The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-14
FARM HAND As A HEALER
Anthony Matkowsky Performs
some Wonderful Cures.
DOES NOT CLAIM DlVINEP0WER
His Treatment Based Upon Meditai
knowledge ACQUIRED Through
Course of Study-Gir1 Declared
HopelessIy Blind Beginning To
See Since Treated by Him.

New York, Jan. 14.-The large Polish
colony which forms a very. considerable
portion of the population Of Riverhead,
l.. l.. is intens ,ly excite over the marvel
Gus cures which are alleged to he per-
formed daily by Anthony Matkowsky,
farm hand, who works for Peter Dona-
witt. Schlattsr ascribed all his
cures TO divine agency, while the young
farm hand declares that his work is
simply the result of medical knowledge.
He is thirty years old, big, broad-shoul-
dered, and almost mcouth i'll his appea r.
ance. He has light hair and light mus
tache and rudy compile Aion, with. in
fact, nothing about him to distinguish him
from any other laborer OF his class and
nationality.
He was quite ready last night TO talk
about his healing powers, and spoke IRA NIX
Nv and intelligently-much more fIankly
than DO his neighbors, for they fear that,
as he has not a physicians diploma, the
medical society authorities may stop him
in his work, even though h takes nO pay
for wha tey eT he does. and lives cOutentedly
enough, to all appearances, ON his wages
of $50 a month and his board. Matkowsky
said that in Poland he studied first TO De
a minister, and afte TwaTd decided To De
physician. His means were not sufficient
10 allow him 70 complete his studies, and
he abandoned them and came 10 this
land OF brighter promises.
SO far I've has confined himself To
treating his fellow-countrymen and their
families, but his fame is spreading rap
idly, and il looks as though the entire
country side might soon be flockine To him
with its ailments.
The most remarkable case is that OF
Rosie Fifinski, twentyfiv years old, a
servant, now living with her parents three
miles from RiyeThead. Several years go
her oversight failed rapidly until IL was
barely possible for her TO tell night from
day. She wastaken To various specialists,
and they all said there was no hope OF
her recovery. As recently as August,
1896, she was taken 10 the Manhattan
Eye and Ear Inflrmary in New York and
there the physicians pronou need her
trouble to be atrophy Of the optic nerve,
for which medical science up to this
time has be en- able TO DO not hing.
II was only a question Of a short time,
they said, before she would become to-
tally blind. Three weeks ago MatkOwsky
began to pat some kind of a Salve on her
eyes. Now she declares she can make
ont the outline Of a hand held several
inches from her face, and is confident that
she Will eventually be restored TO perfect
sight. DR.. Addison Raynor, of Riverhead,
who last treated her, said that he
thinks his will be impossible.
Another case was that OF Martha Dona-
witt, the six year-old daughter OF his en-
ployer, who was suffering from a scrofu-
lous affection on the arm which baffled
many physicians. MatkOwsky applied a
salye, and HOW she has fully recovered. A
woman here was bejlridden for five years
Matkowsky prescribed for her and she
left her bed and walked.