The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-05

Permanently Disabled Fully Receivers
Fac-Simile of the Check for 81 900
Paid by Royal TempIars of
Temperance for Total Dis
ability Hundreds
of Visitors.
TORONTO DAILY GLOBE, July 25.-This
is an age of doubt; especially IN regard TO
cures by patent medicines, and not with
out reason, for too often have the sick and
their near and dear loved ones been de-
ceived by highly recommended nostrums
that were swallowed 10 be of less avail
than as much water. The old, old fable
of the boy and tine wolf applies also too
frequently TO many OF the specific colcoc-
tions for curing the ills that flesh is heir
to; and when real cure is effected by a
genuine remedy those who might be BEN
Gifted fight shy OF 1t, saying, 1T was cure,
cure, 80 often before that | won't try it. ."
When such q state OF affairs exists 1t lie
advisable that assurance SHOULD be made
doubly sure.
A few weeks ago q marvellous and al
most miraculous cure was made known to
Canadians through the medium of tue
Hamilton newspapers. II was stated that
Mr.. John Marshall. O well-known resident
of Hamilton, by the AID OF DIR. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People. had been
snatched from the very jaws of death,
placed upon his feet and enabled to min
gle with his fellow citizens with more than
renewed health aud strength and even
brighter spirits than he had experienced
for wears before. This remarkable state
uent naturally excited the wonder of al
most a continent Some believed, most
people doubted, although the facts were
placed so clearly IS TO ward of the slight
est suspicion of fraud. To investigate the
very extraordinary cure and place before
the people of Canada and the United
States veriieation or otherwise OF it was
the special mission of Globe reporter q
few days ago.
close inquiry into the circumstances
first showed that Mr.. John Marshall,
whose residence is % Little William street.
in the northern portion of the city, while
employed as foreman for the Canadian
oil company, five years ego, fell upon the
edge of an oil vat and hurt his back.
Thinking little of the affair, Mr.. Marshall
continued 10 work on, but after few
months he became i'll. gradually cot worse.
| and in August, four years ago, became
stricken with the dread disease, locomotOr
atsxv-a disease attacking the nerves and
rendering that portion of the system at
tackled perfectly helpless, proclaimed by
the physicians to be ncurabie-which left
him from the waist downwards without
feeling and utterly unable to move his
lower limbs. All hs was able to do was
| to raise himself by the aid of sticks and
crutches and drag himself around the
house and occasionally to the corner OF
| the street on fine days. His legs were
| without feeling, pins and even knives
were stuck into them without the sick
man experiencing any Inconvenience.
| He could take walking stick and beat his
| legs until the blows resounded through
| the house and vet he felt nothing Dur
| inc q these years of torture Mr.. Marshall
consulted every doctor of ability in the
city, tried every form of treatment and
| took almost every kind of patent medi-
cine, but without receiving one title of
relief The agony was frequently go in
| tense that ne was obliged TO take NOR
phine pills in order to receive reasona-
| BILE 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 sui
| fering man that ne could not get better.
the disease was set down in the works of
| specialists as inouraole. The doomed
man was a member of the United Empire
| Council, No. 1870, Royal Templars OF Tenn
perance, and under the discouraging cir
cumstances Ie thought il advisable to ap-
| ply for the payment of the total disability
| claim of 81 900 allowed by the order on its
| insurance DO icy. Application was accord