LETTER FROM KRUGER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIV, Issue XXV, 23 June 1900, Page 1192

LETTER FROM KRUGER.

TO MR W. F. REGAN. F.R.G.S. Mr W. I l ’. Regan, the well known South African magnate, was interviewed by a reporter front the ‘Telegraph” at his London office, 41 Threadneedlest. lie said: ‘’President Kruger, the Cromwell of South Africa, sent me one letter which I have particular occasion to rem inlier. for by the same mail I received two other letters, one from the late Kight Hon. William E. Gladstone, and the other from His Majesty the txing of Portugal. All three were letters of encouragement for 1 was carrying out large operations which necessitated me working day and night: eertainiy for nine mouths together I worked nineteen hours a day. But the strain began to tell upon me. 1 became weak and run down. Locomotor ataxia set in. I could not walk straight, and fainting tils became frequent. The day after I received these important letters my mind was blank. The complaint had left my limbs and attacked my brain aim this state of things continued for several months. I consulted four doetors, all noled medical men. One said I would he in my grave in six months, another .suggesttil I should go abroad permanently, while’ the third said nothing could be done as the ease was brain paralysis brought on by overwork ami anxiety. A city friend suggested Dr. Williams’ pink pills, but I laughed, ami thought nothing more of what I now regard ns a valuable suggestion. Subsequently I told him 1 had not tried them. He left me in the street, and later on brought to my office twelve boxes of Dr. Williams’ pink pills, and insisted on my swallowing the first dose then, and told t:.e to take one pill after each meal. I eouid see he believed in the efficacy of Dr. Williams’ pink pills and I determined to finish the contents of the t” eive boxes. I did so, and always carry now, in a silver match box, tilled twice a week, Dr. Williams' pink pills. I take three a day, ami am no longer troubled with locomotor ataxia iu th:: limbs. My bruin is perfectly clear, and 1 work from 8 in the morning till 8 at night, mid 1 thoroughly believe I sleep as Roundly as if camping out on the South African veldt.