"OH, DON'T TOUCH ME! DON'T COMENEARME!"

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1976, 1 March 1893, Page 6

"OH, DON'T TOUCH ME ! DON'T COMENEARME!"

These words were uttered with a howl-ralmost a yell. Yet the boy to whom they were addressed wasn't within ten" feet of the howler, and wouldn't ! iave come closer for hie life Iho scene was a big business office in New York, and the bowler was the chief man in it. He owned the concern, and was very rich, and a decent fellow enough. But sometimes he would break out like that, and howl as though ho had just discovered a fire in a powder mill. You could hear Jim from the basement to the roof. What was the matter with him? Temporary insanity? Not quite, but something nearly as Da* 1 . He had an acute attack of gout in his toe, and at those solemn crises ho couldn't bear the sight of even a shadow moving in his direction. Aek somebody who has the gout how it feels. Fancy a blacksmith twisting your toe with hot pincers while a shoemaker is thrusting a bradawl through your knee-joint That's a little like it. Well, there are things not so bad as gout, yet they make us touchy enough" Here comes a man, for instance, who say 8, " Every tli ing now was a trouble to «M<?." What should he talk that way for? Why Bhould everything havo been a trouble to him ? There is an old Baying that while we can't keep the crows from flying, we needn't let them make nests in our hair. That's good ecns§» But it's easy to Rive advice and to quote proverbs. How dees a person act who suffers from boils ? Now, the fountain of all feeling and pain is the nerves. An hour or two of toothache is a lesson on the nervous system. But there are diseases (or one disease anyhow) in which all the nerves in the body seem to tingle to every eight and found. Ihe mind is on the look out for cvil — the man is depressed and afraid. Every word means mischief, and every bnsh hides an enemy. So he think?. He knows what Solomon meant when he said, " The grasshopper 18 a burden."

Mr Michael M'Cormack is a railway messenger and lives in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland. In June, 1890, he was taken ill. His mouth tasted foul and coppery, bis stomach was sour and dead, and when be forced down a little food he felt so much distress and pain after it that he was gorry he hadn't let it alone and gone hungry. Besides this there were pains wandering through his chest, back, and sides, hurting him, biting here and there like ugly dogs loose in a town. His hi ad swam with dizziness and he couldn't pa to his work. All his ambition and energy were gone out of him, atdhe would scarcely have exerted himself even if he had been suddenly promoted from the position of messenger to that of Btation-master of the bie4eet station on the railway.

"After a* while," he goes en to say, ! "a dull heavy pain struck me in the back, so I couldn't stoop over. What I suffered from this and the other things put ..together, I have no words to describe. "X bad six months of it, and it was like Six years. In such a case a man takes medicines ; all he is told about. Tfeiß^"'*did t without getting any good frfcia .them, and I got weaker and weakerf Everything was a trouble to me ; I couldn't bear ihings I used to think nothing of. •'In December, 1890, just before Christmas it wa?, I first heard of Mother Seigel's Syrup and what it had done in cases like mine. I got it from Mr Bogers 1 Drug Store?, and before I had used all of it I felt wonderfully better; and by keeping on with it a short time every pain and ache went out of me, and I vas able to go about my work as well as ever I was in my life." Those facts are vouched for by 11. Rogers, Esq,, Town Commissioner, Mullingar.

Now, what made messenger M'Cormack's nerves so sensitive, and his life no miserable for six months. Indigestion and dyspepsia ; the same detest* able malady that does the same ill turn ft r millions of others, men and women of all soil* and conditions. Plenty of them will read this true and simple ptory, and our opinion .is — founded on the best of proofs — that if they try the femedy which cured M'Cormack they will come out of it as happily as he did. But the sooner the better.