The Delta independent., 1894-07-25
A MIRACLE IN MISSOURI.
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF MEDICAL
SCIENCE FAR MORE WONDER
Full THAN THE MAGIC
OF THE EAST.
The Remarkable Experience OF Post Mas =
ter woodson, OF PRnams, MOTOR
Ten Years n Crippie-To-Day
Well and Hearty Man.

Ton Y@ars - Crippie-To-Dayn
weii and Hearty Man.
(From tie Kansas Chg 7ymes)
The people of Rich Hill, Mo. and vi
cinity, have recently been startled by
4 seeming miracle of healing. For
years one of the best known men III
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 poesent
home, remember we'll the bent form,
misshapen almost from the semblance
of man, which has painfully bowed Us
head half to earth and labored snail.
like across the walks season after sea-
son, and when one day last month j
Strengthened to its fall height, threw
away the heavy butt of cafe which for
years had been its only support fro,n
total helplessness, and walked erect,
firmly, unhesitatingly about the two
cities, people looked and wondered
The story of the remarkable case has
become the marvel of the two counties.
Exactly as Mr.. Woodson told it to Il
Times reporter, it is here published
"For ten years I have suffered the
a Useless invalid to-day am 4 well
and hearty man, free from almost cv-
cry touch of pain. don't think man
ever suffered more acute and constant
agony than ] have since 1884. The
rheumatism started then in my right
knee, and after weeks of suffering i'll
bed was at last relieved sufficiently
to arise, but it was only to get abont
on crutchcs for five years, the ailmcn'
having settled in the joint. Despite
constant treatment of the most eini-
nert physicians the rheumatism grew
worse, and for the last four years
have been compelled to go about bent
half toward the ground. In the winter
of 1so0-o1, after the rheumatism had
settled into its most chronic form,
went to Kansas City upon advice OF
my brother, and for six weeks ! was
treated in one of the largest and best
known dispensaries of that city. but
without the slightest Improvement
Before caIre home l secured a strong
galvanic battery, this / used for
months with the same result. In
August, 1892, went to St. Louis, and
there conferred with the widely-known
DR.. Mudd of hospital practice fame.
and DR.. kale of the city hospital.
None of them would take my case with
any hope of affording me more than
temporary relief, and SO I came home.
weak, doubled with pain, helpless and
despondent.
about this time my attention was
called to the account of a remarkable
cure by DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People of locomotor ataxia, ricu-
niatisin and paralysis. ! ordered some
of the pills as an experiment. When
began to take them, the rheumatism
had developed into a phase of paraly-
sis my leg from the thigh down was
cold all the time and could not be kept
warm. In short time the pills were
gone, and so was the cane. Twas able
to attend to the duties of my Office, to
get about as well and strong man.
Twas free from pain and ! could en- Joy
Il sound and rcstful nights sleep,
something had not known for ten
years. To-day am practically, and. |
firmly believe, permanently cured of
my terrible and agorizing aiincut,
No magician of the Far East ever
wrought the miracle with his wand
that DIR. Williams Pink Pills did for
me-"
To verify the story beyond question
of doubt Mr.. Woodson made the fol-
lowing affidavit:
STATE or MISSOURI. I
County or BATES,
I, NJ. NJ. Woodson. being duly sworn
on my oath state that the following
statements are true and correct as !
verify believe. NJ. NJ. WoonsoS.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 3rd day of March. 1894.
JOHN d. MOORE, Notary Tnbhf.
DIR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People are manufactured by the Dr.
Williams Medicine Company, Schcn-
cctady, N. Y, and are sold only in
boxes bearing the firms trade mark
and wrapper, at so cents a box or six
boxes for $3.50. Bear in mind that DIR.
Williams Pink Pills are never sold in
bulk or by the dozen or hundred. and
any dealer who offers substitutes in
this form is trying to defraud you and
should be avoided. DIR. Williams Pink
Pills may be had of all druggists or
direct by mail from DR.. Williams Med
icinc Co.