LITTLE OF THE GUN NOTHING OF THE DOG.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9305, 3 February 1892, Page 4

LITTLE OF THE GUN NOTHING OF THE DOG.

i When Rip Van Winkle awoko from his nnp in tho C.Uaki'l Mountains ia America, ho' found l;iii;s»lf an oU innu. His ilot was floivJ Ion;-; ntro, axi\ nothing wnshitt ot hi a run but th > lock ami hnnol. And when i:e .vent b?ck to tho village of Fsillin:^ Wiitur, whore ho usod to live, nobody recognised him. TTis wife, balkvinc him dead, had innrr'ert tho inn!-09per. Iti^ht ecbngu to">, for Rip had lain on Ibo moantnin hMo, sound ailcwp, for twenty yens. A lony 8moi:o ; bat it seems to mo I'd rather bo ne!eop half my life tit a stretoh than to stop awako and bo miserable, Yet hero is a woman who Brvyn, "I can truthfully say that for eighteen yoars I was never Irce froTi pain for a single day." Mercy! think oC that. What a wretched way to live ! Yet I suppose millipna of folk crawl along throaph tho world ia that style' Not becr.ußo they want to. Heavene, no ! But because they can't help it. This was hor situation, and an army of other women (besides crowds of men) can Bjmpothieo with her. She ss> 3 : '" For over twenty years I was weak and flickly. At first I had a bad taste in the month, poor appetite, and an nncomfortablo feeling at my chest and sides, and ofton Itiod to obtain eaae by holding my sides wilh my han^s. After eating I had great pain ; it was like a load at my chest, nnd I coald not bear it nntil I vomited nil my food up. I would be quite faint from the want of foot but teas afrai'l to eat. At times I had bad attackß of spasms which nearly doubloi me up, and I rambJeJ up and down tha house for hours together, for I could not evwn lie down. Of course I lost a deal of sleep, and in a morninsj was so weak nni faint I scarcely know how to get oat of bed and downßtairs. For eighteen years I was never free from pain for a single day. " I saw doctor after doctor, and took a great quantity of ruedioine vrithont finding any real relief. They would not say what was tb.3 cause o£ my aiitnent. I was fast wasting away, and dW not think I could livo much longer, when one day in 1881 my linsbtvad heard from Mr Joseph Cooper, o£ Bourn?, ofc a medicine called Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup, which he said had cured him. 'Ifl am spared,' I said to my husband, ' I will try it.' I did so, and before I had taken the first bottlo 1 found relief, and ufter taking four bottles mora I was quite well and strong. "That is now ten years ago, and I have been in good health over since, taking just au occasional dose of tho syrup After my recovery ihe clergyman said to my husband, ' Your missus gots about very different to what she used to do,' and he told bioi that Molh&r Seigel's Syrup had wroagbt tho cure. People tell me I look better than I did twonty years ago, and I feel so strong that I can now dig potatoes and do work with anyone, notwithstanding I am 65 years of age. "My husband suffered terribly from rheumatism and flux, and ban found wonderful benefit from the etrne medicine. He saye he would have been in the churchyard lone ago but for Mother Seigel'B Byrup. For myself I can say it enved my life, and I wish others to know what it has dono for ma and mine. (Signed), Mbs Esthee Ayr, wife o£ William Ayr, of Tbarlby, near Bourne, Lincolnshire." In this brief and simple way Mrd Ayr tells a story, tho full details of which would fill a book. What hopes and fears! what hourn of keen Borrow and deep darkness sho must have experienced. Yes, ndeed. Nono can even imagine it except those who beloner to the great Sisterhood of BuiToring. Where sho mentions one symptom of her diaor»se she actually could bavo nnnu-d a dozeD. For her malady — tho fearfully common und fatal one, indigCßtiou and dyspepsia — has as many Bigns and forms as the mind has fancies, or the Heavens have clonds. From if, 86 from ein, come v thousand pangd and pains to torment and to crush helpless humanity Seeing what hor great discovery has accom plished in this and multitudes of like cases, how good a friend to her kind was Mother Seigol 1 Rip Van Winkle awoke from his nap to find himself old ; Mrs Ayr awoke from her lorn? night of illness to, find herself young again. Is not the moral plain enough for ull tho suffering uiillionn in England ?