The Facts Detailed.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14257, 4 July 1908, Page 2

The Facts Detailed.

A Pressman's Interesting Interview.

swollen during the night. Once or twice 1 tried to get out of bed without anybody as ; sisting me, but I soon found on t that I was toi feeble, and the giddy sensations I used ti have were terrible. I seemed to have go too low to be troubled with the bodily pain: : that some invalids have, but there was r dreadful ache in the small of my back, ami my limbs were affected in the same way, i i came to such a pass that I used to lie wit'' my nerves shaking day and night in such :■ violent manner that anybody looking at iu> -.<! would have thought that I was trouble; with St. Vitus' dance, and my fecblenesi was eventually so pronounced that I coubi not stand on my feet." Reporter: " What sort of medicine wereyou taking?" Mr. Garrick; " Everything that ni) doctor ordered, but it did not help me After a while I tried to doctor myself, bill it was only running away with money weel. after week for no purpose. I was thorough!;, sick and tired of takiug so much uiediciin for nothing, and I grew so disgusted aim despondeutat last that I would not take am more. A spell without physic did not mend matters, so I thought I would give just one more trial to medicine, and this time it wa>Clements Toujc." ® Reporter:" Were you more fortunate will that remedy than with the others?" Mr. Garrick: "Oh ! much more. In ha. it was the only medicine that did me am good, and there is no doubt that I would still be in the same helpless condition wert it not for the splendid benefits which resulted from the use of Clemeuta Tonic, I may sa\ at the outset that Clements Tonic cured im of my weakness, for when I started using ii 1 wa3 scarcely able to move; but sevcra l bottles of Clements Tonic had so built u; my nervous system and invigorated me gen orally that I got more confidence in myself and when my strength had increased aiiii cieutly, I got up out of bed and began to walk about. Just think what my feelings were like when I was able to do that, after despairing for two years that I would never regain my feet again ; and as nothing but Clement 3 Tonic could bring my health to such a satisfactory state, you can guess what a great opinion I have of that medicine. 4 In my case it haa laid undisputed claim to beiug the best remedy in the market, and my earnest iri-h is that all who suffer like I did , may be brought into contact with Clements 1 Tonic, as it will assuredly do tliein a world , of good." , Reporter: "Besides the improvements you I have mentioned did you benefit in other directions ?" ! Mr. Garrick: " Certainly I did, or else I j would not have got my strength back in such a wonderful manner. The doctors had j said that indigestion was at the root of my j. troubles, aud for that complaint Clements 9 Tonic was superior to everything Iliad tried 0 before. It made me sleep aud eat well, besides releasing me from the aches and dis j eomferl3 that had tortured my existence. e It was almo«t like a resuscitation from death that I experienced through using Clements 0 Tonic, so you can publish these word? of j i thankfulness in any way you like." 1 » STATUTORY DECLARATION, s I, Josßrn Qabwck, of No. 02 High-street, Dunnliu in the Colony of Sew Zealand, do solemnly and sir. ,r- ccrely dcclf.re that I have carefully read the anne.w document, consistinj; of three folios, and conscci: 'I 1 ivoly numbe red from on eto three, andthatitccntrjiii -1 cure e by CltineritsToiiic, and ab.o contains liiy full penniisioi: ft to publish iu any way my itatcmests -which I give f voluntarily, without receiving any payment; and J lt ir.alte tlii» solemn declaration conscientiously belicr II iug the tauio to he true, and by virtue of the pro--1 visions of tn Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled "The Justices of Peace Act, 'SSS" « */oQfkn 'daiuefe, l * Declared at Dunedin, this sixteenth day of March, d cne thousand nice hur.drcd md three, before me, e HUGH GQURfiEV, JP,

The Caao of MR. J; GARRiCK.

(BY AS ISDr.I'EHDKXT KErOIITER.) As has been well said, the fact of (he Irvival of the fittest in the .struggle, for ixistence is l such a simple thing that a child can understand it. But if there is a struggle the best equipped must, on the average, survive, and thy weakest go to'l he Wall. Perhaps the weakest comprise those who are least adaptive—perhaps least pro-tested-against their surroundings, and to ihose we commend a study of the following dialogue, which took place between a reporter and Mr. Joseph Garrick, of No. 62 High-street, Jluiiedin :— Reporter:" lam given to understand thnfc you once encountered a formidable opponent whilst you had no adequate means of defending yourself. Will you kindly tell me nil about it V" Mr. Garrick: " I think yon mean the itruggle I had for my life some time ago, And that 1 was not properly armed because I wm slew in adopting the right means of checkmating my physical enemies." Reporter: " You have guessed aright, sir."'. Mr. Garrick : " Well, well; what a terrible experience it \vm ! I was for throe years quite unable to do any work, and for two years out of Ike fchrco 1 was as near to Deing a helpless invalid as a man could poslibly be. 1 was in bed for the greater part of those two yews of perpetual suffering, only beiug able to get on to the door now and again for about half an hour at a time, and then I was always glad to got on to my bed >gain because I was 100 feeble to sit up. This was when I was at my worst; but altogether I was suffering for close on six years. [ will confine myself to the time when I. was Utterly helpless, for it was then that my cup of bitterness was filled lo the brim. You may be surprised to hear that my life was wrecked owing to indigestion and nervous disorders, for they may seem such every-dny eort of complaints to do so much damage- to one's system ; but my unfortunate experience will show to what dreadful extremes those ailments can lead a man to. I had a frightful burning sensatiou in my head which made life a perfect iniswy, as I could neither read, nor write, nor do anything else, ernd I was nearly going, out of my mind for the want of sleep. Just fancy a man lying day after day, night nflor night, and week after week without getting any slumber to give hi 3 brain a little rest from the worrying thought that he was suffering from complaints which could not bo cured, and which, therefore, could result in nothiug else but death. No wonder that my mind was all upset, and that I was afflicted with such deep depression of spirits that I ceased to cave- evou for life itself. Why, when [ went to my bed at the commencement of my two yoars' martyrdom I thought I was going to die, for I had such heavy, suffocating sennations in my chest that I have seen myself lying and thinking that I was going to lose my breath every moment. A strange sensation, like a deathly numbness, seemed to run through me, and my breathing appeared to have stopped for a few seconds, and when the horrible feeling had gone away I waited its recurrence with great anxiety of mind," Reporter: " Perhaps your heart was affected?" Mr, Garrick: "Without doubt it was, for it ueed to thump and thump, a3 if it wm trying to come out. As you may imagine, I could not eat very well when I was like this. Indeed, I had no appetite for any kind of food, and I daresay it was just as well that I could not eat much whilst my digestion was in such a wretched state, for the little I took gave me more misery than enough, as my stomaeh U3ed to fill out with wind and make:-mo feel dreadfully uncomfortable. Tho unwholesome taste in my mouth was sickening and the fnr on my tongue olbo showed what a bad state my internal organs tvere in. My sight got very defective and n the mornings my ey« seemed to have