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

useless. l tried every doctor and every
patent medicine. spending hundreds of
dollars. Everything that was likely to
help me got. but might as well have
thrown it in the bay. l suppose my wife
has shown you the apparatus ] used at one
time or another A dozen city doctors
gave me up. l got enough electric shocks
for hal. dozen men, but they did me no
good. l lost control OF my bowels and
water and couldn't sleep without morphine.
During the day my legs were cold and bad
10 sit by the stove wrapped in blanket
suffering intense agony from nervous pains
in the legs. neck and head. Yes, received
from the Royal Templars a 81, 00e cheque,
being declared wholly unable TO follow my
employment. One day in April l took a
notion to try DR.. Williams Pink Pills,
carefully following the directions accom-
panying each boz. Why, in three days
got relief and kept on mendIng. threw
away the morphine pills and the clutches.
recovered my appetite ant regained COR
troll OF my bowels and water and went on
getting better and stronger and now you
SEQ me stronger and more healthy than
was for years before / was taken i'll tell
you am feeling first-class," and Mr.. Mar
shall slapped his legs vigorously and gave
the lower part of his back q good thump-
ing. afterwards going up and down the
room at a lively gait.
~ weigh 100 pounds to-day" he con-
tinued, "and I've gained 80 pounds since
first took Dr. Williams Pink Pills, haven't
such thing as pain or ache about me, and
another thing. can walk as easily in the
dark as In the light"
Mr.. Marshall offered 10 make an affda-
Wit TO the truth of the above story, but the
reporter considered that wholly unneces-
sary. He carried conviction to the In
quirers mind by every word and action,
and there was no gainsaying the fact that
the cure was one of the most marvellous in
the nineteenth ~Sntury. All the neighbors
bore testimony to the genuineness of the
cure. None of them ever expected to see
Mr.. Marshall on his feet again and re-
garded his restoration TO health as nothing
short Of marvellous.
The headquarters of the Royal Templars
OF Temperance for Canada are in Hamilton.
At the publishing house OF the order, Mr..
w. w. Buchanan, general manager, and one
OF the most prominent temperance advo-
Gates Of the Dominion. was found. In re-
Spouse TO tho reporters question no said:
''Oh, yes, / am well acquainted with Mr..
John Marshall He has been n member OF
one of the councils OF this city for about
seven years. He is a we'll known citizen
and a reliable temperance man. About
four years ago he was first taken seriously
i'll and his case was brought before the
order. The provisions under which the
total disability claim is paid In our organi-
zation are worry strict The weekly sick
benefit is payable to any person under the
doctors care who Is unable to follow. their
usual avocation, but the total disability Is
a comparatively large sum. only paid a
member who Is disabled for life, and de-
ciared by medical men to be entirely past
all hope of recovery. In Mr.. Marshall's
case there was some difficulty 10 is true; he
was examined upon n numberybf occasions,
covering period of upwards OF two years.
The medical men who examined him all
agreed that there was little hope OF reoov-
cry, but they would not give the definite
declaration that our law demands-thai
the claimant was permanently and totally
disabled last November. Wher
this declaration by two regular physician,