The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-10-24
Wealthy Phil@nthroPist
Heals Chicago's Poor.
Civ is Excited Over the Remarkable Cures OF q
Mysterious Man Whose Eccentricities
are Startling
sories are Told of Quiet Stranger Who Distributes
Great Quantities of Food and Clothing and cures
Disease Without Pay.

people suffering from all manner OF all
ments,
The physicians OF the city are amazed
at the work he is doing, and have tried
to shake the wonderful influence he has
over the people, even going SO far as to
threaten prosecution, but as he does not |
accept any money for his services aud |
does not give out any medicine himself,
they have been powerless to interfere.
Cooper created considerable amusement
| at the expense OF the doctors by asking
them why they did not write their pre-
scriptions in English SO their patients
would know what they were taking.
| Since the interest has become SO wide
soread that Cooper can't meet the people
personally. he is receiving an enormous
mail and keeps large force of stenog
raphers employed in answering it. In
the meantime stories of marvellous cures
con tinue to pour ln.
Mrs. g. Fry, living at 1872 Oak street,
had suffered agony for months from
rheumatism. In telling about her case,
she said:
Il have had rheumatism for over nine
L a
wear until | have been almost cripple
from it for the past eighteen months. |
have been unable to write for over three
wears. as the knuckles of my hands were
so swollen | could not close my fingers
enough to write Every joint in my
hody was in the same shape, swoller
: and intensely painful. The suffering ha
a been too great to describe. | have seer
! n doctor every week for ten months ant
!. , have tried in every way to get well. >
Last week | came here and bough
- some of the Cooper medicine. l was toll
& TO come back in case did not improve
q | have come back anyway, just to e1
r press my thankfulness.
. "You see nv hands. The swelling ha
" almost gone. So has the pain. Ii 20
~ will lend me pencil | will show yo
- that | can write" Mrs. Fry here toe
+ the pencil and used it readily. Il told
neighbor who has rheumatism, about
IL aud she said maybe it isn't the medicin
ID maybe it's something else.' | told b
ar ! that until knew what the somethiI
N. / else was | should keep on taking t
,is medicine and I advised her to do lii
wise"
mo- Cooper claims to have received I
,rs formulas OF the medicine he is using ire
he an aged priest in sleepy Spanish toy
an | in Old Mexico. Inc MexlcanS DelieS
tIv that holy water or some supernatu
element entered into their composite
re- Cooper receives an enormous da
Ter, man. Lettels are Sonilns n9M CIV
I'M part oi tne state, ASKING ioi au :.
ara carefully, and replies to each one,
AL. vis;ng the remedy which is applicable
her each individual case.
,ar While his remarkable cures are
me chief topic of conversation, many sto
on, are heard ON the streets aud in BUSH
tew places OF his goodness TO the poor.
On gifts of food, money and clothing b
, as relieved a great amount OF distress,
;uc w have greatly endeared him to the pee
,res He is beginning to show the g
and strain he has been under the past
= "a ! weeks, and it is understood that h,
! hy remain here only one more week