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Manawatu Herald, 6 May 1897, Page 4

AN ASSEGAI WOULD WHIRL THROUGH SPACE, and the man was dead that it struck." "Did this conclude your perils?" " No, not by a long way. For fourteen months we had nothing to sleep upon, and had to lie down in the open air — in the dry heat and the cold pouring rain — it was all the same. Fever and sickness carried off many of the men, and when our tattered remnant reached the coast I left the regiment, having served my time." " What effect had the campaign upon yoa?" " A terrible effect, that till last Christmas I was never without. As a result of the exposure and starvation I found my digestion ruined. For seventeen years I've had twitching pains under the shoulders and in the arms ; the nerves of my arms were weak, and caused me agony whenever I moved them. I suffered from cramps, and at times A DEATHLY NUMBNESS PERVADED MY BODY." " How about the doctors !" " Ah I well, I tried them, he replied, in a tone tinged with contempt, "and they never did me any good. Some said it was one thing and some another ; others just said it was general weakness, and couldn't or wouldn't state what they meant." " So you never progressed ?" " No, not a bit. I gradually got worse, and of course I lost interest in everything. I could never walk far, I never Blept properly, and I hardly ever ate anything except dry toast and tea. I was miserable and restless, and always in pain." 11 How long did this last ?" "Till last December. Several people who saw how bad I looked said they thought I WAS GOTNG TO DIE. And I felt just like it, and a doctor I consulted told me the same thing. I was in a state of collapse then. Even ordinary conversation would take all my breath away, and I'd sink back exhausted on the sofa. A lady doctor told me it was all through my digestive organs, and that's what it was." 11 Well, what did you try next ?" "That's the point. I picked up a pamphlet one day in December that a man had thrown into the house. It was an advertisement for Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and I there read a case 'just like my own that had been cured. ' " What did you do ?" "Why, the only sensible thing. I got aomeTjf the pills." " Did you try 'em ?" 11 Ishould think I did." " Well, you don't seem very dead now," we commented, looking at the grey-bearded face and Bturdy military figure of our friend.