Nature's Danger Signals.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13710, 26 September 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

Nature's Danger Signals.

Keep your eye open for danger signals —-especially those that threaten your health. II people would only do this, the diseases that wftticfc the world would bo reduced by one-half. Jllm*«j rarely comes ou without giving gomo warning. You may be struck down, but when yon think it over, you will generally be able to romcmlun" that you had some signs of the trouble beforehand, only you "thought nothing of it." For example, when you lose the sharp appetite for food; when you'feel dull ana sluggish; when your ordinary work or duties aeem to require mora than ordinary exert iouj when you are more tired timn usual; when you are constipated, liave little dull l»cadaches, and your mouth is acuaimy—llrtes and. other liko signs show, unmistakably, that your physical inacbin<3ry i» not in Rood ordw. That is Iho time for doin|f ■ something (o ward off an attack of real iiluc&s. Yonr stomach ia out of order, and it. will bo easier to, rectify it, now than it will be later on. Your trouble is incipient indigCßJUou, the complaint which Mother Seigel*a Syrup always checks and euros, and which it also actually prevents—as thousands of people know from their own £<c|wrience. And don't forget that it i-** easier to eomjuer iudigeation in its earlier stages than when it hm become chronic.

Mother Seigd'tf Syrup so acts upon tho stomach, liver and bow!*, that indigestion is im|>o43rible. A purely bt-rbal remedy, containing «'> mineral drugs, it purities the blood, strength**!* th« digestive organs a«d tones up tba system generally. Mr Thorns* Butter. 4L *-'>ir» Stre*t, KridciacTilk, New »Soutli Wide*, writ**: "I can ron*ek-ntiotwly t#jrtify t<o iho wonderful efiienry of Mother rVigcl'a Syrup in th« (rMtmait of Revere Indtgev ■lion and *ft«iwacl» cramp. For several y«trs I *w;u» a victim of tltctsa terrible complaint.*, and what. I suffered is more 'ban I can describe. The cramp sehvirm v**si to cause mo frightful agony. While they lA»ted I wa* b<mt almost double, a«d half out of my mind with pain. I could hardly bring my*df to eat at all. ami when I did the food only cna**t f>wff<*rj»tg ;u»d did rno no good. I wsurfed »wr»y to a jji. n> 'nnn<- of p,k'U ;u>d l«oi»", ;•«» tt'C;»lc th«t I crniM h-irdiy rjrawl ahmit. I dafvd in»t. venture nut of doors for fajx I jdtoutd collapHj. "All this limo 1 haul !*<» ?.al*mg n«*iifine, endhrs* m**l»ctnc. but j(, was to no purpo**- 1 *>!tly g»>t Wfjtif. But. at last ;i change c.ijtie. 1 chsuirrd t" tt»4 about MoOkt Syrup, and gui Antne. It r'-liovr-d wo almost if<>m \\m fir*i d<"»*»\ and by tho limft I had fiuifehwi two l«»!ttiMt F I crminmMl u*ing ?!»<• Syrup, gaining hfedlfc ..!!<! daily, rtsid ih« r*-Mdt w*s a t r.mps«'V aji-t th<»ruugb ct?n>. At the pwyrnt ».im«--Mar«b Uiji, IUOS—-I «m» in excellent JK-aith."

There i=> »o f«rui of indsgofctmn or bjltmuswm thAt will set yj«3d to Motfetr B*i#ftT* Fyrup.

development of the rubber:frt«lej jjwhiefc. increased with leaps and bounds between 1894 and 1904, brought with it an era of cruelty and avarice. Grenfell writes:— " "Madness is tho only hypothesis for ex* plaining the insensate cruelty and bestiality which figure so prominently in the charges made, and, because of the madness it has developed, tho-present system -stands condemnd. The same system would have wrecked a British or a French or a German colony before this." • '- Apart from tho history of the Coopo regions development during Grenfeirs'so years' mission, these two volumes contain . a mass of fascinating and valuable matter on the anthropology arid zoology of the basin. Nothing is more interesting than the account of the native secret societaed, such as the iNdembo and Kkimba, "A young person of either sex who is to be initiated into the Ndembo guild applies first of all to tho Nganga (medicine-man or wizard) of the community. Tho be initiate at a sign from the medicine-mah feigns death or a* swoon in some publics place. A funeral cloth is laid over'th* • novice, who is borne away to a stockaded 1 settlement in the bush called Vela. 'lt -is i usually pretended then that the\ young pcr>son is dead. When oiw» < case of this fictitious demifae occurs it is usually followed by a number of others, tall ft nuqr develop into a regular wave of hysteril^ ,, When. the youths have been conveyed, to tho vela it is given out. thai Uiejr bodies are decomposing, until they »rn reduced ti> a single bone» which the medicine-man keeps. "After a period, which may vary front three months) to three years, the medicine' man pretends- to bring about' their resurrection by building- up their bodies anew on the single bone that he has kept'.'" When thß initiates return to their homes they give out that they have come from a spirit world, and pretend" not to "kno# * their own moiliens or how' to" flat* " In * the vela they are taught » "mystic language " o r kind of gibberish which *eemS ' to be distinctly related to London back- ■ c'tang. • ' %v i