Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-05
MRS. MATTESON'S TALE.
She Explains Why Those Two Late
Pittsburg Tests Failed.
A DAUGHTERS BASE TREACHERY
The Story of Her Strange Life and Her
Methods of Treatment.
AGRANDMOTHER AND LEARNING TO READ

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH]
BUFFALO, Sept. 4-"Come right in, no.
body stops to ring here"
This came from mild-eyed blonde who
threw open the screen door at the residence
of Mrs. Matteson, the clairvoyant, at No.
24S North Division street. For some min
utes THE DISPATCH representative had
been standing on the porch vainly looking
for door-bell when he was discovered and
invited to come in.
The little blonde woman showed the way
into the large reception room where IL
women besides herself were waiting to see
the doctress. Very few, if any Of them,
were there in their own interests, but had
come to consult Mrs. Matteson about some
friend who needed her assistance.
The novel feature of Mrs. Matteson' g
treatment is that she never sees the patient
that she is prescribing for. If your wife or
father or child was i'll you would apply to
her for an Examination" telling her the
name, age and address of the person af-
ficted. You take chair in front of her by
| the window in her little room, and she goes
into trance and tells you how the person is
| afflicted, the cause of the affection, and
makes her prescription. For this you pay
her 81 90. Then for another 81 30 you get
her course of treatment and can have as
many examinations" as you like.
THE P1TrsBURe TESTS.
The case of the test given Mrs. Matteson
at the recent spiritualist meeting at Lily
Dale was brought up. Mrs Matteson had
said that she could diagnose a case any dis
| tance away if the street, number, name and
| of M Oiu
from The PITrsBURG DISPATCH who was
reporting the meeting took her up at this,
and agreed to give her test. He arranged
with physician to diagnose q case in the
Homeopathic Hospital on Second avenue
in Pittsburg on Sunday morning at 70 clock,
and at the same time gave Mrs. Matteson
the street and number of the hospital
She made her diagnosis and this was COM
pared by telegraph with that made by the
physician. They did not agree and Mrs.
Matteson was criticised by the paper. The
claim of the Pittsburg physician was that
her description of the location Of the room
was the only correct part of her trance
work. She diagnosed the case of woman
Moreover, the physician claimed that there
were no women patients in the hospital and
none In the vicinity, so far as was known,
afflicted in the manner described by Mrs.
Matteson.
In speaking of this, she said: "Of course
all have to depend upon is the word of tie
| physician, and never expect fair treatment
at the hands of any of them. What I re-
| quired was that they give me the name and
| age of the patient, but this they would not
do. sThey only gave me the name Of the
| street and number. 1t is true that dag
| nosed the case of a woman and they say the
patient was a man. am confident that 1
was not justly treated by the physician, but
inasmuch as it is not in my power to prove
anything do not care to say anything more
about it. However if the truth could be
known you would find that diagnosed cor
rectly the case of some woman who was near
that place.
ONLY A NATURAL GIFT.
'fMrs. Matteson. have you any diploma or
license as physician"
"No, it is impossible to give diploma-or
license for q natural gift.
t'Then you consider y our faculty for treat
ing people as an endowment Of nature?"
ST certainly do"
this power?" !
81 have been practicing now over 10 years.
The first time that ever knew Of my power
in healing way was when my oldest son
one day and the doctors seemed unable to do
anything for him. He grew worse and we
thought he must die. On the night of the
18th of March, remember 1t well-I had
dream, and although the ground was frozen
and partly covered with snow at the time, I
saw distinctly In my dream certain flowers
and plants in the woods, and felt strange
but unmistakable assurance that the roots
of these would save my boy.
''The next morning prevailed upon my
husband to 60 with me to the woods where
I found the roots of the flowers and plants 1
had dreamed Of I stepped them and gave
them to my boy and it saved his life"
her BIG MEDICINE ROOM.
Then Mrs. Matteson led the way through
several rooms of her we'll furnished house
until she came to place that looked like
long, rangy woodshed such as are found in
old-fashioned country mansions. Near the
door that opened into the spacious apart.
ment rope was hanging ON the wall and
seizing this rope with both hands she gave
it pull and in an instant stairway seemed
to drop down from the ceiling and opened
the way to great. roomy attic overhead.
"Here is my store room" said she when
the top of theistairs had been reached, and
indeed 1t looked more like huge granery
than anything else, From one end to the
other of the room were long rows of barrels
and great piles of bags. These were all
filed with roots, herbs, leaves, barks, fow-
ers and other parts of dried vegetable mat
ter. "Here, said she pointing with pride
to her store, sis cure believe for almost
every i'll known to human flesh. do not
claim to cure with any hocus pocus
Through clairvoyance try to find out the
disorder and Its cause and with these herbs
and roots effect the cure. l use no poison
Gus drugs"
GLOW do you manage to get.such,great
quantities of medicine?"
st get nearly all of this from the Indians
and pay them thousands Of dollars every
fall and spring"
AN ILLITERATE WOMAN.
In about the center of the .attic-was
small room partitioned of, and into this
Mrs. Matteson invited the reporter, saying,
"Step into my,study and I will tell you
something about myself that few people
know" The room was furnished with q |
desk, easy chairs, stove, clock, a few
pictures and blackboard.
SIN the first place I must tell you, ,"she \
began, 'that am very illiterate woman. |
So far as book education goes am very ig- |
norant, have been grandmother now for |
O number of years. but it is only within the |
past few months that have begun to learn |
to write"
AS she made this frank statement her |
voice trembled and tears of modification |
came into her eyes Then she took from the |
desk Spencerian copy book and showed
her work, which looked like the first efforts
of child.
II come up here nights" she said, "after
I'have done hard days work and study