Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 2, Hope, Bartholomew County, 5 May 1892 — Page 2

THESARATOGA MIRACLE FURTHER INVESTIGATED BY AN EXPRESS REPORTER. The Facts Already Stated Fully Confirmed —Interviews with heading Physicians Who Treated Quant—The Most Marvelous Case in the History of Medical Science. A few weeks ago an article appeared In this paper copied from the Albany (N. Y.) Journal, giving the particulars of one of the most remarkable cures of the nineteenth century. The article was under the heading “A Saratoga County Miracle,” and excited such widespread comment that another Albany paper—the Express—detailed a reporter to make a thorough investigation of the statements appearing In the Journal’s article. The facts as elicited Dy the Express Reporter are given in the following article, which appeared In that paper on April 16, and makes one of the most interesting stories ever related: A few weeks ago there was published in the Albany Evening Journal the story of a most remarkable —indeed, so remarkable rr to well justify the term “miraculous”— euro of a severe case of locomotor ataxia, or creeping paralysis; simply by the use of Pink Pills for Pale People, and, in compliance with instructions, an Express reporter has been devoting seme time in a critical investigation of the real facts of the case. The story of the wonderful cure of Charles A. Quant, of Galway, Saratoga County, New York, as first told In “The Journal,” has been copied into hundreds If not thousands of other daily and weekly newspapers, and has created such a sensation throughout the entire country that it was deemed a duty due all the people, and especially the thousands of similarly afflicted, that the statements of the case as made in the “The Albany Journal” and copied into so many other newspapers, should, if true, be verified; or. if false, exposed as an imposition upon public credulity. The result of the Express reporter’s Investigations authorizes him in saying that the story of Charles A, Quant's cure of locomotor ataxia by the use of Pink Pills for Pale People, a popular remedy prepared and put up hy the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Morristown, N. Y., and .Brockvillo, Ontario, IS TRUE, and that all Its statements are not only Justified but verified by the fuller development of the fdrthUr facts In the case. Perhaps the readers of the Express are not ail of them fully familiar with the details of this miraculous restoration to health of a man who after weeks and •mouths of treatment hy the most skillful doctors in two of the best hospitals in the Mate of New York —the Roosevelt Hospital In New York City and St Peter’s Hospital in Albany—was dismissed from each as incurable and, because the case wa s deemed Incurable, the man was denied admission jr.io several ethers to which application w as made in his behalf. The story as told by Mr. Quant himself and published in tne Albany Journal is as follows: “My name is Charles A Quant I am 37 years old. I was born in the village of Galwuy, and excepting while traveling on business “and a little while in Amsterdam, have spent my whole life here. Up to about cars ago I had never been en in perfect health. I was .11, weighed 180 pounds and For twelve years I was an for a piano and organ 1 to do, or at least did do. ;avy lifting, got my meals v and slept In enough a country houses to freeze .Tdmary man to death, or at least nlm the rheumatism. About eight rs ago I began 1o feel distress in my omach, and consulted several doctors about It. They all said it was dyspepsia, -and for dyspepsia I was treated by various doctors in different pla ces, and took all tbe latent medicines I could hear of that aimed to be a <mre for dyspepsia. it I continued to grow gradually worse r four years. Then I began to have iln in ray back and legs and became inscious that ray legs were getting weak „nd my step unsteady, and then I stagcored when I walked. Having received no benefit from the use of patent medicines, and feeling that I was constantly growing worse, I then, upon advice, began the use of ole>.trie belts, pads, and all the many different kinds of electric appliances I •'ould hear of, and spent hundreds of - for them, but they did me no good. "Giant shewed the Journal reic suit of underwear, for 024) In the fall of 1888 the d a change of climate, so I .a, Ga., and acted as agent Organ Company. While lorough electric treatment, ied to aggravate my disy relief I could get from trossing pains was to take tin was so intense at as though I could not almost longed for oruy certain relief. In Sep8 ray legs gave out entirely *ye was drawn to one side, id double sight and was dizzy. to affected my whole nervous t I hid to give up business. Tried to New York and went to elt Hospital, where for four was treated by specialists and mn« eJ ray case locomotor ataxia able. After I had been under by Prof. Starr and Dr. Ware for vba, they told mo they had done could for me. Then I went to the •k Hospital on Fifteenth street, pon examination, they said I was o and would not take me in. At sbyterian Hospital they examined told me the same thing. In March, taken to Motor’s Hospital in °ro Pr' T Hun frankly that he ’<e had -*.w

Prof. Hun’s famous skill and X remained, under his treatment for nine weeks, but secured no benefit. All this time I had been growing worse. I bad become entirely paralyzed from my waist down, and had partly lost con'.rol of my hands. The pain was terrible; my legs felt as though they were freezing and my stomach would not retain food, and I fell away to 120 pounds. In the Albany Hospital they put seventeen big burns on my back one day with red-hot irons, and after a few days they put fourteen more burns on, and treated me with electricity, but I got worse rather than better, lost control of ray bowels and water, and, upon advice of the doctor, who said there was no hope for me. I was brought homo, where it was thought that death would soon come to relieve me of my sufferings. Last September, while in this suffering and helpless condition, a friend of mine in Hamilton, Ont., called my attention to the statement of one John Marshall, whose case had been similar to my own, and who had been cured by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, In this case Mr. Marshall, who is a prominent member of the Royal Templars of Temperance, had, after four years of constant treatment by the most eminent Canadian physicians, been pronounced incurable, and paid the $1,000 total disability claim allowed by the order in such cases. Some months after Mr. Marshall began a course of treatment with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and after taking some fifteen boxes was fully restored to health. I thought I would try them, and my wife sent for two boxes of the pills, and I took them according to the directions on the wrapper on each box. For the first few days the cold baths were pretty severe as I was so very weak, but I continued to follow Instructions as to taking the pills and the treatment, and even before I had used up the two boxes of the pills I began to feel beneficial results from them. My pains wore not so bad. I felt warmer; my head felt better; my food began to relish and agree with me; I could straighten up; the feeling began to come back into my limbs; I began to be able to get about on crutches; my eye came back again as good as ever, and now, after the use of eight boxes of the pills, at a cost of only $4—see!—I can walk with the help of a cane only, walk all about the house and yard, can saw wood, and on pleasant days I walk down town. My stomach trouble is gone; I have gained ten pounds; I feel like a new man, and when the spring opens I expect to be able to renew my organ and piano agency. I cannot speak in too high terms of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, as I know they saved my life after all the doctors had given me up as incurable.” Such Is the wonderful story which the Express reporter has succeeded in securing verification of In all its details, from the hospital records where Mr. Quant was treated and from the doctors who had the case In hand and who pronounced him incurable. Let it he remembered that all this hospital treatment was two and three years ago, while his cure, by the use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, has been effected since last September, 1801. So it is beyond a doubt evident that his recovery Is wholly due to the use of these famous pills which have been found to have made such remarkable cures in this and other cases. Mr. Quant placed In the hands of the reporter his card of admission to Roosevelt Hospital, which Is here reproduced in further confirmation of his statements:

To verify Mr. Quant’s statement cur reporter a few days ago (March 31, 1892) called on Dr. Allen Starr at his office, No. f 22 West Twenty-eighth street, Now York City. Dr. Starr is house physician of the Roosevelt Hospital, situated corner of Ninth avenue and Fifty-ninth street. In reply to inquiry he said he remembered the case of Mr. Quant very well and treated him some, but that be was chiefly treated and under the more especial care of Dr. Ware. He said he regarded this case as be did all cases of locomotor ataxia as Incurable, in order that our reporter might get a copy of the history of the case of Mr. Quant from the hospital record he very courteously gave him a letter of which the following Is a copy: “Dr. M. A. Starr, 22 West Forty street, office hours, 9 to 12 a. m.. New York, March 31, 1892.—Dear Dr. Vought: If you have any record of a locomotor ataxia by name of Quant, who says he came to the clinic throe or four years ago. No. 14037, of the O. D. Dept, Roosevelt, sent to me from Ware, will you lot the bearer know. If you have no record send him to Roosevelt Hosp. “Yours, Starr.” By means of this letter access to the records was permitted and a transcript of the history of Mr. Quant’s case made from them as follows; “No. 14037. Admitted Sept. 16, 1889, Charles A. Quant, aged 34 years. Born, U. S. Married. Hoboken.” “History of the case: Dyspesia for past four or five years. About fourteen months partial loss of power and numbness lu lower extremities. Girdling sensation about abdomen. (Nov. 29, 1889, not improved, external strabismus of left eye and dilatation of the left eye.) Some difficulty in passing water at times; no headache, but some dizziness; alternate diarrhoea and constipation; partial ptosis past two weeks in left eye. “Ord. R F. Bi pep and S)da.” These are the marked symptoms of a sev ”e case of locomotor ataxia. “And Dr. said a case with such marked symptoms could not be cured and Quant, who was receiving treatment in the outpatient department, was given up as incurable.” “There never was a case recovered in the world,” said Dr. Starr. And then said: “Dr. Ware can toll you more about the case, as Quant was under his more personal treatment. I am surprised.” he said, “that the man is alive, as I thought ho must be dead long ago.” Our reporter found Dr. Edward Ware at his office, No. 162 West Ninety-third street, New York. He said: “I have very distinct recollections of the Quant it was a very pronounced case. 1 treated him about eight months. This was in the early summer of 1890. I deemed him Incurable, and thought him dead, before now. Imagine my surprise when I received a letter from him about two weeks ago telling me that ho was alive, was getting well and expected soon to ho fully recovered.” “What do you think, Doctor, was the cause of his recovery?” “That is more than I know. Quant says be has been taking some sort of pills and that they have cured him. At all events, I am glad the poor fellow is getting well, for his was a bad case and ho was great sufferer. ” , Dr. Theodore R. Tattle, of 319 West Eighteenth street, to whom our reporter is Inde* ted for assisting courtesies, said of Iqc + or ataxia: “I have had several '•ip v tbis disjase in the course of my I will not say i it is incara knew of a

but I will say It is not deemed curable by any remedies known to Ibe medical profession. ” After this successful and confirmatory investigation in New York, cur reporter, Saturday, April 2d, 1802, visited St Peter’s Hospital, in Albany, corner of Albany and Ferry streets. He had a courteous reception by Sister Mary Philomela, the Sister Superior of St. Peter’s Hospital, and when told the object of his visit, said she remembered the case of poor Mr. Quant very distinctly. Said she: “It was a very distressing case and excited my sympathies much. Pocr fellow, lie couldn’t be cured, and had to go homo in a terrible condition of helplessness and suffering.” 'i ho house physician, on consulting the records of St. Peter's Hospital, said he found only that Charles A. Quant entered the hospital March 14th, 1890, was treated by Dr. Henry Hun, assisted by Dr. Van Dorveer, who was then, 1690, at the head of the hospital, and that his case being deemed not possible of cure, ho loft the hospital and was taken to his home, as ho supposed to die. Such is the full history of this most remarkable case of successful recovery from a heretofore supposed Incurable disease, and after all the doctors had given him up, by the simple use of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Truly it is an interesting story of a most miraculous cure of a dreadful disease by the simple use of this popular remidy. A further investigation revealed the fact that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are not a patent medicine in the sense in which that term is usually understood, but are a Ec’entiflo preparation successfully used In general practice tor many years before being off ered to the public generally. They contain In a condensed form all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood, and restore shattered nerves, 0 hey are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St Vitus dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, that tired feeling resulting from nervous prostration; all diseases depending upon vitiated humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness They build up the blood and restore the glow of health to pale or sallow cheeks. In the case of men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature. On further inquiry the writer found that these pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Brockville, Ontario, and Morristown, N. V., and are sold In boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may bo had of all druggists or direct by mall from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company, from cither address. The price at which these pllis are sold makes a course of treatment comparatively inexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment. ‘ ‘ Try, Try Again. ” The old story of Bruce and the spider is well known, but how little has been noted of the untiring perseverance ox others of the lower animals. A curious incident, having a valuable lesson for impatient human beings, was offered by a party of ducklings on the sea-shore. They were very young, but they had a mind for a swim, and made no doubt of being able to accomplish it on a body of water so large and so tempting as the Atlantic Ocean. It was a lovely day, and the tide was coming in with hardly a ripple. Every few minutes a wavelet not more than an Inch or two high swept gently up on the beach, then drew back into the bosom o'f the ocean, after the manner of sea Waves. With all the dignity of the duck family this little party waddled down the beach. They were in no haste, the day was before them, the sun was warm, they wore ted, and they went in the most leisurely way. Just asthey reached the water the gentle wave ran in, lifted the pretty little yellow blrdiiaga off their feet, and swept them ail far up on the sand, then as suddenly turned, loft them there high And dry, and went out to sea again. The ducklings, not at ail disconcerted by this shabby joke of the wavelet’, gathered themselves together, and started again down the beach in good order as before. Again the saucy wavelet came up to meet them, and again they were carefully set down far up on the shore. Discouraged, you think, and walked off in a huff? By no means! They wanted to go into the water and Into the water they would go. Again they started down the bank, juofc as dignified, just as composed, just as earnest about it as if they had found no difficulties in the way. Of course they met the same fate; but they did not give it up. Whether they over really got into the sea does not appear, but as long as the observer had the pc tin nee to wait the same game was in progress—tho little wave carried them ail far up on the beach, and they all waddled back again, with the sole and single purpose of going to take a swim.—i’outh’B Companion. Longevity Is Inherited, An inherited tendency to longevity is the primal qualification for reaching old ago, and this is something very different from good health or even a sound constitution. It is simply a tendency tc live long, and such a person often has more of a tenacity on life, though he is sick and puny from childhood, than another person who is strong and robust. Health and vigor may give more pleasure and enjoyment to a person in life, but it* does not always signify longevity. So strong is this tendency ■ to longevity among certain families that many of the beneficial orders and life insurance companies attach more importance to tho life of parents and grandparents than they do to the simple examination of the applicants. A Pittsburg TollThis happened in Pittsburg. A man who had attempted to cut his wife’s throat reached a bridgu (toll 1 cent) with a constable in chase. The conscientious fugitive threw down his penny and scuttled. The thrifty constable, who had nothing lees than a dime, waited for his change. The pure delight which this performance yields to tho reflective mind is almost marred by the fact that some boys caught the runaway, and the gallant officer actually effect ‘d his capture, —New York Evening Sr

FIRE AND PANIC. Over 100 Persons Hurt in a Theater Fire. Blazing Curtains Frighten an Audience and a Crush Follows—Several Fine Buildings Burned. A fire occurred In,Philadelphia Wednesday night that consumed nearly an entire square of buildings, at a loss of $1,000,000. Among the buildings destroyed were the Times Annex, tho Central Theater and Paulson’s hotel. At 8 o’clock Gilmore's Central Theater, the most popular variety theater in tho city, was crowded, the attraction being tho “Devil’s Auction.” While the orchestra was playing the overture a stage hand was startled by the discovery of lire in the flies. A sky border had swung against one of tho border lights, and in an instant a sheet of flames swept over the stage. The inflammable scenery caught like tinder, and almost before tlie alarm could be given the stage was a mass of fire. Half-dressed chorus girls and actors made a wild rush for life, and sought to reach the street. Those on tho stage easily escaped, but those In the dressing rooms under and above tho stage had a hard struggle for life. As they lied from their dressing rooms they were met at every turn by flames aud many had narrow escapes. A number of the women fainted and were carried into tho street almost at tho cost of their life aud those of their rescuers. All of them lost everything except the costumes which they had on at the moment the fire started. In the front of the house the first warning received was from the crier on the stage, which was followed by a burst of smoke and tongues of flame which swept through the proscenium arch. “Fire!” resounded on every side, and there was a rush for the doors. Men, women and boys were borne down and crashed to the floor in tho fight to reach safety. In the top gallery the rush was tho worst, as the staircase leading to the street is narrow and tortuous. At the Walnut street front aro improved fire escapes and hundreds readied tho street by them. Hundreds more were, however, trampled under foot, crushed and bruised into insensibility and left lying in tho burning theater. The force of officers on the spot worked like beavers, and an alarm had been quickly followed by a second. The police and firemen began work at once, and brought out those who had been injured and left to perish. Many wore found to be but slightly injured, and took care of themselves as best they could, for there were too many that needed medical aid at once to be provided for. Ambulances from the Jefferson. Pennsylvania, Hahnemann and University hospitals wore promptly on tho ground, and aided by the police wagons, carried about 130 Injured to the hospitals. The Pennsylvania Hospital alone received forty, aud at midnight had thirty-eight iu the wards. The flames spread like wild fire, and in an incredibly short time the rear of the theater was a mass of seething flames, which shot high into the air. The flames soon spread to other buildings, and was gotten under control only after having destroyed property as first noted. Later particulars show that six members of the theatrical troupe lost their lives. Several of the injured will die. The Senate Monday by a vote of 43 to 14, adopted the, substitute for tho House Chinese exclusion act, which provides for a continuance of the present law for a term of ton years, and stricter penalties for its non-observance. THE MARKETS. Indianapolis, Mays, 18,)3 All quotation! for Indianapolis when not specified. GRAIN. Wheat—No. 3 red,8Xc; No. 3 red, 81c; wagon wheat, 86c. Corn—N o. 1 vv hi le,41>£c; No. 2 wb I to, 41c; white mixed, 39c; No. 3 white, 39@41c, No. 2 yellow, 39c; No. 3 yellow, No. 3 mixed, 38c; No. 3 mixed, 38>£c: ear, 38c. Oats—No. 2 white,32c; No. 3 while, 30c; No. 3 mixed, 2i»Xc; rejected, 37c. Huy — Timothy, choice, $13; No. l,$11.25; No. 3, $9.30; No. 1 prairie, $7.00; No. 3, $6.50; mixed hay, $7.50; clover, $8.50. 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WARD IS FaEETho Wrecker of General Grar Fortune Serves His Time. Speculation as to What He Is Worth a What He Will l)o-He Was a Good Prisoner. Ferdinand Ward, who wrecked Gener Grant’s fortune, was liberated from SI Sing prison Friday morning. He was set enced Oct. 31,1885, to ten years’ impriso ment, but good time reduced it to six a' one-half years. When ho was first received in the pris he was sot to work cleaning pels, andsr soquently he was placed in the yriuti office, of which department he has b( at the head for some time. Sines liia, ci finement he has never breathed a word or against his fate, nor has liis sphinx-1 behavior changed for an instant, exc when he learned of his wi'“’ 4 death, which occurred a yeai has any future plans he lias them to tho keepers or other* he has been brought into con whether he has anything left tp start life anew there are s ions. Some believe that before ho had salted away anywhere to 8500,000. Others think ho with the crash that involved so ers. He had several hundred, his pocket when ho entered Sin this was returned to him Frid; without Interest. There is a go census of opinion however, an who formerly knew him, that ti could rise in three years from gership to the head of a ban that could borrow 814,000,000. Ill W enough to do something surprising AGAINST SECRET SOCIE1 Bishop Kratzet, of Milwaukee. I)( Those to Bo Avoided. A special dispatch from M 1 ' quokos an extract from a letter j bishop Kratzer to the priests of; cese, relative to tho position to 1 by them with regard to mend, .s cret organizations. He decla; Masons and Carbonari areexcomm and that tho Odd Fellows and Temperance are, at least by na, nature, expressly forbidden. Heal that anarchists, communists, sc and turners who are allied to tho known under the general title of Bund, come under the class wh Catholic church excommunicates, over all societies which claim fo selves “a priest” or plan of wor their own authority, with their c cial ritual and ceremonies, are in excommunicated. With regard point it is explained that the romi not apply to the reciting of pra public gatherings. Tho Archbishc warns his flock that under pain of ga d sin ail Catholics are forbidden to ,.oiu society which binds its members eillie oath or by mere word of honor to obst its secrets so strictly that it can not be voaled with impunity even to tho bis of a diocese. Likewise, under pain grievous sin, are forbidden societies wh bind their members to blind and ui served obedience. A VERY COSTLY BOOK. “Tamerlane,“ by Kdgar Alien Poe, Solt Auction for $1,850. There was a lively little bidding ]> at Boston on a dingy little pampiot a, auction rooms of C. F. Libbie&Co. 1 tho much talked about copy of “Tt lane,” by Edgar Allen Poo, the known copy in existence, with the e tion of one in the British Museum, sixteen mo. with paper covers, has pages and it was printed, no body kr just how or when, at a time when its thor was a more boy and nameless, bidding began at 8200, and went up by 1 ly jumps, hung a moment at 81,C0J i then went on again. “Think of it, gen men,” said the auctioneer, “there three Mazariu Bibles, but only one e of tills book. The first folio of Shat pearo is a child compared to it.” The bidding wont to 81,800, to 81.850, i then no further would it go. At Sl,85( went to Dodd, Mead & Co., of Now Yc A. E. Benjamin, of New York, was closest competitor, but ho weakened 81,800. A HARD MAN TO KILL. Blackburn. Who Was Hanged Thirty Minutes is Still Alive. Colman Blackburn without a rival for ( neck. On tho 20th ,, for wife murder reported Friday as around hiapootfi an ! friends. Afflr hanglr utes and being prone* of the local i bysiciaj , mains were aimed , interment, who reside 1 a distance o thirty-, j While on rite to, ai 3 ground a scitchingf, t | coffin was lard. 'J i was remove and th i j found to boreathin I was at om smnmol ment he is pronoi J He was inged bjj was jerk up fully footdro j J