Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1899-04-21 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

TOO MANY YOUNG WIDOWS.  I About the middle of the seventeenth century it was observed that young widows were unusually plentiful in Rome. It was also remarked that marriages in high life, known to be unhappy, were speedily dissolved by the illness and death of the husband.  Their curiosity being roused by this fact, the clergy proceeded to mvestigato. Presently they told the Pope what line they were working on, with the sensational developments likely to result from it. "Go on," said His Holiness; "the Church desires to know why husbands die so fast while wives do not."  Their inquiries led to the discovery of a secret society of young matrons, who met at the house of a reputed sorceress for instruction in the art of poisoning. A little later a similar organisation was found in Paris. Thus was the plethora of young widows secotmted for. And it was only after a hundred or so of the culprits had suffered at the stake or on the gallows that the epidemic was checked. For some time afterwards, however, young men showed a marked hesitation to marry. Now let me quote you what a famous chemist says :—" The human body," be declares, "even in its normal state, is a cupboard of poisons. So long as they remain shut up in their own cover or vessel they are harmless, bat when let loose they damage and kill." Yes and it is an uncomfortable fact to think of. The human body is packed with home-made poisons, to say nothing of those that get into it from the outside. Most of the diseases that figure prominently in the bills of mortality are caused by poisons manuftictured in the body itself, and not got rid of in time. The stomach, the liver, the kidneys, all help make them, or are in some way responsible for them. It may seem an odd thing to say, but disease is suicide, without knowledge or intent, but a kind of self-slaughter just the same. Sometimes rapid and sometimes slow ; it depends. Here is a man who says he suffered from kidney complaint from his youth—about forty years. He bad a deal of pain in the lower part of his back, and often could not bend his body forwards at all. The other symptoms of kidney trouble—be had them also, of course, in a dull, weary, tiring way. He had eathma, too; short, laboured breathing, preventing him from lying squarely down on his bed, the only perfect position to rest in. They propped him up with pillows, and he drew his breath as beat he could. His kidney secretion was ordinarily scanty, and of red colour. In time he grew so weak he could hardly walk. When he did get about, ins most helpful company was a stout stick. His appetite was poor, and he had a deal of pain at the chest and stomach. Doctors he bad, many of them; and to-day he would be glad to get back she money he spent (so blindly) for drugs that did him no good. So matters went on with this man from year to year. He was never well ; always weak; practically useless; most of the time in pain—the kind of man who Plato said is of no advantage to the world et all, and ought to die. "In the spring of 1893," so concludes a letter setting forth the foregoing facts, "1 read of a ease like mine having been cured by Mother Seigel's Syrup, and I tried it. The first bottle did me good, and in a few weeks I was vastly better. The pain in my back was easier, and I could eat heartily, with no distress to follow. Gradually I got up my strength, so that I laid aside my stick, and could work. This for a man of my age, who bad been ill so long, I regard as marvellous. Yet Mother Seigel's Syrup did it. I am perfectly willing to have my case published." (Signed) Mons TOVEY, Cefn Road, Den, via Cardiff, August 31, 1898. All kidney disease, whether rapid or slow in its action is caused by a poison in the blood, arising from bad digestion in the first instance, and rendered more persistent and complex by a torpid liver, malassimilation of food by the body cells, an imperfect action of the bowels and skin; and indeed of the kidneys themselves. The preventive is good digestion (Mr. Tovey was a dyspeptic), and the throwing of waste stuffs overboard as fast as they form. This state of things is promoted and insured by Mother Seigel's Syrup. By its power to purify, sweep out, and sweeten the system, it cured this chronic case. Trust it for your own complaints, or the ills of your friends. Those young Roman matrons removed their husbands with arsenic, as they would rats. They were surely wicked women—dangerous ladies to have for wives. But, as I have said, your own body forms poisons even worse, and it Is wise to keep it well cleansed with hiother Beiges Syrup.