ThlZ CASE OF L&.'Qli Cf VfitaS Fo^GS Mr. RejpnaSel Cwen. [From (he " Liverpool Herald" August 6th, \\ VY ™ n j Imew that> bufc ifc was ver; subfcle Z°® a -) and elusive. Tr.ere mus'u have beeu a uaiioc (by our special ukporter). for my illness, but there were no parAhtonb arriving at Liverpool by train can- tienlar signs by which we could tell the not fail to observe, near the railway station nature 01 the disease. ihe doctor* said at the foot, of the bridge that here spans they could do nothing except recommend a the river, the picturesque residence and change of air ana eceno, and sive me certain boat-koiibea of Mr. Reginald Owen, boat rules as to living and ciet. 1 heir treatment proprietor and builder. There is not a man, did mo no good, and £ could have once woman or child in the district but whafc showed you a goodly collection of knows Mr. Owen. A reporter from tho The RenfJCSi:eS*hat PaHcd." Liverpool Herald office paid this gentleman 41 Ymj had & bad Ume , „ S *«« S i 1 » -j "Yes, ancl 1 looked bad, too. I was deeply " 1 *6ve come," said the newspaper man despond e nt. 1 di dn't know which way to "to lemi ah about your recovery and how for assistance< Mv nerves were s^ fc . " w.-s eitac.eci. ,.-_. «, T• «, tered and my phvsioat strength was very « Welcome," replied Mr. Owen. I give lo . y> and it th , ouah ding a book y c competep cte containing a case which in most details was History Of !VJy Case. similar to mino thU I am alive to tell you "Some time ago I found myself getting the story of my suffering*. This book weak and unable to do even the light work described the effects cf CJements Tonic, which my business demands. Often I If it cm ed him, why not me? Oar cases should be forced to sit down and take a were alike. I first of all satisfied myself rest after being but a few minutes at work. that tho report of SDhis puzzled me, for ordinarily I could do a The Caoe was GertuißtGj hard day's work and not feel the least , fatiguedifterwards ; but now all day long I ">J then I wntfor some of the remedy." FeSi: langwld and dassaiaSfiecS <«I cou ld no t perceive any immediate with everything. Then, again, I fouffd my change, bufc after a few doses I began to feel appetite gradually waning, till I didn't better, I thought, and I suppose it supplied trouble about coming to my meals till I was my system with something that was missing, called. Then I would sit down, turn my for I began to shake off some of the desfood over once or twice, perhaps eat a pondency and nervousuess then with every mouthful or two, and then dose, A more Go&sSeil esit no wsore. 1 * WopeftsS "FeeSsrsig set in. *• You wanted an appetiser." I got up and about, began to eat again, and "So my people said, and I got two or I needed no second call after my long period three bottles of stuff I saw advertised, of starvation. The dawn of every day saw which was guaranteed to string a man to- me better. I could sleep like a rock, and I golher and make him eat. I remember I don't believe a railway collision would have took a couple of doses before dinner." awakened mo. In time I put on ihe flesh " What result ? " I had lost and obtained my usual robust and ■ " Why, I couldn't eat a mouthful. The healthy appearance. My recovery was so Btuff completely turned me up, and I went perfect that people who knew mo were outside and threw the rest into the river astounded ; they evidently did not expect there (pointing to George's River). I slowly me to pull through." Here Mr. Owenlau-hed got thin, and no wonder, as I was not heartily, and continued : sating anything, and then, to make matters "They wouldn't believe I was the samo worse, my nerves began to go wrong. I man that a few weeks before couldn't, stand any strain wl atever ; even w H ©JoJoss Snvfeiid, the trams that passed my house, to whicn - * I had long been accustomed, worried me a but Clements Tonic alone did it, and for it jjreat deal to cure a man reduced in vitality as I was My Enow was Gone. J^S* S'SSe i/^'c^^u" If anyone came to see me on a matter that I a man cm have but what; Clements Tonic could make a pi-onb of, I was afraid to see will eradicate. them. 1 lost the money rather than undergo the trial of an interview. As time went STATUTORY nr.CLAR KIIOU. on my complaint obtained a deeper hold 1, Rkginald Owns, of Liverpool, in tho Colony of Upon me, and I lost my sleep. I used to be New South Wale?, do solemnly !>.!id sincfci-ely declare -i,mto o.ni lmirt fm- mnvninrr on t!'i)- T pmilfl tllat I have eavefully raid uio annexotl document, awake and long loi morning so that 1 comet consibUßg of nilic fo .f os and co: , S eoutively numbered get away from my bed, and when morning . from q, 1c t0 nine, nnd that it contains and is a true <HUne I felt and faithful account oi my illncs and cui-j ay Clement;: Tonic, and also cout-m<B mv full pennWon to TOO Weak S.nd IWlSQirSLfol® publish the ;,anie in any way ; and I i»:-.ire ihis solemn , , , r , 1 „„„! declaration conccientiously believing the satiie to be to get up. My weakness became general, u>ue( aijd by virlue - oi ihe ;\r 0V j,. kms o{ an and affected every portion of my body. I Act made and pasted in the ninth year of the got thinner and thinner. I had to throw reign of her pvtsent Mc.jgsty, intituled "An Act for nr> mv work iirnffptliM' T Warns terribly the more effectual abohMon of Oatnsftnd Aihriniuaons up my wont aitogetnei. 1 Decame teriioiy t)lken and made - n the >arious ueparimei.,B of the irritable, ancl at length I got into a state Government of Now .-onth v/r,les, pnd to tubstiiuts which I can only describe as general de- Declarations in lieu theioof, and for the suppression Ml'ty " °* voluntary ai *d extia judicial Uathn> and Affidavits." " Oid you feel any pain?" e.//^ / S^l " No, I did not. I should have been far /V //& S better pleased if I could have located a good C\Z\-^0 £-£3--£€.'tf(3* t^eiH-'-^'^'^ Hche somewhere. But here I was, with no "/I organic trouble the matter with me tha,t I could make out — with no special disease — Declared at Liverpool this 11th day of July IS9S and yet falling away, through. J suppose, a before v.-.a. I'HED. ciiapmax, J.l'
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Otago Witness, Issue 2398, 15 February 1900, Page 66
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