Earthquakes are the cause of much destruction, but what is the cause of earthquakes?' The scientific fellows say the heat inside the earth, and the big rocks try' get into more comfortable pos cing so we can't cure earthquakes is to deep and too big.
Here is a matter easier to handle and_yet not easy enough to make us vain or conceited. Humility and modesty are_well-fitting coats for the backs of the best of us.
"Rhenmatie fever laid the foundation of
jane Williams. Yes," but what lid the foundation of the rheumatic fever? The man who can answer that, with 2 sound of sureness in the talk of him, will do more good than the long-headed ' statesman who captures a fresh foreign market or cuts off the heads of a million Chinese Boxers.
Whatever may turn out to be the cause of rheumatic fever Miss Williams (with lots of other afflicted persons) has no doubts about the effects of it. The early attacks," the lady tells us, left me very weak and low. They took away from me pretty nearly all my relish for food, and the power to disgest (mean to digest quickly and thoroughly) the morsels I did eat."
Does the reader think Miss Williams has but the cause and effect in the true order here? She thinks so, to be sure. But we will not be hasty to conclude. She wants us first to hear the rest of her story.
"After meals," she goes on. to say, "my stomach became filled with wind ani' I was tortured with pains in nearly every part of my body, They were worse, however, in my chest and at the pit of my stomach. "I was often bilious, too, and had violent sick he aches."
(Thus far she speaks, you pefeeive, of indigestion or, as it is sonietimes called, acute dyspepsia, "He is the same hungry' beast, though—whether we put a Latin or a Greek collar on his neck).
No matter what I did," continues Miss jams, *'my strength would not come and small wonder, for could. neither rat not sleep properly.' Instead of getting stronger as the months passed by 1" grew more feeble and depressed.
We can well credit that, If all at once the ind-mills, the water-mills and the steam-mills should stop grinding grain for a year what should we do for bread and cake?
My life," says this patient woman, was one dreary and monotonous round of suffering and weakness. I was always weary and ex: hausted, although I did no work to make me so, Alli the strength went out of my back and at last it got to be so_painful and weak Tevuldn't even sit up. For seven years T spent mos: of my time on the couch, unable to get about the house."
"At length, and a tiresome length it was, as the doctor's medicines seemed to be doing me no good, Iwas in, some way led to try Mother Seigel's Syrup. After taking it a few weeks the improvement began. At first it was not much to notice, but it kept up, and little by little my strength returned.
appetite, and I began to enjoy my meals "The Syrup gave me an appetite, a. real Thad not done during all the years I hai spoken of. Iliad no longer any pain after eating; and oh, what a relief it. was to eat and not be punished for it. Moed only add that in the end =eigel's Syrup restored me to health and strength, such asI had not been ble-sed with for time almost out of mind.
"Once ina while when, through thoughtlessness or for any atler reason, I feel a touch of any of my symptoms, I' fly bottle of Seigel's Syrup, and that marvellous medicine sets me right." I believe I owe my life to it, and my health, which is better than life, If you think what Ihave said may be useful to others you may print it as you think fit." (Signed) Jane Williams, Chapel House, Llanrug, near Carnarvon, Wales, September ith, 1900.
Anybody who would like to see this lady may find her. at her home at Llanrug, a village between Carnarvon and Llanberis, and " very pleasant spot in summer, where she does her work and commends Seigel's Syrup to all.
Earthquakes are caused by the mighty fires in the earth's bowels and rheumatism is caneed by indigestion. The latter fact is of the greatest practical importance.
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