The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-11-20

green moss you see sometimes on the
high branches OF trees"
There again j. the human note OF the
man, the primal instinct OF him that
seeks its kind under all shapes and
shows, He learned many things on his
travels, learned 10 lose his back country
accent, Tor example-he speaks excellent
English now. But all civilization could
not teach away his vibrant savage sym.
paihy with the other men and women
of the earth.
II was this that made him a healer
/ 10y profession, and IN the end il was this
/ that made him stop being one Oh, of
course, he enjoyed the money he got
| acquisition Is a perfectly normal savage
/ impulse. But furthermore, he had all
4 the cheerful pagans intolerance for what
was not beautiful and happy like him
self lie would have the sun always
shine, the roses always bloom and the
/ people all strong and straight and JOY.
Gus.
SO when he found that he, strangely
enough, could help little to bring
about this pleasing result he at first re-
Joiced in the opportunity. In this con-
nection 1t is significant that he was as
willing to exercise all his powers toward
curing a sick horse or dog as a sick man
or woman. IL was any pain or suffering
that he would stop.
For time. Then came realization OF
the hopelessness OF his efforts He, one
little pin-dot of light in black world
of suffering. And though he never con
sclously voiced il, it was the very same
mad impulse for the JOY OF this earth,
saying in him first, Il will make every
body strong and happy for none by their
misery must offend my happiness" that
later concluded, However many ] cure,
there will always be more, whom | can
not help, to make me wretched by their
wretchedness, so / will go away from
sick, imperfect people to the hills and
the woods and the wild things that are
always strong and beautiful
He went. And he lives now where he |
first settled in the still wild Franklin |
country, with its depths Of deerhaunted |
forest, its rocky, wind-swept uplands, its
glory OF rugged peaks and far distances.
He loves it all, yoicelessly, inexpress-
lively, like the true savage that he, is.
grow up around him. brave, wild little
things whom people tell him he ought to
perhaps even, because OF all his
money, send TO college. For answer he
just shakes his head and says slowly,
They are free to choose. If they want
that life they can have it. But / shall
never force them"
He does not refuse to try to heal
persons if they come to him at his home,
but he never goes to them. As to that
healing power" of his, he has the real
may be, is not fake. Il don't succeed
with everybody" he says with perfect
"in fact | honestly don't be-
ieve that more than % per cent of the
persons l have treated have been real
lures. At least 25 per cent of the others
hadn't anything the matter with them
% begin with. Yet l know that some
way have made well a great many peo-
Die who were really sick with rheuma.
n paralyzed or neryously wrecked
Why? How? | don't know. ! simply !
nut my hands on them, and wish them !
o be. well, and they go away cured
ometimes.'
When Newell is very confidential he !
viii sometimes tentatively, almost shyly, r
n fact, suggest one little theory of his !
wn as to his power. Il have sort of
otion that all life is electricity he f
he central wire and all the little nerves =
nd muscles in other parts of the body :
ust so many connecting wires. When
erson is sick or hurt some Of these con- !,
Getting wires get broken and electric
over is lost Then why. couldn't this
over be transferred to the weak place .
v the touch of someone who had SUI .
of it-who, in short, was
5rong, like myself? But l don't know,
ont know anything about it, only l am
Ire of one thing-it is absolutely nat
raj, and some day there will be some
ody wise enough to explain"
College professors said of Newell that IN
Q was an excellent example of what in -
,nse animal magnetism could do. But, Il;
ter all, he's not half so interesting for :
lie little piece of him that's been public !,
exploited as he is for himself For al =
ost alone among New Englanders, per dc
bps, he lives as splendid and Joyous a us
orshipper of this world and the glory
ereof as-well, as a certain old goat,
ID that is said to wander still in other
ountain forests overseas. d,