Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-27

ever met, and in my judgment the gfeates'
living physician
at was DR.. R. C. Flower who IA years
ego cured in this city the President OF the
Pennsylvania railroad of hopeless paralysis.
From that day to this his miraculous cures
have startled your country at frequent IN
tervals. Such cures as that of Miss Ella
Belts, South NorwSlk, Conn, from help
lessness to perfect use of her limbs Mrs. d.
T. Longly of Washington, d. c., OF ma
ligrant fibroid growth of the womb, and
all of these cures permanent. HIS recent
cures of such men as John HoPkius, Els
worth, Me-, and DR.. M. F. Brooks, Port
land. Me. of John Straw of Stowe, W.;
of Mrs Jerry Booth of Vergennes, W. OF
Mrs. McOmber of B ASTON Spa. n. y;
of A. E. Sprague of Columbus, o.; OF
Mrs. Jhenta Deykean of Sheridan, Ind;
of C. Fl. Posey, els Chestnut street, Ey-
ansville, Ind. the wife of the Hon. Will
liam Mix of Louisville, Ky, is evidence
beyond dispute that DR.. r. G. Flower IN
the treatment and cure of chronic diseases
is master; that most of lis cures are men
and women given up by other ply sicians as
incurable. DR.. Flower is the head, the
examiner and consulting physician of this
great pTaC lie, Willie tttatuChe ohU ~
tails are attended to by his associates.
Your worthy secretary, who has known
DR.. r. c. Flower for many years, has told
me many an interesting bit of his history
while he was in the practice of the law
For, as some of you know, the doctor was
educated for law, prscticed several years,
lost his voice, went into the practice of med
icine, and has never been able to quit it. 1t
was in 1874 GO years ago. that DR.. X. Z.
Flower. not a practicing physician then,
was called to Mobile to defend man under
arrest charged with arson. After desper-
ately fought case he succeeded in arqut-
ting his client. On his return North at a
little station south Of Franklin, Tenn, a
mob of infatuated men surrounded the
sheriff, who was endeavoring to get negro
on the train. A thousand men, many of
them with masks on their faces. cried out !:
Hang Him! Hang Him?
A rope was thrown around his neck, and in
another moment he would have been swing
ing to limb when r. C. Flower, moving his
hand cried out from the rear platform :"Gen-
tlemen, hear me before you hang this man.
You are Southern men, and | am glad as
such to address you. This great crowd is
represented by soldiers who few years ago
wore both the gray and the blue. Your
records were those of courage, of daring
and valor. You were brave men then, and
| believe you are brave men today. You
are Southerners; men of chivalry, men
easily excited, quick to resent an evil, but,
gentlemen,
You Are Not Murderers,
And don't believe you want to murder this
man in cold blood. You don't want to estab-
lsh precedent of mob law, which may some
day be visited upon some of you. Let the
law, l beg you, take its course. You will
feel better as you think it over; better when
you go to your beds tonight, and better in
the silence of your last night on earth A,
this the leader of the mob cried out as he
threw the rope down: i reckon you are
right, young man. We will let the law
take its course and the sheriff hustled the
frightened negro into the car
But enough. Col. Olcott only expresses
what thousands know, and if DR.. r. c.
Flower should ever return to the practice
of law he would at an early day carve his
name on the highest round of grea'
reputation.
The great interest the world now has in
DR.. Flower is as physician, as healer
when all others fail and death approaches.
This justly famous physician has arrang-
ed to visit Maine professionally and will be
at the following places on the dates named
Bangor, Penobscot Exchange, Monday
Nov. 5; Lewiston, Exchange Hotel, Tues
day, Nov. 6; Portland, Falmouth House
Wednesday. Nov. Z.