Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-07-29
LONG-DISTANCE HEALING
a MAN WHO STOPS BLEEDING
WITHOUT SEEING PATIENTS.
He Only Needs to Know His Name--A
Strange Gift.

wonderful power possessed by man
of Grand Rapids, Mich, to stop a
bleeding of any kind on his being
merely told the name of the party and
the location of the wound or hemor-
rhage, has drawn attention to a SINH
lar case in Cambridge, Mass.
William Wiseman, a resident of this
place, an estimable, industrious young
man, of excellent family, possesses
similar power. lie has carefully
avoided all notoriety, and probably,
outside his immediate friends, there
are not more than a couple of score
who are aware of the gift he possesses.
The word gift may be criticised,
but the mode he pursues hardly per-
mits it to come within the range of
what may be legitimately called faith
cures"
Mr.. Wiseman makes no boasting OF
his peculiar power. Indeed, he is
loath to use it at all save in the cases of
personal friends, in which event, Of
course, nothing either in the way of
fee or present is ever under any cir
cumstances accepted by him. He is
.oung, probably not more than 80 or
"a years of age, and frequently laughs
when people suggest TO him the possi-
bility of his being able to enrich him
self otherwise than by the sweat of
his brow.
81 have no idea," he said '.as to why
/ should be able to stop bleeding. 1t
is simply one of those facts which L
accept as a fact and don't bother my
self about questioning. l have never
made a cent from it, never hope to,
and never will. am not the only one
who can do it."
"Have you always had that peculia,
power?'
"Well," he answered, as he laughed,
81 can hardly say had, and yet you
will laugh if L tell you when first ac-
quired it. was only youngster at
the time, mere bit of boy, probably
not more than eight years of age.
was living then with my parents in
small Canadian town. In the place
was an old lady whom circumstances
had reduced to practical poverty.
Somehow or other she seemed to
have an attraction for me and L fire.
quently brought little things from our
home to her. The woman was very de-
serving, though too proud 10 beg, and
my mother encouraged me to bring
her little luXuries. In this way we got
to be great friends, and many tale
she used to tell me in return.
Finally her strength grew weak and
one day she told me she was going
away forever, but before she died she
would give to me all she had, and that
was this power to stop the flow of
blood. She told me the story of its
origin at the famous battle of Lepanto,
where the Christians checked the Turks
when the latter became demoralized,
finding they could toward the close of
the day draw no Christian blood. Her
tale could not be vouched for, but she
believed it firmly, and said from the
descendants of the participants of that
battle and their friends it had come
down to the present day. 4 strange,
and l confess, to me inexplicable part
of the story, was that the power could
be transmitted by woman, but not
between those of the same sex. Well,
she told me, and'that Is ali there is
about it that know"
SIS there positively no charm about
it?"
positively none that L am aware
Of"
GLOW often have you had occasion
to exercise your power%
Probably twenty-five or thirty
times, and on one of those occasions [
did it without the knowledge of the
subject, which knocks the bottom out
of the faith part of it. 1t was on
Bromfield street, in Boston. A little
lad was bleeding very freely from the
nose. He was a newsboy, and per-
haps a half dozen were about him.
My brother was with me. He in
quired the name of the lad, and
coming to me, said: viii,
is bleeding at the nose. win you stop
itP l replied that l would, and / did.
Now, that youngster couldn't have
any faith in it because he didn't know
it was being done. Remember, 1 claim
nothing supernatural about it, for that
would be utterly absurd. / may have
been able tc do it before 1 saw the old
lady who professed to give me the
power, and was simply in ignorance of
it. You may be able to do it, and so
may any one or every one else. There
is no laying on of hands and no hum
bugging of any sort But now l have
told you all | can. Pm not in the bus
iness, merely having done it a few
times for friends or those in need sim
ply as an act of duty"
An Electrical Fire-Engine.