IN SEARCH OF PRIMITIVE MAN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1909, Page 13

IN SEARCH OF PRIMITIVE MAN.

The Case of Mr. J. HOIU3.

London journals announce that an important British, expedition is being despatched to New Guinea to explore the largest absolutely unknown area on the earth's surface— an area, as large as Great Britain and Ireland and France together. The explortion is under tho leadership of Mr. Walter Goodfellow, a noted ornithologist. Nothing is known about the interior of Zhitoli Now Guinea, but it is expected that tho expedition will como across eojno of the most primitive forms of nun.

(BY A SPECIAL REPORTER.) If we cannot hope to know everything, we can, at lo »st, take care to learn all that oiu' opportunities affotd, and he will be a wise man who possesses himself of every item of information that comes within his giasp. Not only will ho beuefit from the point ef view of his profit or of hi* pleasure, but such information as he succeeds in gaining will increase his intelligent interest in all the varied life which goes on around him, »nd of which he is a part. A valuable Addition to the reader's store of knowledge will be made in c- nnection with the following story, which was told to our reporter by Mr. John Hollis, of Herald-street, Berampore, Wellington, who remarked :—: — " Some time ago I was unfortunate in finding that my health was on the downward grade, and as it continued in that direction •t was not very long before my condition oegan to cause me some anxiety." " Had anything unusual happened to Interfere with your health?" asked the writer. " Well, you see, I had been worried a good deal about that time, and I think there Is nothing like mental distress for bringing one's he.ilth down to the lowest pitch. The arsfc signs I had that I was getting infco a | low state was a feeling of intense languidaess and an utter disinclination to bother iliyself about anything. After passively submitting to my loss of energy one day I would make up my mind to do better the oext, but when the following day arrived I iras no mare akle to da a hard day'a work than I was previously. It seemed as though ill the vitality had been sapped out of my lyntem, and the more I tried to exert myself the more feeble my efforts beoame." " Were you taking medicine of any 3escription, Mr. Hollis ? " " That was the only course open to mo, for [ was too greatly debilitated to run any risk through neglecting myself. Yes ! I took medicine right enough. How many bottles [ cannot aay just now, but I tried all sorts, •luch a variety of labels as I had in my nouse you never saw ; but I can say with truth that they never did me a pennyworth )f good. It was just equivalent to putting iiy hand into my pocket and throwing so ■nuch money to the winds. Indeed, it was sven worse than that, as my sufferings were jontinually on the increase, and I was wast.ng so much valuable time as well by taking ihose worthless nostrums. I then thought :t w ould be better to see a doctor, and was jn -my way one morning when it occurred ,-.o me that I was rather late, aud do you know I always look upon that fact — in the "ighb of subsequent experience — as a very mcky one for me, because' I had not gone much farther when a new idea struck me." j "Yes," said the journalist, " may I know I what it was ? " " Oh ! I have no reason to keep it from : you. In fact, lam only too pleased to let yourself and all the world know what it was, because it afterwards had such a wonderful bearing upon my future existence. The thought that struck me was to get some Clements Tonic, and the reason that idea (lashed across my* mind was because I suddenly recollected how much good Clements Tonic had done somebody I know very well. It was not what had been told to me that I was going on, for I had observed the splendid work of .dementi Tonic with my own eyes, und when I remembered this I hardly wasted a moment before I had some Clements Tonic jn my possession, and I am sure that in the twenty years that I have lived in Wellington I have never met a medicine to approach it for the ailments that I was enduring." " What did they consist of chiefly ? " " la addition to what I have already told you, I must not forget to state that I was in an exceedingly nervous condition, for the leftsfe thing agitated me, aud' my mind w&b

'always engaged in ruminating over unpfefti ant possibilities. One of the most serious features of my illness w*s that I had gon» completely off my food. Some days I fel* as if I did not care whether I had any oi not ; but at the beat of times my appctita was easily satisfied. The weakening effecti of being liko that you can well imagine, and how much worse tilings were for ma when I could not rest at nights you can easily understand. I used to lie awake for hours thinking about all sorts of things that were going to happen, and when I got up in the mornings I felt almost too weary ta stand. My loina and limbs ached, my mouth had a bitter taste, and there wm nothing to see of my tongue excepting the thick tur that covered it. There is no 1 dou'ot it was x most distressing experience, and I commenced to worry more than evet because of my heart, which used to thump and thump terribly. A few mouthfuls o! food gave me more pain than enough, foe after eating anything I could hardly breathe for the weighty feeling in my chest, au4 my stomach soon contained a quantity of wind that caused me great discomfort until I had succeeded in belching it away. Then between my shoulders I had a terribly sharp pain, and the agony I suffered with headaches no one but imself has the leasts conception of. AuoUier thing I noticed after meals was dizziness ; and at last I got to loathe the thought of taking food at all, because it always meant such torture afterwards — at least, until I began with Clement* Tonic, and then, to my delight and | astonishment, things began to mend all I round. Several days' use of that wonderful medioiue resulted in my headaches being consideiably eased, and I found it particu« larly effective in soothing my nerves. Afc night time Clements Tonic was, my salvation, as it destroyed all the causes of my rebtlessness and gave me the peaceful sleep that my enfeebled system required, Thost fccling3 of hopelessness that had haunted me whilst I was taking other medicines soon died away now that I was taking Clements Tonic, and I got into a happier frame of mind than I had been in for many months. By-and-bye my headaohes vauished, and the pains and discomforts after meals went with them, for it was really surprising how Clementc Tonic acted upon m^ digestive orguns and I was taking my food as heartily as any man could wish." " You ought not to have been long regaining your /strength then ?" •'Neither I was, for when my food was digesting properly it seemed no time before I was as strong and as eager for work as ever. I have often heard people complaining about suffering from that nasty taste in the mornings, and giddiness, and palpitation" aud those othor ailments that crossed ray path, and it always affords ma great satisfaction to advise them to take Clements Tmiio, for I know that mediciue can cure them' like it cured me. Every sufferer should know of its remaikabla efficacy, and for that re.ison you in.<y publish these remarks of mine in any way you please."