Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-12-05
An astonishing
Statement,
so REMARKABLE THAT, FOR FEAR OF DISBELIEF
SOME OF THF FACTS ARE WITHHELD.
A Correspondent who Interviews a Woman in Re-
gard to Her Recovery from Illness is so
Impressed with the Story and Regards
it so Wonderful that He fears to
Write the Whole Facts
nran uIc lErIEp ANN TIE MlnnaaN,c crnnu
READ HIS LETTER AND THE wON7AN's STORY.
MON GAe Fret prss,, BetOa. Wis.

WYonIHe, WISCONSIN, June 9th, 1895.
DR.. WihIap,J Ned Co., Schenectady, ~ y.
Geaaemta Replying 10 your favor Of
recent date, / called on Mrs. Jane Culver,
Of Wyoming, Wis. yesterday. had heard
much about her case before l went to see
her. She has 81 long been regarded by her
family and all her ncignbors as hopeless
invalid that her present state Of health is
nothing less than marvel in this (Wyom-
ing valley.
For more thar year past, and up 10 the
month of March last Mrs. Culver had lain
actual, ai the point of death. Her neigh.
bors and friends expected daily TO be called
upOn to perform the "lAst sad Offices " for
sic~, and hen they learned that she had
.etnslly arisen from her bed and could sit
np it was felt that little less than resur-
rection lad happened in their midst.
Yet imagine the astonishment when a
week or two la.s- 4 was announced in the
valley" that she could aodik, and when
she was, at last, really able to meet and
shake hands with friends in the door, yard,
=
miracle had been wrought in their midst.
found Mrs. Culver, a pleasant faced, at
tractiVe little woman, about her household
work when called on June 9th. She was,
in fact, picking over goOseberries, and her
first remark after greeting was that in all her
khy-eight yearH she could not recall so
"early 4" a season for fruit and garden stuff
as the present. She talked freely Of her long,
sad illness-the dreary track Of pain and
weakness over which for twenty years her
body had been racked, and told with evident
happiness of her wonderful cure. "The truth
is," she said, al was dead and am alive
again" And there was no lack ofenthusiasm
in her voice as she spoke Of the sovereign
remedy which had wrought such wonder
work for her. She was surrounded by the
members Of her family, her husband daughter
and grandchildren, and Pink Pills was GER
tainly the burden Of their happy converse
tion during my visit.
But her cure, after all, is best summed up
tn her own simple and succinct statement,
which she made in the hope Of doing good
10 others.
Mrs. Culver is q woman of education and
refinement. Her husband was postmaster
~ Wyoming during President Harrison's
administration. Among. those of their
neighbors who can further attest the facts in
iier case are the present postmaster and his
wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Dunstan, Mr..
aud Mrs. Q. w. Parks, Mr.. and Mrs. Solon
Knickerbocker, and scores Of others living
here in the town and valley Of Wyoming.
P. ST. must confess that had an idea
that patent medicine testimonials were mostly
fakes, manufactured in the good -humored
spirit of humbuggery which delights the
world at large. In this case which l have
looked up myself have found at the first
trial q cure so astonishing that have been
afraid 10 write the facts just as the aetual
hisseRy Of the case demanded, have been
truly fearful lest ! should seem 10 overdo