The Archive · 1893

Theory of Earthquakes

WESLEY'S:

"The cause of earthquakes," said John Weasley, is sin."

How he reasoned it out is not easy for the average sinner to see. The idea of such a tremendous physical convulsion as an carthy quake resulting from the violation of moral Jaw is nonsense in the eyes of modern science. The reverse la more often true. "The of " deal of sin," said Hannah More, is lo." That we can sea through. Bile poisons the brain, and the brain is the organ of the mind. Tt is certain that all the earth. quakes that ever shook this wicked world never did half the damage that is done every year by sleepy stomachs and lazy livers. Generals have lost battles, statesmen have teen boston in diplomacy, workmen have been thrown out of jobs, clergymen poor sermons, and husbands and quarrelled for no reason und and the man tried to do friend was labouring under indigestion, of time six years ago n lady says her skin me first yellow and then of alert, felt much pain in the chest saffron hue, Her breathing was dificult and

sides' Her appetite failed, of course, for ture never calls for food when she is not in condition to use it. Stillatrifle of sustenance must betoken. The Indy took it, digested a bit of it, and suffered great distress from the presence of the rest in the torpid stomach. We senreely need say that her slop was broken, and mind and body weary, weak, and out of tone, Now what tort of life is this to lead? What is anybody good for while in such state.as that What wages would you give Aservaut who was always ea? What would you lad to pit yourself against other people you wager on your own success in business if

sharpness, while you had to tight with a poi-n-soaked head and a stomach that refused breakfast? Not a crooked sixpence.

Our correspondent continues: ' At last T tock to my 'The doctor said my liver was wrong; that I had the jaundice, "As his medicine dit ud good, he advised ase to go to the hospital, I objected to this, and he said, "Try a change of air, then, and see what that will do for you.' So I went to my old home Fairford, Gloucestershire, This did no good, and T consulted another physician, who at: tended me for some time, but failed tw help me. My friends thought I was in a decline, didn't eat enough to ford a bird, and began to despair. Gradually growing feeble and miserable, with no expects ti better days, I lingered on until July, 1890, when an acquaintance urged me to try Mother Scigel's Syrup. The confidence my friend scerned to have in this medicine made such impression on me that I sent my niece nulles to get it. After taking the first bottle I felt better, A weight appeared to Lo lifted from my chest, I began to relish my food, snd felt better in every way. I will con: clude by saying that when I had used two bottles more I returned to Birmingham quite well, and have no attack of the disease since. Tam only sorry I did not know of the Syrap years before. (Signed Saran Hawxrs, of the Lion Inn, Longmore Street, Birmingham."

Here is certainly a lesson for the da; Probably there is not one person in a thousand who has not suffered from what is called Jious attack," and many are more or ious all the time. The symptoms are these: Furred tongue, headache, dullness, and sleepiness, yellow eyes and skin, spells of dizziness, hot hands and cold feet, bad taste in the mouth, loss of appetite, broken sleep, nervousness, loss of inch min to exertion or work, low spirits, irritable temper. the gulping of a nauseating wind or gas, distress after eating, and wandering pains and uneasiness all over the bod These things signify liver complaint; and the cause is indigestion and dyspepsia. If long neglected there are plenty of worse consequences to follow. The success of Seigel's Syrup in curing this malady is due to the fact that it goes straight as an arrow to the very root and source of it, the paralysed digestion. quakes we may be sure of ove thin Whatever may be the true theory of earth-

—namely, that bile in the blood, a1 an-arrest of the digestive function. is the hotbed of more sorrow, pain, and death than all the powers at the interior of the earth ever scattered over its surface 7, 14 & Qlap 91

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