WAGGONER'S UPS AND DOWNS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4897, 5 October 1901, Page 1

WAGGONER'S UPS AND DOWNS.

Mr Hobert Clucas is a sturdy specimen of a waggoner, wno passed through fifty years of arduous work, and it was with a view to obtaining an account of some episodes in his life that a reporter invaded bis home in Oxford, Canterbury.

'Doubtless, Mr Clucas,' said tbe reporter, ' in the ups and downs of existence you have met with incidents we'll worth publication.'

1 As a waggoner,' was tbe reply, ' I had to endure the hardships common to those of that calling. Often I have bad to go about in my wet clothes all day long, and night after night I have lain in

(A Hardy Waggoner.) damp blankets. During my trips I was also exposed to rain by day and frost at night, with the result that many years ago rheumatism and sciatica laid hold of me. My legs, arms, and shoulders acbed with continual gnawing pain, while sharp shooting pains, something like needles going through one's flesh, tormented me in my thigh ; these pains I was told, was due to sciatica. At last I became bo crippled by these diseases that I was unable to work for my living, and for six months I could not walk outside tbe house without both a crutch and stick.'

' Confinement indoors must have been a terrible affliction,' said the reporter, ' for one used to outdoor life. 1

' Indeed, it was,' said Mr Clucas, ' quite apart from the pain. I could get about so little that even a doormat formed an impassable barrier to me. Often for weeks 1 slept neither by day nor night, and as a natural consequence lost all deaire for food of any kind. Duriug these years of suffering I had excelfeut medical treatment and -plenty, pf hpme remedies, such as hot watff ~* v cure ' edd water * cure ' and acid ' cure ' ; I also tried patent medicines, but they were equally useless. Through continually seeing Dr Williams' pink pills adver tised in tbe papers 1 became at last convinced that there must be something in tbem, and I sent for a box. After using its contents I improved considerably, and thus encouraged I continued tbe treatment. As I did so, tbe pains of sciatica and tbe aches of rheumatism gradually disappeared, my appetite returned and I slept well every night. Now I have the full use of limbs and faculties, and can do a day's work without any trouble. I have advised friends to take these wonderful Dr Williams' pink pills, and am pleased to learn they have been benefited by so doiog.' The case of Mr Lucas amply proves that Dr Williams' pink pills are both a blood-builder and uerve-tonie, for they enred him of rheumatism and sciatica, the first a disease caused by impure blood, the second a nerve disorder. For tbe same reason they cure neuralgia, lumbago, bronchitis, consumption, dysentery, skin diseases St Vituß* dance, hysteria, liver and kidney troubles, dyspepsia, anaemia, debility, nervous disorders of either sex, etc. Sold by chemists and storekeepers, and by the Dr Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, three abillings, six boxes sixteen and six, post free. By regulating health they impart to ladies a beautiful complexion.