The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1914-01-15
DOCTOR"
TWILIGHT
UNFOLDS
HIS PAST
BY PETER STERLING.

VI amatic toucn enuto my interSleW
with Doctor George Francis sibley
Twilight. magnetic healer. soap mer-
chant and town character, in which
The doctor revealed for the first tim
his past. which has always been q
mystery and n speculation during his
fifteen years residence here.
II am generous, / am benevolent,
am tender-hearted. am not miser.
am not a crouch. am not cruel" :"
And so. further. did the gentleman OF
magnetic power enlighten me as to his
mental and moral characteristics.
These short pithy phrases were bel
lowed out by a pair Of powerful lungs
at various intervals during our talk
Doc as everyone knows him. was
sitting In barber chair getting a
iong-delayed hair cut and whIsksr
trim when ! conversed with him. I
w-s sitting In the chat on the shin
Ing stand and my eyes were on n
dead level with those snappy. spark
ling. darkish-brown eyes that smiled.
laughed and famed IN anger almost
simultaneously.
IL all started when the barber sug-
sested in a spirit Of joking. Say. Doc.
when you left here yesterday after
noon a fellow said that you were an
ex-eonvict Is that true
ITS lie. Who said thail He's a
Cd liar. whoever he is" came back
ike a bolt OF thunder from George
Francis sIbiey. 4 never vas a con-
vict- never was arrested. nor have
ever done anything to be arrested
for. never was within seven hundred
nilss Of . penItsntlary until came
TO Canon City. And / never was In
side this pen only TO visit. It's all a
lie. I never was a convict
~Ts IL true. as some say. that you
are the scion OF a rich family 1
asked him.
A ~hatf- asked Doc.
"A son OF a rich family" eluei-
dated.
NO. wasn't Ny folks were homes:
and hard working. And was. too.
snd | am yet" replied Doc.
After much apparently uncon-
oerncd questioning. Doc gradually un-
haired the past about which he las 30
long been silent and told us of the
younger days OF his life.
He was bora at Exeter. New Hamp-
shire. on November 7th. 1883. IL Mr..
and Mrs. william Twiagi't. on a 1T
tie farm close to the city limits. He
had brother and sister who are both
alive and live back there among the
New Hampshire hills.
Doc attended n country school IN
his early youth. hut when he grew
strong enough to handle hoe or fol
lew a piow. that came to .De his daily
toll. Ho had but little n,oney ~ith
which to buy books. but he intended
not TO be cheated OF the learning he
erAved He made friends with s;u-
dents who attended PhilIipa academy
and borrowed their castoff books.
One day he noticed that horse
which he was Harvesting would jerk
It's head and quiver as he passed his
hand over Il. Later his father con-
tracted rheutfatism. Doc felt the pain
tbercfrom almost AS acuteiy as did
his fnther., that Is. whenever he would
lift his father from one position to
another. but after such occurrences
the father would feel beneficial ef-
fccts. This puzzled Doc until one day
when telling about Il someone sug-
rested that II was similar to magnetic
healing. Tho action of the horse came
back TO him. He decided to investi-
gate.
Then followed m absorbing study
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