WHAT DOES A SPUR DO FOR A HORSE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1903, 8 June 1892, Page 4

WHAT DOES A SPUR DO FOR A HORSE.

Your horse is weak and weary with a a Jong day's journey. You havejridden him since early morning. Impatient to reach a shelter for the night you dig' the spurs into his panting sides. He leaps forward and for a time trots onward rapidly. What did ihe spur do for him ? Did it give him strength ? If so, why feed him 1 Here is a short personal statement which a man makes. Try if you can see any likeness between the two cases. He says : "Up to August, 1885, I was always a strong, healthy man. At that time I began to feel tired, dull, and heavy, with a faint dizzy sensation as if 1 should tumble down any minute. I could not imagine what was coming over me. There was a bad taste in my mouth, my breath wits bad, and my month would often fill with an offensively slimy matter. My appetite was poor, and after eating I suffered great pain, and wind would roll all over me. I had much pain at the stomach, and was sick every morning, and threw up a great deal of phelgm. I also had a pain like the thrust of a knife cutting me between the shoulders and low down in the back at the kidneys. When at work" I got tired in five minutes, and had to stand and rest. "I kept on with a.y work, however, for some time as best I could, for I had a wifeand family depending upon me. But it was a hard and tedious task, as even stooping made me cry out with pain. After a while I grew so weak I could scarcely crawl about, and was compelled to give up my employment. When I ventured out of doors I felt so dizzy that I had frequently to stop and rest for fear of falling, and was so bad that people would think I was in drink, and I had often to call at a chemist's and get a draught to help me home. 1 tried herbs and other medicnes, and was attended by a doctor, bu+ I got no better. In this dead-and-alive way I lingered on until April, 1890, when my wife got an almanac from the druggist, and I read a case of a railway guard at Manchester, who had been cured by a medicine called Mother's Seigels Curative Syrup after the doctors had given him up. So I wrote to him, and he replied that it had cured him and would do me good. Upon this I got a bottle, and after a few doses I felt better and by keeping on using it I was soon all right and back at my work, and have been well ever since. When I feel any signs of stomach disorder a few doses set me right directly. I feel very grateful for the great benefit I have received, and wish others who may be ill to know of it; as if I had known of Mother Seigel's Syrup at the .outset I would have been saved over four years' suffering. I have lived in Birkdaie fifteen years, and if any one writes to me I shall be glad to reply. (Signed) " Thomas Spebein, " Kitchen Range Setter, " 28 Stamford Road, "Birkdale, Southport." Now, where is the likeness between Mr Sperrin'a experience and our illustration about the horse 1 It is this : Th* horse gains no new strength from the application of the spur. Of course we all see that he cannot. But the pain arouses him and makes a draft on his reserved nervous power— with a corresponding degree of exhaustion to follow. This is always Nature's way. She gives nothing for nothing. All must be paid for. Look back at Mr Sperrin's statement where he says : •* I kept on at my work, for I had a irife and family depending on me.' That was his spur. It was work or worse with him, as it is with most of us. Bit he had to pay for labouring when he was nnabte, by having to give up work altogether, and what the end would have been had not Seigel's Syrup come to the rescue nobody can say. Possibly the saddest thing we can think of. Any way this triumphant medicine sived him, and he can work now without a spur. If the reader also has indigestion and dyspepsia, with its painful and alarming consequences and symptoms, or knows of another who has, he will be able to treat himself or advise his friend.