The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-02-13

Il was four years ago next mouth hat
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Hoyt, who lives ut 1929 Went
worth Avenue, came to Chicago. She was
It that time bed ridden, suffering from in
iammatory rheumatism ard not able to
also her feet from the floor. Ore OF the
est physicians III Chicago treated her here
three weeks bat was unable 10 ctisct even
relief. He gave up her case, believing
nothing could lie done for her and that she
had but a few days to live.
In speaking Of her sutferings and the re-
lief and permanent cure effected later she
says: "Whcr l was Ave years old | was
taken down with ~iniammatory rheumatism,
but after q com parative'y short time il pass
ed of, and l was free from all its symptoms
until / was fourteen years old. Then l had
another attack, of which l was cured, and
did not have a 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 more damp, more raw and in winter
colder than it is here. In Nanistee for many
years l conducted a dressmaking establish
ment which / carried on until l was taken
sick. l knew all the prominent people in
Manistee and it was hard for me TO close my
business and leave all the people / had known
GOcTc IOT years.. MY lOuT CIliNiTtu. all VI
whom are married, lived in other States.
One daughter lived in Chicago and being
advised to change climate | came here. The
attack on that Christmas afternoon came
without warning. was suddenly. taken
with chills and rheumatic fever, which grew
worse day by day. Manistee physicians did
oil they could for me. but | 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.
"kheumatism was in my hands, my feet
and my head, in fact it was all over me be.
sides having heart failure. | could not
think of leaving my chair. 1 was unable to
comb my hair, l was practically helpless al
the time came to Chicago. DO you see all
those white scars on my hands? Well, lei
me tell you how l got them. My hands be-
came f~earfully swollen with the rheuma.
tism and were smooth and shiny just like O
piece of glass. The skin by tie swelling
was stretched to such a point that it burst
wherever you see the scars and from the
wounds came water for quite a long time
Ny sufferings were almost unbearable, and
/ tried the treatment of one of Chicago's
oldest and best physicians. | took his mcdi.
cine for three weeks, but only grsw worse
/ became so nervous tina: | could not SLEEP
and my stomach became SO weak, whether
from the strong drugs or my general dehiii'
tated condition l know not. but it was diff
cult for me to retain any solid food. liz
gave up my case and advised me to send fol
my husband
al knew by that advice, that he did no.
give me much longer TO live. Instead
went to one of my daughters who lives in the
southern part of Indiana, in Elnoro, Davis
County, where her husband. Asa Haie, wa:
one Of the prominent merchants. | believed
the climate there, being away from the in
fuences of Lake Michigan might help me
/ had been in E!aora about one week. NO
feeling any better, when one day | received
from nv daughter in CHICAGO three boxes o
Dr. Williams Pink pills for Pale People
telling me in her letter that she had read II
q newspaper of the wonderful cures the,
had effected. That she had zone to the wo
men 'ne neMspaper sP"xe about ana '" ,n;
about them was true. She pleaded that | tr,
these pills and perhaps ! would find tn
same benefits. I did not hesitate. as any
thing that promised relief, let alone a cure
vas only too glad to try. I comlnDncrl tax
ing them, two pills thres times n Gay.