The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-07-21
A MIRACLE In MISSOURI.
The Achievements OF Medical
Science Far More Wonderful
Than the Magic Of the East.
The Remarkable Experience of Post Mas'
ter Woodson, of Panama, MOTOR
Ten Years n C~ripple-To-Day A
Well and Hearty Man.
From the Kansas City Times.l


The people of Rich Hill, Mo, and vicinity,
have recently been startled b. a seeming
miracle of healing. For years one of the
best known men in Bates and Vernon coun.
' ties has been Mark M. Wooisoa. now post
easter at Panama, and brother of ex-Statd
INJECTOR of Mines C. C. Woodson, of this
- The people Of Rich Hill, where he
Sn. 4erly resided, and of his present home,
olSember well the bent form, misshapen
Wy pst from the senblance of man, which
ann Hinfully bowed its head half to earth
has labOred snail-like across the walks
arson after season, and when one day last
wmonth it Strengthened to its full height,
.fhrew away the heavy butt of cane which
sr years had been its only support from
. 4tal helplessness, and walked erect, firmly,
4hesitatingly about the two cities, people
u u kked and wondered. The story Of the re
a NV rkable ease has become the marvel of the
80 AcOunties. Exactly as Mr.. Woods0n told
.,.o Times reporter, it is here published:
nrA r ten years / have suffered the tor
of the damned and have been a use
L. =, alid; to-day I I'M a well and hearty
mon IN from almost every touch of pain.
- ~ INK man ever suffered more acute
and cons, pit agony than I have since 1851.
Tba rhar,n tisn started then in my right
tnoa 81 "a er weeks Of suffering in bed l
VS. y, Iast ~ Heved sufficiently to arise, but
n VIC onI,- 70 about on cCutnhes for FIVE
ye,rs ,ho oiIn, n Elvfng settled in the
;o;rt Dnsr;,o INSTANT treatment Of the
nost emipen, hysicians the rheumatism
grew worse. au D for the last fodr years l
have been COM bclled to go about bent half
toward the gro und. In the winter of 1897
81, after the Ri journalism had settled into its
most chronic Aforn, | went TO Kansas City
uPds advice\ of my brother. and for six
weexsI W. As treated in one of the largest
ana pest Xknown dispenslries Of that city,
put "i.nou\t the slightest Improvement.
Se1ore cam 9 home l secured n strong gal
vanic battery Mis- | used for months with
the same resalrN In August, 1892, 1 went
70 81. LOUIS there conferred with the
widely known DIN Mudd of hospital prac-
tce ZANE, ana D. EKale of the city hospital.
Non of them wouA5 tal,e my case with any
nope OF aiording meN more than temporary
rellef, and so L c1ns home, weak, doubled
with pain, helpless an l J~c,nondcnt.
ABOUT thlS Time IN attention was called
70 the account OF a re- narkable cure by DR.
Williams FINK f1ns& for Pale People of
ataSla' rhy ,uIhatism and paral-
ySis ioruerea meg the pills as an ex-
pertinent. Nhen L n gan to take them,
the rheumatism mad ~ tvelopcd into a phase
OF paralysis my leg ION the thigh down
was cold all the time a IA couId not he kent
warm. In a short tina tho nils were gone.
and 50 was the cane. was able to attend
to the duties of my cShSe. TO get about as a
well and strong map was free from pain
1 could enjoy sound and restful
sleep, something 1 had not known
for ten years. To-day am practically, and,
hrl1iy oeiieve, kntly cured of my
kilmeut. No ma
yer wrought tho
DR.. Williams
sssssn of the F[r4 all question OF
fi Ta I'm. dia1 y sana tRa DS"
doubt Mr.. W Vsossscsy ~beyonaN ss
affidavit: nnde
STATE OF Mrs.oy moO ".
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day of March. 1881. ~
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