always hi mind. It was a life job with me if necessary--and I was
not a "quitter." So failures and discouragements simply steeled me
to more intense endeavors to be cured. And while these endeavors
cost my parents many hundreds of dollars and cost me many years of
time, still, I feel today that they were worth while--not worth
while enough to go through again, or worth while enough to
recommend to any one else--but at least not a total loss to me.





CHAPTER VI

I REFUSE TO BE DISCOURAGED


After I had tried the electric treatment and found it wanting, I
heard of a clairvoyant who could, by looking at a person, tell his
name, age, occupation, place of residence, etc., and could cure
all diseases and afflictions including stammering. So I thought I
would give him a trial. He claimed to work through a "greater
power"--whatever that was--and so I paid him his fee to see the
"greater power" work--and to be cured of stammering, as per
promise. But there was nothing doing in the line of a cure--all I
got in trying to be cured, was another chapter added to my book of
experience.

Following this experience, I tried an osteopath, whose methods,
however good they might have been, affected merely the physical