THE ENGINES OF SHIPS AND OF MEN.

Western Star, Issue 1570, 13 June 1891, Page 4

THE ENGINES OF SHIPS AND OF MEN.

In tlie mouth of March, the great and beautiful steamship City of Paris, ” while on her voyage from New York lo Liverpoo', met -with an accident by which her engines were completely disabled, leaving her helpless on the sea. She carried a largo number of passengers. and gteal anxiety was felt eoncornrog her in Euroj o and America. How she was finally towed into Queenstown Harbour will he remembered by the public. “Well, what of it ?’ you say. “They afterwards found out how it happened, and repaired the engines, and no lives wore lost.” Ycry true, but wait a moment. Becau e you never go to sea, do you think the sudden destruction of a ship’s engine has no lesson for you? How shortsighted men are! Did you ever lie on ycur bed at home, or on a cot in a hospital, h- Ipless as a log P What ailed you ? Some disease. What is disease ? It is an accident to your vital machinery. Wh. t do the doctors try lo do for you ? To “cm e” you. Yes, of course. Suppose we say “repair ” you ; it comes to the same thing, fir ■bo arc'kept alive and going by certain orgai s or engines inside the body. When they are < ufc of order an 1 work badly, we a e ill; w! n they si op, we die. Do you sec thj force 01 the illusi on o • ?

Sometimes a man’s machinery is neve" right from the hour of his birth. Here is a sh. it story one man tells about himself which wilt show what we mean, lie says ; “ One ship is never weak because another is, but a baby may be weak' because its parents were, or 8i roe of its ancestors. It is spoken of in thf, roily that when I was an infant, 1 did n >thi. g but sleep. Now, a healthy infant ought lo sleep moit of the lini", but not ali the time. Mu should laugh, play, cry, kick, aid tke notice of thing . My mother w.xs bothered about it, and saw the doctor, who bq d it was owing to the sluggih s a e of my liver. Nevertheless, I lived and grew up as jn ll.ons of children do. But inh rite disease makes its mark sooner or later, according to oircanismiices. “ Abo at five y ars ago T began to feel bid. I didn’t know wi.at was the matter with me. 1 had nad ta-te in my mouth, a slimy tongue and felt languid «nJ tired, and hud no ambition for work. My appetite failed, and •when I dil eat, under a sort of compulsion 1 had great pain after it. I went on in this wiy until the spring of 1833, when . ha i a verv sivere a lack, and w*s treirei in Butholo new’s Hospital for swn time, hut I came out still weak, and a little later on I was bo bid I broke down coniolc cl v, and *o >k to mv be I. Matters now looked very sc ions for mo. “ The first doctor who came to see me was not able to give any relief, an I my people etched another, as mj condition had become alar,nine. I got worse, a el was in great particularly in the bowels where ih; pa-n Wis intense. The bowels w.-r.s stopped, or constipated and the doctor seem d puzzle!. One day he laid, ‘ I cannot account foe your condition .’ 1 now began ,o think wb t was Lest to be done. Yet what could Ido ? “ I had heard of a medicine called Mother SeigeTs Uurative Syrup which was said lo be a roost remarkable cure for deep-seated an 1 chruH c* coin plaints where all other remedies •wore unavailing, but I hal never tried i , and vliv fin-ltd 1 believe in it? Ye) how strangely w- arc sometimes l;d into pa f hs we have nev r avellod before ! “ Aujid i'.is tiros 1 picked up a newspaper and rea l ■ ease similar lo my own that had been cur- -,o the writer said —by Mother Siigel’s 3 o. 1 deeid dto risk it, and sent over to a' ycr, the clrmist, in Acre Land, West Bvi , a’ d got a bottle, and in ten minutes ufte, taking the first dose I felt rew

“In my excitement and satisfaction I declared This is the right thing ! “After taking six bottles I found myself in perfect health. lam ft new man. 1 never was in better health in my life, and all the members of iny family think of my cure ns all the more wonderful owing to my having suffered with liver complaint from my ii.Inner. I will gladly answer any inquiries about Mother Seigel’s Syrup, and what it did for me.”' (Signed) W Gotdspink, 12/*, Acre, Lane, Brixton, and 19, taebbrook Street, Pimlico. Mr Q-oldspink is a pork butcher, and is will known and highly respected. In addition to his inherited weakness of the liver he suffered from deep-seated indigestion and dyspepsia, with an acute attack of constipation, a dangerous and often fatal complication. Tor this almost universal malady —often mistaken for other diseases —Seigel’s Syrup is the, only remedy to be relird upon Look in ti e papers and read the testimony of witnesses from John O’Qvovls to Land s End.