MY WATCH AND OTHER WATCHES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11518, 19 January 1894, Page 3

MY WATCH AND OTHER WATCHES.

j_ One ovoninf; last aummur I had some writing to do at my hoiiso. The weathor was very hot, and I took oft my coiit aiid waistcoat My new gold watch (that I had paid .£3O for) I laid before mo on the table, whero I could keop an eyo on it. So far so good. I wrote on, and papors accumulated on the table, one of them covering my watch. 'Koaching out for something I wanted, my arm accidentally swept it to the floor. Oh, heavens, what luck ! I picked it up— as tenderly as one pickß up a child who has. had a bad tumble. Was it still running? Y r «s, faintly ; but as I put it to my ear it ticked ft few times, feebly and slowly, and then stoppod — a dead watch. A minute ago it was a vital thing— now merely a lot of motionless wheels in a one. What was broken ? I couldn't say. Tho watchnmkor must ropair it and roturn 't, with his bill. So much for my stupid carelessness, Yet nobody is bo poor as <iot to carry a more valuablo watch than that; one that will run many years without winding. But when it stops, ah ' then, who is able to set it going again? Speaking about tho ono ho owns, Mr George W. Uurton, of Kicton Holme, x Jioston, fays "My hoart iluttovccl in a ■^ way to alarm me. Sometimes it was so bad that I /untied I could here U atop healing," ailod Mv Button's heart ? Perhaps his letter will help us to find out. Ho Bays:—" In October, 1887, 1 begun to feel weary and 1 anguid. 1 had a bad tante in tho mouth, and in the morning my teeth and t'uwa were covered with a ( thick bloody slime. My apotite failed, and after eating I hud groat paiu in tho

chost and stomach. All the timo I had a craving for food, but daro not take solids. It soemed sometimes that my head would burst with pain, and I was bo dizzy I could hardly see. After a while a cough sot in, and I spat up great quantities of phlogm. Later on my breathing became very bad, and 1 would break out into a cold swciit. I kept on growing weaker until it was nil 1 could do to got about, and in this condition I continued for four years. Din'mi* this timo I consulted doctors and used all tho different medicines I hoard of, but nono of thorn did any good." Now, lot's think a minute. Mr Burton says his hoart fluttered and palpitated, ho had a hacking cough, and difficulty in breathing— threo frightful things. A man might die of any one of them, as wo all know. Yet ho recovered from all of tho:r— a nd ull al the same lime. He siys :— "}ln February. 1891, I heard of what Mother Seigol's Curative Syrup had done in similar cases, and I determined to try it, and got a bottle from Messers Grimble and Kent, chemists, Boston. Tho first fow doses gavß relief, and by continuing to uso it in a short time I was perfectly curod. I make this statement in order that others may know where to look for a remedy in an illness like mine." (Signed j " Goo. W. Burton." Wo rejoice at his restoration to health, but what, after all, ailod him ? Did he have throe diseases- -viz.,heart complaint, consumption, and asthma ? And, if eo, how on earth could Mother Seigals Syrup have cured them— each affecting different organs ? Tho answer is, ho had but one disease, indigostion and dyspepsia, of which tho feeble heart, the irritated throat, nud the burdenod lungs wore toll> tales and symptoms. Tho poisoned blood-filled with doadly acids from the stomach- half paralysed tho nerves and thus disordered tho heart's action j it also infoctod the dolicato membrano lining of the lungs and air passagos, producing asthma and tho cough that eoemed to threaten consumption. One disease, many loading symptoms— that is the truth ; deluding physicians, and frightening pationts into thinking there is no hope. When life's tiniepioco runs down no power on earth can wind it up again, but Mr Burton's ruso, and thousands more, prove that it is often good for many a year after you thought tho works would soon be tnotionloss in the caso.