" A RIFLE BALL AND A CHRISTMAS-BOX."

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 44, 19 August 1892, Page 7

" A RIFLE BALL AND A CHRISTMAS-BOX."

" At tJte battle of Gettysburg a rifle ball broke my right arm his below the shoulder, and 1 nevei knew till then what a differe^nce tner 0 is between an arm to lift with and an artn to be lifted. 1' So said an American officer the other day when a few of us were talking about the mystery of life in the human body. Yet lots ot people understand the principle. What do they mean when they say, " I could scarcely crawl," "I had to fairly lug myself along," etcf Why, simply that the body had lost its surplus power : it had become a burden, instead of an instrument to carry burdens. A woman writes in this way : " I had constantly to lie down on the couch and rest. I had barely strength to crawl about. This was m the summer of 1882. The trouble first came upon me in 1886, when I was forty-two years old. Before that I had always been strong and healthy. Then, however, I began to feel tired, weary, and languid, and gradually I had to consider myself a weak, sickly woman. At first I had a bad taste in the mouth, and a sinking sensation at the pit of the stomach. My appetite was poor, and what little 1 ate gave me pain in the chest acd sides. My food seemed to create wind, which rolled ail over ma I got so bad that night after night I waa unable to sleep. I was at times in great agony, and if I had not been obliged to work I should have taken to my bed. As it was, I struggled on as best I could ; I saw a doctor and took various medicines, but none of them appeared to do me any good. " I continued in this wretched Btate for seven years —lB76 to 1883. Then came the help I had waited for so long and so hopelessly. In December of that year a little book was left at my house telling of a medicine called Mother SeigePs Syrup, and my husband read of a case like mine having been cured by it; and I felt a strong desire to try the medicine, but we could not spare the money. " However, when my husband returned from Bungay on Christmas Eve he pulled out of his parcel a bottle of Seigel's Syrup and sud' ' See, I havo brought you a Christmas-box,' and it proved to be the most valuable one I ever had in my life, I began taking the mediciue at once, and fround great relief. It seemed to lift a weight from my whole body. My appetite returned and I gradually gained strength, and by the time I had taken six bottles I was a new woman. I could go about my laundry work with ease and pleasure. I still take an occasional dose, and keep in good health, for which I have to thank Mother Seigel's Syrup. I know of many in this district who have received great benefit from the Syrup, one or two of the neighbours stating that but for it they would not now be alive. I desira others to know of what did me so much good, and to this end you have my consent to publish this letter, should you think it best to do so. 11 Yours truly, " (Signed) Mrs GooderhAN, "Earsham, Norfolk. " July 11th, 1891." We gladly extend our congratulations to Mrs Gooderhan upon her recovery, and beg to say for the general behoof that the ailment which oppressed her for so long a time is unfortunately no Btranger. Indigestion and dyspepsia lie at the very root of most diseases, for the reason that it arises in the stom;ch, upon the normal action of which good health nocessarsly depends. If we cannot digest our food everything, of course, goes wrong. For therein is the source of all power, strength, and vitality. From indigestion and dyspepsia proceed those poisons which, entering the blood, disorder every organ and process of the system. Rheumatism, gout, bronchitis, neuralgia, nervous prostration, most formß of diseases peculiar to women, chronic headache, pain and weakness in the muscles, mental dulness, and loss of ambition. All these and other affections are nothing more or less that results and signs of impared or paralysed digestion. Io short, they are mere words, the true and real disease beiDg indigestion and dyspepsia. In its ability to cure this lies the secret of the success of Seigel'fl Syrup over what seems to be —but is not —a multitude of different maladies. It simply dislodges the keystone, and the arch falls to the ground. I