Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-10-17
JIG YEARS Old
and VIGOROUS
A Veteran Of the Late War Adds One More Name
to the List Of Striking Cures by Pink
Pills in Michigan.
An olDFAsH0NED, LARGE FAMILY OF THIRTEEN CHILDREN.
FROM n. o0urier.Herald, saqinaw, Aaeh..

A few years ago q wave of La Gripp'
swept over the land and brought Thousands
Of its victims to the grave. Others who es
capped the fate lived on in sorrow and suffer
ing, broken in health and spirit.
Terrible as was the disease, its after effect
were yet more appalling, as II sought out tn,
weaknesses of the constitution and left thou
sands shattered wrecks of their former selves
A few days ago q Courier Herald represen
tative, while at the thriving little town O
Akron. Mich, met John l.. Smith, a veteran
Of the industrial army, on whose aged heac
the disease had fallen, and he heard him tel
how he had suffered and what had giver
him relief.
We can do no better than quote his owr
words, which are as follows: "About
seven years ago | was taken down with the
Grip and it fastened on me very hard
For about half the winter l 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 slternated 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 it was in my hips, then
in my legs, and again it would go to my
head and pain me in the eyes. 1t was SO in
tense that it even affected my sight.
II called in mediesl assistance, but this
was f~ruitless, as | received no benefit from
physicians. From then on / tried various
preparations that were recommended TO me,
was as bad and painful as it was before |
tried them.
FINALLY, / saw al advertisement of DIR.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, and /
read with much interest of the wonderful
cures that they had effected in so many
cases. / had tried so many proprietary prep.
~arations that / had no faith in it, but tried
it, as | had so many other things, TO see if
they were Of any use.
Gone day when | was feeling as bad as
usual, | 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 OH ny shoes with ease,
a thing that l had not done TO-. forty years.
A little while after this | was 80 well that /
drove to Bay City, Michigan, a distance Of
twenty-three miles, and was not at all tired
when / got there.
81 am now seventy-six years of age and
unusually active for a man of my years. /
work on my forty-acre farm and experience
no trouble from the work. | want to say a
good word for Pink Pills, as they helped me
where all else did no good whatever. Since
my illness and cure a 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 old and re-
spected residents of Tuscola County, where
they nave lived for thirty years. Mr.. Smith
is a sturdy pioneer, and cleared up a 200
acre farm near Akron. He yet lives there,
surrounded by twelve of his thirteen chill
dren, Thanks to Pink Pills, he has a pros
pect of many years of usefulness.
Another sufferer with the same malady was
Neil Raymond, a prosperous and leading
farmer, residing near Columbiaville, Lapeer
Co., Michigan. Speaking to a representative
of The Courier Herald, Mr.. Raymond said
Three years ago last June, one night / suf-
fered gn attack of paralysis, brought on, I
think, by overwork and as an after effect of
la grippe. After q week my condition was
no bad that ] summoned a physician and
doctored for about six months, with but little
relief. For some time / had seen In the