The Commonwealth.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 380, 20 August 1903, Page 5

The Commonwealth.

It is curious to observe how often men have fought' about words while the sub■tance has gone unheeded. Take the word at the head of this artiole~aa muoh heaH in this country during the past two or three years as it was in England in 1649. It is one of those apparently simple words which admit of two or three interpretations. Commum is the opposite of rmre or evolutive; weal, the opposite of mv; wealth, the opposite of poverty. Now, unfortunately, wealth hj not nearly so common as poverty. That is a fact all too painfully apparent the world over, and we don't suppose that anyone will have the hardihood to dispute it. What sort of wealth then, is it, that is common ? The wealth of nature?—No, that won't do 5 for some people spend their lives in coal mines while others cruise about the Medi* terranean in luxurious yachts. We pass the question, frankly confessing our inability to answer it. But its consideration has induced other thoughts. That health favours the acquisition of wealth, just as sickness is the cause of much poverty, must be evident to everybody. It follows, there* fore, that the community which enjoys the best health must also enjoy the greatest wealth, being better able to create it and stronger to retain it when acquired. But it Is safe to assert that no idea such as this animated the Commonwealth men who boheaded Ring Charles, and set up in his place a vastly stronger man—a man with more real power than the King had ever claimed. Yet there could be no finer example of the power of vigorous health to achieve desired results than the triumph of Cromwell over Oharles I. Indeed that unlucky King seems to have been a confirmed dyspeptic, with no definite policy, of little energy, and that wrongly directed; while his adversary was always strong, alert, fit for-his task.

The dyspeptics among us may not have kingdoms to lose, nor way they even risk their heads; but they lose all that is worth having iu life so long »■ their dyspepsia con« tinues._ It is quite fair, in so far as we are all subject to it; but the wise ones among us promptly relieve themselves by aid of Mother Seigel's Syrup. Among these latter must be numbered Mrs Belle Conlon, of 4, Parnell Place, Newcastle, N.S.W. Mrs Conlon, writing 22nd February, 1903, says: "For years % suffered—especially during the hot summer months—from acuta indigestion and bilious attacks. On such occasions 1 was also subject to violent headaches, which used to prostrate me for the time being, rendering rae unable to attend to my household affairs ; Z could do nothing but lie in a darkened room and endure the agony in silence. My appetite was very poor, I slept badly and was generally lowspirited and nervous. At different times I tried various pills, tonics, reputed headache cures, &c, but without avail until, in the beginning of the present summer, I bought a two-aftd-sixpenny bottle of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I did so on the urgent recommendation of a triend. I was very unwell at the time, but three doctors were sufficient to afford me great relief. 1 continued to use the medicine, and in a few weeks my health was quite set up again. I can now eat well, sleep well and perform my domestic duties with ease. In fact, all through the present trying summer I have been quite free from indigestion, headaches and bilious attacks, thanks to dear old Mother Seigel. 1 cannot praise Seigel's Syrup too highly for the benefit I have derived from it, and always keep a bottle of it in the house."

Healthy men and women are the real, the true Common wealth. The form of government in a nation of dytpeptios does not greatly matter there could be no happiness among them in any case.