The Washington herald., 1913-07-27

| would change IL you changed your
thought. 1t hath not entered into the
heart of (materialized) man to conceive
the joys that are laid up in store for
| the spiritualized man while he still walks
the earth. Take up this line OF thought
and wisely pursue it. and the breath
of your spiritual or astral body will. by
successive steps and in an orderly man.
ner. lead you Into all TRUTH all happi-
ness. all knowledge. all psychic or soul
power But you must first learn to rec
ognize 1t as actually present in you and
so establish your habits in virtue as not
to feel inclination to use "superhuman
powers wrongly"
These passages give some idea OF the
atmosphere of strangeness and mystery
and grotesqueness that pervades the
whole history of the wooden shack.
Printer Turns Healer.
Soon after moving his printing para
uhernalia into the tottering old building.
Smiley is said to have become intensely
interested in mental healing. He adve'-
tised extensively a wonderful trea;mert
for practically every ailment known to
the medical world. and catered eNcl:-
sively to women. Women from all SEC
tions of the country-five or six at a
treat for short visits to take Smiley s
cure. The place became a popular health
resort. The printer did not take persons
who were on the verge of the grave. per
sons who were crippled and loathsome!y
diseased; he made a speciality OF persons
who were merely indisposed.
The cure consisted of mental sugges-
ton, daily sun baths. and continuous life
in the open. Almost any day lone
traveller along the road might catch a
glimpse of a bare-footed woman SCAMP
ering among the foliage near the shack
tcr the inmates of the celebrated sani-
tarium never thought of wearing their
shoes and stockings. The forest was
converted into a veritable fairyland.
kind Of Mohammedan paradise. There
among the trees and the tall grass the
women dwelt like nymphs and druids.
tasking listlessly, lazily. in the warm
sunlight that filtered down through the
dense foliage.
The cure doubtlessly would have con-
tinued had not one day a grocery boy
the hill to deliver some provisions The
youngster with basket on his arm picked
his way among the bushes and the briers
and coming to the rear of the dwelling
spied three women in abbreviated COS
tunes lying in the grass.
The rumor was carried to the constable,
and that very same night the authorities
swooped down on the sanatorium to ar
rest the proprietor for failing to take
the precaution Of erecting a high fence
around his sun parlors. But the place
was deserted. The three wood nymphs
had given the wonderful physician the
tip. and in the darkness of the early even
ing he had skipped for parts unknown.
The inmates also had disappeared.
Where to? No one knows. But 1t is said
that Smiley is out West, and some de-
clare he is in California. II SO, In all
likelihood he will remain there. At any
rate he will not return to Takoma Park
not without running the risk Of being
nabbed by the authorities, for they still
remember the case.
Following the abrupt nocturnal exodus.
the wooden shack was left to fall a prey
to the deyouring laws OF time. The ele-
ments have lashed and beaten the struc-
ture, covering the old pine planks with
moss, rending the boards loose, and rust
ing the iron mschinery. And the de1po.