The Hawaiian gazette., 1898-05-27
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 hiss of steam from its valves;
it is still and cold as a dead whale
on 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 troll
bled with flatulence, and had pain at
the heart and palpitation. At times
she was so Frustrated 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 APP; and
after being under his treatment for six
months she discontinued going to him.
Better and worse, she continued to
suffer for over a year, when she heard
of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. She
began taking it, and soon her appetite
revived and her food care her strength.
In a short time she was quite a new
woman. Since that time now nearly
twelve years ago. 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, 1895"
We call attention especially to those
words in Mr. Walkers letter which
are printed in italics. You can pick
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 us. The disease destroy
ed her power to obtain any strength
from food, and Nature suspended her
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 her
strength under the treatment of either
doctor Why? Simply because the
medicines they gave her-whatever
they may have been-did not cure the
torpid and inflamed stomach. If they
had cured it then she would have got
up her strength exactly as she after
wards did when she took Seigels Sy-
rup. But the trouble is this: Medi-.
cines that will do this are rare. If
the doctors possess them they would
use them, and cure people with them,
of course. Mother Seigel's is one of
these rare and effective medicines. If
there is another as good the public has
not yet been made acquainted with the
fact. But even the Syrup does not
impart strength; it is not a so-called
tonic" there is no such thing. 1t
(the syrup cures the disease, drives out
the poison, repairs the machine.
Then comes the appetite (all of ITSELF
and digestion and strength. You see
the order-the sequence. Yes. Well,
please bear it in mind. The mechanics
set the engine in order; then the stoker
gets up the steam.
And of the human body-the modest
of all maehines-Mother Seigel's Sy-
rup is the skilled mechanic.