The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-28

they might investigate the permanency /
Of the cures He said that he was
sure enough of the permanency Of the
cures effected, that he had no fears
whatsoever of the results of close in
vestigatiOn and would take particular
care to give every patients name and
address in full that they might be in
vestigated by any one sufficiently in
terested in the matter.
While the manager was making
these statements the Boy PhenOm-
enon" was briskly continuing his
treatment. Finally he ordered the pa
tent to stamp his feet. and then to
walk across the stage. Mr.. Morrison
walked very spryly across the stage
and back again and stood almost per
fectIy straight while doing it. He had
been bent over when taken upon the
stage and was hardly able to walk.
After he had walked across the stage
several times, after being treated,
Manager Sherman instructed him to
stoop over before the audience that all
might see that movement of all parts
of the body was easy. Mr.. Morrison
stopped over until his finger tips
touched the hoor-something that
many fairly active young persons can
not do. Then he walked down the
steps into the audience without assist
ance-
In announcing the next case. Man
ager Sherman stated that they would
treat a man VINO was We'll Known i'll
Topeka and to a great many OF those
present The audience misunderstood
him and began TO call for different
ones Of the afflicted. who were present
In the audience, to be treated. The
name of William Duffy, a hack driver,
was the one called for by the most per
sons Manager Sherman stepped down
into the audience and picked out F. p.
Baker, commonly known as Father
Baker. The old man was very feeble
and had almost half carried
the stage and to the chair. The audi
ence continued to call for Duffy and
when he learned that the man whose
name the audience was clamoring for
was a hackman, Manager Sherman
announced that he would be also treat
ed, although he did not know from
what he was suffering. As the Boy
Phenomenon" worked with him,
Faith er" Baker told the manger that
he had cataract on one of his eyes
which had been removed but not until
1t had made such progress that not
much benefit was experieced from its
removal. After the healer had stroked
his head and eyes, the patient told the
manager that he could distinguish
faces in the audience when he had not
been able to see them at all when he
ascended the stage. The old man
smiled as he spoke and said that he
had not hoped to receive any benefit
to his eyes, but had come for treatment
for deafness and muscular rheumatism.
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cradle time on this case. rubbing all
parts Of the patients body and extend
ing and bending his arms and legs
Finally the command was given to
I walk across the stage and Mr.. Baker,
with smiles on his face, walked back
and forth very freely, although with a
/ trace of the feeblesness natural to one
1 Of his advanced age. Still smiling, Mr..
Baker left the stage without having to
I be helped down the short fight Of
| steps.
The next case was that of Mrs. Ba9-
/ riet Debord Of Meriden. She was bad
/ ~ crippled with rheumatism and had
/ to be half carried up the steps to me
/ stage. After her name and affilction
I had been announced and the treatm eat
! given she walked vigorously across the
/ stage and as she turned to come back
/ she clapped her hands together as the
! audience applauded. God bless yCu.
/ feel like I could almost hug YOU" was
/ the old lady's remark as she stepped
up to the boy Phenomenon.
In the meantime the audience had
/ continued to clamor for Duffy and he
was next brought on to the stage. Two
/ attendants supported him as he at
| tempted to walk and another lifted his
! feet In turn from step to step. MI.
1 Duffy told that he was suffering from
/ paralysis. He said he had received the
/ first stroke seven years ago and the
/ second three months later. He said
| that he had almost entirely lost the use
/ Of his right foot and leg. His right
side was worse affected than the other
and Manager Sherman explained that
/ It was a case Of hemiphlegia, or para
lysis Of one side OF the body and brain.
/ AS the manager told some Of the fea-
( lures Of the ailment, the Boy Pie
/ nomenon~ rubbed the patients head
and neck for a long time. Then he ex-
tended his operations to the limbs Cf
the patients afflicted side. After being
treated somewhat longer than most If
the others Mr. Du1y stamped his feet
and held either OF them from the floor
as directed. Then he walked across
the stage and back. fairly. but with a
rather decided limp. He descended the
steps unassisted.