Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-08
A ROMANCE OF OIL.
Philadelphia Easy Hour.

work for six months-wss laid up for a whole win
ter csme all the way down from wilkesbarre to
this city to get 'pog-wowed,' but it didat do any
good. went back home thinking it wouId finish
me, sooner or later, anyhor. AID that it was no
use dom anything more. If tried one remedy |
tried Fifty. l had spent nesrly half fortune
on doctors ard French medicines of one
kind Or smother. They made me- worse
Well. Spring came and the warm
weather and the pain left me: 1 didn't feel it any
more until the next winter Then it came on sgain
and ii was the Old thing over again. IVES laid up
and for months ST time could get out OF doors
My friends sdyised me to take change OF ciuaats
but bad spent money enough in trying to get
cured and concluded wouldn't SPEND any more
The only thing TO do 10 wait till warm weather
cane. So all that winter suffered juss az had
the winter before. was-let me ask you, Did Won
ever have any friends suffering from infammatory
rbeumatisn.!"
Never"
''1hen you don't know much about 1t you're
lucky. Well, as 1 WAS saying, that whole winter
was one Of continual suffering TO me. When spring
came the pain left and was able TO get out
again. From that time right on regularly as soon
as cold weather appeared the pain would be re-
newed The joints would swell and my limbs
would get twice their natural siZo. / broke VOWS
number OF tines and caleb in a doctor when the
pain was at its worst. but he could do nothirns to
relieve me. almost swore would never try med
icine of any kind again. The postman at your
in coming to me every winter. At ths beginning
of this winter-when did the cid weather como
in"
I'm the latter part OF November or early In De-
celnber."
"Weli, any how, this rheumatism wasn't half a
day behind. 1feltit comm before the cold wave
had struck us. 1t began in the upper part of my
body and went right through me. In less than
three days was laid up as bad as Both limbs
were swollen, my right arm was so painful could
not raise it more than couple OF inches. stood
1t as long as could, then went to bed had been
In bed two days, and on the third morning was
nearly crazy with the pain. / saw that there WAS
every prospect of me having to stay there till
spriIg. AID thought to myself this won't do. I'll
try some medicine, and is that don't work I'll try
doctor. had read in the paper about st. Jacobs
OH, and sent my boy to Jacoby's drug store, at
22d and Christian streets, to buy a bottle l
lad them rub the upper part Of my body with
it and then the limbs Wei, sir, in less than
three hours the pain had worked out of nv
s. Outers and arms and had all conferred in the
Lover limbs, which were swollen to twice their
natural size. kept bathing the limbs for fifteen
minutes at time. You it's an oil til at absorbs
very rapidly-aJmost as Rapidly as you can pour 1t
On kept applying and rubbing nearly whole
afternoon. Well, 1t b<gan to go away from my
right leg and settle in the left limb. Next morning
the swelling in the right limb had been almost en-
urely reduced, and there was only the fsiutest
trace OF pain kept rubbing both llrabs every
hour; gradually the swelling in the left kaee began
to so down and the pain to so with it. Before
noon had exhausted all of the first bottle and sea
fer another. kept bathing every hour just as
had Gone OIL the day before You'll hardly believe
NE when tell you st the ED Of the day the SWELL
ing in the right knee had entirely dissp-
peared and that of the left had become re-
duced to about the same condition as the frat
on the day before. On the following morning
the third after had began to try the medicine
bean again, and sir, just as true tell you
here by evening the swelling had completely dis
appeared from both limbs and all the pain with il
except with little stiffness about the left joint
which wore oil in the course OF the following day,
and haven't been troubled SINCE and I'm as we'll
now as you are These are facts. L don't pretend
to understand 1t or to explain it, but 1 do ssy
that the st. Jacobs Oil cured me. I'm as satisfied
OF 1t as am that am alive before you this min
ute. Make what you write as strong You can :
you can't make it too strong. People may laugh
ard be sceptical about if, but know what 1t did
for me, when doctors and everything else failed.
Thi, Is the first winter in ten that have been On
my feet and attending to business in weather like
this think its tie best medicine that was ever
made"
The above account was given By Mr.. Jacob
Faust, a grocer, on the southwest corner of
Twenty third and Catharine streets He is man
Of about thirty Ave years Of age. strong and sinewy
looking, though with q rather thin and csdaverOus
face Obviously the effect of his long suffering aud
confinement indoors In order to leara more
about his case which is considered in the neigh
boIhood remarkable one, thu writer visited the
drug store OF L. L. Jacoby at Twenty second and
Christian streets. Mr.. Jacoby verified in every
particular what is above related in reference to
Faust having 5sen tf,rer from Rheumatism
and OF his having sent there for tie Oh which
cured him.
do you sell much of the Oh down here ,"
''Much.-Oh, 10y gracious said the druggist,
with an upward tendency OF the eyes and shrus
OF the shoulders, meant to convey idea OF SONG
thirg stupendous. I've Sell an enormous lot.
People OF all classes buy it and they all spe TX well
Of it. We dare not be out o. itfor even half a
day"
Another instance, from high authority, in refer
ence to the remarkable properties Of the Oil comes
from Mis-. Mary A. Berian. wife of Commodore
Berian, of North 18th street. Mrs. Berian had
been a sufferer from rheumatism in one Of her
limbs and had been advised to try the Oil, all other
medicine having failed to relieve her. Upon the
third application the pain entirely dis appeared and
she has not been troubled since.
Druggists protest in many instances that 1t does
not do for them to recommend any prop ietary
medicines as they lave many different lines on
hsnd that If they begin once with one they will
have 10 go on with Others and will consequently
have more on their hands than they can per
form But, are obliged to make an exception
In the case of st. Jscobs Oil. 1t msy be
least in the Eaiment lire, placed on the market
since the days when Americas history began, that
sold in any way like this. The druggists. one and
all. have the same question when asked anything
in this connection, Its the most rapid selling
article in the liniment line We have ever had" An
account of what every druggist says in answer to
that one single question. slow does it ssll:'
would fill volumes Its the greatest thing Sell
ever had" said Druggist Frank p. Laui
baugh, OF 10th and Jefferson streets; ''a box no
more than comes into the store Until we are out Of
it sgain. All our customers are enthusiastic over
it, We have had ladies aud others coma and tai
us about how it relieved them of rheumatism or
neuralgia. It certainly has some virtue about it
or people would not CONS and take ne .si"i and
fourth bottle as they do"
1t IS not alone for rleum atis!n and neuraIys tb.t
The OIL IS used, 1t would appear. The instances in
which 1t hiss been uaed FOR burns, sprains scaIds.
bruises, ahrasions, c2rns, bunions, chibains,
lane shoulders and other Affections are as numer-
Gus az the complaints themselves. In every case
known the effect has been the same-that of fur
nishing relief. in point is that OF VIM
Ayers, butcher, at 22d and Christian streets. He
says: - For IoDg time have suffered from a lame
ehouIder-sprained. / suppose, through lifting
meat with it. 1t became bad at times that couId
not sleep Of nights-a continuous sharp ache would
so al through me. heard of this st. Jacobs Oil
and few days ago1 bought bottle. fused it about
m nd Sill hot hs5a