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Dunstan Times, Issue 1164, 20 June 1884, Page 3

PAWNING A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE, James Francis Thomas lives in Pontnewynydd, near Polity pool, Mnmraouthshire. He is now twenty-three years bt age, living with his mother, a widow. Some eleven years ago. then a mere boy, he went to work in the coal pit as a miner, in order tp assist his m ither in rearing her family of little children. Soon, however, the little fellow broke down in health ; hut the necessities of the family seemed to require it, and he continued to toil in the mines, suffer* ing all the time from the effects of indigestion, an agonising symptom being asthma, in such a troublesome form that the boy was unable to lie in bed. Wo: king through the day. and resting as best he could in an arm-chair during the night, naturally undermined his con t ution. Year by year his health grew worse and worse, unti: at last rheumatism came with all its dreadful agony. One joint after another became swollen and inflamed, so that he was obliged to stop work. In this sad p'ight the now young man was confined to, the house for two long years, suffering ail that rnorttl con'd endure One physician after another was called upon to treat his complaint, but with no benefit for the poor fallow continued to grow worse and worse. Hoping to find some means of relief, a c mac Ration of doctors was held, when it was decided that an organic I’isensa of the heart existed in an incivable form, aud that medical aid could not afford relief. He was given up to die. These years of expensive metical treatment had exhausted the little savings of the mo’h' r, and they had no money to buy even the necessaries of life. But a fon l mother never gives up in despair. There was on spark of hope left. Someone bad told her of a remedy that cured so many cases—even when as hopeless as this one seemed to be and the mother’s love went out for her dear boy. But how to get the medicine was the question. Their money was entirely gone The boy had a new p : ir of trousers toat he had been o ill to wi a’, and the mother reasoned within herself *• if the boy is to -lie he will not nee i th-m, so I may as well pie Ige them for medicine with an effort to save ids life.” Strange as it may appear, the bottles of medicine pro.cured at the chemist’s > hop in Pontynool with the money obtained from the pawnbroker ' ffected a cure in Via hopeless case, which had been pronounced as incurable But it is only just to say that if the cbemid hail known of the wants of the family the medicine could have beau obtained without a visit to the pawnbroker. It is now ne.oly tw® years since this took place, a- d young James Francis Thomas has been working in the coal-pit underground ever since, earning extra pay for over-wn k, which ho is able to perform. Of course, he ever had organic disease of th heart, as was suppose I, The palpita ion, rheumatism, and asthma were symptoms of the real disease, which was dyspepsia, oi- indigestion, for which the remedy wns specially adapted. Those who wish to communicate with this young man c>n write to him at the above address, aud ‘ he will vouch for. the caralive properties of Seigel’s My run, the a* ticlr that effected this slmoao miraculous dure. The following