The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-22
BLIND TO SEE.
Aunt Lucinda, the Healer OF
Pleasant Valley,
Will Undertake to Give Million
aire Rouse of New York
His Eye Sight-She Says She
Can Do 1t.
SHEHAS HAD A VISION.
Rouse Promises a Million to
One Who Succeeds.
Aunt Lucinda Has the Greatest
Confidence in Herself,
AS is CLEARLY SHOWN
SHEHAS HAD A VISION
Rouse Promises a Million to
One Who Succeeds.
Aunt Lucinda Has the Greatest
Confidence in Herself,
AS is CLEARLY SHOWN
By Her Statements in Regard
to Her Powers.

New York millionaire, awOke one morn
ing last March and found that he was
totally blind, he made probably the
most remarkable offer for medical skill
in the history of modern ages 1t was
taken up and telegra phed over the civ
ilized world as a demonstration of the
value of the sense of sight to a human
being.
ITO the man or woman who can give
me back my sight" said Mr.. Rouse, Il
will give one million dollars"
Since the offer was made it has been
answered by the best of medical and
scientific men, but Millionaire Rouse
yet remains blind. Now word goes out
from Topeka that he may have back his
sight.
1t is from no other than Aunt Lucin-
da Thompson, the magnetic healer of
Pleasant Valley. She is the woman who
promises to lay her hands on the New
York millionaire and restore his sight.
When the remarkable offer of one
million dollars was telegraphed from
New York she heard OF it, and that
same night she says she had vision
of the New York millionaire.
Bring him to me or let me go to
him, she said the next day, and 1 can
ion last night"
She talked with her patients about
the matter that day, and before night
Mr. J. T. Nichols, foreman in the cloak
department of Crosby Bros dry goods
store In this city, who is particular
friend of the New York millionaire,
heard the healer's story. He wrote
Rouse that night, but probably because
OF the excitement attending the million
aires athictiOn or the too numerous Of
fers, he failed to receive a reply.
It's just as well dat L didn't get
hold of him den, says Lucinda Thomp-
son, ''kaise now de others have dun had
chance to work on him, anS he knows
dey CANT do nuthin for hEal. Now I
know 1 can cure him. for 1 dun had
anuder vision of him de other night
Il saw how twas he dun lost his
sight, by workin too hard and a drink
in too much. He run hisself down till
ms blood was weak and pore, and den
his eyes got affected Pretty soon he
was blind. It's all de matter with his
blood.
IF dey bring him to me 1 can cure
him. 1 have cured cases just like his'n.
l have de strength and de power to do
What do you consider the most re-
markable case you have had?" asked
the reporter
The healer thought few minutes
before replying. Then she said:
We'll, dere was a young lady what
had consumption, and when 1 saw her
she was just about ready to die. I
done healed her, and I do believe that
was the biggest case ever had yet.
Her name was Bursaw, Ella Bursaw,
and 1t was about year ago. Shes done
married now and lives over here on
Hancock street. She had consumption
bad, III tell you, so bad dat she was
just er about a living skeleton. When
l saw her she was a lying in bed, with
het, eyes rolled back a breat thing hard.
and all her folks was standing round
the bed a waiting for her to die.
Wen, l went into de room and I
looked at de pore girl, and 1 saw how
bad she was. Get out of dis room all
Foil
dem go out from de room. Den I lock-
ed de door and 1 went over to the pore
girl and 1 says: Honey, I'm going to
cure YOU oh, MiSSuS Thompson saws
she, If you'll only get some of dis here
weight Off'n my chest I will be so glad
and she looked at me and tried to smile,
de poor child did, when she couldn't
hardly breathe.
II rolled up my sleeves and started
to rub her till the sweat was standing
out on me like beads And while was
breathe little easier, and little easier
and pretty soon she took great big
long breath and filled out her lungs.
%, Missus Thompson, dat feels so good
says she.
Now, I want you to get up and
walk, honey says I. But can't. Miss
us Thompson said she. Come along.
honey, and do just as say, said. and
I helped her to get out of bed. But 1
can't take a step. Missus Thompson
said she. Yes, you can says l, and SO
SAe put hef loot down ana TOOK q step,
and den she took anuder step, and
opened de do and she walked right out
in de room where all her folks was
Well, sir, 1 clare to goodness, if every
one of dem people didn't run from her
as though she was a ghost, and den
when dey got over de scare, dey just
cried and cried. And I couldn't help 1t,
I had to cry, too.
Der was anuder nice young lady
cured of de consumption. and when de
other common doctors said she was a
eOin to die. That's Miss Donohue what
lives near First and Quincy. and her
father works down here in the Santa F'e
shops. When l went dere she was a
lying in bed and was powerful sick. De
doctor what had been a trea ting her
had left some cod liver OIL and er
about the first thing 1 did was TO throw
that ole stuff away Den 1 went to
work and a treated her. and now she is
lust fust rate And dat young lady's
ma done died of consumption, too, and
she had inherited it.
''But I want to tell you er about Mr.
Young what lost his taste and cum
down to see me- continued the ne
gress. His names Dave Young and