The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
AN AROUSED COMMUNITY.
The Unusual Stir Caused in Kingston, N. Y.
Especial Correspondence Boston Herald.l

Especial Correspondence Boston Herald
The letter l recently wrote the Her.
aid, describing remarkable occurrence
which took place here, has had the eff
feet of thoroughly awakening this COM
munity. The facts, as described, were
that Mr.. Jere. Smith, son of Cornelius
b. Smith of the State Insurance De-
partment, after passing through an ag-
onizing ordeal, and having been aban-
doned by his friends, had been most
wonderfully rescued. His experience
was, in its beginning at least, almost
the same as that of hundreds of other
men and women in every city and town.
He had gone along thoughtlessly, MOTTO
ing only occasional Inconvenience,
and had suddenly been awakened to
the fact that death was staring him in
the face. He had overlooked little
passing troubles without realizing that
they are often "the beginning of the
end" He had neglected interests that
concerned his very life, just as thou
sands of others do, simply because they
come in quiet and often unnoticed
way. And it is cause for gratitude that
his experience is having so good and
arousing an effect on others who were
drifting in the same dangerous direction.
l was in the Office of the Kingston
Freeman, one of the best interior
papers of the state, the other day, and
had talk with Mr.. w. II. Winton, its
popular manager. Quite naturally the
conversation drifted to Mr.. Smiths
case, and the stimulating effect it was
having on the people. Mr.. Winton
said.
"I can specially sympathize with
Mr. Smith, for / have been through a
much similar experience in my own
family. My wife became troubled and
weakened as so many women do, and
from small symptoms and beginnings
grew worse, until she finally began to
bloat terribly. She had been attended
by physicians, sometimes with tenn
porary success, usually without. We
finally determined to try the same
means which Mr.. Smith employed so
successfully, and my wife is not in her
grave but in the enjoyment of health
wholly because Hunts Remedy res
cued her. This is a grand medicine,
and large suffering world lies behind
it, too often ignorant or skeptical of
its life-saving, health-giving qualities. !"
GO 1t is certainly receiving wonderful
endorsements, l remarked. "Do you
think it merits them?"
" Every one Of them. Why, when
my wife began using the remedy she
discovered the same medicine had been
given her by physician some time ago
without her knowing the name of the
medicine given at the time. l can also
prove that bushel basketsful of empty
bottles of Hunts Remedy were taken
out of DOCTORS office after his death.
No one supposes for a moment that
these bottles were used for desk orna-
ments or bric-a-brac, but the contents
had undoubtedly been given to patients
in small quantities at high price. The
medical profession evidently knows nc
better or more valuable remedy"
Mr.. Cornelius B. Smith, the father OF
Jere. Smith, confirmed all his son had
said, and added, 81 have not words
strong enough to give Hunts Remedy
the praise it merits, and there are hun.
dreds of others in this city who feel the
same way"
Mr.. Edwin H. Fassett said that the
facts above given had been the " town
talk " of Kingston, and his assertion was
confirmed by Mr.. William d. Brennier
Messrs. Cooper & Winchell, who
are popular druggists, declare that mo-
only are all the facts above stated true
but the demand for the remedy is some
thing remarkable. 1t has become {
household necessity here, as it I'm
doubtedly deserves to be everywhere.
WINTHROP.