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Evening Star, Issue 8530, 1 June 1891, Page 1

HE CAME HOME TO DIE. ONE DAY in December, 1888, a British transport vessel arrived in Gosport. Ony a brief look was seeded to assure the spectator that she had made the long voyage from India. There were soldiers on board—some on leave of absence to visit home, and others so worn and wasted that it was plain to see why they were come back from the East to the dear old Island. Of these poor fellows, a few were able to go on to their friends, while others were just strong enough to bear the journey to the 'Navy Yard Hospital. Among the latter was one to whom we will introduce the reader. You would have fancied him to have been about thirty years of aga; yet the vigor and elasticity of youth were missingDisease had done the work of time, and it was bat the wreck of a man that entered the hospital doors that day. It was a matter for wonder that he lived to reach an English port. Several months later, by accident the writer of these lines heard that soldier's story from his own lips, and here it ia substautially in his own words: " I enlisted in Her Majesty's 51st Beglment, and was soon ordered out to India, where I arrived on the following Christmas, and left there for Burmah October 6,1886, where I re mained eighteen months, being present at Mandalay when King Theebaw surrendered to our troops. Here my good health began to give way. At first I had a sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach, and was so dull and drowsy I oould scarcely ke> p up. I had pain in the right side and under the shoulder blades. My spirits were depressed, and everything seemed sad and melanoholy. I couldn't eat, and lay in bed sleepless night after night till I was almost wild for lack of rest. My skin and eyes turned yellow, as is so oommon with Europeans in India. My tongue was badly coated, feet cold and clumsy, stomach sick and upset, vomiting, and constant diarrhoea. In this bad form I lay in bed for four months in 188 J. " Both the regimenal doctor and a doctor of the Indian Government said I was suffering from dy entery. I was weak as a baby, and passed nothing but slime from the bowels. No treatment availed to stop the diarrhoea, which was fast draining the life out of me. Finally I was sent Home, and arrived at Go-port in December, 1888, where I lay in the hospital until February 1889, when I vat discharged at incurable, and placed in the Army Reseive. "I returned to Warboya, in Huntingdonshire (my home), and tried to work. But it was impossible. I was so emaciated that old acquaintances did not at first recognise me. Then they said: ' Hodson, yon needn't trouble to bny any more clothes. The only suft you'll require will be a wooden bo*,' <• Alter eating, eyen a little, I was obliged to hurry away from the table because of the terrible griping, gnawing pains in the stomach and and I consulted a doctor at Warboys, but what he gave me bad no good effect. " At last it was Mr Nicholl, the chemist, of Warboys (now of Croydon), who said to me : ' Hodson, you had better try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup.' On this I bought a bottle and need It, but I couldn't eee it did any good. Mr Nlebollsald: 'Try it again. I have such confidence in it that I will give you the second bottle free of charge.' " He did so, and before I had taken the half of the second bottle I began to feel relief. Thin waß enoouraging, and I procured the third bottle.- Before 1 had finished It I had so much improved that I was asked to go back to work. Sat I was afraid to risk it, and said No; wait till I have used three bottles more, for thlu Mother Seigel'i Curative Syrup Is doing for me what no meaicine in India or England has done yet-it is healing me from the very depths where I was ill and ojing. " So, as you may suppose, I kept right along with Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup until the fifth bottle was gone. Then I presented myself to the astonished people of Warboys as robust, strong, and well as I was when I first entert d the army. I returned to my work, and my com rades looked upon me at one risen from the dead,. With eyes full of wonder, they asked 'What has done this for you?' and I answered: ' I owe my life and health to Mother Seigel's Curative wyrup, and am willing that everybody in England should hear me say so.' 1 have qever lost an hour's work since, and will gladly reply to letters of Inquiry.—JOHN H.ODBON, Warboys, Huntingdonshire." MrHodson'g real disease waß Indigestion and dyspepsia, cauced by change of climate, food, and habits. The diarrhoea was one of its symptoms —Nature's effort to get rid of the poisonoUH matters in the stomach and bowels. Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup cured the digestive malady, and the symptoms vanished as a necessary consequence. But our friend did not get the right and only remedy a day too soon. THE popularity and enormouß sales of Wolfe s Schnapps testify to its intrinsic ANDERSON AND MORRISON, DUBBDIN PLUMBING, BRASS, AND COPPER WORKS. We invite attention to our stock of Sanitary Ware and Plumbing Materials. From our long experience in the trade, and having a staff of specially trained Workmen, with a knowledge of the latest methods of sanitary work, we are prepared to guarantee all work entrusted to us. We are also prepared to apply the "Improved " Pmbke, Water, and other testa for the any system of drainage. 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