Not even if it cost Twenty Shillings.

Manawatu Herald, 24 August 1897, Page 3

Not even if it cost Twenty Shillings.

•»« ' » A notable percentage— about one-third, I think — of the power of a steam engine is used up in overcoming the friction of iis 0 .vn parts. Hence inventors are constantly testing devices to reduce fnotion. Yet they can never overcome it ; and the reBhtance created by it represents power (and hence expense also) absolutely lost. Now the human body is a machine propelled by heat, exactly as an engine is ; and anything that retards it may be consi lered as friction. Very good, then. You have noticed great differences in your own vigour. Some days you work easily, and on others with difficulty. This Is so whether you are chiefly a muscle worker or a brain-worker ; or a mixture of b >th— as mo3t people are. Occasionally you are able to do more work in a day than at other times you can do in three. It is tie odds between walking on smooth, hard 1 trel ground and dragging yourself uphill t jrough wet clay. What wouldn't lawyerr, authors, clergymen, and all other brainvnrkers give for something having the piwer to keep their minds clear and strong? Oi body-workers for something that would prevent aching, weakness, and fatigue ? Do I know what will do it ? No, I don't If I did I could retail the secret for more money tiftn is stowed away in the Bank of England. But Ido know one thing, and will (ell it you in a minute— for nothing. First, however, we will talk of Mr J. B. G)saandthe friction he tried so long to overcome. Mr Gogs is a large farmer living at Stradsett, near Downham Market, Norfolk, and is well known in his district. When the farmers meet on market dayß he often speaks of his experience and how he came out of it. Iq order to cover it all he has to go baok

fifteen years -to about 1878. At that time . he began to neither account for nor understand. At first he merely realised tbat be was ont of condition. His work became less and less a pleasure and more and more a task. From his business his thoughts tamed upon himself, and no man can work well in that form. Then he and his victuals began to disagree, which is a state of things to make a man bsk what can the reason be ? He had a we'l provided table, of course ; yet he often sat down to his meals and couldn't touch a morsel. Mr Goss knew that this would never do. If a man expects to live, he must eat. There are no two ways about that. So he ate more or les3 — although not much— without the sti-* mulus of an appetite ; he forced it down, as you may say. But this wouldn't do either. When tha stomach goes on 6trike it can't be whipped into working before the question at issue is properly settled. Thus it end d in his having great pain and tightness at liis sides and chest. " I was constantly belching up a sour fluid," he says, " which ran out of my mouth like vinegar. I had a horrible sensation at the stomach for which I was not able to find any relief. For nights together I could get no sleep ; and in this geueral condition ; / continued for jive years, no medicine or j med'eal treatment doing more than to abate Forae of the wo) si: symptoms for the time being. 11 In the early part of 1883 I heard of a medicine which was said to do good in I cases like mine. Whether it would help j me of course I -had no idea. After so many things have failed, one naturally has no faith in a new one. Yet I got a supply and began with it. In & short time it was j plain that I had come upon the 1 real remedy at last. My food agreed with me, and soon all pain and distress gradually left me. Sines than (now ten years ago), I have, kept in the best of health. If I, or { any of my family ail anything, a dose of j Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup — the mcdi- ! cine that cured me— soon sets us right. We have no need of a doctor. (Signed) J. B. Goss, March 34ih, 1893." Mr Goss onoe said that if Seigel's Syrup cost 203 a bottle he would not be without it in his house. We can easily believe him. ' Considering what it did for him— and does for others— it would be cheap at any price. Yet, like plenty of things of the highest practical value, it costs but little. The reader can imagine under what difficulty and friction Mr Goss must have done what work he did during those five years' suffering with indigestion and dyspepsia. This then, we know ; that life's friction and loss of power comes chiefly from that single disease, and that ease arises from the use of Mother Seigel's great discovery.