GARDENER AND COOPER

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1628, 13 May 1903, Page 65 (Supplement)

GARDENER AND COOPER

SOME CHRISTCHURCH COMPLI-

OATIOJSiS.

Robert Thomas, a landscape, gardener of Christchurch, has been sharing in some very interesting experiences with a local cooper. ' The story is going the rounds just as Mr Thomas gave, the facts, to the Christchurch press.

“The beginning, of my strange complicated experiences,” said Mr Thomas, “dates back long before i met my friend the cooper. It is iioav more than nine years ago that I was suddenly doubled up by a strange shooting pain in the back, and,’-’ continued Mr Thomas, when seen at 110, Durham street, Sydenham. “Dr Williams' pink pills alone saved me from being crippled for life-. It proved to be sciatica. " The first attack made me shriek aloud in excruciating agony. A doctor Avas immediately sent for. Lotions, internal medicines and an electric battery were tried —but, oh! the agony and anguish of those terrible pains! ' My flesh seemed to be stuck full of red-hot wires that Avere being continually drawn in and out of my quivering flesh! Year after year I continued to suffer, and I often pa-ayed for death. One day Mrs Thomas said, ‘Robert, you haven’t* tried Dr Williams’ pink pills for pale people. I have read in the daily press that they strike right at the cause of all blood and nerve diseases like anaemia, indigestion, neuralgia and sciatica.’- I Avon.{ld not hear of it. but she was determined. So at last a supply Avas bought—the genuine kind, with the address, Wellington, New Zealand, in red on the outside wrapper. 1 was careful, too, to see that the pills were in boxes and not.in glass bottles. Well. I had used only one box when I felt a great deal better. My limbs had been stiff and painful before, but; now the joints and muscles became easier. Soon I was walking about actively- It took over a dozen boxes to cure me, but now I can go out in the rain and Avind and work all day without ill effect. lam certain that these pills, by purifying and enriching my blood, fed. strengthened. toned and soothed the nerves, so that every trace of sciatica was rooted out. Indeed, I feel twenty years younger. As I was cured several years ago, there isn’t any doubt about the permanency.” THE COOPER’S TROUBLES.’

“But I must tell you about iny friend the cooper,” said Mr Thomas. “Some time ago there was a cooper living near us here in Durham street. He had rheumatism so badly in his shoulder blades that he was kept awake night after night, and could only walk slowly with Ihe greatest difficulty. Every movement of his arms seemed to wrench his shoulders. I told him about these pills, and how they cured me. So he began taking them. Well, I didn’t see him till three months later, and then lie was as hearty and robust a man as you could meet. ‘Five boxes of your pills drove every bit of acid from my blood,’ said he, ‘and I have never had the slightest twinge of rheumatism since.’ iThave just told you plainly what happened to both of us,” added Mr Thomas, “and my friends and neighbours can verify every word I say. I am sure my experiences are interesting enough to publish.”