hasn't heard of the good old Deacon in America, and his idea of how " chaise should be built so as to run for ever without repairs? I dare say we all have, yet he hasn't quite gone stale yet, He suid, you remember, that the reason chaises broke down and didn't wear out was that there Was always a. weakest. spot some: where about them. Now, said the Deacon, the way to fix it is to make that spot us strong as the rest, Then the vehicle might wear outs but couldn't break down, He built " chaise on that principle; it never broke down it ran a hundred yours exactly, and then one day it went to pieces all at once; all ut once and nothing first, just as bubbles do when they burst." Its time was come; for, as the says who once told the in thyme, little of all we value here, wakes on the morn of its hundredth year, without both feeling and looking queer."
and long before that time most of us begin to look and feel queer, And it's all on account of that weak spot, too, If it wasn't for that we should be like the Deacon's chaise—we should run till we wear out. As it is we break down on the road, often beyond: repair, But not always, Otherwise a certain wan could never have used these words, IT feel a3 smart to-day as 1 did thirty years ago." His story, in his own words rus this way well. Thad " bad taste in the mouth and from my youth I was never proper
after eating. Often I couldn't touch vod when it was set before me. I felt a gnawing at the stotnach and a tightness at the Chest and sides, Sometimes my bowels were so swollen I had to loose my clothes. I hud violent paine in my hend for days together. This cantinged for years and yar, "Abu thirty years ago T began to have rheumatic ins all ever me, especially in the back and T got so bad I couldn't walk without a stick, and on my way to and from my work I a to sit down and rest, the ales Day nee night ever knew Whee "I got no proper sleep at night owing to
it was to be free from pain, As time went by I became quite crippled. Doctor after doctor gave mie medicines and rubbing bottles, but note of the things I tried did any good, The doctors said my ailment was rheumatism and Lumbago and made light of it, but it was serious enough for me. For thirty years I suffered dreadfully. My wife used to rub me before the fire night after night and apply flannels relieving me only for the time. I gave up all hope of ever being well again, when in November, 1887, I read of the good Mother Seigel's Syrup had done in so-many cases. I began to-use it, and after taking a few bottles all my aches and pains left me and have never returned since. "This medicine seems to have driven all the poison out of my system, and I feel as smart to-da: as T-did thirty years ago, for which T thank God and Seigel's Syrup. "Had I used it souner I should have been saved years of suffering, (Signed) Wrut1am Sropoart, Douglas, neat Cork, Ireland, January 7th, 1832.
Mr. Stoddart is gardener at Mre. Edwards', the Island, Rochestown, and has a shop at Douglas. He is a very respectable man and has been in service at Mee, Kdwards' twenty years.
In his letter h ner states that from boyhood he was a victim to indigestion and dyspepsia. This fact explains the rheumatism, as it was the cause of it. The bile acids from. the torpid stomach and liver filled the blood, lodged in the joints and muscles, and gave rise to all the consequences be describe. "The effect of the Syrup was to expel the acide. from the body and set the digestive machinery,
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