The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1898-02-03
An Astonishing
Statement.
so REMARKABLE THAT, FOR FEAR OF DISBELIEF.
SOME OF THE 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.
READ HIS LETTER and THE N0MAN'S STORY.
READ HIS LETTER AND THE N0MANs STORY.
From the Free Press, Belott, Wis.

WYOMING, WISCONSIN, June 9th, 1896.
Dr. Williams Med. Co., Schenectady, N. T.
Gentlemen Replying to 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 so long been regarded by her
family and all her neighbors as a hopeless
invalid that her present state of health is
nothing less than q marvel in this (Wyoming)
valley.
For more than year past and up to the
month of March last Mrs. Culver had lain
actually at the point of death. Her neigh
bors and friends expected daily to be called
upon to perform the &C. last sad Offices" for
her, and when they learned that she had
actually arisen from her bed and could sit
up" it was felt that little less than resur-
rection had happened in their midst. 49,,
Yet imagine the establishment when a
week or two later it was announced in the
valley" that she could qcalk, and when
she was, at last, really able to meet and
shake hands with friends in the door, yard,
or upon the street, it was felt that truely
a miracle had been wrought in their midst.
found Mrs. Culver, pleasant faced,
attractive 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 fifty.
eight years she could not recall so "early O
season for fruit and garden stuff as the
he Aall alxv s.
illness-the dreary track of pain and weak
ness over which for. twenty years her body had
been racked, and told with evident happiness
of her wonderful cure. "The truth is" she
said, " / was dead and am alive again" And
there was no lack of enthusiasm in heI
voice as she spoke of the sovereign remedy
which had wrought such wonder work fol
her. She was surrounded by the member.
of her family her husband, daughter and
grand children, and Pink Pills was certainly
the burden of their happy conversation dur
ing my visit.
But her cure, after all, is best summed UT
in her own simple and succinct statement
which she made in the hope of doing goot
to others. q
Mrs. Culver is a woman of education an,
refinement. Her husband was post maste
at Wyoming during President Harrison
admin istratian- Among these of thei
neighbors who can further attest the facts i
her case are the present post master and hi
wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Dunstan MI
and Mrs. C. w. Parks, Mr.. and Mrs. Solo
Knickerbocker and scores of others livin
here in the town and valley of Wyoming.
PSI must confess that l had an ide
that patent medicine testimonials were mostl
fakes, manufactured in the good-humore
spirit of humbuggery which delights ii
world at large. In this case which | hay
looked up myself l have found at the fir
trial cure SO astonishing that | have bee
afraid to write the facts just as the actui
history of the case demanded. | have bee
truly fearful lest / should seem to overC
and thus spoil this splendid testimonial.