The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-12-24
WHEN DOES OLD AGE BEGIN!

When does old age begin? At for;y-five,
it Is said, the amount OF combustion which
keeps Tie furnace of the human body in
blast commences 10 decrease and diminisiaes
until three-score years ana ten, more or
less, when the fires are drawn and tie
Pickering flame dies out. That IS the
physiological way Of looking at it. But
some men are old before they are out of
their teens, while Others apparently never
grow old, though they live to be cenien-
arians. The poets way Of looking at il is
the best:
"Call him not old whose visionary brain
Holds DER the past its undivided reign.
For him in vain the envious seasons roll
Who bears eternal summer in his SOUL
This at least seems to be the way in
which David Littell, ofSumner Ia, looks
at life, for though now in his eightieth
year he has taken a new lease on life
and is apparently determined to hold on
to it, Athlophoros did it for him and lie
Acknowledges his debt to it in terms of
enthusiasm. Mr.. Litieli tells his own story:
=" | was past seventv-sevcR ana had been
afflicted with rheumatism three years and
eight months | had lost one-th;rd Of my
weight and could not walk, but shuiiied
along with cru,ches. Sleep had deserted
me, my nerves were all shattered, and there
was no strength in my hanGs, wrists, knees
or feet. | could not sit down or get up out
OF chair without help, and oh such pain,
worse at night than in the day. There was
neither sleep nor rest, and the outlook was
painful in the extreme
I" But thanks be TO God and Brother
lnskip for sending me a paper containing
notice Of the cures made by Athlophoros
and thanks be to YOU for sending me a
bott,e. 1t appears to me the hand of God
Is IN it all the way, and if You did not hear
me shout why then ! did not shout loud
enough, that is ALL The medicine arrived
one Saturday night after had gone to bed.
In the morning my son prepared me dose
of two teaspoonfuls in milk. took it and
felt it at once all over. After that l took
but one teaspoonful at time until / had
finished the bottle. How did it act? Why,
like charm. On Monday morning rose,
dressed, and walked out into the kitchen
without crutches or cane ard wished them
all happy New Year.
My pain is all gone and / rest we'll
My son, seeing such great change in me,
wrote for ten bottles in order as he says,
to make permanent cure of il. 1t is all
more like dream than reality. | have
written 10 1Our OF my friends who are
afflicted with rheumatism about the great
medicine and | shall write to others, and in
this way try to pay the debt of gratitude
Some fourteen months ago." says A.
Hayward, of Burlington, Ia, al was at
tackled with infammatory rheumatism. I
tried a dozen different kinds of medicine
said to cure rheumatism, but to no pur-
pose. Finally, | procured a bottle of
Athlophoros. After using the bottle it
did me SO much good that bought
another, but did not have to use more than
third of the second bottle before 1 was
entirely cured. From that time up to the
present | have never had anything like
rheumatic pains, and l thank Athlophoros
for the cure"
Thomas McCue, Bush's block, Dubuque,
Ia, whose wife was cured by Athlophoros
of terrible case of rheumatism, declares
it was truly miracle in roy wife's case"
If you cannot get ATHLoPHoKos of your drug
gist, we will send it express paid, on receipt of
regular price-one dollar per bottle. We prefer
that you buy it from your druggist but if he
hasn't it, do not be persuaded to try something
else. but order at once from us. as directed.
ATHLoPHoRos Co., liz Wall Street, New York