The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-06-13

Scranton, today, holds within her
gates no less n parsonage than DR..
Charles Mclean. better known the
world over as "Schlatter, the divine
healer" who processes to be able to
raise the dead and cure all kinds of
physical ailments, and who, incidental
ly wears glasses.
The doctor came here Saturday with
his hair and whiskers which have new
er been cut, closely tucked out of sight,
the one under his hat. the other meath
his vest, and is now engaged In ad-
vertisng a meeting he proposes to hold
next Sunday at Laurel Hill park. He
claims never to have failed to effect
q cure and has q record of six resur-
rections from the dead, three in Chi
cago and three in London, besides one
self-resurrection performed at Denver
Three resurrections was the best pre-
vious rcord. 1t was made early in the
first century.
Schlatter came into especial prom
inence in 1894 in Denver, where thous-
ands from all over the country flocked
to see him and have their ailments
cured. He created the biggest kind Of
n sensation, apparently performed
many wonderful cures and just about
the time the authorities decided to
take a hand in the matter he myster-
iously disappeared. Search was made
for him everywhere but no trace of
him could be found.
Dead bodies were found in various
out of the way places in the western
and southwestern mountains and
prairies and every time the remains
could not be identified the newspaper
specials" built a Schlatter story about
them. After he had been found dead
and decaying eleven times or more he
suddenly bobbed up as mysteriously as
he had disappeared and announced
that the whitened bones found on the
mountains near Denver and whose COW
ering had made feasts for the vul-
lures, were those of a horse which had
carried him to a wild woodland, where
he had buried himself for forty days
and forty nights in obedience to a
command of God. The command came
just at the time the police of Denver
We're headed in the doctors direction,
threatening to arrest him for nuis-
ance, and many scoffers endeavored to
connect the two in a significant way.
WAS IN HEAVEN, HE SAYS.
At the time they were doing this
DIR. Mclean was in heaven. so he
says, and as yet his claim has not
been successfully disputed. What he
saw there he is not at liberty to di-
vulge Later on, however, he is going
to give us a full account of all he
saw and learned. This interesting
record is to be published after the
~,
He has been elected to write a his
tory and description of heaven, he
says. First he must complete two
more journeys around the wcrld Civ
ing his manifestations. He has al
ready been around five times. After
the seventh time he will again go into
the grave, physically, and spiritually
up te heaven to collect his data and
receive his Inspirations. He will write
and publish the book in English, Latin,
Greek and Hebrew and having accom-
plished this will die TO rise no more.
He knows when this is going to hap
pen, but is under divine injunction
not to reveal it,. He also says he
can tell who will be the next presl-
four years ago. This, too, he will not
reveal for a time.
DR., McLeans curative abilities are
not like those of any other curist. 1t
differs from tha9 of the Christian
Scientists in that-well he cured Bob
| Ingersoll and Dick Croker Mrs.
Croker offered him $1,000 for the SER
vice, but he refused to take it, advis-
ing that ii be given to the poor. which
was done. In relating this incident
n rTrih
| Mclean expressed regret for having
| cured Croker. Had l known then
what l do now l would not have cured
MIN or any of his following I'm sorry
1 appeared in Tammany hall" He
| also told that one of his resurrectees
had panned out bad and he was sorry
| he had not left him dead.
Though the fact is not widely
known, the reading public would have
escaped at least THE Absent-Mindei
| Beggar" and "Frcm Bloemfontein to
Rallyrag' but for DR.. Mclean. When
Rudyarl Kipling was i'll at the Wal
| iorf-Astoria two years ago, and the
| doctors had despaired OF his life, Mrs.
| kipling came to DR.. Mclean and en-
treated him to cure her husband. He
| consented, went to Klpling's bedside,
and the forty-eight reporters playing
| pinocle in the adjacent Rathskeller's
and waiting for the great literary gen.
ius to occasion a black -bordered extra
lost their snap assignments. Mrs.
Kipling gave $4,000 to the poor of New
| York when DR.. Mclean refused to ac-
cept 1t.
Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest wo-
man in America was also cured by
ME and offered me a million dollars
| to marry her. l. of course, refused.
| as | am vowed 10 pelihacy Har