"IT PEARS NEITHER ARMY NOR NAVY."

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 20, 3 March 1893, Page 31

"IT PEARS NEITHER ARMY NOR NAVY."

" Those things used to be called the wooden walls of England." The scene was the Naval Exhibition at Chelsea, in the lammer of 1891 . The speaker was a yonng man, and hit auditor one of those lithe, bright-haired girls one so often sees in this island. " And aren't they the wooden walla of England now 1 " she said, M a child might ask when Noah might be expected in Liverpool with his ark. " Not exactly," replied her escort tenderly ; " They are rather out of style. Come ; I'll show what sort of walls we have now," and he led her off in the direction of the beantiful models of the great steel ships of war. The young fellow was right in assuming that this country had a big a powerful navy, but the chances of war decrease with the preparations made to meet it. Besides, the interests that wonld be pat to hazard grow constantly larger and nations avoid fighting as long as possible. This is a hopeful consideration, and if England had nothing to be afraid of beyond the danger of being attacked from abroad, we might sleep in peace. Bat there is an enemy against which neither army nor navy is of any avail, It defies the gunboats in the Channel and the redcoats on the shore, and kills more people than are ever likely to fall in battle. If we could stop the ravages of this foe we should soon be able to surprise our distant colonies with the arrival among them of * splendid class of onr surplus population. We allude, of course, to disease. Not to epidemics of cholera or influenza, bat to diseases which are at wcrk year in and year oat, in every season, carrying off rich and poor alike. Unquestionably the worst of these is the one that attacks the digestive system, the one from which springs the majority of ailments, which go under various names, as, for example, rheumatism, gout, broncbitie, consumption, the several fevers, and others which were formerly, erroneously, supposed to have distinct characters, and to require distinct treatment. Now, however, the best medical authorities recognise these ailments as symptoms and out-growths of indigestion and dyspepsia, and treat them accordingly. In illustration of what can be dune, we cite a single case. A man named Edward Kelly, who resides at 27, tit Vincent street, London Boad, Liverpool, having proviously had perfect health, experienced a dnll pain in the right side, a bad taste in the mouth, furred tongue, loss of appetite, discoloured Bkin, unnatural langour and fatigue, and what he describes aa a " sinking feeling," as though the supporting power were exhausted beneath him.

This was in 1887, and ha bore it without obtaning reiief from the usual medical treatment nntil April, 1893, when one day, when he was working in a bonded warehouse, he says, " a dreadful pain strrck me in the back, and I had great trouble in getting through my work. Getting worse," he continues, " I went to a doctor, who said it was inflammation of the kidneys. He gave me medicine and attended me off and on for nearly six months, but with no beneficial result, result. He said he could not understand how I could keep on with my work. Still, I did strnggle on, though the disease was wearing me out From a strong, able man, I became thin and weak, and was afraid I should have to give up mj work. Last July, 1890, a Custom House officer recommended me to try an advertised preparation, entitled Mother Seigel's Syrup. 1 did so, and before I had finished the first bottle the pain had left my back, and I began to digest my food and gain strength. By continuing to use this remedy I was toon at vrell at ever in my life. My master, seeing what the Syrup had done for me, also took it for indigestion, and with so much benefit that now he always keeps it by him. I have no interett whatever in testifying this and only tpeak of the medicine as ljoun&it." Mr Kelly evidently had a narrow escape from Brigbt's disease, a malady very common among all daises in England, and one of the surest and most direct products of torpid liver, itself a symptom of indigestion and dyspepsia. We mention this case not to put money in anybody's pocket, bnt for the sak« of the sufferers who need help —no matter what it cornea from.

Pere Hyacinthe, having failed to secure funds enough by his attempt to found a "Gallican Church," his wife has taken the matter into her own hands. She is now on a lecturing tour in the United States, and her admirers claim that she entirely outshines M. Loyson. It is announced that a medical examining board, modelled on that of Loardes, is to be taken at Beaapre, Canada, to certify to the cares taking place dating the pilgrimages to the Shrine of 8t Auk.