STRUCK DOWN IN BUBMAH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2188, 14 April 1891, Page 1

STRUCK DOWN IN BUBMAH.

Beethoven eompoted muiio ho vat too deaf to bear, and the fastest steam oraft in the world was built (both hull and machinery) by an Amerioan who h&i been perfeotljjblind liot many years. Nevertheless the one would have been the' better for hi* hearing and the other for his sight. A eoldiev may be a model of patriotism and courage, but of what uie. is he in an army if he omnot carry a musket ?

Allow ua to illustrate the point by a short story. Mr John Hodson wai bra at Warboys, in Huntingdonshire. When he was twenty-five years he took work as a navvy under the great railway oontraotars, Messrs Lucas, Aird, Sons, and Co., of Westminster, and remained under them seven years. He. then enlisted in Her Majesty's 51st Regiment and went with it;to Indain 1883. He assisted in the Burman Expedition in 1885-6, and was at Mandalay when King Theebaw surrendered. With'this explanation we will now let Mr Hodson tell his own tale. He says : —After reaching Bhorebo I began to feel badly, I had a sinking Bensation at the pit of the itomaoh and was so drowsy I could Ecarcely hold my,head up. Iliad pain in my right side and under the shouldei blades, lost my spirits and took a gloomy view of everything. I could neither eat nor sleep. I lay in bed awake night afcer'night. My liver was perfectly torpid, skin, arid eyes yellow, tongue badly coated, heart irregular, no appetite, cold extremities, sickness,-vomit-ing and an incesiant diarrbcsi. With these symptoms I was in bed four months in the year 1887.

; la the hospital I was treated by the Regimental pbysioian, and .was visited by Dr Sell, of the Indian Q-overnment, who said I was suffering from dysentery, I became so weak I could hardly stand, and passed nothing but slime from the bowels. No treatment availed' to stop the diarrhoj >, Finally I was sent home, and arrived' at Gosport in Deo., 1888, and was transferred to the hospital there until Feb., 1889, when I was diioharged as incurable and placed in the Army Reserve. I returned to Warboys, and, feeling a tr.fl* better, tried t? work. But I soon had 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 olothes to wear in this The NEXT SUIT XOU'LL WANT WIH BB MADE 01 WOODn"

1 Still I ate something, of coarse, but it give me no strength. After eating I : was often obliged to leave the table hurried!/, so severe were the griping, gnawing pains i that seized me. My father and mother were alarmed at my condition. 1 consulted a physician at Warboys who gave me some medioirie, which, however, made no impression on my complaint.

"' I then went to Mr Nicholl, the ebemist, of Warboys (now of Croydon) who said " You had better try Mother Seigel's, Curative Syrup." I got a bottle and took?it,; but it seemed to have no effect, tilt Nicholl laid " Try it again, I h»ve suoh oonfidenoe in it that I will give you the peeond bottle free of oharge."

He did so and before I had taken the half of the eeoond bottle I began to feel better. I got a third bottle, and before I had finiibed it I had 10 much improved that I was aiked to go baok to my work. Bat I was afraid, i and said, " No, wait until I have used three bottle* more ; for this wonderful medicine it I dping what nothing elie in India or England ' has been able to do—it 18 healing KB FBOM THB YEBY DBPXHS WHBBB I WAS ILL and Diiira. I kept on with Mother Seigel, and indeed a Mother she truly ia to the suffering, The fifth bottle was gone at last and I presented myself to the astonished people of Warboys as robust, strong, and well as ever I was in my life, I returned to my work, and MY COMRADES LOOKBD UPON ME AS ONE KISBX pbom thb dead. " What has done this for you ?" they asked with, wondering eyes' I owo my life and health to Mother Seigel'a Oarative Syrup,". I answered, " and I in willing all the world should hear me s<y to," I have never lost an houi's work since, and wUI gladly reply to any letters of enquiry uddreßied to John Hodson, Warboyi, Huntingdonshire. To the above true and faithful acoouafc of I Mr Hodgon'i experience ib is only necceiasry