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Otago Witness, Issue 2370, 3 August 1899, Page 18

THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH Gives up His Work. SICK, SUFFERED and SAVED. T(<ie CfISC Of world that was moving round me. I bocame very despondent and low spirited." 'M~ U/rw If S»rA RTH V " Were doctors called in to see you ?" but with no result." f Front the Windsor and Richmond GauUeJ. " How long were you ill altogether ?" - ' Information having been conveyed to the " Did you suffer from further seizures ?" ffazettc thitMr. McCarthyhadrecoveredfrom "Yes, most unfortunately, I did. Not A Vary Serious illness, long after the first fit I had another, and then another. Each fit was worae than We at once detailed a reporter to make full the pre viouß one, and my illness seemed to enquiries into the matter, and also to per- j, c rap idly proflressinc KmaUy interview MoCarthy himstif an th« r * • . m * . Bubject. When our reporter arrived at TO a Fatal Close. fefcGrath's Hill, near Windsor, he found 1 was now in a terrible plight. All my whom he sought, powerfully wielding a symptoms were intensified. I suffered more ■ledge hammer in his forge. The way that than ever from want of sleep. I became Mr. McCarthy lifted up.tne heary sledge extremely weak and thin, and in a very as though it weighed but a few ounces quite short time I dropped from list to 9et 61b— a astonished our reporter, for he had expeoted loss of 221b. This is a to find the blacksmith in Tremendous Loss of Flesh A Weak State of Health. for a light man> and wil] speak more plainly *« How do yom feel, aaked our reporter V o f my condition than any mere words could "Never felt better in my life," replied the do / jfy irritability and excitability had Blacksmith, and he pat down his hammer become w*rse since my seizures. I was hopeamd entered straight away iat» a oonver- less and in despair. I waß laidup in bed, and ■ation. never expeoted to leave it again. Once a "You ask me what was the matter with ii fct l e book was brought me by a friend. me," said Mr. McCarthy, " well, that m » R ea d it carefully,' he said. I did so. The What bo one could tell me. My illn«M book was descriptive of Clements Tonic and **n» upon me as unexpectedly t ow j t had effcoted cures in the apparently As a Thunderbolt. Most Hopeless Cases." One day f was working in the forge when I •« What did you do 1" tras seized with a violent headache. I had « j aeot f or BOrne commenced a course Jo at «nee put down my tools and go into 0 f ifc . A fter about a dozen doaes I began to £cOUsc OUse '. . _- • * notice a distinct improvement in the geuenl From that day I date my sufferings. I tone of my«nerves. They gradually bcoßme could no longer enjoy my food. In fact, in better in tone and leu liable to cause me to ft rery short time eating caused me intense shake suddenly. My nervous system {>am. and I only took what food was abso- gathered vitality every day. Tkat utely necessary to prevent my dying of -„ _ . „ _ »heer starvation. When my food (and thab Gloomy, Foreboding Feeling nlways of- the lightest and most easily which had hung over me for bo long began digestible kind) was eaten it caused a painful te lift like a clou d. " Distension in My Stomach. '!! cc ° uld y°? , eafc , aßd ds « eit >" our food r> ' _, „.%. , . Yes ; with better spirits came a Sour gas would rise mmy throat, together ren ewed appetite, and Clements Torn*, I with an intensely bitter fluid This, I found, had-a wonderfully .stimulating effect believe, is what v commonly called heart- my digestive organs, and lastly, but by do Imrn. My Am began to get «f a dirty meanß leaßt a i eep once more came XQ yelkw colour, and I started to lose weight _ ' r _ i. , . " ' Rapidly." Deep and Refreshing Sleep '* How about your work f* was now the rule with me every night 1 *' I had to entirely - . was soon out pf bed and in the open air.., Qjve Up My Work. "^ ne exerclse did me good, and as I continued* , . i . , — • Clements Tonic my strength continualh M I was too weak t© do any. Sleep became improved " •Imoßt entirely out of the question. I was a « And what about the other pain* ?" victim to the worst form cf sleeplessness. « Those in the back and head all left me, Wight after night I passed walking up and an a was aoon a bi e to do some light work, down my bedroam, getting into Bed and Very ehortly Clement. Tonic put me on an again rising to pace the room in the vain legs acain as hope of inducing sleep. In the morning I. iL ' _, ... yonld be so weary that I could scarcely Strong and Abie a Man stand, and yet was quite unable to obtain m ever I was in my life." * The Blessing of Sleep. MC^h y >" U h&d n ° mm ° T<> Beizure8 ' Mn How I did long for it, if but for half -an- «« No ; V firmly before the epilepsy has hour. No one who has not suffered as I did been completely .driven out of my system, las have the famtest idea of the advantage and i^ on * t f ear it now " JFSR? 1 !. »Pi.» P i. i. j *v- .r , " Y °u ] «<* in good health, anyhow J" ••What efiect had this want of sleep upon «« Yeß , and can do as hard a day's work y°£ r " 6rve « ? • . x _ .„ as any blacksmith in Australia." "The very worst. I began to get horribly « And can I put this in the Gazette T S-T™ 8 ' lon,°oUldHX1 on,° oUldH X S" the - Slghfc ,°f "yes, you can, and as lam known ai: strangers. The most trifling noises would the country round anyone who requires *ena me into further particulars of my case can easily find A Fit ©^ Trembling. me? As you may guess I am extremely I became extremely irritable, and in spite of &™ *■?* m ? ?u"? v " from ,r hat BMltted & knyielf, I used to fall into a terrible state of hfeloD S' lf not fatal i^es." excitement about nothing." _____ 6011 ! 11688^ 11^ of £?£& *nd liver troubles and extremely agonising, solemnly and mnccely declare that I have ©»re and used to fairly wear me out, and then fully read the Annexed document, consisting <rf eltrtt there arose another stage of my illness * olio *. *»d conMcutirely numbered from one to eleren Which was so dreadful that even now I tt»s£Z£?U£frS^%sPZSffic* hardly care to talk about it. As you under- oontoim my full permission to publish the »me ir itand, although I couldn't Work I could any w.*/:w .*/: antJ ? make tI»U solemn declaration am Btill walk, and wag accustomed to take a aoientioiwly believing the same to T>e true, *nd In WirMt in rm» n n ?r. «.« «» a*™? • zj* virtue of the prorwions of an Act «n«de and pawed li Jltrollin open air on fine day* in tha the ninth y«r of tfce reifn- of her present Majesty fcope that the fresh air would do me good. intituled "An Act for the more effectuaJ abolition c One day, when some distance from home O»Uis and Affirmations taken and mado in the vnrJou Without any warning I siw <>v*>rvth; n « Departments or the Government of New South Waleg«j,Ti.i ii L warmn S> 1 saw everything »nd to substitute Declarations hi Hen thereof, «ml !<•< oing black before me, and I fell down in a the «uppre«gion of voluntary and extra- judicial Oa-.J. t. It was epilepsy, or the falling sickness, and AmdaTitt." «nd I was Taken Home Insensible Js>. rf? &*? /f In a carfc. The state I waa in for some time "Cugua* fn^WG^'^'f 4ftor this I can "hardly describe. I vomited and was bo weak I could hardly move. All ■Declared at Windsor thi* 20th day of July, ISO day long I sat in a. dull, lifeless sort of a before me. vay. 1 aeemed to posseaß no interest in the JAMES J. FITZPATRICK, Justice of the Peace/ CL.EMENTB TONIC has a record of cures none can rival. Hundreds of bas< JWtbstitntes come on the market, the plausible advertising resorted to attracts the attentic of the thoughtletß and unwary, and they have a Bale for a year or two till they are fount out. For a medicine to remain popular for the number of year 3 Clements Tonic ha«, i; must have exceptional merit. The Australian "public is too well educated and too discriminating to be gulled for long even by clever, if false advertisements, and that is the reason al the quack nostrums run to the length of their tether in less than four years in this country Clements Tonic has been the leader for ten.

The selection, " Oberon," has been issued tc t\e bands for the forthcoming "country bands contest to be held in Quoonstown. The pi*c< is one of Wobor's, and contains lolot -foi <tor net, euphonium, and trombone, besides eonw good work for ill instruments. The selectior does not present any difficulty' of executioii for the leading instruments, but requires grea 4 (artistic taste. . The contest is now fixed foi October If and 18. - • - . - After all the trouble which has been takei< lo improve the wearers', accommodation, which experienced police officsrs report- on in nearly all the districts of the colony ie being most satisfactory, it is indicated that the improvements do not agree with the Maori shearers, who ''prefer to deep in tents, and do their own cooking." They cannot share in the very good accommodation which is now provided, ant i neither care for scented soap nor towch, preferring to bathe in the brook and bask in the sun till dry.

The Right Rev. Robert Brindle, Bishop Auxiliary of Westminster, officiated at a service held in the Catholic Chapel, Gloucester road, Regent's Park, for the soldiers who died during the Soudan campaign. Robber Cheated by the Sea. — The recent robbery of £4GOO from the Reine Regente, a Dutch liner, while on her voyage to Batavia, was (says the London Daily Mail) committed under quite novel circumstances. The thief, a steward named Bruyn, threw the cashbox containing the money into the sea, and then jumped overboard, expecting that it would float on the surface, and that he would be able to seize it and swim to the coast of Egypt, which was in sight. As it happened, the box containing the £4000 sank to the bottom, and the baffled thief was captured before he could reach the shore. He is now in the hands of the authorities at Port Said. The Dutch Treasury will be the loser by this curious luvdpening, as the £4000 was State funds*