The San Francisco call., 1898-12-18
DIFFICULTIES OF
 AN INTERVIEWER
MYSTIC FORGE THAT sUBJU-
 GATES DISEASE.
Priestess of the New Dispensatlon That Discards the Surgeons Scalpel and Physicians
 Drugs.

went up to the Emma Spreckels building yesterday instructed to ob- tain an interview with one of the most unioue and interesting personalities or which this r-ny-sided metropolis can boast. for the benefit of the readers or the Christmas Call. Interviewing has it's difficulties at times, and when your yis-a-vis is a delightful conversation alist. and talks charmingly and freely on any subject, except herself, what are you going to do?
 Who has not heard of Dr. Nellie Beighle, San Francisco's beloved Lit tie Doctor" whose name is an insp1ra- tion to once darkened lives and homes?
 She occupies an entire side Of the Spreckels building on the fourth floor, and these rooms, furnished with quiet elegance, are the Mecca of daily in-. creasing throngs afflicted with almost all of humanity's ills. The reception room was we'll filled in the morning hour, and it was a veritable pleasure to note the quick light of confiding aftec- tion that came into the eyes Of her patients as she entered.
 I have mentioned how reluctantly she alludes to herself, instinctively shrinking from notoriety, character istic we'll understood by her. friends.
 But her admirers are more communi- cative, and lovingly dwell on her mirac- ulous gifts, her life consecrated to the noblest uses that this world can afford the divine mission of healing. They tell of men and women, prominent in the world of business, learned pro fessions and society, a prey to devOur- ing disease, dwellers in an Inferno of sorrow, to whom the worlds physicians could bring no balm or hope, rescued by GsJi r'-fi 1iyrir1 orsf oT16 riched with health's energies and en- 5oyments.
 From these grateful spirits what is written here was obtained, the gentle Doctor being inflexible in not permit ting the names of patients to be used. The development of magnetic power in the Doctors wondrous right arm is familiar history. Its potency to subju- gate disease came as a revelation, and this earnest soul, herself woman of culture, a former teacher in the public schools, saw in the occult energy that so strangely became part of her only the path of duty and enlarged oppQrtu- mites of doing good. The sick came to her, and her success attracted the at tention of scientists and the medical profession. Here was a new concep- tion of Nature, and 1t mystif1ed them. They were fettered with the prejudiceS of ancient schools and they could not understand this new enlargement of human power. A committee of the Oakland Psychical Research Society was appointed to investigate her. She modestly appeared before. it. The signed report speaks of the rigid pre- cautions observed and specifies the manner in which she demonstrated her power by placing her right hand upon the head of a member of the commit tee, who reported feeling a distinct shock, similar in character to which one would receive when coming in con- tact with an electric battery. When the lady touched the hair upon his head with the tips of her fingers the result was the same. If she touched the back of the chair the same force was observed
 The report is very interesting and re- ceived wide publicity. Suffice it to say that the committee was thorough ly convinced of her power.
 What is this mystic force which sets at naught the learning of the schools? By it's fruits it can be judged. .Dr. Beighle saved my life" said one of the most prominent merchants in the city. ''I tried the best physicians in the East and in Europe without avail She cured me permanently" A United States Senator testified to a cure of stomach and liver complaint that the most fla nous springs and physicians could not relieve. But space forbids the recital or cases or restored nedltn rom the lipe of grateful men and women.
 The Doctor eXemplifies in her own person the secret and living force with which God has lowered her; she is radiant with health and grace, and her features express her soul and its aspi- rations Her innate sympathy repro duces in her gentle breast the suffering of the patient. This may explain in part her success in nervous diseases and her modest reference to it. T am deeply interested in this cruel form of disease and I cherish the grateful tes- timony of sufferers whom it has been my privilege to restore to health"
 The regime of scalpel and drug seems to be passing away and in it's stead has come the new dispensation of which the Little Doctor is the seer and nriestess LURA SMALLEY