A STRANGE STANDARD OF VALUE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12698, 29 October 1904, Page 3

A STRANGE STANDARD OF VALUE.

tain Baebhuie, am Anglo-Indian' of infinite -humour, into whose short life :of -35 years was crowded -more incidents than falls; within the experience of most centenarians, had the- misfortune to lose a leg at, the siege of a city in India, and was awarded a Government annuity of £50. Thereafter, the Captain adopted a standard of value peculiar.; to himself, and would refer to £100 as two legs, a'lb as half a leg, and so on. It is not to every portion of the human body that Captain Barberie'a system could bo applied. A human being may lose a leg, or even two legs, and yet live but no government has ever been called upon to allow a man a pension because he had lost his stomach,, his liver, or his heart in its service. (We use this last expression in its physical and not its : romantic sense.) The loss of those necessary i parts of our being-means death; their derangement, misery. Hundreds of thousands could from bitter experience tell ur as much, but for the "present we will be contend to listen to what Mr. James Baker, of 15, Rob-sart-street, Park-side, Adelaide, S.A., hag to say. "' For a number of years," writes Mr. Baker, " I suffered terribly from indigestion. All the usual symptoms were present— and oppression about the chest, particularly after eating, and pains between the shoulders. My whole system seemed out of gear, and I became excessively nervous and run down. "At the period to which I allude I was working at Booleroo in this State, and :my trade (that of coachbuilder and wheelwright) being very brisk, I was earning a fair amount of money. But it nearly all went for doctors and medicines. Bad as this was,! would not have complained "«if I had obtained any, relief in exchange for it. But it was not so. On the contrary, I went from bad to worse. ' until I was in an almost hopeless state of health. Not until then did it occur to .me to 1 try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, a medi- ' cine from which my wife had derived muell' l benefit some years before. Having obtained a bottle fro,! 1 our storekeeper, I began to take it, and my condition at once improved. Encouraged by this, I continued to use the Syrup until, after consuming a few bottles my health was completely restored. Now "i am never troubled: by indigestion, nervousness, or any other form of illness? but I am careful to have a bottle of Mother Seija&l's ' Syrup always at hand, and to take a dose occasionally. , Unquestionablv it is the most valuable medicine kiKm-n/'-fSigrned) John Baiter, February 19th, ISC*. ''- l "" : ' ' i There are various standards of value "the best known being -gold and silver. But as Mr. triadstone once .naivety remarked" "The I real value lies in the article purchased, "not i m the money that buys it" : . ,:' v I