You wake up some morning and miss your watch, your purse, your best. clothes and other valuables. Yet neither your nor any member of your family heard a sound during the night. Neither is there a sign of how the thief got into the house nor by what road he decamped. You rush round and tell the potice, and also decide to keep a dog and a shot gun. You will let thieves know they mustn't come fooling around your premises after this. A sensible procedure. Meanwhile your watch, your money, etc., are gone. Quite so.
Now suppose I should tell you that the your house at all; that be was born in it: thief who stole your property never entered had lived twenty years in it; never bad been out of if till he went off with your things, albeit not a soul of you had ever seen or heard of him. What would you say to me? You would call me an idiot and threaten to have me sent back to the asylum. But don't be too sure, Here is our very good friend Mr. Richard Heakin, of Ventervin, Salop, who expresses an opinion in this line, Let us have his exact words. He says: ' Rheumatizm struck into my system." NE course we understand that be apeaks after the manner of men. You know we talk of being "attacked" by this, that, and the other complaint, as though diseases wore like soldiers or wild beasts. Doesn't make any odds," do you say? Bog pardon, but it does—heavy odds. For it teaches us to look in the wrong direction Jor danger. Do you see now?
Thicteen years ago, in the spring of 1880, whilst working in the Roman Gravel Lead Mines, Mr, Heakin took a bad cold He got over the cold, but not over what followed it. He was feeble, without appetite, and had a deal of pain in the chest and sides. His eyes and skin were tinted yellow, and his hands and feet were cold and clammy. Frequently he would break out into a cold perspiration, as a man does on receiving a nervous shock caused by something fearful or horrible. He was also troubled with pain at the heart and had spells of difficult breathing—what men call asthma.
"Later on," says Mr. Heakin, "rheumatism struck into my aystem and I had pains all I was confined to my bed for three with it and could not dress myself. An this general condition I continued for five years. One after another I was treated by Fourteen doctors in that time, -but their medicines did me little or no good. At one time I went to the Infirmary at Shrewsbury, where they treated: me for heart disease; bat I got worse and feeling anxious, retarned home, How he was finally cured we will mention in a minute. First, however, about his theumati-m. Every intelligent person knows that rheumatism and gout (ite twin brother) is virtually a universal ailment, It does its cruel and body-racking work in every country and climate. No other malady causes so Vast an aggregate of sutoring and disability. Whatever will cure it la worth more money in England than a gold mine in every country.
Bat does rheumatism "strike into" the aystem-as a bullet or a knife might strike into itt No! Rheumatism is a thief who steals away our comfort and strength but it is o thief, as I said, who ie born on the premises. In other words, it is one—and only one—of the of indigestion and dyspep. the why and wherefore a poison called uric acid; thi with the chloride of sodium to form a salt this salt is urate of sodium, which is deposited in the form of sharp crystals in the muscles and joints. Then comes inflammation and agony, otherwise rheumatism. 'Thus you it 't come min the outside jide—from the stomach. Our friend's cold, caught in the mine, dido's produce his rheum logged his skin an' so kept all the poison la his body instead of letting part of it out.
Mr. Heakin adds: 'I was cured at last by Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and without it I believe I should have boon dead long ago."
ery likely, very likely; for this thief, although he may wait long for his oppor: tunity, isn't always satisfied to run away with our comfort and our money: he often takes life too.
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