The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-06-15
Two Months to Live.
A Family which Has Furnished
Two Presidents.
Interesting Experiences ON Sea and ON
Land.


furnished two presidents, is Quincy, Mass.
The only family which has seen two of its son.
occupy the highest office in the land is the Adams
family, the members of which have been leader,
among their fellowmen ever since the nation,
birth. President John Adams was the second
and John Quincy Adams the fourth President O.
the United States, and their descendants, Charlie,
Francis Adams and John Quincy Adams, are
prominent to-day in literary and political circles
1t was to the beautiful town of Quincy that a
reporter went few days ago. Leaving the train
at Quincy Adams, the
cLINK! CLINK! CLINK!
OF hundreds of hammers in the numerous granite
sheds greeted his ears. For almost the only in
industry in this rich old town is that of granite
quarrying and working. In one of these sheds
was found Mr.. Samuel E. Curtis, well-knowr
granite worker, who has been quite a traveller in
his time having for eight years followed the sea
in the merchant marine service, and being once
shipwrecked in the West indies.
He came nearer death, however, about a yea1
since, and gives his experience as follows:
''Well, got into very bad condition, owing, !
think to scrofulous humors in the blood and
stomach had six or seven assesses come on
my neck, and got 50 weak that 1 could hardly
drag myself about. A good many days l had to
give up work altogether Most of my friends
thought was going into consumption. had a
bed feeling in my stomach all the time, and soon
after eating, deathly faintness would come on.
My afternoons were full of misery. Every piece
of work commenced felt must be my last I
was
GOING DOWN HILL FAST
tried a good many remedies without receiving
al Otb Tctr tI1a rin
That was Hoods Sarsapara. A friend who had
been benefited by its use, urged me to try it, and
! bought bottle and began to take it, Before /
had finished the second bottle another abscess
came on my side, but that and the others soon be-
gan to heal and all eventually disappeared The
way my health improved was amazing My appe-
tite came back, the faintness in the stomach dis
appeared, and in six months increased in weight
from 1877 to lat pounds. 1 became strong and
vigorous, and can do my good days work with as
much ease as ever l could. After what Hoods
Sarsaparilla has done for me feel that too much
cannot be said in its praise. always take pleas
ure in recommending it to others.''
Mrs. Curtis said: floods SarSaparilla did
everything for my husband. He was white as a
sheet, without strength, and rapidly growing
weaker. The neighbors gave him just two months
to live; but, thanks to Hoods Sarsaparilla, he is
now alive and wel'
Joseph II. Vogel, a leading granite worker said:
"NIr. Curtis has been in my employ several years,
and his statements as to the benefit he derived
from Hoods Sarsaparilla may be relied upon"
E. N. Nightingale, neighbor of Mr.. Curtis,
hearing of the benefit the latter had received from
Hoods Sarsaparilla, took it himself for boiIs, of
which he had several at a time. -Four or five bot
ties entirely cured him.
The statement of Mr.. Curtis shows the prostra-
ton which many people suffer in consequence of
the terrible drain on the system by scrofula hui
NOR. His rescue from very low condition by
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and the manner in which it
built him up, shows how others may also be bene-
flied by this great medicine,
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