The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10

0uno nAAn Ifom Oo0vef Accompanied b,
an Alderman Seeks Out the Healer an,
Submits to His Treatment which Con
sists In tho Laying ON Of the Hands-Hh
Sight Is Now Returning Talk
but Little and will Accept No Pay
Novelty of His SurroundinSs-Details o.
the Trip.
Denver, Col, Aug 3.-Henry Hauen
stein, who has been totally blind since
March 1892 and partially so dating back
to Labor Day, 1890. has returned to hi:
home at 1856 Fairview avenue, High.
lands, after a visit to Schladel. the
healer" whose reported cures Of the
halt, the lame and the blind in New
Mexico have excited SO much comment.
Mr.. Hauenstein was given twenty-sev-
en- treatements by the healer in five
days.
"At the first treatment, said Mr..
J Hauenstein to News reporter last
! night, "he told me I would see differ
| emily. Everything had been of one
| color; could not tell light from dark
ness. We were sitting in the room of
an adobe house. Back of US was a half
| window. When he let loose everything
in front Of me was dark AS 1 turned
around it seemed little lighter. That
was Saturday. Tuesday he said to me:
The Father tells me you will regain
your eyesight, but it will be Slow
1.-The last day he gave me five treat
| ments, lasting from 1920 a. m, to 1915
p. m. At the close I could distinguish
objects between me and the light. That
VIII be two weeks tomorroy. Every
since I have been regaining my sight
everything looks lighter 1 can see that
there is something when 1 swing my
hands before my face. I believe firm
ly that 1 will regain my sight"
EYES BLUE AND BRIGHT.
Mr.. Hauenstein's eyes do not indicate
the blindness. They are blue in the
lamplight and Father bright and clear
looking. Paralysis Of the optic nerves
caused the sight to depart. Surgeons
have told him nicotine poioning was
the cause. He lays it to overwork. He
is plasterer and builder by trade and
came to Denver eighteen years ago
from Elmira, n. Y. He was a fireman
in North Denver for three years, and
for nine years was foreman for Mar
tin Currigan. He was a tremendous
worker. During his foremanship he
worked on his own account before and
after hours, and built at least two
houses unaided save by his wife, who,
he fondlly says, carried the brick In
one of them he lives. When the light
from his eyes first went out he tried
Denver oculists, then went east to St.
Louis, New York and other cities. On
the very day that he returned home
he became totally blind. On his visit
to the healer he was accompanied by
ex-Alderman Ed Fox.
From Albuquerque" says Mr.. Haul
enSteln, we drove twenty mile south to
Los Louis, hearing that the healer was
there, but were unable to find him. We
came back to Albuquerque and the next
day Spaniard came in and told us
they had him in Old Town, two miles
away. We went over and We're not
there over twenty minutes when he
gave me treatment. There was a
crowd; the room was small and it was
very warm. Alderman Fox went in
ahead and said Denver man was
there who wanted treatment. I was
given a. chair to the left of the healer
He took hold Of my hands so that our
arms were crossed"
You went with faith to him or other
wise?"
"Well, went to see if he could help
me. The minute got hold Of him had
faith in him. To tell Gods truth 1
thought the minute he took hold Of my
hands-well. just knew that my sight
would come back. It was a peculiar
feeling 1 can't describe. Every nerve
in my body twitched.''
VERY LITTLE TALK.
@fDid you talk much with him?"
Every little. Sometimes not word
would be said in an entire treatment,
lasting from twenty minutes to twice
as long. The first time he asked If /
was from Denver, and said he used to
live there, on Stout street, then on
Downing avenue. 1 asked him once If |
the trea tment tired him. He said no.
except his fingers were often blistered."
HE takes a good. firm grip them"
Every firm. AT the end of each treat |
ment he says. Thank the Father The |
last day, when he gave me five treat |
ments one after the other, the feeling |
up my arms and all over my chest down |
TO the waist was just like rubber Sus- |
pender giving and coming back again. |
Everytime / approached him there was |
a sort Of numbness, but then the room |
was very hot and close, and it may |
have been my nervousness"
Mr.. HauenStein says that he had |
treated with three magnetic healers.
but that they never touched him"
He felt no sensation a all. Christian |
Scientists had wanted to try a hand on |
him, but he never permitted it. He
says that the healer answered all oues-
tons put to him freely, but seldom
a remark. Mr.. Hauenstein
was a little timid about pumping the
healer.
''You see" he says. "there was a |
great crowd there always, and I didn't
know how the Mexicans might feel |
about our coming and taking SO much
# his time. But they seemed to offer
10 objection. The healer treats them
lust as they come, no matter who. The |
irst time he was treating a baby before
t came my turn. My affection prevent
ID me from seeing, but others see the
work he is doing. All who visit him
seemed sa tisfied, and everyone he takes
loid of he helps"
Schladel would take no money from |
Mr.. Hauenstein or Mr.. Fox, they saw.
md he goes wherever the Mexicans
AXE him. They asked him once If he
would come to Denver. and he said that |
lie would if someone paid his expenses.
Mrs. Hauenstein says that she sees
marked Improvement in her husbands
sight since he returned and that the
Expression of his eyes has materially /
hanged. Both believe that full restora |
ion to sight is only a matter of time.
The Boy Had An Idea