TWO SORTS OF FATIGUE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2425, 5 September 1900, Page 17

TWO SORTS OF FATIGUE.

To be tired is nothing. The bodily powersare more or less exhausted for the time being. No harm is~done. The sources of strength are not impaired. Food and rest will set things to rights. We shall sleep all the better for having come home' under the soothing influence of fatigue. It is Nature's narcotic, leaving no headaches or bewildered brains behind it. It is the highest" license to knock off work;_ it is an order for to-morrow's ply of vigour. The man who vias never tired with honest labour has missed due of life's luxuries. ,

Exit the thing this woman talks of is very different. Rest does not relieve it ; the cheerfulness and refreshment of the evening meal cannot be iised as an antidote .to it ; it is a sort of weakness which neither welcomes the darkness nor has hope in the dawn. : '' Ever since I was a girl of 12 years of age," she sayjs, " I have been weak and ailing. I had 'io strength or energy, and was always low and languid. I had a poor appetite, and the little food I took gave me great pain at the chest and through to my back. " My-skin was yellow, and I had a constant ' pain at right' side. From time to' time I was taken with spasms,' and for hours was racked with pain. I lost much sleep, and had often to sit up in bed. I had a gnawing pain and a sinking in the stomaph which made me feel as if I had no strength left. " In this low state I continued for years, being sometimes better and again worse, but never free from pain. I got so extbemely," weak that I often thought I should never live.

"In March, 1593, -my mother-in-law told me about Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and how it had done her good. I got a bottle from Mr F. Hudson, chemist, Eecleshall, and when I had taken it a short time I found great benefit. My food agreed with me and I felt stronger. ,1 kept on taking it, and soon was better than I had been for years. " Since then I have kept the medicine in the house, and whenever "I feel anything of my old complaint it never fails to ease me. I AM NOW IN GOOD HEALTH, for Avhich I thank Mother Seigel's Syrup. You can make what use you like of this statement. (Signed) Mrs Esther L. Palm, Cof.es Heath Bank, Standon, near Crewe, November 1, 1895."

Mr Frank T. Hudson, the chemist whom Mrs Palm names, informs us that he has known her for some yeais^, and vouches for the accuracy of her statement.

In the absence of definite information we can do no more than speculate as to the original cause of this lady having become, at so early an age, a victim of indigestion. The unhappy fact, however, is that there are' multitudes of children, 'usually girls,_who suffer in the same way. They are anaemic, pale, weak, low-spirited, short of breath, and generally incapable. Every doctor comes across them in his practice, and plenty of trouble and worry he has in trying — commonly with poor success — to cure them. The fundamental defect with these young people is a congenitally bad digestion. The stomach is dull, weak, cold, and torpid ; hence food does not nourish, and all the symptoms and results of nonnutrition follow, as described by Mrs Palm, The patient may die — helpless to resist — of some acute disease like pneumonia or quick consumption, or linger along for many years, as she did, bearing a load of illness and pain that is pitiable to see. '

In these sad 'case? Mother Seigel's Syrup has made a record of cures, even in advanced life, which stamp it as a genuine remedy. It goes to the root of the trouble, the incompetent stomach and liver, stimulates thorn to normal action, and thus- ensures a radical recovery. Despite their dismal past many a woman having used the Syrup, says with Mrs Palm, " I ah now in good health."

From Greymouth last week the Blackball Coal Company exported 1881 tons coal and the Brunner "Company" 2724- tons coal, 45 tons lewt coke, and 20 tons 6cwt bricks-