My Watch and Other Watches.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4855, 22 January 1894, Page 1

My Watch and Other Watches.

One evening last summer I had some writing to do at my house. The weathei was very hot, and I took off my coat anc waistcoat. My new gold watch (that 1 had paid .£3O for) T laid before me on the table, where I could keep an eye on it. S< far so good. I wrote on, and papers accu undated on the table, one of them covering my watch. Reaching out for something ] wanted, my aim accidentally swept it t< the floor. Oh, heavens, what lnck. ] picked it up— tenderly as one picks up t child who has had a bad tumble. Was il still running ? Yes, faintly ; but as I pui it to my ear it ticked a few times, feeblj and slowly, and then stopped— a deac watch. A minute ago it was a vital thing —now merely a lot of motionless wheels it a case. What was broken ? I couldn'i say. The watchmaker must repair it anc return it, with his bill. So much for mj stupid carelessness. Yet nobody is so poor as not to carry f more valuable watch than that; one thai will run many years without winding. Bui when it stops, ah ! then, who is able to sei it going again ? Speaking about the one he owns, M) George W. Burton, of Kirton Holme Boston, says: "My heart fluttered in £ way to alarm me. Sometimes it was s< bad I fancied I could hear it stop beating." What ailed Mr Burton's heart ? Perhapi his letter will help us to find out. H< Bays:— "ln October, 1887, 1 began to fee weaiy and languid. I had a bad taste ii the mouth, and in the morning my teetl and gums were covered with a thick blood] slime; My appetite failed, and after eating I had great pain in the chest and stomach All the time I had a craving for food, bu dare not take solids. It seemed some times that my head would burst with pain and I was so dizzy I conld hardly see After awhile a cough Bet in and Ispat up grea quantities of phlegm. Later on my breath ing became very bad, and I would breal out into a cold sweat. I kept on growing weaker until it was all I could do to ge about, and in this condition I continued f o four years. During this time I consultei doctors and used all the different medicine 1 heard of, but none of them did an; good." Now, let's think a minute. Mr Burtoi says his heart fluttered and palpitated, h had a hacking cough, and difficulty ii breathing — three frightful things. A mai might die of any one of them, as we al know. Yet he recovered from all of themand all at the same time, fie says : — "In February, 1891, I heard of wha Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup had don in similar cases, and I determined to tr; it, and got a bottle from Messrs Grimbl and Kent, chemists, Boston. The firs few doses gave relief, and by continuinj to use it in a short time I was perfect!; cured. I make this statement in orde that others may know where to look for i remedy in an illness like mine. (Signed) " Geo. W. Burton." We rejoice at his restoration to health but what, after all, ailed him ? Did hi have three diseases, viz., heart complaint consumption and a3thma? And, if so how on earth could Mother Seigel' Curative Syrup have cured them, eacJ affecting different organß? The anßwe is, he had bnt one disease, indigestion an< dyspepsia, of which the feeble heart, thi irritated throat and the burdened lung were cell-tales and symptoms. Th< poisoned blood, filled with dead); acids from the stomach, half para lysed the nerves and thus disorders the heart's action ; it also infected th< delicate membrane lining of the lungs anc air passages, producing asthma and th< cough that seemed to threaten consump tion. One disease, many misleading symptoms— that is the truth; deluding physicians, and frightening jafciente inti thinking there is no hope. When life's timepiece runs down n< power on earth can wind it up again, bu Mr Burton's case, and thousands more prove that it is often good for many a yea after you thought the works would socn b motionless in the case.