Evening star., 1901-12-07
A SAD CHRISTMAS
HOW GLOOM DROVE PEACE OUT
OF A HOUSEHOLD.
Misfortune Which Destroyed the
Happiness of One Family in Il
Time When All Should
Have Been Cheerful.

Christmas does not bring happiness to every
body. Peace does not always come and even good
will is sometimes dficult TO entertain.
Robert Yates did not have a merry Christmas
did his family. Prospects had been bright
enough the day before. and be had left home for
the days work with feeling Of content, looking
forward ia pleasure TO the giftyiying of the NOR
But he his way back in the even
ing. laden with his share of the mysterious bun
dies that are always seen on Christmas Eve. he
became suddenly weak. Fierce pains shot through
his bead and body and he became dizzy that
h. hardly able to make his way home. He
confined to the bed and the happiness Of that
Christmas destroyed for him and for his
family.
He continues the story as follows: Il was sick
for three months from that awful Christmas Eve
Of 1s9" 1t was an attack Of the grip and about
anybody had.
Did ycu ever have the grip: Well you don
know what il Is. then. 1t racks your mind and
body. Its II combination of all the aches and
pains known to medical science. And that ism t
the worst Of ir-when you're over the grip you have
Its after-en@cts. was restless and seepless,
with constant pains in my limbs. | fell away in
flesh, lost my appetite. tired out for rea-
son and became generally miserable.
FINALLY. when things looking pretty blue
for me. day l noticed piece in the paper
about man living in Kansas who had been cured
Of somewhat similar complaint of twelve years
standing. by the Of DIR. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People. So / decided to try them l felt
better before l finished one box. / kept on taking
them and they cured me. Now 1 past sixty
three years Of age. l enjoy perfect health and,
thanks 70 Dr. Williams Pink Pills, can do u
good days work again. l am hale and hearty
as many men much younger than l. have spIen-
did appetite ami can 90 to sleep a few minutes
after retiring
~ couple years after the illness ! referred to
felt the symptoms again I Immediately began
taking the pills and not onIy was the attack not
nearly 50 severe. but quickly recovered and had
u The bad afrercnects. 1 might also add
that before l began taking Dr. Williams Pink
Pills had suffered for about seventeen years with
rheumatism. but l have not felt any of it since.
They Il wonderful medicine and 1 have no
doubt hut what they saved my life
Mr.. Robert g. Yates lives at No. 81 Clark street
Dubuque, Iowa and for the past fifteen years has
heeu in the employ Of the KIauer Manufacturing
Co, in the capacity of timer. He has worked on
almost every building Of consequence that city
and l. very well known thoroughly honest and
reliable In order to leave room for doubt
lie swoTe 10 his above statement before II. NJ
Ham. a notary public on Sept. - 1901
Many people suffer Mr.. Yates did, and thou
sands have taken the same remedy with as good
results.
With each recurring epidemic OF the grip 1t is
mere 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 exertiOnso that il is often difficult walk
upstairs-these few of the symptoms Of af
teT-e1ects Of the grip. More serious results often
follow and grip has come TO be regarded as the
high road to pneumonia bronchitis and even con
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partial paralysis ST. Vitus' dance. scistica
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