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The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-10
4 SERMON In RHYME
BEING THE THEORIES OF ONE
"POLYPHEMUs FEsSENDEN."
Who "Trod His Masters Footsteps as
Trus.ful az Child, And Never
scorned to Lift the Heart by Want
and Guilt Defiled."

Old Polyphemus Fessenden for many n
weary year
Had daily searched the Book OF Life. to
make its meaning clear.
And though he bowed beneath the weight
of eighty years and more
side the old mans door
He trod his Masters footsteps as trust
And never scorned to lift the heart by
want and gailt defiled:
His s9Pdly neishpSSrs 'Si. thought it wrong
But Poiyphemus smiled and said. Il
haven't found IL yit.'
When preachers called for funds to
wbs prsaSd gS, fsf9ad beSad th the sSonPe Sa
reeked with sin and shame.
And not a Christian hand was raised TO
bring the outcasts in.
Alone, with God and poverty. he fought
the hosts OF sin.
And when old Deacon Bradley drove his
daughter forth In shame,
He took her. with her baby. In. and when
the elders came
To beat him down with argument, all
drawn from Holy Writ.
He grinly shook his head and said. II
haven't found 1t yit."
He thought that heather texts might be
within the Bible found.
While Christians lived who never even
heard the gospel sound;
But all the elders held that truth with
dogma first began
And said he trusted things to God too
much for Christian man.
Says Parson Jones. There's outside sects
thnts spreading hour by hour.
And We must put them down, my friend.
and crush their rising pow'r."
But Polyphemns took him down his book
And tapped the sacred page and said. =;
haven't found 1t yit."
And when twas preached. for Temper
anee.s sake, that God had cursed
And devils swarmed by leglons in the
sacramental wine,
Old Polyphemus Fessenden said. ITEM
perats though ] be.
I'm not afeared to take the draught the
Savior sat for me-"
And when the parson barred back sin
ners from tho feast divine,
He cried, Christ gave His blood for
them. and can't you give your wine?
If they've right to come" he cried. Il
haven't found 1t yit."
When Sunday came, the poor mans day.
II, and al the fields were green,
He loved to see the happy crowds flock
DER the Joyous scene;
Twas like the glorious throng, he
And learned from Him in brooks. and
trees, and fields TO worship God;
And bat bro fne elders der nst them
thigh, in Israel's ancient way.
by Moses writ,
IF Christ did such a thing he cried.
Il haven't found 1t yit."
His life was like the balmy spring. with
which the earth is blest.
And doing good, and thinking good he
laid him down to rest:
He sleeps amid the poor he loved. like
warriors mid their brave,
And sanctihes the lofty church beside
his iowly grave.
o Polyphemus Fessenden. you've found 1t
long ago,
In realms of everlasting light. where
flowers eternal grow;
For high on Gods respiendent roll your
humble name is writ,
While Cant and Sham still vainly seek.
Il. W. Heyslnger. NJ. A, NJ D., in
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-10

Shortly afterward Stevenson and
Dowie quarreled. Stevenson went to
court with his troubles. and disobeyed
zion's rule of arbitration. He got a
judgment. but Dowie, who had re-
cruited able legal advisers, appealed,
and finally the case was compromised,
Stevenson taking cash sum for his
claim against the industry.
In the first two years Dowie built
schools. huge hospice. and a taber-
nacle that will seat 1000 persons. He
opened great general store. estab-
lished a city court and postofice,
erected big printing office, and final
ly started a candy factory that turns
out tons Of candy every week. supply
ing some of the biggest houses in Chi
cago. The candy factory, indeed, has
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-10

1 forty-two from Milwaukee. In the fall
they held in the name of Zion a huge
tract of land lying just south of the
Wisconsin state line and stretching
away four miles over the gently slop-
ing prairies from the lake shore back
into the town of Benton. Then, when
all these acres were his. Dcwie an
nounced that he Intended to build Zion
City there.
Early in August, 1901. ground was
broken for the first house in this City
of Peace. The city Is plated on exact
geometric lines. with two great boule-
wards through the center. These are
crossed by two other boulevards at
angles of forty-five degrees. The east
and west streets are numbered from
one TO so, First street being on tho
Wisconsin state line.
The north and south streets have
Biblical names, chosen, alphabetically
from Aaron avenue. on the lake shore
to Zebulon avenue, miles back in the
town.
Seven thousand six hundred and
twenty-eight acres are included in the
city limits.
Like swarm OF bees the Zionists
city. and it sprang up like n mush-
room.
Dowie called upon his followers from
all parts of the country to move to
Zion, and they came. He had adopted
advanced ideas of health. cleanliness,
and sanitation from the Mormons and
improved upon them.
Zion City seemed bIilded literally
and really upon the sands. There was
nothing to make a city, neither harbor
nor mines. and not much agriculture
Chicagoans could not see how Zion
could bes self-supporting. Again
Dowie showed his resourcefulness. He
was related by marriage to one Stew
os1Son. a Nottingham lacemaSer. and
Dovie decided that lacemalsing should
be the principal industry of Zion City.
He went to England, enlisted Stew
enson in the scheme. purchased new
and improved lace machinery, and
began importing skilled laborers to
educate his people in the art He
built a great brick building for his lace
factory to the east of the Northwestern
railway and prepared to start the in
dustry. His enemies made a deter
mined fight to keep out his lace ma
chinery, declaring against his impor-
tation of skilled laborers. and seeking
to force him to pay high tariff on his
machinery.
Dowie went to Washington, saw
certain persons, and the workers and
the machinery came through. He was
starting an infant industry" He-xhen
began to teach his unskilled people, re-
cruited from all ranks of life. the art
of lacemaking.
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-10
The Quarrel,

There's blue of sea and blue of sky and
glad, mad wind of morn,
There's high. white riot of the waves
like clouds that fly the breeze,
And clear between the blue and blue
the straight, great sails are borne
u.augh, oh heart. that you are free
and anchorless as theseD
The noon. is like golden cup and all the
air Is wine:
Across tho stretch of level sand the
reckless breakers play;
The wild. gray gulls go swinging high
against the ocean line
laugh. oh heart. that you are free
and fetterless as they'd
There's mist of moonlight on the sea and
all the night Is still:
There's distant grooming of the waves
against the sandy bar:
The night is emIty as heart no tender
word may fll-
(Oh. lad of mine and love of mine, how
far away you areO
-Theodosia Garrison
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-10
King Who Hated Medicine.

Abdur Rahman, the late Ameer of
Afghanistan, was a great king, an
absolute ruler whose nod meant life
or death to his subjects. In a hun
dred battles he had proved himself a
great warrior, but there was one thing
he feared-a dose of medicine.
One day, when he was very i'll, he
refused to take nasty draught which
his English doctor prescribed.
Fortunately he had a strong-minded
wife, who wrote to him:
Are you a king or boy? |
thought you a king. but hear that
you are boy. If you are a king, do
what your doctor orders, as you ex-
pect your people to do what you
order"
Abdur Rahman meekly took the
medicine and wrote back that he was
a king and no boy.
On another occasion he left his
palace and rode hundred miles away
into the mountains to avoid being
dosed by his doctor and his queen.
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-10

attention was paid to it until. early
last spring, Dowie announced that in
and: restore New York. His invasion
October he intended to take his host
of New York was the most spectacular
thing Dowie ever did. He took over
5000 of his followers, put them on
ten special trains. and rushed them
down to New York, where for fort
night he conducted meetings In Madi-
son Square garden and in Carnegie
hall.
That trip drained Zion City of its
surplus working capital. II took over
$500 900 out of the new town and left
it in bad financial condition as far as
working capital was concerned. Then
came the rush Of creditors and pos
sibly the end.
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-10
sparrows Lined Up for a Bath.

In the center of the lily pond in
Union square, New York. rises n dome
of polished granite. surmounted by a
bronze crown. From the base of the
crown to the water run four grooves
cut deep into the granite dome. This
is favorite spot of the sparrow, be-
cause little ledge of granite rims the
dome about an inch below the surface
of the water, and affords n safe bath
ing place for the little fellows. The
polished surface of the dome is so
slippery. however, that the. birds
slide from it into the water, u their
manifest terror. The grooves, which
are unpolished and rough. are the only
safe approach to the bath. and at al
most any hour of the day one may see
three or four sparrows, one above the
other. in these grooves, awaiting their
turn at the water. Sometimes an i'm
patient bird slides down upon those
in front and the one nearest the water
is suddenly plunged in. The sight is
a neverfailing source of amusement
to loungers in the square.
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| led to believe that her marriage to the
army officer was invalid. and that, 10
gave her name. she married John Mur-
ray Dowie.
John Murray DowIe was n Congre-
gational minister of comfortable for
tune, and young Dowie received a fair
foundation for his education under
him and in the board schools OF his
native town. In 1860 the family re-
moved to Adelaide, Australia. and for
seven years young Dowle served as a
clerk in n mercantile establishment.
In 1867. when he was 20 years old.
Dowie returned to Scotland. and. on
the money ne had saved while work
ing in Australia, took hve years
course in the university.
Dowie. on graduation from the d.
vinity school, at once took orders in
the Congregational church, and, in
1879, returned to Australia and began
preaching at Congregational church
IN Newtown, a suburb of Sydney. He
continued In his work with success,
mis- magnetic oratorical powers draw
ing large crowds wherever he
preached.
In 1873 tby divine direction, he
says) Dowie suddenly deserted the
congregational church and started as
an evangelist, preaching healing by
faith. His power at once attracted at
tention. He declares that he first
learned of his power to heal by cur
ing a girl of a wasting disease that
nad already killed thirty members OF
his congregation. Since that time faith
healing has been the cardinal doc
trine of Dowie. He went to Mel
bourne, built n big, rude-loolSing tab
.rnacle, and began his work. In ten
gears he had built up a large congre-
cation. but he was not satisfied. He
deserted his tabernacle, leaving 1t In
the care of one of his converts, ard
started for England. He had money,
but not large amount.
1t was in 1890 that Dowie dawned
upon Chicago. Out in Western Springs,
u little prairie suburb at that time.
Dowie started in ito fight sin" in Chi
cago. In the spring of the following
year Dowie moved upon Evanston, and
there he remained until the spring of
the worlds fair year. when, with a
dozen followers, he rented house
down near the Midway. and, almost
with his own hands, he built Zion tab
.riiacle No. J..
with the fair Dowie's success began.
A little further north there arose
Zion tabernacle No. 2. The dozen fol-
lowers had become hundreds. The
health authorities attacked Dowie.
Dowie abused them. Then Zion taber-
nacle No. 3. seating 1000 persons. was
erected.
the Christian Catholic church in Zion
and appointed himself general over
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tell, Currier & Freeman. were named
ms the receivers.
AS the result OF conferences with
legal representatives of the receivers.
the head of Zion is making every eff
fort to raise fund of s1000,00O.
If this is accomplishment Dowie
is preparing to call on his tens of
thousands of followers to give their
all to the cause-it is probable that
Dowie will be allowed to administer
the distribution of this rejuvenation
fund as general manager of Zion and
its industries, but all this under su-
pervision and direction of the receiv-
ers. who are supported by the FEEDER
al court
The immediate sum for which
Dowie is responsible amounts to about
$500, 900, and by Jan. ! the liabilities
of Zion City. 1t Is alleged. will aggre-
gate s3S5.000 more. "The Restorer"
insists he is perfectly solvent, and
claims the petition for receivers is
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crowd in the Auditorium at Chicago he
declared himself Elijah III. He did
not press the point strongly at first
but the Elijah idea kept working and
by degrees people came to understand
that Dowie claimed himself to be
Elijah the Restorer, the reincarnation
OF Elijah the Destroyer, who was fed
by the ravens and finally was trans
lated He declared that Elijah the
destroyer reappeared again as John
the Baptist, who was Elijah the Pre-
parer, and that he, Dowie, was the third
and last manifestation of Elijah. He
called upon his people to believe this
and they believed.
This idea was what interfered with
his business. He startled Chicago over
a year ago by sending down swarms of
his followers from Zion City to make
visitations from house to house and
tell about Elijah III. But not much
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-10

What looked to the outside world
like the end of the economic expert
ment of John Alexander Dowle at
Zion City, but what Dowie himself de-
clnred TO be only the giancing blow OF
malicious enemies came Dec. l. when
Judge C. C. Kohlsaat OF the United
States District court at Chicago or
dered him to appear before him on
Dec. II and show cause why he should
not be adjudged a bankrupt.
Receivers were appointed immed-
lately. and took Zion City and all its
industrial enterprises into custody
Frederick NJ. Blount. cashier of the
Chicago National bank. and Albert
Dean Currier of the law firm of Bou-
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ZION CITY IN RECEIVERS HANDS
by
Due eand
Who stoB Be EIuahII ILL.,. The

been the biggest paying of his indus
tries.
Everything seemed to be going
smoothly in Zion. The people took up
celery culture and the raising of veg
etables. and 1t seemed as IL the city
was in a fair way to become a big
money maker. Dowie had planned a
harbor. which could be easily con-
Gtructed by dredging. and was plan
ming new manufacturing Industries
when suddenly religion clashed with
business.
Dowie as business man had had
marvellous success. Yet at times his
desire to extend his religious views
had seriously hampered his business
ventures.
June 2. 1901. standing before a great
The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-10
part Of a dellDerate attempt to crush
powIe THE WHOLE OF ZION.
Energy of One Man Builds the struc-
ture Now Tottering.

John Alexander Dowie was born
near Edinburg on May 25, 1S47. His
mother was Scot-an Alexander.
The man who until last month was
called his father was also Scot
John Murray Dowie-wbo now lives in
Iowa. Last month, during the New
York trip Dowie declared that John
Murray Dowie was not his father. and
that he was the offspring of an Eng
lish army officer a member of the no.
biIity. He said his mother had been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-22
A NEW HOUSE CLEANER.
1t Sucks Up the Dirt From the Floor
and Walls

Advices received at the State Department
from Consul Mahin at Noting ham, Eng
land, are to the effect that a new house
cleaning device is being exhibited in that
city.
The apparatus consists OF machine
composed of a two to four-house power
motor (oil or electric) and an air pump,
serving to maintain an exhaust of sew
eral pounds to the square inch. The ma
chine can be carried on wheels or be made
stationary. To it is attached a filter-the-
dust receptacfe-a tightly closed metallic
vessel with a capacity of a peck or more.
A 1I2-inch rubber hose, which may be of
any desired length up to 700 feet, is at
tached to the filter. At the end of the hose
is Cleaner or "renovator,' which is
tube flattened out at the end into a kind Of
long slit. BY rubbing this over the carpet
or up and dow nthe cloth covering of set
tees or chairs il not only sucks the dust
from the surface. but also from. underneath
1t Walls may also be cleaned of dust, the
cleaner being a brush of horseshoe shape.
No dust is raised in a room and it can be
operated by inexperienced men. These ma
chimes at present being leased, and IN
no case sold.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-22
Dolly Madison's Birthday.

The Dolly Madison Chapter, d. A. r.,
held a special meeting at the residence of
Judge Barnard Wednesday last, in COM
memoration of the birthday of its name
sake-Dolly Madison. A message from
Mrs. Madison in the shape of an autograph
letter written by her to Anthony Morris
of Philadelphia in 1872, was read by Mrs.
McNabb, and, through her, presented to
the chapter by Mrs. Erwin of this city,
who is a lineal descendant of Anthony
Morris.
Mrs. Morgan read a letter from Mrs
Fairbanks regretting her inability, on ac-
count of being out of town, to accept her
invitation to be present. Miss Tullock gave
a paper upon the life and characteristics of
Dolly Madison. Singing by Mrs. Ralph
Barnard accompanied by Miss Sewall, and
a piano solo by Miss Mcclellan completed
the regular exercises, succeeding which
there was an enjoyable social hour and re-
fTeshments.
Many guests of the chapter were pres
ent. including Mrs. Main and Mrs. Mussey
OF the state board of the District, and Mrs.
Tullock Mrs. Holcombe. Mrs. Pealer and
Mrs. Rosa of the national board.
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WIDTH OF A THoRoUGHFARE.
Suggestion Regarding the Extension
of 18th Street

committee representing the Meridian
Hill and Lanier Heights and the Mount
Pleasant citizens associations. called upon
Col. John Biddle, the Engineer Com
missioner, this morning and were given a
hearing on the proposed width of the i'm
provement on 10th street extended. The
committee was composed of Messrs.
Thomas Blagden. L. P. Shoemaker, Blair
Lee. L. S Lipscomb. f. b. Townsend ana
DR. Il. T. Sewers.
The members of the committee spoke
informally during the hearing. They said
they understood it was the plan OF the
Commissioners to improve the roadway OF
10th street to a width of 30 feet as far north
as Morris street. and to a width of 40 feet
from that point on. They desired to Know
If the - foot width could not be continued
throughout the entire length of the thor
oughfare. or at least through the Subdl-
visions represented by them. 1t was urged
important that a uniform width should
be adopted. 1t was also stated that much
of the land for the street had been donated
to the District and it seems that the prop
erty owners along the route were entitled
to the width that seemed most desirable.
The fact was brought out that 10th street
has often been referred to as the Executive
avenue of the national capital, leading, as
il does. from the White House north to
Rcci- Greek Park and the District line.
While technically described a street, the
national boulevard. 1t is destined, Col Bid
dies callers declared. to be one of the most
popular thOrOuehfares in the District. 1t
will be the great national highway to the
great National Park in the valley of Rock
creek. The fact that three quarters of
million dollars was spent in acquiring title
to the street, the committeeman argued,
should be sufficient to call for a grander
development of the avenue than at present
contemplated.
Col. Biddle stated to his callers that the
narrower width north of Morris street had
been suggested as a move in the interest of
economy, and that ii was the purpose of
the Commissioners to widen the roadway If
travel seemed to demand it. He added,
however that the matter had not been def
nitely settled as yet. He had referred the
question of the Improvement of the street
to Mr. Olmstead. member of the Senate
parking commission. and had not yet heard
from him. Col. Biddle said that while he
might not adopt Mr.. Olmstead's IDEAS still
he would give them consideration far as
possible in the treatment of the street.
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Boyd's and Vicinity.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
BOYD'S, Md, May 81 1903.
Mrs. Minnie r. Unglesbee, wife of Beall
Unglesbee of Poolesvile, died at her home
there yesterday morning at 10 o'clock,
consumption Mrs. Unglesbee, with her
husband, had only been a resident
of that place the past few weeks,
having moved there from Damas-
Gus where she has a number of relatives
Her husband and two children survive her.
Mrs Unglesbee was a daughter of the
late Mrs Lula Bohrer of Damascus, this
county, and aged twenty-seven years.
Martha Frazier. an aged colored woman
of Point of Rocks. became suddenly in
sane yesterday morning and imagined that
she was the Queen of England.
She was taken up by authorities and COM
United to Montevue Asylum, at Frederick.
for examination.
Since the burial of young Henry Mobley,
a victim of the premature blast at Dicker-
sons his little brother, Frank Mobley, has
been very Ill of heart trouble, brought on
by the excitement of the accident and the
funeral
Andrew Strange of Poolesville, a huck-
ster while on his way home from sur
rounding community near Poolesville night
before last was badly injured He had his
wagon full OF empty egg crates and upon
them bale of hay. and as the vehicle was
coming down hill the bale OF hay slipped
forward. struck him in the back of the
head and pitched him headlong from the
wagon, causing his horse to run away. He
was left insensible by the roadway, but was
afterward taken to his home He was
badly bruised and cut His goods were
strewn all over the county roads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-22
Modocs Returning to Their Old Homes

The commissioner of Indian affairs has
been informed by the Indian agent at Qua
paw agency in Indian Territory that most
of the forty-seVen Modoc Indians who con-
stitute the remnant of the tribe which in
1876 perpetrated the massacre at the lava
beds are preparing to leave for their old
home on the klamath reservation, in Ore
gon. They own their lands in severalty
and they have leased those and sold their
live stock. The agent says he has per-
suaded the Indians to postpone their de-
parture until he can hear from the Indian
bureau. but Acting Commissioner former
says that as the Indians are now citizens
he doubts whether their movements or
business transactions can be controlled.
The Indians give as their reason for their
desire to emigrate a preference for the
Pacific coast climate and a desire to see
old friends.
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Col whitney Granted Leave.

Lieut.. Col. Henry II. Whitney of the
artillery. aid-de-camp to Lieut.. Gen. Miles,
has been granted three months leave of
absence, to take effect June l next. Gen.
Miles will retire for age in August next.
so that Col Whitney'S services on his staff
will practically end when he takes his leave
He has not been given any regular as
Signment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-22

Police Lieutenant w. w. Jordan of the
eighth police precinct has submitted to the
Commissioners a report relative to the COM
mendable service of Private j. J. Geir dur
Ing fire at I4lS Q street northwest.
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