Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-04-17
THE STAMFORD BLACKSMITH.

Quiet and steady-going Stamford, in Con-
necticut is not a place whose citizens seek
excitement or are given to sensations. In
stead, therefore, of saying that the case oi
Mr.. Bates has produced what is commonly
called sensation" let us rather say that
it has made profound impression among
the thoughtful Stamford people, and one
which will not soon be forgotten.
One of our editors, having heard Of it,
visited Stamford to learn more about it.
First he called on Messrs. Gillespie
Brothers, publishers of the Stamford Ad-
pocate, an influential paper. From these
gentlemen he learned that Frank V. Bates
is well known and highly esteemed by the
Stamford people, and that he had been so
ill with rheumatism that his life had been
despaired of. The doctors had done their
best for him but without success. Having
given up almost all hope of recovery, Mr..
Bates happened to see in the Advocate an
advertisement of Athlophor0s. Without
saying anything to the doctors about it he
sent for a bottle "just to try" The result
was, in short, he got well. "Step around
the corner to Mr.. Bates shop" said Mr..
Gillespie, "and have no doubt you will see
him there. 1t will interest you to have
talk with him."
Our correspondent went and had very
interesting talk with Mr.. Bates, who said
substantially:
az was exposed during the summer and
early fall, for l took a lively interest in the
campaign. l was taken down with typhoid
malarial fever, which was followed by
rheumatism and sharp sciatic pains. Oh
how did suffer! Ny agony was excruci-
ating. l was in bed with the fever nearly
three months. Then got better and went
out too soon, and l suppose that was why
the rheumatism and sciatica followed. |
had pains all over me. In my back they
were very, very bad. One day | was sit
ting up in bed reading the Aduocdte, and
came across an advertisement of Athlopho-
ros. 1t didn't offer to cure everything,
but said it could cure rheumatism and neu
ralgia. That was all wanted. If it could
do that, it was just the thing for me. sent
to Mr.. Gillespie, who publishes the paper,
and | told him / had seen the advertise
ment and wanted to know what he knew
about it. There are so many humbugs, you
know, that offer to cure all sorts of things
and can't cure any of them, that l didn't
want to get hold of any of them. Mr..
Gillespie said he knew nothing about the
medicine, but he believed that the people
who advertised it were fair and square peo-
pie. So thought would try bottle and
see what would come of it. Yes, l tried
it, and was not disappointed, either. Why,
in quarter of an hour after l had taken
my first dose the worst of those awful
pains had left me. l tell you it was q
mighty relief. OF course, I feared they
would come back again, for l had never
heard of medicine that could do so much
good in so little time. l thought perhaps
It would turn round and do me some HARM
some way or other. But it didn't, and the
pains didn't come back, either. l kept on
taking little more Athlophoros, just to
keep the pain out, and I took altogether
about two bottles of it. Just think of it,
had taken morphine and chloroform
and all that kind of drugs to ease
my pain, and they had given me
nothing but temporary relief, and not
great deal of that. But here was this
new medicine, that took the pain right out
/ don't want to say anything against the
doctors. l had two Of them. They are
good men and good friends of mine, and
they did their very best to bring me out
But it was the Athlophoros that. did the
business.
"You see, am not up to my full weight
yet. am pale and thin, and not as strong
as was before my illness. No wonder
/ weighed 100 pounds and ran down to
100! 1t is only four weeks since / have
been able to be about. But l am gather
ing strength. I sleep well, eat we'll, and
am attending regularly to my business"
II you cannot get ATHLoPHoRos OF your drug
gist, we will send 1t express paid, on receipt OF
regular prce-One dollar per bottle. We prefer
that you buy 1t from your druggist, but II he
hasn't 1t, do not be persuaded to try something
else, but order at once from us, as directed
ATHLOPHoROs Co, ll2 Wall Street, New YORK.