An Arkansas Woman Beats Dr. Tanner As A Faster

W. H. Cate, Esq., is a lawyer oi Jonesboro.Craighead County, Arkansas. He frequently visits St. Louis. When here he is, we believe, sometitnes the guest of Wm. M. Senter, cotton merohant of Main Street. Dr. Thomas II. Jones, in addition to being a regular gradúate of the Nashville Medical University and a practicing physiuian at Harrisburg, Poinsett County, Arkansas, is also Circuit Clerk of that county. A reporter of the Times was yesterday introduced to these gentlemen. The lawyer being not exactly a stranger wished to vouch for the probity, truthfulness and skill of the physician. The medical gentleman thcn detailed the following wonderful and wholly inexplicable f acts : r Mrs. Annie W. Fields, who has for some years past resided in Greene County, arrived at Harrisburg about two weeks ago. While she has both friends and connections to welcome her in this vicinity, her visits seem to have been mainly to interview her former family physician, Dr. Thomas IL Jones. Nearly two years ago she had a severe attaek of sickness, deriving no ease or benefit from all the attending physicians could do for her. She exhorted her medical advisers to abandon the use of drugs. This request being complied with, she began rapidly to regain her health - was soon up and able to do all her work as usual. She had no appetite, however, and just here she discovered that eating was not essential to the preservation of her health, or for the sustenance of Ufe on her part. This wonderful discovery was made about the month of Maren, 1879, since which time she has neither partaken of food or drink. To prove the truthfulness of these, her own assertions, she entered upon a sixty days' fast on Monday, Sept. 13, at that place. There are none of her friends or acquaintances who seem to doubt for a moment a single word she says. Mrs. Fields is a bright, sunny tempered, sweet woman in appearance, and actually seems to enjoy the situation. Care sits easily upon her shoulders, and she seems to be constantly in svmpathy with God's whole creation. She is the mother of six children; was bom November 8, 1848, at Greenville, Va., was the daughter of A. H. Stancell, who moved to Poinsett County in 1860 ; married John W. Fields, December 14, 1865, joined the Missionary Baptist Church in 1865, and has lived a consistent member since. She has been there for nearly three weeks, and if she has eaten anything whatever no one has been able to know when or how she got it. She has suffered Dr. Tnomas H. Jones to place her under guard, and truthful reports may be relied upon. She weighed ninety pounds at the beginning of her sixty days' fast. She weighs the same to-day. Manv of these facts have been published in the Arkansas Tribune. Dr, Jones vouches for every one of them. He has had a strict and perfectly reliable guard over Mrs. Fields since September 13th, and knows she haa partaken of no food or drink. He weighed her himself and noticed she absolutely lost no flesh. "But, doctor, how do you account for these facts?" "I do not account for them at all. They are phenomenal. They can not be accounted for. Mrs. Fields' husband is a plain farmer, as reputable a man as there ia in Poinsett County. He fully attesta every word I have told you. Every syllable of it is true." "What does the woman herself think?" "Well, she thinks she is endowed with sorne sort of supernatural qualities of body, but this, of course, can make no impression on me. I see her in good health.all the functions of her body perEectly performed as nature ordinarily provides, and I make and attempt no explanation of the wonderful facts."