A MIRACLE IN MISSOURI THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF MEDICAL SCIENCE FARR MORE WONDER- FUL THAN THE MAGIC OF THE EAST, The Remarkable Experience of Post Master Woodson, of Panama, Mo.~ For Ten Years a Cripple-Ta-Day A Well and Hearty Man. (From the Kansas City Tomes) The people of Rich Hill, Mo. and vicinity have recently been startled by a seeming miracle of healing. For years one of the best known men in Bates and Vernon coun ties has been Mark M. Woodson, now post master of Panama, and brother of ex-Stato Inspector ot Mines, C. C, Woodson, of this city. The people of Rich Hill, where he formerly resided, and of his present home, remember well the bent form, misshapen almost from the semblance of man, waloh bas painfully bowad its head half to earth and lawored snail-like across the walks season after season, and when one day last month it straightened to fits full height, threw away the heavy butt of cana which for years had been its only support from total helplessness, and walked ereot, firmly, unhesitatingir about the two cities, people looked and wondered. The story of the re- markable case has become the marvel of the two counties. Exactly as Mr. Woodson told it to a Times reporter, it is here published * “Por ten years I have sufferad the tor- ments of the damned and have been a uss- less invalid ; to-day I am a well and hearty | man, free from almost every touch of pain. | I don't think man eyer suffered more acute | and constant agony than I have since 1834. | The rheumatism started then in my right knee. and after weeks of suffering in bel I was at last relieved sufficiently to arise, bul it was only to get about on crutches for five years, the ailment having sattled in the joint. Despite constant treatment of the most eminent physicians the rheumatism | grew worse, and for the last four years I | have been compelled to go about bent hall toward the ground. In the winter of 1500- | 91, after the rheumatism had settled into its | most chronic form, I went to Kansas City | upon advices of my brother, and for six | weeks I was treated in one of the largest and best known dispensaries eity, | but without the siighiest X Before I cam: vanic battery, this I used for months wit the same result. In August, 1892, 1 went | to St. Louis, and thers conferred with the | widely known Dr. Madd of hospital prac. | tice fame, and Dr. Kale of the city hospit al. None of would take my case with any | hope of affording me more than temporary relief, and so I came home, weak, doubled with pain, helpless and despondent. ssAbout this time my attention was ealiad | to the acco of a remarkable cure by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People of locomotor ataxia, rheumatism and paral. ysis, I ordered some of the pills as an | experiment. When I began to take them, the rheumatism had developed into a phass | of paralysis; my leg from the thigh down was cold ail the time and could not be kept warm. Ina short time the pilis wers ge and so was the [ was able to attend to the duties of my o, to get about as a well and strong man. [was free from pain and I could enjoy a sound and restful night's sieep, something I had not known for ten yaars. To-day am practically, and, I firmly believe, permanently curod of my terrible and agonizing aliment. No ma- gician of the Far East ever wrought the miracle with his wand that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills did for me.” To verify the story beyond all question o doubt Mr. Woodson made the folio affidavit improve em de SIH ne, anne Bratz or Missovsi, | Covsty or Bares, | I, M. M. Woodson, being duly sw my oath, state that the following sta are true and correct as I verily belie M. M. Wo 3 wwibed and sworn to before me this S ), 18594 * Jons D. Moong, Notary Public, * Pink Pills for Pale People | tured by the Dr. Williams’ pany, Schenectady, N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing the | flern's trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2 Bear in | mind that Dr. Willlams' Pink Pills are | never sold in bulk or by the doz or hun dred, and any dealer who offers substitutes in this form is trying to defraud and should be avoided, Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills may be had of all druggisms or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Madi are Medicine Co «ine Co. YS No Librarian Needed. In the heart of London is a public news room without a librarian or any- one to look atter the papers are chaipe | and padlocked so they can- not be carried off, Little damage is done and the room is usualy quiet and orderly. Of It. Rilmer's Swaxr-Roor cures all Kidney and Bladder troubles Pamphlet and Consultation free, Laboratory Binghamton, N. Y. It takes a Danish express train a day travel 100 miles, to | ““ | Could Not Walk Beentse of a ranning sore on my ankle, I | was not able even io do anything, Afler the | Hood's Sarsa- a parilla first bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla I foit a Lures great deal better, and now after taking I am VV well, The sore has healed, and I am able to walk several miles without feeling tired," Mus, Bexvw, Box 88, Willsboro, N. YX. Hood's Plilg cure all liver fils. We. WE WILL MAIL POSTPAID ® fine Pamel Picture, entitiod “MEDITATION " Hendin out , and REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN- DAY SERMON, Subject: “Heavy Welfhts’' (Deliv- ered at San Francisco). m———— Text: *‘Onst thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee." — Psalms lv,, 22. David was hers taking his own medicine, If anybody had on him heavy weights, Da- vid bad them, and vet out of his own experi- ence he advises you nnd me as to the hest way of getting rid of burdians, This is n world of burden bearing, Daring the past few days tidings came from across the sea of a mighty and good man fallen. A man full of the Holy Ghost was he, his name the sy- nonym for all that is good and kind and gra- cious and beneficent, Word comes to us of a scourge sweeping off hundreds and thou- sands of people, and there is a burden of sorrow. Sorrow on the soa and sorrow on the land. thers may he no sign of sadness or sorrow, but where is the man who has not a con- filet? Where is the soul that has not a strug- gle? nd there is rot a day of all the year when my text is not gloriously appropriate, and there is never an nudienco assembled on the planet where the text is not gloriously Lord, and Ile shall sustain thee.” In the far East wells of water are so in- frequent that when a man owns a well he has a property ‘ol very great value, and sometimes battles have been fought for the possession of one well of water, but thers is one well that every man owns, a deep well, a perennial well sn well of tears. If a man has not a burden on this shoulder, he has a bur- den on the other shoulder, The day [I left home to iook alter myself! and for myself, in the wagon my father sat driving, and he said that day something which has been with all my life “Pa Wite, it Is always safe to trust Gold, have many a tune come to a erisis eulty. You may know that, having sick for fifteen years, it was no easy for me to support a family, but always came 10 the rescy ember the time,” he said, “when I w what to and I saw a man on horsshaeXk riding up t furm lanc, and announsad to m had I been nominated for them office in the gi county, and fo tl fics I was ele God in that way met all my wants, you it 3 trust Him." Ob, mv friends, we want isa practi eal rel ¥ The reli gon RTH bighup y who enter Rave up & iu be and his wi He told m he said notan me ; street, and ¢ «1 h AVE bare wh a It you 3 gand you me of do, ha he i Pn t all of the i580 riend Ha is ana $l wo all tecth they do 1 this nas t upon the There are business hardens, 4 ried and perplexed an are ant to say attempled Lo onery »0 iness life, have man may man ants 5 y {i © sof 10 much, that blameat all! When a business he does i Know arowihs, what w be its its be to boas 1 keen business facut dust by unlor ion him lien ) and to ha the effect ¢ ery, what wil and athous questions perplex business men until the hair is silvered and deep wrinkles are plowed in the Mocks by m n other drug Y Theres nn ver has heem a time wasn thers It f& hardware: against hardware, boo t books, ehinndlery «gainst chandlery ried articles against imported artic usanl stores in combat with ano! Never sach advantage of never si variety of assortment, much spiendor show window, pever so much adroitness of salesmen, never yf advertising, and amid all theses se of rivalry in business how many men braak down! Ob, the burden on the shoulder! Oh, the burden on the heart ! You hear that it is avarice which drives theses men of business through the street, and that is the commonly accepted idea. 1 do not believe a word of it. The vast multi- tude of thess business men are toiling on for others, To educate their children, to put wing of protection over their households, to have something left so when they pass out of this life their wives and children will not have to go to the poorhouse—that is the way I translate thie energy in the street and store that energy. Grip, not do all the business remember when the Central ousana stores, ht, ich never so verities ’ & Co, do of us Gouge Bome it was wracked, in-law was the heroic captain of that ship and went down with most of the passengers, Home of them got off into lifeboats, but there was a young man returning from California who had a bag of gold in his hand, and as the last boat shoved off from the ship that was to go down that young man shouted to a comrade in the boat © “Here, John, catch this gold, There nee $3000. Take it home able in her last days.” Grip, Gouge & Co. do not do all the basiness of the world, Ah, my friend, do you say that God does not care anythang about your worldly busi- nese? [telly u God knows more about jt than you do He knows ail your perplexi- ties; He knows what mortgage is about to foreclose ; He knows what note you cannot ¥ s He knows what unsalable goods you ave on your shelves; He knows all yonr trinle, from the day you took hold of the first yardstick down to that sale of the last yard of ribbon and the God who helipad be prime minister, and who pal Have lock to be a soldier will help you to dis charge all your datios, He is going to ses you through, When loss comes, and you find your property going, just take this book and put it down by your ledger and read of the eternal possessions that will come 10 you through our Lord Jesus Obrist, And when our business partner betrays you, and your riendsturn against you, just take the in. suiting letter, put it down on the table, put your Bible beside the insalting letter, and then read of the friendship of Him who *gticketh closer than a brother,’ A young secountant in New York City got his accounts entangled. He knew he was honest, and yet he could not make his no- counts coma out t. and he tolled at them he was nearly frenzied, out right! Help ma to-day—help me this morning." The young man arose, and hard- ly knowing why he did so opened a book that Iny on the desk, and there was a leaf containing a line of figures which explained everything. In other words, he cast his burden upon the Lord, and the Lord sus- tained him. Young man, do you hear that? Oh, yes, God has a sympathy with any- body that is in any kindof toil! He knows how heavy is the hod of bricks that the workman carries up the ladder on the wall, { He hears the plekax of the miner down in { the coal shaft. He knows how strong the i tempest strikes the sailor at masthead, Hb» | sees the factory girl among the spindles and knows how her arms ache, He seeathegew- | ing woman in the fourth story and knows {how few pence she gets for making na gar | ment, and louder than all the din | of the elty comes the volee of a sympathetic | God, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee,” | weight of persecution and abuse upon them, Sometimes soclety gets a grudge against a man, All his motives arse misinterpreted, and gll bis good deeds are depreented, | With more virtues than somes of the { and sharp eriticism, | gravitation, but a hundrad him in the precipitation, Men are | outed for their virtues and thelr sugocesses, antagonists ns Hig Cr he had adornments. racter sometimes is so lustrous The that the to look at it It was their integrity that put Joseph in the pit, and Danis] in the den, and Shadrach in tha fire, nnd sent John the Evangelist to desolate Patmos, end Calvin to the castle of persecution, and John Hass to the stake, { and Korah after Moses, and Saul after Da- vid, and Herod afier Christ, Da sure, if you have anything to do for church or state, und you attempt it with all your soul, the lgit- ning will strike you, I'ne world always has had tween two thieves for the ons save it a cross be who somes to High and holy enterpriss has al followas by abuse, The most slime tragedy of self-sacriflos has come to irlesq The graceiul galt virtue is WAYS by scoff and grimace and travesty. swestest str; of poetry ever written has com lous parody, aud as long { i righteons- ness world ¢ LO grin ways been a1 ¥ of - 1 lowed I'he tharos at in all Innd Bara res ROA but makes the persecutions of at thay co from people wh y those to wh ve star.ed in bu ne great ail ts 4 crisis. ar lives As oran list the isle and : that de- he was pointed to a cortaln He sald 1 “I understand you mination, one of us tof yf i and nd went there, » the man Vigan : are a { versaiist, in the prise ha § uifar kind of naked the ark troub.es toat wear us out. Il we loss om property, by additional Industry perhaps we may bring back the estranged fortune, formation of morals woe may achieve again | back tho dear departed? i Alas, me, for these empty cradles and these | trunks of childish toys that will never ba used again’ Alas me, for the empty chair | and the silences fu the halls that will never | for the ery of widowhood and orphanage! { What bitter Marahs in the wilderness, what | from the wing of death, what | now heeause thers aro no fingers to play on them! Is thers no Aye, lot that soul ride into { tex], The soul that on Jesus hath leansd for repose I will not, T will not desert to foes, That soul, though all hell shall endeavor 10 shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake, Now, the grave is elent tomb where the lights were perpetually kept burning, wis “the resurrection and the life” the another soul come home to glory, Then there are many who carry the Ah, we all earry it until in the appointed way that burden is lifted, angels ring down the sky at of { den of sin, ruinsl, What a speetacis it would be if we could tear off the mask of human defiloment a drum that would bring up whole army of the world's transgressions the deception, the fraud, and the rapine and the murder, and the erime of all ye, if I could sound the trumpet of r rection in the souls of the best men and all the dead sins of the past up, we conid not should come endure the sight, Sin, grim and dire, has put its cluteh upon the immortal soul, and that eluteh will never relax unless it be under the heel Him who came to destroy the works of the 1 { or beat sure nudisnce, ’ s devil, Oh, to have a mountain of sin on the soul! Is there no way to have the burden moved! Ob, yes, “Cast thy | I'he sinless ons camo {0 take tha eo i ¥ of our And I know He is in How do I know it7 By the sireas jes and the streaming hands as He vane unto Me, all ye w are woa and heavy and I will give you rest Why will prodigals live on swiz * hy : the and ing sv Yom ue +s th ¢ warden upon the Lord JEL inden, sav that RUIKY, il knew all about nie ition? hissed at? Was He not struck Was He not Pp oiren «1 all th to put RN 3 ‘They spit upon Him.” Aad ean- He understand what perssoution Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He bail sustain thee” Then there are othors who carry great bur. yf physical aliments, When aniden ness has come, and flersa choleras and goant fevers take the casties of lite by storm, we appeal to Gol, but in thess chronic aliments which wear out the strength day after dav, and week after week, and year alter vane, how little resorting to Goi for golnce | Then peoples depend upon thelr tonics, and their plasters, and their cordials rather than upon heavenly stimulants, Oh, how few people there are compiotely wall’ Some of you, by dint of perseverance in I 87 dens « sink i perfectly interofting expianation arent absurd..y api $y 8 f samen ata ois whims Of Iusnimasie O93 tired cling tives and tools are ki bit on certain occasions th i LiR0 Lh tribute 412 ¥ tou the *eon bration and possible extremes ol hes and cold interfere with not sufficient to be a action, holding thal Ty Messuremenss nrags ated instruments n to upeet ns of ow it the most the designers. Resting a machine or a tool for rt time allows the necessary recontraction or re-éxpansion to take place, and the article is good as new. in electrical machinery, concerning which there is great difference of opi nd a great deal yet be learned atmos. pheric and other conditions easily ao- count for any difficulty that may arige, but in steam machinery, which is much better understood, the mole- cular theory seems to be the only so- lution of the problem.” measuring but enough carelnl ealenlatic I 1st juss “ 8h Th a ih “5 Wood as Food, how you have had to war aliments! Antalilavians, without medics] college and iofiemary and apothecary shop, multiplied their years by huadreds, but he who has gone through the gauntlet of disease in onr time and has come to savent y years of ago is a hero worthy of a paim, The world seems to be a great hospital, and you rua against rheunalisms and eon sumptions and serofulay and neuralgia and scores of old diseases baptized by new po moentiature, Oh, how heavy a burden sick. ness is. It takes the color out of the sky, and against physioal ness out of the fralt, and luster of the night, When the limbs ache, whan the res. piration is painful, when the mouth is hot, wher the ear roars with unhealthy obstruo- tions, how hard it is to be patient and cheer. fal and assiduous! “Cast thy burden upon the Lord.” Does your head ache? His wore the thors. Do your feet hurt? His were erushad of the out by the spear. Do yoa feel like giving way ander the burden? His waakness gave way | under a cross, While you are in every pos- ' sible way to try to restors your physical | vigo®, you are to remember that mors sooth | ing than any anodyns, mors vitalizing than | any stimulant and more strengthening than | any tonia is the prescription of the text, “Cast thy burien upon the Lord, and He | will sustain thes,” ! Wa hear a great deal of talk now about | faith cure, and some people say it cannot | be done aad itis a failure. [do not know | but that the chief advance of the church is {to be fn that direction. Marvelous things | come to me day by day which make me think {that if the age of miracies fa past It is bee | eause the faith of miracles is past, | A prominent merchant of New York said {to a momber of my family, “My mother | wants hor ease mentionsd to Mr, Talmage” This was the ease, He sald : ‘My mother {had n dreadful abscess, from which she had | suffered untold agonies, and all surgery had been exhausted upon her, and worse and we worse she pen. usil called in a few Christian and p to ™ about it, We commended her case to Gol, and the abscess began immediately to be cured, She is entirely woll now and without knife and without any surgery.” Bo that ense has come to me, and thers sre a score of other cases Soming to oul from all j2 of the earth, Oh, to Christ! Ob, ye who are worn out onlen ot} “id vou ever hear of wood being | nged for food?’ inquired Amion I. Vandervate, of Pensacola, Fla., of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat hotel re- porter. “‘Itraveled rather extensively through Siberia a few years ago, and found that among the natives along the northern coast wood in certain torm is a most common and coustint article of diet. The natives eat it be- cause they like it, Even when fish aro plentiful it forms part of the evening | meal, as many cleanly stripped larch | logs near every hut testify. These | people know hy experience that the fact of their eating wood arouses the sympathy of strangers, apd shrewdly use it to exite pity and to obtain gifts lof tea and tobacco. They serap off | thick layers immediately under the | mix it with snow, It is then boiled in | a kettle. Sometime a little fish roe, | milk, or butter is mized with it.” Si ws II 55055 A Patent Hens Nes | Charles Johnson has invented a | patent hen's nest that is a very great | convenience to “Biddy,” and it is an automatic persnader for her t» do good work, When the hen approaches the nesta wicket door gently opens, { and after she passes in it closes, und | the hen has private apartments all to hersell. The egg of its own weight opens a trap door and rolls noiselossly out of sight. Then when the hen arises, puts her hands in her pockets und gets ready to walk out, not seein} the egg, she thinks she has made a mistake and lays another. This sort of thing is repeated until the heft of the chicken buds in the box below touches off & and Biddy is fired out of the apartment. Mr, Johnson ticipates enrning a large fortune by man and sale of hens and ho desery HOSE who could not eat cake, hot biscuit, bread and pastry because of indigestion have found that by rais- ing them with Royal Baking Pow ler they are enabled to cat them with per- fect comfort. Royal Baking Powder is composed of chemically pure cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda, and is an actual preventive of dyspepsia. OYAL BAKING POWDER CO. , 106 WALL 8T., NEW-YORK. Bod Bd Bie Vir’ : SAS A STRANGE MEXICAN CITY. Seen, In tho city of Catoree sound of carriage } heard, sald 3 returned, extiremoly untains must Ing but fow fore un ited the Lowa. 1r.d the Shilok's Care Je onid on a guaran foo, sumption; itis the Bost m reson aver vis Latorce ar ail thelr primitive but little of habitants are engaged ins Thousands of dollars’ w is secured year.y. 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