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The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
SET DOCTOR AGAINST BACON

DR.. John A. Wesne-. the eminent
bacteriologist. practiced physics in the
wilds of Northern Michigan before
moving to Chicago fifteen years ago.
His professional calls there often took
him into the rattlesnake region. One
spring night he was called to the rude
cabin of woodsman. some twenty
miles away. A woman and her babe
were ILL., And while 1t was charity
work, nevertheless he responded.
Just before daybreak his patients
wc~e quieted and he had fallen asleep.
the doctor was tired out he asked
If he could not lie down somewhere.
In the rear OF the cabin was small
detached room, used for kitchen. In
this was cot and he soon was dream
ing.
Presently I was awakened" said
the doctor, by the noise of frying
meat. 1t continued for long while,
SO 1t seemed. was there for a cou-
Pile OF hours. and all during that time.
the same dull cracking sound dis
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
poWlE DEPoSED.
self.styIed Elijah Repudiated by His
Followers.

Chicago.-At meeting Sunday OF
5000 adherents of the Christian Catho-
lie church at Zion City. of which John
Alexander Dowie is the founder and
first apostle, Dowie's authority was
repudiated and Wilburg Glenn Voliva,
who for some time has been conduct-
ing the affairs of the church, elected in
his stead.
Mrs. Dowie also repudated her hus-
band, and their son, Gladstone Dowie.
cast his lot with his mother and the
new leader.
Most of the officials of the church
were present at the meeting and
Dowie was denounced by many OF
these as having deceived the people
and having wasted their money in ex-
travagances. The meeting. however,
refused to hold that he had knowingly
erred. and John G. Speicher, the for
mer overseer and once second in COM
mand to Dowie, who was recently de-
posed peremptorily, declared Dowie to
be insane.
Mrs. Dowie in her address also up
held that declaration. The casting off
of the authority of John Alexander
Dowie followed the receipt Sunday of
an S00-word telegram from Dowie,
who is in Mexico, in which he per-
emptorily ordered the immediate dis
charge of Deacon Alexander Grain
ger, financial manager of Zion, who
has been one of the most aggressive
leaders in the effort to place the af-
fairs of the church on a secure founda-
tion. Dowie also announced in the
telegram that letter would follow in
which other officials were named for
deposition. A meeting of the Zion
council of twelve followed immedi-
ately and 1t was decided to place the
affairs of the church before the mem
bers and settle the question of leader
ship.
The meeting was htld Sunday after
noon and Overseer Voliva read the
long telegram from Dowie. A few
faint efforts at applause greeted the
reading, which was followed by a
storm of cheers for the new leader of
Zion as he arose from his chair and
advanced to the front or the platform.
He invited Dr. Speicher, the former
oevrseer. to come to the platform and
take a seat Voiva then. amid dead
silence, announced that he refused to
remove Alexander Granger from
Office. This was the first publicly an
nounced defiance by Voliva of the au-
thority of Dowie The completion of
Dowie's overthrow as a leader fol-
lowed Immediately. One after an
other Mrs. Jane Dowie. wife of the
first apostle: Deacon Yerger of Gin
cinnati. Overseer p A. Cantel and
others denounced and repudiated the
authority and leadership of Dowie
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
LMiJJTene Crosby

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The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
SHORT CRY TO COL vMBUS

"Oh, that is matter of tradition"
said the man who had been doubling
every statement made In the course
OF the luncheon, "and story passes
through too many people to be reli-
aide when you get 1t couple of hun
deed years late"
..Tradition!" said another man, "are
you aware how few lives 1t takes to
bridge over the centuries? For in
stance. the discovery of America
seems a long time ago, and l suppose
traditions concerning Columbus and
his crowd you would consider of no
reliability; yet, do you know, that
only four lives intervene between me
aad sailor of Christopher Columbus? :?
Yes, sir. am in possession OF story
told by a sailor of the Santa Maria,
which passed through only four peo-
pie before 1t got to me. and yet 1t
rpanned the centuries from 1892 to
the present time. The story was told
me by Christopher Harmsworth, who
died In 1885, at the age of 95--a clear
headed old man with an excellent
memory, especially for things he had
lsarned In youth-like most old peo-
pie.
Now. Harmsworth was born. of
course, in 1890. and when he was a
boy 10 years old. in England-that is.
In the year 1S00-his great-srand-
father, then a man of So. used to take
him on his knee and tell the story to
him. The great-grandfather. as you
will see, must have been born in 1715.
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
BLACK WOLF CUBS.
Seven Of Them Born in City Park,
Denver.

Seven OF Them Born IN CITY Park,
Denver.
Black Jim, long the solitary bachelor
of the wolf pack in the City park in
closure, who scorned the company OF
his kind, received congratulations yes
terday. Jim is the proud father ol
seven very aristocratic and strong
lunged wolf cubs-his first children
Jim's mate, Nellie, one of the original
gray wolves in the menagerie, has dug
warm hole underneath the long
structure in the center of the inclos
ure. and here she is making her home
Nth the new cubs
Jim Is a good father. All the ami
mails admit It. He has scarcely left
the TOP Of the hole In which his family
is resting since the happy event. And
on the other side of the hole, watching
with him, is Barker, the lifelong en-
emy of Jim, with whom he has fought
many battle since the two have beer
placed together in the menagerie
Barker jumps up to help Jim whenever
a curious bear noses his way towards
the hole. The animal keepers are un
able to account for this change o
heart between Jim and Barker.
One thing about the new arrivals
that is especially pleasing to the keep
ers is that all the cubs are black. The
father &c an extremely rare specimen
of his race, and the seven children are
all of his rare and high-born color
Denver News.
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06

You that only appear contented
When you are grumbiinS ABOUT your
Mainly because of much lnmented
Absence OF all that you haven't got,
Listen to me. for bring you healing
II you woulI scatter those moods away.
II YOU ould conquer that injured feel
Listen to me. l say.
Years ago for n certain season,
L was a pessimist tstrnnSc but true),
And as a matter OF fact with reason.
Not for the fun OF the thing. like You;
All that / merited. looked for. built on.
Seemed to be doomed to n fatal slump
Mine was the mental complaint which
Happily termed the Hump.
Came n night-and OF all Decembers
rhnt was the vilcst-I sat alone.
Bitterly smoking before the embers,
Hugging my grievance, and making
Ont in the open biting blizzard.
Whir!ing the gravel about Ike snow
Froze the marrow. md turned the SizZard
Inside out. at n blow.
Then I said. this Is something childish
(Which was facD. and l crossed the
Flung up the blind, and with sour disrel-
iSh
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06

And the great-grandfather used to tell
my friend Harmsworth that the Co
lumbus story had been told to him
when he was boy OF 9-that is in the
year 1724-by an aged great-uncle of
his who was nearly hundred at the
time, having been born in 1924. This
great-uncle used to tell Harmsworth' s
great-grandfather that he had first
heard the story when he was about 10
years old from the lips of one VIII
liam Sutcliffe, retired sailor, who
was then in his 9Sth year. having been
born in 1886. Sutcliffe went to sea
when he was boy of IL, shipping as
cabin boy In brig bound for Vigo,
Spain, and there he fell in with an old
sailor. 70 years Of age, one Marco
Guzman, who, as lad of 16. had
sailed with Columbus to discover the
new world. And Marco, the sailor.
told Sutliffe the story.
so you see. from the lips of that
sailor of the Santa Maria to my ears
the story came through only four per.
sons-Sutcliffe, the great-uncle, the
greatgrandfather and my friend
Harmsworth. A few years ago. when
Harmswor.:i was living, he could have
said that between him and a sailor of
Columbus only three lives interviewed.
So. you see. after all tradition is Il
thing not to be lightly disregarded."
and what was the story?" asked
one of the party.
"Oh, have forgotten just how 1t
went now" said the statistician.
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
Where Life is Held Cheap.

A New York contractor OF promi-
nence, according to Josiah Strong. re
Gently told him that the killing OF
working men was cheaper than pro-
tecting them. The statement created
a stir when made by DR.. Strong, who
is president of the American Institute
of Social Service, at the municipal art
dinner.
Nine men are killed every day In
New York" he continued, sin acci-
dents which are for the most par,
avoidable Our city is becoming ver-
liable human shambles."
Coal mines and railroads, he said,
were slaughter houses for the laboring
men. Last year there were $500 acci-
dents to laboring men that the public
knew nothing about.
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
A CURE FOR DEBILITY
Or. Williams Pink Pills A Reliable
Remedy for tho Weak. AIiIno
and 8loodleSs,

When the body is weak and the blood
thin it is sometimes difficult to find the
cause unless n wasting illness has pre-
ceded, or the sufferer happens to be a
girl OH the verge of womanhood.
Obscure influences, something un-
healthful in ones surroundings or work,
may lend to slow impoverislment of
the blood and nn enfeeblement of the
whole body. When serious stage has
been reached there seems to be nothing
that will account for it.
Mr.. q. u. Legg, of Upton, w. Va,
has found successful method of treat
ing weakness aud bloodlessncss. He
says:
~ used DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
weakness caused by lingering malurinl
fever that began i'll the spring of 1896.
The worst effects of this We're indiges-
ton and bad state of my blood. Twas
annmic, as the doctors say. People
generally would say that l didn't have
blood enough, or that i didn't have the
right kind of blood mine was too thin.
My kidneys and liver We're out of order.
I was badly annoyed by sour risings
from my stomach. There was II good
deal of pain, too, i'll my bnck and under
my right shoulder blade"
GLOW long did these troubles last? "
"For over two years. For four
months of that time L was under the
care of n physician, but his medicine did
me no good. Meanwhile l learned OF
the cures that had been wrought by DR..
Williams Pink Pills"
you owe your cure to these pills ?"
al certainly do, and also know that
they are helping others to whom have
recommended them. They have real
merit and know Of nothing that would
take their place"
For further information and valuable
booklet address the DIR. Williams Medi.
clue Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
TERRIBLE SCALP HuMoR.
Badly Affected With Sores and crusts
Extended Down Behind the Ears
-Anothcr Cure by Cuticura

About ten years ago my scalp be-
came badly affected with sore and
itching humors, crusts, etc, and ex.
tended down behind the ears. My hair
came out in places. also. ! was great
ly troubled; understood 1t was ecze-
ma. Tried various remedies SO called.
without effect. Saw your CuticuI a
advertisement, and go: the Cuticura
Remedies at once. Applied then, a.
to directions. etc and after two weeks
| think, OF use, was clear as whistle.
| have to state also that late last fall,
October and November, 1904, l was
suddenly afflicted with bad eruption,
painful and itching pustules over the
lower part of the body. suffered
dreadnilly. in two months, under the
skillful treatment of my doctor. con-
Joined with Cuticura Soap and Cuti.
cura Ointment, found myself cured.
Fl. NJ. F. Weiss, Rosemond, Christian
Co., ILL.,. Aug. 81. 1906"
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
Smelling by Electricity.

I,ondon.-The doing away with the
use of coal in smelling appears to be
an accomplished fact. j. Corbin Weld
deputy governor OF the Canadian com
many, who is now in London, said to
day that he had just received infor
nation of an important experiment
which resulted in proving that smelt
inc would be successfully achieved by
electricity. The experiments were made
not by n body of men seeking to float
a company, but at the expense of the
Canadian government, with view tc
the development of the iron ore indus
trv in the Onuaria district. He had
received information that the results
of the experiments were definite anc
conclusive, and thar the treatment oi
ore by electricity could be profitably
and lucratively carried out.
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
MoFFAT ROAD PROGRESS.
Completion Of Its Own Line Into tn,
Denver Depot.

Denver.-After four years of hard
work the Moffat railroad has at last
built into Denver, says the Republi-
can, Saturday morning. At O'Clock
last evening when the engine of the
construction train gave long, loud
whistle calling the men to knock off ="
work, it was at the Denver. Northwest
ern & Paciflc's own depot at Fifteenth
and Bassett streets.
Superintendent Deuel. does not know
exactly when the company will begin
using its own tracks. but 1t will be just
as soon as possible. Al present the
company has AN arrangement with the
Burlington road, which handles all its
trains in and out of the city, delivering
them at Utah Junction. This is very
expensive, costing not less than 800
a day, IL is said.
Mr.. Moffat said yesterday that he
does not expect to get the road built
through to Salt Lake before the end
of the two years. They are prepared
to put large force at work and rush
it, but it cannot be done unless labor
ers can be had. They can use 1000
men this summer If they can be had,
but there is demand all over the
West for them. The Western Pacific
can use 5000 to 10000 of them in its
work.
The contracts are let for the Moffat
road to the firms now at work on the
line to Daniels pass. within thirty
miles of Heber Utah. From this point
into Salt Lake the road will parallel
the Rio Grande Western. short
branch line down to bennington, on
the Clark road, would cut off $50 miles
in the run to the Pacific coast.
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
Right to the Letter.

A New Yorker was once referring to
the stolidity and literal mindedness
of the British shopkeeper, when he
was reminded of an amusing expert
ence of a friend in London. The Am
erican had been making several pur-
chases in a jewelry establishment,
among others a silver set. and finding
that he had with him insufficient funds
to defray the entire cost. he desired
the clerk to send the set to his hotel,
marked &C. o. D.
Due note was made by the clerk:
but when the articles arrived at the
hotel the purchaser was surprised to
find that no charges had been col
lected. Opening the package the Am
erican was dumbfounded to discover
that each piece of silver had been care
fully engraved, in a beautiful mono
gram, &C. o. D."-Success Magazine.
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
Peruna is Exempt.

The internal revenue commission
er has decided that Pe.ru-na as now
manufactured is exempt from internal
revenue license.
The highest medical and pharma-
ceutical authorities in the United
States have passed upon the product.
1t must be highly gratifying to the
many friends of Pe-ru-na and the local
commercial world that the product
which has carried Columbus name
into all continents, again enjoys the
same fixed status as any other recog-
nized Columbus Dispatch.
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06

turbed me in my semi-stupor. When
awoke, sure enough, there was q
woman over the stove.
been frying a lot Of meat, have
MT you?" I asked.
ono she answered, L have just
commenced
"Well, somebody has been ahead
OF you cooking bacon l said to her;
and apparently enough Of it to supply
all the logging camps between here
and Duluth
"'Oh, no. she replied That noise
you heard was Pete's rattlers over
there in that hogshead,' and lifting
the cover she showed me mass OF
wriggling. writhing red-skinned rat
tlers-about 20 of them. l did not
wait for breakfast, but hastily exam
lining the sick, again saddled my
horse and hit the trail back to town
And not since that experience.
continued the doctor. have l been
able to eat fried bacon.
American
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
sunreme Court Gaining.

Denver.-About 420 cases will have
been disposed of by the supreme Court
at the expiration of its first years ex
istence as now constituted. In the
same tine tbout $50 cases will have
been filed. On April 9TH, last year. the
consolidation of the Supreme Court
aud the Court of Appeals went into eff
fect and a review of the work accom-
plished by the new court shows that
many advantages have been gained by
the bringing of the two courts together
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
STAT. or ONO. CITY OF ToLrpo, :.

STATE or ,1G.. oG,o, ,:nTs, G,Ty OF 7oLhno' IS.
FRANK j CnEyYY makes oath that he 10 senior
partner of the nrin of -. CHENEY Co.; dninE
business in the City Of Toledo. County and State
aforcsnid. and that said nrm will pay the sum OF
ONE III NDRED DOLLARS for each and every
case Of CNTARt that cannot be cured ny the use oI
HALLS CArAEKH CuEE. ,,~,,,,,
Sworn to before me and subscribed IN my pres
ence this 9Th day of December. 4. y, 1856
- a. W. GLEASON.
.x.L NOTARY rrnlre.
Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts
directly on the blood md mucous surfaces OF the
system. send for testimonials, free.
+. J. CHENEY q CO, Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists. i5c.
Take iIalrs Family Pills for constipation.
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
TO ALL WHO GRUMBLE

Gazed for awhile on the ronring gloom.
TIL. on sudden. my awe-struck glancsi
Fell on n sentinels heav fcr-.
Driven. by pressure of circumstances,
out In that beastly storm.
High on magazine. bleak and lonely.
Nobly he paced his appointed beat
(Rather like Casablanca, only
That little horror complained of heaO,
Daring an enemy's foot to touch on his
Windy preserves. he was hurled about,
Getting his spine well Iced. not TO mem
tion his
Gizzard blown inside out.
Long gnzed on the Eusty fellow:
Gazed. till mine uSlier moods were
spent:
Gazed, til my whole soul seemed to mel
Into a chastened and bland content
And as bleSsed him. and drew the cur
tain
Leaving him on his winds swept mound
Life, | remarked. though bit uncertain.
Wasn't SO bad, all round
Grumbler, such IL the Grand Idea:
Surely the moral is plain to see:
When you're in need Of n panacea.
Think of the sentinel--think of me!
Turn to Philosophers consultations.
Doubtless the gods may have used you
But-by Mcrciful Dispensation-
Others are worse of still,
London Punch.
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
FILlsusTERERs' SCHEME.
Plan to Invade Venezuela and DePosc
Castro.

New York.-The World says:
"One of the largest merchants IN
New York said Sunday night that ar
rangements are being perfected here
and in Paris and London for revolu-
tion in Venezuela which will annihi-
late Castro and open up that country
to American capital and enterprise.
"A number of rich New York mer-
chants are said to be interested in the
movement which, the promoters de.
clare. will involve the employment OF
Is 900 soldiers and the expenditure OF
S., 900 900 in the campaign. President
Castro, if the plans do not go astray'
is to be either expelled or destroyed,
and n native Venezuelan statesman is
to be installed as his successor.
"In this connection it is said thar
Castro, anticipating successful revo'
luton against him sooner or later mas
converted some Of his alleged $4O,0Oo,-
600 fortune into cash and has sent 1t to
America and France
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
Fed by Stomach lube.

% For ten years before his death at
Kingston, in England, the other day a
man named Joseph Knight had not
eaten any food. Eleven years ago,
while on board the yacht Eliba at Cos
port. he accidentally drank some deter
gent in mistake for porter, with the re-
suit that his gullet and other internal
organs were destroyed. He was placed
in the hands of an able surgeon, who
not only saved his life. but also en-
abled him to live for more than ten
years in comparative comfort by
means OF feeding through tube in the
side, leading directly to his stomach.
1t is remarkable that though unable
to eat he could always enjoy a smoke.
He was about forty years of age.
Practice at the flowing bowl does not
necessarily make a man an expert
bowler.
The Springfield herald., 1906-04-06
The Coffee Debate.

Please remember We nevcr say OF
dinary coffee hurts everyone:
Some people use 1t regularly and
seem strong enough to Withstand its
attacks, but there is misery and dis
ease in store for the man or woman
who persists in its use when nature
protests, by heart weakness, stomach
and bowel troubles, kidney disease.
weak eyes or general nervous prostra-
thon. The remedy is obvious. The
drug caffeine. contained in all ordinary
coffee, must be discontinued absolute
ly or the disease will continue in spite
Of any medicine and will grow worse.
1t is easy to leave off the old-fash-
ioned coffee by adopting Postum Food
Coffee, for in it one finds pleasing
hot breakfast or dinner beverage that
has the deep seal brown color, chang
ing to rich golden brown when good
cream is added. When boiled long
enough G5 minutes) the flavor is not
that of rank Rio coffee but very like
the milder. smooth and high-grade
Java, but entirely lacking the drug
effect of ordinary coffee.
Anyone suffering from disorders set
up by coffee drinking (and there is an
extensive VARIETY can absolutely de-
pend upon some measure of relief by
quitting coffee and using Postum Food
Coffee
If the disease has not become too
strongly rooted, one can with good rea-
son expect it to disappear entirely in
reasonable time after the active
cause of the trouble is removed and
the cellular tissue has time to natural
ly rebuild with the elements furnished
by Postum and good food.
It's only just plain old common
sense.
Now, with the exact facts before the
reader. he or she can decide the wise
course, looking to health and the
power to do things.
If you have any doubt as to the
cause of any ache or all you may have,
remember the far-reaching kilograms
of a hurt nervous system travel from
heel to head and 1t may be well worth
your while to make the experiment of
leaving OF coffee entirely for ten days
and using Postum in its place.
You will probably gather some good
solid facts. worth more than gold
mine, for health can make gold and
sickness lose it. Besides there's all
the fun. for it's like continuous in.
ternal frolic to be perfectly well
There's reason for
POSTUM