The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-04

out all over the laundering hnsulsts face as he bravely plunged agan lhUO an attempt to carry the pun poullS over from English to German when he had finished, limp and breathlesS' the stupefication of the audience was complete. Then one of the Generdl Overseer's party on the platform Wlth him whispered a few words in his ear Suddenly he saw & great light, and joined heartily in the laugh at his own expense.
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 The unquestioning acceptance of their leaders's every utterance by the faithful often led to Imaginable blund- CTS. At every baptism service that he conducted it was Mir. Dowie's custom to have all candidates fill out what were called Baptism cards" These, he told them, over and over again; so that no one might misunderstood, must bear the full name, residence, age occu- patton, &c., of each of their signers. Speaking in his well known broad Scotch accent, he pronounced the word "full' as if it had been spelled fool. " After one of these services a letter was received from woman who had re- ceived the ordinance of baptism asking why her name had been omitted from the published list. "I wrote my fool name on the card just as the General Overseer told me to- she said.
 Several ludicrous blunders of Dr. Dowie's interpreters on his foreign trips have become classic in Zion City. During one of the doctors meetings in Paris his remarks were being done into French by a young Parisian who had studied English few months in Lon- don. In the course of his address the prophet of Zion City got on the trail of the unspeakable hog" Among other things he had against the porker was his immunity from rattlesnake poison. The word rattlesnake was a new one to his interpreter but it was no time for consulting dictionaries. Something had to be supplied, and that immediately. In desperation the young man used the French word for flea. He had read somewhere that swine were bothered by these festive insects, so he put in the word and hoped for the best The following Is a free English trans lation of what that astonished Parisian audience heard the interprter say for the famous preacher from America:
 1.-The pig is so poisonous himself that he does not suffer any harm from the bites of flea. There is an island in the Detroit River, in the United States, that was once so infested with f1eas that no one dared to go there. It was a beautiful island, and the owner wanted to reclaim it. so he introduced pigs. These filthy animals luxuriated there among the fleas. When flea would bite one of the pigs would just laugh at 1t, turn around and eat the flea from snout to tail. Finally the pigs ate up all the feas, clearing the island of them. Then the pigs were sent to Chicago and made into hams; the hams were sent to Paris, and you ate meat from swine fattened on fieas- and thought it good"
 In Lausanne, Switzerland, the general overseer had as interpreter an English gentleman who had spent many years in France and was fairly well versed in the French language. He was a little rusty, however, on some of the fine points, as Is shown by the following There are several colleges of medicine in and about Lausanne, and there were many medical students at the lecture. It was for their bene- fit that Dr. Dowie was telling the ex- perience of a certain newspaper woman in New York city who went to five different physicians for consultation when she was in perfect health, and returned with a diagnosis and prescrip- tion for different disease from each. This is the English of what the audi ence heard from the interpreter.
 "She went to the first. He looked at her tongue. He thumped her chest. He listened to her heart. He took her temperature. He felt her chicken"
 At this point the story was inter- rupted by shout of laughter from the students. The interpreter had said poule, meaning hen or chicken, instead of pouls meaning so the pulse.