ALLEGED DIVINE HEALING.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 211, 19 May 1915, Page 3

ALLEGED DIVINE HEALING.

Mourned as dead, for several year*, Francis Schlatter 58. years old, who some years: ago had. a nation-wide r«« putation.as;the. "divlne-healer,'' v has ap-peared--in. Cincinnati,, and. is prepared to cure, afflicted, persons by what he caHs.- "layingrofrthethands l " j treatment. Schlatter, says he. i s the Original. FranSchlatter,, and that .he has not practised his.powers.for nearly a year because he needed a rest to restore his ■ magic influence.. H,e: says he has 'read many reports that the man known a s "Schlatter,.the,divine heater," died several years.ago/'The:man who died," Ire-said,, "waaj one- wjho. had used my name.:. He-, passed? away- at. Hastings, Neb." The statement is, made by Schlatter .restored' the eyesight of and that many cripples have : been- able to throw away their crutches after he. had; laid,his hands ,pn their bodies: A*. DIVORCE: "RECORD." According to figure© presented by County; Clerk Sweitzer, there was one divorce or seperate maintenance suit to six marriage licenses issued in Chicago in 1914; Sweitirer |has prepared a table showing the number of marriage licenses issued by- months. The heaviest* number of- suits came in March, when 532 suits. w«re filed. There were 5356 suits flletf during the year, as compared with? 33,897 marriage licenses issued. "(Chicago's record is about *as bad as Jain's," says Sweitzer. "It lis said that m Japan one couple out :of- every fiVs? goes into the divorce icourt "