The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-05
A POSTMASTER'S WIFE.
A LEEDS WOMAN WHO HAS ASTON
ISHED HER FRIENDS AND NEIGH
gORS.
Near TO Death but Restored so Complete
~ that She has been Accepted by u Life
Insurance Company as Good Risk.

Insurance Company ms Good Risk
From the Journal, Lewiston, Me.
A bright little woman, rosy ane
fresh from her household duties
dropped into chair before the writer
and talked with enthusiasm shining
in her swapping, black eyes.
The people in the pretty village al
Leeds Centre, Me. have watched with
some interest the restoration to com
plate health of Mrs. w. l.. Francis, wife
of the postmaster. So general were the
comments on this interesting case that
the writer who visited Mrs. Francis
and learned from her that the state
ments regarding her troubles and her
subsequent eXtrication therefrom are
entirely true. All of her neighbors
know what has been the agency that
has performed this cure, but that 9th
ers may be benefited by her expe
rience, Mrs. Francis has consented tc
allow her story to appear in print.
eff there is anything on earth
dread more than another,' she said,
1T is to see my name in the papers.
But in this case | conquer my repug
nance and give publicly the same cred
it to the savior of my life as l would
to one who had dragged me from a
death beneath the waves In fact.
nave eXtoled my preserver SO enthusi
astically and unreservedly, have sought
out sufferers and recommended the
remedy TO so many friends and ac-
quaintances that already my neighbors
jocularly cali me PINK Pills Fran
els. But really, my recovery is some
thing that consider wonderful. l
know that there are so many testimo-
malls of m ,dicine in the papers now
adays that people do not pay as much
heed as formerly, but do wish folks
who are suffering would remember
that what | say comes right from tine
heart of woman who feels that she
had new lease of happy life given to
her.
Eleven years ago was afflicted with
nervous prostration. My existence un.
til two years ago was one of dragging
misery. Anyone in the village will tell
YOU of my condition. My blood seemed
exhausted from my veins and month
after month l grew weaker. was
able to undertake only the ghtest
household work, and even thea could
perform it only by slow and careful
movements. During all these sorry
months and years | was under the care
of this doctor and that, but their med
icines helped me only spasmodically,
and then l fell into relapses more pros
tratlng than ever.
In the night used TO he awakened
by the most eXcruciating pains in my
heart and side, and was obliged to use
pellets of powerful medicine that the
doctor gave me for relief IN such at
tacks. At last my condition became
so grave that | went out only infra-
quently We live upstairs, you no
tice. over my husbands store, and in
descending the stairway | frequently
was obliged to sort of fall and slide
over the steps in order to descend, such
was the strain on my system resulting
from even this slight exertion. Occa
sionally visited the neighbors, but |
was obliged to sit and rest to recover
breath while ascending any elevation.
In short. it did not seem that / could
live, such was my complete physical
prostration.
One day | saw an advertisement of
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People, and although my faith in rem
edies was weak by that time, sent
for box and tried them. mat was
two years ago. Now l call myself a
we'll woman. Isn't 1T wonderful!
Il haven't had one Of those excru-
ciating pains in the heart for year
and half. Why, even the first box OF
pills helped me. | can walk miles
now. can do my work easily, have
ea,ned in weight constantly, and you
would scarcely believe it, but "a little
while ago | was examined for endow
mept life insurance and was accepted
<o{ rty of
nation by the physician.
.'Do YOU wonder that I'm shouting
Pink Pills through our village!
haven't taken any of the remedy for
some months for it has comp etely
built ME up, but at the first sign OF
trouble | know to what refuge to flee.
Last year my aunt. Mrs. Nj. a. Bios
som. of Dixfeld, 20, was here Visit
ing me. She was suffering from lack
Of vitality and heart trouble, but she
was skeptica about my remedy that
was so enthusiastically advocating.
AT last however, she tried 1t and car
ried some home with her when she
went. A little while ago | received
letter from her and in it said, i IN
cured. thanks be to God and PINK
pills She also wrote that her nus
band had been Frustrated but had been
restored by the remedy.
I'VE feel up this way that such
sovereign cure cannot be too Wldeiy
Enown. That is the only reason why
allow my name to be used IN THIS con
nection. | know also that by person,
ally recommending them have helped
many of my friends back to health, 1or
] neve" let an opportunity pass when a
word of counsel may direct some one.
One of the persons to whom Ars.
Francis recommended Pink Pllls is
station agent. c. H. Foster, OF Leeds
Centre. and the reporter found MIN
patrolling the platform waiting the ar
rival of the morning train. Mr.. Foster
who is one Of the most trustworthy
capable and energetic men III the EN-
Mo of the Maine Central railroad, ap,
reared in unusually good health ana
spirits and we made inquiry as 10 tue
cause. ar
"Do you know. replied he' !
think I've made a discovery, or at
least Mrs. Francis has for me. nave
been in poor health for long time
with a heart trouble variously compli-
lated. We have been SO fully interest
ed in Mrs. Francis wonderful recovery
that | at once determined to give tle
medicine recommended thorough
fest. So. about two months ago. .
bought the first box of DIR. Williams
Pink Pills. Only two months, please
note. vet already l am SO mucn I'M
moved. SO much better able to fui1i my