STRUCK DOWN IN BURMAH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2185, 7 April 1891, Page 1

STRUCK DOWN IN BURMAH.

Beethoven composed music be was too deaf (o hear, And the fastest steam oraft in the world wan built (both hall and machinery) ( by an American who has been perfectly blind for many years. Nevertheless the one would have been the better for his hearing and the other for his sight. A soldier may be a model of patriotism and courage, but of what use is he in an army if he cannot carry a musket P Allow n« to illustrate the point by u, short story. Mr John Hodeon was b»rn at Warboys, in Huntingdonshire. When he wa« twenty.five years old be took work at a navvy under the great railway contractors, Messrs Lmas, Aird, 8on», and Co., of Westminster, and remained under them seven years. He then enlisted in Her Majesty's slst Regiment and went with it to Ind a in 1883 He assisted in the Burmah Expedition in 1885-6, and was at Mandalay when King Theebaw surrendered. With this explanation wo will now let Mr Hodson tell his own tale. He says :—After reaohing Shorebo I beg a a to feel badly, I had a sinking sensation at the pit of the stomach and was so drowsy I could scarcely hold my head up. I bad pain in my right side and under tin shouldel blades, lost my spirits and took a gloomy view of everything. I could neither eat nor deep I lay in bed awake night after night. My liver waß perfeotly torpid, skin, and eyes yellow, tongue badly ooated, heart irregular, no appetite, cold extremities, sickness, vomiting and an inoeesant diarrbosi. With these symptoms I was in bed four months in the year 1887. In the hospital I was treated by the BegU mental physician, and was visited by Or Bell, of the Indian Government, who eaid I was suffering from dysentery, I became so weak I Gould hardly stand, and passed nothing but slime from the bowels. No treatment availed to stop the Finally I was sent home, and arrived at Gosport in Dec, 1888, and was transferred to the hospital there until Feb., 1889, when I was disoharged as inourable and plaoed in the Army Reserve. I returned to Warboys, and, feeling ft trifle batter, tried to work. Bat I soon bad to give up. I became so thin that people who had known me for years did not recognise me. My old friends and mates said "Hodson, you needn't trouble to buy any more olothei to wear in this wjrld. Thb NEXT SUIT YOU'LL VTAHT "WILL BR MADE OF WOODi"

Still I ate something, of course, bat it gave mo no strength. After eating I was often obliged to leave the table hurriedly, so severe were the griping, gnawing paina that seized me. My father and mother were alarmed at my condition. I consulted a iphyaician at Warboys who gave me some medicine, whieh, however, made no impression on iny complaint.

I then went to Mr tficholl, the ohemitt, of Warboys (now of Oroydon) who said "You had better try Mother Seigel's Curative; Syrup." I got a bottle and took it, but' it Deemed to bave no effeofc. Mr Nicholl said' " Try it again, I h»ve euoh oonfidenoe in ifc that I will give yon the peeond bottle free of oharge." i He did so and before I had taken the half of the second bottle I bfgan to feel better. I got a third bottle, and before I had Mniined it I had so muoh improysd that I was aiked to go baok to my work. But I was afraid, and said, " No, wait until I have used three; bottles more ; for this wonderful medicine is doing what nothiog else in India or England has been able to do—IT IS HBALING Ms JKOM THB TEBY SBNHB WHBBB I WAS ILL AND DTIHG. I kept on with Mother Seigel, and indeed a Mother she truly is to the suffering, The fifth buttle was gone at last an i I presented myself to the astonished people of Warboys as robust, strong, and well as ever I was in my Utr, I returned to my work, and uv COMBADE3 LOOKBD PTON ME AS ONE BIBEK feom thb dead. " What has done this for you f" they asked with wond«:ing eyes " I o*o my life and health to Mother Beigel's Curative Syrap," I answered, "and I am willing all the world should hear me say so." I have never lost an horn's work since, and will gladly reply to any letters of enquiry addressed to John Hodson, Warboys, Huntingdonshire.

To the above true and faithful aoootmt of Mr Hodson's experience it is only neccessary to add a word of explanation. Hia real, disease was indigestion and dyspepsia brought on by change of ohmate, habits rod food.— The diar'bcai, of which he spoaks, is (strange as it may be «een) an effect and symptom of prolonged and prevailing oonstipation. It is nature's last efforts to free the bowels of their terrible and poisonous load. In this crisis Mother SaigePs Curative Bjrap oame to the; rescue, and not a diy too soon.