"Two Per Cent Off My Life."

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 365, 7 May 1903, Page 6

"Two Per Cent Off My Life."

It was in a court of justice adjoining thi hideously gloomy prison of Newgate, a point at which the misery and crime of London ' have for centuries' been focussed. A young -man, scarce past boyhood, ato->d bef re the; late Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, charged, with, embezzlement. He was a brightj intelligent youth, somewhat better educated than the average English clerk,' bur no{ clever enough to make one sovereign do the work of five, so ,he had embezzled his employer's money in or. 5 e- to live according to his taste. The employer objected, h- nca the scene of which wc have a vivid recollecl tion. After reading him a fatherly lecturej the eminent judge sentenced the delinquent to two years imprisonment. " Two years ! " exclaimed the convict, as he was led away. " Two per cent off my life if I live for a hundred years." • Yea, two years makes a distinct notch in the life even of a centenarian; and then, you see, very few of nsLcan reasonably hope to become centenarians, which makes the matter worse. -Notwithstanding the benefits conferred npon hunoanity by our marvellously improved sanitary arrangements, modern habits and customs don't on the whole tend towards increa c ed length of life; It is, therefore imperative that everyone should as vigilantly watch that he Io?e* no time by transgressing the laws of health as it is that he should avoid transgressing 8 helaws of the land; for the first of these trans gressions is responsible for a vastly iarg'?r amount of lost time than can be ascribed to the second. u After suffering from indigestion for over two years I was completely curat*by Mother Seigel's Syrup n five we-ks " Tfns writes Mi-8 Helena Hasten, of 50. Pacific strNewcastle. N.S.W., on Octobni 21.-r, 19:>2. Miss Easton is a young lady c-f about twenty-six just at thar g-tieD period of life which cannot b- nbbrcviated by two years', or even tw rno> ths, wi'hont inspiring infinite "iegr-t. MisEa>ton rop;irue= : "Id the sunnier of 1898, when residing in Auburn M., (>■ ul ' burn (of which city J am a native), I tir-jt became conscious that my health wa givl g a* ay. My appetite left am 1 felt latti uid, weak atd netveus. The little "ood I ate caused dreadful pairs in the chest and stomach, to ray totbfng of many other distre*sii g symptoms. A doctor whom I en-' anted informed me tbat my c mpl int was acute indiuestv n, but his treatment did me • " no good whatever. Ihe efforts of a stc<-nd doctor being eqnilly futile, I to<>U a great variety of patent medicines, which in turn were recommended to me by various fri uds. But I did not find that; nv of t em did me the least good. And so for twr> yi ars 1 gr- w pa'er, thinner »md feebler. 1 never went ont, but moped about the hen-e :ll..:o, dn'l and listless, the slightest effort beii g painful to me. Noise, or excitement of any kind would cause my heart to palpitate violently, after which it would aim' s ce.-:s«. to beat. VV'dle I was in this n : se ab'#> condition a lady friend, Mrs W Ce.fk, came firm S-ydr-ey-to spend with u« the hristmas holidays c f 1900. This My, persuaded ne to try Slother Seigel'a I'urative >yrup, at the same time asserting that >h- k- ew several persons who had derived great fit from it. and that the was ure it was he only thing that wou'd du me g«cd. I accepted her advice, and acting upon it, found tbat in a enrpruii gly *>bi rt >-psce c: time—before imleed 1 had rinis e»i the second bottle—Mother Beigel's ■' urative Syrup bad wrought a chai ge in my c-n----dition and appearance which nothing el.-e hsd been able to effect. I could eat and sleep ; the heart tronb e disap; eared ;. n I recovered ail my old-time capacity r orwork and the pleasures e f life. At the etistante »£ time, I eoteitain no doubt whatever that my «uru is absolutely permanent*"