FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3967, 19 November 1891, Page 3

FIFTY POUNDS FOR A GUESS.

An ordinary Walker's whisky bottle has been completely filled with Dr Fletcher's Pills, securely corked with a eork one in?h into the neck and sealed and placed:in the charge of the Commercial %ink, Newtown, Sydney. No living soul knows how many piUs the bottle contains. We agree to divide £SO (fifty pouuds) in prizes for the nearest guesses as to the number of pills conained in the bottle as follows ;

One present"* £25 for the nearest guess „ „ ~£lO for the next nearest guess „ ~_ „£5 for the next nearest guess „ „"„ £4 for the next nearest guess „ ~ „£3 for the next nearest guess „ ~ „£2 for the next nearest guess „ j, ~£l for the next neai est guess Conditions:—We-make no charge for the guess, bnt only purchasers of Dr. Fletchers iJuous and Liver Pills are eligible to compete and the guess must be written on one of our printed forms, one of which is wrapped around every shilling box leaving our laboratory after this date. In case two or more persons guess the correct number, the one first to hand will get the £25 and the next guess to hand gets the £lO and so on. In case nobody guesses the correct number the nearest gues3 • get 3 the first present of £25. Fletcher's pills are sold at one shining per box everywhere by chemists, storekeepers and patent medicine vendors, or we will send a box with guess form for 13 penny stamps of any colony. All guesses will be entered in z. book apd numbered as received. The bottle will be opened on January Ist, 1892, and the presents sent cut at once to the lucky guessere. This competition is a perfectly bona fide affair and arranged for the purpose of introducing L>r. Fletcher's Pilte, ■o there can be no appeal from our decision.

[CERTIFICATE ] 22-6 91

We r have this 3ay seen a Walker's whiskey bottle filled with Dr Fletcher's Pills and securely corked and sealed. No one knows how many there are in the bottle,, which is now secure in our safe until January Ist, 1892. W. H. Goddabd, Manager Ebnest Lyons, Accountant. Commercial Bank, Newtown, Sydney,

We cannot entei 1 into correspondence about this cdmpetion, unless stamps for reply and addressed envelopes are sent each time. Results and names of successfulguesaera will be sent to everybody p penny stamps and ajself addressed envelope, and net btherfu'ae.F A JI," Clements, Sydney. Rolled on the Floor.

On Monday, November 24th, 1890 the American papers published the fol lowing news item : "Mrs Sarah B. Hensler, of No. 873, East One-Huudred-and-'lhirty-fourth ■treet, New Yom, shot and killed herself yesterday She was a lady o» excellent fftracter and high socia position,- and a member of the liev. Dr Bamsay's Presbyterian Church. She was well-to-do and very active in varioue public aild private charaties. Since last July she had suffered fearfully from in - 'digestion arid dyspepsia, which brought on melancholia and then' a teincT of insanity, under the influence of which she took h«:r own life." JJgreis another story, not so tragical, hut with the same moral. The narat-or tells it ofhimeelf, ' Mostly.' he says, ♦we dread and fear death, yet once I prayed to die, and the reason was in this wWTPJrto Christmas, 1888, I had been a healthy man, butat that time (a period of rejoicinu' with so many) 1 felt depressed, languid, and tired. My appetite left me. and 1 was much distressed after eating the lightest food. My skin and eyes become tinged with a dark yclLw colour, and the kidney secretion was like blood. The pain in my stomach was almost unbearable and often lasted 12 to 14 hours without intermission. Sometimes 1 was in paiu night and day, and was so bad that' my wife had to sit up with" me through the night. I was (Wnstahtly H'ck'and troubled with BtomaclT cough and? expectorated a quantity of green phlegm. ■ ."In spite ofwarrh clothing and every comfort 1 was always chilled j The co]d shivers running through me as if my blood were thin and poor. I could take no solid food j I lived on soups, milk duddings, "etc, and after each meal I had in the

" Alter a time an intolerable inching of the Bkin spread all over me ai if my blood were poisoued. One family physician attend ed me for about a year. A cting upon his advice I went to Harrogate where I consulted another doctor, and drark the waters, but feeline worse teturued home. The bath attendant at Harrogate and others told me 1 was suffering froj blood poisoning, but this the doctors never mentioned. The first doctor s-iid it was the pissing of gallstones that gaye me such dreidfui pain. " I now consulted an eminent specialist at Manchester who confirmed what the other doctor had told me, but none of them afforded me any relief.'' "In this miserable way I draggsd on for six months more, and became so much reduced I could scarcely put one foot before the other, and so thin that the rings rolled off my fingers on tlic floor. I was in such pain that I prayed to die, and one doctor told a trimd oZ mine 1 could not recover.

" In Auaust of last year (1890). wb:'st my sufferings were at the worst, a U.-..k was scut to me by post telling ot a ir.oli cine called Mother Seigel's Cu:;.tvSyrup. 1 deteimmed to try it. and -ii ui to Mr Evans, chemist, Lymrn.Jfor a ripply. After caking the firs', bo-.tle, 1 Mt a little better, and by py:'. verii.g with the remedy 1 recovered my appetite, and gradually gaitied strength. My natural colour is now returned and I feel as well as I erer did in my life ; in fact, as well as I did when a boy. 1 can eat any kind of food without inconvenience, and have gained 30 pounds in weight during the past three months I may add that previous to taking this medicine 1 was so much altered that my friends, and even my pupils, scarcely recognised me. 1 tell every one what Jseigel's Syrup did for me."

I 'J he gentleman who m<\l;rs the foregoing statement is a peraon of position andkuown to all the people of Lymni, He declines to permit fie publication of his name, but the |.-erfect truth of what is here related is vouched f"i: by Mr J. H. Evans, the chemist above n.imed. The case was an aggravated one of indigestion and dyspepsia and its natural conseiiuences. The whole system had been poisoned by the acids engendered by the fermentation in the ttoinnch, and had not Seigel's Syrup come to the rescue just as it did, a fatal result must havo followed in a brief rime-