Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1885 — MR. GILL’S DAUGHTER. [ARTICLE]

MR. GILL’S DAUGHTER.

Poor Katie! A great sufferer she was, and most patiently did she endure In tne hope that at last her sufferings would come to an end. She was just budding into womanhood; a fine-looking girl of nearly nineteen, who had, previous to her attack of illness, enjoyed robust health.

Let her mother tell the story, as she told it to two of our editorial friends who recently spent an evening at the house. “Katie’s illness came on slowly, with great pain in her tnigh and hip. For a while she kept on going to school, but the pains became so severe that she had to stay at home, and most of the time lie down on a little lounge here in the sitting-room. We tried the best physicians we could get. The disease battled them all. One said it was ulceration of the thigh bone, and wanted to have the poor child undergo a terrible operation, itturnediout to be sciatic rheumatism. Poor child! now she did suffer! About four o’clock in the afternoon she would begin screaming with pain. She couldn’t help it. She would scream and moan till about four in the morning. Then she would fall asleep from weariness, ana sle p for some hours. This went on for about eight months. During the nights neither she nor I could sleep. “Katie was a great reader. Cne day in a paper she saw an advertisement of Athlophoroß. She asked me to get it and see if it wouldn’t cure her. Wo had tried a good many different tlTngs, but I thought we would try this. And I went and got a bottle. I gave her a dose of it toward evening. It was simply wonderful how it quieted the poor child’s pain and put her into a gentle sleep. She slept nicely until ten. Then she was in a great perspiration. She waked, and I gave her another dose, for the first had done her so much good. Then she fell asleep again and slept until morning. Her pain was gone. She had hardly any returns of it. The Athlophoros did the work lor her most completely.

“Hut the terrible sciatica had drawn Katie’s leg up, and made it shorter than it bad been by several inches. She was lame for life, although the rheumatism was all driven out of her. She had to walk on crutches. One day she fell down stairs, and was o badly hurt that she had to be taken to the hospital. There she suffered a great deal, and after some weeks t-he died. “ Father Tscheider, of the Paulist Fathers, saw much of Katie during her illness, and knows all about us. Go and ask him, and he will tell you all about it. . “Some time ago we gave a letter about Katie’s case, and it was published. We have had numeroqs Inquiries in reierence to it, ail of which we promptly answer. “I must tell you,” continued Mrs. Gill, “of our neighbor, Mrs. Summers, andhereleven-year-old boy. The boy had ono of the’most terrible attacks of rheumatism I ever knew a boy to have. I had a littk Athlophoros left in the bottle from which Katie had taken. I gave it to Mrs. Summers, and she gave it to the child, who was screaming with pain. When Mr. Summers came home, he was surprised to find the boy sitting up, free lrom pain, and cheerfully singing. I wish you would go and see them. They live not far from here, on West 12th street. No. 905.” Mr. Gill added in his own behalf:

“I have had a good deal of rheumatism myself, chiefly in my shoulders and arms. But I took Athlophoros and I got rid of the trouble. I did not have to take much, either. I found the medicine acted very quickly.” The Rev. Father Peter Tscheider, assistant pastor of the Church of the Holy Family, was found at his pastoral residence, No. 417 West Twelfth Street, Chicago. Father Tscheider took pleasure In saying that he knew Mr. and Mrs. Gill, and that he esteemed them highly; also that he had seen Katie frequently during her illness, and knew all about her wonderful recovery from sciatica, and her subsequent Injury and her Illness at the hospital. If yon cannot get Athlophoros of your druggist. we will send It express paid, on receipt of regular prioe—one dollar per bottle. We prefer that you buy It from your druggist, but it he hasn’t it, do not be Dersuaded to try something else, but order at once from uh, as directed. Athlophoros Co., 112 Wall street. New York.

A man's domestic relations do not bother him half so much as the relations of his domestic. —The Rambler. The early beau catches the girl, but he does not always hold her. — Wilmington Star.