THIS WILL SETTLE THE QUESTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 90, 16 April 1892, Page 6

THIS WILL SETTLE THE QUESTION.

-©. , 1 1 don't believe there is a word of truth in it,' That's the way certain foolish people talk when they hear of anything unusual, or outside the limits ot their own observation or experience. They are of tho sort who laughed at Stephenson when he introduced the railway, and at Morse when ho said that we could communicate by means of electricity. Yet they don't laugh at those things nosy. They make use of them daily. Some months ago the case of Mrs Mary Cuddy was first published. The greatpublic accepted the* facts, as they had every reason to do. Others, a very few (professional mon perhaps), pretended to doubt, and sent emissaries to inquire of the lady herself whether her allegations had not been added to, or altered for the sake of popular effect. Hero is her answer. She repeats whab she at first said, and puts a quietus on all who called har words in question. It will bo observed that her statement is as plain and solemn as language can make it. [copy.] I, Mary Cuddy, of 23, Catherine-street, Richmond Road, Leeds, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows :— Ever since I was a girl I have suffered from illness. I always had a pain both before and after eating, and never seomed able to gain and keep my strength, and felt that something was pulling me down. I had a nasty queer feeling in my stomach. Sometimes food seemed to ease it, and at other times it made me feel worse, and often I went without food, for I was afraid to eat. Commonly when food was placed before mo I could not touch it, and I often fainted at tho very sight of ib. After a while I became so weak I could scarcely stand or walk. I thought it was consumption coming on by degrees and I took all sorts of medicines to try and get relief, but it was of no use, and I got tired of taking physic, for I had lost all faith in it. My business was so urgent that I was compelled to be at work, otherwise I would havo laid in bed so weak had I become. With the weakness and lossof appetitetheroweroobher feelingaand signs that were bad and alarmed mo greatly. Among them were those :—A yollowish colour of the skin and eyes, sometimes a coid clammy! perspiration, pain 3 and aches in tho sides,' tho chest and back, headacho, a kind of wind or gas coming up into my throat and mouth that was so sour and sickoning I could scarcely boar ib. Once in a while I would havo a strange fluttering and palpitation thab made mo think my heart musb bo affected. My heart would thump so thab I feared it would jump out of its placo, and I have had to walk about tho room for two or threo hours at a time, for I could not sit or lie. The pain was so severe thab I have asked my husband if ho could not hear my heart thumping as I walked about. I always slept badly ab night, and frequently had horrible dreams, and wa3 so melancholy and depressed in spirits that I would sit down and cry, for I got no pleasure as timo dragged woarily by. I had so little energy or strength that it was all I could do to summon courage for the labour upon which tho family (ab loasb in parb) dopended for support. I am a dressmaker, and it will be easily understood how hard my life was, for I didn't think it would last much longer. Nob long ago (May, 18S7) I mado up my mind to try a medicine that is advertised and known all over tho country. I moan Mother Soigel'a Curative Syrup. I had no •faith in ib ab first, for how can one bolieve in what one knows nothing about ? I bought and tried Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup ouly because of its reputation. How could so many people, I asked mysolf, praise a medicine so much if it had no virtue? I can only say that I, found whab they said to be true. After beginning with tho Syrup, rolief soon followed. My food digested better and gave me strength, and by persevering with it all my pains disappeared. I could eat my food with a relish, and everything agreed with' me. Now and again when, through confinement and hard work, I feel a touch of my old complaint I tako a dose or two of Seigel's Syrup and the trouble goes no farther. Since the publication of my testimonial many persons here called at mi/ house and asked me if all that is published about my case is true, and if the Proprietors of Seigel's Syrup had made additions to my statement, I told them all that every word was true and nothing had been added by the Proprietors of the medicine, but I could add a <joyl deal more, for no words can describe what my sufferings were during all thoso long years. I never expected being well again in this world. Soigel'a Syrup saved my life, and I desire other sufferers to know of whab did so much for me. I will gladly answer inquiries. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing tho same to be true, by virtue of tho provisions of the Statutory Declaration Act (Will. IV., c. 62.) (Signed) Mary Ccddy. .Declared before mo ab Leeds, in 1 the Counby of York, by the | aaid Mary Cuddy, on Monday, J the 10th day of August, 1891. \ (Signed) Alf. Cooke, j Mayor of Leeds. ) Not a syllable further is needed except to say that her ailment, indigestion and dyspepsia, burdens and saddens the lives of many other women (and men also), who will read with new hope tho outcome of Mrs Cuddy's case, and place a co.ifidonce which no cavilling can shake, in. the remedy which restored to her the health and happineß3 that Providence designs for us all. j