Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-03-03

A Remarkable Cure I'm This Town
From the Use OF a Patent Medi-
cine.
Mr.. Theodore Cross is the son OF 8.
o. Cross Esq, the we'll known writer
on political and domestic economy, as
well as national topics. He Is one or
the firm OF Cross a. Durkee, engaged In
the insurance business in Clements
block Theodore ID. Is one OF family
predisposed to scrofulous consumption,
which has made sad havoc In an In
telligent. loving and lovable family, or
which none are better known In TINS
section OF the state as well as Kings
bury township. Two sons and four
daughters succumbed to the terrible
disease, consumption, and led the fam
ily and friends to dread and tremble at
the first symptoms of a cold, or expos
ure. that would have. tendency to
bring on that fearful disease.
Theodore (the subject of this article)
married one OF Kingsbnry's attractive
daughter of Orvillo Vaughn. About
three years after they were married they
went to Bradford. Erie Co., Pa, where
a severe cold resulted in typhus malaria
phoid pneumonia, which made havoc
with him for five long painful weeks,
before any change was perceptible;
was employed. Then followed dry,
hacking, wasting cough, paroxysms OF
which would drive him into insensipili-
",
For nine months such q condition
continued, and what he and his unset
fish, devoted wife and family suffered
can only be understood by she who has
seen her husband daily losing his hold
on the world, and life gradually fadins
away In spite of medical skill and ten
der nursing.
ever present, vivid recollections of the
inherited disease that robbed them or
six loved ones, over whose graves sum,
mer flowers and wintry winds struggled
for supremacy. With consumption
making hourly inroads upon his vast
ing body, Mr.. Cross weight was re-
duced from 160 pounds to only 50 pounds.
Nightly almost continuous eXpectora-
lions of mucus would ill a pint cuspi--
dore several times. When he returned
TO his native town OF kingsbury his
nearest relatives and friends could
scarcely be made to believe that the
emaciated, decrepit and prematurely
old man could ever have been the elias
tic, viVaciouS young man that had left
them a few months before. Bent over
quired the support of a STAN.
So distressing was his cough that his
sufferings were almost intolerable. De-
spair took possession of his weakened
forces, body and mind, as to make him
like a drowning man, ready to catch
at straws no matter how frail; so he
caught upon anything that had the sha-
dow OF relief he so much needed.
One day while In the village drug
store of DIR. James T.. Flood his atten-
ton was attracted TO the green wrapper
that encased the remarkable remedy,
"Kemp's Balsam." Its color took his
eye. He read a small circular accom-
panying the specific, and IL seemed TO
meet his case exactly, but he had tried
many others without relief. He decid-
ed to MAKE the small Investment, and
purchased a bottle. The first dose
thrilled and flashed with healing on Its
wings through his tired, weary system
to the very marrow OF his bones, and
nope had a new birth. The effect was
both magical and electrical, and he
wanted to be taking IL continually,
and did at times overstep the bounds OF
prudence. New life began to dawn
upon his weakened mind, force,
strength and power returned 20 his
body and limbs, color came TO his pal
lid cheeks, his staff was discarded and
soon vigorous manhood again took pos
session of him. To see him to-day one
could not realize Mr.. Cross had ever
been so near to the confines of another
no one would think he was ever sick a
day i'm his life. His round, rudy face,
smiling and cheerful. his wife as beau
tiful as when first bride, his 5-year-
home, go to make up one of the hap
piest households in our corporation.
Mr. Cross is to be seen In our streets
early and late, in all weather, the pic
ture of health. He weighs to-day l6O
pounds, and does not hesitate to say
that he owes his restoration to health,
under Providence, to Kemp's Balsam.
The above is from the Sandy Hill,
N. Y, Herald Of January 81, 1889. 1t was
written by the editor of that paper be-
cause, as he said. a medicine that could
relieve such suffering ought to be
brought to the notice Of everyone. San
dy Hill is the county seat OF Wash
ington County, N. Y.