The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-20
AMODERN MIRACLE
A Race For Life.
Stand Back, Can Save Him.

1t was hot day for Texas, said Col
onel Bradford of the Pan Handle. We
had met with a series of delays and
every one on the train seemed now I'M
usually impatient 1T will require the
best running my engineer can do to
reach San Antonio for the northern
connections" said the conductor. We
were again side-tracked at SpoffOrd'S
Junction. For Gods sake, what is the
matter, conductor, cried a dozen
voices. Our advice said the conduc-
tor, lis that a special is coming down
the road at a terrible speed "A
Junketing party, I suppose, conductor.
mo, 1 understand it is a pre-eminent
eastern physician, who has been sum-
moned at a great price and who is
taking a great risk of life going as he is
going to Moctezuna, Mexico, to see NJ
Nehes Pervenir. The noted millionaire
of Mexico is dying. Seventeen doctors
have seen him and they all differ as to
what his disease is. Finally, to settle
forever the question, and as a last re-
sort, they have called upon DR.. r. G.
Flower of Boston. For two days, I
understand, this Yankee doctor has
been keeping the rails hot and with
good luck he should see his patient this
time tomorrow" BuZ, buz, everyone
caught his breath. What was it? 1t
was the special. It was a case of now
you see it and now you don't. Through
the town it went at a mile a minute,
after which we were allowed to go in
uninterrupted.
Well, the next day he reached his
patient in Mexico. NestOn Pervenir met
the doctor, but cried out as he led him
to the sick room: My God, doctor, you
are too late. My brother is dead DR..
Flower reached the sick bed had the
patients cold, clamnly hand to his ear
and his warm hand over the sick mans
heart. Then, turning to the heart
broken wife, who, like a statue cold and
shivering, fearing to hear what she
must, he said as he led her to a chair:
Il am glad to say, madam, I have got
ten here in time. Your husband is not
dead. I can save him. Do calm your
tears" Without asking a question, Dr..
Flower told the family the patients
ailments better than they could have
told him. The physicians ridiculed the
idea of the man not being dead, and If
he was alive, the idea of him ever being
cured. In fifty minutes DR.. Flower had
demonstrated that the man was alive.
For twenty eight hours his life hung
on a thread and he was unconscious.
Then from the depths of death he began
to ascend. In three days Dr.. Flower
pronounced his patient out of immed-
late danger, and started hOmeWard on
his four thousand mile trip. At the end
of nine months he discharged his pa
tient a cured and sound man.
His sickness was Bright's disease
and heart trouble.
Did you ever know Dr. Flower, Col.
Bradford" asked a white haired old
man, who was one of an interesting
group of cattle men in the great rO-
tunda in the Coates house, Kansas City,
Mo. Yes replied the colonel, Il have
known him to the tune of a good many
years of health. / should have been
dead ten years ago, if it had not been
for him. On the Sth of NOVem ber 1886,
I was south bound on the Missouri Pa
cifc sleeper, going from St. Louis to
Fort Worth. 1t was the bluest day of
my life. 1 had been four months under
treatment by a specialist in St. Louis,
for rectal cancer. All this time L had
grown Worse-had been dismissed that
day as incurable and sent home to die.
The days allowed me were less than 100,
and I was suffering the fortunes of the
damned. Across the aisle in the sleeper
was a gentleman sitting who interested
me very much. He was smooth faced,
large forehead, keen eyes and the most
expressive mouth have ever seen. He
was busy writing. Towards evening,
being very thirsty, asked him if he
would get me glass OF water In a
moment I had the water, and then with
a voice that was full of sympathy as an
egg is of meat, he said: Il am so sorry
for you. All cancers are bad, but
have always considered the rectal can
Ger as the worst. How do you know
know, but I know it, and I know that
the immediate cause of this cancer was
your being hooked or gored by steer"
This took my breath; for every word
tor?'' I asked. Yes" what is your
name, and where do you live?" I live
in Boston; my name is DR.. R. G Flow
err DIR. Flower" I said, I have
heard for years of your great work. In
the name of God can you help me?
have a wife and six daughters, most of
them small, and they need a father
badly Help me I pray you, and 1 will
give YOU a thousand of the finest beeVeS
in the territory
Years ago." said the doctor, in that
same soft gentle voice (Which will al
ways remember) your blood was badly
poisoned by incubation. You were
only partially cured. After your injury
the disease in your blood settled in the
injured place. You have had two OPP
erationS,' he said Correct, said l. and
after each one you grew rapidly worse,
Another thing against you is, that you
have lost your vital force in late years,
your manhood. The cause of this loss
was excess or dissipation between the
years of "a and 81 Correct to letter,
said.)
Nov, sir,'' he said. "to cure you. all
this humor must be removed from your
blood. Your manhood restored, as well
as the cancer removed. 1 don't want
your cattle, but for the sake of your
wife and little girls you shall not die.
I will stand between you and death,
and see that you are restored to health
and to your loved ones, if from now
YOU will live a clean and beautiful life
MY vows were registered and he took
nv case To be short, DR.. Flower re-
moved that mOnstrOus cancer without
the knife, without pain or the loss of
blood. He eliminated all the humor
from my blood, restored all my lost
vitality, and to this day have been
sound, healthy man, and never in youth
was more vigorous than now"
One man related the cures of Mrs. w.
A Pettus of Goliad, Tex. by DR.. Flow
er, of floating kidney and tumor after
the leading physicians had pronounced
her incurable. Senator Mcguire of
Montana, said all cattlemen had heard
of Mrs Pettus miraculous cure, and
her present youthful and beautiful con-
dition was the talk of the thousands
that knew her. Senator Mcclure then
related the amusing incident of Hobart
Stubs of the Hudson Bay company,
taking his wife from Manitoba to Bos-
-, = he trnn ted hw DR., Flower for