The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1884-02-16 00:00:00

ESTABLISHED 1710 AND 1810.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

Insurances effected in all parts of the United King 13m
.ind in Foreign countries. Total sum insured in 1881
C 270,959 t. 74.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.

Policy holders participate in fo tr•fiPhs of the Profits,
Claims paid immediately .fter proof of death and title.
Low rates of premiums for young lives.

MIDLAND BRANCH OFFICE-

112, COLMORE-ROW, BIRMINGEIAM.
J. 11. NEWSAM JAMES,

District 141anager.

Agents at Stout-bridge:
MR. IT. JAMES, Birmingham Ranking Company.
NIESSRS, BERNARD and KING. B,lieitora.
NI IL G. RICHARDS, Station Master, G.W.R.

Psweiree s Psis es T 1101791119 705 MEDICINZ.—Jameu
Fraueis Thomas lives at Pontnewynydd. near Pontypool,
Xfonmoutlit hire. He is now tweuty-three years of age,
living with his mother, a widow. Some eleven years ago,
then a mere boy, he went to work in acoal-pse as a miner.
in older to assist his mauler in roaring her family of little
children. Soon, however, the little fellow broke down in
health; but the necessities of the family seemed to regains,
it, and he coutinued to toil in the mines, suffering all the
time from the effects of indigeslion, an agonising symptom
being asthma, in such a troublesome form that tee uoy was
unable to lie in bed. Working through the day, suit rest-
ing as best. e could in an arm chair during the night
nattn ally undermined his constitution. Year by yesr,by
his health grew worse and worse, until at last rhetunatieui
Caine with all its dreadful agony. One joint after anuther
became swollen and hitt mod, so that he was obliee.l to stop
work. In this sad plight the now soling men Wab continua
to the house for two long y, ars, suffering all that mortal
ould endure. One physican after another was called upon
0 treat his complaint, but w•th no eeuetit, fur the pour,
fellow continued to grew worse ale]. worse. Hoping to Lust
some means of relief, a consultation of doc:ors was held
when it was decided that an organic disease ot the heart
existed in an in urable form, and that imeliesl aid could
not afford relief. He was given up to die. Those years uf
xpensive medical treatun nt had exhausted the lit .ito
savings c the mother, and they hail no money to buy yen
.he nece,saries of life. But a fend mother never gives up
n despsir. There was one seurk of hope left. Someone
nad told her of a remedy teat ha & cued so many cases—
seu when as hopeless its this one seemed to be—and the
mother's love went out for her dear boy, but how to get
he medicine sv.,s the question. Their money W. 23 entire y
gone. The boy hada new pair of trouset is that he has be:LL
o ill to wear, and the mother reasoned wit' in liereelf, '-lf
the boy is to die he will not need them, so • rue)" as
well
pledge them for meals me with an eff..rt 0 save
obtainedh slife.''
Strange as it may appear, the bottles of me acme procured
.it the chemist's shop in Pontypool, with thy mon*
at the pawnbroker's effected a cure in this hoyeless came,
which had been pronounced as incurable. but it II only to
say that if the chemist had known v.f the wants of the family
the m . di. me could have been olsamed without a visit to
be pswnbroker. It is now nearly two years Since this
took place, and young James Francis Thomas has been
working in the coal-pit underground ever since, caning
extra pay I r over-work, which. he is ehls to perform, Of
course he never had organic di cite of the heart as was
-unposed. The palpitation, rheumatesm, and asthma wore
;nese sjniptoms of the is,al disease, which was dyspep.is,
sr indigestion. for which the remedy was espec,ally adasted
chose who wish to commuoica:e with this young mien can
write to him at the above address, ard he 'sill vouch for t .e
unitive properties of Seigel'e syrup, the article that
effected this at ..oet miraculous care. The following letter
is from a chemist, who thought the facts sneuld he made
keown :—" James Francis ihomas, of Poutnewyn,dd, mar
Pontypool, age twenty-three, collier, WaS ill for nine years,
unable to do any work for three yen's, never lay down iu
bed for nine years, had to sleep in a stooping vesture, was
treated by nearly all the doctors for miles around who
generally stated his comp!aint to b.: rheumatism and heart
disease of a chronic nature, aid beyond all power to care it
ej.nttr3.s..
When hope had nes ly died out he was persutde
aSsetlogneils'ehmSyernutpo;f
his neighbours,
etigehbthoeursd,ealifetheit.
could lie down in bed. After taking
work. Has now taken two bottles, and ox i with the thud, and is
quite well aid strong. His mother Is raptures, and cat
ekf ibuhogitslttlallia,ll;tstie"htfle
talk of nothing else but Wks marvelloun cute, anti
willasl
nap to make iMoval.".

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