The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-11-13
An Arkansas Woman Beats DR.. Tan.
ner as Il Faster.

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. DR.. Thomas H.
Jones, in addition to heing 4 regular
graduate Of the Nashville Medical Uni
versity and practicing physician at
Harrisburg, Poinsctt County, Arkansas,
is also Circuit Clerk of that county. \
reporter Of the Times was yesterday in
troduced to these gentlemen. The law
yer being not exactly stranger wished
to vouch for the probity, tluthfulness
and skill Of the physician. The medi-
cal gentleman then detailed the follow
ing wonderful and wholly inexplicable
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.. ThomaslI 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 . sixty
days fast on Monday, Sept. Is, at that
place. There are none of her
friends or acquaintance who
seem to doubt for q moment a
single word she says. Mrs. Fields
is bright, sunny tempered sweet wo'
man in. appearance, and actually. seems
toenjoy the situation. Care sits easily
apon 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,
1S4S, at Greenv;lle, Va, was the daugh-
ter Of A. H. Stancell, who moved to
Poinsett County in 1860; married John
W. Fields, December II, 1865, joined
the Missionary Baptist Church in 1865,
and has lived 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 DR.. Thomas II. Jones to place
her under guard, and truthful reports
may be relied upon. She wei ghed
ninety pounds at the beginning of her
sixty days fast. She weighs the same
to-day. " "
Many of these facts have been pub
lished in the Arkansas ZS1buuc. DR..
Jones vouches for every one Of them.
He has had 4 strict and perfectly relia-
bic guard over Mrs. Fields since Sep.
TENDER 18th, and knows she has parta-
ken of no food or drink. He weighed
her himself and noticed she absolutely
lost no flesh.
"But, doctor, how do you account for
these facts?'
81 do not account for them at all.
They are phenomenal. They can not
be accounted for. Mrs. Fields hus-
band is plain farmer, as reputa-
bic man as there is in i'oin-
sett County. He fully attests every
word l have told you. Every syllable Of
it is truc.''
"What does the woman herself
Think" =" s
"Well, she thinks she is endowed with
some sort of supernatural qualities Of
body, but this, of course, can make no
impression on me. see her in good
health, allethe functions of her body per.
fectly performed as nature ordinarily
provides, and l make and attempt no
explanation of the wonderful facts. ~
81. Louis Times.