SIZE AND STRENGTH NO DEFENCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 21, 20 September 1895, Page 27

SIZE AND STRENGTH NO DEFENCE.

H bbe's a point for you to think over : Size and development have nothing to do with health. A man may stand six feet two inches in his stockings and have the muscles of a prize fighter, and yet be an essentially unhealthy man. His frail-looking wife may be really the better of the couple ; she may easily do more work, endure more exposure, bear more grief and worry, and outlive her big husband. There is a mystery in this that nobody can see into. It is a matter of vitality and organisation — not of dimensions. Take, for example, the case of Mr T. B. Staples, of Oak wood, Ontario. He is a blacksmith ; and I well remember how, when a boy, I us. d to regard a blacksmith with awe and wonder on account of his strength. It was feirsome to see him swing those mighty hammers and pick up a heavy cart-wheel as though it were a child's hoop. Yet I saw only iv part and understood in part. " Some twelve years ago," writes Mr S aples, *• I became aware that the dreaded disease, dyt-pepsia, had chosen me for one of its many victims It is hardly necessary for me to try to describe all the dffirent feelings that came over me. I have talked with many people suffjriDg with dyspepsia, and th y have all had about the same experience. Among the symptoms on which we agreed are the following :— Bad taste in the mouth ; fulmss and dead ness in Iha stomach after eating ; getting no good from one's food ; headache and palpitation of the heart ; gas and sour fluids from the stomach ; dizziness, tsptcially when one rises up suddenly, or bends over his work ; loss of appetite ; pains in the chest and back, and the weakness that comes from cot eating and digesting enough food to keep the body going. All these things I had ; and you can imagine huw bad they are for anyone, particularly for a mau who has got to earn his living by daily bard work, as in my case. " After I found out what was ihe matter with me I consulted a doctor at onca, and began to ake the medicine he gave me. lam sorry to say it did me li tie or no good. Although there is a common opinion that stomach troubles t.r-i not very serious and never dangerous, I mu9t b-ij that is not my opinion. N > man who sailers from dyspepsia as long as I did (about six years) will ever talk foolishly or lightly nbout it. Even the doctors admit it is the hardest of all diseases to keep track of, and to cure. If it does not kill a man right out of band it spreads the shadow of death over him all the time he has it, nml takes all tbe Uuehter out of bis days. " Well, after the doctor's medicine failed. I kept on taking anything and everything that was recommended io me id hopes of relief. Yet none of ihem went to the root of the trouble. Sometimes I would feel a little better and sometimes worse, and that's the way things went on with me year after year, a dreary and miserable time. There's no money could hire me live it over again. " I was still in this cindiiion when a friend, that I had been talking to about myself, advised me to try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I didn't know the merits of tbe Syrup then, but being anxious to try anything that might help me, I bought a bottle from Messrs Hogg Brothers, and commenced taking it. All I can say is, that I found relief immediately, and by continuing with it a short time, all my bad symptoms abated one by one, and I found myself comple'ely lid of the dyspepsia. Since then I have never had a touch of the old complaint. If there is any other medicine in the world that is able to cure indigestion and dyspepsia as Mother Beigel's Syrup does it, why I have never heard of it. I have recommended the Syrup to other sufferers, and they have been more than pleased with it ; and I write these hasty lines in hope the public ition of them may come in the nick of time to be useful to others siill. Yours very truly. (Signed) Thos. B. Stiples, Oak. wood, Ontario, February 25th, 1895 " We i.eed add but few words to Mr Staples' intelligent and manly letter. Th.' disease which 6 Hi cted him atiacks both sexes, all ages and all classes and conditions of humanity. Neither youtn nor strength ta proof against it. It imi ates other complaints, and so leads to fatal mistakes in treatment. If you are wise you will acquaint yourself with its character, as described in Mother Beigel's a'manuc, and kaow what to do i i time of need.