AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM A VETERAN.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4559, 7 June 1889, Page 4

AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM A VETERAN.

As this is Jubilee year it tends to make one look back and think of the flight of time, and m this way I am reminded that I am one of ths veteran! m the »ale of your valuable and successful medicine. I have sold it from the very first, and have sent it to every country m England and many parts of Scotland. Well Ido remember tbe first circular you sent out some nine or ten years ago. You had come to England from America to introduce Mother Seigel'o Curative Byrup, and I was struck by a paragraph m which you used these words: — "Being a stranger m ii atrnnge lnnd, I do not wish the people to fool that I want to take the least advantage over them. I feel tbat I have a remedy that j will cure disease, and I have so much confidence m it that I authorise my agenU to refund the money if people should say that they had not benefited by its use. " I felt at onco that you would never say that unless tho medicine had merit, and I applied for the agency, a step which I now look back upon willi iiride and satisfaction. Ever since that time I have found it by far the best remedy for Indigestion and Dyspepsia I have met with, and I have sold thousands of bottles. It has never failed where there were any of the following symptoms: — Nervous or sick headache, sourness of the stomach, rising of food after eating, a sonse of fulness and heaviness, dizziness, bad breath, slime and mucus on the gum and teeth, constipation, and yellowness of the eye 3 and skin, dull and sleepy sensatons, ringing m the earn, heartburn, loss of appetite, and, m short, wherever there are »igni that the system is clogged, and the blood is out of order. Upon repeated inquiries, covering a great variety of ailments, my customers have always answered " I am better, " or " I am perfectly well. " What I have seldom or never seen before m tho case of medicine is that people tell each other of its virtues, and thosj who have been cured say to the suffering: "Go and get Mother Seigel's Curative Syrnp, it will make vuii well." Out of tha hnndreds of cures I will niime one or two that happen to come into my mind. "X«o old gentlemen, whose names they would not like me to mention, had been martyrs to Indigestion and Dyspepsia for many years. They had tried all kinds of medicine without relief. One of them waa so bod that he could not bear a ijlaji of ale. Both were advised to nse the Syrup and both recovered, and were as hale and hearty as men m tho prime of life. A remarkable case m thatof a house painter named Jeffries, who lived at PenshuratinKent. His business obliged him to axpose himßelf a great deal to wind and weather, and he was seized with rheumatism, and his joints soon swelled up with dropsy, aDd were very stiff and painful. Nothing that the doctors could do seemed to reach the seat of trouble. It so crippled him that he could do hardly any work for the whole of the winter of 1878 and'79, he had to give up and take to his bed. Ho had been afflicted m this sorry way for three years and was getting worn out and discouraged. Hesideg hehad spent over £13 for what he tilled " doctor's stuff " without the le*st benefit. In the Bpring ho heard of what Mother .Seigcl's Curative. Syrup had done for •jthero and bought a 2t. 9d. bottle off me. In :i few days he sent me word he was much bettor — before he had finished] tho bottle. He then «ent for a 4s. fid. bottle and as I was goin^ on that way I curried it down to him my aelf . On getting down to the house what was my astonishment and surprise to find him out m* the garden weeding an onion bed. I could lmrdly believe my own eyes, and said:— 1 You ought not to bo out here, man, it may bo the deuth of you, after being laid up all tlio winter with rheumatism and dropsy. " His rulpy was : — There is no danger. The weather is fine, and Mother Seigel's Curative Hfrtip ha* done for me m a few days w.'iat the doctors could riot do m three ye»»». I think I shall get well now. " ilekopt on with tho Syrup, and m thres weeks ho was at work again, and has had m return of the trouble far now Dearly ten years. Any medicine that can do this should bo known all ovor the world. Yours faithfully, (Signed) Rupbbt Gbaham, OfGuAiUMt Son. Hollowny House, Sunbury, Middlesex, June 25th, 1887. 'Iho iihotc wonderful cure of Rheumatism wns tii« nmtiltof the remarkable power of Mother Hcigi'l's Curative Hyrup to cleanse the blood of Hie poisonous humours that arise from Inrl.-uist.ion and Dyspeniiia. M.Ah.T Heigel's Curative Hyrup is for sulc\ty «ll <)i<-mi»f» and medicine vendors, and by I In; proprietors, A. J. Whito, Limited, 35, Kirripiydon Road, London, Kngland.

In Iho report <>( tho Comptroller of Nevr HuiiOi Wnlftfl yr'wiim for lant year, ipocinl ri'f<Tniir<? i« nrwio to the new licencing »y»t«in imil-r whir;ti upwimlt of ono hundred \nng("itiltiiti! priwdiPM uro mnplnymX m iinprofin^ tin, harbour at, Trial Hiiy 'ihe man are hoiiacd m »m»)l huts, nnd are grouped m messes of six, ami oujoy as much liberty a

|is consistent with fair supervision. They are neither dressed nor treated as convicts, and m addition to enjoying freedom are paid a ] small wage. The system, which is quite a new departure m prison administration, has worked admirably, and the men appear to be anxious to do all they can. The separate treatement of first offenders between sixteen and twenty-five years of oge, has been satis- ( factorily carried out, and it is proposed to extend it to all young prisoners, whether first offenders or not. A veteran soldier of the great mutiny has passed away m the person of General John Longfleld, Colonel of " The Kings," Liverpool j Regiment, at the advanced age of 86. He , commanded brigades m Bengal from 1855 to ' 1869. In 1857 he wae present with his reel- ] ment when the native troops mutinied at Jul» ( lundur ; at the seige of Delhi, during the six days fighting that ensued, when he commanded the 2nd Brigade, and after the capture nf the city he was left m commond of , the station. For his gallant services he was created a 0.8. and reoeived the mutiny medal and clasp and a good service pension. He died Jat hi» seat, Kilcoleman, Bandon, County Cork.