THE WALKING CRAZE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XL, Issue 12402, 26 October 1903, Page 3

THE WALKING CRAZE.

The present interest in long distance walking is just another case of history repeating itself. Barely a century ago the famous Captain Barclay threw all Europe into excitement by winning hi? wager that he could walk a thousand miles in a thousand successive hours. The death, of two Hobart men, on September 19, in the race for the Pinnacle of Mount Wellington proves that this craze has its tragic side. How this tragic side can often be averted is shown by the walking enthusiast ii? vv'oodville, Mr. J. S. Morgan, Palmcrston Road, who thanks Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people for the fact that he is not to-day a helpless cripple. It it had not boon for them he would take no interest in the walking craze. "Yov see," said Mr. Morgan," I was riding in the bush one day wher my horse stumbled. Down I went with the horse on top. My leg got jammed between him and the embankment. Next day my leg began to puff up and ache terribly. For four years I nursed.it, but it got no.better. It played the very mischief with my whole health. 1 couldn't sleep and I was clean rundown. My appetite was wretched, and often the very smell of food made me sick. I grew very down-hearted, for it was agony to get about. The doctors did me no good, and the tonics proved no battel than water. I bad just about given up all hope of getting back the use or my leg when I read in the Palmerston Times or ■Woodville Examiner tb,t Dr. Williams' pink pills had worked greater miracles than that right here in ISew Zealand. The paper "explained that they actually made' new blood, and that that was, the secret ot their power to cure all blood diseases like headaches, backaches, I rheumatism, neuralgia, .biliousness, indigos- , tion, and that weary, worn-out summer feeling. I bought some of these blood-building pills _ and made quite sure that I got the genuine kind of wooden boxes with the Wellington New Zealand address on the wrapper, ■they soon made a great change in me. Instead of that old tingling pain in my leg I could, feel the new, warm blood coursing through my veins. Gradually all the pain am. swelling went. I slept the whole night through and was always raadv for my meals. At last my leg was built right up with the i.m- blood till it was as strong and sound as I c ' e !\c Ye , s I am B0 hale and hearty now," sard Mr. Morgan, " that I think you may call me an enthusiast in this walking craze." !