A NARRATIVE WORTH READING.

Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue LXVII, 30 January 1904, Page 15

A NARRATIVE WORTH READING.

Education for the Uninitiated.

The Ca«o of Mr. R. MANN. (BY A SPKOIAL REI'OUTER ) Wot thy of mwo than passing notioo and attention aio the following remarks, which woro m,vlo in tha presence of our loporier, tiy Mr. Robert Mann, of E<pross Avemio, Nowtown, Wellington :—: — " For tlto last forty years I havo lived in Wellington an<l havo m.ulo a great minihor of friend* during tMt time, and 1 darosay you could find bcores who could toll you how terribly 1 sulTuied with the livor boiiio years ago. 1 ant a carpenter by trade, und you know what a lot ot woi l< wo hivvo to do out in the open, and what that means to a man when ho is sick, during tho cold weather." " Did your livor on'y trouble you during tho winter?" enquirod tho press rcj>ie*< ntutivo. " Oli ! no, inikod ; all tho year round, pretty well ; hul I w»s just remarking how miserable it was to bo so unhealthy during tho cold seasons, for then a man can scarcely kwp hiiniolf warm for want of energy. 1 know that, often I wus so languid that I could scuively do a Up, and yet I would go homo at night feeling as tired as if I had puo in a. good hard <iay's work." " You would, ho able to sleep all tho bot» tor feeling liko that." '•■Don't you bnliovo it, now. It was ono of_the greatest difficulties in the world for mo to Full *Bleep when I did turn in. That irritated inu »a much us anything, for it was horri' lo to be turning and twisting from ono aido to tho ofehor till iuwus nearly timo to got up, and that is just exactly iiow it used to bo with too. And whon 1 got (trussed and sat down to my breakfast, moro ofton thau not I was unable to oat anything. I ha I a nasty Uste in tho mouth, which ueouicd to turn mo againot food ; but it used to go away a bib during tho, day, yot even then my appetite was poor." "No wonder you could not work well, if you were not ablo to take a fair amount of food." ' " That's right. A man cannot expect to remain strong if ho has to leuvo off taking his food ; buc whon there is no appetito, there is no choice about tho mutter. But in a case like mine, what is the good of eating ? I could not digest anything, and that was what th»ioughly knocked mo out. When ouco I 1 ejan losing strength thero was uo hopo of holding it in cite die. I got weaker aud weakor. uitil at last tho loast thing became a groat trouble to mo. Everything that required oxeriion, no matter how small, I studiously avoided, becauso I was so easily o.xhauated. Yot, having to act hka this preyed tipon my mind, and I became as depre-sed in spirits »s jou could imagine anybody to he. When I was walking along tho street sometimes I used to feel a strange sensation coming over me, as if everything was on the move, and by degrees the things I saw would get smaller nnd smaller until at last they appeared to be nothing but little black sp<'cki ; and then I would get quito giddy and likely to fall. You can tike my word for it, I used to hato CKose nnsty atucks, eHpeoially as I had so many other things to put up with as woll." " After your meals, I daresay, joitr troubles would be moro numerous V •'You have jusfc hit it. That was tho time when my sutlcring was nt its height — shortly after I had tat on a few in»uthfuls of food. It was something abominable tho way I got up from the table with a feeling in the stomach as if I had been fillmg myself with wind instead of inorcly taking » littlo of something nourishing; and bcfoio much longer I Mfc a leurienod ueiiuatton in my chest, which made mo quite shortWinded. Then, every day of my wretched exis'enco, I Whs. almost driven to despair with the most violent hqpduchus that » man could havo. So distressed did they make

mo that somotimes T felt ns if thoro was 110 th ng on earth worth cm ing for, and I would not have minded what happened so long as I got out of niy misery. If I chitncud to ileep for a while I had tho ni"St a > fnl dreams you could think of, and I woke up with such a heavy fcoli' g in my eyes that it took me all my time to keep thorn opon. My tongue was never free irom a thick, slimy coaling that win most ollenBive ; and, in tho curly put of tho day, 1 coul 1 scarcely w.ilk for tho aches übout my loins. On top of all this cumo a complulu break-up of my nervous ByHtom. Ah ! that was a terrible calamity, for I worried nioic than ever to lind iny.sulf shaking liko a man on tho verge of destruction ; and it was ronmikablo how my mind was tortured with ideas about the dreadful things that woio g ing to happen, but wh'<h, in reality, novi-r did occur. Yea • I pity anyono who suflura liko I did, and that is why 1 have so often recommended viho uso of Clomouls Tonio, because it is tho only euro remedy that a person ouu tt.ke." *' You imißb have hud a wido oxperiouce to mnke tv statement like th.it." " If my experienco was limited I would not make such an abortion, but I say that because 1 bail tried most known mod oines during the years I was BiiflVriui; with the liver, and the only one th.it helped me, aud cured mo, was Clemunts Tonic ; and i would be impossible to get moro substantial proof than that. It was just a mutter of luck that ever I came to try it at all, for I hod £ot quite hick of buying lh'sb one thing and then another, and nothing ovor coining of it ; but it was not so wuh Clements Tonic, a> Ib »t mesticinc wont straight to tho foundation of my physical infirmities nnd begun to effect repairs tight away.,. How much I took I cannot say preoisoly, but thu main thing was that I got my health back through its iuQuouco, an t that is what would never havo come through any o'lior lneiliuine but Olomuiits Tonic. Instead of dr»gi^iug out a miserable existcuco as formerly, Clomouts Tonio, in a few wooks, mado mo realise that I was alive nnd that thin world was not so gloomy after all. Indeed, I took quite a now interest in everything, for, whon my di^otiou wns thorougnly restored, 1 felt liko a man born ufrosh. I could oat heartily and uovor had any discomfort after my moiilx again ; and I was delighted to find that headaches, sleeplesmies*, a il the ills I had previou ly endured could not live against Clements Tonic, which remedied them all. Thank God ! my nervousness was also got over by th« siune 111011118, and, wlut wus moro to tho point, I regained every purtiulo of strength 1 had lost, and was soon üble to la^klo tho hardest work without any trouble. My cure was bo thorough that 1 felt liko a youth full of vigor aud spirit, and since tho last occasion upon which 1 took a do.su of Clements Tonic my health hus bacn superb." " Aro you willing to have thin published ?" "Certainly; you may publish each syllable in any way you desire." STATUTORY DBOt<AHATtON. I, UonrKT Main, of bpvm Avenue, Ncwtown, WellliiKton.i'i 1 lie Colon) ■ 1 .N'ewZo.ilumt, clo»oltmiily Mid sincerely declare that 1 li»v« ,»rt- , fully rind the miiuixtil document, cotuiallm,' of tlireo (olio* mwl uouaeuutlvel> numbered fiom onr to tliree, mid tlut It. contain* fcu-' U » irurf (vtnl faithful account of my illncßut.ml cure by Clemenii Tonic, and aUo couUirm my full perinlmlon to pub* II «ti in any Why my tiMeniooU - whloli I glv* vulumarlly, without receiving any payment: nn>l I nmku lIIU noieinii ilec: nminn conioii'iiiiotiily be lievlui; tho fame to be taio, nn>l by virtue of the itrotiii'iiH f »" Aci. of (Mb Ciunerol AH4embl,v n( Nev/ Zealand, intitulOU " The Justices of l'eucc Att, I8al" Deolnroi nt Wellington this oiirhteenth dnv oj May, one thousand iiinc hundied »iul threo, befora 1110, E. FUASEIWONKS, J.l'.