THE ENGINES OF SHIPS AND OF MEN.

Western Star, Issue 1573, 24 June 1891, Page 4

THE ENGINES OF SHIPS AND OF MEN.

In the month of March, the great and beautiful steamship •' C:ty of Paris, " while on her vojage from New York to Lirerpoo', nut with an accidei.t by which her engines were completely disabled, leaving her helpless on the sea. She carried a large number of passengers, and great anxiety w«9 Mb'concern nig her in Europe atid America. How alio was finally towed into Queens'own Harbour will be remembered by the public. "Well, what of.it ?" you Buy. "They afterwards found out bow it. happ. nod, and repaired tho engines, and no lives were lost." Very true, but wait a moment. Uccause yo.i never go to sea, do ycu think the sudden d-'slructioti of a ship's engine has no lesson for you ? How shortsighted man are ! Did youerer lie on your bed at home, or on a cot in n hospitil, helpless as a, ]os ? Whit, ailed you ? Some disease. What is disease ? It is an accident to your vital machinery. What' ik> the doctors try to do for you ? To " euro' you. Yes, of course. Suppose we Bay " repivr" you ; it comes, to the same thing, for wo are"kept alive and going by certain organs or engines inside the body. When they are out of order an 1 work badly, we aic ill ; when they f«lop, wo die. Do you see the foree of tlie illustration ?

Sometimes a man's machinery is never right from the hour of his birth. Hero is a short story one mun tells about himself which will show what we mean. He says : " One ship is eever weak because another is, but a baby may bo weak because its parents were, or some ef its ancestors. It is spoken of in the family thitwhon I was an infant, I did Dotbing but sleep. Now, a healthy infant ought to sleep most of the time, but not all the time. Ho should laugh, play, cry, kick, and take notieo of thing . My mother was bothered about it, and saw the doctor, who said it «as owing to the sluggish »t a' e rf my liver. Nevertheless, I lived and gr wup as millions of * children do. But h.hcriteu disease makes its mark sooner or lator, according to circumstances. " About five years ago I began to feel bad. I didn't know what was the matter with mo. I had bad taste in my liiouth, a slimy tongue and felt languid and tired, and had no ombiliou for work. My appetite fail, d, and when I did eat, under a sort of compulsion I had great pain after it. I went on in this way until the spring of 1888, when . had a verv severe attack, ar.d was treaicd in Bartholomew's Hospital for some time. lut I ciine out still weak, and a little later on 1 was so bad I broke down complcielr, and took to my bed. Matters now looked very soiious for me.

" The first doctor who came to sec me was not able to give any relief, find my people etched as my condition had become alarming. I got worse, aid was in great ugony. I had pains all over .me, but more ! articularly in the bowels, where I lis pain was interne. The bowels were stopped, or constipated, and the doctor seamed puzz'ed. One day ho said, ' i" cannot account for your condition? I now began .o think wli t was best to be dene. Yet What could Ido ? " I had heard of* a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup which -was said io be a most remarkable cure for deep-seated and chronic complaints where all other remedies were unavailing, but I hal never tried it, and why fhould 1 believe in it? Yej how strangely wearo sometimes led into | a'lis we have never travelled before !

" About this time I picked up a newspaper and react of a case similar to my own that.had been cured—so the writer sai.i— by Moth r Seigel'a Syrup. I decided to risk it, and sent over to Mr Lyer, the clieinist, in .Acre Lan<», West Brixton, and got a bottle, and in ten minutes after taking the first dose I fell relief. "In uiv excitement and satisfaction 1 dc-eli.-rel This is the right thing ! " After taking six bottles I found myself in perfect health lam a new man. 1 never was in better liedth in my life, and nil the uiecubcro of my family think of my euro rs all the more wonderful owing to my having suffered with liver complaint from my infancy. 1 will gladly answer iiuv iiKpn'rii's about Mother Seigcl's Syrup, and what it did forme." (Signed) VV (Jroldspink, 12f>, Alio Lane, JBrixton, and 19, fuehlirook Street, Puulioo. Mr Goldspink is a poik butclier, And is will known and highly rcpeeted. 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. For this almost universal malady —often mistaken for other diseases—Seigcl's Syrup is the only remedy to be rclird upon. Look in the papers and read tl e testimony of witnesses from John O'G.oits to Land's End