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The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-04-28
The Modern Rush

Our trouble in all this tremendous
rush. race and fight of the last genera
ton for supremacy in commercial af-
fairs Is the sinking of true principles Of
positive honesty, writes a correspondent
Of the New York Times. Anything
which got business passed. BY advice
OF counsel every devious device to get
the better of the other fellow, if 1t
stopped before murder, has been &C
ceptable. Eminent men of affairs lack
the honest courage to regard the plain,
simple over-reaching as what it really
d. dishonesty and sharp practice. On
the other hand, the plain man coming
up by political accident has stood ready
TO make a little something" and Sir
Robert Walpole's epigram, Every man
has his price," has stood as a working
fact. And men in executive places have
met the situation. took the world as it
was and worked it." There is law
enough on the statute books to cover
every case known-not more law Is
needed, but a clear cut, upright measur-
ing of the right and wrong of things oy
the standard of the eternal truth voiced
In the Ten Commandments, and this ap-
plies to each man, woman or child,
whether IN high position or low. If a
strong and able man stands In a high
place may that man possess the cour.
age to speak out at the first
tendency toward debauching men
Tor the price and not snicke,
over it as a good thing and sharp
business, which brings a money profit, |
but a blight to the soul. This country
Is not going to the dogs-we are likely
70 do better.
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WORKED
SIMPLY MARVELOUS.''
Suffered Severely
With Headaches
Unable to Work.

Miss Lucy V. Mckinney, 452 3rd Ave,
Brooklyn, N. Y, writes:
"F0r many months / suffered Sc
vere!y from headaches and pains In
the side and back, sometimes being
unable to attend to my daily work.
81 am better, now, thanks TO Peru.
ma, and am as active as ever and have
no more headaches.
1.-THE way Peruna worked In my
case was simply marvellous"
We have in our files many grateful
letters from women who have suffered
with the symptoms named above. Lack
Of space prevents our giving more than
one testimonial here.
1t is impossible to eve approximate
the great amount of suffering which Pc
runa has relieved, or the number Of
women who have been restored to health
and strength by its faithful use.
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18SS-Lands at San Francisco with
500 in his pocket.
189O-Arrives in Chicago and begins
preaching in the streets.
Observation-Disclosures a Divine healing
missioi.
1S94-Opens headquarters and estab-
fishes q bank and newspaper.
1S99-Inaugurates metropolitan cru
SADIE, preaching nightly in different
parts Of the city. Mobbed by hood
lums.
1900-Purchases site of Zion City
and conducts crusade in England.
19O1-Starts factories at Zion City.
Declares himself to be Elijah I'LL, or
Elijah the Restorer.
1902-Negotiates for Mexican plan
tation and Texas land for colonization
purposes. Refused credit by Chicago
merchants. Ordered to refund $4,000
to Frederick Sutton, of New Zealand,
who had invested in Zion.
1903-Receives large contributions
and tithes from his people in the
famous collection barrel. Leads the
Zion restoration host of 5000 workers
in eight special trains on a religious
visitation to New York. Creditors
press claims and Zion placed in hands
of a federal receiver during several
weeks.
1904-Departs on mission around
the world, via San Francisco and Aus
tralia. Returns six months later and
takes title Of First Apostle of his
churct.
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1905-Gets an option on 700, 900 acres
of Mexican land and makes trip to
complete colonization plans. Strick-
en- with paralysis on his return to Zion
City. After a second stroke leaves for
West Indies.
1906-Makes Wilbur Glenn Voliva
deputy general overseer of the Chris
tan Catholic church and the Zion in
dustries. Repudiated by Voliva and
his people.
Gave Enemies Chance.
That DR.. Dowie's conduct at Zion
was not at all times circumspect seems
TO be beyond doubt. Diversions not
strictly suited to a man of his age
and positiOn-his participation, for in
stance, in games of blind mans buff"
with adult visitors to Shiloh house,
and his disregard of conventionalitieS
in his visits to Miss Ruth Hofer-are
not denied, but his friends and enc
mics differ as 20 his guilt or limo
cence.
Claim Advocacy of Polygamy.
That John Alexander contemplated
polygamy and at one time threatened
TO set the example in person is assert
ed by Voliva himself and by the
overseers. They regard the obsession
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as evidence of his state of alteration
Of mind. Polygamy, it is understood,
explains the antagonism of Mrs.
Dowie and Gladstone Dowie to the
first apostle.
The verse of Scriptures on which
DR.. Dowie is said to have based his
advocacy of polyamy is the following:
And v shall take hold of one
man, saying: We will eat our own
bread and wear our own apparel, only
let us be called by thy name to take
away our reproach."-Isaiah Ali.
Early Troubles in Zion.
During the early days of Zion. City
there was much prosperity and Dowie
paid his workers currency. He found
this tedious, and to evade it, evolved
a scheme of paying by D or
script, redeemable some day" by the
central financial government of Zion.
These coupons were issued in enor-
nous quantities and used as a substi-
tute for currency.
This wildcat" Issue gradually
drove real money out of the city.
Judge v. V. Barnes, the general
counsel, and other leaders protested
to Dowie against the issue. Dowie an.
swered by keeping the printing presses
working overtime.
The coupons were in time dumped
on Dowie for everything p~urchasable
in the city. The income from the mer-
chandise sold on the outside was the
only real money coming in, and that
was not sufficient. The climax was a
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The habit of keeping punches of 800
bills in shoe boxes in bedroom closets
mp to $22,G COO is not to be commended
1t is unsafe to keep over $2O.O 0 in the
house, advises the Abilene Reflector.
though doubtless many Kansas farm
ers grow careless through handling
their increasing wealth and do not
realize how large a sum they have on
hand. 1t is a good plan for farmers
20 count their money every week or
two and deposit all above $40, 1000. lust
Q little handy money, In some good sub.
stantiaI bank.
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The two men contrast absolutely
physically, temperamentally. The ex.
uberant Dowie, massive in frame, re-
dundant in speech, magnetic and dom.
inant in personality, %enveloped and
swept away by the power of his own
visions, recognized in his moments Of
wisdom and judgment. in his secret
communings in his closet, that in the
young disciple Voliva existed the san
ity, the sense, the prudence, the
righteous and sure faculty which
would avail Zion when the influence
of it's founder was withdrawn.
Voliva the Man to Do.
Spare, pale, a~scetic, cool, intelligent.
unaffected by dreams, resolute to ac-
complish the task Immediately under
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his eye, Voliva Is no conqueror to
found communities, to convert the
world, to gain riches in Mexico and
spiritual dominion in the islands of
the sea. He could never invent the
~pageantry, the Hebraic ceremony, the
oriental splendOr. But he can organ
jze, he can eliminate waste, he can
practice economy.
New Leader in Earnest.
Voliva is but sc years of age. His
hair is black, not dark brown. His
eyes are deep-set, shrewd, very dark,
and somewhat piercing. His sallow
cheek is the %esthetic's; his thin, close
set lips are the disciplinarian's, not
only of others but of his own spirit.
He eats but two meals a day, frequent
ly only n sometimes not at all.
He clothes himself with "n~eatness" in
the fashion of the co~nventionally prim
Protestant minister-white tie, frock
coat, low-cut w~aistcoat. He never
smiles, not because he is oppressed by
his W dignity, but because he sees
nc occasion for mirth. He does not at
tempt to impress his visitor-Dowie
actually made four men of five
tremble in his presence.
Voliva is an American, a Hoosier,
who is SO entirely an American that
he is ignorant of what is his racial
stock. He has been heard to say that
he fancies his peculiar name may be
French. but he doesn't know.
In 1900, DR.. Voliva became associated
with DOwie's church. A few months
later he went to Cincinnati, where he
remained six months, and in October,
1901, he wen to Australia after be-
ing ordained an overseer. DR.. Voliva
returned from Australia to take charge
of affairs at Zion City a few weeks
ago.
Where 1000, 900 Was Spent.
Il have no doubt that Zion City and
its numerous industries would be in a
thriving condition to-day with Dowie
still in absolute control if the original
plans had been adhered to-" said Attor-
ney Samuel w. Packard. THE chief
and, indeed, l may say the whole
trouble has come because Dowie took
f@tONOyOOV Sob VI tAS loSC uoo u /
embellish his private residences at
Zion City and in Michigan. The ORR
ginal plans never contemplated any
such thing. They never intended that
Dowie should appropriate money for
his own USE"
Speaking of the purchase of the land
and the organization of the factor es,
which he had conducted, Attorney
Packard said:
1T was in 1899 that 1 first began ne
gotiations for the purchase of the land.
We worked secretly througl a real es-
tate agent sc that the public would not
know of the venture in advance. ]
into the matter whether the Ell.
terprise could be Incorporated W tn
as the sole owner. This was
found Impossible because the state con-
stitution of 1870 forbids it. A corpbr-
is forbidden to speculate in reaft +
We then issued certificates
which guarantee six per cent. Millions
of dollars was raised. 1t was provided
that all the profits above those paid to
holders of certificates should be REIN
in the enterprise out of which
it came. Instead of doing this Dowie ,
took the 81, 1000, 900 for his own use. +,
A cistern must be supplied before it .
AN give, but it does not have to walt
until it is filed.
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receivership, which by influence of
creditors was withdrawn, and the notes
and obligations extended for a year.
The widest spendthrift could not
match Dowie for schemes to rid him
self Of money. 1t is estimated that
the invasion Of New York by the
Zion army cost Dowie $3.50, 600, and
the trip was a fiat failure. Dowie
v gave any reasons for planning
the New York trip except to say:
The devil is on Broadway and God
willed that I should hunt him. The
results are in His hands"
Plans Mexican Colony.
While his people were idle and the
city under the shadow of a receiver
Dowie spent $150,000 in a Mexican ir-
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Gave an Artistic Dissertation.

A sweet girl student thus described
the manner In which a goat butted
the boy out OF the front yard: he
hurried the previous erl of his anat-
omy against the boys afterward with
an earnestness and velocity which.
backed by the ponderosity of tho
goats av%oirdupois. impaired a mo-.
mentum that was not relaxed until
the boy landed on terra firma beyond
the pale Of the goats jurisdiction."-
Western Kansas Publisher.
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legation colonization scheme which
S now looked upon by his cabinet as
l nightmare. He paid for options
which he could not take up and then
made a trip around the world.
The sumptuOus furnishings of his
library and offices in the administra.
ton building cost $50, 1000. He has TO-,
600 volumes of the rarest editions of
English and French authors, which
cost easily another $4,000. Shiloh
house, where Dowie lived, is the
,argest house in Zion, and is furnished
iuxuriously. His country home in
Michigan cost 500, 900.
Dowie had dreams of a Zion univer-
sity. He sank $4,000 in a structure
designed to be the center of a campus
and organized a faculty of 220. Last
year two persons graduated. The orig
inal townsite of Zion embraces $500
acres, for which DOwie contracted to
pay $3.50, 900. There is still an incum-
brance Of $4,000 on it. Dowie has
never parted with the land, but has
leased lots to his followers and they
have built their own homes.
Just what the Dowie liabilities
amount to is uncertain. At the time
Of the receivership proceedings it is
said he owed $1,000, 900. Many obliga-
lions have been paid since, but new
les almost as large are said to have
been created. There are judgments
in California and Chicago against
Zion and several big creditors are nm
portuning. The Zion leaders put a
value of $4,000, 900 on Zion assets.
Repudiated by Mrs. Dowie.
Perhaps the hardest blow received
by DR.. Dowie has been the detection
Of his wife and son. In an address
made in the tabernacle at Zion City
Mrs. Dowie made the following pa
thetic statement:
This is a sorrowful night for me.
/ have been burdened for two years
with these terrible revelations you
have heard and l am relieved at their
For six months 1 myself
was deposed by my husband from the
church for doing what was right. l
wrote my husband to repent and CON
TESS to the people wherein he had
wronged them. 1 will follow my hus-
band, where he follows Christ, but no
further"
Alleged Fraudulent Acts.
One charge against John Alexander
Dowie covers the alleged fraudulent
sale of certain land granted by the
government of the British South
Africa company to the Christian Cath
Ollie church. Dowie obtained this
for the purpose of church
building about four years ago and i'm
mediately resold it to financiers in
England. In the last
three months he has been dunned for
the return Of the purchase money for
his land, as transfer was refused by
the British authorities. He has been
given eight weeks in which to return
$50, 900, failing which criminal pro-
,eedings are threatened.
Dowie and voliva Compared.
What genius creates, genius is often
unable to conserve. What common
sense cannot originate it often is able
o perpetuate. The imagination which
originates is always succeeded by the
.at~ter-of-fact management, if ruin is
o be averted. The ousting of John
Alexander and the Inauguration of
Glenn Voliva is an exemplif-
alton of the rule.
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Advice Easily Followed.

Speak every day to some one who
you know is your superior" said Ed
ward Everett Hale. An easy duty. If
you wife is not at home say some
thing to the cook.-Kansas City Jour.
nal.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-10-05
FOUR DAYS IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING

VIXEN properly counterSigned and
stamped during business hours, on or
before Saturday, October 20, 1906
that is to say, between 900 a. IN. and
500 p. m. in the Office of the Assist
ant Secretary, Mr.. W. G. Bruen, in
Chicago. Such ticket may be obtained
by any holder of stock registered as
above, on application in writing, to
the President of the Company in Chi
cagO, but each Stakeholder must in
diVidnaHy apply for his or her ticket.
Each application must state the full
name and address of the Stakeholder
exactly as given in his or her Certif-
cate of Stock, together With the number
and date of such certificate. No more
than one person will be carried free in
respect to any one holding of stock as
registered on the books of the Com
pany. a. Il HACKSTAFF,
Secretary.
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ORDINANCE NO. 118.
Welsh, La. Oct. 2, l90t

Welsh, La. Oct. 2, 1906
For levying taxes on ,all property
subject to taxation in the town of
Welsh, Louisiana, for the year of
1906, and q special school tax for the
support of public schools of the town
of Welsh, Louisiana.
Sec. ~ Be it ordained by the May
or and Board of Trustees of the town
of Welsh, Louisiana. That a tax OF
eight (S) mills on the dollar of the as
sessed valuation for the year of 1906
of all the taxable property situated in
the town of Welsh, Louisiana. Be and
the same is hereby levyed for general
revenue purposes.
Sec. ~ Be it further ordained and
that special tax of five g. mills on
the dollar of the assessed valuation
for the year of 1906 of all the taxable
property situated in the town of Welsh.
Louisiana, be and the same is hereby
levyed for the maintenance or the
public schools in the town of Welsh.
Louisiana.
Passed the counsel October2nd, 1906.
Philip Miller, yea.
a. T. Jones, yea.
&c. Willard, yea.
G. E. Carr, yea.
Approved October .. 1905
mo. Il. i-Uuper, mayor.
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ORDINANCE NO. 119.

ORDERING SIDEWALK TO BE BUILT
Sec. ~ Be it ordained by the
Mayor and Board of Trustees of the
town of Welsh, Louisiana, that in
compliance with a petition properly
signed by the residence owners of q
majority of the property owners abut-
ting on the street proposed to be inns
proved by the building of sidewalks.
Said petition having been properly
signed and presented at the regular
meeting of the Board of Trustees on
the End day of October, 1906 and by
them approved. Therefore in accord
ance with the authority herein vested
by ordinance number fifty-two (52) it
is hereby ordered that a sidewalk be
built according to the specifications
adopted August 7th, 1900 on the North
side of Block one ~ beginning at
Northeast corner of Lot six 10y,
thence west to the northwest corner
of Block one (D.
Sec. (2} Belt further ordained that
it shall be the duty of all owners of
property fronting on that part of
Block number one o. herein named,
to construct or cause to be construc-
ted "a sidewalk as above provided
within twenty days from the adoption
and PRONUNCIATION of this ordinance,
and in case of failure or neglect to
build said walk it shall then be built
according to the provisions of said
ordinance number tifty-two (52)
Sec. 81 Be it further ordained,
and that this ordinance shall take
effect from and after its adoption and
PRONUNCIATION.
Philip Miller, yea.
A. T. Jones, yea.
E. C. Willard. yea.
C. E. Carr, yea.
Approved October 2nd 1906.
Jno. H. Cooper, Mayor.
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FOUR DAYS Immediately PROCEEDING

and the day of the meeting. and fol
the return journey from Cricago, only
on the day of the meeting and the
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4 Most Worthy Article.

When an article has been on the
market for years and galns-friends
every year, it is safe to call this medi,
cine a worthy one. Such is Ballard S
Horehound Syrup. 1t positively
cures coughs and all Pulmonary dis
eases. One of the best known mer.
chants in Mobile, Ala, says:
For five years my family has moi
been troubled with the winter coughs
We owe this to Billiards. Horehound
Syrup. [ know it has saved my child
rem from many sick spells" Sold BY
Billion Bros.
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c0NSTABLE'S SALE
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
SECOND WARD JUSTICE COURT, PAR.
ISL OF CALCASIEU.

Roanoke, Mercantile Co., Ltd, by
J. M. Booze VS.. No. 237 James Clark.
Notice is hereby given that by vir-
tue OF writ of fieri facIas issued by J.
r. Robichaux, Justice of the peace OF
the Second Ward of the parish of Cal.
casieu, in favor of the Roanoke Mere.
Co. Ltd, and against James Clark
and to me directed, | will at legal
hours on the 9Th day of October 1906,
at the office of the said Justice of the
peace. in the town of Welsh. of the
Second ward in said parish, offer for
sale at public auction the following
described property; to witt
One bay horse; one buggy.
Seized as the property of James
Clark, under said writ of fieri facias.
Sale for cash with the benefit of the
appraisement. Isaac Fontenot.
Constable.
Fall line of ladies hats just received
at Daniels.
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ORDINANCE NO. 120.

ORDERING SIDEWALK TO BE BUILT
Sec. (D Be it ordained by the May
or and Board of Trustees of the town
of Welsh, Louisiana. That in com
pliance with petition properly
signed by the residence owners of a
majority of the property owners abut-
ting on the street proposed to be i'm
proved by the building of sidewalks.
Said petition having been properly
signed and presented at the regular
meeting of the Board of Trustees on
the End of October 1906 and by them
approved Therefore in accordance
with the authority herein vested by
ordinance number fifty-two (52} it is
hereby ordered that sidewalk be
built according to the specifications
adopted August 7th 1900 on the north
side of Beaufort street, commencing
20 feet east of the east line of Lincoln
street, thence west TO the southwest
corner of Lot No ~, Block No. (2)
of the Jarrett Cooper Sub.
Sec. (2) Be itfurther ordained that
it shall Ibe the duty of all owners of
property fronting on that part Of
Beaufort street herein named, to con-
struct or cause to be constructed a
sidewalk as above provided within
twenty days from the adoption and
PRONUNCIATION of this ordinance. and
in case of failure or neglect to build
said walk it shall then be built ac-
cording to the provisions of said or
dinance number tifty.two (52).
Sec. ~ Be it further ordained and
that this ordinance Shall take effect
from and after its adoption and pro-
mitigation.
A. 7. Jones, yea.
Philip Miller, yea.
&c. Willard, yea.
c. E. Carr, yea.
Approved October End 1906
Jno. H. Cooper, Mayor.
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New Testaments and Bibles at IL,
Journal Book Store.
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Illinois Central R. R.
ANNUAL sT0GKH0L OERs' MEETING At CHI
CAG0, OCTOBER II. PERSONAL
ATTENDANCE OF INDIVIDUAL
HOLDERS DESIRED.
Free TiCketto the Meeting

Public notice is hereby given that
the regular Annual meetirg of the
Stockholders of the Illinois Central
Railroad Company, will he held at the
Company's Office in Chicago, Illinois.
on Wednesday, October II, 1906, at
II O'Clock noon. To permit personal
attendance at said meeting there will
be issued
To Each Holder OF One or More Shares
of the capital stock of the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad Company as registered
on the books of the Company at the
close of business on Monday, Septem-
Der "A, 1906, who Is Of full age,
A TICKET ENABLING HIM OR HER To
TRAVEL FREE
over the COmpany'S lines from the sta.
ton on the Illinois Central Railroad
nearest to his or her registered ad.
dress to
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CHICAGO and RETURN

such ticket to be good for the journey
to Chicago only during the
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Patr0Hize Home Industry.
DeSOtO Progress:

DeoOtO IfOBIeSS'
The newspapers are everywhere
throughout the state advocating the
buying of goods at home. This does
not mean dry goods, groceries and
articles of wearing and living alone.
1t means that if there is a factory OF
any kind in the city making anything
that can be used, in your home city,
it is your duty to patrOnize it, just
as it is the duty of all others to buy
from home merchants when they can
find what they want.
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Fall line of ladies hats just received
at Daniels.
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Two Kinds of Girls,
Farmerville Gazette.

There are two kinds OF girls in the
world, the girl who works and the
girl who gads. Commend US to the
former. Work lends dignity to a
pretty girl, is an added charm to her.
The girl who works, God bless her,
combines the useful and the orna-
mental. She might CAD about, roll on
SOFAS, gossip and read story books,
but she prefers to he of some account
in the world and goes out as stenog.
rapher, teacher, saleslady or house
keeper, bra yely makes her own way.
Such are the salt of the earth.
New Testaments and bibles at lie