The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-13
A LANSlNGBURG MIRACLE.
A RAILWAY MAN TALKS.
Literally half Dead, his Case Pronounced
Hopeless by Prominent Physicians,
A Story of Surprising Interest
Verified Under Oath
{ From Troy, ". Y, Times

From Troy, ". T., 1imeS.)
l am the most conservative reporter on
the staff. Idespise the chimerical, Icourt
the real. l burrow in facts. am from
Lansingburg. We don't often get good
thing from there, but here is one. +. c. |
Kimball last night gave me the following
81 am a plain straightforward man.
Originally from Lansingburg, where now
reside my mother, brother and sister.
Several years ago / moved to Rochester.
There / was in the employ of the Erie
Railroad as yard and freight superintend-
| ent. After strain to my back caused by
heavy lifting, three years ago, l develop
ed so-called rheumatism. 1t was an in
creasing thing for two years,-at times
| worse, again better. | worked intermit-
tently. If l would shut my eyes l would
| fall down. My feet and legs soon lost
feeling-were numb. This extended to
my stomach and at times to my hands.
Doctors Lee and Spencer of Rochester
finally pronounced my case progressive
locomotor ataxia, said it was incurable,
and that they could only ease my suffer-
ing, and so lay. Up to this time l had
been sick nearly two years. Before this
and for several months was confined to
length gave me no feeling whatever; my
legs seemed wooden. To pound them
gave off noise like wood. So | say, as
| lay there | was absolutely one-halt dead
dead from the waist down. There was
one word written in large characters all
over that sick room-C-L-A-Y. Life de-
parted from my limbs, that word best ex-
pressed what was left. You of course,
have read of John Marshall. The report
er in describing him, described me exact
ly. sent for the remedy which cured
him,-for DR.. Williams Pink Pills, to
Schenectady, N. Y, and tried them. l
took them irregularly for two months
They didn't seem to help. All of sud-
den one morning one of my legs began to
prickle-seemed as though rubbed with
nettles. Then, perhaps, you think l did
not investigate that medicine. 1 began to
mend fast; got some circulation, got con-
troll of my bowels and after few weeks
got out of bed and tried to stand. At last
fetched it. Could walk-now can run.
And Pink Pills cured me. The doctors
said couldn't be cured, but am. What
am now telling you is merely reitera-
ton of what long ago wrote to the Dr.
Williams Medicine Company at Science
tady, and my affidavit to the same is now
in their hands. Here also is letter
which my mother wrote to them and to
which she has made affidavit, as you see. ;
1856 Second Ave-, LANsINGBURG, N. Y.
Dear Sirs:-My son Fred has just writ
ten you letter concerning himself tc
which l desire to add few words in en-
tire confederation of all he has said. HI
has told you of his agony and his cure
The remembrance of the whole thing
makes me shudder as think of it. 1t is
all too wonderful for me. l was resign
ed to his fate. Now as l look at hin
walking about and feeling well, with his
: old health and ambition returned, it does
seeml that he has been born again ant
rescued from death for a fact Could |
, therefore, say too much to you of thanks
in the fullness of my gratitude Can
, well cease blessing you? Yet the inten
sity of my feelings make my words 0,
thanksgiving to you seem but empty in
! deed; for the lost is found, and he tina
4 was dead is alive again.
9 Yours, HARRIET j. KIMBALL.
. Sworn and subscribed before me thi
9TH day of April, 1893.
I M. L. FANcHER,
!, Notary Public.
: Mrs. Kimball said: s'While believe il
4 answers to prayer and prayed earnestly
for his recovery, for l am Christian
0 woman, and believe my prayers were an
= swered, l do think Pink Pills were til,
! means the Lord used to effect my som.
cure. want you to meet my daughter
Mrs. G.. H. Morrison, with whom we are
living here, and the Rev. George Fairlee
Ipastor of Westminster Church, who lives
with us, and hear what they have to say ;
So Mrs. Kimball brought them in, ant
; while the story as told was most complete
and could be added to by nothing they
might say, yet the reporter heard from
, the lips of the sister and their pastor
J corroborative words of all that has been
said. The reporter also ran across the
son-in-law, Mr.. G. II. Morrison, cashier
of the National Bank of Troy, and spoke
to him of Mr.. Kimball. He is busy
,, man and though he could only be detained
, for moment, he said: al know nothing
of the case technically. He says he was
cured by DR.. Williams Pink Pills, and
think that is about the size of it,
, Mr.. William II. Flandreau, the drug.
gist at Sl4 River St., Troy, said: sit is
the most wonderful cure from locomotor
D ataxi& "a so-called incurable disease. Mr.
Kimball tells me he owes his recovery to
Pink Pills entirely and have every rea.
son to believe him."