PAWNING A PAIR OF TROSUERS FOR MEDICINE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1183, 31 October 1884, Page 3

PAWNING A PAIR OF TROSUERS FOR MEDICINE.

James Frascis Thomas lives in Pontnewynydd, near Poutypool, Mommouthshin. He is now twenty-three yens of age, living with his mother, a whu.w. Some eleven years ago, then a mere b»y, he went to work in the coal pit as a miner, in order to assist his mother in rearing her family of litc'e children. Soon, however, the little fellow broke-down in health ; but the neoes sities of the family earned to require it, and he continued to tot in the mines, suffering all the time from the effects of indiges: tinh, an agonising symptom being as' Lmi, in such a truilbesome form-that the by was unable to lie iu bed.. .Working through the day, and resting as best be could in a arm-chair during the night, naturally un ler minbd his const iitiou. Year by year (us health grew worse and worse, until at last rheumatism came with all its dreadful agony. One joint sf.er another b came swollen ' and inflamed, Du that he was obliged to atop w >rk. In this sad plight the now young man was confined to the house for two long years, suffering a I that inert .1 could ehihiire. -;o'de physician after another was called upon to treat his Complaint, bit with no benefit for the poor fellow continued to jyow worse ami worse. Hoping to find some means of relief, a consritaJon of doctors was held, when it was decide 1 that an organic disease of the heart existed in an incurable form, and that mr dical aid coala not afford relief. He was given up to die. These years of expensive me tical treatment had ex -austeil thi little savings of the mo.hr. ainl they had no money to boy even the neces»ariea of life. But a fond mother never gives up in despair. I’here was on spuk of hope left. Someone had told her ol a remedy that cuied so many cases—-even when as hopeleis as this one seemed to be and the mother’s love went out for her dear boy. Bat how to get tne medicine was the question. Their money was emirely gone The b>vha I a new pir of trousers t .at he bad been to ill to weft", an I the mother reasoned within herself, if the boy is to die he wid nut nee i Ch m, so I may as wed pie ige them lor medicine with an rff irt lo save ids life.” Strange as it may appear, the.bottles of medicine procured at the chemist’s .hop in Puntyponl with the money obtained from the pawn broker iffecte I a cure in t ns hopeless case, which had been pronounced as incurable But it is only j use to say that if the chemist had known of the wants of the family the medicine coni I have Been obtained without a visit to the pawnbroker. It is now neuly two years s no - this took place, aid young James Francis Thomas has been woiking in tne caul pit uu le’ground ever since, earning extra pay for over-wink, whicn be is able to perform. Of course, he never, had organic disease of th heart, as was suppose I, The palpitation, iheumatsm, and astnrai were symptoms of the leal disease, which was dyspepsia, or indigestion, for which the reine y was specially adapted. Those who Wish to communicate with tns young man can write to him at toe above ad-iress, and he will vouch for the curative properties of Seigel’s Syrup, thea ticli that effected this almost miraculous cure. The following letter is from a chemist, who thought ne following fact should be made known; “ James Francis Them is, of Pontnewynyd 1. near Polity pool, age tvaenty three, oilier, w.as ill for nine years, u able to do any work f r three years, never lay down m bad for nine years, had to sleep iu a stooping p-s tnre, wastieated by nearly all the doctors for miles ar-.nnd who genera ly state 1 his complaint to be rheumatism and heart disease of a chronic ua lire, and beyond all power to cure. When hope hid nearly died out, he was persuaded to try Sergei’s Syrup ; and, to the d -light of his relatives and aatoii ishment of his neigh boms after taking half a bottle be could lie down in bed. After taking one bottle he went to wo k. Has now taken two bottles, and on with the third, amt is now quite well and strong. His mother is in raotures, and can talk ut noth, ingelse but this marvelous cure, aud wishes me to make it known.” Isth August, 1883. Deir Sir, —I write to tel' you that Mr Hmry Hilli.tr, of Yat-s ury. Wilts informs me that he suffered from a seve e form of n ligestion for upwards of four years, and look no end of dooioi’s medicine without the slightest benefit, and deo : ares Mother Sib el’s Syrup which he got from me has saved his life. Yours truly, (signed) N. Webb Mr White. Chemist, Caine Seigel’s Operating Pills are the best family physic that has ever been discovered. They e'eansa the bowels fro n all imitating substances, ami leave, them in a Lea.thy condition. They cure costivenesS.