The Portland daily press., 1897-12-04
Slept Like a Child.
GAINED TWENTY.SEVEN POUNDS
IN FOUR WEEKS,
THE STORY OF A SOLDIER,
From the Transcript, Peoria, III,

From the Transcript, Peoria. III,
No man is better known and liked in
that rich tier of Illinois counties. of
which Peoria is the centre, than genial
Chester S. Harrington, of Prfnceville,
III. For many years Mr.. Harrington
has travelled through the country on
prontanIe journeys as An itinerant mer-
chant, and every where he goes he is given
hearty welcome by the people who de-
pend upon his regular visits for the pur-
cnase or the necessaries, and some OF the
Iuxufaes, of life.
Mf. Harrington is veteran of the
war, and out of this circumstance grew
the train of facts that make up the re-
markable experience which he related
upon the occasion Of visit to the iran
script office recently. His story, telllhg
of the evils of which the Civil War was
but the beginning in his own, ana IN
thousands of other cases, was as follows;
i served three years in the l24th LII
nois, enlisting at Kewanee, LII. L was IN
Libby Prison, and, of course, | suffered,
Ike many another Northern soldier
Until recently l was member OF the
Frlnoeville Post, of the g.. A. h.
The strain of army life did it's work
IN undermining my health; althougn
the collapse did not come for years For
some time | suffered from general debil
ity and nervousness, SO badly that could
not sleep. l would sit up night after
night reading, because couldn't get to
sleep. For fifteen years my sleep was
completely broken up. Indigestion of
course resulted and my misery increased
until 1t seemed had nothing to live for.
My eyes began to fail, and as my body
lost vitality my mind seemed to give way
also. ] could scarcely remember events
that happened but few weeks before.
81 was untitled for business, and had
to abandon the road for two years. l
was just able to creep around during the
greater part of this time, and there were
times when could not get up at all.
My brother is q doctor, but all his efforts
to help, me failed to give me any relief.
''My friends suggested great many
I'll ngs they thought would help me, and
] tried lot Of remedies. without avail.
Finally, having read great many arti-
Giles regarding cures that had been effect
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People, | decided to try them. That was
in 1896. l bought box and took the
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(Signed)
CHESTER S. HARRINGTON.
STATE OF illinois,
COUNTY OF PEORIA.
Chester S. Harrington, ing duly
sworn, opposes and says, that the mat
tiers contained in the above statement by
him signed are true.
CHESTER S. HARRINGTON.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, n
notary public, this 10th day of July. 1857.
LINCOLN NJ. COY.
(SeaD Notary Public.
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