The sun., 1907-08-31
A YANKEE YOGI in WALL ST.
BEARING RUBIES WHICH HE'LL
SELL FOR a MILLION OR 80.

You would not think IL would be safe for
a man to walk the streets with a million
and half In rubies wrapped up In green
bag in his hand. but W. +. Carroll. the
"Silver King Of South Africa" who has just
got here from India after curing 100000
persons. more or less. of different kinds Of
diseases. can do II all right. because all
he has 10 do IL he sees n crook coming Is to
look him in the eye and the crooks elbows
double up as quick as a fash and he stands
stock still as II rooted TO the ground.
That's all right In the daytime. you say,
but how about the night; or suppose Mr..
Carroll's mind was occupied by the con-
sideration OF some Of his philanthropio
projects OF he was telling somebody about
his two big rubies. one much the largest In
the world, and he didn't see the crook COM
ing-what then? It's a very important
question. too. because Mr.. Carroll is being
trailed all the time by one gang Of robbers
or another.
Well. few weeks ago when Mr.. Carroll
was In Glasgow a burglar got into his room
when he was sound asleep, intending to
swipe the rubies. IL wasn't more than a
minute Mr.. Carroll said when he told the
story yesterday. before he was vide awake
and knew there was some one in the room.
OF course il was pitch dark. but il was easy
for him to fix his eyes on the spot where he
knew the burglar was and hypnotize him.
The burglar could not move a step and Mr..
Carroll kept him standing there for three
hours while he lectured him and used a
process Of mental suggestion which will
cure him of the thieving habit. IL is only
for purposes of this kind that Mr.. Carroll
uses hypnotism. For curing illness all
he does is just touch the patient.
do you feel the electric current running
into you from my hands?' he said to a sun
reporter yesterday as he held his wrist
in a firm grasp. IF | should press your
wrists tighter the current would glue you
TO the chair you are sitting in, and if | should
press still tighter the current would kill
you. Well that's what gives me my great
healing power. An English doctor once
told me that | was a great human battery
capable Of transmitting the electric forces
from the air. | suddenly discovered in
September three fears ago that | had this
power, but it did not develop to its present
strength till l went to India a few months
later and got in touch with the yogis, or
magicians, there. They taught me lots
Of things. especially a Eurasian lady named
c. Armitage. But she was only able to
touch two or three persons day. whereas
| could touch 5000 in a day. Don't mis-
understand me when | say touch All
my treatments are free, When l was in
London got an offer of GEO a week to go
on the vaudeville stage and cure people.
but l refused it, | considered the power
God given and exploiting it on the stage
could not do otherwise than make il
ridiculous
There is nothing mysterious or occult
about Mr.. Carrolls appearance. He was
born in Binghamton something less than
half a century ago and the only suggestion
of foreigner about him il a slight English
accent acquired in South Africa and India.
Except for a short visit six years ago he
has not been in this country since he left
il in 1885,.
IL was in Johannesburg that he made his
first cure. IL was on a man who had broken
his foot. He found by accident that when
he stroked this mans foot the pain all left.
He stroked il after that about every hour
and in five days The bones had knit and the
man was walking as well as ever. The
cure was 30 marvellously quick. Mr.. Carroll
said that a local doctor denied that it was
the same man. His next experience was
with a young woman whom he found at
tempting to suppress her sobs in a hotel
dining room. He learned that the doctors
had just declared her a hopeless cripple on
account Of a shattered foot.
My inner voice kept crying out L can
cure you,' but | was afraid Of failure and
tried TO leave the table, but an unseen force
whrled me around again, and finally
persuaded her to come To me in the parlor
The other twenty guests at the table fol-
lowed. just stroked her foot for short
while and she got up and walked. Every
body else in the room fed, thinking was
the devil"
After that Mr.. Carroll went to India in
tending TO float a gold company.
Il was already known as the Silver King
Of South Africa My company was not a
success. almost entirely because l could
no, keep away from my healing work.
That absorbed me and got very chummy
with the yogis."
Mr.. Carroll happened to be walking along
Wall street when he was saying this yes
teriay and noticed how quickly a crowd
gathered when the Swedish Prince visited
the Stock Exchange.
There s only one other place and occa-
sion when a crowd gathers 40 quickly"
he said. -and that is in India when yogi
begins to talk. have often sat down and
talked with them for hours. and an enor-
nous crowd collects. Their words are az
valuable as diamonds 10 the people, and
their powers are superhuman. They can
sit stark naked on n cake OF ice ana peTbplre
freely. and I have often seen them walk
on water. In India 10000 persons die every
week Of bubonic plague. and during my
stay there OF two and half years made
hundreds Of thousands OF cures OF that and
Of cholera and other things. You see, a
room out there about the size Of a small bed
room has twenty persons living in it, used
to cure them by lying down in the midst Of
them and breathing on the sick ones. The
worst Of IL was that | caught the diseases
myself. had cholera twice and bubonic
plague twice. But cure lots OF other things.
Restoring color to gray hair is one Of my
specialtiee. You can see the color turning
as stroke the hair with my hands can
also give anybody a good singing voice
and cure any case OF deafness as long as
all the organs are present
Are you in sympathy with any OF the
religious orders such as the Christian
Scientists. Holy Jumpers, Zionists or Nor
mons. Mr.. Csrroll2-
We'll Christian Science claims me, but
/ do not claim Christian Science. Ibelieve
in spirits to some extent. And let me tell
YOU one thinG-never go back on a spirit
] know a man once who promised a spirit
in a seance to deliver n message to some
body. He neglected IL until IL was too late
and now, the spirits are torturing him to
death"
However. what Mr.. Carroll was really
interested in yesterday were his jewels
and not his healing power. One Of them
he describes as a real Burma ruby imbedded
in its matrix OF stone. the whole weighing
twelve pounds and standing nine inches
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