THINGS SLOWLY LEARNED.

Otago Witness, Issue 2318, 4 August 1898, Page 39

THINGS SLOWLY LEARNED.

There is a man in Scotland who used to wrira many readable and instructive things. Ho signed himself "A Country Parson," and » bright parson he is. One of bis essays i& cn'itled, " Things Slowly. Learned," a good line of thought for anybody. Well, here is one of the things slowly learned— that disease doesn't jump on a man like a wild cat out of a tree, but develops from seed? and conditions, jusb as roses and weeds do. We who write andprint the essays of, which these lines are one have saul this a hundred times; bub all the people don'fc seem to have thoroughly grasped the idea yefc. For if Mr Theodore Treasure alone had done so, he wouldn't have suffered 10 years frqai attacks of rheumatic fever. In November, 1891, he says he bad a fearful time of ifc. He tells us in a letter that he had dreadful pains all over bis body, and WBS so sore ko couldn't bear anything to touch him. Even tho bedclothes hutb him, like a feather against a sore eyo. •' I gob little or no sleep," ha says, " tossing all the eight long, and trying to get case by a shift of. position. "I had a foul taste in the mouth, and spat up a great quantity of slimy phlegm. My appetite left me, and the little food I forced down gave me great pain at the chest and side 3. For five months I was confined to my room, most of the time unable to leave my bed, and what I suffered during that timo I have no words to detcribe."

Anyone who has ever been through that sort cf thing can easily believe what Mr Treasure says ; for when every muscle and joint in a man's body is throbbiDg with inflammation, ib isn't any common collection of words that can ett forth his feeliugs. It is agony and torment iv the supreme degree. Yet we ought to know better than to have it. But we don' L —not yet.

"I was perfectly helpless," continues our friend, •• and could scarcely move. In fact, the people had to move me from one side of the bed to the other. Month after month I was laid up and suffering in this way. I had a doctor attending me, but he wasn't able to do much torelieve me. 11 Finally, to cut the story short, I came to hear of Mother SeigeFs Curative Syrup. I read about it in a book tbat was loft at my house. The book said this medicine was good for rheumatism, and so my wife got me a bottle from Mr Ford, the grocer, at Oakhill. After taking it for a week I felt great relief. Then I kept on taking it, and not loDg afterwards I found it had cured me ; it had completely driven the rheumatism out of my $yst e m. I am willing yoa should publish these tacts, and you can refer any icquirera to me. (Signed) Theodore Treasure (Waggon and Horses Inn), Doulting, Shepton Malietb, November 3rd, 1893." Now let's hark back a moment. To the thoughtful reader Mr Treasure's story may look a trifle confused and mized. That is, ha describes the symptoms of rheumatism proper in connection with a lot of other symptoms which wouldn't seem at the flrsb blush to have aujthingtodo with rheumatism. But there's where Mr Treasure is right and the reader wrong. His account shows that he was a victim of chronio indigestion, dyspepsia, and torpid liver— and that covers the whole ground. Rheumatism {and this is the slowly learned lesson) is merely a nasty symptom of a dyspeptic condition of the digestive organs. At the outseb ib meanß too much eating and drinking. This resulfc3 in the formation of ft poisonous acid which fil's the body and produces the local out* break called rheumatism. Hence we cure ib from within not from without. And this true idea is also a new idea—do you see ? Try to get this lesson by heart, You can prevent rheumatism by Seigel's Syrup ; you can cure it by Biegel's Syrup, Bat it is more com* f oi table to prevent it.

The Chcisti&Q Outlook hears that in response to a petition to synod by upwards of 20d dsidents ia tho district, the Ray. Ptnton Brown lem&im ia Muctaes for some months looser.