HE CAME HOME TO DIE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 132, 5 June 1891, Page 4

HE CAME HOME TO DIE.

One day in December, 1888, a British transport Teasel arrived at Goeport. Only a brief look was needed to assure the spectator that Ate had made the long voyage from India. There were soldiers on board : some on leave of absenoe to visit home, and others bo worn and wasted that it was plajn to see why they were come baok from the East to the dear old Island. Of these poor fellows a ievr t were ablo to go on to their friends, while others were just Btrobg enough to bear the journey to the Navy Yard Hobpital. Among the latter waa one to whom we will introduoe the reader.— You would have fanoied him to have been about thirty years of age, yet the vigour and elasticity of youth were missing.— Disease had done the work of time, and it was but the wreok of a man that entered the Hospital doors that day. It was a matter for wonder that he lived to reaoh an English port. Several months later, by aooident, the writer of these lines heard that soldier's atory from hia own lips; and here it is sjnbstatrtiaUy in hia own words. "In (he year 1883/' he said, "I enlisted in Her Majesty's 61st Regiment and was soon ordered oat to India, where I arrived on the following Christinas ; and left there for Barmah October 6tb, 1886, where I remained eighteen . months, being present at Mandalay when King Theebaw surrendered to oar troops, Here my good health began to give way. At first I had a sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach, and waa so dull and drowsy I oould scarcely keep up. I had paiu in the right side and under the shoulder blades. My spirits were depressed and everything seemed sad and melancholy. I oouldn't eat, and lay in bed sleepleas night after night till I was almost wild for laok of rest. My akin and eyea turned yellow, as is bo oomraon with Europeans in India, my tongue was badly coated, feet ould and olumsy, stomaoh Biok and upset, vomiting, and constant diarrhoea. In this bad form I lay in bed for four months in 1887. Both the Regimental dootor and a doodor of the Indian Government, aaid I was buffering from dysentery, I was weak as a baby, and passed nothing but slime from the bowels. No treatment availed to stop the diarrhoea; which Waa fast draining the life out of me. Finally I waa sent home, and arrived at ' Uosport in Deoember 1888, where I lay in the Qovpital .until February 1889, when I was discharged as inourabU, and plaoed iv the At my Besem. " I returntd to Watboya, in Huntingdon* ahire, f my home) and tried to work. But it Was impossible. ' I was so emaciated that old acquaiatanow.did not at first r'eoognisa me. Then they satd .'Hudeon, you needn't trouble to buy any more clothes. The only Buit you'll require will be a wooden box.' " '; '"After eating even a little; I was obliged to hurry awa/f <diri the table" b'eoauße of the terrible, gnawing pains in the atomaoh and bowels, My father and mother were alarmed, and I consulted a dootor at Warboys, but what he gave me had no good efleot." " At last it waa Mr Nioholl, the Ohemiet of Carboys (now of Oroyden) who said to me, ' Hodson you had better try Mother .Seigel'a Curative Syrup.' On this I bought a bottle 'and'ueed it, but ' I oouldn't see. it did any good,; Mj: Nioholl said, 'Try it again. I have suoh oonfidenoe in it that I will give you the Beoond bottle free of charge.' . , 'He did bo, and before I had taken the halt of the.: aaoond bo.tle, 1 began to feel relief* Thiß was encouraging, and I prooured the third bottle. Before I had • finished it . I waa .stfmuob improved that' I w>s, ajkea to go 'btaJHo' W6ik. '-But'l M *&&' to fit* it, aud said, No ; wait till 1 have used three bottles more, for (hie Moitiertaigera Curative. Byrppia doiog lor me .what: no ; medicine in India, or England hai done/yet-rH ia ha»l(ng me from thi'very depths whare 1 waa ill and dying. . ' . So, as yon may suppose, I kept right along with Mother BfligaTg Curative Bjiup until the fifth bottle' was gonei ' THe'u Tpreeentad niy« self to the astonished people of Warboys rb! robust, strong, and well, &a I was when 1 first entered Ihu army.— l returned to my work, and my comrades looked upon vie as one risen from the dead, With eyea lull of wonder thoy asked, ' What has done this for you V and I answered 'I owe my life and health to Mo her Beigel's Curative Syrup, and am willing that everybody in JSnglaud should hear me say so." I have never lost an hour's work utnoe, and will gladly reply to letters of enquiry,— Joau Hudson, Warnoye, Huntingdonshire. filr Hodson'B real disease was indigestion and dyspepsia, caused by change of oliuate, food, and habits. The diarrhoea waa one of its symptoms -Nature's effort to get rid of the poisonous matters in the stomaoh and bowols. Mother Heigel'B Curative Byrup cured the digestive malady, and the symptoms vanished as a necessary consequence. Bui our friend did not get the right and oniy remedy a day too Boon.