The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-11-07
76 Years Old
AMID VIGOROUS
A Veteran Of the Late War Adds One More Name
to the List OF Striking Cures by Pink
Pills in Michigan.
An CLD+ASAoNED, LARGE family OF THIRTEEN CHILDREN.
Fc3&!he Crrier-Enruid, Saginam, Mich.

a fHw wears Hco a wave Of la GTi,nc
swept over the land ana Drought ghoa&auU.s
of its victims to the grave OtncrS VINO -.
capped the fate lived on III sorrow and suffer
ing, broken in health and spirit.
Terrible rs was the disease. its ancr eff cts
were Yet more appalling, rs i, sought out tie
weaknesses of the constitution and left thou
sands shattered wrecks of their former selves.
\ few days ago a CDuricr- iErGiG represent
tative. while at the thriving liltie town of
Akron, Mich, met John l.. Smith, Il veteran
of the industrial army, on who's" AGED mead
the disease had fallen, and h" ht!ri iiI tell
how he had suffered and whQt had @ivvI
him relief.
We can do no better than ouotc lis W
words. which are as follows: "Ab9ut
seven years ago | was taken Town with the
Grip and it fastened on me very hard.
For about half the winter | was so bad that |
could not leave the house. was chilly all
the time, and could not get warm. felt as
If | was frozen solid, and could only breathe
with great difficulty.
This condition alternatcd with sweating
spells of great violence. There was an al
most continuous pain, and it would shoot
from one part of my body to another, with
great suddenness, and cause me intense suf-
fering. Sometimes il was in my hips. then
in my legs, and again it would 60 to my
head and pain me in the eyes. 1t was SO in
! tense that it even affected my sight.
L Nail'" III W u u~SlNitIh ', Ihl lillS
was t~ruitless, rs | received 10 benefit from
physicians. From then on | tried various
preparations that were recommended TO me,
but they did me no good, and my condition
was as bad and painful as it was before |
tried them.
Finally, saw an advertisement Of Or.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, and I
read with much interest of the wonderful
cures that they had effected in 50 many
cases. | had tried so many proprietary prep,
a~rations that | had no faith in it, but tried
it, as | had so many other things, TO see if
they were of any use. :
Zone day when | was feeling as bad as
usual, L got a box of Pink Pills, and shortly
before going to bed | took one pill. | cannot
tell you what a surprised man | was next
morning. Then | put on nv shoes with ease,
a thing that | had not done for forty wears.
A little while after this | was 50 well that
drove to Bay City, Michigan, a distance Of
twenty-three miles, and was not at all tired
when | got there.
II am now seventy-six years Of ace and
unusually active for a man of my years. |
work on my forty-acre farm and experience
no trouble from the work. | want to sly a
good word for Pink Pills, as they helped me
where all else did no good whatever. Since
my illness and cure q number Of my neigh.
bors have used them. and say that they have
been greatly benefited"
Mrs; Smith, the veterans wife, who sat
near by, confirmed the words that her hus.
band had spoken and added her testimony
to the good that the pills had been to the
family. The worthy couple are cid and re.
spected residents of Tuscoia County, where
they have lived for thirty years. Mr.. Smith
is a sturdy pioneer, and cleared up = 300
acre farm near Akron. II" yet lives there
surrounded by lively, of his thirteen chill
dren. Thanks to Pink Pills, he las "A PROS
pect of many years Of usefulness.
Another sufferer with thesamr na!aAv wa,
Neil Raymond, a prosperous arI leading
farmer, residing near ColumbiaviIl". LARGER
Co., Michigan. SpeaEin" to n representative
of Tie Courier W"r"id. Mr. Raymond Snil
"Three years ago last June. one ri9ht | ~uf
ferod an attack of paralysis. brought "n,
think, by ovErwork and as an after "''"r; %
la grippe. After IA week my condition wa,
so bad that | summoned y pnvs:"i:t. rn,
doctnred for about six months. with huf li:tl
relief. For some time | had seen ia ia