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Evening Star, Issue 10340, 14 June 1897, Page 4

A gold coin passes from one to another 2,000,000,000 times before the stamp or imnresßion upon it becomes obliterated by friotion, while a silver coin changes between 3,250,000,000 times before it becomes en* tirely defaced.

PUBLIC NOTICES THE NUGGET OF GOLD OEE. iHAT," said my friend, In reply to a question of mine, " is a very large and very rloh nugget of gold ore. It was taken many years ago from a mine hi Australia." " How much is it worth t" I asked. Hs looked at me with a shrewd smile, and replied : "It is worth just nothing at all." but asked no more Questions. Two years later I again visited his house in London, and this time I missed the big nugget from the shelf where I had first seen it. But I asked no questions. Perhaps recalling the incident of two years before my friend said : " I have something to show you," and, opening a closet, he produced a magnificent gold vase, remarking: " That nugget of gold ore has taken this form. Bxolusive of the labor involved in the transformation,' the gold alone is now worth £100." What curious similitude* there are between thing essentially un:ike! Here is one which it may be instructive to follow up. It is suggested by the following sentence from a woman's letter:—" In spite of all the nourishing food I took nothing seemed to give me strength." Now, why was that? Perhaps the history of the previous three years of her life may help to account for it. In January, 1890, she had an attack of influenza, which, she says, left her low, weak, and languid. So far as we are able to ascertain, influenza is caused by a certain poison in the blood developed during peculiar conditions of the atmosphere. Its early symptoms are those of a fever; tbuy are always sudden and often alarming. Yet, as in nearly all cases it ends in recovery in a week or two, it does not explain the mystery of Mrs Westell's continued weakness and prostration. She tells us that her appetite was poor, and that eating was immediately followed by great pain in the chest, baok, and sides. Hoping to overootne this state of things she took much nourishing food. That an increase of strength should result from the eating of plenty of good food would seem reasonable. How else can one ever gain strength? Yet, strange to say, no such result followed. On the contrary, the pains became worse, so that—to me her own words—she was " completely racked with pain " all over her, and so weak that she could scarcely put one foot before the other. Besidi-s this, the condition of the stomach was far from encouraging. That organ is the source of all power in the human body, and should feel warm, comfortable, and quiet. In this ladv's case it was full of and pain. She speaks of a craving, gnawing, sinking sensation in it, which was not relieved either by food or by any medical treatment. Certainly something quite different from a former attack of influenza went to the making of that; we must look deeper to find the real trouble. Chemists often determine the character of a poison by observing the color it c-eates when applied to litmus paper; and, in addition to the general symptoms, it is sometimes possible to tell the nature of a disease by taking notice of what oUres it. Now there is one universally known remedy which never fails to cure one subtle,' "comprehensive, and yet deceptive disease. Happily it was finally employed in Mrs Westall's case. In concluding her letter, dated December 1, 12 Ruoklidge avonue. Willestlen, London, N.W., 1892, she says : "At the time when my j condition was very critical and my family very anxious, my son-in-law (Mr Deacon), of Shepherd's Bush road, told me how, in an illness of his own, he had been cured by Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and advised me to begin usinir id at once. I did so, and soon my appetite returned* and my food digested; arid by the time I had: consumed two bottles I was strong aB ever, and; have kept in the best of health ever since'.— (Signed) Yours truly, Waby WestAM.." * ; This; remedy, as" the public isi Well aware: is advertised to cure indigestion an J dyspepsia and its cousequefipes-Vjfnd nothing else. consequences include nearly every ailment?with' which we are familiar. Even influenza seldom. poised by Arid as to that nugget of gold, ore? Ah, yes! gold is worthless until ;it Food is useless unless ft is digwted." IMnrien' the ore and the vase is the workman; bvtween food and strength alio a workman—the stomach.