NOT EVEN IF IT COST TWENTY SHILLINGS.

Western Star, Issue 2220, 8 July 1898, Page 7

NOT EVEN IF IT COST TWENTY SHILLINGS.

A notable percentage—about one third 1 think—of the power of s steam engine is used up in overcoming the friction of its own parts. Hence inventors are constantly testing devices to reduce friction. Yet they can nev->r overcome it; and tli« reeistan-e created by it represents power (and hence expense also) absolutely los f . Now the human body is a inochine propelled by heat, exactly as ar engine is ; and anything that retards it may be considered as friction. Very eood then. You have noticed sreat differences in your own vicour. S"die dnv« von work easilv. and on others with gcat difficulty. This is so whether you are chief!? a muscle-worker or a b-ain-worker : or a mixture of both—as m«st people are. Occasionly you are able to do more work in a day than at other times you can do in three. It is the odd* between walk:n2 on smooth, hard level ground and dragging vourself uphill through wot clay. What wouldn't lawyers, authors, clergyman, and all other brain-workers give tor something having the power to keep their minds clear and strong ? Or body- workers for "omething that woul■• 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 mon«y than is gtowd away in the Bank of Ei.gland. But Ido know one thing, and will tell it you io a minute—for nothing. First, however, we wili talk of Mr J. B. I Ooss and the friction he tried so long to overeime. !Wr Goss is a largo farmer living at IStr&dseit, near Downham Market, Norfolk, I ani i» well known in nis district. When the farmers meet on market days he often speaks of his experience ind how he came eut of it. In order to cover it all ho has to go back fifteen years—to about 1878. At that time he begun to feel the signs of some disease which he could neither account for ner understand. At first he merely realised that he was out of condition. His work became less and less a pleasure, and more and mnr« a task. From hi* business his turned uoon himself and no man can work wll in that form. Then he and his victuals began to disagree, which is a state of thing* to make a man ask what con the reason be? Ke had a well-provided table, of course; yet he often s«t down fci his meals and couldn't touch a morsel. Mr G"« knew that this would never do. If a man expects to live, he must eat. There are no two ways about that So he ate m«>e o less —although not much—without the stimulus of an appetite; be forced it down, at you may sav. But this wouldn't do either. When the stomach goes on strike it can't be tvkipptd into working before the que«'ion at issue is properlv settled. Thus it, ended in his having great pain and tightness at his sides and chest. "I wan constantly belching up a sour 4nid," he ears, "whieh ran of my mouth like vinegar. I had a horrihle sensation at the stomaeh for which I was no' able to fin' any relief. Fornight* together I could get no sleep; and in this general condition 1 continued for Jive y art, no medicine or medical treatment doing more than to abate some of the worst symptoms for the time bemg. "In the eirly part of 1883 I heard of a medicine which was said to do good in cavs like mine. Whether it would help me of course T had no idea After so many things have failed, one naturally has no faith in a new one Yet I got a supply and bogan with it. In a short time it was plain that I had had come upon the real remedy at last. My food agreed with me, and soon all pain and distress graduollj left, me. Since then (now ten years) I hept in the best of health. If I or any of my family oil anything, a dose of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup—the medicine that cured me—soon sets us right. We have no need of a doctor. (Signed) J B. Gosb, March 24th, 1693." Mr Goss once swt that if Soigel't Sjrup cost 20s. a bottle he would not be without it in his house. We cin 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 costs but little The reader can imagine under what difficulty and friction Mr Goss must have done what work he did .luring those five years suffering from indices'ion and dyspepsia. Thii then we know ; thut life's friction and loss of power comes chiefly from that single disease, and that ease arises from the use of Mother Seigel's great discovery