A Death-Bed Resurrection.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXIX, Issue 8945, 21 January 1898, Page 3

A Death-Bed Resurrection.

ANOTHER PRESENT-DAY MIRACLE. D CTORS BEWILDERED ; FRIENDS DUMBFOUNDED. SENSATION IN hE ,RL BAY.

Oor report t called st the home of Mrs Nelson, wife of Mr J D. Nelson, p oprietor of the popu ar Pearl Hay (Sydney) pleasure g bands, and leasee of pbntarf and us fine pa'i ion and surroundings. Mr Nelson’s name it adnjirah'y known in this pir ioular, and his .Wednesday e ening excur.-i na o :OV luf, and his r'urdty t ips to bo hj tber and Par Bay are not only a 1 ways .web attended, bn' are ccndnc • d wi hj the wreaiest decree of >.ood managemen and eclat.' Our reporters mission w a to find, out if ihe repots he bad iieird respecting Mrs N 1-on we; e true. Mrs Nelson's tunefn l voioe at once proc'airaed her hearty we’eme to the scribe, end he wes foittiwiih at ease wi hj this roost kind-hearted cf ladies.

“ Do yon kn< w that in the past 15 years,” she obseiv d, “ 1 have spent £2OO in tonics, cures, and patent medicines without receiving the a ightest benefit or mjicease »f pain.” ‘ It’s a large sum," we remarked. “Yes, indeed," was the reply; “ but I srent every penny of it. Although I have keen taking the e me r ines for 15 years, it was not until 1888—0 eu-ht years ago - tb t I filt art sell becoming comp eulv piostrain! and unmoved through the severe and i ontinaous attacks of acute iodisesion and genera nervous debility. There was no mistaking the symptoms, and day by day I sank rearer the grave until the family have le;-n/actually gathered round me expecting me to d>e. So week and enfeebled i id I become that every particle of physical strength de-

v,v v r- -• r a —" • —rrro • sen.i d me, and for 48 boars together 1 lhava lain helpless and even unable to i speak. For two days and nights at a. I rime without cessa ion I used m suffer from the most fearful tf robbiu. headaches, until the tgmiitng 1 s ram was so severe that I haru y knew i wheie I was, and cared not whether I - lived or died, ■ “A bu ning hot fee'ini spread round ' my thiput, just is if I had swallowed ' holing watt?; thp pain w*s excuoiat- * log and worse then the viieat attacks oF ’ beailburn. There was always a repug i nant taste in my month, as if I’d been s sucking a penny- You know how

ho.rile that is! Daring this time I had numbers Of people to entertain, bu it was sad work for me trying ro d »it. 1 f n q lenilyexpe ieneed the sorest of pains j.i ti.e cheat and stomach, and so hoc and irritable did mj skin become that 1 ooadn't even tetr to wear my nightdress, whilst I was so weak that the bed-shee on top fnewas oo much, and even that had to be dispensed tyih. I’m passionate 1 / food of oyaie<«, tut 1 couldn’t take one; and as toe indices ion and nervous debility got worse and ao se, 1 could neither even • r.nk milk nor na'er. Ail solids had teen ong onto! the qoes ion, an i u a oald hare a so ut ly kiliea mu had I aken any. Se-erai doetois we l up iu tiieir pcession, and in whom 1 have g.ea confidence, easm.n fi an I pre*c iued lor me They did not tel me waat they thought of the cash out ui ki due.'S to me, but 1 knew welt e&uogb tu .t heir ideas were all ex. pro se i in iw .short but si a uifioml words Hopeless! Incu able 1 They unsucoesssully treated me for acu e indigestio , a i they left ms no batter than they found m•, anh ugh once or twice I o - timed a little lempocry relief At last 1 came to as near c casing the line t e iw on life aud death as ever a woman did 1 was now too weak to even walk, and 1 eould only stagger fa.tfcriuglg son; i he .oom, holding on by oh m s ana <ab es, thus d awi gmy sell aiong. As my malady increased, so did'my wtmtol rest, and ni.bt or day 1 was u t rly aoab eto sleep. Insomnia pursued me like a fiend, i hen became even worse, ami the crisis a rived, heightened atm aoceo ualtd by se ions domes io sorrow Fo five long nays and nights 1 lay help less and entirely prostrated, utte ly unable to swa low the softest partie'e oi f od or {he smailtst drop of rati tare, .vly husband juso kept me alive by mo stening my lips wi hj brandy. At. ould sea ihe crids had come, and that t e end was near. Grief, alaim, and resign'ton were painted-on the fau aoi ibQ e ar.und me. One day, huweve , one of my SOBS fe oUiht home a box of 0 . Wiliam ’ Pin< FIU fo. Pale and 8»icl, ‘ Ma, them pids i t for pae peop e ; you must try tb>m. 1 ! e heaid ih y'ye done a lot of good to others.’ IV please him 1 conseute', becaast I knew they would at least oo me no harm. 1 took the pids. The result was most as < unding, aud to me mi acu otts. A short tuna after taking thetoi commenced 0 imp ove. Mj appetite r turned, and 1 t e ravenous y. My (*m< y Was amaz d. If Xhad fo eed food down my th oit before 1 had taxon the F.nk Fids t would have kit ed me,” she exclaimed impressively. * But from then I rupi tly imp o ed. First, 1 took one pill a; a time just before each me >, aud attar that two before each mea My appeti'o comple e y reiurned, and 1 relished a (sorts of food. I war ab eto s'ee. s undly and well, the pains left my stomac i and chest, the severe hetdacbes be ame spectres of hj pa t, the copp ry taste ieft m> month, a u my cheeks became pink instead o f pillhi, In two sboii weeks after jus al.inw the pills I woe up and about ami m e to attend to my dudes, and 1 was auso u'ely and ccmp etely turd o everv maady I had mffered from in tbr e sho-t weeks and two days. In addiiiou tut .e total absence of indigt-s----iioi. and ne 'ous Vebility, the irritation in my skin « niched, an > I was able to once moie wear my correl and ordinary clothes wi hj com for . N w I cau > at raw fruit going to bd wibout n 'Sect,*’ remarked our spn utly an 1 eu ut lining nairato'-

lu eo elusion she said “ P ease rt oora mend Dr. Williams Pink Fii a for t’a e Peup eto everjon l . lam suie they wi 1 cure almost any bin , and I’m on y too glad io ii e you eery paiticu ar of my o.ae for publiciti n. anyone wh i wants to see me wip always tin t me at Pe r< Bay, where 1 shall be *ery happy to tell them what I’ve m d you.” i housand have b<en cured of paralysis, ocomotor araxii, spinal di-ease, rheumatism, and soiai lea; also d semes arising fiom impoverished and vitiated bnmois of tte blood, which causes scrofula, rickets, ch onic erysipelas, consump ion of the b iwe s n i lungs, pale and sallow complexion, amenta, general muscular weakness, io. > o? appetite, nenous head o ie, early decay, all form of lema e weakne-s, and hysteria by D . W llliams* Piok Pi Is.

'lhe tengine Pids are sold only in wooden boxes, about two inchts in length, etch of which is e cooled by a blue warning label, Tfae on side wrapper has the full name, Dr Wil iams’ Pink Pids for Pale primed m red on white paper In ease of d nbt it is beiteV to send di ect l o the Dr; W illiams’ Jleicine Company, Wellington, N Z., enc osing tbep ice 3s. a box, or sis boxes fo 15» 9d. These pills are not a purgative, and they cental > nothing that con d , inju e the most delicate,