Ex-Champion Jim Corbett talks plainly to a Reporter.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 514, 25 June 1897, Page 4

Ex-Champion Jim Corbett talks plainly to a Reporter.

HE IS NOT HEAD YET.

(From the St. Louis, Mo., Chronicle). Corbett, attired in a frock coat of the period, plit); hat, aud shod in patent leathers, sat in his apartments in the Southern Hotel, at St. Louts, the other day, and delivered himself of a few opinions to a reporter. “ I am bigger, better and stronger than ever before,” replied the chumps n when asked about bis health. “ Tho rheumatic complaint that held me captive off and on some lime ego lms left me completely, and I know I Will cured of it. I contracted rheumatism before training for my tight with Peter Jackson,” continued Corbett. “ How I got it or where I got it is a mystery to me, but that I bad it is a fact that 1 am not likely to forget soon. I suffered a good deal With rheumatism after that tight. Some days my arms, wrists and fingers would bo so stiff and swollen that I could not use them at all. My legs also pained me, but to a less digrte. Thru, again, all this would leave without apparent reason, and 1 would not be troubled again for weeks. Of course, 1 doctored for my complaint continuously, but the attacks sc med to come every few weeks all the same. A short time after my fight with Jackson I went Ea.-t and met and defeated Dominick M'Cuffroy, though I was handicapped by rln umuiism ill my right leg in iny ei counter with M'Caffrey. These periodical attacks of rheumatism affected mo until a few weeks before I began training for my fight with Mitchell. One day I sat in the Coleman House, New York. My eye chanced to cross an advertisement of Dr Williams' Pink Tills for Pale People. I had never heard of them b- fore, aud as an experiment purihu id a box. 1 consumed two boxes and was pleased with the resit!.s, for the pains began to leave my arms anil legs. After taking four ooxes according to directions 1 found myself greatly improved. The improvement is permanent, I am sine, for I haven't been Doubled with rheumatism since. liefore using the pills the rheumatic attacks returned every mouth or so, especially if I caught a cold. When I trained for my tight with Mitchell in Florida I suffered from ma'arnt, and us< d the pills i a tonic with splendid re ult . I found lhat Dr Williams’ Pink Fills were efficacious in building up the system after a malarial “ The above I attest as entirely correct. “Signed, JAS. J. CORBETT.’ Dr Vi ilhams' Fink Tills arc u sure nn:i ly foi Rheumatism, Neuralgia, T iialy sis, Locomotor Ataxy, Nervous Hi a- 1 •• he, St. Vitus's Dunce, Scrofula, Chronic Erysipelas, etc, They »r not a purgative, bat they restore pale and yellow complexions to tho gh w nf health, and ure a sptcilic for tioubhs peculiar to the female, while in men they i ll'ect a ladical cure in nil cases ai sing from worry, ovirwoik, cr excess of any nature. Dr William-' Vmk Pills are obtainable from ml leading chemists, or from it., l>t Williams’ Medicine Company, We lim tun, N./5 , who will forward lp"st paid), on receipt of stamps or po-t cilice order, one box for 35., or half a dozen for 15s. ltd. As there are a number of worthless substitutes offered fig 1 sale by uns -iupnlm.s chemists, the proprietors would warn intruding purchasers | that the gi untue Dr Williams’ Pink Tills for l'ale people are put up in w i i di u boxes about 8J inches long j and 1 inch thick. Do not accept | pdls put up ill glass bottles or piils sell! by the dozen or hundred.