The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-07-03
THE MASKED BEAR.
ms DE1TH MOIN RINGS IN
MY EIR.o
PROFESSOR SMALLEY's THRILLING
EXPERIENCE.


nights ago:
" Boys" he said, " 1 am kind of a fatal
list. Nearly twelve years ago visited Bos-
ton with my youngest daughter. 1t was a
question whether either OF us would live to
get here. My daughter was fratl girl of
nineteen summers, and dying, as our home
physician claimed, with consumption.
As for myself, l was disfigured with a
disease which covered the left side of my
face. 1t was monstrous, hdeous growth
in the shape of large bear. In other words,
the growth resembed the image of bear,
and look which way | would, day or night,
the monster would be garing in my eyes.
Every day the bear would grow larger and
become more like ful-hedged animal OF
the woods. | wore a mask and was called
by many of my friends the Masked Bear
Upon my arrival in New York policeman
tapped me on the shoulder and said Take
that mask off Not now l said. He
gave it quick twist, and off it came. In.
stantly he was face to face with vicious
looking bear, with glazing eyes and appraised
paw. / will never forget that policemau's
look. He dropped like stone, and my
mask fell by his side. In a moment he had
disappeared, and was left to proceed with
my hidden terror.
80 What did you call that growth on your
face?' queried Dan Hiatt, the old hunter of
Maine.
1t was a cancerous growth, but as
oumou bhO oudpo anu appearance VI u DbdT.
good bear story remarked one of
the guests.
"'Yes, replied the professor, and bear
story lies back of it,
go In 1889 was one of party hunting
bear in Utah My dog started a large
grizzly My first Shot Brought him to Ills
knees, my second laid him stiff on the
ground. l dismounted from my pony to in
spect my dead prize. Without giving any
notice he arose on his hind legs, and turned
upon me, as his blood.shot eyes gared with
the fury of pain, and his death roar par
alyzed me for the moment. The next thing
L knew my comrades were bathing my face
and blood-shot eye; bruin was cold in death
by my side, and it was with difficulty they
prevented me from keeping him company.
He had struck my left cheek with his paw
and fallen dead in the act.
In few months small growth ap-
peared on my cheek, the result of the injury
and bad blood. In few weeks it resembled
bears head My physician cut it out, but
1t soon reappeared, more malignant than
ever. In the course OF sixteen months it
had assumed the shape and appearance of a
full grown and exposed bear To me, in the
mirror, 1t was always miniature picture of
the glazing, red eyed grizzly whose death
moan and roar / sometimes hear now.
~ consulted numerous physicians, but
all agreed that could live but a few weeks
or months at most, and that nothing could
be done for me.
so L came to this great city of yours to
consult physician whose miraculous skill
had often heard of in my far off western
home. On reaching Boston went directly
TO his office, which, as l remember was
then on Brookline street, opposite park.
Il had expected great things from this
doctor, but imagine my surprise, when
without knowing who l was, he told me in
detail the cause of my trouble.
GO This growth he said, is the result of
an injury from an animal given you in its
death moments, while the positive condi-
tions of his death look thoroughly mesmer-
lied and dominated your negative sight
He also told me how / had acquired blood
disease some years before, which made 1T
possible for the injury to develop the
growth.
81 was too excited and dumb to say any
thing but feebly ask: "Can you help me?'
"' think we can save you, was his re-
ply, but am not much of bear hunter
He had already noticed the perfect image of
the bear.
"' With hypodermic needle he injected
something into the head and what seemed
to be the fore feet OF the bear. He repeated
these ELECTIONS twice a week for about two
months. The last six months he treated
me at my own home, and in eghJ months |
was sound and well. You can scarcely see
the scars
go For Gods sake! who was the doctor?'
asked a dozen voices at once.
go DR.. r @. Flower, the most wonderful,
brainy, skillful physician this world has
ever produced. He was born to do the
work of a thousand men, and will live uatil
he does it. In my section of the country his
name is a household word, and | under
stand it is so everywhere
60 DIR. II. q. Flower! why, | might have
known it was him. said Joseph dempsey,
the old coal speculator Of Brooklyn, now
summering in the Berkshire Hills, for
there is no one else in this wide, wide
NrlI rl..N
mans disease without asking question.
But, professor, what became of your daugh-
ter?'
90 Oh, he cured my girl in few months
She is in excellent health, and enjoying a
farmers life on the prairies OF Minnesota
" have recently become acquainted with
several of Dr. L. @. Flowers cures con-
tinued Joseph dempsey, and to me his en-
tire system OF treatment and diagnosis is
miraculous. To begin with, he never asks a
sick person to tell him thing; he always
describes accurately and in detail the
trouble without being told. 1 have seen
dozens of people examined by him, and
they all testify that he told them better
than they could have told him. His cures
are but little less wonderful than his
diagnosis. 1t seems to me sometimes that
he almost raises the dead. His patients are
generally patients given up by all other
doctors to die, and these desperately bad
cases he seems to cure as readily simple
diseases. His cure OF Mrs. q. e. McOmber
of Ballston Spa, N. Y, Of malignant tumor
of cancerous nature Of womb and ovaries,
when given up by the best medical skill OF
New York to die; of Smith d. Arnold, 46
Francis street, Pittsfeld, Mass, of rneu-
matism, from absolute helplessness; Mrs.
Chester W. Graves, West Deerfield, Mass,
of a complication Of diseases which had been
pronounced incurable; Mrs Mary Chapman,
No. l, Pearl street, Lynn, Mass, of cancer
in breast; Mrs. B. McGuDerton, 81 Holden
street, North Adams, Mass, OF eczema and
blood poison; Miss Carrie Wesson, u Cot
tage street, Worcester, Mass of kidney,
stomach and heart trouble; Harrison Ma
sure, Sutton, VT, OF heart trouble, loss OF
vigor and nervous prostration; Mrs. j. B.
Hibbard, Woodstock, VT, of rheumatism
and bronchial trouble; Mrs. K. +. Reed, 3
South Main street, Brattleboro, VT, kidney,
stomach and heart trouble; Mrs. G. M.
Lyon, Montpelier, VT, of stomach, ca arrh
and bronchial troubles Mrs. Phelps, Bur-
lington, W., of kidney and heart troubles,
were truly wonderful Many OF these people
represent the most prominent families of the
East. Many of them are women of culture
and refinement who had had every oppor-
tunity to be- cured, but had failed TO get re-