Mr. W. T. ROSE DOES NOT THINK, HE IS SURE

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22205, 24 February 1900, Page 3

Mr. W. T. ROSE DOES NOT THINK, HE IS SURE

HE CANNOT PROPERLY PICTURE The Horrors of his Illness

vMJjC CaSC of “ I threw them up again often as no' m J *i*.(. - they wouldn’t stop oil my stoniaoh, an ’ Mr. William Thomss Rose spoilt pounds and pounds on tin m and .1 for'no result. When X now look back an think of the

(From the “JStnean ( Penrith, N.S. W.) Times”) (BY OtTB SPECIAL REPORTER.)

Miserable State I was in then I truly wonder I survived. Why. < you know that Ifi ll away from 11 3 one. S stone odd. I\.as a mere shadow of :• once strong a<l robust condition. i bones were almost coming through my sk I •fras come to the Last State of Misery, Tho present was full «'f gloom an Buffing, and tiie future held out to me li> hope of recovery. At last J ga' c up a hope of ever getting better. I was as bias a man could be and still live. In fact no longer cared what happened to 1: Hope was quite dead. Then my wife can. to me with Clements Tonic. 4 You mi. give this a trial,’ she said.' 4 It’s no use,’ said to her, ‘there’s no medicine in the wo; i that can lift me up again, I’ve Sunk Too Low.’

A report having reached this office to the effect that Mr. W. T. Bose, of High-street, Penrith, had some time since established Himself in firm health by tho opportune use of a certain remedy aft er suffering for a long time from a stubborn and dangerous illness, our reporter called at Mr. Rose’s house, and \sked him what ailed him some time back. Well,” replied that gentleman, “I was afflicted witfi-\_ AJTerrfbl© Nervous Complaint. It came upon me when I was weakened, and niy constitution shattered by a Png continued internal complaint. I caught cold when out ou an all-night fishing excursion, and on returning home was seized with griping cramps at the bottom of the Stomach. While it lasted the pain was Bimply excruciating. I was bent double with pain, with my two hands presse 1 upon my stomach. I changed to a deadly colour, und couldn’t utter a. word. It felt as though my bowels were tied in knots. Gradually the cramps subsided, and left me free for two or three days. Then the spasms can e on again. The torment was worse than before. Once more I slowly recovered, but only to be seized again and again with these racking spasms. Often in the height of the an, uish I positively thought I should he ■wjnuffed out. ‘One minute more of this I myself, ‘and I shall he a dead man.’ i slowly got weaker and weaker. Every seizure left me worse. ” “ Did you get no advice ? ” Mr. Rose laughed at the question. “ I should- think I did,” he replied. “ I tried everything, hut nothing I used at that time sou Id ward off the cramps, or even give me relief.”

She pressed me to try just one dose, and ; it was easier to take a spoonful than ; argue, I took some. My wife t- eu insist-.: ou rite taking the doses regularly ” “ What effect did Clements Tonic have' “ Marvellous —it wa- like the touch of magician’s wand. You never raw a man better so quickly as I did. The crump ; my stomach entirely ceased. My live began to resume its proper functions. M digestion improved, and the food whitfo- merly caused pain, wind, and distress nc began to properly n urish My Worn Out Frame.

A new hope sprang up. I began to best, nn self, for I felt I had found a remrdy t which I could pin my faith. My nerve became stronger, and I bail no more nervou twitchings. I had deeper and longer alee every night. Under the invigorating in fluence of Clements T< nie I Threw Off My Kervousnes;; altogether. It was just like getting rid o. a heap of cankering chains. Instead of being despondent I was i.ow hopeful, if iu cheerful. I came along asionishin ly. was always hungry I never seemed ah! to get enough to eat, and, natural y onoiigi I began to put on flesh M3' nerves con tinually improved. I laughed at bciu nervous now. I soon riba nod uiv io weight, ami was al; eto go about my or again as well r.s ever. It was as thong' years had been put on my life.” “ You thitik Clements Tome di 1 this for you?” “I Don’t Think—l’m £«re, Plainly speaking, Clements Tonic d rugger me back out of the very jaws of death.” “About publishing i Iris—you don’t object ? ” “No, on the contrary, I wish it to be made public, and if you hadn’t called up 11 me, i: was my intention to make a special journey to Sydnev to put my case in the pap rs. 1 wish to make tho means <rf my miraculous recover}’ public as a duty i Owe to Mankind, and may it bring hope and health to others as it did to me.”

“ I suppose you had other symptoms ?” “ Yes, 'my one-time splendid appetite deserted me, and whatever I did eat gave me~a

Painful Feeling: of. Oppression right here (Mr. Rose placed his hand on v the lower portion of his chest to indicate the spot). Wearisome headaches troubled me, and a sharp, twinging pain between the shoulders frequently made itself felt. In the morning I found my tongue thickly coated withy*; disagreeable substance. My breath and after every attempt to cat, wind would generate in my stomach.”

“Your liver was affected, perhaps’” "Yes, very badly; but I hardly know

what portion of my body was n >t afflicted, l hen my nerves began to go. That was the lace straw. I had battled as cheerfully as possible against my disease, but now tils new infliction made me

Downhearted Beyond Expression. .r' When I stood up I was so giddy and shaky that I had to take hold of somethii g to steady myself. I was frightened to walk cross the road. All night long I lay in bed J 1 of a shake, and twitching frightfully. All iqjfts of Foolish and Unwarrantable Terrors into my mind. I had to sit up ,n bed, I really dare not lie down. My despondency increased day by day. I can’t describe the awful nervousness that -waa upon me. I went into a shaking fit bb ugh nothing at all. The blessing of Bleep was denied me. My nights were one long mleery, and I dreaded the approach of bed time. Sometimes I was unable to get out of bed, and at other times I sat up brooding over my misfortunes, trying to Imagine what it would be like to be well and strong once more.” “ I suppose you had the attention of a doctor ? ”

As our reporter was turning awav, Mr. Ro..e called after him :—“Now, don't you imagine I’vo exaggerated my sufferings as some people think 1 do, for the fact is that I was

Worse Than I’ve Described, and lack of words alone has prevented m* from properly picturing to you the Horrors of My illr.ess. STATUTORY DE' H.AI: ATiON. I, WilTjTam Thomas Ross, of Iligii-street. Ponri in the colony of New South Wales,-Jo son-mnri :n sincerely declare that I l ave carefully read ttinexed document, co a'lstiug of elcten .'••11 s ». consecutively numbered from one to eleven, and ;1. it contains and is a true and faithful account of i.. illness and cure by Clements Tonic, and also confab my full pe;mission to publish the «aine in any wn and I make this solemn declaration cons- iciiti..is-’ believing the same to be true, and l.v virtue, of t>provisions of an Act made and passed in the ■•ini year of the reign of her present Maie-ly, intitule “An Act for the more effect ual abolition of rrul' and AlHrmationa taken and made in tlie va ion Departments of the Government of New South V.' U and to substitute Declarations in l eu t hereof, and ?«,. the suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oatli* and Affidavits.“

“ Yea, I had as many as five different doctors, but none of them could cure Hie. Some slight temporary relief was all that tsever obtained from their medicines, and I was soon as bad as ever again, if not worse. I also obtained all sorts of physic from the chemists, and my wife bought me many medicines which were warranted to cure- me straight oft” “ But they didn’t do it ?* *' TMfey were all said Mr. Bose, emphatically just new-fangled catchpennies ; but you know how a sick man tlings to the weakest hope.”

Declared at Penrith this eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, before me.

W. FULTON, J.P.