IT RECALLS THE BLIZZARD.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 6754, 8 February 1892, Page 4

IT RECALLS THE BLIZZARD.

In March, 1888, the great blizzard in America almost extinguished the oity of New York. The like of it was never: before seen. The snow completely stopped all local trafficNot a horeo or a wheel could move. All the telegraph lines leading into the oity were prostrated, and for two or three days the people of Boston and New York communicated with each other by way of London by mans of the Atlantic cables. Thus messages intended for persons three hundred miles distant were sent six thousand miles, crossing the ocean twice. An incident which recalls this experience to the writer’s mind happened a short time ago here in England. Suppose we let the gentleman interested tell his own story. He saye: -“ £ have suffered more or less from indigestion and dyspepsia all my life. I had a bad taste in the mouth, pain after eating, a poor appetite, and soar stomach. My tongue was coated, and my mouth constantly filled with a watery fluid. No matter what I ate, however light, it disagreed with me and| gave me pain. I had fulness 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 > ood. Ihe doctor said that the coating of my stomach was disordered, and the mucous membrane was inflamed. In 1877 I received a phamplet from New York telling of a medicine called Mother Seigel’s Curative Syrup, and of the extraordinary cures it bad effected, so I procured a supply, and after taking the first I felt better, and by the time I had taken four bottles more, I was completaly cured, aud 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, and 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 bat the loudest praise and of the enres 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 bad derived from this wonderful medicine. I wish everyone to know of this, and if by publishing this statement it will help others who may be suffering as I was, it will afford me pleasure. The letter from which the foregoing is an extract is signed Moses Godwin, Old tfodbury (Sodbury) Glos, and it is dated April 9th, 1891. He is a farmer. 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 Goodwin’s first information concerning it came from America, three thousand miles away, 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 e."d provision dealer, Plat Lene, Whixall, Whitchurch, Salop, says : “ While iving with Mr Roberts, Pens Wood Farm, i first began to feel a dull heavy weight at my side, and noticed a bad taste in the mouth with foul atomteh and uncomfortable feeling after eating. I bad no appetite, and when I sat down to the table I could not touch the food. I bad a good deal of pain and noise in the head, and could not sleep for it. I was not fit for heavy work, and could 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 I could have cried. Having always been such a strong man 1 took it badly to be reduced to such a weak state. I took all kinds of physio and 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 had heard a gentleman talking about 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 t, ood, and I gained strength, and by persevering with the syrup I soon got as strong as ever, and have never ailed anything since.”