HE GAME HOME TO DIE

Timaru Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 5194, 15 July 1891, Page 4

HE GAME HOME TO DIE

Ons day m Deaamber 1888, b British trans' port vessel arrived at Gosport. Only a brief look wub nee-Jed to aasu<-4 the spectator that she bad made the loj^ rayage from India. 'ihere were soldisrj on ooard ; some on leave of ahßer.ce to visit home, and others co worn and wasted that it was plain to Bee why they wore come back from the East to the dear old Island. Of theso poor fellows a few were just able to go on to their friends, while others were just strong enough to buar the journey to the Navy Yard Hospital. Among the latter was one to whom we will introduce the reader. — You would have fancied him to have been about 30 years of age, yet tbe vigour and elasticity of youth were mißßing. — Disease had dove the work of time, and it was but tbe wreck of a man that ontered the hospital doors that day. It was a wonder that he lived to roach an Enelish port. Several months later, by accident, the writer of these lines heard that soldier's story from hie own lips, and here it is Bubstantiully m his own words. "In the year 1883," ho Biid, " I enliited m Her Majesty's 51st Begirneufc and was soon ordered out to India, where I arrived on the following Christmas ; and left there for Burmßh Oct. 6th, 1886, where I remained eighteen months, being present at Mandalay when King Thoebaw surrendered to our troops. Here my good hftalth began to give way. At firßt I hud a sinking feeling at the pit of the Btoroach, and was bo dull and drowsy I. cauld BearcMy keep up. I bad pain m tho right side and under the Bhouldor blades My spirits were depressed and everything' seemed Bad and melancholy. I couldn't fat, and lay m bed Iccplees night after night till I was almost wild for lack of rest. My ekin and eyes turned yellow, as is to common with Kuropeans m India : my tonguo was badly coated, feet cold and clumsy, stomach iick and upset, vomiting, and conbtant diarrhoea. In this bad form I lay m bed for four months m 1887.

" Uoth tho Regimental doctor and a doctor of the Indian Government, eaid I was Buffering from dysentery. I wos weak as a baby, and pulsed nothing but slime from the bowel«. No treatment availed to stop the diatrboea, winch waa, fast draining the life out of mo. Ifirmily I was sent homo, iind arrived at Gobpor» m Dec. 1888, where I lay m the hospital until Feb., 1889, when / was discharged as incurable, nntl placed m the Army Hejerye. " I returned to Wurboya, m Huntingdonshire (my homo) uncl tried to work. But it whs iinpo.Hsiblo 1 wao so omneiited that old acquaintances did not", at fint recogniee me, " Hudson, you needn't trouble to buy any more clotheß. Tho only suit you'll require will be a wooden box."

" After eating, even a little, I wan obliged to hurry away from tho table becnuso of the terrible griping, gnawing pains m the stomach and bowels. My fatbor and mothor wero oSar.-ned, and I consulted a doctor at Warboys but what he gave me had no good effect.

" At last it was Mr Nicholl, tho Ohomist, of Warboys (now of Oroydon) who eaid to me, Hodtaa, you had bettor try Mother Seigel'B Curative syrup.' On this I bought a bottle jand iifed it, but I couldn't s'e it did any good. Mr Nieholl said, 'Try it again I siaT« sunh eonflderxse m it that I will give you ih<i He<:oml boltlo fron of efmrgo.' 'H.n cU<l so, and before T hud taken tho half of tho second bottle I begon to fool relief.

This w&s encouraging, and 1 proourod a third | bottle. Before 1 had finished it I was so improved that I waa asked to go back to work. But I was afraid to risk it, and said, No j wait till I have used three bottles more, for this Mother ■ eigel's Curative Syrup is doing for me what no medicine m ludia or Kngland has done yet— it is healing me from the very depths where I was ill and dying. "30, as you may suppose, I kept right along > with Mother Seigel'a Curative Syrup until 1 the fifth bottle, was gone. Then I presented I myself to tbe astonished people of Warboys as robußt, strong, and well, as 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 done this for you ?' and I answered, ' I owe my life and health to Mother Beigel'B Curative Syrup, and am willing that everybody m Sngland should hear me Bay ao,' I have never lost an hour's j work since, and will gladly reply to letters of enquiry. — John Hodeon, Warboys, Huntingdonshire." Mr Hodson's real disease was indigestion and djßpepsia, caused by change of^climate, food, and habits. The diarrheea was one of its symptoms — Nature's effort to get rid of tbe poisonous matters m the stomach and bowels Mother Heigel's Curative Syrup oured the digestive malady, and the symptoms vanished as a necessary consequence. But our friend did not get tho right and only remedy a day too soon.

Officious stranger (who hi 3 been boring his fellow paseeoger for an hour) : " By the way, haven't I met you somewhere before P " Stranger: "Very likely. I'm the inspector of lunatio asylums."

The Hindus are about to adopt a modern notion m forming a " Hindu tourists' party " for visiting Europe, Amerioa, China, Japao, and the States. The " Hindu noblemen ond gentlemm " who are tn^it> > "o join the party, are assur. .'■ that they will .. -.ble to travel without' violation of caeiu rules.

A Melbourne paper says the Bernhardt boom is tho biggest thai iue theatrical world has men — £814 the first »ight, aud an average of over £500 per night ever since, whioh givee a return of about £8500 for the firet week. Of this amount it is understood that the fair Sarah receives £120 per night, onethird of the gross takings m addition, and also £40 a week for hotel eipdneeß These sums altogether give her £720, £1166 6s 81, and £40, making m all £1926 6s Bd. The Williamson and Garner management have the balancce, £6573 13» 4d. Of course they have tbe heavy expenses of the theatre to pay, rents, light, band attnndance, and so on, probably £400 per week, and their preliminary expenses muat have beon enormous.