The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-05-20

Mr. Marshall received from the Dominion
Councillor of the Royal Templars check
for $1,000 last November. One day last
February came Mr.. MarshalFs salvation
although he did not accept it at first. A
small pamphlet telling of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills and the diseases they cured,
was thrown into the house, but it was
placed aside and no notice was taken of
| it 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 dissuade him,
saying they would be as Intellectual as
rable day to him-Mr Marshall began
to take the pills, one after each meal for
a start. In few days change was
noticed and as he continued to take the
pills he gradually improved and in a little
over a month he was able to take the
train for Toronto and visit an astonished
brother-in-law. Now he can walk four
or five miles with any of his friends.
Ihe Globe representative paid a visit to
the house of the man thus rescued from
a living death. When the reporters
mission was explained, Mr.. Marshalls
face lighted up with a smile, which
caused responsive one to rise upon the
features of his wife, and he expressed
his perfect willingness to tell all that
was asked of him.
"Why,I feel better man now than did
ten years ago." said he, cheerfully. cts
four years next August since | did a
days work but guess can soon make
a start again. About my illness 1t
was all caused through falling and hurt
ing my back. [ kept getting worse until
couldn't get off chair without a stick
or crutches. The lower part of my body
and legs were useless, [ tried every doc
tor and every patent medicine, spending
hundreds of dollars. Everything that
was likely to help me I got, but might
as well have thrown it in the bay. I
suppose my wife has shown you the APP
paratus | used at one time or another.
A dozen city doctors gave me up. got
enough electric shocks for half dozen
men, but they did me no good. | lost
control of my bowels and water and
couldn't sleep without morphine. Dur
ing the day my legs were cold and I had
to 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
81 1000 check, being declared totally I'M
able to follow my employment. One
day in April took notion to try DR..
Williams Pink Pills, carefully following
the directions accompanying each box.
| recovered my appetite and regained
control of my bowels and water, and I
went on getting better and stronger and
now you see me stronger and more
healthy than [ was for years before I
was taken ill. I tell you am feeling
first-class," and Mr.. Marshall slapped
his legs vigorously and gave the lower
part of his back good humping, after
wards going up and down the room at a
lively gait.
II weigh 100 pounds today he con-
tinued, land I've gained 80 pounds since
first took DR.. Williams Pink Pills, I
haven't such a thing as pain or ache
about me, and another thing, can walk
as easily in the dark as in the light"
Mr.. Marshall offered to make an affida-
Wit to the truth of the above story, but
the reporter considered that wholly I'M
necessary. He carried conviction to the
inquirer's 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 century.
All the neighbors bore testimony to the
commences of the cure. None of them
ever expected to see Mr.. Marshall on his
feet again and regarded his restoration
to health as nothing short of marvellous.
The headquarters of the Royal Temp
lars 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 advocates of the Dominion,
was found. In responce to the reporters
question, he said: ooh, yes, am we'll
acquainted with Mr.. John Marshall. He
has been a member of one of the councils
of this city for about seven years. He is
well-known citizen and reliable tenn
perance man. About four years ago he
was first taken seriously i'll and his case
was brought before the order. The pro-
visions under which the total disability
claim is paid in our organization are very
strict The weekly sick benefit is pay
able 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-
| clared by medical men to be entirely past
all hope of recovery. In Mr.. MarshalIs
case there was some difficulty, it is true;
he was examined upon number of oc-
| casions, covering period of upward of
two years. The medical men who ex-
amined him all agreed that there was