The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-06-29
SCHOOL
WAS CLOSED
The Teacher Reported TO
Have Gone Insane.
She Was Injured in a Run
away Accident and School
Work Became Physically
and Mentally Impossible.

In October. 1896, one Monday morn
ing, the Rushford school did not open
and it was reported that the teacher had
gone irsane. The physician in attend.
ance pronounced the trouble nervous
prostration and said that school work
was mentally and physically impossible.
The teacher, who is now Mrs. L.. Gull
lickson, Of Rushford, Minn., in a recent
interview published in the Star Of that
place, gives the true story OF the event.
ITO begin at the beginning" she said,
"when was about seven years Of age
sudden fright brought on a dreadful
condition Of nervousness. When, in
1896, VAS injured in runaway acci'
dent, this combined with my former
trouble, made me 80 i'll that WAS unable
10 open school on the following Mon
day"
"Was II true that you we're reported
to be insane9" asked the interviewer.
ayes, and the members OF my family
thought that / was becomming so.
Words do not express the agony en-
dured with my head and eyes. The
least noise would cut through my nerves
like knife. / was hot and cold by
flashes, and piercing pains in my tenn
ples and in the back Of my head and a
red mist was constantly before my eyes.
"T was dizzy and faint with fearful
nausea, which nothing relieved. could
take no solid food for ten days, but lived
on milk and lime.water. The doctor
who examined me pronounced the
disease nervous prostration, with a
rupture OF small blood vessels in IN!
stomach. After passing a quantity o
clotted blood the nausea subsided. bu
1 was still in bed with neither strength
nor appetite"
"To what, then, do you owe your pres
ent good health?" wac asked.
"To the good advice Of a neighbor.
was the prompt reply. When the doc
tor had treated me for nearly
without helping me, Mrs. j. Webster
anearby friend, recommended Mr.. Will
Jams Pink Pills for Pale People. Til
first few doss Of the pills made me NJ
better, but was determined TO give then
a fair trial and kept on taking them
with the result that soon saw an i'm
provement. had always been trouble,
with great pain at certain periods, bu
the pills entirely removed this and CAV,
me a regularity that | had never befor
lenjoyed. ] continued 10 use the pills 70
nearly three months and was perfectl
cured.- About two years ago took on
box OF the pills for feeling OF languid
ness and exhaust on caused byoverwork
and was greatly benefited and have haC
no occasion to use them for simila
troubles since.
IL have recommended DR.. Williams
Pink Pills to many people, one Of WHOM
is my sister, living at Decorah Iowa, win
took them with good results for head
aches, general debility and indigestion
have never heard OF a single cas-
where they did not prove beneficial ant
know of several persons who have taker
them successfully for rheumatism.
To make Mrs. s.Gullickson's remarkable
story more convincing 10 those who
have no knowledge Of her high charac-
ter and responsibility. the reporter aske,
her 10 make affidavit to the above facts
which she did on March 30, 1901, before
q. w. Rockwell, notary public, at Rush
ford.
Rheumatism is a blood disease but
as is shown above, ii has frequently
been cured by the same remedy tha
restored Mrs. Gullickson's shattered
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Miss Annie Rice has returned 10 hel