Letting the Bun Soak In.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4662, 5 June 1893, Page 2

Letting the Bun Soak In.

♦ — ~ "I am just standing here to let the sun soak vnto me a bit." It was about two o'clock in tbe afternoon in London, For two weeks or more the weather had been rainy and cold. Nob a glimpse of the sun by day or of a star bj night. Just dulneee, dampne b and chillinesß everywhere. People were feeling pram as hungry doge. 1 1 wae a time fo* eiiidlde and rheumatism, and there was plenty of both. Yet Heaven pitied us at length /and at noon of the fifteenth day the cloud* were swept away like dust by a new broom, and the aun came out warm and bright. How we all blessed him, and tried to lift,our» selves up to meet him half way. You can fancy it. Then it was that I asked the young dark what he was doing out on the pavement in business hours, and he answered in t*e words which begin this article. Small blame to him, for jnjiatis business to a baptism of sunshine ? Why, nothing, to be sure. Now, if you will be good enough to rea<l what Mr Hodgson s.tys, I'll toll you what he and the clerk were alike in» First 1 , though, we will let our friend trom Leeds have the floor for three minutes. He Bays :— [copt.] "I, George Hodgson, of 17, Fiager street, Stoney Rook lane, L^eds, do solemnly and; sincerely declare as follows :— " For over twenty years I euffered from,' a bad stomach and indigestion. I always felt tired and languid, and had a strangeuneasy feeling at tbe pit of my stomach,. 1 1 bad a foul ta«te in the mouth, particularly [in the morning. My appetite was poor, and after every meal I had great pain at the chest and aides. I was much troubled, with e!ok headache, and I had often pain and weight at my forehead. ,A hacking cough troubled me during the night and on rising in the morning, and I spat up a deal of thick phlegm. As time' went on I became pale and emaciated, and got weak and nervous, and for twenty years I never felt well. Z struggled on with my work as best I could r but felt so exhausted that I had to We down during my dinner hour, and also when I reached home at night. I was always in pain, and what my sufferings were during: those long years, no words can express. I took all kinds of medicineß I could hear tell of, and was under three doctors, but nomedicine that I took gave mere than tern* porary relief. At last I became weary oC taking physic, and quite thought my ailment was incurable. In February of 1888 I got very low and weak, for, added to my old standing complaint I was in such a state with piles that I could neither Bit nor lie down. The pain was almost more than I could bear. It waa like a knife cutting me open, and perspiration would fairly run off me, so severe were my sufferings. For six months I went on in thiß way, getting Weaker and weaker, and I thought I was going to die. Just at this time I took up a book that was left at my house, and I read of a case ■ like minehaving been cured by a medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I got a bottle from the Co-operative Stores, Burmantofts, and commenced taking it. After three or four doses of the Syrup I found my food digested better and I had leas pain, and by continuing with the medicine I gradually gained strength. By-and-by, as if by magic, all the pain from the piles lef fc me, and indigos* tion troubled me no more. I have never ailed anything since, although three years have elapsed, and I never felt so well in all my life as Ido now. Seigel's Syrup has made a new man of me. I wish others to know what tbe medicine haß done for me, and I give full permission to tbe proprietors of it to make what use they like of this ' statement, in the hope that other suffererß may be benefited. lam a tailor's presser, and have been in the employ of a whole-, sale clothier in Quebec street, Leeds, foeover eight years. I will gladly answer any: inquiries. " And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, by virtue of the provisions of ' The Statutory Declaration Act, 1835/ (Will. IV., c. 62). / "(Signed) Geobge, Hodgson.. " Declared before me at Leeds.N in the County of York, by I the said George Hodgeop,{ this 6th day of October > Seal, 1891. I " (Signed) Alt?. Cooke, \ Mayor of Leeds." ) Turn bacls, and read once more the** seventh sentence in the statement. The last seven words are these, "For twenty years I never felt well." A dull sky and bad weather in this man's life for twenty years! Think of that. Then follow alongr to where he says, "I never felt so well in. all my life as Ido now." No wonder he wants others to know about it. That shows him to be, what be is, a right-thinking and a right feeling man. His announcement' will do good— lots of good — as there is amultitude of men and women tormented in theßame way Mr Hodgson was. Some havesymptoms like his, and others have different ones, but they all signify the presence* and power of the same old nuisance and Bcourge— indigestion and dyspepsia. The reader takes notice, of course, of' the form in which the foregoing statement is made— the form of a Bimple and solemn, declaration, according to law,' before a magistrate, the Mayor of Leeds. The only purpose of this on the part of Mr Hodgson is to impart all the dignity and weight to ' his words that is possible. He desires that what he says may be understood to be thetruth and nothing but the truth. Any. body who disputes it would dispute the uncontradicted testimony of a witness in a court of justice. But, no fear. The case is too plain for question, and we rejoioe with our friend that after bo long a period of dismalweather in his life, a medicine was found that now enables him to stand, like the London clerk, and "lei the sun soak in a bit."