The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-04-23
IT RAPIDLY DEVELOPED into SCIATIC
RHEUMATISM.
From a Hale and Hearty Man the Patient Became a
Confirmed Invalid 1t Pays 10 Treat Slight
Colds" in Timely so Doing
Many Months Of Suffering
Nav be Ayefi8d.
From Me Tribune, Hornellsvtlle, NJ Y.

Percfp on orc Of hi II HIS chest hills of the
town of Howard, midway between the viii
lagos of Howard and TOWNSVILLE, stands the
substantial farmhouse of William McAdams,
one of the Oldest inhabitants of this part of
the State. Mr. McAdams came to the county
sixty-six years ago and settled in Howard on
a farm adjacent to the one he now occupies,
and moved in 1852 to his present home,
where he has lived ever since. 1t is one of
the most picturesque points in Steuben
County, and commands wide view both in
the direction of Hornellsville and Bath.
When your correspondent presented him
self at Mr.. McAdams' house Mrs. McAdams
said that her husband was out on an adjacent
hill of the farm, loading bark which he was
preparing to draw to CanisteO. Anyone who
knew Mr. McAdams two years ago would
scarcely believe that such a thing were pos
sible for a man in the condition in which he
was, at that time for among his neighbors and
even among his family, Mr.. McAdams' case
was set down as incurable, and it was only
regarded as q question OF time when the dis
ease would prove fatal.
Mrs. McAdams then entered into a history
of her husbands case, stating that about two
years ago Mr.. McAdams caught a slight cold
while working on his farm, which at his
advanced age (siXty-seven years at that
time), rapidly developed into sciatic rheuma-
tism, the disease settling in his left SIDE
from his hip down to his foot, rendering the
left leg almost useless and terribly painful
From a hale and hearty farmer who, was
doing his own work, he became a confirmed
invalid, and in the fall of 1894 his rheuma-
tism became so bad that he could do abso-
lutely nothing. On election day of that
year he was so helpless that his neighbor,
Mr.. Willis, had to come and drive him over
20 the polls to vote. Mrs. McAdams said
That when the spasms of rheumatism would
come upon her husband, the only thing that
gave him relief was to bend over almost
double and clasp both arms about the limb
where the pains were, and that she had seen
him stop and bend over in that way three
times in coming the distance from their barn
to the house, which is about one hundred
and fifty feet, and sometimes he would have
to call for help before he could get in.
Eventually he was compelled to move about
in a STOPPING posture with the aid of two
sticks, and at night, when his attacks came
on, it was terrible to hear his groans and
have no way of relieving him. He found it
impossible to get refreshing sleep, and had
no appetite for his food. In short, from u
ruddy, stout man, he grew pale and thin,
and gave himself up to die. He had, of
course, tried many remedies for his rheuma-
tism, some of which had afforded him tenn
porary relief, but none gave him any real
or permanent benefit At about this time,
Mrs. McAdams saw an advertisement of
Pink Pills for Pale People " in one of the
Steuben County papers, and persuaded her
husband to try what they would do for him.
Mr.. McAdams had no faith in the pills
whatever, but to please his wife he began
their use.9 He took two boxes without ex-
perencing any perceptible relief, and he was
greatly discouraged and wanted to give them
up, but Mrs McAdams thought they had
hardly been given a fair trial and persuaded
him to try them little longer, as nothing