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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 5474, 31 December 1904, Page 10

A NARRATIVE WORTH READING. Education for the Uninitiated. The Case of Mr. R. MANN. (BY A SPECIAL REPORTER.) Worthy of more than passing notice and attention are the following remarks, which were made in the presence of our reporter, by Air. Hobart Mann, of Express Avenue, Newtown, Wellington : “ For the last forty years I have lived in Wellington and have made a groat number of friends during that time, and I daresay you could find scores who could tell you how terribly X suffered with the liver some years ago. lam a carpenter by trade, and you know what a lot of work we have to do out in the open, and what that means to a man, when he is sick, during the cold weather. ” “ Did your liver only trouble you during the winter!” enquired \the press representative. “ Oh ! no, indeed ; all the year round, pretty well; but I was just remarking how miserable it was to be so unhealthy during the cold seasons, for then a man can scarcely keep himself warm for want of energy. X knew that often I was so languid that I could scarcely do a tap, and yet I would go home at night feeling as tired as if I had put in a good hard day’s work." “ You would he able to Sleep all the better feeling like that." " Don’t you believe it, now. It was one of the greatest difficulties in the world for me to fall asleep when I did turn in. That irritated mo as much as anything, for it was horri l lo to ba turning and twisting from one side to the other till it was nearly time i, to get up, and that is just exactly how it used to be with me. And when I got dressed and sat down to my breakfast, more' often than not I was unable to eat anything. I had a nasty taste in the month, which seemed to turn me against food ; but it used to go away a bib during the day, yet even then my appetite was poor.” “No wonder you could not work well, if you were not able to take, a fair amount of food.” . “ That’s right. A man cannot expect to remain strong if he has to leave off taking food ; but when there is no appetite, there is no choice about the matter. But in a esse like mine, what Is the good .of eating ’ I could not digest anything, and that was what thnrouglily knocked me out. When once I lagan losing strength there was no hope of holding it in check. X got weaker£nd weaker, until at last the least thing became a great trouble to roe. Everything that required exeriion, no matter how small, I studiously avoided, because I was so easily exhausted. Yet, having to act like this preyed upon my.mind, and I became as depressed in spirits as you could imagine anybody to be. When I was walking along the street sometimes I used to feel a strange sensation coming over me, as if everything was on the move, and by degrees the things I sew would get smaller and smaller until at last they appeared to be nothing but little black specks : and then I would get quite giddy and likely to fall. You can take my word for it, I used’to hate those nasty attacks, especially as I had so many other things to put up with as well. “ After your meals, I daresay, your troubles would be more numerous !” “You have just hit it. That' wse the time when my suffering was at its height—shortly after I had taken a few mouthfuls of food. It was something abominable the way I got up from the table with a feeling in the stomach as if I had been filling, myself with wind instead of m ere iy taking a' little 1 of something nourishing l and before' much longer I felt a leadened sensation in iny cheat, which made roe quite shortwinded. Then, every day of my wretched existence, I was almost drivsu to despair with ths roost vioisnt headaches that a roan could have. So distressed did they make mo that sometimes I felt ns it there wsS nothing on earth worth caring for, and I would not have minded what happened ao long as I got out of my misery. If I chanced to sleep for a while I had the most awful dreams you could think of, and I woke up with such a heavy feeling in ray eyes that it took me all my time to keep them open. My tongue was never (roe from a thick, slimy costing that was most offensive ; and, in the early part of the day, I ooubl scarcely walk for the aches about roy loins. On top of all this came a complete break-up of my nervous system. Ah ! that was a terrible calamity, for I worried more than ever to find myself shaking like a roan on the verge of destruction ; and it was remarkable how my mind was tortured with ideas about the dreadful things that were going to happen, but which, in reality, never did occur. Yes i I pity anyone who suffers like I did, and that is why 1 have so often recommended the use of Clements Tonic, because it is the only sure remedy that a person can take.” ; “ You must have had a wide experience to make a statement like that." “ If my experience was limited I would not make such an assertion, but I say ,that because I had tried most known medicines during the years X was suffering .with the liver, and the only one that helped me, and cured me, was Clements Touio; and it would be impossible to get more substantial proof than that. It was just a matter of luck that ever I came to try it at all, for I had got quite sick of buying first one thing and then another, and nothing ever coming of it; bat it was not so with Clements Tonic, as that medicine wont straight to the foundation of my physical infirmities and began to effect repairs right away. How much I toot I cannot say precisely, but the main thing was that I got my health, tack through its influence, and that is What would never have come through any othor medicine but Clements Tonic. Instead of dragging out a miserable existence as formerly, Clements Tdnio,-in a few Weeks, made me realise that I was alive and that this world was not so gloomy after alii- Indeed, I took quite a new interest in 'everything, for, when my digestion was thoroughly restored, I felt like , a man bom afresh. I could eat heartily and never had any discomfort after my meals again ; and X was delighted to find that headaches, sleeplessness, and the ills I bad previou-ly endured could not live against Clements Tonic, which remedied them all.' Thank God 1 my nervousness was also got over by ths same means, and, what was more to the foint, I regained every particle of strength had lost; and was soon able to tackle the hardest work without any trouble. ' My cure was so thorough that I felt like a youth full of vigor and spirit, and sinoe the last occasion upon which I took- s dose of Clements. Tonio my health has been superb.” ‘ 1 Are you willing to have this published ?” “ Certainly J you may publish each syllable in any way you desire.” • STATUTORY DECLARATION. I, Botnar tUsir, of Express Avenue, Newtawn, Wellington, in ths Colony ot New Zealand, do solemnly and sincerely declare that I have oarelully read ths annexed doooissnt, ooneietluc of three felloe and consecutively numbered from one to three, and that It contains and is a true and faithful account ol my illness and ours b> Clements Tonic, and alio contains my full perpdeeloii to publieh In any way my statements—which I give voluntarily, without rasslrlor any payment; and I nuke thie solemn declaration cousoientiourly beItavlnr the aena to ba true, and by virtue of tbs nro visions of an Act of tba General Assembly ol New Zealsnd, Intituled “The Justices af Peace Act. US2.* A. Declared at Wellington, this eighteenth day of il*y,one thousand vine hundred and three, pie,' , B. FBASEE JONES, J.P. .