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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
Senator Pettus' Library.

The late Senator Pettus of Alabama
was "Forty-niner," going overland
to California in the early days and en-
gaging in placer mining. He took with
him on that long and tedious journey
three books, the Bible, Shakespeare
and Burns poems.
He said of them at one time not
long since: Il read the Bible from
cover to cover; read the side notes;
read the captions of the chapters;
learned great parts of it by heart, and
haven't forgotten them yet. learned
many of Burns poems by heart and
much of Shakespeare in the same way,
too" Such reading of these three
books was an education in itself It
is not likely that many miners en-
gagged in that search for wealth spent
their leisure in as profitable way.
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meeting last Sunday. One of EN-
Brother Harman, they called him
man as big as you, six feet high.
Waal, Brother Harman yelled Halle
lujahH jest as loud as he could, gath
cred up his legs under him, and
jumped-it looked as if he jumped
most as high as that thar lamppost.
They're praying most all the time,
too. Some weeks since one of the
fellers here was a-comin' up the tow
path and chanced to look over toward
the Jumpers place. Sure as I'm here,
thar was a Holy Jumper standin' atop
their haystack, his hands up in the
air, praying for all he was worth
Guess he was praying about the hay.
These Jumpers seem to be de-
cent enough, though" the farmer add
cd, only they keep mostly to them
selves"
Thus primed, the reporter walked
down the Delaware and Raritan canal
to the Holy Jumpers farm to meet
one of the most curious experiences
to he found near New York.
Reporter UnconVinced.
lie went to scoff; he could not stay
10 pray. The hymns, sophistry, and
the plight of 30 little children were
too uncanny; his sense OF, humor too
acute. Yet, as he left, one question
was burning in his mind: Are these
simple, possibly misguided people
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New System of Sea slanaIs.


Holland seems to be pioneering
new development of sea signals which
may render coast lightships of double
utility to vessels in times of fog. At
point of the North sea northeast OF
Texel island is moored the Dutch light
ship Haaks, which for some days now
has been equipped with novel system
of submarine signals by means of
sunken bells. In fog. snow or hail, or
whenever from any cause the weather
is judged thick" enough, these bells
can be sounded once every three Sec
onds. The system has been installed
as a practical working test, and if the
results are deemed to be good enough
it will be adopted generally on all
Dutch lightships-perhaps also on
those of Belgium.-London Globe.
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TURKEY OUR NosLEsT BIRD.
Crossing with the Wild Species to
Improve Market Product.

The most notable American bird in
the farm category is the turkey, grow
ing as he does to the great weight Of
30 and even 40 pounds, and losing
nothing in flavor and toothsomeness.
Likewise, the most regal of our re-
naming game girds is his blood broth
er, the wild turkey, from which he has
descended.
There is perhaps no instance where
domestication has scored so little in
improvement as with the turkey. In
fact, in some respects the tanning and
breeding have hurt instead Of helped
the species.
No prize domestic gobbler is ever
so beautifully marked or so resplend-
ent with feathers of black shaded with
rich bronze and illuminated with a
lustrous finish of FURNISHED copper as
is the typical wild turkey, while the
vigor and vitality of the wild bird is
such that to this day we strengthen
the most virile of our bronze turkeys
by an infusion of the wild blood.
Rhode Island stands for the best
in turkey production. The last CEN
sus shows less than 100000 turkeys
in the United States and only about
5000 produced annually in Rhode Is
land, yet, according to a turkey ex-
pert, If all the turkeys of the coun-
try were of such good quality as
Rhode Islands, their total value would
be doubled.
According to the department of ag-
riculture, the growing of turkeys has
greatly improved during the last few
years as a result of a determined ef-
fort on the part of producers OF
standard bred" stock to demonstrate
that it is much more profitable to use
pure breeding stock than the smaller
and less vigorous stock Of times
past.
The wild turkey is also being used
to instill further new vigorous blood
into the bronze flocks. Inbreeding is
Che fatal defect among the practice
Of many turkey growers.
The fact that turkeys will from the
time that they are six weeks old un-
til winter gain the greater part of
their entire living from bugs, insects,
grasshoppers and waste grain assures
their existence during this period at
little or no cost to the grower where
there is a sufficient range for the
birds
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preacher in Denver, was inspired to
preach on her own account. The con-
ference of the Methodist church
would not make her a full fedged
minister But the Lord blessed her
in singing" so she started her own
church. She calls it the Pentecostal
Union. her neighbors, The Pillar of
Fire; the public, the Holy Jumpers.
The sister who was talking called
1T the holiness movement-the Meth
odist church as it was in the days of
Wesley, before people thought only
OF worldly things and the ministers
OF preaching and prayer for wage"
Mrs. White is still the head-the
Mrs. Eddy, the Mrs. Piper-of the
sect. She lives in Denver, where the
Holy Jumpers have Bible school and
$50 nissioners and the union got a
charter in 1902. Mrs. Whites brother,
c. w. Bridwell, is the head of the
farm at Weston, which is the eastern
headquarters of the sect. There are
other mission houses in Los Angeles,
ana Lafayette, Ind, with dozen mis-.
siOnarieS each
Have Biblical Authority.
What are the peculiar ceremonies
OF your sect? You march and dancer"
"Oh, yes" the girl replied Are We
not told in the Bible how David
danced before the Ark of the Cove
nant, yea, and was exceedingly glad?'
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solving the great social question Of
cooperation by the mere force of
their religious zeal, where others have
failed, especially in the famous Brook
Farm experiment, by an excess of the
ory and knowledge!
"Zarephath." A big sign at a turn
of the road bore the name of the Holy
Jumpers settlement. Lower down, at
the entrance to the dooryard, was
an arch and "The Pillar of Fire" on
it.
A saint" passed on a bicycle. He
wore the uniform of the sect-a black
shirt and helmet. The men in the mar
ket gardens on either side had the
garments of the "workers"-blue
shirts and breeches. The sister" who
received the reporter wore dress OF
similar material.
In the bare reception room one
sound predominated over all others.
Outside were sunshine and the song
of life-the click of the windmill,
locusts, and bees buZzing in a corn
field, the chatter Of children, the
sound of hammers as the workers
raised a big tent for the camp meet
ing Inside was the sound of hymns
pounded out on a hard-toned piano,
persistently, monotonously, endlessly
until the visitor thought Of the most
maddening in the list Of ancient tor
tures-the steady drip of water on
man or womans head.
You have been very successful
here!" began the reporter.
The Lords blessing has been upon
u.s." The sister" answered absently,
as if in a dream or listening to the
torturing hymns.
Home Is Gift of Believer.
You own this place."
Eyes. 1t was given to us about two
years ago by Mrs GarretsOn-Mrs. w.
P. Garretson. She saw the true light
the light of the Lord in faith-she and
her son and her two daughters. We
have been here about year and a
half. There are so acres of land and
80 grown people, some of them mar
ried, but mostly young men and
women, and about as many more chill
dren. They have given up all their
worldly goods and followed Him."
You must have plenty of money,
them"
"Oh, no." with a smile. People with
worldly goods are not eager to give
them up and follow the Lord"
Gradually more facts came out after
persistent questioning. Six years ago,
Mrs. Alma White, wife of Methodist
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testifies that q miracle was VI
her behalf.
Conflict with States Laws.

Conflict with States Laws.
These methods of treating disease
are in direct conflict with the laws OF
New Jersey. When a person dies in
Weston the fact must be reported to
DR.. William c. Long Of Somerville,
county physician of Somerset county,
in which the settlement is located. A
failure to do so is punishable with
fine of $500. The county physician
must investigate the cause of death,
and if he finds 1t was due to neglect,
abuse, or violence, he refers the case
to one of the coroners of the county.
At the office of the prosecuting at.
torney of Somerset county it was said
that II a person should die without
medical attendance and after no other
prayer the persons involved could be
held for criminal negligence and an
indictment for manslaughter would
probably follow.
The first death at Zarephath Of
which County Physician Long has
knowledge occurred last February. A
man in the community fell from the
roof of a barn and was fatally in
jured. A doctor was hastily summon.
ed from Bound Brook, but could not
save his life. The body was buried on
the farm-the first in plot of
ground set aside by the Jumpers for
their graveyard. No other deaths had
been reported from Zarephath, DR..
Long said.
In June last, when one of the
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-05
THE GERM OF "UNsUccEss."
Doubt of Self Is at the Root of All
Failures.

The germ of unsuccess is persistent,
cankerous doubt of self. 1t may enter
a mans soul suddenly on the heels OF
an unforeseen disaster, or gain an
ever-increasing hold on him through
score of years. 1t may devastate him
like fever, or slowly sap his spirits
strength like an insidious creeping
malady. In the end the result is the
same; he is overthrown, done for un-
less the one effective antidote is taken.
The germ of the disease is everywhere.
An abrupt change for the apparently
worse in a mans circumstances-a
shaking-up of the hitherto comfortable
conditions of his life, and a perfect
cloud of dust arises, which he, poking
around in the debris, is poisoned by.
What business has he going over these
past conditions? His business is with
the vital present, which teens with
possibilities for him whose heart is in
cased in the triple armor-strength Of
hope, strength of will, strength Of en-
thusiasm. He who is thus tricked out
is immune, be he never so old or physi-
cally frail. Unsuccess for such a ono
can never be more than the foe that
gives zest to the battle. And who
would wish to go down to the grave
without ever having conquered un-
toward conditions and turned them at
the last to his advantage? Who would
wish never to have fought at all?
and no trailing clouds of glory" at its
close.-The Circle. ~ "
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New York.-Hidden on a little New
Jersey farm, a community Of sixty
persons, one-half of them children,
are trying to vitaliZe a complete re-
action against money greed, hypoc'
risy, and the present-day Christian
church and to keep it alive by re-
ugiOus hysteria.
They depend on faith" q. e.,
prayer) for food, clothing, and the
bare necessities of life.
They have followed the injunction
of Jesus to sell their goods, give the
proceeds to the poor, and follow Him.
Medicines and physicians are for
bidden, and their only treatment for
disease consists of prayer and anoint.
ing the body with OIL.
Officials of the state of New Jersey
say that if any one dies after such
treatment those concerned are guilty
OF criminal negligence and indictable
for manslaughter
The community is managed on the
cooperative plan, no one receiving
wages for work, and all supplies go
ing into common fund, the men and
women sharing the work on an equal
basis
Converts are kept in high state of
religious excitement by conglomera,
tion of Biblical text, sophistry, and
slang, and talk of modern saints and
miracles.
Seeking to live according to Bibli,
cal injunction, they work themselves
into frenzy, march, dance, and leap
high in the air, hence their name,
Holy Jumpers.
A member Of the community has al
ready been taken to the Somerset
County Insane Asylum suffering from
religious mania.
What the Jumpers Are Like.
Such in brief, is a summary of the
lives of the Holy Jumpers on their
farm near Weston, a station on the
Reading railway five miles southwest
Of Bound Brook, Attention was at
tracted to them by report that they
are to invade New York in the man
ner of Elijah Dowie and his Zion
lists. What manner of people are these
who would fill Broadway with their
cries and wild dances? The question
led to a visit to Weston.
where are the Holy Jumpers?" the
reporter asked a farmer he met on the
way.
Right down thar on the towpath
where yer see that barn and wind
mill" he replied. do they jump? Yer
bet they do. was at their prayer
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Did not Miriam dance with joy when
Israel was delivered from the hands
of the Egyptians and the Red sea
flowed back and confounded the enc
mics of the Lords people? Again, in
the New Testament the dance is men
toned as a part of religious worship"
Yes, and singing-'even with GYM
balls and spawns,' quoted the re-
porter.
"Yes-yes-we use cymbals, drums,
too. And we often sing to the music Of
banjos and guitars"
You have harps, too?"
I'VE play on autoharps. But most
of our music is on the piano. AS We
sing, we dance as they did in the old
days, marching about. and jumping up
and down in our gladness. That Is
why they call us Jumpers"
These were the words of the re-
ligionist, the sentimentalist. On the
other hand, strangely bald and
strangely compounded of Scriptural
phrase and modern sophistry is the
official explanation of the jumping
habit. Here it is:
Why They Jump.
After they had organized into a church,
entirely independent of everything that
was backslidden and out on the line God
wanted, He began to give light on many
important doctrines which we preach and
practice to-day One that has meant more
to our people in many ways than any
thing else, was the holy dance. In the old
holiness movements, there was OCCASION
ally a man that would jump up and down
when he was moved by the Spirit" as
they said, but for a whole church to
jump at the same time in unison was
something that had never been heard of
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women in the community was seized
with religious insanity, there was no
place to keep her in the settlement.
DR.. Long was notified and had her
sent to the Somerset County Insane
asylum.
AS the sister continued her .conver.
sation with the reporter, the monotOn-
GUS notes of the piano had been merg.
ed with the click of the windmill, the
hum of bees, and the chatter of chill
dren. Then a man and woman began
to talk in the next room. They might
have been quarreling. Their voices
were pitched high, now both speaking
together unintelligibly. Then followed
silence for moment, then G single
voice in great excitement:
In FerVent Prayer.
"Oh, help, help us-Show us the
way-Oh, we've done wrong-We
thank Thee-We bow before Thee
Help-help us-O Lord"
The communistic plan of Zare-
phath is success, if the rich fruits
of field, garden, and truck patch count
for anything. At the beginning of
every week the work of the colony
is divided among the men and women,
with little or no distinction between
the sexes. The men wash dishes,
cook, and make beds, just as the older
boys plow and the women work in the
gardens. In the Zarephath building
the men are lodged at one end, the
women at the other, and the children
on lower floor.
They eat two meals a day. Break
fast is at in the morning and dinner
at 4. Each is preceded by prayers and
perhaps with testimonies, singing, and
marching.
All of these services, the prayer
meetings, our marriage service, and
the ceremonies at the graves have no
regular order" explained the sister;
1T is largely arranged as the spirit OF
God moves u.s."
Life of the Little Jumpers.
Scriptural injunction is followed in
the kitchen as well as the bare little
chapel. Pork is eschewed as unclean;
so are fish without scales" Fruits
and cereals form the bases of the
favorite dishes.
What of the 80 little children who
live in such surroundings? They pray
as they play. Their ills are treated,
too, with oil poured on their bodies
and by prayer They learn to jump
and go to the meetings and give
strange testimonies"
Services for Children.
The children have special services
to pray for clothes and the mission
aries. They have prayer meetings
every morning from $50 to 7:3O
o'clock. They also have praise sery.
ices" distinct from those of their eId-
ers. They range in age from babyhood
to 10 or IL years. "In the school term"
one of the Jumpers explained, I'VE
also teach them in secular knowledge
including some of the high school
branches"
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WHERE HE MADE HIS HIT.
Youthful Thespian Put New Business
Into Old Part.

Half dozen actors, just back from
''the road were exchanging expert
ences around table in the grill room
of the Lambs.
You were dunned as usual by
amateurs?" the musical comedy man
asked of star "in the legitimate"
Eyes, almost every town." the erst-
while Hamlet-Romeo-Claude Melnotte
replied "At one place out ,west-I
won't say what town-a nice young
fellow waited at the stage door to
tell me he wanted to be real Shake
spearean actor.
you've had experience? asked.
"'Oh, yes; recited Marc Anthony's
speech at the holiday meeting of our
lyceum, and did one of Daniel Web
:ster's orations last commencement.
and played in Romeo and Juliet
What did you play in Romeo and
JuIiet?"'
"T played the Apothecary-made
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This took my breath away, for
there are not a dozen lines in the
part, and they don't amount to any
thing. So / asked: How could you
make a hit in the Apothecary?
We'll, you see, it was this way
the young fellow replied. You know
the old man is starving to death and
hasn't seen the color of a coin for
goodness knows how long. When
Romeo gives him money the sight of
1t is such shock that l made the
Apothecary fall in fit. 1t was a
great hit. The people out in front
clapped and clapped till the stage
hands come out and dragged me off
Yes-it was such a success l went out
and took an encore. / fell in another
flt.' IN. Y. Times. ...
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Have that straw ready" gasped
the prince.
And when the tiny fame next an.
peared, youth lighted a bit of straw
with 1t, and it was not much later he
fore the clans were roasting over a
hre kindled, in the incredible South
sea way, by the rubbing of two sticks
1T all lies in the method" said the
prince. You must have your groove
and your pointed peg. Otherwise q
weeks rubbing would be quite vain"
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in any religious organization. The Lord
showed Sister White that He was waiting
to revive the holy dance, and that 1t
would be pleasing to Him for the whole
church-men and women-everybody that
was saved-to go to praiSing Him in the
dance. She had seen a few men jumping
around in religious services, but not in
the sense of the holy dance, as we have
it to-day where all participate in unison.
In the holy dance in our services, the
sexes never mingle, men dance alone and
together and likewise the women. When
they went at it all heaven smiled upon
them, and greater things were opened up
through 1t than they had any conCep-
ton of.
One of the Denver newspapers called us
the Jumpers in its headline, and from that
time the public has taken it up and is
the name by which we are known from
the Atlantic to the Pacific The name is
perhaps attached to us in derision. but
we cheerfully accept it and so on jump
ing. Hallelujah!
Are Early at DeVotions.
The Jumpers" get up in the morn
ing at 6 o'clock and pray till break
fast at 8. They pray singly or together,
from then till night, in the fields, on
the shady banks of the neighboring
brook, in the silence of their
chambers. They hold services three
times Sundays, with more prayers,
songs, jumping, and testimonies" ."
When a missionary sets out to preach,
they gather and pray for him. They
say one of these workers left for
pntnrSnn nnnnilnCc hiIf IIhnn fhny
prayed stranger came up to the
traveller and gave him So. The Jump
ers cite numerous cases in which they
have prayed themselves into" shoes,
uniforms and food with ro trouble at
all
Last week." to quote Bridwell, I'VE
had no money with which to pur.
chase certain supplies and meet some
payments, but the Lord sent us in a
sufficient sum, and has been sending
us in smaller amounts from day to
day"
New York Can Wait.
New York-"the purple woman Of
Babylon not hear their prayers
for the present. They have no immedi-
ate plans for coming here as Elijah"
Dowie did. Their missionaries, how
ever, have already preached here as
they have in Paterson, Newark, New
Brunswick, Somerville, Bound Brook,
and Philadelphia.
When a person is i'll they pour oil
on his or her body and pray-that is
all, they say. The body is anointed be-
cause people mentioned in the Bible
did it. Their idea of healing" by
prayer is made clear by this case re-
Ported by Bridwell. He says:
The other day one of our sisters unwit-
tingly swallowed piece of broken glass
and another piece lodged in her throat
Her condition became quite serious, and
we saw at once that God would have to
undertake. prayer meeting was called,
in which number of persons importuned
the Lord for her immediate relief While
we were assembled the victory came our
sister began to praise the Lord and
claimed delverance. Suddenly she start
ed to shouting uproariously and, turning
about, we saw piece of glass In her
hand that had been dislodged from her
throat. She had endeavored number of
times before to get 1t out without avail.
Since then she has been all right, and
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CoIored Views.

81 tell you for modern business
nan. Black is white"
That's because he's green vet"
Il dent agree with either nj you. l
2und him rather blue this morning" !"
oh, that was on account of a per-
raj reason. He is sensitive about
ming gay so n.'-Baltiror
?aricaa
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Long Overdue.

What" queried the very young
man, was the happiest day of your
nfe?"
1T hasn't come yet" answered the
oldest inhabitant, sadly.
Hasn't come yetw echoed the other
in surprise. When do you think It
will Gomez"
when people, cease to ask fool
questions" answered the old man.
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SIGNAL FIaus.

The flags to be hoisted at one time
in signaling at sea never exceed four.
1t is an interesting arithmetical fact
that, with Is various colored flags,
and never more than four at a time,
no fewer than 1852 signals may be
given,