PAWNING A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1202, 13 March 1885, Page 3

PAWNING A PAIR OF TROUSERS FOR MEDICINE.

i' VU IUJJ 1/IVA .» XL/, James Francis Ihomas lives in Ponlnewynyrld, near Pontypoul, .oonimnutUihir.. He is uuw tweuty-turce yens of age, living with his mother, a widow. Some eleven years ago, thm a inure hoy, he went to work in the coal pit as a miner, in order ,o assist his mother in rearing her family of iiCc’e children. Soon, however, die Utile fellow nroke ilown in health; hut the ueees.aities of the family seemed to req lire it, an 1 , he continued to toi in the mines, .-.uffcia log all the time from the offsets of moigestinu, an agonising symptom being as.hull, in s ich a trouli esome form tuat the boy w.is uuao.e to lie in bed. Working through ihe day, an I resting as best he eoni. in a arm-chair during the night, naturally nu lermmeit his com ution. Year by year liis health grew worse and worse, until at la*t rheumatism time wijh all its dreadful agony. One joint after another n came swollen and inflamed, so that he was obliged to at 'p work. In this sa I plight the now young man was Confined to me house for.two long years, suffering a 1 that n.oit.l cdutd enduile ' One ph,si‘eiah’ Kfte'r another was called upon to meat his-, c nuplaint.ih t with no ueur.fi. for the po-ir fellow vputihi ueu to grow Worse and worms. flud some means of relief, a c msidca.ion of doctors was held, when if was dt« elded that an organio niseuse of. the heart existed in an incurable form, and that medical all could not atf >r Irelief. He was given up to die. These years ot expensive me heal treatment hid ex am ted tin lit le savings of the mmh r, and they, had no money to biiy even the neces”anes of life. But a fond mother nevar gives up in despair. There was on sp uk of hope left. Someone bad told tier pi a reine ly 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. Bit how to get the medicine was the question. Their money was entirely gone Tue oiy had a new pir of trousers t iat he ha I been to ill to wear, an i the mother reasoned within herself, .*• if the hoy is to die he wid not nee i tli.m, so I may as wed pledge them for me I.cine with an effort 10 save nis life.” Strange as it may appear, the nettles of medicine.pro- | cured at the eheuns.’s -hop in Pontypool with the money obtained from the pawnbroker fleeted a cure in t .13 hopeless ease, which had been pronounced as incurable. Bat ivis only just to say that if tire cneihist . had known of-1 the wants of the family the medicine coul i have been obtained without a visit 10 the pawnbroker. It is now nearly two years sines this took place, and young James Francis Thomas has been working in tie coalpit uu le ground ever since, earning extra pay for over-wcik, which he is ante to perform. Of course, he never had organic disease of th heart, as was supposed. The palpiti.ion, iheumat sra, and asthma were symp oms of the real disease, which was dyspepsia, or indigestion, for wmch the mine iy was apeciilly ail ipted. Those who wish to communicate with this young man Can write to’ him'at toe above ad iress, and ne will vouch for the curative properties of Betgel’s Syrup, the a ticls th a effected this almost miraculous cure. The following letter is from a onemist, who thought he following fact should be made known:— “ dames Francis Thomas, of Fomnewynydd, .near Fo ityp 01, age twenty three, collier, was ill for nine years, u able to do any work ■for three years, never lay down m bul fir nine years, had ti sleep in a stooping p 3tnre, was treated by nearly all the doet ws for. miles an.nud who genera ly stated his complaint to be rheumation an! heart disease of a chronic na ure, and beyond all power to cure. When hope had nearly di.-d out, he was persuade 1 to try Sergei’s Syi up ; and, to the ddightnf liis relativ, s and astonishment of his neighbours after taking half a bottle he could lie down in bed. Adier taking oue bottle he went to wo k. Has now ' taken two bottles, and on with the third, ' and is how quite well and strong. His 1 mother is in raotiires, and can talk of noth ingelse but this marvelous cure, and wishes me to make it known.” .

ist.li ao!.iv»‘, i« Dew Sir; —I _wiito tn tit! ion idi.it Mr Henry HiitiT, of Y.it- s nny. \V l l>s i dorms me that lie suffered from a seve u form of in ligcstion for upwards of four y.ars, ami to)k no end of doc'oi’s nicdifiuu .without lie slightest benefit, ami.declares V.o her Solid's Syrup which ho pot from me has saved his life. Yours truly, (signed) X. Webb Mr White. Chemist, Cable' Stigel’s Operating Pills are the best family physic that has ever been discovered. They cleanse the Wowcds from all irritatiug substances, ami leave them in a bea'thy condit’on. They cure costiveness. ! I I