The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-31
LAUGHS AT FAITH
WICHITA HEALER SAYS THE LORD
HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

Mrs. Corwin Tells the Eagle About How
People Who Want to be Cured are TAX
ing Up All Her Time and Forcing Her TO
Neglect the Home-Fffty People Call
Every Day and She is Kept Running to
the Front Door All the Time-Heaier
Makes a Religious Man Hot Under the
Collar.
Mrs. Mamie F. Corwin, Of 917 South
Topeka avenue. called al the Eagle Of
fee yesterday win an unusual. but just
complaint. The healer business is wor-
Tying the life out of her and placing
great many Jhorns in the path Of her
domestic happiness.
Mrs. Corwin is the wife Of one OF
Wichita's earliest and most highly es-
teemed citizens. Joseph Corwin. II will
be remembered that some time ago the
Eagle published an article setting forth
the powers Of Bartholomew Corwin, Mr..
Joseph Corwin's father.
Now there is no doubt that Barthel-
new COrwin. now ninsty-thrse years
Of age, possesses a wonderful curative
power and that there are plenty of
men and women in this city who Will
attest 10 the fact.
But what is troubling Mrs. CUrwin. is
that she has suddenly found her home
transformed into sanigarium and her
time, which she wants 10 give 10 her
home, taken Up with answering the
front door bell
-. To- L.
End spoke aFfectionately of the aged
healer, gave him a lovable character
and expressed herself as anxious that
lis beneficjent powers should be exer-
ted 10 their fullest for the good OF suf-
ferers, but she wants il arranged soma
how so she will not be bothered 10 death
entertaining and receiving people whom
she doaS not know, while her house
hold duties are perforce neglected.
In addition 10 receiving the thirty or
forty people who call daily 10 be cured.
Mrs. COrwin has also found herself ap-
pointed by mishap, private secretary
TO the aged healer. Letters pour in
from all over the west, some from Ohio
Michigan, Denver and a large number
from Oklahoma, asking Bartholomew TO
bless handkerchief or sOmsthing, and
send il back.
Now Bartholomew COrwin laughs at
the idea of his power being OF super
natural origin He declares ii is moth
ing of the sort 1t is merely magne tism.
and. it makes him angry to suggest
religion TO him in this connection.
So. Mrs. Corwin, who can not take
the time TO answer letters, wishes TO
inform through the Eagle. people who
have written that a cure cannot be
effected by, mail and that the healer
does not bless anything.
Bartelmew Corwin is too old to write
answers 10 all the letters he receives.
Mrs. COrwin limited yesterday that she
wished some one could devise a plan
where the healer could conduct his bus
iuiess without completely prostra ting
her.
She has made a close study OF the
healer and speaks in the tone of one
who had been Skeptical at first but
had been convinced. She says that
Wednesday night she first saw some
thing which she considered miraculous.
An old Lady was carried into the house
and treated. She walked out to the
buggy in front herself. She had not
been able 10 raise her hands 10 her
head for years until she was treated
and before sire left the house, She pin
ned on her own bonnet. Mrs. Corwin
said that this cure astonished her.
She says that about fifty people call
a day and that the number IS increas-
ing and she does little else but look az
ter them.
The aged healer, she says. laughs
about faith. y man asked him the
other day If ii was necessary for him
TO have faith. "Of course not, respond
ed the healer. sharply.
one day this week a man came in
a buggy to be treated and tied his horse
in front. Before the healer began the
trea tment. this man asked him II he
got his power from the Lord. Dash IT,
noH' exclaimed the old man COZ course
l don't" The man got mad and rush
ed out of the house and was so hot
THAI he walked block away before he
remembered that he had left his horse.
Mrs. Corwin says he can cure rheuma-
tism and eoGre every time. She with
the healer thinks the power rs simply
magnetism. In proof of this she says
he can take two quarters between his
index fingers and then draw the fingers
apart and a quarter Will cling 10 each
finger.
Hitherto the healer has not charged
anything. but ne may soon as he got
70 joking about il the other night and
said that after February l he thought
ne would charge ten cents for curing
an Individual.
He was weakly before ne began the
healing, but he has strengthened since.
Mrs. Corwin Says that the cures are
10 doubt wonderful. but that she Is
teink worried u death by the thronEs
o. people who invade the home. ana
both she and her husband Will soon
have 10 be cured themselves.
THEY ARE VERY THANKFUL