The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-01-28
IN CASE OF FIRE.

Your house takes fire. What burns
first? The lightest and most infam-
mable stuff, of course,-furniture
doors, shelves, floors, paneling, and
other woodwork. If it is a stone or
brick house the walls will probably
remain standing-a melancholy sight.
Were not this principle of uniVeI-
sal application Mr.. Weddings would
never have compared himself to a
skeleton, as he does in the letter to
which your attention is now invited
In the autumn of 1891" he says. i
fell into low, weak state OF health.
My ordinary energy appeared to have
gone out of me. I always felt tired and
languid, and couldn't account for it.
Nothing seemed to rest me. | was tired
in the morning as when I went to bed.
l had bad taste in the mouth, my ap-
petite was poor, and after meals | had
pain at my chest and left side
Il was in this condition until the
18th of March, 1892, and then l had to
give up work. The reason was, I was
too weak to work. In fact. l was so
weak that it was about as much as l
could do to walk across the floor Be
sides this had dry, hacking cough;
and at night sweat so the bedclothes
were wet. Sometimes during the day
cold, clammy sweats would break out
all over me.
Il lost flesh rapidly, until l was like
a skeleton. My muscles seemed to be
shrunken and withered. There was no
feeling of warmth in me; it was as
though my blood had gone cool and
thin. | was too feeble and helpless to
wash or dress myself, and people said
l was wasting away, as though they ex-
pected to see the end of it presently.
Il consulted two doctors and they
gave me medicine, but it did me- no
good. One day my aunt, Mrs. Benton
of Francis Street, Walsall, called, and
in the course of talk she said that the
medicine that did her good when she
was i'll was Mother Seigefs Curative
Syrup. Although it didn't look reason
able to believe that it could cure a
case as bad as mine, nevertheless my
wife got me bottle from Mr. Grove,
the chemist in Park Street, and ! COM
menced taking it. In a few days ]
found myself much better; my appe-
tite was better, and l had gained a
little strength.
ITO make the story short, | kept on
taking the Syrup and continued to get
better. AS soon as ! could digest my
food the night sweats and the cough
abated, and in few weeks l was able
to go back to my work. That is two
years ago, and since then I have been
in good health for which l have to
thank Mother Seigel's Syrup. (Signed)
ARTHUR THOMAS WEDDINGS, 115,
Harrington Street, Walsall, March 9Th
1894"
In a fire, as we said, it is the light,
inf1ammable stuff that burns first.
That's why Mr.. Weddings got to be SO
CHASTITY thin. The flesh or fat is the
fuel of the body. In health it keeps
up the warmth and furnishes the
power. And to keep up the fuel we
must eat.
Now, disease is a conf1agration; it
tries to burn the house up and often
does it. And 1t always burns the flesh
up, more or less of it. The fat goes
first, the muscles, etc, afterwards.
That's the way of it. About that time
the tenant mOreS out.
Our friend was well on towards that
point. But it wasn't lung disease that
allied him, albeit he had the cough and
the sweats. They go also with indi-
gestion and dyspepsia-his real and
only malady. He got feeble and thin
because his disease wouldn't allow the
stomach to digest food. Hence he con-
sumed all the flesh he had stored UP,
and then luckily for HIM he began
to take Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,
which set his stomach and liver right,
and gave his victuals chance to feed
him.
All the same, it is dangerous to let a
fire get Roadway. When it is in your
body quench the first spark with Moth
er Seigels Curative Syrup.