Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-07-11

II was four years ago next month that
Mrs. M. N. Hoyt, who lives at 2429 Went
worth Avenue, came to Chicago. She was
ct that time bed-ridden, suffering from in
f1ammatory rheumatism and not able to
raise her feet from the floor. One Of the
best physicians In Chicago treated her here
three weeks but was unable to effect even
relief. He gave up her case, believing
nothing could be done for her and that she
had but a few days to live.
In speaking Of her sufferings and the re-
lief and permanent cure effected later she
says: "When / was five years old ! was
taken down with infammatory rheumatism,
but after o comparatively short time 1t pass
ed of, and I was free from oil its symptoms
until I was fourteen years old. Then l had
another attack, Of which l was cured, and
did not have q sick day until four years ago
Christmas afternoon 1892.
~ had lived twenty-six years In Luding-
ton, Michigan, and fourteen years in Man.
istee, Michigan, both towns being situated
on the lake. The weather in both places is
even moro darup, more raw and in winter
colder than 1t Is here. In Manistee for many
years I conducted o dressmaking establish
ment which I carried on until was taken
sick. I knew all the prominent people in
Manistee and 1t was hard for me to close my
business and leave all the people l had known
there for years. My four children, all OF
whom are married, lived in other. States.
One daughter lived in Chicago and being
advised to change climate I came here. The
attack on that Christmas afternoon came
without warning. l was suddenly. taken
with chills and rheumatic fever, which grew
worse day by day. Manistee physicians did
all they could for me-, but l was helpless in
bed until the end Of May 1893. The physi-
clans advised me to leave the shores Of the
lake and especially Manistee. / took their
advice and came to Chicago.
"Rheumatism was in my hands, my feet
and my head, in fact it was all over me be-
sides having heart failure. I could not
think Of leaving my chair. Twas unable to
comb my hair, ] was practically helpless at
the time I came to Chicago. Do you see all
those white scars on my handsa Well, let
came fearfdlly swollen with the rheuma-
tism and were smooth and shiny just like a
piece of glass. The skin by tie swelling
was stretched to such a point that 1t burst
wherever you see the scars and from the
wounds came water for quite q long time.
My sufferings were almost unbearable, and
tried the treatment of one of C~hicago's
cine for three weeks, but only grew worse.
I became so nervous that l could not sleep
and my stomach became so weak, whether
from the strong drugs or my general debili-
tated condition l know Let, but 1t was diff
cult for me to retain any solid food. He
gave up my case and advis I'd me to send for
my husband.
II knew by that advice, that he did not
give me much longer to live. Instead I
went to one of my daughters who lives in the
southern part Of Indiana, in Elnora, Davis
County, where her husband, Asa Haig, was
one Of the prominent merchants. | believed
the climate there, being away from the in
auences of Lake Michigan might help me.
!! had been in Elnora about one week, not
feeling any better, when one day l received
from my daughter in Chicago three boxes of
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People,
telling me In her letter that she had read in
q newspaper Of the wonderful cures they
had effected. That she had gone to the wo-
men the newspaper spoke about and found
them and they told her every word said
about them was true. She pleaded that I try
these pills and perhaps ! would find the
same benefits. did not hesitate, as any
thing that promised relief let alone a cure !
was only too glad to try. I commenced TAX
ing them, two pills three times q day.