Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1910-07-18
MIRACLE And WONDER
WORKER CURES Blind
lays That Cancer and tuberculosis Are
No More Than a Cold

A Press representative visited yes
terday at the invalids' mecca four
miles across Hayden lake from the
hotel, or at what is now called Sher-
mans Point, in honor Of the gentle
man who is making seemingly mira
culousv cures at that place, in other
words he is Doctor Sherman. The |
camp which is composed Of about |
thirty tents, is beautifully located on |
rocky point and as a Sherman adj |
mirer said from now and evermore |
| 1t will always be known as Sher- |
mans Point" This sudden spring
ing up of a white city in the wilds
of Hayden lake is the result Of the
establishment by a doctor by the
name of Sherman of a back to ma
ture Office" at-that wooded hillside.
This man uses no medicine and as
| to whether he is divine healer, hyp-
/ motto genius or a magnetic physician
is not easily guessed, for to num-
Der of questions asked him In regard
to where or how he got his power he
always gave elusive answers, but
from what could be learned from the
many patients and from a statement
of his own, during his Sunday after
noon sermon, it must be his theory
that he personally is an ordinary
human being, but has been commits
1 ~ - % h. r,R faI hnnnGA
to mankind and especially to the
afflicted and as a result is not a
halved genius but simply a common
servant of the Divine One.
| Theory or no theory, 1t is fact,
that this man who is short of stature,
with long, black hair which is slight
ly tinged with gray, and with nous
tache and little tuft of hair on his
chin. also of the last named shade,
and with the extra large brown shoes
and pantaloons, has accomplished and
is continuing to accomplish marvellous
and unexplainable reservations to
health and cures, mind you. that
have made many initial skeptical and
disbelieving watchers his most ar
dent defenders and advocates.
The doctor treats his patients in
tent and the public is permitted to
watch him as he works. Yesterday
though Sunday, was a very busy day
with him, he having an unusually
large number of rheumatics and his
treatment Of them was slightly diff.
ferent than that of a regular physi.
clan and was indeed very interesting
, Taking his treatment of one rheu
matte for example, he first told hin
to take off his shoes and stockings
and then he tickled the sole of one
of the patients feet and he did no
seem to notice it. for as the doctor
> said. his motor nerve was practical
. " dead" and then the miracle work
er put cotton batting between thu
patients toes and took hold of hi
right hand and with the left agaiI
. tickled the mans foot and he drew
1t quickly back, being unable t.
stand It, This bringing to life o
the motor nerve was the first steI
: and in fact Is generally so in all t.
different eases. The patient wa
then sold a pair OF large plat
shoes and after stepping into then
was told to go forth and walk as
healthy man wonld The theory o
the large shoes is that they do NO
crowd and kill the motor nerv
which according TO the doctor seen
to be the vital issue towards healtl
and no matter what a patient has
whether 1t be rheumatism, cancer
tuberculosis. blindness, deafness o
Il paralysis, the putting of life int
that nerve Is always the initis
step and the mammoth shoes follow
The Press representative saw. Nc
=, through some one else's eyes. but hi
own, the doctor press slightly on tn
, extremely large goitred neck OF foul
teen-year-old Clara Ritter, who live
!. on the Interstate irrigated tracts, an
saw by actual measurement that
!, had contracted FIVE inches and n
manned so at least four hours or u
to the time that she left the camp.
: In the treatment OF different kind
. Of ailments the doctor varies b
methods to some extent but YER