THEN IT WENT ON ALL RIGHT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2355, 13 April 1899, Page 8

THEN IT WENT ON ALL RIGHT.

The writer of the letter which I am going to copy for you in a moment ha? a complaint to make. Rather, perhaps, a complaint to place on record, as the reason for it is passed away for the prerent and she hopes — and wa hope with her — that it may not return. The complaint does not refer to any relative, friend, or foe. but to her own heart. It did not work well. It was weak, and for a long time sho was unable to find means to make it do better. Which was a serious matter, inasmuch as the vigour of the circulation of th« blood always depends upon the forco wherewith the heart drives it. Still, it seems to me we ought to be a bit indulgent towards the heart in view of the labour it has to perform. Remember that it never takes a full minute's rest at one time, night or day, from tho instant it begins at your birth until, like a muffled drum, ib stops for good and all — life's funeral march to the grave being over. During all this while, ton years or .i hundred, tho heart has got ter keep on pumping blood through your body at the rate of from 130 strokes a minute in childhood to 50 or 60 in old age. If you happen to have a mechanical turn of mind ft may interest you to figure out how much this stands for in units of hor.°c-power for a given case and time. If not, you can take my word for it that, merely as a machine, the heart deservos your respect. So long as it goes ahead steadily, up hill and down dale, hammering oway softly but strongly, you haven't a word to say for or against it ; but when it begins to got weak, maybo skipping a stitch now and then, you call in the doctor, who puts tho tip of his finger just below tho base of yciir left thumb, looks wise and solemn (as befits tha occasion), and says "Ah, yes," yes ; I see, I see." But what does he gee? Ha doesn't tell you that ; he leaves medicine,: and mentions when he will look* in again. ' But as to the letter I spoke of. " For many years," the lady says, "I suffered from indigettion and weak heart. Very little exertion, made mo feel weary and tired. Cold, clammy syeats broke over me. I had a- poor appetite, and after meals an aching pain at the chest and a miserable sinking feeling at the stomach. I had also much pain at the left Fide, and my heart would flutter so as to frighten me. At length I became so weak I was barely ablo to get about, being no longer able to do my housework.

'* Owing to the trouble at my heart I obtained no proper rest at night, and often walked about my bedroom at night. Manytimes these attacks were so bad I thought I was dying. During the day a sense of suffocation sometimes camo upon me and I was obliged to go to the door for fre3h air.

" Year after year I suffered like this; now a little better, now as bad as I could be. In November, 1887, while on a visit to Croydon, my son-in-law persuaded me to try Mother Seigel's Syrup. He got me a bottle, and of ter taking it I experienced great relief. The pain at my heart was easior, and I felt bettor as a whole." I could eat well, and the food agreed with me.

" I now felt encouraged to continue using this remedy. Soon I was in bettor health than for years, the heart trouble having disappeared altogether. Since that time when I feel anything ailing me a few doses of Mother Seigel's Syrup never fail to give the desired relief. I have told many persons of tho benefit I have derived from it, and hereby consent to your publishing this statement should you wish to do so. — (Signed) (Mrs) William Harrington, near Wickford Hill, Clare, Suffolk, November 12, 1897." Now what ailed' Airs Harrington's heart? Why, precisely the same thing that ailed he* lungs, her nerves, and her muscles — weakness. Therein she is right. It was a weak heart, but not a diseased heart. The heart is a muscle, and (seeing tho prodigious lot of work it has to do) necessarily a strong, active muscle. But it will not work without pay any more than you or I will. With all the rest of the body it has got to be sustained and strengthened by food.- Here we have the point, then. The lady was afflicted with chronic indigestion. For this reason her whole body grew weak — the heart, of course, with other parts of the engine. Hence all the symptoms she names. Her immense allround weakness and puller-down is that same old dyspepsia. When Mother Seigel's Syrup made the digestion of plenty of .food possible, the heart went on all right, like a newly-wound clock<-

At the "Magistrate's Court at Hawc^a (sayg the Star), Judge Kettle made scathing reference to the increase of unreliable evidence given in the law courts. Thft amount of falsa etatements he had to ait and listen to at times almost made his hair stand on end.

On 30th March, at the office of the N. Z« Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Mr E. G. Cotton was presented by his fellowemployees with a greenstone scarf pin id token of their good will, as ho is about to leave the service of the company to enter the university, and study mine engineering. Mies Butterworth was the recipient oT et presentation from the staff of Butterwortli Bros., on the occasion of her approaching marriage to Mr L. M. Ohaffey, of Wellington! The presentation consisted of article* of at silver toilet table set, hair brushes, photo frame, hand mirror, cloth and hat brasher, scent bottle, glove fastener, shoe horn, ana button hook ; and in handing it to her, Misij Butterworth wus assured of the esteem ia which she was held by the staff, who wished 2ter every happiness and prosperity.