THE SECRET OF MY LIFE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 5, 2 June 1893, Page 31

THE SECRET OF MY LIFE.

Thebb are few more rugged figures among the Scotch scholars of the present generation than is Professor Blackie.of Edinburgh. Though eighty-three, be has never worn a pair of spectacles, and for thirty years he bad no need of medical advice. He attributes the vitality of his old age to his custom of living by an unvarying Bystem, and it is noteworthy that Oliver Wendell Holmes, who is of about the same age and equally well preserved, told an interviewer some time ago that his own good health was due to the habit of living strictly by rule, even to the temperature of bis bath. It is interesting to know that Professor Blackie does not go to bed until the clock strikes twelve. He rises at half-past seven, and always after his mid-day meal he takes a nap. But he lived in a slower age than ours. Booms, syndicates, and corporations were unknown in his day, and mankiod now Wdar themselves out and go the pace too rapidly, and life is too full of cares for us to have time to pay attention to all Bmall details. We wear ourselves out 100 quickly. Tib the pace that tells, and brings on liver complaints Bright's disease, indigestion, locomotor artaxis, and brain paralysis. Hundreds of men die annually from each diseases, but if, on the first approach of such diseases they would have recourse to such a reliable remedy, as did Mrß J. Jones, Burwood Junction, who writes on January 12, 1893 :-I have been a great sufferer from general debility, extreme weakness, and nearly entire loss of sight. I was one year and five months in Maitland Hospital, also nine months in Morecliff Hospital. I was discharged from both of them by the visiting doctors as incurable. I then went to the Newcastle Hospital, and on being examined by three doctors, tbey told me my case was hopeless, and they could do no good for me, advising me to go to Sydney ; I was not in a position to do so. I was then taken home quite disheartened. As 1 had tried a bottle of Clements Tonic before when I wss suffering from intiuenu, and being cured of the above complaint before I had finished the bottle, my husband advised me to give Clements' Tonic another trial : I did so, and wonderful to say, by the tima I had taken seven bottles of Clements Tonic I became a new being, and can now certify that I am entirely cured of my complaint. I have frequently gone down on my knees and thanked Ood for this wonderful cure. I recommend it to eveiybody who is suffering, and intend to do so, as I can either speak or write it,— Yours gratefully, Mrs J. Jones, Melville street, Burwood Junction, N.S.W. Signed on behalf of my wife to certify to the above.— John Jones. .