Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1885 — A SLIDE DOWN THE BANISTERS. [ARTICLE]

A SLIDE DOWN THE BANISTERS.

Sliding down the banisters, though a swift and delightful way of getting down stairs, is not. a popular method of descent except among boys of the hobbledehoy age. When, therefore, Mr. Doljih Hotchkiss, a solid citizen of Peoria, 111., adopted that style of coming down from his room recently it augured that something out of the usual line had happened to him. Such was indeed the case. Mr. Hotchkiss explains as follows why he preferred the railing to the stairs: “It was last winter, during the month of December. One evening after getting home from the store I was taken with a severe pain in my ankle. It felt at first as if I had sprained it. I was up stairs when the trouble first came on and I wanted to go down. The pain, however, had increased so that I found that it was impossible to walk down the steps, and so I slid down the railing. From that night I began to grow worse, the pain became more severe, and my ankle gradually swelled up until it seemed as if the flesh would burst. It was almost impossible for me to lie in bed, and the least noise or attempt to move me would cause me the greatest agony. “After being in bed a month I could not stay there any longer. I felt that I must have some kind of a change, and so I was moved into an easy chair, where I lay for two months, suffering more than words can express. My trouble was rheumatism. The doctors could do nothing for me. I used about every medicine I had ever heard of for rheumatism, and many different remedies recommended by my friends and neighbors, but nothing afforded me any relief. A lady friend living in Chicago, hearing of my affliction, wrote me, saying: ‘Try Athlophoros. It cured me.’ “I was very glad to try anything. I had tried many different sorts of medicines, but this was new to me. I sent at once and bought a bottle and began using it. I had a terrible buzzing in my head at first, but as it was said in the directions I would have this if the medicine took hold of the disease, I stuck to it. The buzzing was nothing with my sufferings. I think it was on a Monday evening I first btfgan with the Athlophoros. By the following Saturday the pain was nearly all gone, the swelling was very much reduced, and with the aid of a pair of crutches I went out for the first time in three months. “I continued taking the Athlophoros until I had used four bottles. My pain and swelling had then all gone, and I had no further use for crutches. I have not felt any rheumatism since. Athlophoros is a very valuable medicine. I recommend it whenever I have a chance, and never want to be without some Athlophoros in the house in case I should ever again be so afflicted.” Mr. Hotchkiss’ residence in Peoria is at No. 610 Hancock street. Greatly as he regrets the loss of three months I 'valuable time, not to speak of all the suffering and mental anguish he endured, he feels that there is some slight compensation hi the fact that he was made acquainted with a medicine which can cure rheumatism and rob that disease of all its terrors. Mr. Hotchkiss, it is almost needless to state, has never had occasion to repeat his ride on the railing. If you cannot get Athlophoros of your druggist, we will send it, express paid, on receipt of regular price—one dollar per bottle. We prefer that you buy it from your druggist, but if he hasn’t it, do liot be persuaded to try something else, but order at onco from us, as directed. Athlophoros Co.. 112 Wall street. New York.