GRATEFUL ATHLETES.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 24, Issue 1259, 11 January 1894, Page 3

GRATEFUL ATHLETES.

The following*. spontaneous" tuptwiow <ot athletic gratitude are taken from the recent issue of the A!anchester"Athletic N«wi :—' . Mr E. F. Painter (of London Athletio Club &ud Rmelagh Harri«rt), 65, Fiwboco'-, road, South Kensington, write# :—" I hare been suffering from a sprained- tendon for the past three month's, and have tried etwji remedy I could think of, bat none have hare done me any good. About a moatlrago I was recommended by a fellow-athlete to try St Jacobs Oil, which I applied at once,, and it did me so much good thatl shall in * few days commence running again. ...Shall recommend it -to my fellow-athlete* at being the best remedy 1 have mr tried/ ••>;• ■ Mr 6. Smith (of Hundsworth Friary Foot-, ball Club), 18, Carlyle-road, Handsworth, Birmingham, aays *• Not long agol re* seiveil a severe sprain in my askw vbili on the football field, which wholly disabled me from walking. J , The ankle wasmunh swollen' and very painfuL. JLearaing «f the virtue of St. Jacobs Oil inetach prorated ft bottle and applied the "contenta; regularty for one week to. th«ankVe,by which time the swelling and pain had wholly disappeared, t>n<l I -was able to> walk.. '1- ha we also found the oil a most excellent' remedy for toothache and headache. I hare, fore, no hesitation in recommending the oil to football players as well as ell persons suffering from pain." •. ; Mr Thomas Charles Palleflger, ?l tbe a well-, known bicycle rider, of 16, High-street, Lewisham, not only knows how to: ride • bicycle, but he knows the right wrt: of an embrocation to nse after hard riding. uH* says, in referring to a strained leg,' I'have . found St Jacobs Oil has done ■my -leg a power of I shall continue'to recommend your valuable embrocation to..jnyl fellow cyclists, as I consider it a -splendid article for rubbing down with while training." The Bicycling News, April 23,1887j also says—"Mr Pullinger, ot the Catfocd asks us to thauk the gentleman who recommended St Jacobs Oil to him." i •-. >« The fire brigade of the city of Birmingham has reached an- excellent state of efficiency.' The .men arc exposed to many dangers, and their arduous work often brings about physical Buffering. Chief-'Engineer John JJellhouse, and fireman . Josiah .Bennett, Thomas Fidoe, Win. <Maeee, .Wm. .Shaw, and Joho Brittill,.T.write that they have received great beuefit from jthe use cf St Jacobs Oil-in eases of severe;-painS' in>itbc back and knees, also. tender-feet and.'other ailments. The. wives of several metnbef of the department also say that in their case a few applications of the oil cure tooth and face acnes.

- ; ui-J. THE DOWNFALL. OF A HUMBUG. The day of tW" a»»p. Swiss* Watch M has gone by. - 'lt is ill-fitting—rougnly n»d«j not interchangeable, and when-one* out of oAlcr, rarely, if ever, MtwHctory repairs. ~ The country has been Hooded with those implements, but, gigantic as «»»• importation has been,, they■nitfiTtcM t<\ the superior merits of Ammcanjwmtcner. Thever* fir4t watch produced by the Waterbury Watch Company, aounded_Ums death knell «-he Swiss battle had .been jron/tand tHe days of unreliable timer"*** practically nnmbercxU The modern. I>avid *>? American-genius, aniy accuracy hw, by force of causetl the,downfall of. PhtlhtUi e of cheap horolo§cal humbug.