IT RECALLS THE BLIZZARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 9337, 30 January 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)

IT RECALLS THE BLIZZARD.

In March 1888 the great blizzard in Ameiica almost extinguished the city of Now Ycrk. The like of it was never before seen. The snow completely stopped all local traffic. Not a horse uv a wheel could move. All the telegraph lines leading into the city were prostrated, and for two or three days the people of I Jos ton and Now iTork communicated with each other by way of London by means of the Atlantic cables. Thus messages intended for persons 300 miles distant were sent 8000 miles, crossing the ocean twice.

An incident which recalls this experience to the writer's mind happened a shore time ago in England. Suppose we let the gentleman interested tell his own story. He says:—"l have suffered :uore or less from indigestion and dyspepsia al! my life. I had a bad taste in the mouth, pain after eating, a poor appetite, and sour stomach. My tongue was cuated, and my mouth constantly filled with a watery iluid. No matter what I ate, however light, it disagreed with me and gave me pain, I had fullness of the chest, and pain at my side, with a miserable low, dull feeling. From time to time I consulted a doctor who gave me medicines, but they did very little good. The doctor said that the coating of my stomach was disordered, o.nd the mucous membrane was inflamed. In 1:377 I received a pamphlet from New York telliug of a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, and of the extraordinary cures it had effected, so I procured a supply and after taking the tirst 1 felt better, and by the tinio I had taken four bottles more, I was completely cured, and have been in good health, as regards the indigestion, ever since. Having studied the practice of herbs for many years, I was in the habit of treating people for erysipelas and other complaints, aad was frequently consulted by people in the district, so after my remarkable cure I was so impressed with the merits of Seigel's Syrup, that I procured a large supply of the medicine, and recommended it to all who were suffering, and people came from far and near for it. 1 may mention that on a Sunday my house was beseiged by miners from Coal Pit Heath, and others from a distance. On every hand I heard nothing but the loudest praise and of the cures it effected, and the fame of this medicine was spread throughout the West of England with no other advertising than one party telling another of the benefit they had derived from this wonderful medicine. I wish every one to know of this, and if by publishing this statement it will help others who may bo suffering as I was, it will afford me pleasure."

The letter from which the foregoing is an extract is signed Moses Godwin, Old Sodbury (iSodbury), (Uos, and is dated April 9, 1891, He is a fanner.

The reader will notice that while the headquarters for the sale of Mother Seigel's Syrup is universally known to be in London, by a strange chance Mr Godwin's first information concerning it came from America, 3000 miles r.way, which recalls the incident of the American blizzard above narrated, and also shows that the fame and usefulness of this medicine extends to all civilised countries.

Mr Benjamin Edgerton, grocer and provision dealer, Plat lane, Whixall, Whitehureh, Salop, says : " While living with Mr Roberts, Tens Wood Farm, I first began to feel a dull heavy weight at my side, and noticed a bad taste in the mouth with foul stomach and uncomfortable feeling after eating. I had no appetite, and when I sat down to the table I could not touch the food. I had a good deal of pain and noise in the head, and could not sleep for it. I was not fit for heavy work, and couhl only do light jobs about the farm. After cutting a hedge I would go quite faint and had to sit down, and felt so much depressed 1 could have cried. Having been always such a strong man, I took it badly to be reduced to such a weak state. I took all kinds of physic aud saw a doctor, but his medicine only eased me for a bit, and then I was worse than before. I went on in this way for over a year, when a servant that came to live at Mr Roberts'told me of a medicine called Mother >Seigel's .Syrup. She lrul heard a gentleman talking abuut it in the railway carriage, and he praised it so much that I thought I would try it. After I had taken two bottles my food did me good and I gained strength, and by persevering with the syrup I soon got as strong as ever, and have never ailed anything since."