The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-02-23 00:00:00

ESTABLISHED 1710 AND 1810.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insurances effected in all parts of the United Kingdom
Ind in Foreign countries. Total sum insured in 1881
£270,959.V74.

LIFE D EPARTME NT.
Policy holders participate in folr-fifths of the Profits,
Claims paid immediately after proof of death and title.
Low rates of premiums for young lives.

MIDLAND BIUNCH OFFICE.•-•

112, COLMORE-110W, BIRMIRGHOI.
J. IL NEWSLII LUIZ%

District Manager.
*matt at 'Stow-bridge:
MR. IT. JAMBS, Birmingham Basking Company.
‘II47,SSUS, BERNARD and KING, Solicitors.
, \IR. G. RICHARD!, Station Master, G.W.R.

PAIVNING I Pita OT 710111112.8 TOR Mileicirs.--Jaunes
Francis Thomas lives at Pontuewynydd. near Pontypool,
Monmouthshire. He is now twenty-three years of ago;
iving with his mother, is widow. Seine elevou years ago,
then a mere boy, he went to work in acosl'pii M a miner.
in order to assist his mother in rearing her family of little
hildren. Soon, however, the little fellow broke down i
ealth ; but the necessities of the family seemed to regains,
I, and he continued to toil in the mines, suffering all the
ime from the effects of indigestion, an agonising eymptore
being asthma, ia such it troublesome form that the boy was
unable to lie in bed. Working through the day, ami rest.
tug ashes. I 0 could in an arm chair (Luria.: the night
tiatui ally undermined his constituVon. Year by ye tr,by
his health grew worse and worse, until at last rheumatisifl
came with all its dreadful agony. One joint attar another
became swollen and inflamed, so that he was obliged to stop
work. In his sad plight the now young man was confinea
to the house for two long sr:ars, suffering all that mortal
ould endure. One physican after another was called upon
to treat his complaint, but with no benefit, for the p.,or,
fellow continued to grew worse and worse. Hoping to Mid
some means of relief, a consultation of doctors was held
wnen it was decided that an organic disease of the heart
existed in an in arable form, and that medical aid could
not afford relief. He was given up to die. Those years of
.xpensive medical treatment had exhatistisd the little
,avings o the mother, and they had no money to buy 4,1'011
.ho necessaries of life. But a fond mother never gives up
.n desp dr. There was one spark of hope left. Someone
bad told her of a remedy that hau cured so many cases—
: yen when as hopeless as this one seemed to he—and th•
e
other's lovo wont out for her dear boy. But how to get
the medicine w.s the question. Their money was eutire,y
gone. The boy hada new pair of trousers that he had seen
to ill to wear, and the mother reasoned within herself, "It
the boy is to die he will not need them, so s may its well
pledge them for =cat inc with an iff..rt, to save Its
' Strange as it may appear, the bottles of me Nemo procured
it the chemist's shop in Pontypool, with the money obtained
-it the pawnbroker's effected a cure in this hopeless case,
wirch had boon pronounced RS incurable. But it is only to
-ay that if the chemist had known of the wants of the family
the medieine coald have been obtained without a visit to
lie pewnbroker. It is now nearly two years slice this
took place, and young James Francis Thames has been
working in the coal-pit and, rground ever since, eluvial:
ex ra pay f r over-work, which he is able to perform. Of
ourse he never had organic di ease of the heart am wits
.upposed. The palpitation, rheumatnim, stud asthma were
quire symptems of tee real disease, which wag dYePtP
•r indigesdon, for which the remedy was especial IY 144,41
' Those who wish to communicate with this young Mall can
ite to him at the above address, aid be will vouch for t
unitive properties of Seigel's hyruP, the article that,
effected this at s.ost miraculous care. The follswing letter
is from a chemist, who thought the facts suould he made
known :—" James Francis Thomas, of Poutuewynydd, near
Pontypool, age twenty-three, collier, was ill for time years,
usable to do any work for three ye ‘rii, never lay down in
bed for nine sears, had to sleep in a stooping posture, was
treated by nearly All the doctors for miles around who
generally btatcti his coniphunt to bo rheumatism and heart
ei.seese of a chronic nature, aud beyond all power to c its it
When hope had nea ly died out he was per. natio' to try.
Seigel' s Syrup; and, to the delight, of Lis relatives and
astonishment of his neighbours, after tatkiine half is bottle he
could he down in bed. After takingone bottle he went he
work. Has taken two bottles, and on with the third, and id
quite wo.l end strong. His mother is in raptures, and cam
-"t". of nothing else but tuie marvellous curer wad whine
W melt ia Mon,'

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