Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-04
An Arkansas Woman Beats DR.. Tan.
ner as q Faster. -.I

w. II. CATE, ESQ, is lawyer of
Jonesboro, Craighead COUNTY, Arkansas.
He frequently visits st. Louis. When
here he is, we believe, sometimes the
guest of VIM. NJ. Senter, cotton mer-
chant of Main Street. DIR. Thomas III.
Jones, in addition to being regular
graduate of the Nashville Medical Uni
versity and a practicingw physician at,
Harrisburg, Poinsett County, Arkansas,
is also Circuit Clerk of that county. A
reporter of the Times was yesterday in
troduced to these gentlemen. The INV
yer being not exactly a stranger wished
to .youch for the probity, truthfulness
and skill of the physician,l The medE
cal gentleman then detailed the follow
ing wonderful and wholly inexplieAble
facts: fff ruf - hr
Mrs. Annie w. Fields, who has for
some wears past resided in Greene Coun-
Nv, arrived at Harrisburg about two
weeks ago. While she has both friends
and connections TO welcpnelher IN this
vicinity, her visits seem 70 have been
mainly to Interview hrJ6fih0 fAuay
physician, DR.. Thomas ii. Jones q, Nearly
two years ago she had u severe attack
of sickness, deriving no ease or benefit
from all the attending physicians could
do for her. She exhorted' her medical
advisers to abandon the use Of drugs.
This request being complied with. she
began rapidly to regain her health was
soon up and able to do all her work as
usual. She had no appetite, however,
and Just here she discovered that eating
was not essential to the, preservation
of her health, or for the sustenahoe 81
life on her part. This wonderful dis.
covery was made about the month Of
March, 1879, since which time she has
neither partaken of food or drink. To
prove the truthfulness of these, her own
assertions, she entered upon sixty
days. fast on Monday, Sept Is, at that
place. There. are none Of thg
friends . ., or %,,,, acquaintance ,s,,., Ehs
single word she says. y Mrs, Fields
is a bright, sunny tempered. sweet w
man in appearance, and actually. seems
to enjoy the situation. Care sits easily
upon her shoulders, and she seems to be
constantly in sympathy with Gods
whole crestion.. She is the mother Of
SIX children; was born rN6veAbef u,
1S48, at Greenville, Va, was the daugh-
ter of A. H. Stancell, who moved TO
Poinsett County in 1860; married John
w. Fields, December IA, 1865, joined
the Missionary Baptist Church in 1883,
and has lived consistent member
since. She has been there forrneAxly
three weeks, andff she has eaten ny
thing whatever no one has been able to
know when or how'she got IT, IShe has
suffered DIR. Thomas III. Jones tor place
her under guard, and truthful reports
may be relied upon. She weighted
ninety pounds at the beginning of her
sixty days. fast. She weighs the Same
to-day. .4.....r .tat
Many of these facts have been pub
lished in the Arkansas, tribune. DIR.
Jones vouches for every one of them.
He has had d strict and petfeclly kff9H-
bic guard over Mrs. Field lsines Bd3-
TENDER 18th, and knows she has tparta-
ken of no food or drink. He wGghpd
her himself and noticed she absolutely
lost no flesh l,u, -.4 "a. si,.,l
"But, doctor, how do You accountfor
these factsp' ,-,g ,, -..,.l- ,"''
81 do not account for them al all.
They are phenomenal. They Gun not
be accounted for. Mrs. Fields hus-
band is plain farmer, as reputa-
BILE a man as there : Ii In Roin-
sett County. He fully attests every.
: y s tr sss!s '0idr s0H Ses!wa.DDf
"What does the woman herself
'% ..well. 81 she thinks :. She Is ehdox2edAh
some sort Of supernaSkAy 4daiiNls of
body, butithis, Of course, can mako mo
impression on me. i see her in good
health all the functions Of her body per-
fectly performed as nature ordinarily
provides, and make and attempt no
explanation Of the wonderful facts. "
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