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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14441, 6 February 1909, Page 2

The Facts Detailed

A Pressman's Interesting Interview.

The Cnsa of MR, <J> QARRtCKi (by an ikdepkhdf.kt kkportbr.) As has been well said, the fact of the tnrvival of the lUteatin -the struggle for ulatoncs is snoh » simple, thing that a child can understand rt. But if there is a itragglo the best equipped jnust, on the average, survive, and- the-weakest .go to the wall. Perhaps the weakest comprise those who are-least adaptive—perhaps least protooted—against tlreir aurroundiDgs, and to those we commend a-etudyof the following dialogue, which took place (between a reporter and. Mr. Joseph Garrick, of No. C 2 High'fltreot,:Duuedm lieportcr: "lam given to understand that you onco encountered a formidable opponent whilst y on-had no adequate means of-oof ending yourself, Will you kindly toll mo all aboutit?" Mr. Garrick: " I think you mean the had for my llfe somo time ago, and that I was not properly armedbecsusft I was allow in adopting the eight means of thucknating my physical enemies." Reporter:" You have gnessed aright, sir." Mr. <3wrick; " WeH, welt; what a ter- ; riblo experience it was! I was for three years qnite nnable to do any work, Mid for two years out o>f the three I was as near to being a helpless invalid as a man conld possibly bo, I was in bod for tile grcivter part of .those two years of perpetual- ettlToring, only'being,able to get on to the floor now and' again tor about lialf amhonr at a time, and then I woe always glad to get on to my bod j agnia because 1 was too feeble to sit up. l'hia was when I was at my worst; but altogether I sufferingloT close on six years. I will confine mysolf to the ttme when I was utterly, helpless, for it was then that my cup of bitterneM was filled to the brim, Yon may be surprised to boar that my life lr.w wiceksd owing to imiigesHon and nervous disorders, for they may ewm such ercry-day sort of complaints ho do so much damage to one's system ; but my unfortunate experience will diotr to wlwt dreadful extremes those ailments can load a man to. I had a frightful horning sensation in my head which made life a perfect misery, as I could neither reed,jior write/nor do anything else, and I was nearly going cut of my mind for the want of slccp. Just fancy a man lying day after,dny, night after flight end week after jrcok aritljrat getting any slumber to give }tis brain i little rest from the worrying thought that ho was suffering from compl,~.iu(s which coulil nutbecured, and which, Uiercfore, could result in nothing else but deeth. No wonder tJial ray mind was ail upset'. »vd that I wm afflicted with such deep dept'fiuion of spirits that I ceased to care even lot life itself. Why, when I went to my bed at lite commencement of my two. vc-ip/ I thought I was going to >i;e, for I iiod cnch l,eapy, suffocattug senrstiuns iu niv diest th.it 1 have seen myself lying and thiuliiuyiUit, I was goiug to lose my breath every moment. A strange sonration, like a deathly numbness, seeincd to run through me. Mid my breathing appeared to have shipped for a few seconds, and whon the horrible feeling had gone away I waited its recurrence with gi cat anxiety of mlud." Reporter: "Perhapi your heart was affected ? " Mr. Garrick: "Without doubt it was, for it used to thump and thump, aa if it wa-i trying to conic 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 1 daresay it was just ss well that I conld not eat much whilst my digestion wasyn such a wretched stato, for the little I took gave mo more misery than enough, tu my stomach used to fill out with wind and make»me feel - dreadfully uncomfortable. The unwholesome taste in my month was sickening and the fur on my tongue also vhowed what a bad state my internal organs were iu. lfy eight got very defective and io tjie inornipg« tnyj«yw have