Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-13
A SAD LIFE. HISTORY.
The Story of John ROgers-His Rescue
from Death.

from Death.
from the Atdnta tGG.l Constitution, MareALtk.
About eighteen years ago John j. Rog-
ers was one of the brightest vouny mon IN
the service of the Southern Express Com
pany-a popular, active and capable
young fellow, numbering friends by the
hundred, devoted to his business and
enjoying the fullest confidence of his EN-
ployers. Handsome and vigorous, his life
promised as much of happiness and use
fulness as almost any of the Young men
VINO then made up Atlanta's population.
ne was a generous, whole-souled fellow
ana MS praise was in everybOdy's mouth.
About that time he contracted n fearful
disease that baff1ed the skill of the nhvsi.
clans and made him complete wreck.
II robbed him Of his yigOr, his ewes lost
their brightness and step its elasticity
lie soon after threw up his position, being
unable to attend TO any business. He was
covered with sores, his eyes became affect
ed, and the excessive use of mercury
brought on paralysis, and he at length
found his way to the poor house, a wretcb-
ed man. lie had tried every physician ina
Atlanta and had been to the Hot SDrinps
twice, without avail. At length the dis
ease attacked his brain, and he became An
lmbecile. He was unable to tell his own
name; did not know the day of the week
or month; was barely able to walk, drag
snake. For years he lived in the poor
house, on bright days riding to town ON
the poor house wagon, receiving money
from those of his friends who met him.
At length the proprietors of Swift's Spe.
cltc determined to give their medicine a
trial in his ease. They realized that
thrOugh SIMPLE Indiscretion this young
fellow, of good mind disposition and pros.
poets, had become a wreck, and they be-
ileved that their remedy would cleanse
his system and restore him once more to
health and reason. About one wear a0o
they gave him the first dose of the Sne-
clhc, which he has continued 20 take
since. The result has been wonderful.
On yesterday morning he walked seven
miies ifom the poor house into the city
Without the least fatigue. The effects az
the mercury still makes his Joints some-.
what still, but his blood has been thor
0ughly cleansed and purified, and his sys-
tenn to-day is free from the slightest taint
OF the disease that brought him to sueh
wretched straits. He has recovered his
reason, sight and voice, and speaks dis
81 feel, for the first time in eighteen
years, that my blood, instead of being a
poison that eats my life away, is once
more clean and healthy, and that have
many years of life, and l hope of useful
ness, ahead of me-"
lie says lurtner: Il owe my life to the
owners of the Swift,s Specific. They came
to me when ! was in bed and paralyzed.
All the physicians had given my case lIp
as hopeless, and did not have enough OF
reason left to know what they were pro-
posing to do when they began to treat me.
was as simple child, and did not know
the men who came to my bedside. If thev
had let me alone ] am satisfied a few
months would have ended my wretch
ed life, and that l would months
ago have been dead and forgotten.
Through the use of Swift's Specific nv
strength and reason gradually returned
to me, until l now feel that l am cured;
and If it were not for lingering traces Of
the mercury still left in my joints, would
be as active and vigorous as | ever was.
L want the public to know what this med
icine has done for me, that others who
are suffering, as ! have, a thousand deaths
for the past eighteen years. may get the
remedy i'll time to arrest their disease, be-
fore 1t has dethr0ned their reason and
robbed them of their strength, and before
the use of minerals has poisoned their
systems beyond recovery"
The above is the history of a remarka-
BILE case. The subject is delicate one to
deal with, and the story told is almost in
credible. We have endeavored to state
nothing but the exact truth. There are
thousands in Atlanta who know the sad
history of this young man, and who have
seen him at intervals for the past eighteen
years, and who will testify that we have
not done justice to the horrors of his case.
lie can be seen now any day on the streets,
and the above statement verified by a con-
versatiOn with him. 1t is doubtful if the
range of medicine shows a more desper-
ate case or speedier cure.