PLUMP AGAINST A BIG FACT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2253, 6 May 1897, Page 38

PLUMP AGAINST A BIG FACT.

Ib is not proparly any parb of my business to enforce lessons in ethics ; therefore I commonly leave that responsible task bo those whose vo6atiou ifc is. Bat no man cau continually write on the subject which "constitutes tho burden of these essays without now and then running plump against a mighl.y fact in morals. If you vnll ba g jod enough to read the following shorb letters I will then try to show why I was moved to speak as I have spoken. "My daughter Annie Jane," writes thab young girl's mobber, "now five years of age, was a iian healthy child up to March 1891 when she began to sicken and fall away. She had no appetite, and every particle of food she took came up. SSe lost strength rapidly, aud within a fortnight ehe was thin as a rake, being not much elso than skin and bone. For days and days Ehe laid in a half-conscious condition, scarcely moving hand or foot, and to all spp?arai;ce lifeless. I had a doctor attending her for four weeks, and he Said the child was suffering from indigestion, yet, so far as we could see, hia treatment had no effect. My husband and I, and all that saw the pooi' baby, thought she was slowly dying, and we were almost heart-broken at the thought of losing her. '♦Nothing that we gave her did the slightest good, and the child was fading away, when one day, towards the cad of April, a lady caHed, and after seeing Annie Jane advised us bo use Mother Seigel's Syrup. She said she had known the lives o£ many children saved by this medicine who were down with the same complaint. I* hurried to get a bottle from Mr Roiitly, the chemist, in Susan's road, and began giving it in small doses. In less than 24 hours the child began to eat, the sickness stopped, and we could see a change for the better. We kept on giving the Syrup, and in two weeks Annie was well as ever, and fast getting back her flesh. Since thab time — now tour years ago — she has never been ill. We consider that Mother Seigel's S) rup saved her life. You can publish fchii statement and refer aiyoue to me. (Signed) Mrs Annie Alexander, 35 Melbourne road, Easbbourne, August 1, 1895 " " My sou Joseph," writes Mr Joseph Bond, of Salter's Green-, Mayfield, Sussex, " was never strong. He did not come on like other children. -He was weak, sickly, and puny. He ate bub little, and was usually in pain until he vomited most of it up again. Nothing gave him strength. Io Febrnary 1894 hii feet and ankles began to faster. Next, three abscesses formed on his neck and under the chiu, making deep holes. He was merely skin and bone. The abscesses seemed to be exhausting his life's blood. He was in a doctor's care five months, but gob no better. From July 1894 he had four months' treatment at th? Tunbridge Wells Hospibal, 'without benefit The doctors gave him medicines and cod-liver oil, bub nothing strengthened him. 11 In December 1894 I concluded to take the caae into my own hands, and gave him a medicine bhab had cured my wife - Mobher Seigel's Syrup. To our asfconishmenb and delighb he began to improve in a few days. He could eat, and was stronger for itr. We kept giving him the syrup, aud he grew betber every day. The abscesses soon healed, and he is now a fine healthy boy, nine years old, and sbrong for the first time since he ivas born. Publish this letter if you wish and refer inquirers to me. (Signed) Joseph Bjnd, July 26, 1895." What, now, is that mighty facb in morals ? Ask yourself the question. What justice was there in the - suffering of these two little children ? For whose sake was ib ? Why do the majority of the human race die in infancy and childhood ? That bundle of laws and forces called " Nature " has no pity, no mercy. Obey and live ; disobey and perish — that's the whole story.

Then how does Mother Seigel's Syrup cure ? Ib cureß by bringing the diseased and suffering body back where Nature's hand can reach it. It ptds the derailed coach bade on the metals, it relaunches the stranded ship. The radical trouble of both Annie Alexander and Joseph Bond was 'of the digestion, the first (a mere baby then) having been seized with acute indigestion, and the boy having, as his father tells us, been born with a feeble stomach. Hence, in his case, the bad blood and the abscesses by which Nature sought to remove ib. Will parents take warning from these insbance3 ? I hope so. Watch the little ones, and U6e Mother Seigel's Syrup whenever you see them inclined to droop or languish.

Aboub 30 or 40 subscribers have leffc the Wellington Telephone Exchange in consequence of the increased rates.

A meeting convened by the mayor of Invercargill at the requesb of busines3 men was held on Thuraday night, 29.h ult., to discuss the question of starting woollen mills ia the vicinity of Invercargill. The project was favourably received, and a committee was appointed to collect information bearing on the subject. Mr Kelly, 81.H.R , suggested th»fc the order of reference might be widened to permib of the committee making inquiries re a, linen factory. He was not quite sure that there was an opening for a woollen factory, so many having been established