A True Story.

Manawatu Herald, 14 July 1903, Page 3

A True Story.

Ingland is a long way off and years is rather far in the past; still there are lew people among usable }o recal what thoolif country wfta like m 1850, the veu of the incident to be related. 3 At that time there lived in a detached eoltago near an English, cathedral city a Very eccentric bachelor. He had formerly been wealthy; but having dissipated the cteaier osrt ef his fortune, he went to the other extreme, and not only became a teetotaller but a’most denied himself the Decenaries of life. For years he kept himsell a prisoner in hii cottage, his only companions being two ferocious bull dogs named Beer and Whisky, ~ Two tramps, who chanced to hear that this singular recluse was very welt off, and that he was never without beer ana whisky resolved to rob him. Accordingly they one night broke into the lonely man 3 Mttagef and immediately discovered that the Beer and Whisky therein were of quite different brands than they had expected to find One of the tramps, fleeing m mad terror from the dogs, fell into a mill and was drowned. H-s companion, bad y bitteii, just managed to climb a tall fence; but follower it and fractured his skull, so that he died the next day. • The incident caused must‘excitement at the time, and it had scarcely subsided when the local shopkeeper reported that the only answer he could obtain to his knocking was the growls of Beer and Whisky; Whereupon the po.ice broke into tbe cottage and discovered the old mandead. The inquest was remarkable for a dispute which it occasioned between two doctors. One maintained that death was the*result of fright at the reo-nt attempted robbery; the other, that deceased died from chronic indigestion brought about by im proper diet and want of exercise, he not having been outside bis cottage for eighteen years. The discussion was taken up bv the slants of the medical profession, and ably debated, the conclusion reached beins that indigestion is a disease arising from infinitely numerous • causes, and itself productive of comp amts hardly less numerous. But it was not then known (as it has been now tor thirty-five years) that lidiges ion has one sure cure. m. ( Seigel a C. Blaokie, of Post Office Chambers, Auckland, N Z., has not kept within his house for eighteen years. On the contrary, he is a traveller and knows the world well. Wri ing on 10th March, 1903. Mr Blaokie observes: "For years I was a Wwtyr to indigestion and flatulence. Wind Used to press on the valve of my heart to such an alarming degree that on two occasions I fainted on the platform when publicly speaking. Dietary and medicinal treatment failed utterly until, on the recommendation of a Professor at the Working Men’s College, Melbourne, I tried Mother Beigel’s Syrup. By taking it regularly after each meal I very soon found relief; and htt® ov6r since been able to enjoy *ll foods without inconvenience. My cure was affected about four years ago, when I '"’had consumed from six to eight bottles; but one bottle was sufficient to offord me relief. I have never ceased to praise the virtue* ot Seigel’s Syrup in Colonies I visited uncommercial traveller, merely in gratitude for the great benefit derived from it—for I have no business connection whatever with its proprietors. What I H#W ssy I® quits unsolicited. Certainly then is bo other such patent and easy remedy lor 1 all forms of indigestion. Such is the testimony-of an intelligent and experienced max. Of indigestion it ma,y be said, as was said of fame, some inherit It, some achieve it, and some have it thrust upon them (as in the case of perBona compelled to lead a sedentary hfe); bat all may eradicate it by following the example of Mr Blaokie.