Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-03-14
A KOKOMO SCHOOLMASTER.
From the Tribune. Kokomo. Ind.

From the Tribune, Kokomo, Ind. Mir. John Leahy, well known school teacher of Kolxomo, Ind, makes the fol lowing well written statement regarding his illness from rheumatism and q complication of diseases, and consequent cure:
 Three years ago, when 1 was 35 years old, was attacked with rheumatism, accom- panied with marked and increasing disturb ances of the nervous system, pains in the head, and most serious of all, symptoms of organic heart trouble.
 The cardiac inflammation increased as the rheumatism progressed and 1t was not q great while before the trouble assumed the chronic form. My brain was much dis turbed and my physician was alarmed, fear ing meningitis, as the articular indamma- ton diminished while the cerebral disturb ance increased. But 1 was spared this addi- tional infliction, 1 am thankful to say, for again the joints began to swell, and the pain in the head to subside, though it settled into dull rheumatic headache, which no skill ot the physician could relieve.
 "Of course, during the early stages of the disease, l was confined to bed. Then 1 got up and tried to move around a little, and really 1 think I became used to the pain.
 "It was in the spring of 1893, when was first afflicted, For three years the disease continued, during which time was attend ed by the best physicians in the state, some of whom are considered at the head of their profession in the west. These gentlemen, though jealous, and splendid diagnostcians, could not help me They could all describe ,e my disease, and tell me better how felt than I could myself, but their remedies had no effect on me whatever. 1 was fearful sufferer from insomnia, and the nostrums which 1 took to superinduce sleep were legion In addition to other troubles, my stomach gave out altogether, 1 think prob aIl of with which I had been abundantly dosed I could not assimilate food, and lost flesh until I became almost a skeleton. My con dition of nerves at this time cannot be de- scribed. Terrors by night and terrors by day were indeed mine, and though generally ing as though they had the most material ex- istence.
 "So matters continued until the spring of this year (Mareh, l896). l was still failing, and becoming more of a wreck every day, when a friend of mine, a druggist in Logaus- Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, say ing that they had recently cured customer of his who had been similarly afflicted, and in as bad a plight as I was.
 "I did not at once act on my friends rec ommendation, but after two or three days did SC and bought supply.
 "Now there is no eXaggeration in what. l am about to write, for 1t is the honest truth. I had not taken Dr. Wiliams'pin pills two days when began to get relief. First of all my nervousness and that dull, wicked head ache showed signs of abating, then my sore and painful joints grew easier, my stomach and kidneys began to do their work once more, my tongue became clean, all founess disappearing, and better than all my heart became normal in it's action.
 ''Before l had taken four boxes I was well and hearty man, and 1 now eat, drink, sleep and work as well as anyone, and after three years of suffering such as mine, it may be imagined that 1 am more than tolerably happy and eontented with life.
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 (Signed) JOHN LEAHY."
 Witness: JAMES LEAHY.
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