nature's hand can reach ib. It puts the derailed coach back on the metals, it relaunches the stranded ship. The radical trouble of both Annie Alexander and Joseph Bond was of the digestion, the firab (a mere baby then) having been seized with acute indigestion, ana the boy having, as his father tells as, been bora with a feeble stomach. Hence, in his case, the bad blood and the abscesses by which Nature sought to remove it. Will parents take warning from these instances ? I hope so. Watch the little ones, and use Mother Seigel's Syrup whenever you see them inclined to droop Of languish.

~ Lobengula, the Matabale chief, took • practical view of the death punishment. Oa beiDg on one occasion remonstrated with by an Englishman for punishing people by death, he said : " The laws in your conntry are bad, for when a man does wrong yon pat him in a house and take away food from the poor people to feed him. Whereas I give him one or two warnings, aad then put him in a olace wheri be can't eat-