Hair-breadth Escapes.

Manawatu Herald, 11 September 1897, Page 3

Hair-breadth Escapes.

AN OLD CRIMEAN HERO'S STORY. The old Crimean veterans are now fast passing away, few only remaining to tell the tale of their share in the great straggle of the " fifties " between the mother coantry and Russia. It may not be generally known, however, that we have right in oar midst an old and highly -inspected veteran of ihat campaign, Mr Chas. lerry, of 485, Kent-afreet, is the gentleman to vbom we refer, and his tales of hair-breadth esoapes as mentioned incidentally to our reporter were well worth listening to. Mr Terry is : a prominent Templar and has done much ' for this good cause, in fact, he was taking ! part in a temperance meeting when oar re- ; porter, who was sent to gather details of ] his remarkable experiences, arrived at his

house. Oar representative was directed to the lecture hall and soon found Mr Terry, who very kindly consented to return at once with him. In response to a few questions, Mr Terry stated:—"l joined the Boyal Navy about 1853, and served during the Crimea in H.M.S. Retribution, Captain Thomas Fisher, under Admiral Oundas, bearing the flag of Bear-Admiral B lines, and I bear the Crimean decoration. I arrived in Australia at the latter end of 1877 in H.M.S. Sapphire, the Hon. Captain Merry. I then joined the Diamond, under Captain Dale, on this station, and on leaving the ship quitted the service for good, having in all served in seventeen ships in Her Majesty's Royal Navy. In August of last year (1896) I found myself at Emu Plains, being in the employ of Messrs McGrath, fellmongers. It Was whilst there that I was taken ill, towards the latter end of August. I attributed my illness to frequent exposure ! and sudden and complete changes of temperature. My first symptoms were cough, ing, a spitting of blood, and a bloody discharge from the kidneys of the consistency of jelly. One man there was particularly kind to me, and constantly stayed up with me all night, giving me eucalyptus to inhale, and continually rubbing it into my chest, throat and stomach. This man kept constantly telling me to clear out from Emu Plains and go to the hospital, otherwise, to use his own words, he Baid, ' You will not last long.' Feeling that his words were likely to prove true, I followed his advice, came to Sydney, and took up my abode at 485, Kent-street, where I still am living. On my arrival in Sydney I suffered from great pains in the back and sides, and also under the ribs. I could take no aolid food, and entirely subsisted on eggs and new milk, which my landlady procured for me. I went to see a medical man whose rooms were within ten minutes walk of my home, and was so horribly weak that it took me an hour and ten minutes to get there. He told me to strip, and he then sounded me and asked me how long I had been bad. I told him that from the first it was about eight weeks, upon which he said,• Get away, man, its chronic lung trouble.' He suggested that I should go to a hospital at once, but I refused, and returned home. I had medioine prescribed for me of various kinds, which proved quite ineffectual, and afforded me no relief whatever. I took no less than seven bottles of eucalyptus, and even chlorodyne was prescribed for me. I fell away lamentably, perspired profusely, and could not obtain any sleep. I was in such pain that I could not shift in my bed. My right side was | much the worst, and my breathing was most laboured and painful. I cannot be too grateful to my friend, Brother J. C. Jones. He would stay with me for three or four hou» at a time. One day a friend of mine read to me the aocount of Boilermaker Jarvis* wonderful recovery by taking Dr Williams' Pink Pills, and I at once prooured a box. I had taken all but two, when the blood-spitting and emission ceased. After two boxes I was able to get up and move about, and now, at the end (f sir boxes, feel almost well, with the exception of feeling very weaic. The oure was magical, and I tell all my friends and the general public that nothing but Dr Williams' Pills brought me once more before them to agitate the temperance question, and on each oocasion I have met with a great reception. (Mr Terry here called our reporter's attention to the amount of useless physio he had consumed, and, indeed, the amount of bottlea reminded one of the interior of a chemist's shop.) I can speak in the highest possible terms of the marvellous curative properties of Dr Williams' Pink Pills. On my visits to, and lectures in, the country I shall donsider it my duty to suffering humanity to recount my astounding cure, and I trust I may be the means of saving the life of many a despairing mortal.