A RECORD OF MERIT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2604, 10 February 1904, Page 69

A RECORD OF MERIT.

As U® Imitations Can Shsw.

Tho Caso of R3rs. A. QHURGHiLL.

(Br A SPECIAL BEPORTEB.)

However modest our means, we can all Lolp someone do something if we will but consider how. To perform a laudable act, great wealth is not alwajs imperative, though, of course, it is gemetimea useful ; but in matters similar to those referred _to by Mra. Annie Churchill, of Kansiagtspnstre*t, South Dunedio, it is only a considerate disposition that is need ad to enable us to plao© before the general reader something that aliould pro-re both iatareatirig and profitable At the comtnaniemeut of her narrative, Mrs. Charohlll said :•— " Two yeara come April I was in very dire straits -with ray kidneys, and had been so for about three years previously. It was a dreadful feeling that always. a.ffected hie— as if I wasted to do nothing else but sleep. I Itas living in Christchurah when I was taJxea ill, and people there oaujd tell you how dreadful my sufferings wore. I could not eat, I could not sleep— «yea though I wass continually in sack a, drewsy and digressed condition —for it happened that whpn 2 retired to bed the inclinatioa to sleep •^enfc>way, owing te my brain becoming active 1 with tpe moat unhappy thoughts, and I could only turn about in a state of restlestfneas till morning. Never Without a bitter ta^fce in my mouth In the mornings, the dears- foe food was entirely absent, so I had to make mys«lf eat a litto ; bu* how did I have to suSor for it afterwards ? Goodness mo r If t only took a cup of tea I was nearly ont of my mind with patas, and any fowl 1 had seemed to tura sour, and cause m$ to be inflated with wind. I waa then, persecuted with, what people call windy spawns; ob, dear ! how terribly severe tbay Were ! " *' What were you taking to check your suffecings? " inquired a special reperfcer. " Wktvas I taking? Why, pretty well everything in the medioine line that a person coukf take ; bat as muck cold water would h*ve doite the same good, tot I was not benefited at all. My head often tnr»ed so giddy tkat I used to think I wap going fo tumble d«wn in the street, and my l#ins ached so badly that it was really painioi %o stand. I dared not move any mor&th&p I couid help for the violent pains Uaat were fixed between my shoulders, bufc I think ray chest troublaa wero as bad as way. The hea.Ty pains there almo»t bad a «uffoeatiag eflbct It seemed tome that something had g«* blocked in my chest), with the result thai as I drew my breath I had to lift a weight that cauaod me pain in the oparatioiv My limbs ached ag*in simply frefn sha^r weakness, and to §h©v yon how thU I got I may as well tell ypa tb»t I went fcooi ten stone odd down to eight stone seven." " A loss of nearly twe Btone," interrujted the writer. 9 " Yes. Wasn't that awful. And i gat so utterly nervous that I became excited and timid at the leaafc noise, and conld not War to be in fck« koaee by my»elf at nights. Now that I have told you so mack, can you wonder at my great appseciatioß of Clements Tonic for sending away from my Ufe all tliosa physical persecution*? Several people advised me to try it, bub I thought it was a. lot of noaseaae doiag no, because I had taken so many medioines before for nothing. $hen sorrro German friende wrote and adviaed me to take Oemeuts Tonic, and betweea thorn all I wae at length pereuaded. Thank God I wa3 ! afl I get auoh wondei'f ul ease frosn my a*e»iee after taking two oi' three bofctles of Qementei Toak that the world was brighter to me than it had been for nearly three years. Before leng the pains about my back ami cheek had vanished. I started eating well, and the effect of Clements Tonic on my digestion was marvetteus. go with my nervots systom, and I waa so deligbiad to find that giddiness was net troubling i»e, and that my strength had all cerae ha«k. There was suck a pocifyiag iafiueaee abeut Clements 2 ! onia thafc I could always sleep well, and te that medicina aloua I owe my tkanka foe quite curing me of my terrible aiimeats." "HaT« I your permission to use these remarks ? " You are at liberty to publiih them in any form you want."

STATUTORY DECLARATION. I, Asstß OnnßcniMi, of Kensington-street, Soufc< Dunedin, In th« delony of Kew Zealand, do solemnly and «ln«ersly deoiaro that I have carefully read the annexed document, ooaslßtit>s 0! two felio*,.*nd eoiS99etr»i''«lj pumhered f>«m ono to tno, aad that Ik oanuim ana Is a tnw and faithful aecouat •( *iy illness and cure by Clement* Tonic, and also contains my UjII *«mle9ien to pcblish tn any way my BtMein*nt»— which I tire reluntarilr, wUhon* receiving any payment ; and i make this «o(*ma dcc!araiiea «oaaci«Biiei]«)y bdicTtog the woe to bo true, And by virlut cf the ajeTijiow «' »n Act $1 tba Central Assembly of V«w Zealand, imilultd "Sho Suel'.ces oi Peace Ac*, ISS2." Dec:a»cd <4 poucdin, (bis (talk day ef Xl arch, oq* thousand nine uur.iisd and three, h&£»rc sre, N. BROWN, J,P