"Lam just standing here to let the oun soak in to me a bit."
It was about two o'clock in the afternoon in London. For two weeks or more the weather bad been rainy and cold. Not a glimpse of the sun by day or of a star by night. Just, dulness, dampness. and chilliness everywhere. People were feeling cross as hungry dogs, Tt wasa time for suicide and rheumatism, and there was plenty of both, Yet Heaven pitied us at length, and at noon of the fifteenth day the clouds were swept away like dust by a new broom, and the sun came out warm and bright. "How we all Dlessed him, and tried to lift ourselves up to meet him half way. You can fancy it. Then it was that I asked the young clerk what he was doing out on the pavement in business hours, and he answered in the words which begin'this article. Small blame tu him, for what is business to a baptism of sunshine? Why, nothing, to be sure. what Biz. Hodgson says, T'll tell you what he Now, if you will be good enough to read
and the clerk were alike in. First, though, we will Jet our friend from Leeds have the floor for three minutes. He says Stoney Rock Lane, Leeds, do solemnly and "1, George Hodgson, of 17, Fraser Street sincerely declare as follows "For over twenty years I suffered from a bad stomach and indigestion. I always felt tired and languid, and bail a strange uneasy feeling at the pit of my stomach. I had a foul taste in the mouth, particularly in the morning. My appetite was poor, and after every meal I had great pain at the chest and sides. Tivas much troubled with sick' headache, and T had often pain and weight atm forehead. A hacking cough troubled me d ing the night and out rising in the moi and 1 spat up a deal of thick phlegm, As time went on I became pale and emaciated, and got weak and nervous, and for twit years I never felt well, 1 struggled on with work as best I could, but Telvso exhausted that I had to lie down during my dinner hour, and also when T reached home at night, I ws calvcays in pain, and what my sufferings were during those long years, no Words cvn express. T took all kinds of medicines I could hear tell of, and was under three doctors, but no medicine that I took gave me more than temporary relief, At last I became weary of ta physic, and quite thought my ailment was incurable. In February of 1888:1 got very low and week, for, added to my old standing eomplaint I was in such " state with piles that 1 could neither sit nor lie down. {he pain was almost more than I could, bear, It was like a knife cutting me open, and perspiration would fairly run off me, so severe were my sufferings. For six mouths L went on in this way, getting weaker and weaker, and I thought Iwas going to die, Just at this time I took a book that was left at my house, and I rendi of a case like mine having been cured by medicine called Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. I got a bottle from the native Stores, Burmantofts, and commenced takin, it. Alter three or four doses of the Syruj found my food digested better and I hind less pain, and by continuing with the medicine I gesdually gumed strength, °By-and-by, as if magic, all the pain from the piles left' me, indigestion troubled mono more. I never ailed anything since, although three years have elapsed, and I ovr fell 20 well in all my Hyeas I'do now. Seigel's Syrup has made a new man of me. others to know what the medicine has done for me, an-l I give full permission to the proprietors of it to make what use they like of Unis statement, in the hope that other sufferers may be benefited. Law a tuilor's presser, and have been in the employ of a wholesale clothier in Quebec ete be true, by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory' Declaration Aet, 1835 (Will. IV., e. 62), (Signed) Gsnowe Hopusox, Declared before me at 3 the County of York, by the said George Hodguon, Gth day "of October, (Signed) One. Cooke,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.