The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-06-30

sight and 1t is claimed that she can
foretell the coming of her doctor and
other friends with a precision that is
remarkable.
Having been close student during
her school days, she did not, like most
young girls, spend time at embroidery
and other fancy work, but during the
past decade her paralyzed hands, with
out the aid of eyesight, have turned
out marvels of fancy work. She car
ried on a fancy goods store at 100
Gates avenue, Brooklyn, and stocked
t not only with her handiwork, but
also with all sorts of contrivances she
had invented for the use of invalids to
ease their sufferings. She knows and
distinguishes colcrs just as though she
had the most acute eyesight in the
world, and she therefore requires no
assistance in producing color effects.
In her store, which she has now
given up, were exhibited all sorts of
articles for decoration. Without any
knowledge of botany and the formation
of leaves and flowers of different
plants, she has executed wonderful
pieces of wax. One of the claims
made tor her is that, although totally
blind, she would recognize the photo
graphs of her friends and embroider
frames for them.
About six years ago she became in
terested In the work of George F. Sar-
gent, an inventor of surgical appliances
and it ended in his forming a
corporation called the Sargent Manu-
featuring Company, and she was made
vice-president and a director. She
entered into the work heart and soul,
and toiled probably harder than any
other member of the concern. Mr..
Sargent, in speaking about the matter,
said:
"Miss Fancher is no fgurehead in
this thing, as many assume. She is of
incalculable assistance to me and in
my contrivances often suggests i'm
provements in different articles, which
proves that her mind is also of the in
ventive kind"
All the meetings of the company
were held in her darkened room and
occasionally she herself would preside,
with display of parliamentary knowl-
edge that caused surprise to her hear
ers.
Why she does not waste away is the
great question with medical science
Definite information in regard to her
case and her actions is difficult to OBJ
tain. She is morbidly sensitive to the
notoriety her condition has given her.
and fears reporters and strange doc
tors alike. No one in her house is al
lowed to talk to stranger about her,
and all her neighbors are reticent out
of respect to her wishes. She has
cautioned her physicians also, and they
guard everything that transpires in
her room with true professional secrecy.
1t has been learned, however, that Miss
Fancher's condition has not materially
changed. The spasms are less frequent
and she suffers less pain than of old.
Rev. DR.. Duroea of Brooklyn once said
that her mind had been freed from the
bondage of her physical pain and that
was why she did not die. Over fifteen
years ago she remarked, "Inasmuch as
there is nothing of me to die, don't
see how I am going to die"
Mollie Fancher has lived to see her
friends, her doctors, and in fact even
the pharmacists who, in the past, com
pounded prescriptions for her, die off.
Years ago these physicians were cog
itating among themselves what post
norton examination of their patient
would divulge, but they passed away
and she still remains. Miss Fancher i:
supposedly independent as far as thi:
worlds goods go. She now rests over
the fancy goods store she once con
Quoted, faithfully attended by hel
friends, who care for her tenderly.