Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-02-14
WOUNDED IN THE WAR.
Shot in the Abdomen at Cumber-
 land Gap.
Blind, Rheumatic and DropsicaI-A Union Colonel Is Given Over to Die-How the Old Soldier Gave
 Azrael the Slip.
From the News, Barboursvilts, Ks.


 In the year 1888, while in command of Union regiment at Cumberland Gap, Colonel MesSef, now of Flat 1tcks, Kentucky, re- cetVed severe gunshot wound ln his ab- domeD. In few months he was again In the saddle, but soon was obliged to undergo further medical treatment, and his condi- tion became so serious that in the winter of 1868 he returned to his home, and was never again it for active service. During the years that have since passed, Colonel Messer has been confirmed invalid from the effect of his wound, and has been under the constant care of the local physicians, not improving, but growing worse as the years rolled on. His condition eventually became deplerable Almost blind, legs swollen, so that he was unable to walk, the doctors who could do nothing to arrest the progress of the disease, diagnosed 1t as dropsy and said recovery was impossible. The old soldier did not half believe his physicians, but said that since they could do nothing for him, he would, upon an old friends strong recommendation, try Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. The first box was taken by Col. Messer accord ing to directions, and by the time that was gone, he felt so much easier and more com fortable, that several other boxes were pro cured, and he continued to take them faith fully. Soon the swelling in his legs disap- peared, and with it the fierce rheumatic pains with which he had long suffered. Strangest of all, his eyesight, which for so many years had been useless, was restored. In all, Colonel Messer took Dr. Williams Pink Pills six months, and then was thoroughly cured. He now is healthy look ing man, rides on horseback, and stands as much fatigue as any man of his age.
 The Colonel, since his recovery, is never tired of descanting on the virtues of these pills, and every advertisement that he finds he carefully clips and sends to some sick friend or neighbor, with the assurance that they will cure him.
 The high standing of Colonel Messer, and his remarkable recovery, makes this report more than usually interesting, and when it was received at the office of the pr. Will Messrs. Phipps &5 Herndon, the well known druggists of Barbourville, Ky, for verificar ton. We append the reply:
 BARBoURyILLE, Ky, Aug. Is, fS96 DR. WILLIAMS MED. Co,
 Schenectady, N. Y.
 Gentlemen: Yours Of August 14th to hand, enquiring about testimonial written by Mir. Sampson concerning Colonel Messer, of Flat Lick, Ky, will say that the cure of Colonel Messer was considered almost mi raeulous, and he claims Pink Pills did It.
 Yours truly,
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