THE BIROS WHISTLED THE DEAD MARCH" .

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8564, 5 June 1895, Page 4

THE BIROS WHISTLED THE DEAD MARCH" .

"Even the birds on the trees learned* 'to' whistle the ' Dead March.' " It was an old soldier who was talking/ "We were in camp,"- he said,'* 1 in' a* 'flat,' malarious part of the country: Our Colonel was a splendid fighter, but didn't appear' to' have any . idea of sanitary TOtt'tori." Jusfr then we we're in more' .danger from disease' than from the enemy.' ' Presently fever- . Broke out and the man died by'tha db»n. . Hardly a day but we buried some of them in the awamp: In fact "we played thi ' Dead Maroh ' so often that I used so fanqjf - the birdi in the trees had learned to whistle* it. " Awful sorry, you know, boys," situ* onr Colonel, v but so long «s we 'have to stay here, we can't help having the fever.™ -- Yet the Ctolonel was wrong, ai-andtfier ' regiment damped' near us olmoit whdll/ e'soaped. But their oommanaer fought^Ha' malaria with sanitation and ' pAvebfciyJ medioin*. That made the diffnenoa." ' •■' Il? In JannatVt 1892, - the infiuensa 'was op£i demio at , Sbsbbing, near ' Chelmifotr). 1 . Among the , persons ' atGaolced were r MrV , - Abram Thortrgood, of WhitaCßTeuseßwfeiJ her daughter Anniej and' her sons Williaii and Brnes£. They, had terrible pains ifajhe head, core musoles and joints, and 'were very feverish. The whole four— iooiher : and. three ohildren -were confined to their bid*' In a letter on the «übfeot Mr Thordejbbol says : "My wife became quite delirious ;»htf ■ I did not know whert she' was, .arid could : neither, ''-get in 'nor out of bed. t-.1t -.1 gav<| Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup to ; all "6i them with exoellentresnlts; the' fever soon left them, and shortly Oiey weie'weU »ijbl strong as ever, and have since rernamed'adf I may mention that my Qeighbouri -atfoj friends had the sane complaint'at my wife-" and family, but although the others 6ad doctors' and the best atcentionana 'idvico^ none recovered mo rapidly as&y p«tople"c!id.' I thank God that I came to hear of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup, for although we airft a family of seven, living at h'orne, dui&ng the eight years I have kept it' in'the tiouse we have not needed a doctor, thu» saving many pounds in doctor*' bills a'^i' oostly preaorptions. ' • ' '"'" ' '''«J« J

" The way I first nsed Seigel's Sjrup war this *In the spring of 1683 I bej»n r to feel ill and out of sorts. ■My tongue'.wasdre^cf? ' fully coated and a thioh phlegm covered my gum* and teeth. After eating 'JTiriffereVj 1 ifrom pain at the cheat and stomaen. XI&I .bad nights, and sweat so much that in &e> morning my underolothing was so'fcked'wilbV .moisture. In the following . ° AnjjnaC gar- <■ bunoies oa me on the back 6i my neck, on mi" ' nose, and on my cheek boaa. "Wnafc'l'iuf-, '" fered I cannot desoriba, ' I got so low tHat I oould barely crawl about. ThV'dootdn' did me no good. And aa for their physio T might as well have taken tea or water.,' In f pain and suffering I lingered on'untal'l heard, through a ' neighonr, of Mother' Seigel's Curative Syrup and' got a bottfo" from Mr W. Xdnsel, grocer, of Btobbing, 'A.' few doses relieved me, and soon the carbuncles disappeared, and I was w*lla«%Ter. Yours truly (Signed), Abbau THOBoeoob, White House Farm, Stabbing, by Ohelnisford, August 19th, 1892." ' "* "» -> ' < > In Mr Thorogood's own easA the dueas» . wu indigestion and dyspepsia," wbicb- - poisoned ■ his blood and caused the Wi bunoles, which are growths on the under]y. ! ing layers of the skin. After the Symp had purified his blood they were - absorbed -"tad' expelled from the system. Tha effect 61 ths>"remedy in the cases of other momtieis" of bia family shows (what we hare often stated) via. that influenza attacks those whose blood is filled with the. poitonooi aoids thrown into 1 the system by fermented food in th* etomaoh, My Thorogood tays hb wife had own troubled with indigestion and' dyspepsia, which was no doubt the cue with the chil» drenako. Don't allow your blood to become a breeding-pound of disease. On the first •igna of indigestion tak* Mother SvJirfaV Curative Syrup I .' Sou know the proverb* bout the onnoe of prtrention.' ' •■-.•..,.>!