The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-08-21
HAILED AS A "MESSlAH."
FRANCES SCHLADER PERFORMING
MIRACLES IN NEW MEXICO.


walk the Sick Arise and scoffers Are
Converted -Rich and Poor Alike
Flock to Receive the Healing
Touch of His Hands.
The most intease excitement contln ues
in New Mexico over the presence there
of 'the new Messiah" man bearing
striking resemblance to the pictures OF
Christ. who tastes no food; whose touch
brings sight to the blind, hearing to the
deaf. motion to the halt, peace to the
suffering.
Like Christ, he was first doubted by the
people, though he came among them
protesting to be no more than he appear
ed. Like Christ, he won his followers
by his kindly deeds, his cures OF the
afflicted. his unselfish devotion to man
kind. Like Christ, he was prosecuted
bv the higher class of the Mexican popu-
lation, threatening him as an impoSter,
sharper, a schemer, a lunatic, and his
prosecutors he transformed into his
staunchest friends.
FOLLOWED BY HUNDREDS
For more than three years he has been
followed by hundreds wherever he has
gone Today a constant stream OF peo-
pie passes before HIM praying that he
touch their hands. Blind, deaf and halt
are led or carried to him; women with
tinv babies bring them to him to he heal
ed of ailments real or imaginary; old,
middle aged, young, ignorant and edu-
Gated Mexicans, Americans of the highest
standing in the commonly visit him at
the lowly homes he most frequents or IN
the homes of the rich and prominent, in
which he is a welcome guest Great
lines of carriages and wagons and saddle
horses stand before every house he en-
tiers: the owners, drivers or riders have
come for him to take HIM to the home
of some one who is suffering. Each and
all, high or lowly, he treats the same, and
from no one will he take a cent for the
services he has performed, though money
is repeatedly pressed upon him. For all
he has the same kindly greeting, the same
kindly treatment.
Stories of his cures are beyond belief.
Many of them have been investigated,
and now even the most credulOus is will
ing to admit the man is doing many men
good and no man harm-that he is hon
est in his endeavors to aid suffering hui
mainly and consistent in his actions. AS
to whence comes his power opinions
differ. Among the Mexicans few doubt
it comes direct from heaven; among the
Americans it is attributed to animal
magnetism and the principles upon
which the Christian Science doctrine is
founded.
Monday afternoon, July Is, Mexican
attache of the morning newspaper in
Albuquerque rushed breathlessly into
the office, his face the picture of amaze
ment. The day previous he had been at
Peralta, small town on the Rio Grande
river, about twenty miles south of that
city. There, he said, he had seen man
who was the perfect picture of the prints
of the Christ which adOrn the walls of
the ancient Cathedral of San Felipe, the
towers of which have been outlined in
the blue sky of this southwest land for
more than three hundred years. This
man had been surrounded all day long
by crowds of people. He had held the
hands of a blind man and sight lad been
restored to him; he had touched the
hands of a woman who had ibeen paral-
wed tor years and she left as well as in
the days of her maidenhood; he had
treated many others, and all had been
benefited. Since his advent into that
village, in a miraculous manner, several
days before, it was known he had not
tasted food.
APPEARANCE OF THE HEALER.
He is man of about six feet in height,
and weighs probably 100 pounds. His
form is that of the athlete, and, like the
athlete, he has all the supple grace of the
man of trained muscles.
First of all to strike the observer is the
remarkable likeness between the man
and the pictures of the Christ. The long,
flowing, brown hair, curling a tritie at
the shoulders, over which it spreads,
was parted in the middle and combed