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f ) UR friend Jones is a terrible fellow for dates . His memory fastens itself upon them with the grip of a bulldog , and never lets them go . He can tell us when Alexander the Great was born and when Oliver Cromwell died . He knows when the

Reform Bui was passed , and when Drake , Frobisher , and the rest beat back the Spanish Armada . Sometimes we think that if Jones ' s head were opened , his brain would be found stuck full of figures , like plums in a Christmas pudding . Most of us know

the days when we were born , when married , and when crape fluttered from our door , events full of joy or sorrow . But for our historical dates we are content to go to the books . Why is

it that a father , no matter how intelligent , gets his children ' s birthdays mixed up , as a general thing , and has to be corrected by his wife ?

Mr . F . D . Ford will never forget the 23 rd of March , 1894 , because on that day he found the means of prolonging a life that was ebbing fast away . " In November of last year ( 1893 ) , " he writes , " I began to feel weak and below par . I was easily

tired and felt exhausted with the least exertion . I had great pain at my side and under the shoulder blades . I was constantly belching up a sour disagreeable fluid . I was much troubled

with spasms , and had difficulty in breathing . I had intense pain in my back and sides , and often I have paced rny room all night , being unable to rest in bed . After a time my meals distressed me so much that I became afraid to eat . "

After all this it is not surprising that Mr . Ford should say " I lost flesh rapidly , and was soon so weak that I could scarcely walk , and dreaded going out of doors . I was unable to attend to my business ( he is a grocer and tea-dealer ) , being in too much , pain to stand in the shop . The doctor who attended me for

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three months said the pain was ' muscular . ' I got worse and worse , and in the early part of March the doctor told me he could do no more for me . " That doctor was an honest man . He would not take money

when he knew he could give no service in return . But just consider the situation of Mr . Ford . First , he could not sleep , and sleeplessness leads to death by way of insanity . Next he was afraid to eat , like some king who dreads high treason and poison

in his kitchen . "On the 23 rd of March , " he says , "I read that cases like mine had been benefited by Mother Seigel ' s Curative Syrup . I got a bottle at Taylor ' s Drug Stores , High Street , Stoke Newington . In a few days I found a slig'ht improvement .

The pains were less severe , and the food I took agreed with me . Having got as low as possible my recovery took time ; but I gained strength every day , and after four bottles I was able to work as usual , and am now ( June G ) fully restored to health .

Customers who saw me in my bad state ask what cured me . I tell them Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup put me on my feet after the doctor had given me up . For five years I suffered from

sciatica , and I firmly believe that had I known of Mother Seigel's Syrup I should have been spared much suffering Yours truly , ( Signed ) F . D . Ford , 90 , Oldfield Road , Stoke Newington , London . "

The honest doctor was mistaken . Mr . Ford s varied and dreadful ills were not "muscular . " Every one of them was due to indigestion . His stomach was dilated with gases arising from undigested food that formed a heap of corruption . Neither

appetite , strength , sleep , nor freedom from pain was possible while the body was laden with this matter . Nature needed help . Mother Seigel furnished it . Truly Mr . Ford lias good reason to remember the 23 rd of March .

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