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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9832, 3 January 1901, Page 4

TIE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH Gives up His Work. sick, Buffered and saved.

The Case of Mr. wm. McCarthy. (From the Windsor and Richmond Oaultt). BT OTJB SPECIAL BKPOBTEK. Information having been conveyed to the OasjeMethatJlr.MeCarthyhadrecoveredfrom A Very Serious illness, we at once detailed a reporter to make fall enquiries into the matter, and also to personally interview McCarthy himself on the subject.; tiWhen outf-reporter arrived at McGrath's Hill, near' Windsor, he found whom he sought, powerfully wielding a "sledge hammer in his forge. The way that ■Mrr-'McGafthy lifted up the heavy sledge as though it weighed but a few ounces quite astonished our reporter, for he had expected to find the blacksmith in A Weak State of Health. " How 'do you feel," asked our reporter f* " Never felt better in my life," replied th» blacksmith, and he put down his hammer and entered straight away into a conversation. ; " You ask me what was the matter with me," said Mr. McCarthy, "well, that is what no one could tell me. My" illnssi came upon me as unexpectedly As a Thunderbolt. One day I was working in the forge when I was seized with a violent headache. I had to at once put down my tools and go into the house.; From that day I date my sufferings. I could no longer en joy. my food. In fact, In a very short time eating caused me intense pain and I only took what, food was absolutely necessary to prevent my dying of sheer starvation. When "my food (and that" , always-of the lightest arid most e&Bily:; digestible kind) was eaten it caused a painful '■!■■ Distension In My Stomach. - Sour gas would rise in'my throat, together ' with an intensely bitter fluid. This,"" I believe, is what is commonly called heartburn: My skin began to get of a dirty yellow colour, and I started to low weight rapidly." " How about your work t* " I had to entirely" " tv Give up My Work, as I was too weak to do any. Sleep became almost entirely out of the question, I- was a victim to the worst form of sleeplessness. Night after night I passed walking up and down my bedroom, getting into bed and again rising to pace the room in the vain hope of inducing sleep. In the morning I would be so weary that I could scarcely s^uid, and yet was quite unable to obtain The Blessing; of Sleep. Howl did long for it, if but for half-an-hour. „No one who has not suffered as I didcan have the faintest idea of the advantage of proper sleep." . ; " What effect had this want of sleep upon your nerves?" = " The very worst. I began to get horribly' nervous. I couldn't bear the eight of strangers. The most trifling noises would send me into - " A FJt of Trembling; I became extremely irritable, and in spit* of myself, I used to fall into a terrible state of excitement about nothing." " Any other symptoms, McCarthy?" " Yes;" strange "pains now came on in my back and loins. They were doubtless kidney and liver troubles and extremely agonising, and used to fairly wear me out, and then there arose another stage of my illness which was so dreadful that even now I hardly care to talk about it. As you understand, although I couldn't work I Could still walk, and was accustomed to take a stroll in' open air on fine days in tha hope that the fresh air would co me good. One day, when son? a distance from' home, without any warning,; I Haw everything going black before me, and I fell down in a fit. It was epilepsy, or the"falling sickness, and I was ■■■"• '■■•-■:• Taken Homo Insensible in a cart. The state I was in for some tima after this I can hardly describe, I vomited' and was so weak I could hardly move. < All day long I sat in a dull, lifeless sort'of * way. I seemed to poueas no interest in tht

CLEMENTB TONI6 1»M a record o£ eurea none ean= rival Hundreds of base substitutes come drf the market, the plausible adyertiung resorted to attracts the attention of the thoughtless tad unwary, and they have a sale for a year or two till they are found out. For a medicine to remain popular for the number "of •■'■ years Clements Tonic has, it must have exceptional merit. The Australian publio is too well educated and too discriminatiug to be gulled for long even by clever, if false advertisements, and that is the reason all the quack nostrums run to the length of their tether in leu than four yean in this country Clement* Tonic has been tho leader for ten. '•' " •' "'■'

BY APPOINTMENT. A. KQHN, MANUFACTURING JEWELLER AND SILVERSMITH. gUEIEN STREET. AUCKLAND. B. Peterson and Co. HIGH STREET, CHRISTCHURCH. HIGHEST AWARDS OBTAINED At Sydney Exhibition, 1879; Mel-1 bourn* Exhibition; 1890; and AUCKLAND EXHIBITION, 189» . Telephone 3. P.O. Box 49. F. BATTSON, Tinsmith, Plumber, Gas & Electric Bell Fitttr. POLLEN STREET, THAMES. TTAS A WELL-ASSORTED STOCK -*"*■ of TINWARE, WASHING FURNACES, IRON CHIMNEYS, TANKS, PLUNGE BATHS, ETC., ETC., CORRUGATED IRON CURVED TO ANY PATTERN. . All orders promptly attended to by competent workmen under my own personal supervision. NOTICE. TTATING STARTED ON MY OWN ■"• BEHALF AT MY BUSINESS OF MASON AND BRICKLAYER! I beg to notify that I will cany out all Clwmm of Mason Work in an honMt, tradeamaxt-likef manner. : Agent ; for Bouakill and MoN»b, Monumental-Maaons* Auoklabd. Design* atti Prio* List on hantL J. 'PRATC WmOUQKBY STREW:, ?HAMRB.