Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-04-14
TIE STANFORD BLACKSMITH.

Quiet and steady-going Stamford, in Con-
necticut, is not 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 commoniy
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-
pocat>, 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 SC
Ill with rheumatism that his life had been
despaired Of The doctors had done their
best for him but withHt success. Having
given up almost all hope Of recovery, Mr..
Bates happened to see in the Adrocate an
advertisement Of Athlophoros. Without
saving 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:
al was exposed during the summer and
early fall, for / took lively interest in the
campaign / 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. | was in bed with the fever nearly
three months Then / got better and went
out too soon, and | suppose that was why
the rheumatism and sciatica followed.
had pains all over me In my back they
we're very, very bad. One day was sit
ting up in bed reading the 1drocate 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 50 many humbugs, you
know, that offer 10 cure all sorts of things
and can't cure any Of them, that ! didn't
want 10 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 a bottle and
see what would come of it. Yes, tried
it, and was not disappointed, either. Why
in a quarter of an hour after | had taken
my first dose the worst of those awful
pains had left me. tell you it was
mighty relief OF course, | feared tho
would come back again, for ! had neye
heard Of a medicine that could do so ml,
good in 50 little time. thought perhap
awould turn round and do me some harm
some way or other But it didn't, and IA,
pains didn't come back, either kept on
taking little more Athlophoros, Just to
keep the pain out, and | 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 | had two of them They are
good men and good friends of mine, and
they did their very best to bring me cat
But it was the Athlophoros that did he
business
"You see am not up to my full wei2G
vet am pale and thin, and not as strou
rs was before my illness. No wondcr
weighed 100 pounds and ran dowu 10
1907 1t is only four weeks since J AZ,
been able to be about But | am 2; he,
ing strength. | sleep well, eat we'll, al
am attending regularly to my business.
II you cannot get \THIOPuoRoS OF your dr'r
gist, We VIII -cni Il "NprcsS paid on recelr'
regular pri"r-our dollar per bottle. We pc,
that ypu buy It from your druggist, hut u
hasn't IT, do not bc persuaded TO try soyyet
else, but order Mt once from as as
ATuIoruoHOS Co. H. Nal street. =