Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 24, Number 9, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 August 1893 — Page 7

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FAITH CURE FRAUDS.

THEY ABE HAVING A HARD TIME IN NEW YORIO

RKGVLAR PBTSICIASS BEGIM A BIG CRUSADJt,

And the MaJoHtr of laith Hetlan Arc Sincere In Their Belief*the Innocent Among Them Suffer With the

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URINO TIIE PAST few years the legislators of nearly every state in the Union have been cndeavoring to pass laws with a view of reguiatingr the Christian science, faith cure, mesmerism and other isms of less

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-constitution of the United States stands in the way. As these isms are all based on faith in Jesus Christ and the Creator no legislation can be framed with a view of discriminating against them. The Christian scientists hold to the doctrine of Christ, who is supposed to have cured the sick by laying on of hands and prayer. The Christian doctrines say that this power was

transmitted by Christ to his disciples. As late as the sixteenth century nonK'J believers in faith cure were put to death in many countries of Western Eurcpe, I* aith gradually became shaken in the theory, until now at the close of the nineteenth century believers are being persecuted for their faith. The most rabid of the persecuristians. Just now New

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Vork city and Brooklyn is the center .of these persecutions."nrul a number of Christian scientists ar* in jail,charged ,ey for iheir sorvices to the sick. This class of curists are

with receiving inone:

jsaid to be frauds, and have no recognition by the regular society of faith ^curists, of which Laura Lathrop is the rp head, She hat loined in the prosecution, greatly to the embarrassment of /the practicing physicians of New and Brooklyn, whose representa\

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tives out the original warrants Says Miss Lathrop: "Christian science can cure every "*dlsoas«j known to man. I do not mean by this that we are regular practising ^physicians. What we do is easy. We simply impress upon the mind of a .patient the fact that all is mortal error when he thinks that he is ilL

We thus bilng the patient back to the -original feeling that has guided all Isucn people In the past, that they are not til. The fact that they think so ^means that they are suffering from a curse that they have brought upon ^themselves. YVe require no fee for our ^advice. A true member of our faith would never turn a patient away be cause he was unable to pay a fee. II any body offers us payment we accept it, and do tho best we can." M. u,

II an cox is another well-known faith curist, while Miss X^ydia Bell has a reputation that extends all over the i^worUl for skill in the new cult. There xliare said to be I(H,000 people in America \'who are believers ia either the faith ^curo or Christian science. Of these »the statistics of physit iafis show that something like 10 ,per cent die •every year.

It was only a little while ago that pretty Martha Olsec, the daughter of a well-known and respectable citizen IMof Broiklyn, died of typhoid fever.

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was "treated** by a Christian •dentist, who prayed over her dally* and who, even when life had gone out, said to her sorrowing famer that nothing could be done more than she had done, even if a regular physloian had been called in, Her bill was paid.

It is believed that all the free faith curlsis can be legally punished But even this class often think that they really can effect a cure.

The present law of the state of New |ft¥ork regarding the practice of medl-

cine is: The person must be a graduate with a deg? ee from an incorporated g3»edical school or must have received degree from the regents of the university or must be graduated from an

Incorporated medical school of some other state or county. Such licensed person must register in the county wherein he intends to practice medicine or surgery.

Col. Emmons Clark, secretary of the Board Health, says thatla his opinion the fact that people are allowed to

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practice medicine without fcavtftf studied for this end, i& the faith cur1st* and Christies* scientist* do, is a blot utxm civilisation. "1 have no doubt," «u3 he to the writer, **th»t*omeo# these people are hooeU in their belief* Thgp really think that they can c«re almost any kind oI disease. It is a sad com men*

tary on human nature, it la true, but I believe that there are many honest quacks. The law as it now stands makes it no crime to simply pray over a sick person, and it is no crime for the friends of a sick person to call in a faith curist or a Christian scientist ••But just think of it, if one of your friends were illl How would you like to have a person comeinto your house where one of your dear ones lay ill, and kneel down by the bedside, and after praying for a few moments announce that there was no more danger of d?ath, an4 that your loved one would recover? "Suppose, further, that your relative had enough physical stamina to recover, would you. not feel better oyer your action in calling upon a faith curist or a Christian scientist? Of course you would, and then you would be liable to believe in them. That is the entire idea of the new cult in medicine. They 'cure" upon grounds that have no connection with actual medicine. They simply pray, giving nothing to really cure the patient, and if the patient recovers they say 'How great is oar science!' If the patient ales they simply say, *It is the will of

A FAITH CURB PHYSICIAN I'KAVIJiG FOB PATIENTS. God.' Between the two extremes they manage to exact money from many people. "r,« ^.4* AS. H. WHITE.

A TRAGIC DEATH.

J. N. Free Dtea After a Strangely Eomautie Career. *J. N. Free, a well known character, known from Maine to Mexico as the Immortal J. N., met with a tragic end while fording a &treain in southern Missouri a few days ago. He had the misfortune to get into a current which carried him over a lall 100 feet deep at the foot of which he was dashed to pieces on the rocks. The Immortal J. N. was known in every town, village, hamlet and township of Ohio, and was well received wherever he went. He came from an excellent family and in his youth gave promise of a bright manhood. He was a lawyer by profession, but early in life his mind became unbalanced and for many years he has been a wanderer over the face of the earth. It is said that in the early years of his practice he defended a man charged with murder at Columbus. He made a gallant de fense, but threw himself into the case with such zeal that his mind was overturned by tho worry of the trial. His one hallucination concerned an imaginary pressure which he controlled at times and which again controlled him. When he had the "pressure" undo! control he was happy, but during the periods when the pressure had hiril he was in great distress, al though the world was supposed to be bearing it then When it became too great foivtbe community J. N. assumed it Jae was a frequent visitor at the Qhio capital, and always called at all of tho newspapers, which he invariably cleaned out of its exchanges, for he was a voracious reader. In one of his recent visits to Columbus he delivered an address in the hall of the house of rep' resentatives. J. N. very much disliked the name of "The Immortal," and always requested the )oys title. He never paid for accommodations, and traveled from Maine to California without paying a cent of railroad fare. His gaunt form and long flowing hair

THK IMMORTAL J. FREK.

were a familiar sight to every hotel man in the country. It is told that at one time he attad a, hotel keeper what his bill was, The proprietor jocosely remarked that he Would throw off half the bill. J. N. answered that he would not be outdone in generosity by any one and that he would throw off the other half. He has been at every national inauguration in years, and one of his later trips was to New Orleans at the time of the death of Jefferson Davis, of whom he was a great ad* ttirer.j!g| A /v#Vy:

THE CYCLONE'S PATH. A Faimar Telia Bow It JPeel* to Set Cycloned.

A terrific cyclone visited Clay township. near Portsmouth,Ohio, last week and wrought sad havoc among the farmers. Farmer Hogan. one of the heavy loners, told a reporter how it happened. He says that he was altting in the house when first attracted by a roaring, whlsxing- sound, which, as he Uvea near the. line of the Norfolk & Western railroad, he took to be approaching train. The sound re* doubled* however, in ita fierce reverberations, and he rushed to the door Just in time to eee the monster •tout half a mile away. Be says he could see the monster almost face to face, and with it Game a cloud of dust and broken branch***. It passed right by his hornet, coming- so near to the porch that it snatched two chairs and a hat as it harried on, breaking the chairs into kindling wood and appro* prlatfng the hat entirely. A magnificent orchard of young tree* was aprooted and totaUy ruined. Pmiof his place It ttrnek the farm of Mr. Michael Koel, clearing it almost entirely of fences and demolishing several outbuildlnga. As it struck Hie raise on] the Nodi farm the yrclooe seemed to' shoot up and. oft lain' the air,,

NEWS IN A BASTILE.

MYSTERIES OF^COMMUNICATION IN A BIG PRISON.

IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS ABE QUICKLY KNOWN,

Notwithstanding the fact That the Convict* Are Not Allowed to Utter Sngte Syllable—A System of Secret

Telegraphy.

•ING SING PRISON has many mysteries to the outside world, but none stranger interest than the means communication between the convicts. From the time that a prisoner enters the dismal bastile until the day his term of imprisonment expires he

not permitted to ntter a syllable, the punishment for breaking* the rule is 100 lashes and three days solitary confinement, it is unnecessary tc state that the rule is rarely brokenThere are at present l,5u0 convicts in Sing Sing. Guards watch them close!" in the workshops. They marc through the yards in lock step. each, man facing the same direction and each squad under the eye of a guard. Where there is only one man in a cell that man aoparenUy has no means of communicating with any other prisoner.

Under such close rules it seems im possible that apiece of important news goes through the prison with the rapidity of the latest church scandal in a sewing circle. 5

How is it circulated? Well, that is one of the things that even the guards themselves cannot thoroughly explain

COMMUNICATIXC BY MEANS OF A 8TKAM TUPE. They know some of the means of com munication that are. emp'oyed, but these, as a rule, are simple and easily guarded against Long-term prisoners have 'few opportunities of availing themselves of them

When Pallister and Roehl escaped fro the death house where the guard is most strict, not a man who know something about prisons asserted that it was the result of a well-planned scheme. Their theories implied not only communication beWfeen these two condemned murderers, but also communicat4n between them and friends outside of the prison walls.

Principal Keeper Connaughton, who has had more experience with convicts than any other man in the service of th State, lys that he believes these men made a break for liberty on the impulse of the moment and without any.prearranged plans. He does not, however, deny the possibility of such plans, and he nrfmits that the convicts have methods »f communication that the keepers ca.. not detect.

Aside from the planning of escapes, the events that are of the most general interest to the prisoners are the elections and executions. Despite all the guards can do, the details of these eveuts are common property to tho convicts about as quickly as to tho outside world. On the morning after on election, every convict in Sing Sing knows which way the returns point Recently a number of longterm men were discharged from the prison, and almost as soon as they were outside the prison walls they began to whistle "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow" and other songs that became popular long after they entered Sing Sing. There is a prison orchestra, but these men were not members of it They bad kept so closely in touch with the outside* world that they were even familiar with the popular songs of the day.

It is in planning escapes, however, that this faculty of communication ia of the most value to the prisoner and the greatest worry to the guards. There have been too many escapes from Sing Sing to make a long-term man leave all hope behind when he enters the prison gates. Many of the*e men are skilled mechanics, and not a few of them are men of education and active minds. Life in the workshops and the cells is monotonous. Naturally they seek methods of communication. In the course of an experience of nearly a quarter of a century with convicts, Principal Keeper Connaughton has discovered tome of the methods of communication used by the prisoners. "There are," he said to the writer recently, "only 1,284 cells in Sing Sing, and we now nave more than 1,500 prisoners. Consequently we have to doable up some of the cells- and, of course, the convicts talk to each other. They are not allowed to talk with each other in the shops, but of course they do, more or less, and we can't help it, There are various schemes employed by them. I remember one case several years ago that was unique. Two convicts, without any warotaur, got Into a hot fight in the yard. They were hammering and pounding each other at a great rate, when the gnards separated them snd sent them to thedark cells as punishment. Apparently they had started la to kill each other, and If the fpuu-ds hadn't Interfered they would have battered each other badly. It was a sham fight, as I learned later and the men simply wanted to he sent to the dark ceils, because they thought they would have abetter opportunity there to perfect plans for escape. ''Another scheme that Is sometimes worked is to report sick. Thesdek men stay 1ft their cells and then when they are marched into the hospital to •ee the docfcsr they steel aa opportunity to communicate with each other. A convict who is planning- to escape wouldn't trust himself to a crooked

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letter, if they do want to communicate their plans they wait for an opportunity to talk together." "Do you believe that there is a generally recognized secret system„s of communication by some code?" fp|t "No, I do not. I have never seen any proof of such a system, although I nave often heard it hinted at. As^a matter of fact, unless the solitary system of confinement is enforced it 4s impossible to prevent communication. For instance. I have sometimes captured letters that were intended for the ball man. Supposing a prisoner wants to send a letter to another prisoner in his gallery. He may leave it in his cell wj^h request td the hall man lo deliver it If the hall man wants to oblige him he conceals the letter and when he goes to the cgjl where the prisoner to whom it is directed is confined he slips it in. These letters are usually harmless, for the chances of being captured are many. As a rule, they simply say that the writer is going to be released in a short time and wants to know if he can do anything outside for his friends. If a convict is clever he may talk to the mgn xjejLfc to him in the mess haH even when the keeper is looking. It is easy to disguise the motion of the lips in talking if a man is eating at the same time." HI "If there is no general code of communication in use, how do you account for the rapidity with which news circulates among the convicts?" "Well, that is something I don't account for. I don't understand it For instance, there probably wasn't a convict in Sing Sing on the morning after the last presidential election who didn't know that Cleveland had been elected Some of them may have overheard the keepers discussing the election returns, but how all the convicts got the news is a mystery. "Of course, when they are allowed to see their friends, every two months, they have some opportunity to send messages to friends outside, but that doesn't amount- to much. It doesn't explain much."

One of the best known criminal lawyers in New Yqrk city, who, perhaps, knows more about convicts than the keepers themselves, said that there were half a dozen secret methods of communication in practice in every prison of which he knew anything. "I know that for a fact," he said, "and if the keepers at Sing Sing deny it, they simply don't .know what they are talking about For instance, a very simple scheme is the old one of raps. There are many variations of this. A man who understands the Morse code of telegraphy, for instance, can accomplish much with such a code. I have heard of one case where two convicts, who were telegraphers, carried on a conversation in the presence of the keeper, by drumming on a work bench with their fingers. It was a simple scheme, but for its success it was necessary that the converts should understand telegraphy. "Water pipes have also frequently furnished a means of communication. I khow that this scheme was very popular in the Raymond street jail some time ago. When the pipes were empty the prisoners broke them open and used them as speaking tubes. If they wanted to send a message to ^ome one on the floor below they simply.attracted attention by rapping, and then -broke open the pipe and talked through it Of course, every man who has ever made any study of professional criminals knows that they have, a slang of their own that is unintelligible to outsiders. It sounds meaningless, and it is of a great deal of use to them at times. I have heard crooks talk when I could hardly understand a word that they said. Sometimes a word in their slang* will express as much as a complete sentence There may not be any generally recognized secret code in Sing Sing, but I will venture to say that there are a dozen different ways in

U8IX0 THE TELEGRAPHIC OODK. which the convicts can communicate with each other aside from the ones described."

WHO WARNED HER?

Saved From Death by Ltrhtntng by a Mysterious A*enejv A strange case of mysteriotui premonition occurred near Findlav,Ohia the other night at the home of Isaafc Mellooey. As two daughters, who occupied an upstairs room, were preparing to retire, Mrs. Melloney, actuated by some strange influence, requested them to sleep down stairs. They obeyed, though wondering, and the family slept quietly all night, the heavy storm that burst over the city before morning not awakening them.

The next morning the peculiar presentiment was explained. When the girls went up to their room they discovered that during the night a bolt of lightning had torn through the roof and ceuinrandpierced the center of their bed. The clothes were partially bunted and a hole bored through the bed. Death would have been the terrible fate of any occupant# of the bed, Mrs. Melloney can cot explain her intuition, but says she was painfully affected.

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During the examination of classes for graduation at Depauw university at Greencastle, Ind., some weeks ago Prof. Harry Langden charged that Frank O'Hair and Miss Jean Nelson, while being1 examined in the langauges, had received help by secretly referring to written answers to the questions, and for that reason refused to give them the necessary grade to graduation. The matter was taken before the faculty, and it, after a full investigation, sustained Langden and refused to issue the diplomas.

The matter created a great deal of bad feeling and last week culminated is a$ assault by O'Hair upon Lang-

PBOF. LANCDEN. den. The latter had just left his home when he was met by O'Hair and James Nelson, a brother of the youn lady whe had been refused a diploma. O'Hair accused Langden of having circulated false statements about the examination, on .1 uiihout waiting a reply made aa afj&ult upon him, knookmg him down and kicking him about the face iuad head. Mrs. Langden ran out to assist her husband and a crowd gathered and pulled O'Hair off of the prostrate professor. O'Hair was at once arrested and Langden was carried into his house. The town is excited over the affair, but sympathy is

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