A LION HUNTER'S THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 274, 14 April 1898, Page 4

A LION HUNTER'S THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

Lion hunting must always be taken seriously ; at least such was the opinion of the unfortunate hunter who found himself prostrate, with the " King of the Forest" towering over him, and who but for the well-directed shot from a comrade's rifle would have had no chance to recount his feelings on that occasion. " It was a thrilling experience," said he, " but strange as it may seem the thought that troubled me most was as to what part of mo Leo would start on first." Mr H. D. Clarke, who now resides at Hobart, gives his sensational experience as follows :

Twelve years ago he fell from the scaffolding of a building iu course of crtction in Collins-street, Melbourne, and was taken to the hospital insensible. He recovered and was sent home. The next morning he was too stiff to go to work, and resolved on resting awhile. The next day he was worse, and in addition to feeling feverish and unwell, was seized with twitching pains in the back whenever he attempted to straighten himself. These increased in virulence, and were accompanied with intense pain 3 in the head. Pie lost the use of his left arm, and partially that ot his left leg, as well as feeling a numbness all dowu the side, extending from the shoulder to the region of the abdomen. Electricity was tried amongst other things, but without relief. So much was he insensible to outward agencies that he could bear the application of the battery to his arm to any degree without feeling it. To use his own expression, "You could jab a needle into my arm and I could not feel it." He was given up as a hopeless paralytic by the medical fraternity of Melbourne after he had spent his last shilling in trying to get better. He then resolved on coming over to Tasmania at the request of his relatives in the faint hope that the climate might perhaps give him relief. But years dragged on, and his sufferings were without end. " I thought," said he, " frequently of

UONMITTINU SUICIDE rather than continue to be a burden upon my friends, for my miserable plight was exceedingly depressing, as well as painful. There arc not a few who remember the pale and wretched object I was, seated in the verandah of my mother's house in Macquarie-strcet, and many can testify to the marvellous cure which took place. I got hold of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and took four boxes of them. One morning I found I could lift my arm quite easily. In about a week from when the change set in, the pains left me altogether, and I cannot describe to you the relief I felt both in body and mind. A fortnight later, and I could walk about and eat well."

" What doctors did you have to attend you?" "I would tell you, but perhaps they wouldn't care to have their names raetitioued in a case like mine, which they turned up as hopeless. But I spent in all £l7O, and being then a beggar, came home to die. lam going to work next week at the West Coast; so you see what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People have done for me. I say—and I say it advisedly—and all who know me say so too, that it is the most marvellous thing of the kind that is going" You aro welcome to make what use you Uko of this. I can led you lam heartily thankful for my recovery-—more than I can describe to you." These pills are a tonic, not a purgative. They have cured paralysis, locomotor ataxy, rheumatism, and sciatica ; also all diseases arising from impoverishment of the Hood, scrofula, rickets, chronic erysipelas, consumption of the bowels and huii'S, anemia, pa'le and sallow complexion, general muscular weakness, loss of appetite, palpitations, pains in the back, nervous headache, early decay, all forms of female weakness and hysteria. They are genuine only with the full name, Dr. Wil'iams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and are sold by chemists and storekeepers generally, or the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, N.Z., will forward on receipt of stamps or post order, one box for 35., or half-dozfn for 15s 9d. Substitutes said to be just as good must on no account be accepted.