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Timaru Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 1660, 14 January 1895, Page 4

Some Maories shearing at Mr J. S. Rutherford's Opawa stationhaye captured and taken home to Temuka a pair of wood hens with a brood of young ones, and they talk of catching a few more before they are all poisoned. They will fence m a paddock for them and try to preserve the race m the district, against the rabbiter with his dog and poisoned oats, A man always feels put out when he is taken m.

[T IS EASTi TO ASK QUESTIONS. A. child can ask questions that a wise man can't answer. Yes; and there are some questions that the ablest doctors ion't like to have people ask them. Say fi question of tins sort— while we are about it, however, we might as well tell the story straight away and have done with it. Mr Sarah Mace was very ill with influenza. That was m February, 1892, the time of the epidemic. *Phe attack was severe. She was suddenly seized with a violent pain m the head (both front and back) and temples. She. had pain m all her joints too, and was hot Eind feverish. '•; She went to bed and feent for the doctor. He came, examined her, took her temperature — over 100 degrees —arid said Very little, 1 like a wise man . The lady could not turn herself m bed. She lived on slops, such as milk and broth ; she could not swallow a morsel of solid food. Her husband pressed her to take strong fbod,' saying, " If you don't eat, yQU will starve." Right enough ; but he forgot that when one can't eat he can't eat, and there's an end. Well she got weaker and weaker, and fell away until there wasn't xnuch t left of her but skip and bone. Then, m her anxiety, she put her question: "Doctor, do you think I shall get well?" The Doctor's, answer was true and honest; we like and respect him for it He said. " Mrs Mace Ido not know" He couldn't tell. Neither could any other doctor, No, not even if he had a string of titles to his name as long as n kite's tail. But did she get well ? Wait a bit. We must hark back a minute now. - Along about the 10th of March, 1880, Mrs Mace began to feel tired, languid, and weary, as if her work were too much for her, she said. She had a bad taste m the mouth, poor appetite, and whatever she ate gave her pain at the chest and heart. ■ " I had." she continues, " a dull heavy pain at the right side and between the shoulders, and . a sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach, and a rising oi foul gas mmy throat. Later, oil I had rheiimatic pains m my lveart, clips*, mid back. . I sent for a doctor who attended me for six weeks, but I got worse. One day the cook said, * Why don't you trj Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup?'— this being a medicine my mistres3 (I was living with a lady m Camden Town; kept m the house for family use. I did so, and was spoil as strong as ever. !' Years fled away, arid m 1891 she had the first attack of influenza, and m 1892 the second, already described m plait, We now complete the account of the 1892 attack. I Mrs Mace says: "The doctor con' tihued to attend me for five weeks, and I took his medicines for that time, but gained no strength. After having suffered for seven weeks I said to mj husbmd, 'I will now see what Mothei Seigel's Curative Syrup will do for me Perhaps it may cure influenza as well as other ailments.' I carried put this resolution';'began taking the Syrup, and was soon on my feet again, and have since kept m excellent health, taking an occasional dose when needed. (Signed; Sarah Mace, Monk's Farm, Great Warley , Brentwood, Essex. August 27th, 1892." Now we have never advertised Mothei Seigel's Curative Syrup as a remedy foi influenza. Yet the facts stated by Mrs Mace cannot be disputed. What is the conclusion ?' A very simple one indeed. She did not have influenza until her system had been debilitated by indigestion and dyspepsia. It is such people generally (almost wholly) that all epidemic diseases attack. The dreaded cholera scarcely ever touches anybody except a dyspeptic— cholera is a malady of .tlie.. bowels only. The more we hear of disease the more the proof piles up "showing that persons with a sound digestion are safe against dying of anything except violence or old age. The Syrup cured Mrs Mace's influenza by taking away the ground it stood on — the torpidity of her digestion. She once asked, " Doctor, do you think 1 shall get well P" Time and Mothei Seigel have said, " Yes."