"TWO PERCENT OFF MY LIFE."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7720, 1 June 1903, Page 1

"TWO PER CENT OFF MY LIFE."

It was in a court of justice adjoining tika hideously gloomy prison of Newgate, a point at Vhioh.fche misery and crime of London have for centuries been f ocuwed. jA young man,' scarce past boyhood, stood beffarc ' tiie late Lord Chief Justioe Coleridge, charged with embezzlement. Hewa» •a bright, intelligent youth, somewhat be4>-;-ter educated than the average English ; deck, ibut not clever enough to make onet«oy«reigii; do tihe work of flvej co he had embezfzeld his employer's mosey in order to jive* according to His taste. The employ.eT 'd^ected; hehcfe the scene of which w have a vivid recoireetion. • After reading him a "'fatherly lecture, the eminent judge sentenced me> delinquent to two years' imprisonment? " Two years 1" exclaimed tb* ! convict* as he wm J«d away. "Two per cent' off my 'life, if I ltve for a hundred years!" " Yes,' two years makes a distinct, notch in life even of a centenarian ; and then, you'see, very few of us caa'-reasonaibly hope to become .c^tenairian9 r "which makes tba matter worse. Notwithstanding the benefits conferred upon humanity by our marvellously improved sanitary arrangement*, modern habit* and customs don't on tihe whole tend towards increased length of life. It is t therefore, imperative that ' everyone efcould as vigilantly watoh t<hat he. loses no time by. transgressing the /laws of health as it is that he should avoid trans- ! grassing lihe Jaws of the land ; for the first of these transgressions is responsible for a vastly larger amount of losJb time than can be ascribed to the second. . \

" After isuffering from indigestion for over two years -I*, was . completely oured by Mother Siegel's Syrap in five weeks." Thus writes Miss Helena Easto^ of 50, Pacific Street, Newcastle, N.S.W., on Oct. 21, 1902. Miss Easton vis a young lady of about twenty-six suronws, just at that goldeai period of life which cannot be abbreviated by two' years,- or even two- months,, without inspbrJAg infinite regret. Miss Eastoto. continues: — "Li tibe summer of 1898, when residing in Auburn Street,. Goulburn(ot which, city I am a native), I first "became conscious that my healtjh ,was, giving way. My appetite left me, and I felt languid, weak and nervous. The little food 1 1 ate caused dreadful pains in the chest ; and stomach, to say nothing of many other distressing symptom*. A doctor whom, I consulted informed me tiia* my. oprnplaint was. acute indigestion; but bis treatment did ma mo good whatever. The efforts of a second doot or being equally futile,' I took a great variety, of patent medioines, wMch in turn were recommended to me by various friends. ;. But I did" not find that any of them did me tilie least good. And so for two yeers I grew paler, tlhinaier and feebler. I never went out, but 'moped about, the' house all day, dull and , listless, the alightesb effort being painful to me. Noise, or oxciteroent of any kind, would cause my heart to palpitate violently, afber whioh it would almost .cease to beat. "While I was in this miserable condition aVdy friend, Mr* W. CJook, came from Sydney to spend with ua the UaisfcmaßhbUdays of 190 Q. This lady persuaded, we to try Mother SiegeTa Curative Syrup,,' ab the same time' asserting ttfat.Ehe knew sevesraljerßoij'R who had derived great ibenefit'from it,' attd'that she • was 'sure ;*. -ww^e .woliiaV-do me good. I. accepted her advice, and Acting upon it found that in a surprisingly sliort space of time— 'before, indeed, I had finished, the second bottle— Mother Siegel's. Curatdve Syruip had wrought a dbange in my condition and appearance which nothing else had been able to effeot. I . could eat and deep ; the, heart trouble disappeared ; and I . recovered all my old-time capacity fox work and the pleasures of life. At this distance of time, I entertain no doubt whatBvear that my cure i» absolutely permanent. '