The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-03-04
LONG AT THE LEVER.
RlGORS OF THE ROAD
Rreak Down the Nervous System of &
Wen-Known Railroad Engineer
What Built Him Up Again.
From The Gazette. Chtllicothc. Ohio.

Mr.. Elbridge Waterman is well-known
railroad engineer of the Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern Railway, who has been a
great sufferer from nervous debility of an
aggravated kind for the past ten years. The
strain was telling on his nerves terribly,
and steady work was impossible. The fol
lowing is his story:
For the past ten years, he said, 81 have
suffered as few men have with nervous
ness, heart trouble and rheumatism. / have
lived on the footboard most of my life, and
the constant jolting and nervous strain
, slowly but surely undermined my constitu-
ton. l was forced to quit work, and there
seemed to be little prospect of my going
back to the throttle again. l tried every
remedy that l could find, but none of
them did me any good. L consulted doctors
all over the country, butte no avail. lWOuld
be better for a time, and then would come
on an attack more severe than ever, and l
would have to quit work. The money l
have spent during that time for doctors and
medicine, none of which did me any per-
manent good, would place me now out of
want, and in comparative aftiuenCe, if had
it. An idea of how much time and money /
| lost may be gained when tell you that dur
| ing last summer alone, | was totally unable
! Is work four months on a stretch, and was
much of the time confined to the house, and
| to the bed, sometimes unable TO move. II
makes me cold all over when look back on
what have gone through.
But rheumatism was not the only thing
! [ suffered from. My heart troubled me very
much, and was totally unable to sleep for
| days and weeks at time When | would
| drop off into do2e, my heart would beat
| itself almost out of my bosom, and would
| wake me up as though had been struck by
trip hammer. | mad twitchings in my
| arms and legs, and was altogether in suchla
| condition that my wife and friends began to
| consider me beyond reach OF medical as
| sistance.
Il was almost of the same opinion my
| self, when | happened to see in the paper
| last June letter from an old soldier III the
west who had been cured of rheumatism by
| Dr. Williams Pink Pills. The testimonial
was written in such way that l knew IT
was not faxed up one, and L determined to
| give this medicine a fair trial. | was un-
| able to work at the time and almost in de
! spair. So l went to the drug store and
| bought SIX boxes of them, in order to give
| them a thorough test, and in few days l
| began to feel the Improvement they Were
working in my system. In two weeks |
was able to go to work, and | have worked
| ever since without lay off, which is some
| thing have not done for years
| 1.-The first improvement l noticed was in
| my heart, which grew more and more nor
| NAL in its action, until at last it did not
| trouble me at all, and l was able to sleep as
| L Hdu uOJ UtGu dDlt lOI zen years. Inc u6dTI
| trouble has never returned, and my sleep
| for the past two months has been healthy
| and deep. Last night | went to bed early
| and slept soundly until eight o'clock this
morning. And now, when wake up, | feel
| invigOrated and ready Tor the days work,
| lust as | used to feel when was boy.
The nervous tWitChings were also cured
| in a short time, and have never returned OF
| bothered me in the least since. This has
| also been 4 great relief TO me, as the tWitch.
| lngs were very annoying, as well as an indi
| cation to everyone OF the terrible condition
in which my state of health was. And the
greatest wonder of all is thattherheumatism
seems to be cured also, and does not bother
pose myself unduly, and even then only fol-
d short time. Iconsider myself a well mar
now, and hope to continue 50. l am still
taking Pink Pills, for want the cure to be
| a-complcte and permanent one 1only wish
mad known them years ago, for l would
have saved myself large sums of money as
well as suffering for which no money could
repay"
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| $3.50 (they are never sold in bulk or by the
| 1907 by addressing Dr. Williams Medicine
| Company, Schenectady, \. \.