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THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL: SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1904. was cured of lung trouble, her hus BRIEF PROGRAM FOR said, "how do you. do things? I have talked with upwards of 100 of your patients, and am still looking for the 'CANSA HIGH GRADE ANIMALS Charles Wolff Has Bunch of Yearlings on STIFIED IS MY Unknown and Unannounced on His Arrival, Within Ten Short Months a Man of Strange Power Has Become Famous. bruises. I was afraid the result would be a return of the old trouble, but It did not and' I am as sound and well as anybody.

That man is a wonder." John'RamsOur, residing east of Junction City, visited Prof. Larson for. for-throat -trouble. While tlent he wrenched his back and when he next appeared" for treatment he came to the hotel on crutches, being hardly able to walk even, with their Quite a sensation was created at the hotel when Mr. Ramsour walked away a -half hour later carrying the crutches under his arms.

He has not had occasion to use them since. PATIENTS PROMINENT PEOPLE. Mrs. B. F.

'Hastings, of 512 West Sixth street, Junction Ciy, was treated and is now a patient of Prof Larson. She was seen at her home last week by the Capital's representative and without the slightest hesitancy told of the great improvement in her health since Prof. Larson treated her. "I was unable to go to his treating-rooms in the hotel and he gave me treatments at home," she said. "I was suffering with an especially severe attack of asthma a few weeks ago when Prof.

Larson came -here. It with the greatest difficulty that I could speak an ordinary sentence without stopping for breath and my heart action was weak. The treatments given me by Prof. Larson have cured me of asthma and the rheumatic pain has been greatly relieved. "I could notr my asthma was so bad," continued Hastings, "and pil considerable space to her surprising recovery.

COUSIN OF GEN. MILES: H. D. Miles, a second cousin General Nelson A. Miles, came "from Ta-coma, to be treated by Prof.

Larson. "I saw a newspaper account of the remarkable work he was doing," Mr. Miles said, "and as I had tried everything else and spent lots of money trying -to be cured of stomach trouble I- decided "to come to Manhattan and see if Prof. Larson could do anything for me and arrived a week ago. About twelve years ago I' -lived here, and still know a number of people lit and around Manhattan.

For the past year I have hardly been able C.PROF. J. AUSTN LARSON band was given relief from rheumatic painsr. ln hisjhacfc which had. troubled him greatly for ten years, and Mrs.

Sarah mother of Mrs. aged 67- years, gives Prof. Larson credit "for healing a running sore on her; ankle which had given her pain and constant trouble for nearly a dozen years." "Prof. Larson 'treated me Tat McPherson -last September," said Mrsv Faust, "and when I went to him I could not -helieve it possible that I would cured, for I had tried several but the open sore, always discharging matter and sometimes confining me; to my bed for periods of weeks, remained unhealed. I am cured now; and he also banished permanently a severe' pain in my back.

and side." Mrs. A. A. Armstrong i and Mrs. M.

L. Baird, both of Salina, told a reporter how they had been benefited by treatments' from Prof. Larson. Mrs. Armstrong said she had been sick, for 22 years cwlth nervousness and was at times almost insane, but that after taking treatments from' Prof: Larson she improved right along, and is better, now then she has been for years.

Mrs. Baird, whose husband is a well-known painter and paperhahger, was practically cured of rheumatism, lame back, constipation and pains in the head. "I took treatments last December," said Mrs. Baird, "and aside from a slight headache when I overwork I am entirely cured." Another and one which goes a long ways in refuting the statements of tnose who profess to have no faith in the magnetic power of Prof. Larson, is that of Mrs.

D. B. Carpenter, a resident of Salina. 'I was just -absolutely of no account," she said to reporter, "and for three years suffered greatly with pains in the side, heart trouble, pains in the eyes and constipation; I'll tell you I was in a teiiibl fix, but now," and Mrs. Carpenter laughed heartily just as a matter of em phasis, "I haven't a pain in my body, and I am just feeling fine." Mrs.

Car penter's husband sat in the- parlor of their "home when she told of her wonderful cure, i aixd he likewise praised the splendid of Prof. Larson. H. C. OWen, a' baker on Santa Fe ave nue, Salina, said, "I do not -want to see the time when, I will be in such a fix as I was before Prof.

Larson treated me for stomach "trouble, heart trouble and nervousness. I was about ready t6 give up for good when I got such satisfactory, relief from Prof. Larson. My troubles were so complicated and advanced that I it Impossible for a cure to be accomplished, but the treatments, given me by Prof. Larson have wonderfully benefited me." Mrs.

H. T. Hapke," whose daughter is a teacher in the Salina schools, still praises Prof. Larson for giving her relief in such a short time from kidney trouble of long standing. 'I 'conside? it remarkable," said Mrs.

Hapke's daughter. R. H. McDade, a M. E.

minister who Tesides just beyond the city limits of Sa lina, does hot look as if he had ever been sick a day in his life. He is a big, strong man with a deep bass voice, and a great admirer of Prof. Larson. "Yes, I took a course of treatments under Prof. Larson," he said.

"I had suffered with pains in the back of the head" and neck and also pains! In the They gave me lots of trouble until Prof. Larson got hold of me. Since then I have been all right. There 'are many of my friends around here who tell me they have been cured of various complaints." CURED PHYSICIAN'S WIDOW. Prof.

J. Austin Larson, the great natural magnetic." healer, is said by his patients even to be too modest in his claims. In fact Prof. Larson is a man -who does but little talking, bttthe finds great pleasure and extreme satisfaction in hearing that his former patientstwhom he has benefited continue in the enjoyment of the good results. The good' work done by this wonderfully successful healer will remain as a topic for discussion long after he has left the territory In which he is now demonstrating his great power.

At Abilene, where Prof. Larson is treating scores of patients, there comes a statement from- Mrs. E. M. Trowbridge, wife of the late Dr.

N. Trowbridge, a regular physician and. druggist of Council Grove for nearly thirty years. Mrs. Trowbridge was spending the winter with her daughter, Mrs.

A. B. Rose, wife of a well known merchant of Abilene, Clay Center and Topeka, when Prof. Larson treated her. She said: "I think very few possess Prof.

Larson's power, and I can speak very highly In his praise. My trouble was what doctors called rheumatic gout, causing an enlargement of the joints of my hands so that I could hardly open or shut them. Sciatic rheumatism also attacked me about a year ago, settling in my left knee, making it stiff and resulting in my having to walk with a limp during the six months prior to taking treatments from Prof. Larson. I could hardly step over a rug, couldn't sleep and was very nervous.

All of these troubles are now cured." PROF. LARSON'S POWER. Prof. J. Austin Larson was born on a farm near Ellsworth, 111.

About ten years ago he began doing things which surprised himself. One thing led on to another until today he is the best known healer in the country. With each case treated his power seemed to increase, and before a great while he realized that a power of which he had never dreamed lay within him, nd that by his open palms in contact with a sufferer from almost any cause he was enabled to benefit him. He regarded it as a gift sacred, and one that by all means should' not be abused, and from the very beginning he has strictly adhered to his rule to be honest with all lest the mysterious power should be taken from him. "When Prof.

Larson was certain of the great power which lay within him he commenced to make a business of healing the sick, and for five years did successful work at Galesburg, 111. At that place he established an institution, where he attempted to teach others to heaL Out of several hundred students there were but few who possessed or could develop sufficient magnetism to obtain satisfactory results for those who came under their care. SECRET OF HIS SUCCESS. Prof. Larson came to Kansas from Chicago last August and at once commenced accepting patients at McPherson.

To learn with what degree of success he has healed the sick, it is only necessary to Interview his patients. There are now under the care of Prof. Larson and his assistant. Prof. Wells, at the towns of Abilene, Junction City and Manhattan about 163 of whom receive two treatments a week.

With this great amount of work before him Prof. Larson enjoys every day of his existence. To see him, smiling and, serene, the very picture of perfect health, leaving his treating rooms in the hotel at Manhattan where a Capital representative sought an Is to marvel at the man's wonderful strength and en4urance. "It does not tire me in the least." he said just after dismissing the, last of fifty or more patients, I could go over the same work again after supper. I enjoy it, and when my patients tell me they are rapidly improving my care that compensates me for all the efforts I- have exerted in their behalf.

i Prof- Larson, the reporter THE SEMUCEHTEHMIAL nttnn it Monday, May. SO Memorial Cay Parade and address by Hon. 5 ii. secretary oz war. Monday night Patrlotto concert in Auditorium.

Chicago- Symphony orchestra, fifty musician. Topeka Choral society, 200 voices, Genevieve Clark Wilson, soprano; Holmes Cowper, Arthur Beresford, basso. Territorial Day Parade of old timers In forenoon Address in afternoon and atereop-tlcon' scenes of early Kansas people and things at night. Wednesday, Woman's Day An elaborate program, flower parade in afternoon and Auditorium meeting at night. Thursday, Topeka Day Trades pageant and fireworks from dome of state house at night.

1 The Parker Amusement company, twenty-one complete shows, all the week. It It MOTHER D0LITTLE GIVEN A WATCH AT EMPORIA it 5 Emporia Gazette: 'Mother" 9 Dolittle of Topeka, the oldest member the Ladies of the Q. It A. was present at this en- campment and after the gifts had been given 1 to Mrs. St.

John, It "Mother" Dolittle was led up to the altar and presented with a gold It watch from the department of tt Kansas. "A beautiful presentation kt speech was made by Mrs. Elma It Dalton of Winfleld which visibly It affected every woman in the hall It and "Mother" Dolittle most of all. It who said she had such a big lump It in her throat she couldn't thank It them for their present. Instead It of calling the Ladles of the O.

A. It R. "sisters" as the others did she It called them "children." TO MAKE CINDER ROAD. Snyder's Men Will Go to Work on Topeka Avenue. Street Commissioner Frank Snyder will put his men to work this week, if the weather permits, "on the cinder road that is to be constructed on Topeka avenue between the end of the paveerant and the fair grounds? Mr.

Snyder has arranged for getting the cinders and will co-operate with the Fair association in putting the road in good shape. EXCURSION TO KANSAS C1TT Decoration day, $1.25, round trip Santa Fe. BLACK RESD3IBLES LINCOLN. Points of Likeness Betweea Ex-Gov ernor and. Martyred President.

The practical skill with which President Roosevelt is looking after every important detail of the approaching Republican national convention is shown by his selection of ex-Gevernor Frank 8. Black, of New York, for the honor of making the nominating speech. Roosevelt and Black have both been Governors of the state of New York, but in many respects no two men could be more unlike. Roosevelt was born amid the aristocratic and wealthy surroundings of a great city, and Black saw the light of day In a humble farmer's home in the wilderness of Maine. "Roosevelt was graduated with distinguished classmates at Harvard, while Black worked his way through Dartmouth by teaching, tutoring and selling maps and Roosevelt has always been an earnest, active reformer In politics, while Black has been the strongest and bitterest kind of an unyielding partisan.

Black talks in public only on rare occasions, and after profound thought and the most careful preparation. Roosevelt's sentences are round, full and strong; Black's are short, concise and epigrammatic Physically Roosevelt is active and Impulsive, while Black moves slowly and with deliberation. 'The President's broad' shoulders and well knit muscles make the tall, angular form of ex-Governor Black stand out like the backwoodsman's figure of Abraham Lincoln, whom Black in many things resembles. But President Roosevelt's resolution, courage and absolute fearlessness are matched by the dauntless spirit which has always possessed Mr. Black.

Both are stalwart fighters, and both have the faculty of making friends and keeping faith with them. Black's nominating speech will be the great surprise of the national convention. Since the death of the lamented Ingersoll, the Republican party has had no abler campaign orator than ex-Governor Black. His speeches scintillate with epigrams. He never indulges in jokes, and seldom illustrates a point by a story; but he has a homely way of presenting an argument in a sentence and clinching it with a single word of Illustration, that is most effec tive.

He is never tiresome, and it is safe to predict that the nominating speech for Roosevelt will be one of the shortest on record. Every sentence will make its point and be as concise as a telegram. Best of all. It will be a Repub lican speech from beginning to end; full of hope and encouragement for the party, and giving nothing to the enemy but the cold comfort of- disappointment and disdain. The President has made no mistake in the selection of his spokesman from New 1 ork, Leslie's "Weekly.

The Rock Island will run a special train, Topeka to Horton. on the night of May 30th. for the accommodation of those desiring to return home after the night's program. Train leaves Topeka, 11 o'clock p. m.

The New Savoy Hotel. A. T. Pigg, formerly proprietor of the Fifth Avenue hotel in this city and aa old time hotel man, has purchased the Dutton House, at Fourth and Kansas avenue, and changed the name to the Savoy hoteL Mr. Pigg has added aa annex and now has 40 guest chambers.

He has refurnished the house throughout. also repapered and repainted it, and now has one of the finest popular priced hotels in the West. TO CURE ANY DISEASE. The Cans Must Be Removed, Same Waj With'Dandrvff Vfll ftl rrm th A falling hair and baldness, you will have no more dandruff, and your hair mut grow luxuriantly. Newbro's Herpiclde not OP.

IT contain li ilmn.x im fm dtrorer. but It is also a most dellght- iut umr uiMim lor rKuiar tonet use. Kn nthr Hair nrnantlnn unaniu germs. It stops all irritation, keeps the iup swrci, pure na Remember that something claimed to Mnf mm rvw1 will r.t w- Z. 1 worn or renuine Herpiclde.

Sold by leading drux-sits. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The IlArpicide Co, Detroit, Mich. Row. itr it Baow. Special AgentsT xww patient your power has not benefited.

How. do you accomplish these results?" With a smile, a very-broad smile," and a signiflcent Larson displayed the palms of his "larger hands and replied: "Laying on of the; hands I suppose." And a minute later the famous natural magnetic healer was standing over the reporter vigorously rubbing the palms of his hands together. And when they touched' the forehead of "the questioner there was a burning sensation which could not be misunderstood the great healer possesses within himself the power to relieve sickness and pain. He accompanied this action with the remark, "That sir, with the knowledge and ability of where and how to use these hands is the secret of my success. FAIR WEATHER TODAY.

Temperature Up to 80 In Topeka Yesterday Mini- mum 57. For the first time this year the thermometer at the local weather office registered at the 8 degree mark at 1:30, o'clock yesterday afternoon. This was. the maximum for. the day.

The minimum was 57 at 5 o'clock in the morning. This first touch of real summer weather that Topeka has had is caused by the fact that the, wind has switched around to the southwest. It will probably remain in that locality the greater portion of the time from now until next The average velocity yesterday was 14 miles an hour. Fair weather is predicted for today. There was rain at' several points in Kansas yesterday morning and Friday night.

The heaviest fall was .92 of an inch at Rains were also reported from Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota and northern Oklahoma. The temperatures continue to be mild. The minimum reported yesterday morning was 46 at Portland. The maximum was 88 at Phoenix. Clear weather prevails in the' Mississippi valley, with partly cloudy in the Central West and Southwest.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooo I Some" Potter Octogenarians oooooooooooooooooooooooooo From the Potter Kansan. "Uncle" Joe" Potter, of Potter, recently celebrated his 85th birthday, and if he had not have been crippled by a series of accidents, would still be an active man. He was born in Lincoln county, Kentucky, April 4, 1819, and has lived in Kansas just half a century. Frank Williams, a highly respected colored- man living east of Potter, is 87 years of age, having been born in slavery in Culpepper county, In March, 1817. He has lived in Kansas) about 40 years.

"Uncle Jack" Hundley, of Potter, lacks only about two years of being an octogenarian, having been born in 1826. He is a stalwart Virginian and Is as spry as a spring chicken. He likes to go fishing as well as any body in Potter. As an angler, however, he has a veteran "rival in the person of David H. Sprong, who though past 70, can throw a two pound cat-fish clear across the Mercer bottom.

If we are not mistaken, "Billy" Bond, the venerable weather prophet, east of Potter belongs to the octo crowd, and Nicholas Grelner, north of here, is somewhere between 70 and 80. Samuel Arthur, northwest of Potter, Is almost an octogenarian. Henry Sacks, on rural route, No. 2, will celebrate his 77th birthday In June. If present prospects count for anything ''Uncle Henry" will live to be 100.

Although he is a Prussian by birth his longevity and activity are doubtless due, not to Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky, but to Kansas ozone and his cheerful spirit. Judge Wm. Young, of Mt. Pleasant, although an octogenarian, is still Young, not only in name but in spirit. There are others of this young-old crowd in the vicinity of Potter, who might be mentioned, but we cannot recall their names Just at present.

As Tom McNeal has said: "It has been the experience of more than one newspaper that the number of octogenarians in a community has exceeded the popular notion. Many of these persons have seen hardy pioneer experience in Kansas and endured privations which would shorten the lives of any except those brave souls who tamed the wilder ness. DUREINJTO JAIL Could Not Get Off Serving That Thirty Days Under Lucas Protection. A commitment was Issued yesterday for Fritz Durein and he will be locked in the county Jail Monday to serve a sentence of 30 days. He will also pay a fine of J110 in addition to spending a month in the jail.

Durein visited the sheriff yesterday and asked that he be" given until Monday, to get ready. This request was granted, as Durein is out under bond. The sentence which he is to serve 13 for selling liquor illegally. He was convicted last summer and his attorney said the case was appealed to the Supreme court. This was not true, but the error was not discovered until Friday.

Shawnee A. O. TJ. W. Officers.

At the annual election of the Shawnee A. O. U. W. association.

F. E. Spacht was re-elected president; W. D. Purdum of Lmdaie lodge ISO.

vice president; Clarence Wright, secretary, and J. W. Gibbons, treasurer. Elmer Miller of Kaw Valley lodge No. 20, and G.

W. Wetling of uaKidllu i yJ. i ncic cicvicu iuc executive committee and Spacht. Purdum and Wright, ex-officlo members. CUT OUT THIS COUPON.

Take It to Rowley Snow's and Get a Fifty-cent Box of Mi-o-na the "Flesh Forming Food, on Approval. Cut out the following coupon today and get a month's treatment of Mi-o-na. the remarkable flesh forming food, on approval from Rowley Snow. Unless It increases your weight appreciably and cures your digestive troubles, there will be absolutely nothing to pay. COUPON.

This coupon entitles any reader of the Capital to have the purchase price of Mi-o-na refunded in case it does not Increase the weight and cure stomach troubles. We assume all the risk, and Mi-o-na is absolutely free unless it gives satisfaction. ROWLEY it SNOW, WE TAKE ALL RISK. When you get a box of Mi-o-na, de posit fifty cents with Rowley Snow as an evidence of good faith. They will give you a signed receipt, agreeing to refund the money in accordance with the coupon offer, if Mi-o-na fails to increase weight and cure stomach troubles.

All the risk is theirs. If Mi-o-na succeeds, as they are reasonably sure it will, or they could not afford to make an offer like this, the cost is trifling. Cut out the coupon today and take advantage of this offer. Beef for" Local Market Public In-v ited to- See An imsls on Foot Monday. There seems to be an Impression among a certain class of Topeka people that, this part of the.

country does not get as good a grade of beef, as is furnished the consumers further east. Any person with this idea should have visited the Charles Wolff Packing company, stock yards yesterday forenoon and viewed the bunch of 100 yearling Shorthorn heifers and steers there. The catle comprised what is probably the choicest bunch of beef animals ever brought into Topeka, They were purchased by the company's buying agent, Mr. Schlegel, from S. PI J.

Crippen and JT W. Roberts of Council Grove and shipped, here. None of them is yet a year old, and the weight is in the neighborhood of 900 pounds. With wide, straight backs and short necks they made as pretty a picture as a. stockman would care to see, as they stood in the company's yards yesterday morning.

Experts say that at-this time of the year yearling beef is the best grade. The thoroughbreds which Mr. Wolff has brought in here for slaughter have been on full feed since September 1 of last year and are in the pink of condition. A number of them have already been killed and the Test will be "butchered this week to supply the local trade. Topeka people will be getting a grade of beet from these animals that can not be surpassed by anything offered the public in the East.

Fully seventy-five of the animals are still remaining and will be in the company's yards all day Monday. Mr. Wolff has extended an invitation to the general public to' call and see the animals, that people may know just what! kind of beef they are getting. In the Wolff yards yesterday there were nearly 2,000 of as good grade, hogs as ever gladdened the eye of a buyer. It is necessary to keep on band nearly this many as the daily kill amounts to near 450, or in the neighborhood of 2,500 for the week.

From twenty-five to forty beeves are slaughtered every day. The Wolff, Packing company, now employs in all departments over 250 men and is one of Topeka's largest Industries. We would sooner sell goods at half cost than lose-our reputation. August's promise big doings for one week, commencing Monday. DECORATIOflJjAY EXCURSION To Fort Leavenworth.

The Union Pacific, has arranged to run a Special excursion train under the auspices of The Knights of Columbus, to leave Topeka at 7:30 a. m. Monday, May 30th, Decoration Day. The rate for the from Topeka has been fixed at the low rate of $1.25. The excursion train will reach Leavenworth at 9:45 a.

A Special Decoration Day Program has been arranged including band concert, parade and exercises at The National Cemetery. Prominent speakers will be present. This affords a splendid opportunity to enjoy a delightful ride, visit the Soldiers' Home, Fort Leavenworth and the City of Leavenworth. Please notify UNION PACIFIC Agent if you are going, so that ample accommodation can be provided for all. We don't want any crowding, but want, room.

Returning excursion train will leave Leavenworth at 9:30 p. m. See Union Pacific Agent for additional particulars. Bock Island System. Colorado Flyer for Kansas City leaves Topeka every day at 7:45 a.

arrives Kansas City 9:35 a. connecting with all trains north, south and east. Leaves Kansas City 6:30 p. m. arrives Topeka 8:20 p.

m. Carries dining car in both directions, and is a through train without stops at Intermediate stations. NORTH TOPEKA NEWS. Items of Interest ta the Resi dent of the First Ward. News items and advertisements for this column as well as for other departments, of the Capital can be left at the book store of T.

M. James, corner of Lau rent street and Kansas avenue. Mrs. J. S.

Morse and Mrs. John Morse entertained last evening in honor of Mrs. H. P. Morse and Miss Evelyn Morse.

The V. T. K. club will meet Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. F.

Bowen. The members will devote most of their time making paper flowers for the float which will represent the club in the Seml-Centennial floral parade. The fifteenth anniversary celebration of the Epworth league of the Kansas Avenue M. E. church will be held this evening at the church.

The services were to have been held last Sunday but were nostnoned on account of the baa weather. James Cooper and daughter of Cocher-ton. are visiting North Topeka relatives. C. W.

Thompson and H. J. Nichols are spending the day In Chanute, Kan. The usual services will be held today at the Central Avenue Christian church J. A.

Sheetz is spending the day in Chanute. Kan. Miss Libbie Miller has returned to her home In Valencia after a short visit to friends in r.orth Topeka. Mr. and Mrs.

J. W. Cleland of Kilmer are the parents of a son. J. A.

Smith of 1518 Madison street is spending the day in Chanute. Kan. B. C. Arnold and W.

M. Clime are visiting friends in Bellville, Kan. Mrs. Ryan and son of Kansas City are here visiting Mrs. Ryan's sister, Mrs.

J. A. Lukens. of Central avenue. The regular services of the Congregational church will be held as usual today.

Today. Whitsunday. thre will be the celebration of the Holy Eucharist at the Church of the Good Shepherd at 11 a. followed by a sermon by Canon Burke. Sunday school will be held as usual at 10 o'clock.

No evening service. The services of the Second Presbyterian church will be held as uual today in Barrett's hall, corner of Gordon street Kansas avenue. Victor council. No. 4.

Knights and Ladies of Security, will rive an entertainment and box social Monday evening at the lodge hall In the Barrett block. No admission will be charged. Everybody Invited. ANNUAL BANQUET OF SATURDAY NIGHT CLUB Next Saturday night the twenty-second annual banquet of the Saturday Night club will be held at the Throop boteL The speakers and their subjects are as follows: President's Address W. M.

Davidson. "Side Lights on Oratory" E. D. Mc- "The "Futility of Political Ambition" Sara Bishop. "Tox Populi.

Vox Dei" F. IL Foster. "The Art of Holding a Jod" Congressman Charles Curtis. "The Art of Seeking a Job" Major A. M- Harvey.

How to Become a Saturday Nlgbter Justice Henry F. Mason. The Tellow rertl Kwinjr Herbert. "A Glimpse Into the Future" -Governor Baaer. I Out in Central Kansas, to the: west and south of Topeka, came a stranger some ten months A', strange man' with' a.

strange power. Unannounced and unknown on his arrival, today he is the most widely known and most widely discussed man in the territory embraced by such representative towns as McPherson, Sa- Una, Beloit, Concordia, Junction Abilene, Manhattan and Wamego. His coming was strange, his doings have been stranger. Courteous In bearing, puritanical in honesty, unique in personality, he has surrounded himself with a seemingly impregnable wall of good words and good wishes. This man who has set the whole of Central Kansas a-talking, who has been the subject of scores of newspaper sketches, whose words and works have been profound enough to cause the Capital to send its representatives into the field to investigate thoroughly the truth of hundreds of stories.

of his power, is named Larson, to be more accurate, Austin Larson, and 1 known among his patients as a natural magnetic healer, whatever that may be. One of the first stories which received wide publicity last fall was the case of Miss Myrtle Phillips near Bavaria, a small town In Saline county. Here was a girl -'who, through purely physical ailments, had lost her mind three months before her parents brought her to this man, Larson, and for a month before she Mad been, in a private sanitarium where she had to be watched day and night. In spite of all she had succeeded In doing herself bodily harm while following the dictates -of a disordered brain. -This was her' condition when the great healer first saw her.

The. first -treatment soothed her shattered nerves and sleep, strong and natural, sought her pillow the succeeding night. Another treatment and another night's rest, followed with an awakening the next morning to perfect sanity and overwhelming joy. Succeeding treatments cured her physical ailments and today Myrtle Phillips is a transformed being, healthy, strong and happy, never having suffered a return xof "her old trouble. This case and others have induced the Capital to send out a reporter to bring back a story the and the fhow" of this man's work.

He" has returned with a wonderful tale of what this man has been doing, but he has failed utterly as others have lalled to explain the "how." Last August Prof. Larson came Into the state from Chicago, stopping in Mcpherson, and within a remarkably short time after his name was a household word throughout the county. Those who spoke of him used no word of criticism, save a few envious and skeptical ones, but the loudest words of praise were heard for him from every quarter. His fame as a healer of the sick and afflicted spread like a prairie fire in the early days of Kansas, and sufferers from diseases which had made life luirdly worth the living for them eagerly sought out the man who was spreading happiness throughout the community. There was scarcely a form of chronic disease, the reports came to them, that this strange man, who had suddenly come into their midst, was not handling with the greatest satisfaction.

Sufferers came from miles around to talk with Prof." Larson. They went to him in many instances without the remotest hope of being cured, but their neighbors had been to him and their words of praise caused others to say, it will not do any harm to see him." With each succeeding week and month there were scores of people who joined the ranks of the miraculously cured, and it was but natural that the fame of Prof. Larson as a successful healer should spread. People who stood high in their respective people of intelligence, large property owners, business men, all classes of citizens enrolled as patients of Prof. Larson and were either cured of their complaints or greatly "benefited.

His reputation soon over-reached the bounds of the towns wherein he was giving treatments, and people from all parts of the state were eager to know more of the work of the man of magnetism. A representative of The Capital vis-? itcd Manhattan on one of the days which Prof. Larson was to receive patients. It was at an early hour in the forenoon when the first of the patients arrived at the hotel, and with but a brief intermission at noon there was a steady stream of patients throughout the day. Each waited his or her turn in the reception rooms and halls of the hotel, each eager for his allotted few minutes with Prof.

Larson. Smiling, the natural magnetic healer greeted his patients, and with unmistakable satisfaction heard from them encouraging words of his success in theip cases. "It would be a hard matter to find any one who has not been cured or benefited after taking treatments with Prof. Larson," said one of the patients in the reception room. "I have never heard of one myself, and I talk to mot of those who come here." While Prof.

Larson and his assistant were engaged, the Capital's representative talked with a great many of the patients waiting, and many instances of cures that could not but be regarded as marvelous were disclosed. There was one woman, I. N. RIgney, whose husband is wholesale agpnt for the Standard Oil company at Manhattan, who said that three months ago she had about made up her mind that the best thing for her to do was to jump into the river. "I was suffering terribly from female trouble," she said, "and life was almost unbearable.

I had previously had two operations performed and was in the hospftal at Kansas City for three months. Physicians at Topeka sai'd would have to have my left eye removed to save my right one. I would have spells frequently when it would seem that a nail was being driven through my eye ball. These spells happened as frequently as twice a week before Prof. Larson came to Manhattan six weeks ago.

I placed myself under his care and only once since that time have I had one of these spells. That was four weeks ago. Now I am a new woman. I can eat, sleep and do housework which I could not lows had to be used to bolster me up in bed- so I could get my breath. Prof.

Larson's treatments soon made it possible for me to sleep well at and I have no Photo by Rolfe, Salina, Kan. trouble from shortness of breath. My cough was gone, until I took a bad cold a few days ago." Mrs. J. D.

Griffin, wife. of the quartermaster's agent at Fort Riley, and a friend of Mrs. Hastings, had even remarkable cure than Mrs. Hastings. It was while Mrs.

Griffin was under the care of Prof. Larson at Junction City, and after she had been practically cured of a chronic complaint, resulting from an operation several years ago, that she suffered a sudden and sever attack of pneumonia. Mrs. Griffin became delirious, knew no one; her fever was very high, her pulse at 118. Both lungs were choked up and there was grave fears that the end was near.

Mr. Griffin went at once to Prof. Larson at the Bartell house and requested his presence at the bedside of his wife. Forty minutes after Prof. Larson laid his hands on her Mrs.

Griffin's fever was normal, her pulse was at 92 and she was rational. Twenty minutes later her lungs were open "and she breathed easily, and the next day she sat up and ate dinner. Mr. Qriffin insists that this is a miracle, and said- "Prof. Larson's power is mysterious and wonderful.

Since that time my wife has had no return- of the pneumonia symptoms and the fainting spells caused from, weak heart are things of the past." It was about six months ago that Prof. Larson began receiving patients at Salina, and for the purpose of learning from them the degree of success in which their cases had been handled, The Capital's representative called indiscriminately upon as many of the former patients of Prof. Larson as could be located at Salina last week. Some of those seen seemed eager to be quoted as having 1 entirely cured, and of the othe. without a single exception, there was freely given the strongest words of praise of Prof.

Larson's natural healing power and to what extent they had benefited by a course of treatments under him. "Why, said one of the great healer's earliest patients, "the truth of his success in healing the afflicted is not established by one or two witnesses, but by hundreds of them. He cured me, and I know of a score of others whom he has cured or greatly benefited." The results obtained by Prof. Larson at Salina, one of the first cities he visited in the state, were surprisingly good, and covered various forms of complaints, notable among which was the case of Park Commissioner J. E.

Pearson. Mr. Pearson was seen by the Capital's representative in beautiful Oak Dale park last Thursday. "I am a new man," said he, as he plucked a stem of dandeline from a grass-covered mound, "and now I am enjoying life. I can't say.

too" much in praise of Prof. Larson, ie cured me of constipation and general debility from which I had suffered ever. since I left the army. I was about ready to give up when Prof. Larson came" to Salina.

but his treatments made me a new men. He also cured my daughter, Laverne, of a paralytic affection of the shoulder and weak eyes. I would be satisfied with what he accomplished in her case -if he had done me no good whatever." Another member of Mr. Pearson's family was cured of weak eyes and the park commissioner is one of the most grateful of the successful healer's former patients. Another instance where several members of a family were either cured or given relief from sufferings was disclosed by a visit to the home of Andy Humbargar, east several miles in the country from Salina.

Mrs. Humhaxffar rri to do anything. I -could not eat anything and keep it on my stomach without it giving me distress, and I lost forty pounds in weight. When I came here it was almost impossible for me to climb the stairs to Prof. Larson's rooms, but now I am like a new man entirely.

This morning I walked eight miles to the railroad station. Before I commenced taking these treatments I felt most of the time as if -I would have to crawl if I got anywhere, but now I am getting strong, can eat anything that anybody else can, and do not seem to have any trouble of any kind. I am glad that I came here." WOMEN CURED OF NERVOUSNESS. Two notable cases of cures of nervousness are told in Manhattan, one being thai of Mrs. J.

Hubert, wife of the Union Pacific agent at Ogden. Mrs. Hubert had extreme nervous and liver trouble. She told a reporter that she had not for several years before seeing Prof. Larson had a good night's sleep.

"I would toss around in bed every night for an hour or two, and had the most frightful dreams. was sick that way for ten years, and five years ago I was told by physicians that I could not' live ten days. I hung onto life, but did not enjoy it much until after taking treatments from Prof. Larson. I am now rapidly gaining my health, am not bothered with nervousness and sleep Well every night." "I can vouch for that," said her husband who accompanied her.

"I hardly get her awake mornings now." Mrs. I. B. Paddock, wife of a well known. monument man of Manhattan, said "I do not believe Prof.

Larson and his treatment has a better friend than me anywhere. For two years I did not sleep two-thirds of any night. My husband did not want me to take treatments from Prof. Larson, but he finally consented. Now he is as glad as Laftn that I did, for I am almost entirely well.

I can do my own housework and am so sleepy that I can hardly hold up my head when bedtime comes." Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Allen, of Manhattan, are both patients of Prof.

Larson. Mrs. Allen has been troubled with constipation for a long time and last December she sustained a slight stroke of paralysis in her left limb, "following a severe attack of grip. When she commenced taking treatments from Prof. Larson she had no use whatever of her affected limb vand said her foot felt like a big club.

There was ho feeling in it whatever. She now walks home after taking her treatments, a distance from the hotel of seven blocks, and says she is rapidly being cured of all her physical troubles. Mr. Allen is getting much relief from pains in the neck and back. R.

W. McGrew, an old soldier, showed a reporter how he could raise his arm and also put it behind his back, something he claimed was impossible on account of the pain before taking treatments from Prof. Larson. REMARKABLE RHEUMATIC CASES. Adam Bowman, of Brookville, is one of the most grateful Of thesmany who have been absolutely cured by Prof.

Larson. He sad, "I am. undoubtedly cured of sciatic rheumatism which had bothered me for eight years. When Prof. Larson in Salina last September I was confined to my bed.

I told my wife that as soon as I was able I was to see him. I commenced treatments, and from the first got bet ter. After I took ten treatment fn-r- do before." Mrs. Rlgney's case has at- there was no use in me taking any more, tracted much attention in Manhattan I was cured. Since that time I lost con-on account of her wide acquaintance, trol of my horses and was thrown to the fend the newspapers there have devoted ground, sustaining a broken, rib and.