Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1894-07-19
A MIRACLEIN MISSOURI.
THE ACHIEVEMENT OF MEDIC
AL SCIENCE FAR MORE WON
DERFUL THAN THE MAGIC
OF THE EAST.
The Remarkable Experience of Postmas-
ter woodson, of Panama, Mo,-For
Ten Years Crlppie--To-Day a
Well and Hearty Man.
(From the Eaasa, Gin rtmes)

NHfom tN hdNSdN ttiy LlWeS.l
The people of Rich Hill. Mo, and
vicinity have recently been startled bv
seeming miracle of healing. For
years one of the best known men in
Bates and Vernon counties has been
Mark NJ. Woodson, now postmaster at
Panama, and brother of ex-State In
spector of Mines, c. c. Woodson, of
this city. The people OF Rich Hill.
where he formerly resided, and of his
present home, remember well the bent
form, misshapen almost from the sem
blance OF man, which has painfully
bowed its head half to earth and la
bored snail-like across the walks sea-
son after season, and when one dav
last month it Strengthened to its fun
height, threw away the heavy butt of
cane which for years had been its only
support from total helplessness, and
walked erect, firmly, unhesitatingly
about the two cities, people looked
and wondered. The story of the re-
markable case has become the marvel
OF the two counties, Exactly as Mr..
Woodson told it to Times reporter,
1t is here published;
"For ten years | have suffered the
torments of the damned and have
been useless invalid; to-day am q
well and hearty man, free from al
most every touch of pain. | don't
think man ever suffered more acute
and constant agony than have since
1854. The rheumatism started then
in my right knee, and after weeks OF
OF fforinfr IL nJ I
sufficiently to arise but it was only
to get about on crutches for five years,
the ailment having settled in the Joint.
Despite constant treatment of thei
most eminent physicians the rheuma-
tism grew worse. and for the las
four years | have been compelled t.
60 about bent half toward the ground,
In the winter of 1S9O-9T, after the
rheumatism had settled into its most
chronic form, | went to Kansas City
upon advise of my brother, and fo'
six weeks | was treated in one of the
largest and best known dispeasaries
of that city, but without the slightest
improvement. Before | came home
! secured strong galyanic battery,
this1 used for months with the same
result. In August. 1892, | went to
st. Louis and there conferred with
tine widely known DIR. Mudd OF hos
pital practice fame and DR., kale OF the
city hospital. None OF them would
take my case with any hope of afford
ing me more than temporary relief,
ana so i came nome weak doubled
WIN pam helpless ana respondent.
ABOUT TINS time my attention was
called TO the account OF remarkable
cure by Or. Williams Flnk Fills Tor
fale People OF locomotor ataXla.
rheumatism ana paralysis. ordered
some OF the pills as an experiment
men began TO take them the rheu-
matism mad developed lnfo phase OF
paralysis my leg from the thigh down
was coid all the time and could not be
kept warm In u snort time the pills
were gone ana SO was the cane.
was ape 10 attend TO the duties OF my
once 10 get ABOUT as well and
STRONG man l was lree from pain
ana i could ENJOY SOUND and resttul
nlghv Steep something had not
known LOT zen Years Quay am prac-
ticai,y' anu, l iir'ily oeileVe' perma-
nehviy cureu o. my terLlole ana ago
nlzlng aIlmehe' NO maElelan OF the
rar h SS ever "r1ugnU vne ,,,. niracle
n miv,i I niH NAM wa .n"' w. "illiains