HE CAME HOME TO DIE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 126, 29 May 1891, Page 4

HE CAME HOME TO DIE.

One day in December,' 1888, a British ! transport ijetwJ I *rr^ed ( at ( (Sosporti., Only a jbslef,) toofc, -^"Hl^A*^, to aawre "tMe ijpeototor twjwe l|tj m>d« ( the lo^f ,yoy>ge. ifroml^dia. soldiers on, board ; jsome on leaf* pf,ab(K|np> v to, visit home, and , others fio worn wd ww^d^hst it was plain (to see why they were oome_baok from ;the 'Ewt to the deMfo)d Island. . Of these poor : fellows a few were able to go on to their friends, while others were jußt strong enough !to bear the. journey to the Navy Yard HosipUal. „

• Among, the latter was one to whom we will introduoe the reader,— You would have fancied him to have been about thirty years of age, yet the Vigour and elasticity or youth were miesing.— Disease had done the work of time, and it was but the wreok of a man that entered, the doOra that day. It Was a matter f6r wonder that tie lived to reaoh an English port. ' Several months -later, by aooident, the Writer of thesa lines heard that soldier's story from his own lips, and here it is substantially in his own words. "In the yaae 1888," he eaid,< "I enlisted in Her Majesty's Slat. Regiment and waß soon ordered out (o lutUa, where I arrived oh the following Christinas; and left there for Barman Ootober 6th, 1886, where .I remained eighteen months, being present ' at -■ Mahaalayi when King Thsebaw surrendered >ta jqari tijopßß,.<j Here my good health began to giva way. f . At, .first I, had a sinking feeling at the pit of the stomaoh, and was so dull and drowsy I could soarcely keep np. I had pain in the tight side and under the shoulder blades. My spiritß were , Repressed and everything seemed, sad and melanoholy. I oouidn?« eat, and lay in bed sleepless night after night 'tilM was almost wild for lack of reßt. My skin and eye.3 tamed yellow, as is so oommon with Europeans in India, toy tongue wsß badly coated, f««fc coli aad <j)tua«y, aioniaoh' siok and upset, vomiting, and constant diarrhosa. In this bad form I lay in bed for four months in 1887.

Both the Regimental doctor and a doodor of the Indian Government, said I was suffering from dysentery, I was weak as a baby, and passed., nothing .bat ( sUma, .from, this bowels. No treatment availed t6 stop the diarrhoea, whieh was fast draining the life, ouiurf jme. Finally I was sent home, and .armed at Gosport in December 1888, where I lay in the »Hos]>itbl antil -Febriitry 1889, when I was ditcharged at inourabU, and placed in the ■'Aittfißfcdnexi }•.«>;,,■/. „ / ■..,...,-,.,,, „ <( I returned to Waiboys, in Huntingdon'' •Mm, fmy, >omo>aad.,trifi4 to w,oi£, BuUt >was impossible; (t ,I was bo emaciated tjoat old acqniiotaAQM did not nk Then they s»id,?HudßOß(iquineedtffc'.trouble to bay any more olothm The only aait you'll. require will, be a woqdeu box,' r> 41 After eatinar, even, a little, I Was obliged to hurry away f torn the table because of the terrible, gnawing pains in the stomach and bowols. My father and mother wero alarmed, and I consulted a doctor at Warboys, but what he gave me had no good effect." , .

, K f'Atiastit WasMr'Niohpli, Ithe1 the Ohemist of Warbbyß (now of Orojden) who said to me, • Hodaon you had better try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup,' Oa this I bought a bottle and used it, but I oouldn't see it did any : good. Mr Nloholl said, 'Try it again, I have suoh bonfidenoe in it that I will give you the second bottle free of charge/ t , . He did so, and before I had taken the half of the Beoond bottle I began to feel relief, This was encouraging, and I prooured the Ibird bottle. Before I had. finished it I was so muoh improved -that I was asked to go baokto work.. But I was afraid to risk it, and said, No ; wait till I have ased .three bottles more, for this Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup is doing formai what no medioins ia India or England has done yet— it is healing me from the very depths where I was ill and dying.

So, as yoa may suppose, I kept right along with Mother Qeigel'a Qurativd lyrap until the fifth bottle wKi'gooe. Then I presented my« sell to the astonished people ot Warboys as robust, strong, and well, as I was when I first entered the army.— l returned to my work, and my comrades looked upon measime riten from the dead. With eyes fall of wonder they asked, ' What has done this lor you ?! and I answered ' I owe my life, and health to Mother Beigel's Ourative Syrup, wtA am willing that everybody in England should hear aae say so." I have never lost an hoar's work since, and will gladly reply to letters, of enquiry,— -John Hoduon, Warboys, Hunting" donshire.

Mr Hodson's real disease was indigestion and dyapeptia, caused by ohange of olimate, food, and babita. The diarrhoea was one ol its symptoms— Nature's effort to gat rid o! the poisonous matters in the Btomaoh and bowels. Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup cured the digestive malady, and ihesymp* toms vanished as a necessary*! consequence. Bat our friend did not get the right and only remedy a day too soon, ■