NOT EVEN IF IT COST TWENTY SHILLINGS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1315, 13 May 1897, Page 35

NOT EVEN IF IT COST TWENTY SHILLINGS.

A notable percentage—about one-third, I think—of tho power of a steam engino is used up in overcoming the friction of its own parts. Hence inventors are constantly testing devices to reduce friction. Yet they can never overcome it; and the resistance created by it represents power (and hence expense also) absolutely lost. Now tho human body is a machine propelled by heat, exactly as an engine is ; and anything that retards it may be considered 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 brainworker ; or a mixturo of both —as most people are. Occasionally you aro able to do more work in a day than at other times you can do in three. It is the odds betweon walking on smooth, hard level ground and dragging yourself uphill through wet clay. What wouldn’t lawyers, authors, clergymen and all other brain-workers give for something having the power to keep their minds clear and strong? Or 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 than is stowed away in the Bank of England. But I do know one thing, and will tell it you in a minute—for nothing. First, however, we will talk of Mr J. B. Goss and the friction he trie 1 so long to overcome. Mr Goss is a large farmer living at cStradsett, near Downbam Market, Norfolk, and is well known in his district. When the farmers meet on market days he often speaks of his experience and how he came out of it. In order to cover it all he li is to go back 15 years—to about 1878. At that time be began to feel tho signs of some disease which he could neither account for nor understand. At first he merely realised that he was out of condition. His work became loss and less a pleasure, and more and more a task. From his business bis thoughts turned 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 ask what can the reason be ?

Hie had a well provided table, of course ; yet he of ! eu sat down to his meals and couldn’t touch a morsel. Mr Goss know that this would never do. If a man expects to live, he must cat. There aro no two ways about that. So he ate moro or less —although not much —without the stimulus of an appetite; he forced it down, as you may say. But this wouldn’t do either. When the stomach gees on strike it can’t be whipped into working before the question at issue is properly settled.

Thus it ended in his having groat pain and tightness at his sides and clie3t. “ I was constantly belching up a sour fluid,” ho says, “ which ran out of my mouth like vinegar. I had a horrid sensation at the stomach for which I was not able to find any relief. For nights together I could pet no sleep ; and in this general condition I continued for fivo years, no medicine or medical treatment doing moro than to abate some of the worst symptoms for the time being. “In the early pait of 1883 I heard of a medicino which was said to do good in cases like mine. Whether it would help mo, of course I had no idea. After so many tilings havo failed, one naturally has no faith in a now one. Yet I got a supply and began with it. In a short time it win plain that I had come upon the real remedy at last. My food agreed with me, and soon all pain and distress gradually left me. Since then (now ten years ago) I havo kept in the best of health. If I, or any of my family ail anything, a a so of Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup—the medicino that cured mo—soon sots us right. We havo no need of a doctor. (Signed) J. B. Goss, March 21th, 1593.” Mr Goss once sai l that if Seigel’s Syrup cost 20s a bottle he would not bo 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 cos;s but little. The reader can imagine under what difficulty and friction Mr Goss must have done what woi-k he did during thote 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 Seigol’s great diseevery.