SERIOUS ASSAULT ON A FARMER. FOUR TO ONE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 51, Issue 51, 22 April 1898, Page 31

SERIOUS ASSAULT ON A FARMER. FOUR TO ONE.

THE ASSAILANTS ARRESTED.

To be set upon by roughs and almost killed after going through nearly sixty years of life without accident to health or limb is one of the hardest experiences we know of. Such, though, was the fate of Mr. George Batchelor, a farmer on the Horton River, N.S.W., who at 59 years of age, just when his strength would prove most valuable, became the victim of the attacks of those enemies to life and limb — Insomnia, Nervous Debility, Despondency, and Intense Suffering. He was rescued, however, by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Our reporter, who found him ploughing, obtained the following particulars :—: —

" I think," said Mr. Batohelor, " my case is one that should have all the publicity possible. I am sixty-five years of age, and have been resident in this district for about twelve years. Prior to my coming here, I had always enjoyed the best of health, and I had been accustomed to work very hard. About six years ago, however, all my energy seemed to gradually desert me. I suffered acutely and constantly from pains in my limbs, lost my appetite, and for months at a stretch I did not know what it was to get a good night's sleep. Work of the very lightest nature at last became beyond the question with me, and I could nothing but sit by the window and content myself by watching the others work the farm. I gave up all hope of evenbeing able to do any more work, and almost believed tli at every week which commenced would be my last. In my endeavours to stay the ravages of the ailment which had overtaken me , and was gradually drawing me into the grave, I tried innumerable so-called cures, and swallowed an immense quantity of medical compounds, but beyond giving me temporary relief occasionally, none of them, did me any good : in fact, I honestly believe that the majority of them only aggravated my sufferings. A few months back I was just on the point of giving up in despair when I happened to read in a newspaper of some wonderful cures effected by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and I determined to give them a trial. After taking the first box, I felt considerably relieved, and so marked was the improvement in /ny strength that I decided to continue their us?. I did so, and up to the present time I have taken five boxes. My inability has all disappeared, and I ana pleased to say that to-day I am as strong and hearty as I ever was iv my life. It is no trouble to me to do a day's farm work no»v, and I feel quite equal to the task of walking at least thirty miles a day. Everyone who knows me can testify to the great cure Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have effected in me, and in recommending them for similar casea to mine I can honestly say that they are worth more than their weight in gold. If everybody knew their true value, there would bo no other medicines sold."

A remarkable efficacy in curing diseases arising from an impoverished condition of the blojd or an impairment of the nervous system, such as rheumatism, neuralgia, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, S!\ Vitus" dance, nervous headache, nervous prostration, and the tiivd feeling arising therefrom, the after-effects of la grippe, influenza, and severe colds, diseases depending on humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc.. is possessed by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. whi':h gives a healthy glow to pale and sallow co nplexions. They are a specific for the troubles peculiar to the female systom, and in the case of men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, and excesses of any nature.

They are genuine only with the full name, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and aro sold by all chemists and by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., who will forward (post paid), on receipt of stamps or po^t order, one box for 35., or half-dozen for 15s i)d. They are unrivalled as a tonic for both sexes, particularly in the present close and prostrating heat. These pills are not a purgative, and will not injure the delicate of constitutions. —[A.]

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well. The first btep towards the Cross is repentance. In the course of some reminiscences of the late Rev. Dr. Donald Fraser, of Marlyebone Presbyterian Church, a writer in the Monthly Messenger, one of the publications of the Presbyterian Church of England, relates an amusing story of a Scotch minister who fell into disfavour with his people on the ground of not being " very soond on the Sawbath question." According to the Oamarii Mall, which repeats the story, the evidence of this appalling heterodoxy was that he was seen at his manse window '"dandling his bit bairn up and doon in his arms, and making the maist deevelish faces at it, and him a meenister, and it the Kawbath Day !" This story, it is said, Dr. Fraser used to repeat with great enjoyment.