WAGGONER’S UPS AND DOWNS.

Evening Star, Issue 11659, 20 September 1901, Page 8

WAGGONER’S UPS AND DOWNS.

Mr Robert Clucas is a sturdy specimen of a -waggoner, who has passed through fifty years of arduous work, and it w«s w*th a view to obtaining an account of some episodes in his life that a reporter invaded his home in Oxford, Canterbury. . Doubtless, Mr Clucas,” said the reporter, ‘in the ups and downs of existence you have met with incidents well worth publication.” ‘‘As a waggoner,” was the reply, “I had to endure the hardships com- ' mon to those of that calling. Often X have had to go abont in my wet clothes all day long, and night after night I have lain in damp blankets. During my trips 1 was also exposed to rain by day and frost at night, with the result that many years ago rheumatism and sciatica laid hold of me. My legs, arms, and shoulders ached with continual gnawing pains, while sharp shooting pains, something like needles going through one’s flesh, tormented me in my thigh. These pains, I was told, were due to sciatica. At last I became so crippled by these diseases that I was unable to work for my living, and for six months I could not walk oukside the house without both a crutch and stick.” “ Confinement indoors must have been a terrible affliction,” said the reporter, “for one used to outdoor life.” “Indeed it was,” said Mr Clucas, “quite apart from the pain. I could get about so little that, even a door-mat formed an impassable barrier to me. Often for weeks I slept neither by day nor night, and as a natural consequence lost all desire for food of any kind. During these years of suffering I had excellent medical treatment and plenty of home remedies, such as hot-water ‘ cure,’ cold-water ‘ cure,’ and acid ‘ cure ’; I also tried patent medicines, but they were equally useless. Through continually seeing Dr Williams’s pink pills advertised in the papers I became at last convinced that there must be ‘something in them,’ and I sent for a box. After using its contents I improved considerably, and thus encouraged I continued the treatment. As I did so, the pains of and the aches of rheumatism gradually disappeared; my appetite returned, and I slept well every night. Now I have the full use of my limbs and faculties, and can do a day’s work without trouble. I, have advised friends to take these wonderful Dr Williams’s pink pills, and am pleased to learn they have been benefited by so doing,” The case Of Mr Clucas amply proves that Dr Williams’s pink pills arc both a bloodbuilder and nerve tonic, for they cured him of rheumatism and sciatica, the first a disease caused by impure blood, the second a nerve disorder. Ror the same reason they cure neuralgia, lumbago,- bronchitis, consumption, , dysentery, skin diseases, St. Titus’s dance, hysteria, liver and kidney troubles, dyspepsia, amemia, debility, nervous disorders of either sex, etc. Sold by chemists and storekeepers, and by the Dr Williams's Medicine Company, Wellington, three shillings, six boxes sixteen and six, post free. By regulating health, they imparl to ladies a beautiful complexion.—[Advt.]