Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-04-23
4 SARATOGA co. MIRACLE.
HELPLESS FOR. YEARS AND EN-
CLuDED FROM HOSPITALS
As INCURABfE.

IHE REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE OF cHAs
QUAINT AS INVESTIGATED BY AN AL
BASY u. Y. Journal REPORT
ERA STORY or Sur
PASSING INTEREST
Albany, n Y Journal. March loth
SARATOGA. March lIth-For some time
past there have been reports here and else
where in Saratoga County Of a most remark
able-indeei. 50 rernarka le as 10 lie miracu-
lous-cure OF a most severe ccse If ioeomotor
ataxia, or creeping paralysis simply by the
use OF popular remedy known as Pink
Pills for Pale People, prepared and put up
BY the DR.. Williams Medicine Company,
Morristown, y. Y, ani Brockville, Ont.
The story was TO the effect that Mr. Chas.
"A. QUAINT, of Galway who for the last six
or eight years has been a great sufferer from
creeping paralysis ani It's attendant ills, and
who had become utterly powerless Of all
self-help had, 10y the use OF few boxes Of
the Pink Pills for Pale Feople been fully
restored to health as 10 he able to walk
about the street without the all sof crutches.
lhe fame of this wonderful, miraculous cure
was so great that the Evening Journal re-
porter thought it worth his while TO go to
Galway to call on Mr.. QUAINT, to learn from
his lips, and from the observation and testi-
mony OF his neighhors. i. his alleged cure
was fact or only an unfounded rumor.
And so he drove To Galway ami spent "A 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 4JO people, delightfully."-
located near the centre OF the town
of Galway. in Saratoga County and
about Il miles from Saratoga Springs
Cpon inquiry the residence OF Mr.
Charles A. QUAINT easily found. for
everybody seemed TO know hfn, speak we'll Of
him, and to be Overlooking with surprise and
satisfaction at his wonderful cure and restor-
alton to the activities OF enterprlsiny Citi-
zenshlp, for Mr.. QUAINT was born IN Galway
ana had spent most of his life there Mr..
QUAINT was found at his pretty home, a
pleasant street nearly opposite the academy.
In response to knock at the door II was
o. ened by man who, in repl y to an inquiry
II Mr.. QUAINT lived there AMI at home,
said: Il am Mr.. QUAINT. Will you come in?''
After little general and preliminary conver
satlon, an'i alter he had been apprised Of the
object for which the J urnal reporter had
called upon him, he, at request, told the
story of himself AMI OF his sickness and
terrible sufferngs, and OF the Intellectual
treatment he had hal. and of his final cure
by the use of DR.. Willans's Pink Pills for
Pale People, and cheerfully gave assent to
its use for publication. He SAID: My name
is Charles A. QUAINT. am 81 years old. |
was born in the village of Galway. and. ex-
cepting while travelling on business and
little while i'll Amsterdam. have spent my
whole life here My wife Is a native OF
Ontario. Up to about eight years ago had
never been sick and was then in perfect
health. l was fully six feet tall, weighed
1SO pounds and was very strong. For twelve
, years | was travelling salesman for piano
and organ company and had to do, or at least
did do, a great deal of heavy lifting got my
meals very irregulary and slept in enoug n
spare beds III country houses to freeze any
ordinary man to death, or at least give HIM the
| rheumatism. About eight years ago | began
| to feel distressed III my stomach and con-
| suited several doctors about it. They all
| said it was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia
was treated by various doctors in different
| places, and took all the patent medicines |
could hear Of that claimed TO be a cure for
| dyspepsia. But continued to grow grad
ually worse for four years. Then l began
to have pain in my back and legs and became
| conscious that my legs were getting weak
and my step unsteady. and then staggered
/ when walked. Having received no benefit
/ from the use Of patent medicines and feeling
I that was constantly growing worse, then,
| upon advice, began the use OF electric belts
| pads and all the many different kinds o'
| electric appliances | could hear Of, an spent
| hundreds of dollars for thefn, but they did
me good. tHere Mr.. Qu.nt showed the
/ Journal reporter an electro suit Of under
i wear for which he paid sl24 In the fall o.
/ 1888 the doctors advise ] a change Of climate.
SO l went TO Atlanta, Ga, and acted agent
for the Estey Organ ompany. While ther.
l took a thorough e'ectrlc treatment, but il
only seemed to atgravate my disease anC
the only relief could get from the SHARP
and distressing pains was to. take NOR
/ phne he pain intense at time
that it seemed as though could not stauc
it, and almost lon-ei TOR death as the onl,
certain relief In September Of ls>s III,
| legs gave out entirely and my left eye wa
me- a
double sight AMI vas dizzy NJ,
trouble SO affected my wAoi- nervous s. steu
that had to give up business. Then | re
turned to New \ ork aud went 10 the Roose
veit hospital, where for four months wa
treated by specialists and they pronounce
nv case locomotor ataxIa and incurable
After had been under treatment by Prof
Starr and DR.. Ware tor four months, the
told me they ha done all they could for me
Then | went 10 the New YORK hospital ol
Fifteenth street, where, upon examination
they said was incura b!e ami wouli not tax
me in. At the Presbyterian hospital the
examined me and tod ME the same thing
In March, lcy. | was taken 10 St Peter
hospital iii Albany. y hare Prof II. H. tia
frankly told my wit ite nay case vas hopeless
that he could d. nothi4I for and tia
she had better take M. tack home and sav
nv money. But | wanted tr tnake tFie
OF Prot. Huns famous skill and | rernalne
cured no benefit. All this time | had bee
growing worse. ! had bA,ofne entirei
paraly zed from my waist down AMI Ia
partly lost control of my hands The pai
was terrible. my legs felt though the
were freezing and ny stomach would no. r
. tain food, and fell away 10 ~ founi
In the Albany hospital they put Il b
burns On my hack one day with red Ec
irons, and after few days they put !.
more burns On AMI treated n. with eiee
II trlcity. but got worse rather than bettel
( lost control OF my bowe.s and water. an
upon advice o. tie doctor WHO sali the-
{ was no hope for me | was broagh, noms
a where it was thought that death would 500
come 70 relieve NE of ms suffering Ia,
/. September while in this helpless and suHei
. ing condition. u friend of mine ii Hamllto-
= Ont. called n attention 20 the s-atsnsr
: of one John Marshall whose cssa had t-e-
similar TO ssy own. AID who hal been cure
: BY the use OF DIR. WilIianss's Pink Pills f
- Pale People
In this case Mr. Marshall, who Il prom.
l. nen. rnarnber OF the Royal Tenplsrs
> Temperance had after four years :. c3.
stan. treatment by th- most e.nin.n. Can:
d dian physicians been pronounced iacurao-
and0was pad the 1900 to,ai disability c4ai'
= allowed By the order in sic.1 cases. Sou
e months after Mr. Aa-saali n<-San course
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