The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-19
Some of the People Who
We're Cured Last Night
~ THE BOY PHENOMENON
BY Special Request Second
Demonstration Tonight.

The opera house was packed last
night from pit to dome, the people
turning out to see the truly marvel
Gus and phenomenal exhibition of
curing the sf1l cted by the wonderful
hoy phenomenal, DR.. Franklin
Stuart Temple. Parq1ette aud gal.
leries we're crowded and over three
hundred people were turned away
unable to get seas.
The business Of the evening was
opened by Prof w. Fletcher Hall,
The world renowned sight diagnosti-
clan, who delivered an interesting
and instructive lecture on the pow
ars Of vital magnetism and its sclen
tiiic application IN the cure Of dis
eases without medicine.
The Boy Phenomenon was then
introduced and he at once requested
the worst and most hopelessly af.
iicted and crippled in the vast audi
ence to come upon the stage to he
treated free. There was hurried
SCTSIIlD le VI lHb lame anu hait vi
crutches, to reach the stage. 1t was
remarkable scsne aud called to
mind the wonderful healing pool IN
the early dawn of tbs Christian re-
ligion.
W. j OIIpHANT.
At the request of prominent cltlz ,ns
Mr. w ~. J. Oliphant, secretary of
The board of public works, and who
aas friends all over Texas, was
given the first treatment. He has
oeen terrible sufferer with rheuma-
tism for several years, and for the
past two years has hardly been able
10 drag himself along on two
crutches, He has been pronounced
by the ablest physicians in Texas q
hopeless and helpless cripple, be
yond the reach Of medical agents.
De. Temple, the Boy Phenom-
enon, took hold of Mr.. Oliphaut,
who even didn't have mustard
aeed of faith, and after three min
ntes' treatment he walked across the
stage and down into the audience
without assistance of any kind. Mr..
Oiphant was seen this morning by
an EVENING News reporter, and to
A onestiou said he was feeling bet.
Ter than for over year. and for
the first time in many long weary
months ha was able to reach his of
ice in comparative ease and with
he use Of only one crutch.
MAJOR j ) CRAWFORD
Major J. S Crawford Of the
Statesman, who has rheumatism
and for a long time has been unable
10 use his right arm, was the next
treated, and 10 two minutes he
could raise and swing his ar II above
his head The Ma )r was decidedly
a doubling Thomas last night before
treatment but TO-DAY he avows his
belief that the Boy Phenomenon can
cure any case he says he can.
BEN $. PILLOW
Mr.. Ben Pillow, the well. known
telegraph operator who ha7 been On
erutches for months from severe
sprain of the right leg, was treated
faw moments, and walked off the
stage holding his crutahes over HIS
head.
DIR. a. ). pUNN
DIR. Dunn, helpless cripple from
rhe umatism, after I'll bling down
bv DR.. Temple, walked across the
sta ge and down the steps to the
parquet without crutches or cane.
JACK o'BRIEN.
Everybody nearly knows Jack,
the old hack driver. H. has been
long a sUif erer with rheumatism,
bu, after one minutes treatment the
disease II ID and Jack, 30 to speak
took up his bad and walked.
,. NJ MORTON,
an inmate of the Confederate home,
who has been paralyzed for eigh,
teen years, was ia few seconds
sent off the stage considerably bene.