FAITH HEALING EXTRAORDINARY.
" I Lave been cured of rheumatism in the most wonderful manner," said a middle-aged gentleman at his club the other nightJ. "It happened in tliis way: I Was groaning in my office, when the caretaker of the building entered and inquired : 'Are you ill, sir?' 'Oh, 1 am nearly crazy with rheumatism,' I answered. 'Well, sir,' said the housekeeper, 'I will tell you what to do. Just get a raw tomato and carry it in your pocket, and in a very short time you will be all right again.' The suggestion seemed ridiculous to me, for I had paid enormous doctors' fees to no purpose, but possibly pain hadj weakened my intellect, for within a few hours I had procured a raw tomato,
and wm endeavoring to keep the vegetable from squashing in my siJt-lined pocket. Well, I carried it for a couple of days, and, by Jove! the rheumatism left me completely, and I felt better than I bad- done for yean. My heart expanded, and I called that wise Caretaker into my office, and pressed upon his acceptance a box of very choice cigars. 'You cured me entirely, Jones, I said to him, in a hearty voice, 'with your raw tomato.' 'Raw tomato, sir! said Jones. 'Why, sir, you misunderstood me. I didn't say a raw tomato, sir; I said it wns a raw potato as you were to carry, tax p "
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Evening Star, Issue 11893, 22 May 1903, Page 8
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