A TRUE STORY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 150, 17 July 1903, Page 4

A TRUE STORY.

England is a long way off, and fty-thfee years is rather far in the J asL ; still there are a few people *< miong us able to recall what the * Id cfcuntFy was like in 1850, the ear of the incident to be related. c At that time there lived in a deached cottage near an English athedral city o. very ebcelilric J iachelor. He had formerly been vealthy ; but .having dissipated the t reater part of his fortune, he went o the other extreme, and not only J )ecaine a teetotaller, but almost enied himself the necessaries of ife, For years lie kept, himself a •risoner in his cottage, his only ompanions being two ferocious ull dogs named Beer and Whisky* , Two tramps, who chanced to hear hat this singular recluse was very /ell off, and that he was never without beer and whisky, resolved 0 rob him. Accordingly they one light broke into the lonely Iran's :ottage, and immediately discovor?tl that the Beer and Whisky therein were of quite different brands than they had expected to find. One of the tramps, feeling in mad terror from the dogs, fell into a mill stream and was drowned. His companion, badly bitten, just managed to climb a tall fence • but fell over it and fractured his skull so that he died the next day. The incident caused much excitement at the time, and it had scarce ly subsided when the local shopkeeper reported that the only answer he could obtain to .his knocking was the growls of Beer and Whisky ; whereupon the police broke into the cottage and discovered the old man- — doad. The inquest was remarkable for a dispute 1 which it occasioned between two doctors. One maintained that death was the cause of fright at the recent attempted robbery ; the other, that deceased died from chronic in digest! tin brought about by iiiiprdper diet and want of exercise he not having been outside his ' cottage for eighteen years. The dis f cussion Was taken up by giants of thfe liiedMl profession, and ably debated, the conclusipn, reached beiiig 'tHat indigestion is a disease arising from infinitely numerous causes, and itself productive of com plaints hardly less numerous. But it was not then known (as it has been now for thirty-five yeaV.s) tHat indigestion tia& brie sure cure, viz. Seigel's Syrup. Mr H. C. Blackie, of Post Office Chambers, Auckland, New Zealand, has not kept within his house for eighteen years. On the contrary, he is a traveller and knows the world well. Writing on 16th March, 1903, Mr Blackie observes : "For years I was a martyr to indigestion and flatulence. Wind used to press ohthe vaive of my heaft to such an alarming degree that oii two occasions T fainted on the plat form w.hen publiciy speaking. Dietary and medicinal treatment failed utterly lm jt.il, .oh the recdrotnetittktioii of a PrbfQSstir a.\ the Working Men's College, Melbourne. I tried Mother Seigel's Syrup. By taking it regularly after each meal I very nCni'ii found relief, and have ever since been 'able to enjoy all foods without inconvenience. My cUt'S Was effected about four years ago, when I had consumed from six to eight bottles : but one bottle was sufficient to, afford me relief. I have never ceased to praise the virtues of .Seisrel' 1 !. Syrup. in the Colonies . I visit as commercial traveller, merely in gratitude for the- great benefit derived from it — for I have no business connection whatever with its proprietors. What I now say is quite unsolicited. Certainly there is no other such potent and easy remedy for all forms of indigestion." Such is the testimony of nn intelligent and experienced man. Of indigestion it may be said, as was said of fame, some inherit it, j some achieve H, and some have it thrust upon them (as is the case of porsons compelled to lead a .sedentary life) ; but all may eradicate it by following the example of Mr Bla^kiij; Scalds are always painful and f • > equrntly quite, serious, but Chamberlain's Pain Balm is a liniment f-s---pocially . suited for such injuries One application prives relief. Try it. R. Snodgrass & Sons sell it.