NOT EVEN IF IT COST TWENTY SHILLINGS.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVX, Issue 3129, 15 May 1897, Page 4

NOT EVEN IF IT COST TWENTY SHILLINGS.

A notable percentage—about oP.e-lhirA, I think—of the of n. ctcam engine is used up in oyerco’ming the friction of its own j?a,rfr. JBbuco inventors are constantly testing dovicoa to reduce friction. Yet they can never overcome it; and the resistance 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 considered as friction. Very good-, then. . You, have ndtided great differences in your bwh vigofir. 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 mixture of both—as most people arc. Occasionally you are able to do more work in a day. than at otho£ times you can db ill three. It is the bdds between Walking on smooth* hard level ground and dragging ydfirself uphill through wet clay. What .wouldn’t lawyers, authors; blergyihen and all other brain-workera give for soniGthiiig having the power to keep their minds blear ahd Htrona'f Or body-iVbrkers for something that would 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 6\ wxll tell it yell lii a.ralnute-r-for nothing. . First, however, wo will talk of Mr J. B, Goss and the friction he tried so long to overcome. Mr Goss is a large farmer livipg ot iitradsett, near Downham-Market, Norfolk, and is well known in his district. When the farthers meet on market, days he often speaks of his experience and how he came out of it. In order to cover it all he has to go back 15 years—to about 1878. At that time ho began to feel the signs of some disease which he could neither account for nor understand. At first he merely realised that ho was out of Condition-. His work becanlo less And less a and ffiore and more, a task. From nia 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 min ask what can the reason bo ?

‘He had a well-provided table, of course ; yet he oDen 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 eat. There are no two ways about that. So he ate more or leas —although not much—without the stimulus of an appetite; he forced it down, as yon may say. But this wouldn’t do either. When the stomach gees Ofi strike it can’t be whipped into working before the bastion at issue is properly settled.

•/ Thus it ended in his having great pain and tightness at his sides and chest. “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 get no sleep ; and. in this general condition X continued for five years, no medicine or medical treatment doing more than to abate some of the worst symptoms for the time being. “In the early pait of 1883 I heard of a medicine which was said to do good in cases like mine. Whether it would help 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 a short time it was 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 have kept in the best of health. If I, or any of my family ail anything, a dose of Mother SeigoFs Curative Syrup—the medicine that cured me —soon' sets us right. We have mo need of a doctor. (Signed) J, B. J Goss, March 24th, 1893.” Mr Goss one© said that if SeigeFs Syrup cost 20s a bottle he would not bo without it in hia house. Wo can easily believe him. Considering what it did for him—and does for others—it would bo 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 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 front that single disease, and that ease arises froiS the use of Mother SeigoFs great discovery.