The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-12-05
A SAD CHRISTMAS.

How Gloom Drove Peace Out of a House.
hold A Misfortune Which DESTROYED the
Happiness of One Family i'll a Time When
all should Have Been Cheerful.
Christmas does not bring happiness to
everybody. Peace does not always come
and even good will is sometimes difficult to
entertain
Robert Yates did not have merry Christ
mas, nor did his family. Prospects had
been bright enough the day before, and he
had left home for the days work with
feeling of content, looking forward in pleas
ure to the gift--giving of the morrow. But
as he was on his way back in the evening,
laden with his share of the mysterious
bundles that are always seen on Christmas
Eve, he became suddenly weak. Fierce
pains shot through his head and body and
he became SO dizzy that he was hardly able
to make his way home. He was confined
to the bed and the happiness of that Christ
mas was destroyed for him and for his fam
lily.
lie continues the story as follows: 81
was sick for three months from that awful
Christmas Eve of 1890. 1t was an attack OF
the grip and about as severe a one as any
body ever had.
''Did you ever have the grip? Well, you
don't know what it is, then. 1t racks your
mind and body. It's a combination of all
the aches and pains known to medical
science. And that isn't the worst of it
when you're over the grip you have its
after-effects. l was restless and sleepless,
with constant pains in my limbs. l fell
away in flesh, lost my appetite, was tired
out for no reason, and became generally
miserable.
"Finally, when things were looking pretty
blue for me, one day noticed piece in the
paper about man living in Kansas who
had been cured of a somewhat similar COM
plant Of twelve years standing, by the use
Of DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
ca T 70 trx,< foI%
fore finished one box. kept on taking
them and they cured me. Now l am past
Sixty-three years of age, / eniOy perfect
health and, thanks to DR.. Williams Pink
Pills. can do good days work again. l
am as hale and hearty as many men much
and can go to sleep few minutes after re-
firing.
ga couple years after the illness l re-
ferred to l felt the symptoms again. I
Immediately began taking the pills and not
only was the attack not nearly SO severe
but quickly recovered and had none of the
bad after-etfects. | might also add that be-
fore | began taking DR.. Williams Pink
Pills | had suffered for about seventeen
years with rheumatism but have not felt
any of it since. They are a wonderful medi-
cine and | have no doubt but what they
saved my life.''
Mr.. Robert G. Yates lives at No. 55 Clark
street, Dubuque, Iowa, and for the past fif-
teen years has been in the employ of the
Klauer Manufacturing Co., in the capacity
of timer. He has worked on almost every
building of consequence in that city and is
very well known as thoroughly honest and
reliable man. In order to leave no room
for doubt he swore to his above statement
before 81. M. Ham, notary public, on Sept.
"a, 1901.
Many people suffer as Mr. Yates did and
thousands have taken the same remedy with
as good results
With each recurring epidemic of the grip
it is more evident that the disease leaves in
its wake a train of stubborn ailments that
often battle the skill of physicians. Loss of
flesh, thin blood, nervousness, shortness of
breath, exhaustion after slight exertiOn-So
that it is often difficult to walk up stairs
these are few of the symptoms of after
effects of the grip. More serious results
often follow and grip has come to be re-
garded as the highroad to pneumonia, bron-
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