The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-11
IS LIFE WORTH Living.
Solomon Once Said It Was Not, but
Afterwards Changed His mind.
Cheer for the Despondent,

touring in Australia, considered this
question of sufficient Importance to
make it the subject of recent sermon.
Happiness is not question of bank
account or material prosperity, but
rather of health, and this can only be
enjoyed where the digestive organs
are performing their proper functions.
Were the question addressed to q
chronic dyspeptic, negative answer
would probably be returned.
DR.. j. Millner Fothergill, of London,
whose name is household word in
England, says of this dread but preva-
lent disease, "More distressing than
the actual pain is the sense of misery
experienced by many, the mental dis.
comfort, the sense of wretchedness, of
utter unfittness for work, the mental
attitude of gloom, distress and inca
pacity, the physical discomfort, tends
to cause the sufferer to have misgiv-
ings that the malady is something
more than mere ereindigestion. A haunt
ing fear that the brain is the seat of
the disease, where there is headache,
the heart, where there is palpitation
or irregular action tortures the un-
happy sufferer. The remembrance Of
this impression hangs like dark
cloud over the intervals of compare
tive health. Not only does the brain
feel exhausted, but the whole system
appears languid and weak, instead Of
the man being able for twenty or
thirty mile walk, one or two miles pro-
duce fatigue, and sometimes an intense
languor is felt without any exertion at
all. When he goes to his medical at
tendant to describe his case, he says:
~ take all sorts of strengthening
things, and yet / feel so weak" If
instead of using these words he were
to say, "because l take all sorts Of
things l feel so weak" he would eX-
press part at least of the truth.
Mal-products of indigestion are posi-
tive depressent poisons. Strong food
does not necessarily involve strength,
rather the opposite when the diges-
ton is impaired. A little, well diges-
ted, feeds the blood, and from it again
the the tissues, better than large
meal of which none, or very little in
deed, is properly digested. In this
condition, the more person eats, the
worse he thrives, because he digests
little or non, and unless he is restrict
ed to proper meals, hertually eats him
self to death, and he dies of hunger
of actual starvation, in the midst of
unlimited food and everlasting eating
To eat and digest them, is not one and
the same thing.
Dr. Fothergill speaks of artificially
digested starch in the following un-
mistakable terms:
"As the cooking of starchy foods in
wolves their partial digestion, we see
that intuitively and without the light
of science, man commenced the arti
fetal digestion of starch when only a
savage aud long before the dawn of
history. We at the present, ARE emerg-
ing out of the early darkness and step
ping by morning light on the path to
the artificial digestion of starch, by SO
doing, economizing the body energy
which would otherwise be consumed
in preparing such food for absorption"
Paskola is such food, being pre-
digested starch combined with or.
ganic ferments, possessing the prop
erty of digesting other foods in the
stomach, thus virtually resting the
diseased digestive organs and yet in
suring strength and nourishment to
the body.
Paskola has passed beyond the ex Z.
perimental stage, and is now be en-
ployed with the greatest success and
satisfaction by thousands of sufferers.
Many the man and woman who would
have answered the question "Is life
worth living 20 with an emphatic
mo now comes forward to sound the
praises of Paskola and tell how it has
rescued them from living death.
Mr. L. w. Crisy, agent of the South
ern RailwaG company, Fort HILLS. c..
writes as follows under date of July
20, 1894:
"Just five years ago L quit the farm
to take up office work, l was in per-
feet health and for two years follow
ing continued to be robust and strong.
At the expiration Of that time, which
was three years ago, 1 began to be
troubled with dyspepsia, but gave the
matter little attention thinking
would soon come around all right.
Instead, things went from bad to
worse, and in the last six months
have suffered frightfully. 1t has been
necessary to call doctor a number OF
times. My appetite has been good all
this while, while my digestive organs
have been absolutely unable to digest
any food. have tried everything
that has been recommended, without
experiencing any benefit. Have used
the medicine of some of the best ply.
sicians in this country. They would
sometimes help me for three or four
days, then l would be just as bad off
as / was before consulting them.
III have lost flesh until 1 do not look
like the same person, only weighing
1872 pounds, making loss of 33 pounds
in six months.
II had begun to think that / had
better look around for coffin and O
place to put is, when just four weeks
ago / came across little pamphlet
describing Paskola. Tread every word
of 1t and was inspired with such conf
dence that it was decided to give it O
trial. l began taking the product
early in July, and by the time the first
bottle was half gone, / ordered three
more, as 1 found it was doing me
much good. ceased to lose flesh. had
no further headaches, nor did vomit
after eating as previously. In fact
did not feel as though l had anything
the matter with me at all. | have
now taken two and a half bottles and
am still using it, everybody having
noticed that l am improving and my
complexion being better than it had
been for two years.
"Paskola has done for me more good
in the past twenty days than any
other medicine have ever taken. In
fact it is the 3nly thing that has evel
done me any good. l sleep we'll al
night, do not dream as / did before
using it and awake in the morning
fully refreshed and ready for my
work.
Such statements as these are incon.
trovertabe.