HE CAME HOME TO DIE.

Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5156, 1 June 1891, Page 4

HE CAME HOME TO DIE.

Ona day m December 1888, a British trans port vessel arrived at Gosport. Only a brief look was needed to ossure the spectator that she had made the loj£ 7jyage from India. There were soldiers on ooard ; some on leave of absence to visit home, and others so worn and wasted thatit was plain to Beo why they were come back from the East to the dear old Island. Of these poor fellows a few were ab!e to go on to their friends, whil? "others wtn just strong euough to bear the ■journey to the Navy Yard Hospitnl. Among the latter was one to whom wo will introduce the reader —You would have fancitd him to have beeD about 30 yeara of age, yet the vigour and elasticity o£ youth were missing. — Disease had done the work of time, and it was but tbe wreck of a man that entered the hospital doors tb.it day. It wsb a wonder that he lived to reach an English pott Several months later, by accident, tha writer of these lines heard that soldier's story from his own lip 3, and here it is substantially m his own words. '' In the year 1883," ho said, " I enlisted m Her Majesty's 51st Regiment and was soon ordered out to India, where I arrived on the following Christmas ; and left there for Burmah Oct. 6th, 1886, where I remained eighteen month?, being present at Msndalay when King Theobaw aurrondered to our troops. Hera my good health began to give way. At first 1 bad a sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach, and was bo dull and drowsy I cauld scarcely k<ep op, I bad pain m the right side anrt under (be shoulder blades My spirits were depressed and everything seemed sad and melancholy. I couldn't eat, and lay m bod Jeepless night after night till I was almost wild for lack of rest. My skin and eyea turned yellow, as is co common with Europeans m India : my tongue was badly coated, feet coid and clumsy, stomach sick and upset, vomiting, and constant diarrhoea. In thiar bad form I lay m bed for four months m 18S7. "Both the Regimental doctor and a doctor of the Indian Government, eaid I was suffering from dysentery. I was weak as a baby, and passsed nothing but slime from the bowels No treatment availed to stop the diairbcea, which was fast draining tbe life out of me Finally I was sent home, nnd arrived at Gospora m Dec. 1888, where I lay m the hospital until Feb., 1889, when I was discharged as incurable, and placed m tbe Army Beserve. "I returned to Warboys, m Huntingdonshire (my home) and tried to work. But it was impossible. I was bo emaciited that old ncquaintances did not at firit recogniee me " Hodson, you needn't trouble to buy any more clothes. The only suit you'll require nil! be a wooden box." " After eating, even a little, I was obliged to hurry away from the table because of the terrible griping, gnawing pains m the atomnch and bowels. My father and mother v/eee alarmed, and I consulted a doctor at Warboys but what he gave me had no good effect. " At last it was Mr Nicboll, tha Ohemipt, of Warboys (now of Croydon) who said to me, ' Hodson, you had better try Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup.' On this I bought a bottle and used it, but I couldn't s-e it did any gjod. Mr Nicholl said, 'Try it again I have such confidence m it that I will give you .the second bottle freo of charge.' "He did so, and before I had taken the half of the second bottle I began to feel relief. This Has encouraging, and I procured a third bottle Before I had finished it I was so improved that I was asked to go back to work. But I w&3 afraid to rick it, and eaid, No ; wait till I hive used three bottles more. for this Mother ■ eigel's Curative Syrup is doing for me what no medicine m India or England has done yet— it ia healing m« from the very depths where I was ill end dyiDg. "30, as you may suppose, I kept right along with Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup until the fifth bottla waa gone. 'Xhon I presented myself to the astonished people of Warboys as robust, strong, and well, ob I was when I first entered the army. — I returned to my work, and my comrades looked upon me as one risen from the dead. With eyes full of wonder they asked, ' What has dono this for you? 1 and I answered, 'I owe my life and health to Mother Seigtil's Curative Myrup, and am willing that everybody m England should I heir me cay so.' 1 have nnvor lo*t sin hour's work sir,e«, und will giiidly roply to letters of enquiry. — Jolm Hodson, VVarbova, Huntingdonshire." Mr Hodson's renl disease was indigastion und dyspepsia, caused by change ofjelimat.o, foot), and habits- The diurrbwi was one of its . symptoms — Nuturo'a effort to get rid of the p'lieonous matters m tho stomach and bowels Mother Sngol's Ourativo Syrup cured the digeetive malady, and tbo symptoms vanished as a necessary consequence But our friend dirl not get the right and only remody a d»y too soon.