The Facts Detailed.

Otago Witness, Issue 2927, 20 April 1910, Page 85

The Facts Detailed.

MR. J> GARfttCK.

A Pressman's Interesting Interview.

Th« Case cf

swollen during the night. Once or twice 1 tried to get out of bed without anybody assisting me, but I soon found out that I was tod feeble, and the giddy sensations I used M have were terrible. I seemed to havo got too low to be troubled with the bodily paint that some invalids havw, but there was ft dreadful ache in the small of my back, and my limbs were affected in the same way. It came to such a pass that I used to lie wifck my nerves shaking day and night in suob. a violent manner that anybody looking at m« would have thought that I was troubled with St. Vitus' dance, and my feebleness was eventually so pronounced that I could not stand on my feet." Reporter: " What sort of medicine w«r» yoii taking?" i Mr. Garrick: " Everything that my doctor ordered, but it did not help me.* After a whilel tried to doctor myself, bdfc ' it was only running away with money week \ after week for no purpose. I was thoroughly] sick and tired of taking so much medicine for nothing, and I grew so disgusted and] despondent at last that I would not take any,' more. A spell without physic did not mend matters, so I thought I would give, just orismore trial to medicine, and this time it was Clements Tonic," * Reporter : "Were you more fortunate wiib that remedy than with the others ? " Mr. Garrick : "Oh ! much more. In foes, it was the only medicine that did me any good, and there is no doubi' that I would, still be in the same helpless condition wew' it not for the splendid benefits which resulted from the use of Clements Tonic. I may say, at the outset that figments Tonic cured at* of my weakness, for when I started ui}Jlg|fc' I was soaroely able to move; TOt >fff|U\ bottles of Clements Tonic had ad .built [m, my nervous system and invigorated tftf fjpmi orally that I got more confidence in glyaeji* and when my strength had increased sftftt* ciently, I got up out of bed and beg&fe s», ■walk about. Just think what my fe*'hp|i | were like when 1 was »ble to do thai, Pftfft despairing for fcwo years that I'wonid' regain my feei again ; and as nothing bOT Clements ?onic could bring my health t»V such a satisfactory state, you cangueig wMI a great opinion I have of that medicine. %Jk my case it has laid undisputed claim to m ing the best remedy in the market, and nt* earnest wi*h ia that all who suffer like I dra, may be fcyought into contact with Clements Tonic, as it will assuredly do them a woi'ld of good." Reporter: " Besides the improvements yon have mentioned did you benefit in othe* directions ! " Mr. Garrick : " Certainly I did, or else I would not havo got my strength back lif such a wonderful manner. The doctors had said that indigestion was at the root of m$ troubles, and for that complaint Clement* Tonic wa3 superior to everything I had tried before. It made me sleep and eat well, besides releasing me from the aches and dis comforts that had tortured my existence. It was almo? t like a resuscitation from death that I experienced through üßing Clements Tonic, so you can publish these words «fi thankfulness in any way you like."

(BY AN INDKPJSNDENT REPORTER.) A» has boon well said, the fact of the turvival of the fittest in the struggle for •xistenoe is such a s r mp!e thing that a, ohild can understand it. But if there is a struggle the best equipped must, on the survive, and the weakest go to the wall. Perhaps the weakest comprise those who are leant adaptive—perhaps Uast protected—against their surroundings, and to those we oommend a study of tbe.following dialogue, which took place between a reporter and Mr. Joseph Garrick, of No. 62 High-street, Duuedin:— ■ Reporter : "1 am given to understand that fou once encountered a formidable opponent whilst you had no adequate means of defending yourself. Will vou kindly tell me all about it?" Mr. Qarrick : "I th'nk you mean the itruggle I had for my life some time ago, and that I was not properly armed because I woi slow in adopting the right means of fllieckihflting my physical enemies." Reporter: " You have guessed aright, sir. Mr. Garrlok : " Well, well; what a terrible experience it was ! I was for three fears quite unOblo to do, any work, and for two years out of the three I was as near to being a helpless invalid as » man could poslibly- be. I was in bed for the greater part »f those 4wo years of perpetual suffering, only able to get on to the floor now and igain for about half an hour at a time, and then I was always glad to get on to my bed igain beoause 1 was too feeble to sit up. This was when I was at ray worst; but altogether I wasnuffering for close on six years. I will confine myself to the time when I was Utterly helpless, for it was then that my oup of bitternesß was filled to the brim. You may be surprised to hear that my life was wreckod owing to indigestion and nervous disorders, for they may seem such every-day sort of complaints to dVso much damage to one's system j but my. unfortunate experience will show to what dreadful extremes those "ailments can lead a man to. I had a frightful burning sensation in my head which''made'life a perfect misery, as I could neither read, nor write, nor do anything else, and I was nearly going out of my mind for the want of sleep. Just fancy a man Lying day after day, night after night, *nd week after week without getting any slumber to give his brain a littlo rest from the worrying thought that he Was suffering from complaints which could not be cured, and which, could result in nothing 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 earo even for life itself. Why, when I went to my bed at the commencement of my two years' martyrdom I thought I was going to die, for I had such heavy, suffocating sensations in my Chest that I have seen myself lying «nd thinking that I was going to lose my breath every moment. A strange sensation, like a deathly numbness, seemed to run through mo-, and rny 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." Beportor: "Perhaps your heart was affected?" Mr. Qarrick : "Without doubt it was, for it used to thump aud thump, as if it wa.» 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 eould not eat mi\oh whilst my digestion was in such a wretched state, for the little 1 took gave me more misery than enough, as my stomach used to fill out with wind and make®me feet dreadfully uncomfortable. The unwholesome tß»te in my mouth was feiekenlng and the fur on my tongue alio shewed what a bad itate my internal organs were in. My eight got very defective and la the mornings my eyes teemed to have

STATUTORY DECLARATION. I, Josnni QARRtCK, of No. 62 High-street. Dunediß, in the Colony of New Zealand, do solemnly and sitr oeroly declare that I have carefully read the annexe!) dooument, consisting of three folios, and aonsecu> tlvely numbered from one to three, and that it contains and It a true and faithful aooount of my illness and cur» by Oletnente Tonic, and also contains my f ull permission to publish in any way my statements—whioh I givi voluntarily, without receiving any payment; a«4.1 make this solemn declaration conscientiously beH<& lng the same to he true, and by virtue of the mfc visions ol an Act of tho General Assembly of Ktif Zealand, intituled " The Juetioes of Peace Act, iBSZr i Declared a!i Punedin. this sixteenth day of March* One Ihousaud nine hundred and throe, before me, uvaa. aouBLEV, jp.