The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-07-30
NOT EVEN IF IT COST TWENTY
SHILLINGS.

! A notable percentage - about one
/ third, I think-of the power of a steam
| engine is used up in overcoming the
friction of its own parts. Hence in
ventors are constantly testing devices
to reduce friction. Yet they can never
overcome it; and the resistance ere
ated 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 noticed great differences
in your own vigor. Some days you
work easily, and on others with diff
chiefly a muscle-worker or a brain
worker; or a mixture of both-as most
people are. Occasionally you are able
to do more work in a day than at other
times you can do in three. 1t is the
odds between walking on smooth, hard
level grounds 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,
don't If did I could retail the secret
for more money than is slowed 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 tried so
long to overcome. Mr.. Goss is a large
farmer living at Stradsett, near Down
ham Market, Norfolk, and is we'll
known in his district When the far
mers 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 fifteen years-to about 1878. At
that time he began to feel the signs of
some disease which he could neither
account for not understand. At first
he merely realized that he was out of
condition His work became less and
less a pleasure and more and more a
task. From his business his 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 man ask
what can the reason be?
He had a well-proyided table, of
course; yet he often sat down to his
meals and couldn't touch a morsel. Mr.
H,r- 1-,,ov,, 4bo+ 4I,;e would ,nrror do
If a man expects to live, he must eat
There are no two ways about that
So he ate more or less-although not
much-without the stimulus of an ap-
petite; he forced it down, as you may
say. But this wouldn't do either
When the stomach goes on strike it
can't be Whipped into working before
the question at issue is properly set
tied.
Thus it ended in his having great
pain and tightness at his sides and
chest. Il was constantly belching up
sour fluid" he says, (which ran out
of my mouth like vinegar. I had
horrible sensation at the stomach for
which was not able to find any relief.
For nights together l could get no
sleep; and in this general condition
/ continued for fire years, no medicine
or medical treatment doing more than
to abate some of the worst symptoms
for the time being.
"In the early part of 1888 heard of
medicine which was said to do good
in cases like mine. Whether it would
help me of course had no idea After
so many things have failed, one nat
urally has no faith in a new one. Yet
I got supply and began with it. In
short time it was plain that / 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) have kept
in the best of health. If l, or any of
my family all anything, a dose of
Mother Seigers Curative Syrup-the
medicine that cured me-soon sets us
right. We have no need of a doctor.
(Signed) ]. B. Goss, March oath. 1893"
Mr.. Goss once said that If Seigel's
Syrup cost 20s. bottle he would not
be 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 costs but little. The
reader can imagine under what diff
Guilty 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 fric-
tion and loss of power comes chiefly
from that single disease, and that
arises from the use of Mother Seigers