ONE THOUSAND LLAMAS LADEN WITH GOLD.

Otago Witness, Issue 2258, 10 June 1897, Page 13

ONE THOUSAND LLAMAS LADEN WITH GOLD.

Who doesn't like to read about buriecf treasure ? Who hasn't dreamed of finding it P What delight suddenly to possess vast riches— shining gold, sparkling gems ; things for -which we have not been obliged to aohenie or toil ; that will free us from all need of scheming o? toiling thereafter P Ah, let us not indulge such fancies. They make work neem like slavery and wages like pinches of common dust. Yet that such hidden masses of wealth exist there is no doubt. But where are they P About four centuries ago the Emperor of Peru was a captive in the hands of the Spaniards. His people sent a train of 1000 llamas (a small beast of burden resembling^ a camitl) laden with gold to x&nsom him. While on their way, crossing the Andes Mountains, the men in oharge of the expedition heard of the death of the Emperor, and concealed this : enormous treasure so effectually that not a traoe of it has ever been found. Go and dig it up, and you will never again feel the sting of poverty. But clap the brakes down htu-d on the wheels of your imagination. What was money to Robinson Crusoe ? What would the wealth of Peru have bean to Mrs Jano Stranke during a certain period of 18 months that she tells about ? Dust, my dear fellow, countless pinches of oommon dust/ Here in the reason why — on© more picture of that fearful furnace in which all earthly desires are melted into one prayer — •• Oh, God, deliver vie from pain! " " In June 1891," she says, " I had an attack of influenza, followed by bronchitis, which left me very low and feeble. I had no appetite, and the little food I forced myself to take gave me pain and palpitation of the heart. I had a, weary, sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach and was obliged to fight for my breath. I had a continuous hacking cough, and spat up ijuatvtitif sof thick phlegm. Later on I had ijo>U all over me, as it were, my hands, face, aad i"-28 being pnft'ed up, and was i& ajjony <*ay and j night. I became so weak I could not raise my hand to my mouth, and had to be fed. ' " For months I lay perfectly helpless and almost lifeless," having to be lilted in cad out o£ bed. Four doctors altnudcd me for ninn months without effect. Thso. they told me they could do nothing t'os.- mo, nno ot: them giving me a, letter of recommendation to Guy's Hospital. AL Easter, 1892, my 'huibaud took ma in a c«,b to that hospital, aad I was placed in the Miriam Ward, and examined by several : doctors. i "At this time » h*rd substance seemed t-j | have formed in my stomach, which the doctors ! eaid was * tumour, and treated me for ib. I got weaker and -weaker, until one night tho nurse toid me that the doctors had said I was ! as Lad aa I could be, and would nol probsblv j live through the nighfc. 1 " The nurse placed a screen around my ltd, \ expecting me to die. " Taking a slight turn for the better, I returned home, but was coon a* bad as ever. After this I got a letter of recommenda- ! tion froai our landlord, arsd attended as anoutj door patient afc Victoria Park Hospital. After being under treatment a. month, I lost all faith \iu medicine and gave up taking it. I was now ! little more than a living misery. I vras tired of life, »a§ often prayed that the Almighty would take me. I now h*d fits of shaking so bad that the bed trembled under me. My head was so full or psdn that I thought I was going mad, and several times a day I lost cousciousneas. I "lv thii dreadful condition I lingered on | until November oi last year, 1892, when a book was left at our house telling of a medicine called Seigel'H Syrup. I bad lost all hope o* S getting well, but my husband, would^ have me try j this medicine. To please him I did so ; and, l after taking it a few days, I felt a little relief . My breathing was easier and my appetite revived. Continuing with the medicine, all pain gradually left me, and I gained strength daily. In six weeks I was able to go about the house and do, light work — the first time I had don" anything in IS months. I am now in good health, aud able to do any kind of work. I owe uay life to Seigel's Syrup, and wish my case to bo made known. (Signed) J»ne Stranks, 22 Gaywood roa.3, Hoe street, Walthamstow, near London, April 20, 1893." I No words of comment can be too strong for i a case so remarkable. We stand before it a u a loss what to say. It is not a miracle, of coarse ; although many a reputed miracle has I been lees wonderful. How is ib possible that I Seigel's Syrup could, with such apparent eaie, have restored to health * perfon in fto desperate a strait ? Yel that it did restore her is certain. The facts have been thoroughly invested and established beyond dispute. Mrs Sbranka was on the crumbling edge of the grave, and was thence brought back to the> region of health, activity, and enjoyment. How was ife done ? There is the simple secret. The influenza left hsr whole system debilitated, as ifc usually dos*. Indigestion — which iv the first place invited influenza — attacked her with increased power. Asthma, heart disturbance, nervous prostration, the inflamed and congested stomach, which was mistaken for a tumour, &c., &c— all results and symptoms of arrested, digebfcion— followed. The private and also tho hospital treatment failed, because it was directed to the* gytnptomi, not to the c&use. Finally Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup waa appealed to, and responded by setting the digestive function in operation, expelling tho poison from the blood, and placing Mrs Stranks at the head of her house, a saved woman. Bub it was a marvel all the same. As to that pile of treasure bidden in tha Andes, we should like to have it. Oh, yes. No use saying we shouldn't. But as "between riches and health — give us health. For what would gold have been to Mrs Sfcranks ths aight she lay behind the screen, given up to did? Ask yourself that question.

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