THE HANDFUL OF THINGS WE KNOW.

New Zealand Tablet, Issue 44, 8 March 1895, Page 11

THE HANDFUL OF THINGS WE KNOW.

Seteral yearß ago an American humourist and poet published gome veraes called "Li tie breeches " Tqis vea>? an odd name given fo a very small boy who was caught out in a tremendous snowstorm, and firjttlly found in some hay quite a distance from the house. However the boy got theie bjtheted everybody to expUin. It was certain he never could bavi* walked. 8 ■ his fatnar said the angels must have dove it ; they j ist stooped dowu ani toted him to where it was safe anci warm," he said. The p >eiry about it (supposed to have been written by tbe youngster's fa 1 her) starts off in this way :—: — I Hon't go much oo religion, 1 n<*ver ain't had no show ; Bu' r*-e a middling tight grip, Bi', Oq the bamllul of things I know.

That's it ; hs handful of things jvg know. There aren't many of 'em, bat there ar« a few. And one of them is this: that lor a hundred results there is only one cause. Nature develops and makes difEerenci s ; never a new force.

Here, for example, is an incident which shows oar meaning. About Ohristmae 1889, Mr E. B. Wiight had an attack of inflaenz*. Previous to this he had always been strong and hearty. Well, be got over the influeezi; sill it bad given him (as he says) " a shake." After this he got along fairly well, until February of this year (.1892) when the infUienz i attacked him again, Tbi9 time the malaiy " meant busin as." Nearly every bone and muscle in bis body ached like sore tee'h. H s skin was lot and dry, and to bed he »as obliged to fjo. For mx etn days he was under a doctor. At the end of that unae be found himself alive and that was about all you could say for hitu.

In his lettpr he goe^ on to tell what h-ippened nexf. '' I bad a foul taste in the mouth," he says, " and my teeth aud tongu* were covered with a thick slimy phlegm. My wife says my tongae was like an oy9ier snell, and I'm Bure it was rough as a nutm' g grater. Wh-it I ate, which wasn't much, gave me pain in the chest and sides. After a m luthful or two I felt full aud blown oa', and I used to swell to a gre itsz 1 , By-aad-by a hacking cough set in and my breataing gut short and quick. At night I lay for hours gasping for breatb, aid often coughed so I was afraid 1 should hurst a blood Teasel. I brut weaker and weaker and ivas lihe a broken-winded horse The doctor said it was asthma, but he wasn't able to reueve it. Although I live O' ly two minutes walk from the factory where I work, 1 had to atop Hnd rest on my way many a time.

"Tnus tna'ters went with me until Jane, 1892. Then ole dny I tooK up the Essex Newsman, and read of a man living at Earsham, near Bungay, bavmg been cured by Mother Seig^l's Curative Syrup. 1 got some of this m dicme from the Internatio ial Tea Company, Kraintree. After a few doses my breathing grew easier, and by kenping on with the Syrup my food soon digested, the cough left me, and I gained s u en g to. 1 am. now as strong as ever, can eat anything, and w-ilk for miles. 1 am a brushmnker, and work at tbe factory, of Messrs John Wept and Sjos, Huh S reet, Braintrae, an 1 have lived in this town over forty ye^ra. (Signe t) E. B. WRIGHT, Sandpit Road, Brainiree, Epss-'X, August 23rd, 1892 '"

Now let us see how tuia illustrates ibn propisition we started out with. B'or almost thrne y nrs Mr Wright was ill with what ssem 'd like as'rieiuf difiirent diseases. He had the influenza twice, tbfj aathm i one, antl arioti er disa ise which he gives no name to — even if be rcC'Hjmse 1 .t. Look for a mom^at »t|t he vane y and incongruity i,f the pains and troubles he mentions, but he doesn't describe th^m ill, either. You would f incy he ha>i half a dozen ailments at least. Yft he had but <i/i^' indigestion aod d)Sp-psia — of wnich all hiß boiiily disturbances (^influ >r za includei — a b ood disease) were svmp otis. All came out of the stotn^cb, and when Seigel'd Syrup set that right the others quietly departed.

VVnat, then, is one thing of '' ho handful of things we know "? Answer : That nearly all sor>sof disfcaae^are really symptoms of mdigeeti >n and dyspi psia, aod that Mother tJeigel's Curative Syrup cures it, Djuole that fact up in your fist and hold on to it tight.

During 1894 two hundred thousand were distributed at the tkbbatial Church of Emsiedeln in Switzerland. Trie pilgrims were more numerous than for over thirty ye^ra pist. In the course of tne year 20,4(J0 Masses were said at the altars of this sanctuary.

Myebs and Co., Dentists, Octagon, corner of George street The guarantee highest class work at moderate fees. Their artificial teeth give general satisfaction, and the fact of them supplying a temporary denture while the grms are healing does away with the inconvenience of beini; months without teeth, They manufacture a single artificial tooth for Ten Shillings, arid Bets equally moderate. The administration of nitrous oxide gas is also a great boon to those needjng the extraction of a tooth. Head — [Advt.

Mr Gawnp, of Dunedin (saya the Southland Times of April 13 1891) has just b-jen oa a visit to luverca gill to push busmen a little. Not that it wants much canvassing, for eince he commenced the manufac ure of hie Worces ersture Sauce, the demaad bad kept pace with his capacity to supply it. He makes a really good thicg, indistinguishHble from the famous Lea and Pernn'a, which he places upon one's table at a much lower price, and trusts to that to secure a steadily growing trade. Those who hive not yet trie 1 the Colonial article bhould put their prrjudic 1 aside for a time and test the queat on with a boitle or two. — Advt,