The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-11-19

Oh, what a glorious world 1 had got
back into! and what a reception from
mother and sisters at the familiar
house. Oh, life! Oh, health. Oh,
dulce, dulce domHm!
Such an illness, if one survives it,
only makes the sense of existence and
1t is good rather than bad. Lucky boy,
not to have slipped through the doc
tors fingers.
But when a man with most of his
days behind him has to write a line
like this: IAN my life l have suffered
more or less from disease"-why that
is another and sadder story. 1t is the
odds between an occasional thunder
storm and sky always covered with
Clouds
We quote what he says, reminding
the reader that in this matter Mr. Will
liam Hodkinson voices the experience
of millions. He says: 81 always had
bad taste in the mouth, no proper
relish for food, and after eating had
pain and fullness at the chest"
These sensations are symptoms of
acute indigestion. In the stomach
there is marked loss of power. The
food is neither rolled over as it should
be, so that the whole of it in turn may
be presented to the digestive fluid, nor
is it duly moved on towards the outlet
into the bowels AS a result, it fer
ments and gives off irritating acids and
gases, hence the patient complains of
pain, weight, distention, acidity, and
flatulence in that region. Thence the
poisons proceeds to every other part of
the body, and headache, vertigo, govt,
rheumatism, depressed spirits, and a
score more of evils follow; among
them, possibly, nervous prostration,
progressive anaemia, locomotor ataxis,
and more or less complete paralysis.
Frequently" continues Mr.. Hodkin-
son, 81 was sick, and as time went on
l became very weak and feeble. I con-
suited one doctor after another and
took various medicines but obtained
no real or lasting relief from any of
them. This describes my general con-
dition until the fortunate day when l
read about Mother Seigel's Curative
Syrup. l was impressed by the state
ments others had made concerning it,
and proceeded to try it. After taking
one bottle found relief, and was soon
entirely free from my old complaint.
Since that time (now eight years ago.
I have enjoyed good health Knowing
personally of its virtues, have recon-
mended this remedy to hundreds, and
have never heard of its having failed
to give relief But for Mother Seigel's
Syrup I should have been in my grave
years ago. (Signed) WILLIAM HOD-
KINSON, Hollington, near UttoXeter,
Staffordshire, August 18th, 1898"
Mr.. Hodkinson is well known and
highly respected. He is a local preach
er in the Methodist church, and by en-
ployment quarry master. Had he
gone into the grave, as he feared he
should, he would have been missed and |
lamented by the community in which |
he has long been useful, and will live
to be useful, we hope, for years to
come.
Now let us repeat our leading
thought. Short illness, even though
sharp and dangerous, may result in
good, rather than harm. But a disease
that drags its victim through decades
Of lingering illness-what shall we say
Of it? The trouble and suffering it in
1icts is beyond estimate, and its name
IS Indigestion and dyspepsia
And the name of the medicine that
cures it Mr.. Hodkinson has done you
he favor to mention with clearness
and emphasis.