Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-04-09
A Saratoga Co. Miracle
HELPLESS FOR YEARS AND Ex-
GUIDED FROM HOSPITALS
AS INCURABLE.
3hs Remarkable Experience Of ChaA
0usnt ~ Investigated BY an Albany
u ~ Journal Reportsr-A
Story of Surprising
Interest =

Albany, n. Y. Journal, March 4th.
SARATOGA, March 4.-For some time
Rpst there have been reports here and
Elsewhere in Saratoga county OF a most
Observation-Disclosures, 50 remarkable a.
TO be niraculous-cureo of most severe
case Of locomotor ataxia, or creeping
paralysis, simply by the use Of popu-
bar remedy known as "Pink Pills for
Pale people," prepared and put up by
the Dr.. williams Medicine company,
1orristown. N. Y. and Brockville, Ont.
The story was to the effect that Mr..
Charles A. QUAINT, of Galway, who for
the last six or eight years has been a
great sufferer from creeping paralysis
and its attendant ills, and who had be-
come utterly powerless of all self-help,
had, by the use of few boxes OF the
Pink Pills for Pale People, been so
fully restored to health as to be able
to walk about the street without the
aid of crutches- The fame of this
wonderful, miraculous cure was SO
great that the Eventng Journal
reporter thought it worth his while to
60 to Galway to call on Mr.. QUAINT, to
learn from his lips, and from the obser-
walton and testimony of his neighbors,
If his alleged cure was fact or only
an unfounded rumor. And SO he drove
to Galway and spent day and night
there in visiting Mr.. QUAINT, getting his
story and interviewing his neighbors
and fellow-townsmen. 1t may be proper
to say that Galway is a pretty little
village of about 400 people, de-
lightfully located near the center of the
town of Galway, in Saratoga county, and
about seventeen miles from Saratoga
Springs Upon inquiry, the residence
of Mr.. Charles A. Culnt was easily
found, for every body seemed to know
him, speak we'll of him and t. ~ over
flowing with surprise and satisfaction
1t his wonderful cure and restoration
70 the activities of enterprising citizen
ship, for Mr.. QUAINT was born in Galway
and had spent most of his life there.
Mr.. QUAINT was found at his pretty
home, on a pleasant street nearly OPP
posite the academy. In response
70 a knock at the door it was
opened by a man who, in reply to an
inquiry if Mr.. QUAINT lived there and
was at home, said: 81 am Mr.. QUAINT.
Will you come IMP" After little gen.
eral and preliminary conversation, and
after he had been appraised of the object
for which the Journal reporter had
called upon him, he, ut request, told
the story Of himself and of his sickness
and terrible suffsrings, and of the in
efectual treatment he had had, and of
his final cure by the use of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People, and cheer
fully gave assent to its use for publica-
ton. He said: "My name is Charles
A. QUAINT am 81 years old. I was
born in the village of Galway, and, ex-
cepting while travelling on business
and little while in Amsterdam, have
spent my whole life here. Ny wife is
q native of Ontario. Up to about
eight years ago / never had been sick
and was then in perfect health. l was
fully SIX feet tall, weighed $50 pounds
and was very strong. For IL yesrs !
was travelling salesman for a piano
and organ company and had to do, or
1T least did do a great deal of heavy
Hitting, got my meals very irregularly
and slept in enough'spare beds in coun-
try houses to freeze any ordinary man
to death, or at least give him the
About eight years ago
began 10 feel distress in my stomach
and consulted several doctors about it.
They all said it was dyspepsia, and for
dyspepsia was treated by various doc
tors in different places, and took all
the patent medicines 1 could hear of
that claimed to be a cure for dyspepsia.
HHx 70 Ypod ~
worse for four years. Then l began to
have pain in my back and legs and be-
came conscious that my legs were get
ting weak and my step unsteady. and
then I staggered when l walked.
Having received no benefit from
the use of patent medicines, and
feeling that was constantly growing
worse, then, upon advice, began the
use of electric belts, pads and all the
E2ay different kinds of electric appG-
ances could hear of, and crccct
S-Ss &C dolls for tnenl, but they did
the no good. Here Mr.. QUAINT showed
the Journal reporter an electric suit of
for which he paid $l24.) In
the fall Of 1855 the doctors advised a
change Of climate, so went to Atlanta,
Ga, and acted as agent for the Estey
OrRd0 company w nile Iucrc L EOOh
electric treatment, but it only
seemed to aggravate my disease, and the
only relief could get from the sharp
and distressing pains was to take NOR
phine The pain was so intense at
times that it seemed as though could |
not stand it, and 1 almost longed for
death as the only certain relief. IN |
of 1ssS my legs gave out en-
tirely and my left eve wcs drawn to |
one side, SO that had double signs ana |
was dizzy. My trouble SO effected my
whole nervous system that l had 60 |
give up business. Then 1 returned to |
New York and went to the Roosevelt |
hospital, where for four months 1 was !
treated by specialists and they pro-
my case locomotor ataxia |
and incurable. After I had been |
under treatment by Prof. Starr and Dr.. |
Ware for four months, they told me |
they had done all they could for me.
Then went to the New York hospital |
on Fifteenth street, where, upon ex.
they said l was incurahls
md would not take me in. a. the
hospital they examined |
me and told me the same thing. In
March, 1890, / was taken to st. Peters |