The Pistol and the Bottle.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue XXIII, 8 June 1901, Page 1092

The Pistol and the Bottle.

Tin- man who has once driven a burglar out of bis house with a pistol is likely to keep the weapon handy by for use iu the future.

On a similar principle Mrs Elizabeth Langmaid is never without a liottle of Mother Seigel's Syrup where she ean lay hands on it any day.

About four years ago she was taken bad with what tvas called “a complication of complaints." The doctor said she had an abscess on one of hetlungs. and also indigestion and heart troubles.

And, seeing how she looked and felt, we should have believed him without a moment’s hesitation.

‘•You can get an idea.” she says, "how bad I was when 1 tell you I layhelpless in lied nearly nine months.” (That does give us the idea and no mistake. Save for the hope of recovery—which seldom quite perishes in the mind—l would as lief be dead, and so have the trouble over and done with.)

“Finally," Mrs Langmaid goes on to say, "when I got. out of bed, all of me that could waste away was gone. I was just a skeleton covered by a skin. In truth they wrapped me in wad-ding-—for appearance and for such comfort and warmth as the protection might give me. ‘‘Whatever my complaint was I always had a dreadful pain iu my sides and under the shoulder-blades; but the medicines 1 took had no more effect on it than so much sweetened water would have had.

‘•While in this miserable condition, I remembered how different friends of mine had spoken of the virtues of Seigel’s Syrup for many kinds of ailments that nothing else seemed able to help.

“Any way 1 was sure it would be no mistake to try- it. and so I got a bottle from Campbell and Co.'s store in this town. Up to that time I always had a great feeling of weariness and drowsiness after eating, and could not shake it off.

“But to my delight I soon discovered that a dose of the Syrup dispelled this almost immediately, and by the. time I had finished the first bottle I was greatly improved.

“As you would suppose. I )H-rsever-ed in taking the remedy until by degrees 1 got strong again. Gradually, too, I picked up iny lost flesh, and recovered mv former good health. “Ever since then I keep a bottle of Seigel's Svrup in tlie bouse, and take a dose whenever 1 feel out of sorts in any way.

“Y’ou may publish this if you like, and 1 shall'always be glad to hear of Seigel’s Svrup doing for others what it did for me." Elizabeth Lahgmaid, Market-streel. M uswellbrook, N.S.W., Sept. 26th, 1800.