Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-06-30
Ia KENTUCKY MIRACLE
Judge John n. Rice Tells How Hc
Was Cured of Rheumatism
Crippled for SIX Years with s~ciatica Ia
Its Worst Form, Ho Expected to
Die, bat Was Saved ia .
Mqfvelaus Manuor

tErom the Cooington. H.. FostJ

from the Coeington, Ky. PosiJ
The Hon. John NJ. Rice, Louisa. Law
renee County, Kentucky, has for the
past two years retired from active life
as Criminal and Circuit Judge Of tho
Sixtconth Judicial District Of Ken
lucky.
He has for many years served his
native county an STATE In the Logis-
1aturc at Frankfort and az Washing
ton, and, until his retirement wa, a
noted figure In political ard julicial
circles. Tho Judge Is well known
throughout the State and posse ,ses
the best qualities which - 20 make q
Kentucky gentleman honorel wher-
eyer he Is Known.
About six yeas ago the bodily
troubles which finally caused his re-
tirement at q tine when hi mental
faculties were in the zenith OF their
strength, began their cncroachment
upon his naturally strong constitution.
"A few days ago a Kentucky Post re-
porter called upon Judge kice, who In
the following words related the history
of tho causes that led 10 his retire.
ment. 1T is Just about six years since
j had an attack Of rheuma;i IN, slight
mt first, but soon developing into sci.
~ ihouAh'aAobNs nIltu btEdl iINb
with acute shooting pains in the hips,
gradually extending downward to my
feet.
My condition beclmo so had that [
eventually lost all power OF my legs.
and then tho livor, kidreys and blad-
dor, and, in fact, my wholesystem, be-
came d%eranged. | tried the treatment
of many physicians, but receiving no
lasting benefit from them, ! had re-
course t. patent remedies, trying ono
kind AFTER another until | believed
there we're mono | had not sampled.
I'm 1888. attended by my son John, I
went to Hot Springs, Ark. ] was not
much benefited by some months stay
there when | returned home. My liver
was actually dead, and a dull persist
ent pain in it, region kept mo on tho
rack all tho time. In 1890 | was re-ap-
pointed Circuit Judge, but it was i'm
possible for mo 10 give attention TO my
duties. In 1891, | went to the Silurian
Springs, Waukesha, Wis. | stayed
there some time, but without improve
ment q
Again | returned home, this time
feeling no hopes OF recovery. the
muscles OF my limbs were now reduced
by atrophy to mere strings. Sciatic
pains tortured mo terribly, but il was
the disordered condition OF my liver
that was, | felt, gradually wearing my
life away. Doctors gave me up, al
kinds of remedies had been tried with
out avail, and there was nothing moro
for me to do but resign myself TO fate.
81 fingered on In this condition sus-
tained almost entirely by stimulants
until April, 1893. One day John saw
an account OF DR.. Williams Pink Pills
Tor Pale People in the Kentucky Post.
This was something new, and as one
more drug after so many others could
not do SO much harm, John prevailed
upon me to try the Pink Pills. 1t was,
j think, in the first week in May the
pills arrived. / remember | was not
expected TO live for moro than three
or four days at the time. The effect
of the pills, however, was marvellous
and | could Don cat heartily, q thing I
had not done for years. The liver be-
gan almost instantaneously to perform
it's functions !, AMI has lone so e,er
since. Without doub, the pills saved
my life, and while do not crave noto-
riety | cannot refuse TO testify to their
worth"
The reporter allc1 upon NJ. Hughes,
Tho Louisa druggist, who informed him
that Dir. Williams Pink Pills have
been very popular since Judge Rice
used them with such bonc il. He mem
who hare found relief in
fhelrSos.
An aoalysis Of DIR. Williams Pink
s{4 Pale People shows that they
n a condensed form, ail tho
elements necessary 10 give nav life
and richness 10 the blocd and restore
shattere | nerves. They arc an unfail-
ing specific ( + such disea les as loco
motor ataxia, pa tial paralysis, st. Vi
tus' dance, seiatica, neuralgia, rheu-
matism, nervous headache, the after
effects OF la grippe, palpitation Of the
heart, pa'e and sallow compilations, all
forms OF weakness either in male or fe-
male. and all diseases resulting from
vitiated humorS in the blood. DIR.
Williams Pink Pills arc sold by all
dealers, or will TO sent post paid on re-
ceipt of price 80 cents a box, or o
boxes for 81. 50-they are never sold in
bulk or by the 100 by addressing DR..
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady,
N. Y.