Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-22
Mr. ellis DAUGHTER.


Poor Katie! A great sufferer she was,
and most patiently did she endure in the
hope that at last her sufferings would come
to an end. She was just budding into
,womanhood a fine-looking girl Of nearly
nineteen, who had, previous to her attack
of illness, enjoyed robust health.
Let her mother tell the story, as she told
it to two of our editorial friends who re-
Gently spent an evening at the house.
"Katie's illness came on slowly, with
great pain in her thigh and hip. For a.
while she kept on going to school, but tne
pains became SO severe that she had TO
stay at home, and most of the time lie down
on little lounge here in the sitting-room.
We tried the best physicians we could GET.
The disease baffled them all. One SAID IL
was liberation of the thigh bone, and
wanted to have the poor child undergo a
terrible operation. 1t turned out to be
sciatic rheumatism. Poor child! How she
did suffer About four O clock in the alter
noon she would begin screaming with PAIN:
She couldn thelpit. She would scream ana
moan till about four in the morning linen
she would fall asleep from WEAKNESS, and
sleep for some hours. This went on Tor
about eight months. During the nights
neither she nor L could sleep.
"Katie was a great reader One day, IN
q paper, she saw an advertisement OF Ath-
lophoros. She asked me to get it and see
if it wouldn't cure her. We had tried a
good many different things, but | thought
we would try this. And l went and got a
bottle. I gave her a dose Of it towards
evening. 1t was simply wonderful how it
quieted the poor child's pain and put her
into a gentle sleep. She slept nicely until
10. Then she was in a great perspiratlon.
She walked, and l gave her another dose,
for the first one had done her SO much good.
Then she fell asleep again and slept till
morning. Her pain. was gone. She had
hardly any returns of it. The Athlophoros
did the work for her most completely.
"But the terrible sciatica had drawn
Katie's leg up and made it shorter than 1T
had been, by several inches. She was lame
for life, although the rheumatism was all
driven out of her. She had to walk on
crutches. One day she fell down stairs and
was so badly hurt that she had to be taken
to the hospital There she suffered q great
DEAL and after some weeks she died
Father Tscheider, of the Paulist Faith
ers, saw much of Katie during her illness,
and knows all about us. Go and ask him,
and he will tell you all about it.
"Some time ago we gave a letter about
Katies case, and it was published. We
have had numerous inquiries in reference to
it, all of which we promptly answer.
Il must tell you" continued Mrs. Gill,
"of our neighbor, Mrs. Summers, and her
11-year-old boy. The boy had one OF the
most terrible attacks of rheumatism | ever
knew boy to have. l had q little Athlo-
phoros left in the bottle from which Katie
had taken. l gave it to Mrs. Summers, and
she gave it to the child who was screaming
with pain. When Mr.. Summers came home,
hewas surprised to find the boy sitting up,
free from pain, and cheerfully singing. L
wish you would go and see them. They
live not far from here, on West 9th
Street, No. 905."
Mr.. Gill added in his own behalf
81 have had a good deal OF rheumatism
myself, chiefly in my shoulders and arms,
but l took Athlophoros and got rid OF the
trouble. l did not have to take much
either. | found the medicine acted very
quickly"
The Rev. Father Peter Tscheider, assist
ant pastor of the Church of the Holy Fam
lily, was found at his pastoralresidence, No.
AT West 18th street, Chicago Father
Tscheider took pleasure in saying that he
knew Mr.. and Mrs. Gill, and that he es-
teemed them highly; also that he had seen
Katie frequently during her illness, and
knew all about her wonderfulrec from
sciatica, and her subsequent injury and her
illness at the hospital.
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., ZIP Wall Street, New York