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Show A PARIS MESSIAH. Successful Career Stopped by the Police. (Tendon Mail.) Though he began life as a waiter in a Paris hotel, though five years ago he was only a working upholsterer, and though he cannot spell an easy sentence correctly, an individual calling himself the "new Messiah" has found the means to amass considerable wealth and live in a luxurious abode. The methods by which he accomplished una are interesting. He announced tnat he could cure all maladies, toretell the future and interpret dreams. His was n? 0rd'nal7 Power, for by his magical gifts, his incantations and his spells he t in io nours cured a patient in the last stages of cancer. A certain section of the public believed the ! self-appointed Messiah, and 16,000 is thv sum.Jle ,s sald to nave extorted from his gullible dupes. His operations were carried on in the Clichy quarter, whert he lived in a flat, the staircase of which was covered with a magnificent carpet and lined with palms and other costly plants. Servants in livery liv-ery received the callers, and at the door there was a constant stream of eabs and carriages, putting down those who came to consult the magician. In the sanctum of the "new Messiah" was a huge representation of the sacred heart of Jesus and a life-size uortrair of the Czar Alexander III, and in the corner cor-ner of the room stood a flamboyant altar, al-tar, on which, while the seer performed his Incantations, four domestics held a metal Image of the Virgin. A coffin also figured in the magician's ceremonial. The "new Messah" says that he carried car-ried on his incantations between midnight mid-night and 3 a. m.. when his patients, or, rather his dupes, were in their first sleep, which condition was favorable to his influence. in-fluence. He admitted having received as much as 600 at a time from his patients. pa-tients. One lady is even said to have parted with 2."400. Unfortunately for this wonderful magician, ma-gician, the police got wind of his lucrative lucra-tive calling and he was arrested: and as their views of what i prouer in the role of the "new Messiah" are sMeht'v Afferent Affer-ent from those of the Clichy charlatan, they are pursuing inriuirfes which may have some awkward results for the ma-piHan. ma-piHan. The aTair has created a ereat sensation in the nnarter where he lives. |