STRUCK DOWN IN BURMA H.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2191, 21 April 1891, Page 1

STRUCK DOWN IN BURMA H.

Beethoven composed music he was too deaf to hear, and the fastest -steam craft in the world was built (both hull.and,maohipery) by an American who baa been perfectly blind for many years. Nevertheless th'j .one would have been the better for bit hearing and the. other for bit right, A soldier may be a model of patriotism and courage, but of what me it be in an army if be omnbt carry a mmket f

Allow us to illustrate the point by a abort *'ory. Mr John Hodson was bsrn at Warboye, in Huntingdonshire. When he waa twenty.five yean old he took work aa a navvy , under the great railway contractor*, Mems Lucas, Aird, Son*, and 00., of Westminster, and remained under them seven years. He then enlisted in Her Majesty’s 51st Regiment, and went with, it to Ind a in 1883 He assisted in the Bnrmah Expedition in 1886-6, and was. at Mandalay when King Theebaw surrendered. With this explanation we will now let Mr Hpdson tell bis own tale. He says ;—After reaching Shorebp I began 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 the ehouldex blades, lost my spirits and ■ too.k.a gloomy ▼iew of everything. I could neither sleep. I lay in bed awake night after, night. My liver was perfectly torpid, skin,; and.pyes yellow, tongue badly coated, heart Irregular, no appetite, cold extremities, sickness, vomiting and an incessant diarrheas. With these symptoms r I was in bed four months in the year 1887.

In the hospital I vu treatedby ihe Regimental physician, and was visitejl, by Dr Bell, of the Indian Government, who said I wai suffering from dysentery, I became so weak I conld hardly stand, and passed nothing bat slime from the No treatment availed to stop the diarirha i. 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 discharged as incurable and: placed in the Army Reserve. I returned to Warboys, and, feeling a trifle better, tried to work* Bat I soon bad to give np. I became -to thin that people who had known me for years did not reoogniseme. My old friends and mate) said “ Hodson, you needn’t trouble to buy any more clothes to wear in this world. Thb NEXT SUIT TOU’XiI WANT WIMi BE MADE OB WOOD,”

Still I ate something, of course, bßt.it gave me no strength. After eating I was often obliged to leave the table hurriedly, so severe were the griping, gbawing pains that seized me. My father end mother were alarmed at my condition. I consulted a physician at Warboys who gave me some medicine, which, however, made no -impression on my complaint.

I then weut to Me Nioholl, the chemist, of Warboys (now of Croydon) who said “You bad better try Mother SeigeTs Curative Syrup.” I got a bottle and took it, but it seemed to have no effect. Mr Nicholl said "Try it again, I have such confidence in it that I will give yon the second bottle free of charge.”

He did so and before I bad-taken the half of the second bottle I began to feel briiter. I got a third bottle, and before I had finished it I bad so much improved that 1 was asked to go back to my work,. But I was afraid, and said, ” No, wait until 1 have used three bottles more ; for this wonderful medicine it doing what nothing else in India or England has been able to do— XT ib HBAmire aca EBOM THB TEST DIPTHB WEBfiB 1 WAS IIL ANDDTXNO,

1 kept on with Mother Seigel, and indeed a Mother ahe truly is to the The fifth bottle was gone at last and T presented myself to the astonished people of Warboys as robust, strong, and well as ever l was in my life, 1 returned to my work, and MV OOUBADE3 liOOKBD tTPON. ME AB ONE BISBV fbok thb dead. ” What has done tbit for you P” they asked with wondering eyes " I owe my life and health to Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup," I answered, ” and I am willing all the world should hear me! say 10.” 1 have never lost an houi’s work since, and will gladly reply to any letters .of enquiry addressed to John Hodspn, Warboys, Huntingdonshire., To the above true and faithful account. of Mr Hodson’s experience it is only neeoessary to add a word of explanation. His real disease was indigestion and dyspepsia brought on by change of ohmate, habits and food.— The diarrhoea, of which he speaks, is (strange as it may be seen) an effect .and eymptom of prolonged and prevailing constipation, It is nature’s last efforts to free the bowels of their terrible and poisonous load. In this crisis Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup came to the rescue, and not a dsy.too soon.

In Paris out of 2,700,000 residents it is calculated that I in 18, or 150,000, lire on charity with a tendency towards crime. In Xoodon the proportion is I in 30.