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Temuka Leader, Issue 2209, 2 June 1891, Page 4

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One day in December,lßßß,a British transpoi T«»oel attired at Go.port. Only a brie look was needed to a»»u/e ihe epeotat >r tho the had made the long voyage from India. Tnere were soldiers on board—soma on learo of abeenco to visit home, and others so worn and wasted that it was plain to see wbj “ they " were oome back from the Bast to the dear old Island. Of those p jor fellows few were able to go on to (heir friends, while others were just strong enough to bear tbo journey to tho Navy Yard Hospital. Among the latter was one to wh m we will introduce the reader.—You would have fancied him to hive been about thirty year* of »ge, yet the vigour and elasticity of youth were miss ng.—Disease had done the work of time, and it was but the wreck of a mao that entered the Ho pital doors that day. It was a matterfor wonder that be lived to reach an English port.

Several months later, by accident, the writer of these lines heard that soldier’* story from his own lips, and here it ,i» substantially in hia own words In the . year: 1883,’,’ ha said, “I enlisted in Her ! Majesty’s 51st Begimont, ,»nd was soon ordered out to India, where I drived,on the following Christmas, and left there for Bnrmah Got. 6 h, 1886, where I remained eighteen .months, being present at Ma dalay when King Tbeebaw surrendered' to on. troops. Hare my good health began to give way. At first l4*aa,;a einkuigietlin* at tht, pit of the stomach, and was so dull ano drowsy I could scarcely keep up, I-had- is pain in the right pide, and under the,shoulder blades. My spirits wore depressed, and everythin* seemed sad and melancholy.' I couldn’t eat, and lay in bed sleepless night after night till I was almost wild for lack o', rest. My skin and eyes turned-yellow, as eo common wnh European! in India; mj tongue was badl, coated, feet cold ax olnm*y, stomach s ok and upset, vomuting, and constant diant fis i. In this bad lorm 1 Jay in bod for lout-months in 1887. Both the htgimtntol doo or and a dootoof the India': Govn nment said I w s suffering from dysentery. I was weak as a baby, ano nassed nothing but slime , iron my bowne. No treatment availed to stop the diarum , which was fast draining th. life out of u.e, Ki ally I was sent home, and -irivtd ut Oospon in D o, 1888, whme I lay •« the Hosp ’al u> ti< Fat.., 1689, wneu I was DiSOHAneaD AS IBOOBABiB, and pUoeu in tu. ArCDV /• . «I returued to Warb jb , in flai.fciogdon ■hire (my him.), and to work. -But i was impossible. I was so emaciated that o; acquaintances did not at first recognise mi Then they sad, * Hudson, you ner du’t trouble to buy any more clothes. The-only so - you’ll require will bej* woode Dos.’ 3 « After eating even a little I was ..obhgvO to hurry awa; from the table because of tb. terrible ’griping, giiawi.-g pains in tb. stomach a- d bowds. My father and mothe . were alarmed, and I consulted a doctor m • Wat boys, but what he gave me had no gooo “ At last it was M? Nioholl, the Chemist, of Warbdys (now of Croydon) who S;.id t o me, ‘Hudson, yon had try-Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup.’ On this I bough a bottle and used it, bat I couldn’t see it dia any good. Mr Nioholl said, ‘Try it again. I have snob confidence in it that I will give von the eeqond bottle free of charge.’ 3 “ He did so, and before I had taken the half of the second bottle I began to fed relief. This was encouraging, and I procured the third bottle. Before. I had finished it I was so much improved.that ■ I was asked to go back to work. But I was afraid to risk it, and said,,‘No; wait till I have used three bottles more, for ibis Mother SeigelV Curative Syrup is doing for me what no medicine in India or England has done ye jlj i s healing me from the very depth. where I was ill and dying.’ “ 80, as you may suppose, I kept right along with Mother Seigei’s Curative Syrup until the fifth bottle was gone. I hen I pre sented myself to the astonished people of Warboy* as robust, strong, and well as I was When I first entered ti-o army—l return'd to my woik. and my c mbacks iookbd cron MS Afi OHB BIBBK «OM THH DEAD. Wltli ey«t full of wonder ihty asked, ‘ What ha* doqe (bis for you ?’ and I answered, ‘ I owe

my life and health to Mother Seigel’e ■urative Syrup, and am willing that everybody in England ihonld bear me iay go,’ 1 have never lost an hoar's work since, and will gladly reply to letters of enquiry.— John Hodsun, Warboys, Huntingdonshire.,'' Mr Hudson's real disease was indigestion and dyspepsia, oiused by change of climate, food, and haoics. The diarrL«wa was one Qne fit symptoms — Nature s effort to get rid of the puisonous matters in the stomach and bowels. Motber Seigel's Curative Syrup cured the digestive malady, and the symptom, vauisbtd as a necessary consequence. But our,friend did not get the right and oni} remedy a day too soon.