Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-25
THE divine HEALER
DEPARTED SUDDENLY
WITH ALL HIS G0DGvEN GIFTS HE FEARED BEING BRANDED
AS FAKIR BY A BUTTE AUDIENCE.

Rev. Charles Mclean. d. D., Nj. D.
l.. l.. D.. alias Francis Schlatter XIII
ushered himself in on the inhabitants of
Butte roaring lion that had not
tasted food for 10, these many days, and
has taken his departure as a cotton-tan
rabbit suffering from an attack of re.
friSerated TrilG.es.
= In taking his leave of the city Of Butte
the man whose whiskers form MAXI.
larry Aeolian organ has left many No. Is
footprints on the sands of time. several
of which are six feet apart. His tiighi i
is marked by the hairpins scattered i'll
his wake, while his luXuriant back hair
reposes restfully in a horizontal pos.
ton on the breeze, after the fashion in
which Poet Burns has depicted the tail
of Tam O'Shanters mare, Meg, whle
she engaged in her star vaudeville
feat of whiskng her master across the
brig o Doom in order to escape the
importunate advances of few Rig
woodetle hays" that had gone into the
collection agency business.
The entrance of Francis XIII into the
metropolis of Montana was manifested
by the leonine note of his vocal organs,
which set the affrighted air to Quiverins
like an aspen leaf. and descended on the
tympanum of the ear with the force of
legislative clock. His departure recalls
in some way or other something that has
been written by another quillsman anent
the still, small voice of nature"
He was so modest, this great and
good man who took the name of Schlat-
ter in vain; he had done only few
things. but he had certainly done them
Well. He had out plated Aescu
lapius and raised half dozen men,
more or less. from the dead; he had as
cended to the great white throne and
stood on the sea of glass with the $4,000
who make up the ranks of the redeemed,
as foretold by st. John in the revelation
of Patmos, basked for short while in
the smiles of the Infinite One and come
back with sealed lips as to what he had
seen; he had cured the sick and the
halt, the lame and the blind. the deaf
and the swell-headed. the broken pated
and the broken hearted; he had been
offered a happy home for life by thu
famous Hetty Green; he had been gath
cred into the bosom of the earth for 40
days and 40 Iights-and in that sleep OF
earth what dreams may have come!
Without the beating of drums or the
blare Of trumpets, without public an
nouncement private comment, like a
snow man when subjected to the melt
ing embrace of chinook Rev. DR..
Charles Mclean, who makes himself
known as 'Schlatter, the Divine Healer.
has disappeared from Spokane says
the Spokane Chronicle, land has now
bobbed up in Butte. Mont, where he has
been welcomed and given all the adver-
tisement by the public press that h"
| could wish'' tts-s5
That's the secret. Exactly so; he was
given all the advertisement by the public
press that he could wish, and column
or two extra daily that he possibly may
not have wished. He was discussed
from an archaeological standpoint, dis
sected from psychological standpoint,
investigated from the standpoint of the
higher criticism, drilled from common
sense standpoint and most beautifully
ripped up the back from any old stand
point. 1t was heart-rendng, and No. 10
of the tribe of the Schlatterites couldn t
/ stand for it even from a cushioned Sit
| ting point The lance was hurled into
! him, twisted to the four points of th'-
! compass, given peristaltlc motion
along the lines of geometrical progress
sion, and then broken off and left t.
rankle in the flesh like the head of q
j Texas wood-tick, which will faithfully
cling to the object of it's alteration even
though obliged to part company with tn
remainder of it's anatomy in the process
When this impious fraud reached town
he was given several columns of bona
fitle advertising before the Inter Noun
tain got whack at him. But in thai
one whack the doctrine of discretion was