NINE TIMES ON THE NINE.
.'."l'm as good as dead. I've won nine times on the nice snu lost nine times on the rem Give this note to the banker; he knows the address of my relative!.' . . It was in a gamb ing house ia Montana 1 The gamblar who uttered ihee« wordi threw down Mb cards rose from the table, and left the place. At early dawn the next morning the police found his body in some shrubbery about a mils distant His own pistol was fall of cartridges; it had not been used, yet there was a bullet hole in his left breast,' Was there any mysterious Prophecy in the ca'ds, or was the jpambier's fear ths outgrowth of superstition, and hiß death a coincidence? Everyone must decide for himßelfi ' > j Bnt people are often considered 68 good as dead for a much more intelligible reaaoD? Mr Willi.mGobie, of 101, Albion Street, >'outhwick, near Krighton, was recently' placed on that list by his frieuds. In his oaae the danger was not from .powder or sharp B'eel! butfrom something that hurries' more folks out of the world than they do. bis story is this: Looking /at the. tongue, one day in the spring of 1887» he found it 0,-atfd like a piece of brown leather. Of it - self thig migh'. not have worried him, but other si/ns,aid. portents went with it. Hiß appetite failed, and what little he did .eat Beemed to cause grnat pain in the chest and tide ~ Now.vcod food never so «that my when a man is in proper condition ' Qniio the contray. Wh*t was the mattir?' 7 Writing.abouc'it under date of hov, 26th 1891, Mr Goblesaid: •*! couldn't .im'atfnp what had come over me; N thing like it hbd.ever happened tome b foro. I had always been strong and healthy But now Ihad a foul taste in the mouth, and wind appeared to roll. all over 1 inside m body L bad a chookin? mwsation in my throat, and some 'imM my'heart' woald b« it so fass arid'srf Hard that it frightened me. After a
white I trot so weak I had to give up my 'work, i was almost too weak to > walk, and when out walking I would get short of breathl' Gradually i beoame weaker and 1 weaker, and lost-all my fleeh, I oonld Just 'crawVaubtiirand th'it was all, My cheeks wer€Sunken',' and I hid snoh a pale, ghsstlv look that my friends said I was in a decline and' WotylcT Mvefba better. • I wm roff« eringfroin dyspepsia, .but after he'had treated mefor nine-monthsl w»b worse than ever. At this time, our clergyman, Rev. Mr 'fleyWrfOd,' recommended me to the BrigKioii' H6s'pi!al, : where' I was "under treatment f«r one year, Several of the doctors sounded my lungs and Beemed puis* led by my complaintrand changed my met-icines-,so often that I wondered if they would ever find the right remedy. At the end, of the year I' stopped go,in? to the ho»pit'il, and began c • take cod liver oil, but it did no good, and 1 made up my taind that 1 was was indeed doomed to death and nothing .could prevent it, ' "Still I am alive and well to-day, and I'll tell you why in a few words. In April, 1885 I met With a friend ot mine, Mr Groves, of ttou.bwiok, who told me of his own illne 8 and of the great benefit he bad received' from Mit her ( Seigel'a Curative Syiu■>. I got a : bo-tip, and; ty the time I had finished it my food agreed with me and I felt a liltle stronger, Pour more bottles completed f he o:iw, and I have since «njiy-» ed aB g'.'od health aBl ever did in my life. I am a gardener, and havejbeen in the employ,of Gene-a! Tnmbull, The Hermitage. Sonthwiobj for ten ye&rr. I will gladly 'answer inquiries," — (Signed) William GOBMS, ; • The Southwiok doctors diagioais .was ri?ht: Mr Globe's disease was indigestion and d spepaia, some of the symptoms of Which he names in his statement. fljs plaio testimony wiil serve to sirangtlun, if neo saary, the popular confidence in Mother Segal's Syrup »s a curs for 'his prevailing an I perplexing malady. Tin fouthwick gardener loat two years' time by nit know 1 ! ing wbatto cK But hfl is vftstly bßtter than a dead man now. aud will, we trait, live long to give other? the benefit of hi 3 knowledge.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7593, 29 July 1893, Page 1
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742NINE TIMES ON THE NINE. Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 7593, 29 July 1893, Page 1
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