Show 5111IS ONCe IN TWO WEEKS t linn To tl loom llfr Ia II llrcarj llnrdrn To sleep but once In 14 day t and then only under the Influence of oplalei teem a cruel enough condition It It only part ol the torture which II l D Cowdrlck of llradtord Clearfield county Pa hat lufletcd for the past II yeirt Yealtr Cov > drlcki life during that time h1 been one of such unending agony that nothing but the state of the damned dam-ned can be worse Human Ingenuity never devised such cruelly lie would be In good luck If he could change places wlh a victim nf Turkish or Chlnete legal torture ills pain which li unceasing un-ceasing Is I Jut at plain ai It can be without depriving him of life and putting put-ting him out of hit mliery It U thus the moil ippilllng form of tufletlng which the human mind cm conceive Eleven years ago Mr Cowdilck was attacked by palm which he thought lobe lo-be rheumatic They loon caused him acute iLfferlng and he contulled a local phyilclan This mini treatment Oil tried for tome month and had n Good retullt A second phytlclani was tnniulled and again without effect Mr Cowdrlck then went to Philadelphia Philadel-phia where he coniulted a well known ipeclallit In the treatment of rheuiiatlc disease The exact nature of hit complaint com-plaint wit a mystery to the practitioner He eiptrlmented will varloui remedies without success The phytlclan visited In tuccctilon three other well known Philadelphia pliy4clani Not one of them was able to relive him One of them recommended pine baths and thee he alto tried with out access During Dili time the dictate had iteadlly been growing > once until Cowdrlck was In the colon he ttlll hinds himself The paint were Incest ant and he had to spend his time titling helpless In an easy chilr iqueeilng his racked limb Natural sleep I became Impossible and only oplatei brought thtt great reliever After phrtlclant he tried patent med Iclnri and on thete alone he spent over > cmo Ilefore hit Illness he woe a well to do man now he li on the verge of poverty Eleven yean ago hli condition necei iltated a heavy ute of oplatei The Initial In-itial dote coon became powerless and hd 10 be lIed very ripldl > Now the quintlly that will give him relief U to great that It meant a further weakening of hit haltered health It It not pot tlble without endangering lib life to put him to sleep more than once In two weeks Night and day he ails In his Invalid chair shuddering with paln wrlngtng hit hands In hopeleit tuppllcatlonwalt Inc for the relief that never comet Hit once ilrong frame li I reduced to a writhing skeleton but ttlll rcohto the attack of the enemy that never relents Sleep It pottlbli seldom that It li 1 no more thin a drop of dew to Ihe tongue of a mn dying ol thieve legated tcl once can do nothing for hlmaudat long at hit strength holds out he tnuit live a life that It I worse than deaths New York Journal |