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Evening Star, Issue 11683, 15 February 1902, Page 3

me bmmmii TSLL. IT TUfi I; AJ Aw* PW/T LTT. The Case cf Mr. J. T. RICHASEE {By a Special Re porta'.) The mad from Invercargill to the Bluff is enough to make the eyes of th< cyclist glisten with delight. The sconory along the route does not cal forth enthusiastic outbursts of admiration, certainly; but for a traveller wil-i a craving for exercise, and with limile:. time at his disposal, the condition ol the road will bo found most agrees id c Such was the experience of our re porter when he journeyed to the residence of Mr. James Thomas Richards grocer, The Bluff, who explained that lor two years ho had been engaged in tho ihiilng industry whilst being in Moeraki. $ ‘■’How did you find that occupation agree with you?” enquired the newspaper man. . ‘‘Oh. it agreed with me well enough for a while, but the great trouble was ; luck of proper food. 1 used to go away early in the morning with my boat, am took my food very irregular!y. The lib. of a fisherman is not all plain sailing There are a lot of hardships tc cornea with, the most serious in' their con----cjucnccs being long periods of expesur to bad weather and a want of mu rilion food when it is most needed. 1 oui. raw a butcher onto a week, while vog>; tables and fruit wore as scarce as watc in the Desert of Sahara.©This iuvrd hv iug broke mo up by degrees. I used t, go out on my fish-catching excursion not caring whether the wind was nr. niug with mo or against me. and who tho nets were drawn in I did not cr c whether the fish wore many or few. lost- all interest in my occi-jud-Km. hibecame so listless and inert Hmt » did not/ matter to me which v.i.y i ■ wiud blew. It became mo-e and me distressing sense of weariness took i ■- session of every Win!) in my body. to make nii!tiers worse. i v. as siv ; extremely crestfallen ami m-’m-'cho'y. “ Did you try the efficacy of a goo rest r :l “ 1 could not get any rest at all. M mind was in a chronic state of once, ness, as though I had a-H tho rerpous. In lies of flic world on my rdma'ers. 1, stead of sleeping when I went io b--d was my customary habit to lie bmi> dover Urn physical clcrangcmcii!;; !i*„ that I was in such an {tppnibiig tV.fe lion of debility uuioss you luvd seen me The whole of my vitality had gore, ;•••■ I was just as useless as a clock with on any works. Even to breathe was a ; r ■ ble. as my chest felt stuffed ami heavy ■ " Wero you taking medicine cf r. kiiuVr” ‘‘Yes, of various kinds, but I mighave emptied them into ihe sen. for a tho good I derived. 1 thought- my cow, plaint., was incurable till a friend feme he. had been jm-1 as bn! 'c T a and that Clements Tonic saved h;-.- ! 'f. This information was gooi! i-nm-rh. m that day I bought, ilroc w.-tdes of t ments Tonic, and they saved rnv k. also. Clements Tonic poured v:t- '■ into my veins, gave me an appeti' - toned up my norve-s. and made a .sire; man or me. My complaint was r-’ v plctely cured by Clements Tonic, and wish other sufferers to bear of tin-, farts, which you can publish ia an way you chose.” STATUTOR\-.DIiCLARATiON. I, Jamks Tiioma-. Richards, of The Binfl. in ,i Colony of New Zealand, do solemnly and sin. ~! declare tliat I have carefully red the aojoup document, consisting of two folios and censorialnumbered from one to two, and tiiat it contains a. Is a true and faithful account of nry illness and i by Clements Tonic, and a-so contains tuy hiil gt, mission to publish in any way my statements- whi--1 give voluntarily, without receiving any paymem and I make this solemn declaration coriscii-ntion-believing the same to be true, and by virtue o< ilprovisionsof an Act cf the General Assembly ui S-w Zealand, intituled "Tbe Jcatices-o." Peace Act, jSSc / Declared at The Blafi-iSsuMeventhday of January M» dmuiyjr* v< -oiueimE<?red »ij<i c:no, before me, J. R„ U£ir», J.P.