Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-11-20

Barton street, in the northeast portion OF
the city, while employed as foreman for
the Canadian Oil company, Eve years ago.
fell upon the edge OF an oil vat and hurt
his back Thinking little of the affair,
Mr.. Marshall continued to work on, but
after few months he became i'll, gradu-
ally got worse, and in August, four years
ago, became stricken with that dread dis
case, lOcomotor ataxy--a disease attacking
the nerves and rendering that portion OF
the system attacked perfectly helpless,
proclaimed by tho physicians to be incur
able-which left him from the waist down.
wards without feeling and utterly unable
to move his lower limbs. All he was able
TO do was to raise himself by the aid of
sticks and clutches and drag himself around
the house and occasionally to the corner OF
tho street on fine days. His legs were
without feeling, pins and even knives were
stuck into them without the sick man ex-
periencing any Inconvenience He could
take a walking stick and beat his legs un-
til the blows resounded through the house
and yet he felt nothing. During all these
years Of torture MIR. Marshall consulted
every doctor of ability in the city, tried
every form OF treatment and took almost
every kind Of patent medicine, but without
receiving one little OF relief. The agony
was frequently so intense that he was
obliged TO take morphine pills in order to
receive a reasonable amount of sleep.
AS the months and years passed by, al
though the doctors continued to treat him
In various ways, they plainly told the suf-
fering man that he could not get better,
the disease was set down in the works of
specialists as incurable. The doomed man
was member of the United Empire coun-
Gil No. 100, Royal Templars OF Temper
ance, and under the discouragiug circum-
stances he thought 1t advisable TO apply
for the payment OF the total disability
claim of ST, 900, allowed by the order on
its insurance policy. Application was &C
cordingly made, but before the claim was
granted the patient had to offer conclusive
proof Of his total disability to the chief
examiner, and Mr.. Marshall was sent To
Toronto for special electrical treatment
IL proved no more successful than the
others that had preceded II, and a number
of city doctors aud the chief medical ex-
aminer of the order signed the medical
certificate of total disability and MIR. Mar
shall received from the Dominion Coun-
cillor of the Royal Templars a checque for
OIL, 900 last November. One day last Feb
ruary came MIR. Marshalrs salvation,
although he did not accept it at first A
small pamphlet telling of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills and the discusses they cured,
was thrown into the house, but It was
placed aside and no notice was taken
Of IL for weeks. One day the
sick man re-read the circular and
concluded TO try DIR. Williams Pink Pills,
although Mrs. Marshall tried hard to dis
suade him, saying they would be as inef-
fectual as all the others, but on April 14th
memorable day to him-Mr. Marshall
began to take the pills. one after each meal
for start In a few days a change was
noticed and as he continued to take the
pills he gradually improved and in little
over a month he was able 10 take the train
for Toronto and visit an astonished brother
in-law. Now he can walk four or Ave
miles with any Of his friends.
THE GLeBB representative paid visit To
the house OF the man thus rescued from a
living death Mr.. Marshall's home, cosy,
comfortable, with climbing flowers cover
ing N 'front.' .was reached snly 70 find him