Timed and Tried.

Evening Star, Issue 13002, 22 December 1906, Page 11

Timed and Tried.

WEIGHED ASMD WOT FOUWD WAITING. A Story for Sceptlcai Minds.

The Case of Wlra. J. RENNIE. (A SPKCIAI. INVESTIGATION). When all is said and none, there is only one sure way of finding life delightful, and that is by being helpful. Qhis may, in a sense, be looked on as a selfish maxim, but It is a kind of selfishness which would benefit Iho world if there were a little more of tt, especially when the efforts to assist the seedy bear reference to such important ■natters as are spa 1. on of by' Airs. Jane Rennie, of No. IB- Cumberland Street, Dunedin. “ A little more than two years ago,” •em rked that lady, “I was in such a ielicate stale of health that I had to go to a Hospital. I felt so dreadfully ill that I •ntertajued grave doubts as to what the icar future would bring, and I am sure I Might to be very thankful for being alive ind in such goad health to-day." “ Did tho doctors say what was wrong with you ? ” enquired the pressman who had seen instructed to enquire into this matter. “ They s-id it was my liver that was out of irder and that I had indigestion in a very bad ;orm. I knew that much myself, for I had inch a heavy feeling in my chest that X had :o fairly gasp for breath, and sometimes tho sains in that part were so acute that I had to squeeze my chest with both hands to ivy to suppress them. Right down here, too," taid Mrs. Rennie, drawing her hand along the right side, “ X had the most excruciating tgouies that a suffering woman could itruggle against, and when X had taken any food the pains in my stomach were so great that I could hardly endure them. It felt as though I were chock full of wind that could lot escape, and until it was bejehed away the torture 1 had to put up with was .ndoscrikuble. Ilcfoic I took iil I aad tften heard people talkiug about inligesliou, aud I used to think it could not to bftlf so bad as they tried to make out; out I know bow terrible it is now and I would like to aid those who are suffering in the same way to get rid of it. If I took a Xrit>k of water or a cup of tea I had a sensation in my stomach as if the liquid was going jver a big stone. 'The loss of my appetite was another of my -misfortunes, but I was determined not to starve, so I used to make myself cat, yet I did not gain anything by' doing so, as X invariably bad to go out into the yard and vomit everything np again. Dh ! it was pitiful to see bow weak 1 got, with no color in my face and no ambition or desire to do anything. Ror all the good I ivas I might just as well have been out of tbd world altogether, and in one way it would have beep better so, for then I would save been fr?e front the agonies that were making me a complete wreck. Across my prehead I was afflicted with pains that teemed to affect my sight, and in my eyes there w s a feeling as if they were too large ’pr their sockets- I used to put vinegar and water cloths to my head to see if they vould give me ease ; but whatever relief I rot did pot last long, and after the brief ■espite the pains seemed to get ten times worge. My doctor advised me to put some ■pit jts on a cloth and then apply to my lead, but it was all useless. ‘ There was fOthing in the pay of medicine which could rive pin the least help against my afflictions, •pd so I went on until I was nearly driven 0 despair- If I closed my eyes for a riomenv >vhtn X opened them I could see i.nall black specks dancing all round, and X ised to get so giddy that 1 had to hold on to .ny thing handy and call out for some one ,o bring me a chair. * 1 got so feeble that I elt as if i could just lie down and never mother about getting up again." « Hpw did you rest at nights 1” _

“ I got very little indeed, for I waa town* about most of tbo time ; then I got Bp am had a drink of water now and again, ant tried all sorts of things to get to sleep, bu it was no use. Some nights I dozed awaj before twelve o’clock, but then I hat tenifying dreams, and when I awoke I wai filled with dreadful thoughts which madi me shako with fear. Owing to my nervoui condition my mind was terribly distressed I fancied I could seo people at my window and hoar voices in my room, and when 1 could stand the awful suspense no longei I called out ‘ Who’s there?’ It all scemct’ so real, I have got up at four o’clock in tin morning and walked outside because I ■ onlc not sleep, so you can see what a miserabh existence I had. If a spoon fell to the llom my nerves fairly jumped again, and I had o lot of bother with my heart, which wai given to palpitating so violently that I uses' to get quite scared.” “ You arc a fortunate woman to liav? recovered ua well as your appearance iudi cates. How did you manage it ? ” "Clements Tonic managed everything foi me, thank God ! oven when I was in such » hopeless condition as 1 have described t c you. Yes ; you may well look surprised hut that is a fact lam telling you. Mj daughter brought me a bottle of Clements Tonic, and when I saw it I said : ‘ What kind of rubbish is this you have got me?* (many sceptics talk like this—but a trial changes the tune.—En.) But I know th, worth of Clements Tonic now, for I took that bottle and then kept on with the samt medicine till I was like one horn again. 1 remember how joyful I was when Clements Tonic began to give mo the first real relicl from head pains that 1 had yet experienced, for they kept on getting less and less lib they finally disappeared, and when the paim in my stomach and side had gone I see med to he living in a different world altogether. It was not one of sorrow and suffering os i( had been before I started on Clements Tonic, but a world of peace and happiness. Of course, I am speaking of the time when that remedy had got properly to work on my system and had cured my nervousness, am! when I could eat, and sleep right through each night and not have a dream of any sort. it. was a wonder to me that anything could put my digestive organs right when they were in such a had state, but nothing seemed too much for Clements Tonic to do, as it succeeded in doing everything that was requited, even to slopping my 1 cart from palpitating and giving mo more strength tlmn I had known for a long time. The work that I had so often In put off from day to day owing to my feebleness again became a p’easure to me, ami i look upon Clements, Tonic as a blessing sent from Heaven for ths purpose of restoring my health.” “Have you any objection to your statements being made public ?” “None whatever. You may publish lliopi in any form ypj,; please. ” STATUTORY UECLAISATIOS. I, Jane Home, of lt;2 Cmobcrlaad sti din. in the Colony of Xt'-v Zealand. d read ihc annexed dof.smtn'. ■ “misi: folios, and comecdUvely < anti that it contains and u a line ai account n( my fitness and cute hy * den'.i amt also contains my full permi-tien to any wav mr stafcEmenls —v-mcn I a larily, without receivin'.' any v.'i" ’ make this a-iejnn declaration, < on-.itm in in a' the same to he line, and hy provisions of an Act ft the ftonera! At New Zealand, intituled “The Justices cf isse." & Dec’kutl ai Dunedin. U,ie sixteenth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three, * cfore mt, ttil.D. = BbS®ah,4.R