TWO BUCKETS AND A PIPE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XIX, 7 May 1898, Page 588

TWO BUCKETS AND A PIPE.

Take two common water buckets; connect them at the bottom with a small pipe. Now undertake to fill one of them with water; you perceive at once that the water tends to fill the other pail also. 'What’s the use of saying that?’ you ask me. 'Every fool knows that water in connected reservoirs will assume the same level.’ Quite so. Yet the wisest men on earth didn’t know it once. If the ancient Romans had known it they wouldn’t, have gone to the trouble and expense of building their great aqueducts. Oh, dear! oil, dear! After a thing is pointed out what a lot of people are able to see it. But to see it the first time? Ah! that takes eyes. To explain it the first time? Ah! that takes brains. The blood circulated through pipes in the human body thousands of years before anybody even suspected it. Isn't that queer? Now. there is a matter —. But let's have an example or two first, and the theory afterwards. A father writes thus about his daughter: —‘During the summer of 1890 my daughter. Rebecca, got into a weak, languid way. Her appetite was poor, and after eating she had so much -pain at the chest- and sides that she didn't know where to put herself. She also complained of pain in the pit of the stomach, in the throat, and

at the back of her neck. Cold, clammy sweats used to break out all over her. Her breathing became short and laboured, and at times she could not even lie in bed on account of it. She consulted two physicians, who prescribed for her without avail. 'This was her general condition until January. 1893, when she began taking Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup. This preparation certainly had a remarkable elfeet. One bottle alone greatly relieved her. She relished her food, and grew stronger. By simply continuing to use this medicine in three months she was completely cured. Since then she has been as well as ever she was. My married daughter, who has suffered from indigestion for a long time, seeing what this remedy had done for Rebeeea. took it also, with the same good results.—Yours truly (Signed), Bartholomew Bell. Grocer, etc.. Brompton. Northallerton. October 25th. 1893.’ 'All my life,' writes a woman, '1 have suffered more or less from sickness and spasms. 1 always felt weak, tired and languid, and had no desire for company. 1 had a bad taste in the mouth, and frequently felt sick and prostrate. I had no relish for food, and after eating had paip at the chest and side. Such was my manner of life for years. Two years ago my sister told me of Seigel’s Syrup. I tried it. and even a few doses relieved me. 1 continued taking it. and soon my appetite improved and my food digested. Since that time I have felt quite a new being—so light-hearted and strong. What a pity for me that I didn't know of Seigel’s Syrup years before. But better late than never. — Yours truly (Signed). Mrs Annie Goodger. 20. Bardolph-street, Leicester, May 10th, 1893.’ 'From childhood.’ says another. ‘I have suffered from indigestion and sick headaches. I never felt as if T wanted food, and after eating I experienced the usual pains and distresses of the confirmed dyspeptic. The attacks of sickness and headache were often no less than dreadful. So-called medicines and remedies were, at the best, only temporarily useful. In January. 1892. a friend, living at Hack-

ney, told me of Seigel’s Syrup. I used it and it cured me. 1 never felt so well in my life as 1 do now.—(Signed) Miss L. White, 92, Barnsbury Road. Islington, London, April 20th, 1893.’ Now, see. Evidence like the above (though much more impressive)proves that Mother Seigel’s Syrup either cures or relieves almost every known complaint. Yet it never was (nor is it now) recommended for any disease except indigestion and dyspepsia. What is the inference? That nearly every known complaint is caused by indigestion and dyspepsia—is. indeed, a symptom of it. •But every body believes that nowadays,' you say. Not everybody, but very many. The rest will bye-and-bye. Although the fact is as old as Adam, the discovery of it is new. Yet the principle will presently be as obvious to all as it now is to a few.