The Pistol and the Bottle.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue XXIV, 15 June 1901, Page 1146

The Pistol and the Bottle.

The man who has once driven a burglar out of his house with a pistol is likely to keep the weap m handy by for use in the future. On a similar principle Mrs Elizabeth Langmaid is never without a l>ottle of Mother Seigel’s Syrup where she can lay hands on it any day.

About four years ago she was taken bad with what was called “a complication of complaints.” The d ctor said she had an abscess on one of her lungs, 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 I tell you I layhelpless in bed 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 wi th.)

“Finally,” Mrs Langmaid goes on to say, “when I got out of bed. all of me that could waste away w s gone. I was just a skeleton covered by a skin. In truth they wrapped me in wadding—for appearance and for such comfort and warmth as the protection might give me. “Whatever my complaint was I always had a dreadful pa!n in my sides and under the shoulder-blades; but the medicines I 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.

"Anyway I 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. Cp 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 persevered in taking the remedy until by degrees I got strong again. Gradually, too, I picked up my lost flesh, and recovered my former good health. “Ever since then I keep a bottle of Seigel’s Syrup in the house, and take a dose whenever I feel out of sorts in any way.

“You may publish this if you like, and I shall always be glad to hear of Seigel’s Syrup doing for others what it did for me.” Elizabeth Langnviid, Market-street. Muswellbiook, N.S.W.. Sept. 26th, 1899.