THE PISTOL AND THE BOTTLE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 132, 5 June 1901, Page 6

THE PISTOL AND THE BOTTLE.

The man who has once driven a burglar out of his house with a pistol is likely to keep the. weapon handy by for use in the future. On a .similar principle Mrs Elizabeth Laiigmaid is never without a bottle oT Mother Seig-el's Syrup where .she can lay hands on it any day. About four years ago she \v;is taken bad with vvliut was eiillecl "a i-oin-:plicatiou of eoniplainia." The doeior.S saitl she liud an abscess on one of her lungs, and also indigestion and heart troubles. And, seeingl how she looked anil felt, we should have believed him without :i moment's hesitation. j ltVou can get an idea,"' she .says, "how bad 1 was when 1 tell you I lay helpless in bed nearly nine months." fThat does give use the idea and no i mistake. Save for the hope of recovery—which seldom quite perishes in the mmd —f would as lief be dead, and so have the trouble over and done with.) "Finally," Mrs Langmaid goes on to aay, "when 1 got out of bed, all of me that could waste away was g-ODe. I was just a skeleton covered with skin. In truth they wrapped me in waddinjj—for appearance and for such comfort and warmth as the protection might give me. "Whatever my complaint was I always had a dreadful pain in my sides and under the shoulder-blades; but the medicines I took had no more effect on it than so much sweetened water would have had. "Whih? in this miserable condition I remembered how different friends of mine had spoken of the virtues of Seigel's Syrup for many kinds of ailments that nothing- else seemed able to help. ''Anyway. I was sure it would be no mistake to try it, and so I got, a bottle from Campbell and Co.'s store, in that town. Up to that time I always had a great feeling- of weariness and drowsiness after eating-, and could not shake it off. "But to my delight f soon discovered that a dose of the Syrup dispelled this almost immediately, and by the time I had finished the first bottle I was "greatly improved. "As you would suppose, I persevered in t;>kin«- the remedy until by degrees I got strong1 again. Gradually, too, T picked up my lost. fit?sh, and recovered my former £ood health. "Ever since then f keep a bottle of Seigvl's Syrlip in the house, and take a doSe whenever T feel out of sorts in any way.' "Yon may publish this if you like, and I shall always be f--lad to hear of Seig-el's Syrup doing1 for others what it did for me." Elizabeth Lang-maid, Market-street, Muswellbrook, N.S.W., September 2tith, 1599.