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North Otago Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7487, 8 October 1892, Page 1

He- WAS AT THE hIEGE OF J LUCKNOW. * The British infantry are the best in the world, sire, but luckily, few in number." So said a French marshal in rep'y to a question by Napoleon, Few in Dumber may bo, but enough to keep ths English drumbeat following the tun around the world. Here is a short story from an old soldier; a little abou r the Indirn mutiny more about another mutiny. He saya . " In 1854 I enl sAed in the 5 h Regiment Fudiiecrs, and that year weutouc to China Three yoar3 later, 1837, I v.eat to Bengal, India. I waa present at the siege of Lucknow, under General Havelock, and was wouuderi there. 1 was thea eeuS to Cawnpore, during the feaiful mas aora at that place Wo were exposed to damp, our clothes being web for days together Here it was that I first began to feel the bad effects of the climate. Ia 1S75 I returned koine to my native villa e and tettkd down. ■ wo years af cervvards I began to feel languid and tne 1. I lout ail ipirit and energy. Everything was n trouble to me, and I became weak and low. At first I h^d a bai tasie m tho mouth, no appetite for food, and what i ate gave me pain m tho cheat and back I also had u tiull heavy pain and w. ighfc at my .jghfcl siue aud m the hipa and lega, anJ j. sense of tightu^ta or coanincuou, a> it I w»e liola or bound. •'After a time my arms pufFjd up, aud the smews and mu-clea ot the calves of my legs corded with paiu. I could not tleep at night, aud f ,r weeks an • w«)-.ka 1 got littie or no rest. I would uoze for a Bhi>r& time and then wake with p<.iu Thiu. s went on like this mo th after nioutn. I gos weaker an i Wiaker, ana had to give up work and engage a man to lojk alter mj small busineos, I took medicines of various kiudf, but obtained little or no react. I then s,aw the C ub coctor, who gave me medicines and apuhcaaons, but I fuuud no ease from anytuiug except for a little while After beiug uuder this doctor oil aad ou fer f .ur yearn I gave up goiLg to turn and w«.nt to a doctor at Bangiy, aud waa under his trt ,tment for three inonnhs He gave me medicines and embrocations, and I was rubbed before the lire f^r hours tog snei by my wife, but nothing eaicd me. " The doctor ran up a bi 1 of &omj five pounds, but at tho end of three months I was worse than evei, t»ud go woak tluc L had uo strength even to go aud see the doctor. Then I ga\e up . octonug ju despair, for I had jo^t all tauh m physic, [ rid said to my wife, ' It is uo use doctoring <iuy more ; nothing ciu bo done lor me. I will Its5 tbiuga tL»ko i iitjir cuan e. ' " Now better, now wjis , I coat nued in this btate uutil March, 1SI0, wheu a small bjok Was it it at my i,uuif, telling of a medic ne call d Alom,i Ms gei\ Syrup, aud I read of a cho l.ke nnue havn g been unrrd by it. So I procured a botHe Iiom Mi fcdjerley'B stores, and began taking it, I a lhio>. weeks I iea / eitn ; my jjaius lefc me, my appetite returned, my tojd agreed with me, -nil I u.uiy g^in. d strei-gti , By the timo I nad takou the third bottle I was a well mau, and nevir felt better in my I life. From that day io tins I have never ailed an> thing, and can do a day's work with any mau. It I teel any sluggishness of the liver, I take a few do-iea of the Syrup aad know nothiog ot pain. "After my recovery many of r,iy neigh- [ bora asked what had wrought the cure, aud 1 toid them Seige.'d Syiup had cured me after al tho docf'ia ani luedicine Imi failed. 1 owe my life to the time y use c f it. You a e at liberty to pubhsn ihia it >ou thiuk it may benefit others. I wnl answer enquiries, and I make tnis aolvma declaration c ai'-oientioualy O'Leviug the sime to be true by vntut, of iho iirmi-i^na of Statutory Di old ration Acs, 18J5 (Wilhani IV., c 62) ' "Declared at Jiun^ay, in the County of Suffolk, tins tenth day of July 1S01." (Signed) Samull Bami m Before me, (Mgni a) Hli lbi T J. ' '.Krcnp. A C mimi'Stoner io aimimstcr o^ths in tho uprtme Court of Jurisdiction in England, Mr B3nham's complaint was a severe and chronic liver due's j, c.useJ by mdi^eicion Ltid dystjepsia co'itractcd during his 1 ng and arduous military Eervice in Inlia. Ha is a man of axoellent cha r acter, ,md ii at present employed a^ gT,tdner. He mentioned in conversation trut atttr his ucovery he met a la .y who is hOdM k epei at a gentleman's residence, who taid to him, " Why, Banhatn, wait has worked t-o marvelkus en imp ove nent m you ? ' He told her, r ad as sho tulle ea from rlu umatism and weakness, she took Sei^el s Syrup, aud founi wonderful reluf.

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