LETTING THE SUN SOAK IN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4497, 15 August 1893, Page 3

LETTING THE SUN SOAK IN.

"lam juit Bfadiiij krt toldth tun soak in nt a bit." It was about two o'clock in the afternuoi in London, For two weeks or more the weather had been rainy and cold. Mot a glimpse of the Bun by day or of a star by n'ght. Just dulnesa, dampness, and ohilliness everywhere. People were feeling crosa as hungry, dogs. It was a time for suicide and rheumatism, and there ma plenty of both. Yet Heaven pitied us at length, and at noon on the fifteenth day the clouds were swept away like dust by a now broom, and the sun came out warm and bright. How we all blessed him, and tried to lift ourselves up to meet him halfway, You can fancy it, Then it was that 1 asked the young olerk what he was doing out on the pavement in business hours, and he answered in the words which begin this, article. Small blame to him, for what is business to a baptism of sunshine? Why nothing to be sure.

flow, if you wlil be good enough to read what Mr Hodgson sayß, I'll tell you what he and'the'clerk were alike in, First, thoagh,we will let our friend from Leeds have the floor for thrco minutes. He says;-,. ■■ '' : >';'\[Copy,]. "I George/Hodgson ot 17, Fraser Street, Sidney/Bock Lime, Leeds, do solemnly and: sincerely declare as follows;—. •'*•■: i; ■ • "For over '-twenty:years 1 suffered from a baditpmaoh and Indigestion. I always folt'f ired and languid, and had a strange uneniyleellng at tho pit of my stomach. ; I, had a j foul teste-; in the mouth, pArticiila-ly in the morning, My | appetite was popr, aud after; every'ineal

I had (treat pain in the chest and eidos, I was much troubled with sick headache, and (often had pain and weight at my forehead. A hacking oough' troubled me during the night ana on rising in the, morning, and I spat up a deal of thick phlegm,. As time went on I became pale and emaciated) and got weak' and norvouj, and for Imnly jean I iwwr feltweU. I struggled on with mywork as best I could, but felt bo exhausted that I had to he down during my dinner hour, and also whim I reached homo at night. / was always in piAn, and what my aa&Vrfaga wero during those long, years, ho words can express, I took all kind nf medicines I could bear tell of, and was under three doctors, hut no medicine thatl took gave ine muro than temporary relief. At last 1 became weary of taking physio, nnrl quite thought my ailment was himirable. In February of 1888'! got v'eiy low and weak, for, added to my old standing complaint I was in su'ih i state with pi!cs tint I could wither sit nor lie d nvri, This pain was almost moro than 1 could hear It was like a knife outline mo open, and perspiration would fairly run off me, so severe were my tiuTeiing*. For six months 1 went ou in this My, getting woakerand woaker, and I thought I was going to die. Just at this lime I touk up a book that Mleft at my house, oud 1 read of a case like mino hiving been enrod by a medicine called Mothor Seigel's Curative Syrup, I got a bottle from (he Co-opera-tive Stores, BunnautiiftS) and commenced taking it. After threo or four dos(-s of the Syrup I found my food digested bettor and I hid less pain, and by continuing with tha medicine 1 gradually gained strength. Ity-ind-by, as if by magic, all the pains froth the pilos left mo, and indigeat'im troubled me no more 1 h«.,iiover ailed anything since, although three yeatß have elapsed, and 1 never fell so well tn all my life as I do iwto. Sfisjei's Symp has nwdu a new nun of me. I wish others to know what ibo medicine has done fur me, and I givo full permission to the proprietors of it to mako what use they like of this statement, in the hope that other sufferers may be benefitted. 1 am a tailor's pressor, end have beon in the omploy of a wholesale olothier in Quebec Street, Leeds, for over eight yeais. 1 wiil gladly answer any inquiries. " And I mako this solomn declaration conscientiously believing thnaame to be true, by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declaration Aot, 1835 (W'll IV, o 63). Declared before me ot'

Leeds, in the County nf York, by the said George Hodgson, this fith day of Oct., 1891. (Signed) Alf. Cooke, Mayor of Leeds- ■ Turn b«k, and Had once mora the seventh Rentonce in tho statement. Tho last foven words nro thoso,' for twenty yean I never fell well: A dull sky and bad weathw m this man'n life for twenty years! Think of that. Then fullo.w along to where hesay.i. ' Immrfilt 'so well in alt jiii; hft as I ,fo now.' Ko wonder he wants others to know about it. That shows him to be wimt he is, a right thinkfogand a right fooling.man. His announcement will do good—to Bot good-as there is a multitudo of mon and women tormented in the same way Mr Hodgson was. fe'ouio have symptoms like his, and othors have different ones, but they all signify the presonco and power of tho same old nuisanco and aoourge—indigeation r.nd dyapepsia. The reader takes notice, of course, of the form in whicli the foregoing statement is mado-the form of a simple and solemn decimation; acoordivig to law, before a magistrate, tho Mayor of Leeds. The only purpose of this on the part of Mr Hodgson is to impnrtall the dignity and weight to his words that is possible He deaireß that what ho says may ho understood to be tho truth and nothing but the truth. Anybody who disputes it would dispute the uncontradicted testimony of a witness in a court of justice. But, no fear. The ease it too plain for question, and we rejoico with our friend that after so long a period of dismal weather in his life, a medicine was found that now enables him to' stand, liko the London cleLk, and " let the sun soak in a bit.