Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-30

TORONTO DAILY GLOBE, July 25.-This
is an age of doubt; especially in regard to
cures by patent incidence and not without
reason, for too often have the sick and their
near and dear loved ones boen 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 frequently to many
OF the specific connections for curing the ills
that flesh Is heir to; and when real cure is
effected by n genuine remedy those who
might be benfitted fight shy Of it, saying,
'it was cure, cure 80 often before that l
won't try it, When such a state of affairs
exists it Is advisable that assurance should
be made doubly sure.
A few weeks ago a marvellous and almost
miraculous cure wa made known to Canad-
iens through the medium OF the Hamilton
newspapers. 1t was stated that Mr.. John
Marshall, a well known resident OF Hami-
ton, by the aid of DR.. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People, had been snatched from the
very jaws Of death, placed upon his feet aud
enabled TO mingle with his fellow citizens
with more than renewed health and strength
and even brighter spirits than he had ex-
perienced for years before This remarka-
BILE statement naturally excited the wonder
OF almost a continent. Some believed most
people doubted, although tho facts were
placed so clearly as to ward Off the slightest
suspicion Of fraud. To investigate the very
extraordinary cure and place before the
people of Canada and the United Statos
verificetion or otherwise of il WAS the spo-
cial mission Of q Globe reporter few days
ago.
A close inquiry into the circumstances first
showed that Mr.. John Marshall, whose resi-
dence is % Little William street, in the north
east portion of the city, while employed as
foreman for the Canadian Oil company, five
years ago, fell upon the edge of an oil vat
and hurt his back. Thinking little or the
affair. Mr.. Marshall continued to work on,
but after few months no became i'll, grad
ually got worse, and in August, four years
ago, became stricken with the dread disease,
locomotor ataxy-a disease attacking the
nerves and rendering that portion Of the
system attacked perfectly helpless, pro-
claimed by tho physicians to be iscurable-
which left him from tho waist downwnrds
without feeling and utterly unable to move
his lower limbs. All he was able tc do was
to raise himself by the aid of sticks aud
crutches and drag himself around the house
and occasionally to the corner Of the street
OH fine days. His legs were without feeling
pins and even knives were stuck into them
without tue sick man experiencing any in
convenience. He could take a walking stick
and beat his legs until the blows resounded
through the house aud yet he felt nothing.
During all these years Of torture Mr.. Mar
| shall consulted every doctor Of ability in the
city; tried every form of treatment and took
almost every kind of patent medicine, but
without receiving one tttle Of relief. The
agony was frequently SO intense that his was
obliged to take morphine pills in order to
receive reasonable 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 suf
fering man that he could not get better, the
disease WAS set down in the works of special
lists as incurable. The doomed man was a
member Of ths United Empire Council, No.
100, Royal Templsrs OF Tenpsrancs. and
under the discoursging circumstances be
thought it advisable to apply for the pay
msnt of the total disability claim of 81, 900
allowed by the order on its insurance policy.
| Application was accordingly made but be-
fore the claim was granted the patient had
to offer conclusive proof Of his total disabil-