Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-24
MAILS CLOSED TO
MENTAL SCIENTISTS
OFFICIALS OF FLORIDA ISSUE
FRAUD ORDER AGAINST MRS.
WILLIAMs-PosT.

The arrest of Mrs. Helen Williams
Post, the head of the Mental Science cult
of the south, at Daytona, Fla. recently
and the placing of herself and her hus-
band, Colonel e. G. Post, under bond for
their appearance before Judge Locke, of
the United States court at Jacksonville
next December is Of peculiar interest to
Georgians in general and Atlantians in
particular, inasmuch as Colonel Post was
OF one time the leader of the Third party
movement in this state and had contro-
versy with Ex-Governor Northen in
which the lie was past and Mrs. Post
called on Georgians in general to protect
her from the highest official in this state.
Mrs Williams-Post and her husband
were arrested at Daytona in August and
at hearing in Jacksonville were placed
under bonds for their appearance before
the United States court there. The charge
against the defendants is fraudulently
using the United States mails.
Since the hearing in Jacksonville a
fraud order has been issued taking away
from the defendants the use of the mails.
The defendants were required to go to
Washington to show cause why the order
should not be issued and they were ac-
companied by Governor Jennings, Senator
Mallory and Congressman Davis of Flor
ida, who testified as to the general char
acter of the defendants and endeavored
to prevent the issuing of the fraud order.
The Mental Scientists, of which the de-
PENDANTS are the head, with headquarters
at Daytona, Fla. declare they can treat
and cure any known disease or ailment by
means of mind reading. No medicine is
necessary. 1t is said the receipts from all
parts of the United States amounted to
1000 each week The Williams-Posts are
now immensely wealthy.
This is the wording of the terms to APP
plicants for treatment.
'Read This Carefully.-In answer to
your request. I will say that my terms
for absent treatment are So per week,
paid weekly in advance. or so per month,
paid monthly in advance.
Patients are anxious to know how long
II will take to cure them. / cannot an
swer this positively. as so much depends
on the patient. A patient who follows the
directions earnestly will get well in half
the time 1t takes to cure one who is
careless and neglectful This much. how
eve, do say most emphatically that
mental science will cure any disease, no
matter what 1t is, If the patient will hold
faithful to this thought long enough to
give it chance to work; and, as rule,
this is not very long.
'I cannot enumerate the various dis
eases I have treated, but believe my ex-
perience-which covers a space of ten
years-wilI take in almost the entire list;
and, remember. I have not merely treated
them, 1 have cured them; often in short
time. I can cure any patient who is as
persistent in his effort to get we'll as
am in the effort to cure; have found
that earnest endeavor and faithful con-
tinuance in the pursuit of relieving suf-
fering always wins in the realm of the
mental forces.
"You can send money by money order.
registered letter, check or draft. Small
bills may be sent without registering in
letters carefully sealed 1 have had the
most of my money come in this appar-
emily careless way, and have never lost
any Of any consequence.
Instructions to patients are all print
ed and a copy is sent to each patient
on receipt of the first remittance. Write
anyhow and state your case Consulta-
lions free. BE careful to write your adj
dress legibly.
Hoping to hear from you again, I am,
very respectfully yours.
HELEN WILLIAMS,
'Seabreeze p. o., Volusia County, Fla"
In connection with the mental. science
Mrs. Williams-Post published a weekly
paper devoted to the interests of the
science cure and it's circulation ran into
the thousands. 1t was on account of this
that the arrest followed. Postofice In
spector Fred d. Peer worked UP the case
against the defendants and swore out the
warrants for their arrest.
Since the trial at Jacksonville the
Posts have called on all mental scientists
the world to assist them In
what they term the oppression" Of the
government and much money has been
sent them for this purpose.
While in Atlanta Mrs. Post resided at
PCS Crew street and was known as Mrs.
Helen Williams. She came here from Chi
cago and her husband, Colonel G. c.
Post, was a recognized third party leader
in Georgia. He was somewhat of an agita-
tor and was called by Governor Northen
an anarchist To this remark Post re-
sponded by denouncing the governor as
lair and at that time there was much
newspaper talk made, three column ar
ticle appearing in The Atlanta Herald
on July g. 1898.
Mrs. Williams did not treat Atlanta peo~
pie and advertised in books that were
without circulation In this state. At that
time her method of treatment was to go
into a trance twice daily, remaining thus
for Is minutes each time. At exactly the
same time she went into a trance her
all over the country, were sup
posed to think of nothing but her and
their ailment and in time this would
effect a cure
1t is said that Mrs. Post claimed 10 neal
and cure any and every disease known.
At one time her hair was snow white,
but later II changed to a bright golden
color. She stated to her patients that she
willed this and II became so. She
:ould grow new teeth in her patients: have
hair cover bald spots on any one, change
The color of the eyes and, in fact, make
an entirely new person Of any of her pa
tents.
The movements of the Williams-Posts
while in Atlanta were watched with in
terest by the residents here and they will
also look with equal interest to the out
come of the cases made against them by
the postofffce inspector and carried into