This Will Settle the Question.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 3200, 16 August 1892, Page 4

This Will Settle the Question.

"I 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 of their own observation or experience, They are of the sort who laughed at Stephenson ■when he introduced the railway, and at Morse when be said tbat we could communicate by means of electricity, Yet they don't laugh at tliOße things now. They make use of them daily.

Some months ago the cisc of Mrs. Mary Cuddy was first published. The great public accepted the facts, as they had every reason to do. Others, a very few (professional men 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. Here is her answer! She repeats what she at first said, and putß a quietUß on all who called her words in question. It will be observed that her statement is as pton and solemn aa language can make it. 1, Mary Cuddy, of 28, Cathrine Street, Richmond Road, Leeds, do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—

Ever since I was a little girl I have suffered from illness. I always had a pain both before and after eating, and never Beemed 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 tood, for I was afraid to eat. Commonly when food was placed before me 1 could not touch it, and I often fainted at the very sight of it. 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 t ired of taking physic, for I had lost all faith in it. My business waß so urgent that I was compelled to be at work, otherwise I would have lain in bed, so weak had I become. With the weakness asd loss of appetite there were other feelings and signs that were bad and alarmed me greatly. Among them were these :— A yellowish colour of the skin and eyes, sometimes a cold clammy perspiration, pains and aches in the sideß, the chest and back, headache, a kind of wind or gas ooming up in my throat and mouth that was so sour and sickening I could scarcely bear it. Once in a while I would have a strange fluttering and pal* pitation tbat made me think my heart mußt be affected. My heart would thump so that I feared it would jump out of its place, and I have had to walk about the room for two or three hours at a time, for I could not sit or lie. The pain was so severe that I have asked my husband if he could not hear my heart thumping as I walked about. I always slept badly at night, and frequently had horrible dreams, and was so depressed in spirits tbat I would sit down and cry, for 1 got no pleasure aB time dragged wearily by. I had so little enegy or strength that it was all I could do to summon courage for the labor upon which the family (at least in part) depended for support. lam a dressmaker, and it will be easily understood how hard my life was, for I didn't think it would last muoh longer. Not long ago (May, 1887) .-I made up my mind to try a medicine that is advertised and known all over the oountry. I mean Mother SoigeFs Syrup. I had no faith in it at first, for how can one believe in what one knows nothing about? I bought and tried Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup only because of its reputation. How could so many people, I asked myself, praise a medicine so much if it had no virtue. I can only say that I found what they said to be true. After beginning with the Syrup, relief soon followed. My food digested better and gave me strength, and by persevering with it all my painß 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 take a dose or two of Seigel's Syrup and the trouble goes no further. Since the publication of my testimonial many persons have called at my house and asked me if all that is published about my caße is true, and if the Proprietors of Seigel's Syrup bad made additions to my statement.

I told them all that every word was trne and nothing had been added by the Proprietors of the medicine, but I could add a deal more, for no wordß can describe what my sufferings were during all those long yeara. I never expected Wing weft again in tn\s -world. SeigeVs Syrup saved my life and I deaire other sufferers to know of what did so much for me. I will gladly answer inquiries. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, by virtue of the orovisions of the Statutory Declaration" Act (Will. IV. C. 62.)

(Signed) Maby Cuddy Declared before me at Leeds, in the County of York, by the said Mary Caddy, on Monday, he 10th day of Ang, 1891.— (Signed) Alf. Cookb, Mayor of Leeds.

Not a syllable farther is needed except to Bay that her ailment, indigestion and dyspepsia, burdens and saddens the