Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-15
A Miracle in Missouri.
The achievements Of Medical Science
Far More Wonderful Than the
Magic of the East.


E"t Ath AthTb IL SElDDIO-
To-Day Well and
Hearty Man.
(Erom The K0,sds city Times,
The people of Rich Hill, Mo-, and
vicinity, have recently been startled by a
seeming miracle OF healing, For years
one of the best known men in Bates and
vernon counties has been Mark VI. Wood
son, now postmaster at Panama, and
brother of ex-State inspector of Mines Z.
Y. Wo4dson Of this city. The people of
Rich Hill, where he formerly resided. and
oil his present home, remember well the
bent form, misshapen almost from the
semblance of man, which has painfully
bowed its head half to earth and labored
snail.llke across the walks season after
season, and when one day last month it
Strengthened to its full height. threw away
the heavy butt of cane which for years
had been its only support from total help
lessnesS, and walked erect, firmly un-
heatatingy about the two cities, people
looked and wondered. The story of the
remarkable case has become the marvel of
the two counties. Exactly as MIR. Woodson
told 1t to Times reporter, it is here pub
lished:
For ten years have suffered the tor
mehts OF the damned and have been use
less invalid; to-day am well and hearty
man, free from almost every touch OF
pain. | don't think man ever suffered
more acute and constant agony than /
have since 1854, The rheumatism started
then III my right knee, and after weeks of
suffering in bed was at last relieved suf-
iicently to arise, but it was only to get
about ON crutches for five years, the ailment
having settled in the joint, Despite COM
slant treatment of the most eminent
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 lS90-9l,
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 | came home | 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 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 affording me
more than temporary relief, and so ! came
home, weak, doubled with pain, helpless
and respondent.
About this time my attention was called
to the account of remarkable cure by Dr.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People of
AOtOAhotOl dbuAltit anu puEdlY-
SIS ordered some of the pills as an ex
pertinent. When | began to taks them,
the rheumatism had developed into a
phase of paralysis; 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. was
able to attend to the duties of my Office, to
get about as we'll and strong man. Twas
free from pain and | could enjoy sound
and restful nights sleep, something / had
not known for ten years. To-day am
practically. and, / firmly believe, per-
manently cured of my terrible and
agonizlng ailment. No magician of the
far east ever wrought the miracle with his
wand that DIR. Williams Pink Pills did
for me.n
10 verify the story beyond all question
OF doubt Mr.. Woodson made the follow
ing affidavit:
STATE OF Missouri, L.
COUNTY OF BATES. o.
/, NJ. NJ. Woodson, being duly sworn on
my OATH state that the following state
ments are true and correct as | verify be-
lieve NJ. NJ. WoopsoH.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
third day of March, 1894.
JOHN ID. MooRE, NotarY Public.
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
are manufactured by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Company, Schenectady. N. Y.
and are sold only in boxes bearing the
firms trademark and wrapper, at so cents
box or six boxes for $3.50 Bear in mind
that Or. 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. DR.. Williams Pink
Pills may be had of all druggists or direct
by mail from DR.. Williams MedicinelC Co.