The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1898-05-13
A LESSON FOR THE WEAK.

Do you see that locomotive engine
standing on the side-track? Something
has broken down about it. There is
not a hiss of steam from its valves;
it is still and cold as dead whale
on a beach; it can't draw a train; it
can't even move itself. Now, tell me,
do you believe that any amount of
tinkering and hammering at it would
make it go? Not a bit. Nothing on
earth will make it go except steam in
the boiler, and even that won't unless
the engine is in order. Everybody
knows that, you say. Do they? Then
why don't they act on this principle
in every case where it applies?
Here is such case. Writing, concern
ing his wife, a gentleman says: in
the autumn of 1880, my wife fell into
a low, Responding state through fam
lily bereavement. Her appetite was
poor, and no food, however light,
agreed with her. After eating she had
pain and tightness at the chest, and
a sense of fullness as if swollen
around the waist. She was much trou-
bled with flatulence, and had pain at
the heart and palpitation. At times
she was so prostrated that she was
confined to her room for days together,
and had barely strength to move.
"At first she consulted a doctor at
Ferry Hill, but getting worse, she
went to see a physician at Newcastle,
The latter gave her some relief, but
still she did not get her strength up; and
after being under his treatment for six
months she discontinued going to him.
Better and worse, she continued to
suffer for over year, when she heard
of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. She
began taking it, and soon her appetite
revived and her food gaze her strength.
In short time she was quite new
woman. Since that time (now nearly
twelve years ago. l have always kept
this medicine in the house, and if any
of my family all anything a few doses
puts us righteous truly, (Signed)
George Walker, Grocer, &C., Ferry
Hill, near Durham, October 25th, 1898. y
We call attention especially to those
words in Mr.. Walkers letter which
them out at a glance. They show how
fully he understands where human
strength comes from-that it comes
from digested food and not from any
medicines the doctor or any one else
can give US. Let us have no mistake
or confusion of mind on this important
point.
For example, Mrs. Walker was i'll
with indigestion and dyspepsia. Her
symptoms, and how she suffered, her
husband tells u.s. The disease destroy
ed her power to obtain any strength
from food, and Nature suspended he1
appetite in order that she might not
make bad worse by eating what could
only ferment in the stomach and fill
her blood with the resulting poisons
The only outcome of such a state Of
things must be pain and weakness
weakness which, continued long
enough, must end in absolute prostra
ton and certain death.
Well, then, she failed to get up he
strength under the treatment of eithel
doctor. Why? Simply because the
medicines they gave her-whatevel
they may have been-did not cure the
torpid and infamed stomach. If they
had cured it then she would have go
: up her strength exactly as she after
wards did when she took Seigers Sy
rup. But the trouble is this: Medi
cines that will do this are rare. i
the doctors possess them they would
use them, and cure people with them
of course. Mother Seigel's is one o.
these rare and effective medicines. 1
there is another as good the public ha:
not yet been made acquainted with The
fact. But even the Syrup does no
: impart strength; it is not so-calleC
E tonic" there is no such thing. l
= (the syrup cures the disease, drives GU
. the poison, repairs the machine.
Then comes the appetite (all of itself
and digestion and strength. You Sc
the order-the sequence. Yes. Well
: please bear it in mind. The mechanic
S set the engine in order; then the stoke
t gets up the steam.
q And Of the human body-the mobiles
of all machines-Mother Seigels Sy
rup is the skilled mechanic.