Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-11-04
An Arkansas Woman Beats DIR. Tan
nGr as a Faster

w. H. CATE, ESQ, is a lawyer of
Jonesboro, ,Craighead County, Arkansas.
He frequently visits St. Louis. When
here he is, we believe, sometimes the
guest of VIM. M. Senter, cotton mer-
chant of Main Street. DR.. Thomas H.
Jones, in addition to being a regular
graduate of the Nashville Medical Uni
Versity and practicing 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 law
yer being not exactly stranger wished
to vouch for the probity, truthfulness
and skill of the physician. The medi-
cal gentleman then detailed the follow
ing wonderful and wholly inexplioable
facts:
Mrs. Annie W. Fields, who has for
some years past resided in Greene Coun-
ty, arrived at Harrisburg about two
weeks ago. While she has both friends
and connections to welcome her in this
vicinity, her visits seem to have been
mainly to interview her former family
physician, DR.. Thomas II. Jones. Nearly
two years ago she had a 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 sustenance of
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 a sixty
days faston Monday, Sept 13, at that
place, There are none of her
friends or acquaintance who
seem to doubt for a moment a
single word she says. Mrs. Fields
is bright, sunny tempered, sweet wo-
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 creation. She is the mother of
SIX children; was born November 8,
1848, 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 1865,
and has lived a consistent member
since. She has been there for nearly
three weeks, and if she has eaten any
thing whatever no one has been able to
know when or how she got it. She has
suffered DIR. Thomas H. Jones to place
her under guard, and truthful reports
may be relied upon. She weighed
ninety pounds at the beginning of her
sixty days. fast. She weighs the same
to-day.
Many of these facts have been pub
ished in the Arkansas Tribune. DIR.
Jones vouches for every one of them.
He has had a strict and perfectly relia-
Die guard over Mrs. Fields since Sep
-em6er 18th, and knows she has parta-
Ken of no food or drink. He weighed
her himself and noticed she absolutely
ost no flesh.
"But, doctor, how do you account for
jhese factsP"
''I do not account for them at all.
They are phenomenal. They can not
le accounted for. Mrs. Fields hus-
)and is plain farmer, as reputa-
de man as there is in Poin-
ett County. He fully attests every
word l have told you. Every syllable Of
{ is true"
''What does the woman herself
hinkP"
rWell, she thinks she is endowed with
ome sort Of supernatural qualities of
,ody, bat this, of course, can make no
on me. see her in good
lealth,a the functions Of her body per- !
ecily performed as nature ordinarily
provides, and make and attempt no
explanation of the wonderful facts. ~
't. Louis Tines.