Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-10-25
RRANKRORD'S MIRACLE.
SAMUEL HART, A PARALYTIC, AS
.T0NISHES PEOPLE BY
WALKING.
The Story Of a Man Whom the Ply
sicians Had Given Up-0nce a
Cripple and Paralytic, now as
Spry as a Boy-His Recovery a Re-
markable One.

ut WUilucIIul CAPciiohco Va '""'"
uel J. Hart, Of Frankford, has set the
whole twenty-third ward talking.
Mr.. Hart and his wife conduct a
dry goods store at 1861 Frankford
avenue. He is about seventy years
OF age, is a pioneer in the Frankford
district. He fought for the Union
bravely throughout the war with
Colonel Gray's gallant regiment, the
Twenty-eighth Pennsylvania Volun-
teers, and is leading member OF
Phil J. Kearney Post, No. b, G. A.
r. He also belongs to Shackamaxon
Tribe, No. 1l6, Of the Improved Order
Of Red Men, the Knights Of Pythias,
and numerous other organizations,
Here is the story he told reporter
Of his wonderful cure which has
startled Frankford.
ask years ago while was working
at my trade as carpenter, ! fell
down stairs and fractured my skull,
sprained my spine in two places and
sustained other serious injuries. !
was picked up for dead, carried home
and faid for thirteen months utterly
unconscious Of my surroundings, in
fact was out Of my mind. Then !
had my skull trephincd at the Hahne-
mann hospital" here Mr.. Hart cx-
hibited a small portion Of his own
skull bone which he carries as a
pocket piece, "and | began to inn
prove, but my spine gave me q good
deal OF trouble and eventually re-
suited In locomotor ataxia. First |
found that | could not walk without
two canes, ] became so bent that !
felt like u living interrogation point.
Although was under treatment by n
skilled physician | grew rapidly
worse.
ION February l4th, LAST continued
Mr.. Hart, ~ was suddenly seized
with locomotor ataxia. Both my legs
below the knees were numb and COM
pletely Paralyzed, ana had a painful
sensation about the hips. | fell and
was confined for about five months in
an Invalid CHAIR. Besides inc Paral-
ysls OF my lower limbs suffered ex-
crnclallng pans IN my back ana legs,
could not sleep sollndly, my ner'es
were completely upset and my appe-
tlte went BACK OH me- would ire
4uehtly go several days without eat
ing a mouthf.ll OF food. Once | tried
10 raise myself IN inc crllchcs but |
iell helpless forward and would have
struck the moor had not the doctor
selzeo me- nc l ..,l me never to Try
ana walk again. linen | was selzca
WIN lrlghtl'll COMMISSIONS which
came on ~ intervals
zone day last June ! happened to
READ IN . newspaper OF a remarkable
cure cur, erected ~ Dr. Williams l1nk
rllls Tor fale feople, OF u man up IN
Name suffering from locomotor ataxa' 4
tola my wlle about II, we both
agreed that u would DO no harm to
wy inc pllls ana we got supply.
BEFORE mad llhlshed the ilrst lot !
was ape 70 leave my lnyalld chair
Inc NE plooa again co''rsed through
my once dead legs and put The
chalr up IN inc garret' II mas been
there ever since. have steadily i'm
proved ever since and my legs are
now as sound as dollar MY form
Is more erect and walk with the
same sprlngy motion that had when
was twenty-five years old. Let me
give you an instance OF my activity.
lie picked up u cane, held II with
Doth hanus slight distance apart
ana hopped through itand back again
with the agility of u school boy. That
is something very few young men can
do, he said, with q touch Of pride in
his tone
II suffer more pain in my limb"
he resumed, "but my fractured skull
gives me some trouble, ! have Sc