The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-05-16
THE HAMILTON MIRACLE
The Case Investigated by Globe Re-
porter--The Facts Fully Verified
One of the Most Remarkable
Cases on Record.

One of the Most Remarkable
Cases on Record.
A Mon Pronounced by Eminent Phy8j
clans Permanently Disabled Fully
RI coUers-Fac 8imHe Of the Check
for ST, 900 Paid by RoyaI Templars
Of Temperance for Total Disability
-HundredS Of Visitors.
ToRONTo DAILY GLOBE. July IS
This is an age Of doubt; especially in
regard to cures by patent medicines,
aud not without reason, for too often
have the sick and their near and dear
loved ones been deceived by highly
recommended nOstrums that were
swallowed to be of less avail than as
much water. The old, old fable of the
boy and the wolf applies also too fire.
quently to many of the specific cOn-
COCtions for curing the ills that flesh is
heir to; and when & real cure is effected
by q genuine remedy those who might
be benefited fight shy of it, saying. 1T
was cure, cure so often before that /
won't try it," When such a state Of
| affairs exists it is advisable that e8sur-
ance should be made doubly sure.
y few weeks ago a marvellous and
almost miraculous cure was made
known to Canadians through the NE
dunn of the Hamilton newspapers. II
waS stated that Mr.. John Marshall, a
we'll 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 mingle with his
fellow citizens with more than renewed
1 hnnlfI n-2 1f-O-rNI n-l O,-O- I-,-lL--
spirits than he had experienced for
years before. This remarkable state
ment naturally excited the wonder Of
almost a continent. Some believed,
most people doubted. although the
facts were placed 80 clearly a8 to ward
off the slightest suspicion Of fraud. To
investigate the very extraordinary cure
and place before the people Of Canada
and the United States notification or
! otherwise of it was the special miSsi0n
| Of q Globe reporter a few days ago.
\ close inquiry into the circumstan-
ces first showed that Mr. John Mar
shall, whose residence is % Little Viii
liam street, in the northeast portion Of
the city, while employed as foreman Of
the Canadian Oil Company, five wears
ago, fell upon the edge Of an oil vat
and hurt his back, Thinking little of
the affair, MIR. Marshall continued to
work or, but after a few months he
/ became Ill, gradually got worse. and in
August, four years ago, became strick-
! en- with the dread disease, IOCOmOtOr
ataXy-R disease attacking the nerves
and rendering that portion of the sys-
TEN attacked perfectly helpless, pro
! claimed by the physicians TO be incur
| able-which left him from the waist
dOwnwards without feeling and utterly
unable to use lower limbs. All he was
| abie TO do was to raise himself by the
aid of sticks and crutChes and drag
himself around the house and occasion
| ally 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 ma expert
| encing any inconvenience. He could
take q walking stick and beat his legs
until the blows resOunded through the
| house and yet he felt nothing During
| ell these of torture Mr.. Marshall
| consulted YER doctor of ability in the
! city tried every form of treatmentand
took almost every kind of patent medi
cine, but without receiving one little of
relief. The agony was frequently so
intense that be was obliged to take
morphine pills in order to receive @
reasonable amount Of sleep,
AS the months and years passed by,
although the doctors continued To treat
him in various ways, they plainly told
the suffering mar that he could notg get
better, the disease was set down in the
works of specialists as incurable. The
doomed man was a member Of the
| United Empire Council, No. 100, Royal
Templars of Temperance, and under
the d~iscouraging circumstances he
thought it advisable to apply for the
payment of the total disability claim
of 81, 900 allowed by the order on its
insurance policy. Application was &C
cordingly made, but before the claim
was granted the patient had to offer
conclusive proof of his total disability
to the chief examiner, and Mr.. Marshall
was sent to Toronto for a special cleo
trical treatment 1t proved no nor
| successful than the others that had pre-.
coded it, and a number Of city doctors
and the chief medical examiner of the
order signed the medical certificate Of
total disability and Mr.. Marshall re-
ceived from the Dominion Councillor
of the Royal Templars check for $1,000
last November. One day last F'ebru-
airy came Mr.. Marsh lis salvation al