Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-03
(From Troy, n. y, 2ymes.J

(From Troy, N y, 2Ymesy
lam the most conservative reporter on the
stan. despise the chimerical, court the real
burrow In facts. The world has treated me
with rigor and handled me without gloves Ny
character has thereby been moulded until am
as exacting OF others as nature, my teacher, has
/ been Of me.
am from Lansingburg. We don't often get
good thing from there, but here Is one. +. c.
Kimball last night gave me the following:
III am q plain, straightforward man, origi.
nally nom Lansingburg, where now reside my
mother, brother and sister, several years ago
moved TO Rochester. There I was In the en-
ploy Oft Erie Railroad rs yard and freight
superintendent know more now than / did
tnen. After strnin to my back, caused by
heavy lifting, three years ago, i developed So
called rheumatism. II was an Increasing thing
for two years.-at times worse, again better. /
worked intermitteDty. II would shut my
eyes would fall down. When trying to walk
one leg would swing In behind the other and
trip me- My feet and legs soon lost feeling
were numb. This extended to my stomach and
at times TO my hands. Most Thoroughly alarmed
had the best of aid to be had In Rochester and
kept my nerve as long 1 could. But when
Doctors Lee and Spencer OF that place finally
pronounced my case progressive locomotor
ataxia, and said IL was incurable lost nv
nerve and became gradually worse. Up TO this
time had been sick nearly two years. Before
this and for several months was confined TO
my bed. The doctors said they could do moth
ing except 10 ease my suferings, and SO l lay.
Pins stuck into my limbs the full length gave
me no feeling whatever; my legs seemed
wooden. To pound them gave of a noise like
Co \ lox, sloro Y -.
one-hoy dead-dead from the waist down.
can't describe to you how I suffered; words are
but poor vehicles; would that none of my friends
may ever have my experiences. There was
one word written in large characters all over
that sick room,-C-L-A-Y. Life departed from
my limbs, that word best expressed what was
LETT Still could read, and II was in a news
paper that saw 1.-THE cure Of John Marshall
from trouble like mine-locomotor ataxia-
You, OF course, have read of him. The reporter
In describing him, described me exactly. sent
for the remedy which cured him,-for DR.. Will
liams' Pink pills, TO Schenectady, N Y, and
| tried them. I took them irreyularly for two
months. They didn't seem to help. All of q
sudden one morning one Of my legs began TO
prickle-seemeda as though rubbed with nettles
Soon the other started and on the horizon ap-
peared q little cloud OF hope. Then, perhaps,
you think did not investigate that medicine.
ate pills. did not dose with them, ate them.
I began to mend fast; got some circulation,
got control of my bowels and after a few weeks
got out Of bed and tried to stand. At last
fetched It Could walk-now can run. Got
some ambition. now have as much as anybody
And didn't Pink Pills cure met Well, nothing
else did. The doctors said couldn't be cured
but I am. One OF these days am going ND 10
Rochester and see my old physician; If his
eyes don't bulge when he sees me / shall be
mistaken. And shall tell him straight what
cured me. i can't say too much for DR.. VIII
liams' Pink Pills, and don't care who knows
It sJust put 1t in your paper. that II anyone
don't believe what am telling, for him to come
up TO lS6 Second Ave, Lansingburg, and will
prove It TO him. What am now telling you is
merely reiteration Of what I long ago wrote
to the DR. Williams Medicine Company at
Schenectady, and which, think, expresses my
gratitude pretty we'll They returned my letter
and asked me i'll would swear to IL, which /
did on April 9TH, lseS, before James A. Van
Voast, Notary Public. Ny affidavit is now in
the hands of the Medicine Company. Why,
would do anything In my power for those PEG.
pie. Here also il letter which my mother
wrote TO them and TO which she has made an
davit, as YOU see"
lSs Second Ave, LASsINeBuRe. n. Y.
April 4, 1893
The Or. wnliams' Medicine Co.. Schenectady.
New York.
Dear Sfrs:-My son Fred has just written you
letter concerning himself 70 which desire to
add . few words In entire corroboration Of ell
he has said.
He came home nom Rochester despa,ring
and almost dead. In his letter be has told you
Of his agony and his cure. The remembrance
Of the whole thing makes me shudder as
think oft 1t is all too wonderful for me- AZ
ter the receipt Of the letter from the Rochester
physician saying that the disease was incur
able and progressive In its effect which was
some six months ago, have been resigned to
his fate. But now as I look at him walking
about and feeling well, with his old health and
ambition returned. 1t does seem that he has
been born again and rescued from death for a
fact Could l, therefore. say too much to you
Of than Ks in the fullness OF my gratitude? Can
we'll cease blessing youe Yet the intensity
OF my feelings make my words of thanks iving
TO you seem but empty indeed; for the lost is
| found, and he that was dead is alive again
Yours most gratefully.
HARRIET J. KIMBALL
State OF NEW YORK,
County OF Rensselaer,.
On this 9Th day OF April 1888. before me per-
sonally appeared Harriet J. Kimball who, being
duly sworn, did depose and say that the Facts
stated In the foregoing letter are true.
NJ. L. FAScHER, No.dry Public
At this point Mr.. Kimbalrs mother entered
the room. a sprightly lady OF some sixty years,
Overlooking with her sons case and deli ghted
to talk Of it In answer to my question. she
said:
while believe In answers to prayer and
prayed earnestly for his recovery, for l am a
Christian woman, and believe my prayers were
answered. l do think the medicine was the
means the Lord used to effect my sons cure.
Oh talk Of this thing constantly. And want
you TO meet my daughter, Mrs q. II. Morrison.
with whom We are living here, and the Rev.
George Fairlcc. pastor OF Westminster Church,
who lives with u.s. and hear what they have TO
say" So Mrs. kirball brought them IN, and
while the story as told was most complete and
| could DO added 10 by nothing they might say,
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