When Rip Van Winkle awoke from his nap in the Catskill Mountains ju America, he found himself an old man. His dog was dead Jong ago, and nothing was left of his gun but the lock and barrel. And when he went back
to live, nobody recognised him. His wife, the village of Falling Water, where he woed believing him dead, had married the inn: keeper. Right enough too, for Rip had lain on the mountain-ide, sound asleep, for twenty years, A long snooze; but it seems to me I'd yatiier be asleep half my life at a stretch than to stop awake and be miserable. Yet here is a woman who says, "I can truthfully say that for eighteen years I was never free from pain for a single day."
Mercy think of that. What a wretched way to live! Yet suppose millions of folk crawl along through the world in that style. Not because they want to. Heavens, no!
her situation, and an army of other women But because they can't help its This was
her. (boston crowds of men) can sympathise with She says: "For over twenty years I was weak and sickly. At first Thad a bad taste in the mouth, poor appetite, and an uncom. fortable feeling at ly chest and sides, and often tried to obtain ease by holding my sides with my hands. After eating I had great pain; it was like a load at my chest, and I could not bear it until I vomited all my food up. I would be quite faint from the want. of food but was afraid fo eat. At times T had bad attacks of spasms which nearly doubled {ine up, and I rambled up and down the house for hours together, for I could not even lie down. OF course I lost a deal of sleep, and ina morning was so weak and faint I scarcely knew how to get out of hed and downstairs.
Por eighteen years L was never free from pain for a single day.
"T saw doctor after doctor, and took a great quantity of medicine without finding any real relief. They would not say what was the cause of my ailment, I was fast wasting away, and did not think I could live much longer, when one day in 1881 my husband heard from Mr, Joseph Cooper, of Bou of a medicine called Mother >eigel's Curative Syrup, which he said had cured him, 'If Tam spared,' I said tomy husband, will try it." I did so, and before Thad taken the first bottle I found relief, and after taking four bottles more I was quite well and strong.
That is now ten years ago, and Ihave een in good health ince, taking just an occasional dose of the syrup. After Fecovery the clergyman said to my husband, Your misses gets about very different. to what she used to do," and he told him that Mother Seigel's Syrup had wrought the cure. People tell me I look better than T did twenty years ayo, und I feel so strong that 1 can how dig potatoes and do work with anyone, uotwithstan ing I am 65 years of age.
"My husband suffered terribly from rheumatism and flux, and has found wonderful benefit from the same medicine He says he Would huve been in the churchyard long ago but for Mother Seigel's Syrup. For myself I can say it saved my life, and I wish others to know what it has done for me and mine. (Signed), Mrs. Estitex Ave, wife of William Ayr, of Thurlby, near Bourne, Lincolnshire In this brief and simple way Mrs. Ayr tells a stury the full details of which would fill a book." What hopes and fears! what hours of keen sorrow and deep darkness she must have experienced. Yes, indeed. None can even imagine it except those who belong to the great Sisterhood of Suffering. Where she mentions one symptom of her disease she actually could have named a dozen. For her malady the fearfully common and fatal one, indigestion and dyspepsia—has as many signs and forms as the mind has fancies, or the heavens have clouds. From it, as from sin, come a thousand pangs and pains to torment and to crush helpless humanity. Seeing what her great discovery has accomplished in this and multitudes of like cases, how good a friend to her kind was Mother Seigel! Rip Van Winkle awoke from his nap to find him. self old awoke from her long night of ittness to find Ylereelf young again. "Is not 3 Mrs, Ay
the moral plain enough for all the suffering millions in En; id?
1, 18 338 and Quinine Liver Pills, without Mereary. are a potent remedy; remove all Liver and Stomach Complaints, Bilivusness, Headache, ness, Shoulder Pains, Heartburn. In' dig tion, Constipation.
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