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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-12-06
Great Department Store
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MOSELEY: BROS.


which spends money advantage Economy best exempfed
great bargain sales
We have lust from Northern markets after searching
the market and securing many excellent bargains We are
for the public inspect immense stock great
store the things the nice things the chap thing
Prints from &C. up White Homespun Checked Hornesp
up complete line of Dry Goods and notions Our Imperial Broadco
double WIDTH 5oc great bargain Mems Suits SIS
Youths $1,000, Boys from to $780, New and nob
things in Hats Caps Pest line of Rugs and Art Squares
have ever experienced Northern Miner has just urne
from and immense stock OF fashionable Millinery no
ready for Inspection embracing the and up to date things
immense line of ready for Inspection Our stock
Groceries, Hardware Croeryware and Woodenwa
now COMPLETE We added feature in and
es and the bargains contained them creating sensation Pc
ple wonder how goodsso cheap mention few spec
IS lbs Granuaed Sugar $oo New drop head domestic
Machine Defender Machine drop head guaant
for years. We have only Organs e and close them
make special offer elegant tones oak and walnut We ha
the old reliable Iron King Elmo Cooking Stove beyond doubt
hest on the Market For every dollars trade free
choice on bargain counter
nnosEIBx BROS, THEY SELL FOR LES
Prosperity, S. c.
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zance of the lack of proper medical attend
ance. He was denounced by the regular
practitioners. held up to rdicule in the
newspapers, and the free advertising ne
thus received served only to increase the
Dowie BOOM
The year 1895 is known by the Dowieites
as 1.-The year of persecution. Dowie was
arrested at least hundred times for vio-
lating the city ordnance in regard to the
care Of the sick. His meetings were broken
up by the police. Persecution" was just
what was needed to knit him and his fol-
lowers more closely together, and there was
no lack of others to join themselves to
him.
On Washington's birthday, 1896, Dowie
organized the Christian Catholic Church in
Zion to suppant the International Healing
Association which ne had started years be-
fore in Australia, and under the auspices Of
which he had been carrying on his work.
Dowie, of course. was the overseer of the
new church. He built hospital, estab-
lished missionary training college, res
cue home, a printing plant and pubica-
tion-"Leaves of Healing"
The advertising he was thus able to give
himself in addition to what he received
from his enemies and detractors. brought
money to hts Golfers, although he was care
were always directions, however, in which
his grateful patients could express their
thanks financially. and Dowe held the
purse strings Of all his various enterprises.
X
He had so prospered by the fall of 1899
that he was able to purchase $500 acres of
land forty-two miles north of Chicago as a
site for his projected Zion City, of which
his followers should be the citizens, and
where he could carry on his work free from
Interference by the municipal authorities.
There were other reasons for his wishing
to town his own town" that appeared later.
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from his earnings In thrifty Scotch fashion
to enable him to return to Edinburgh and
to take five years course in classics ana
theology. No one has ever accused him OF
failing to look after his own interests. but
his father. John Murray Dowie, testified In
the federal court at Chicago on June p,
1906. that It was he who bore the expense
Of his sons education at Edinburgh Uni
young preacher the little Congregational
church in Newton, suburb of Sidney,
which was the future Elijah Ills first
charge.
The field was scarcely congenial to so
restless a spirit as John Alexander Dowte.
but he appears to have put In his time dur
ing his six years pastorate to good purpose
in preparing himself by reading and more
practical experience for the evangelistic
work on which his heart was set.
In 1873 he cut loose from his church, and
from all UNCONVENTIONAL affiliations as we'll.
and started out as an Independent preacher.
One of his leading tenets was the efficacy
OF divine healing. a gift with which he
claimed to be endowed, and his energy and
the apparent success of his microscopy
power in time attached to him a consider
able following. To keep 1t in hand he built
a tabernacle at Melbourne, where for about
ten years he preached. taught and wrought
his cures But this was too quiet and hum
drum life for one of his uneasy and am
bilious nature. 1t is more of wonder
that he stood the inaction so long than that
he made the final break. He had by this
time ac--leved the conviction that he had
great misson-no less than the CONVEX
sion of Great Britain to his ideas. Accord
ingly. in 1890 he started on his pilgrimage
to the mother country, by way of San
Francisco. He had so far followed The
Scriptural injunction to take neither scrip
nor purse" with him that he had no more
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than hundred dollars when he landed on
the Pacific coast 1t was necessary for him
to live on the country. as he made his
way across the continent. The land and
the people appeared to offer so fertile field
for his ministrations that by 1903 he had
progressed only SO far as Chicago: In fact
1t Seemed we'll to him to bring the United
States to his standard before he undertook
to convert the British isles.
He at once set to work. with mis- Gus
tomary ardor. to build up strong mission
fair however, proved too strong counter
attraction while it lasted and Dowie's
meetings in his small wooden structure at
Woodlawn were but poorly attended. Still,
he was undiscouraged. Lack Of Gpprecia-
ton, even when it took the form of open
opposition. failed to daunt him: When he
was told to go away, told that Chicago did
not want him, he answered that for that
needed him and where he ought to stay.
I'm stay and flight it OUT he declared,
"and I'll win in the end"
After the Columbian exposition had clos
ed its gates and the excitement it had
created had subsidized the world began to
hear of Dowie. Certainly it was from no
retcence on his part in making himself
head. His language was vigorous, livelys
humorous-after it's fashion-often impas-
stoned and too often abusive of those who
presumed to differ with him or to criticise
him. At all events, he was different from
other preachers. He attracted atten. on.
The crowds that came to hear him began
to overflow his tabernacle. He was COM
PEELED to build larger one. When still
more room was needed he held regular
meetings in the Auditorium ana the ZEN
trail Music Hall.
His great hold on the people continued to
be his "cures." Many Of them. doubtless,
were genuine. Faith can work wonders in
certain types of ailments. as has been
proved in the cases of many cognate modes
Of healing. Those who believed in Dowie
were often benefited, and of such cures he
made the most In other cases he was not
successful and the authorities took cogni-
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Cowie's Residence.

DoWie had thriven under persecution and
abuse, but it was no doubt wearing in the
long run 1t served while he was accumu-
lating his capital. Now he saw a chance,
he devised an opportunity for increasing
his wealth and surroundings where he
should be an undisputed and undisturbed
ruler. 1t was not until 1901, however. that
building began, but then 1t progressed
rapidly. In 1902 Dowie removed his head
quarters to his new town. In another year
it had 10000 inhabitants.
The principal industries of the place were
lace making, brick making, box making.
preserve making and candy making-these,
in addition to the usual businesses neces-
sary to supply SO large a place with food
clothing, light, heat and whatever else man
requires, except pork, tobacco and alcohol.
These various industries were supposed to
be run on a cooperative. profit-sharing
basis a sort of state socialSm-and SO, to
certain extent. they were. In reality, every
thing was Dowie's, stood in his name, and
no one else had any vested right in any
ment. Land could be leased. but not
bought. Everything came to Dowie, and
all the money passed through his hands or
through those of his personally appointed
representatives. Different estimates have
been made of the amount that in the high
tide of his prosperity Dowie had accumu-
lated. Thirty million dollars has been
named as his total means That figure will
serve, at any rate to give some idea of the
profits Of religion when run on strictly
business basis The training in CONNER
cial enterprises in his youth had borne
fruit in Dowle's middle life, hundred, yes
thousand fold. And the more he got the
more he wanted. His lace-making plant,
for which he imported the operatives, to
take advantage Of the favorable provisions
of the tariff. occupied three acres and en-
ployed 500 people.
/ With the Chicago success it is not strange
/ that the dream which brought him from
+ Melbourne to Chicago should have grown
to stupendous ambitions. He had world
encircling dreams, and for time 1t looked
as If they might be realized. He estab-
lished branches of his church not alone in
this country, but in Australia, in Ger
many and in England He planned a new
Jerusalem on the Nile, a colony in Mexico.
| a great temple in Zion City that should be
monument to the faith. Then came the
New York crusade, and with it the begin
ming of the end.
The New York expedition failed utterly,
and, has been said. cost 100000. In
stead of being thrilled by the magnetic
power of faith. New Workers were bored.
Subsequent Journeys to Mexico and further
afeld to Australia and Europe were UNI
successful, and were followed by domestic
dissension and financial ruin. The prophet,
like some other Zealots of new religions,
began to preach polygamy. His friends
and his family still chung TO him, excusing
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Doing Business,

J. G, FhelpsStokes. the rich youns social
refOrmer. said about business al / St Pat
rick's dinner of a past season:
THE more / see of business. the more |
come to agree with the old japanese idea
OF it-namely. that ii is TOO much game Of
cheating; that II is a pursuit in which
brave. honorable. generous persons-peopie
like the Irish, for iEstance-cannot hope to
succeed
That. at least. Is how modern business.
as it is exemplifed in Wall street, strikes
me.
You know the storX, OF the two wall
street men.
Business is business. began the trst.
Whom have you been doing now? said
the other
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A Fix Indeed.

w Bourke Cochran. at a st. Patrick $
day dinner. told a newspaper story
AN Irishman." he said. was talking
about the case of Barring Gould. whose
obituary, you will remember was recently
printed by mistake. Mr. Gould still being
happily with us.
= So said the Irishman, they've printed
the funeral notice ay a man that amt dead
Yet. how they? Faith. an it's nice ux
he'd be In now II he was wan o thin peo-
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Spanish omelet into the pocket of her pink
frock.
Why you little pig exclaimed her
mother, what on earth are you about?
Put that back on your plate at once. Why,
/ neve-, heard of such thing. What on
earth do you mean by it?'
1T Is SO good muvver, the child eX-
planned. L just thought I'd take a piece
home to our cook for pattern.
Neatly Put.
Miss Ellen Terry, at a reception in New
York, talked about the innumerabie women
who ask her to help them get on the
stage
1.-THE fact u.s." she said, every woman
under thirty believes she is an actress.
And every actress" she added, be
lieves she is under thirty
Casting Up.
A Detroit woman said of the late len.
Russell A. Alger:
in company with a half-dozen other
women-a committee in fact-I once waited
on Gen Alger to try and interest him in
woman suffrage.
He was interested. He admitted the
truth of many of our arguments; but in
the matter of supporting us he would not
go as far as We wanted him to go.
Zone of the ladies got. am afraid. lit
tie over-excited. In her address to the
general she imputed to woman more vir-
tues than any merely human creature could
possess. At the height Of her eloquence
Gen. Alger. chuckling, interrupted her.
"He said he had once attended a woman
suffrage meeting where the lady lecturer
on the platform had boasted about woman
just as this lady was doing. The lecturer,
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The Home Builders.

Children" said Judge Willard McEwen,
at dinner In Chicago. ARE the great nome
builders. lack of children means unhap-
piness. divorce. In the majority of the
divorce suits that I pass on-and | pass on
a hundred month--the couples are be-
tween thirty and forty years of age and
childless.
so children should be priced and cher
ished. despite their faults
Faults they have, l will admit.
only the other day / heard OF a little
girl who. lunching out. was detected ii the
&C. of examining large yellow handful OF
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An Authority.

Benjamin 7. Nixon of Jeffersonville. Ind,
is known as the marrying squire for the
very good reason that he has united in
matrimony no less than 2.632 couples.
+ reporter the other day asked this au-
thcrity for his views on marriage. Mr..
Nixon said:
when marriage is a failure. the fault
nearly always lies at the husbands door.
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of horses and hunting, his -snanship
and so on, when Dodd Interrupted him.
you're good sportsman. your he
said
"'Well,' said the minister. not suspecting
any trap, L not a bad sportsman, i'll
do say it myself
Yet said Dodd, if I were a bird, !
could hide where there'd be no danger of
your potting me-.
Where would you hide?' asked the min
lister.
I'D hide Dodd answered, in pour
study
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1nexcusable.

James Hazen Hyde. who has Travelled a
good deal in the east, was talking about
!, the way the Mohammedans treat taelr
wives.
"They certainly can't trust their wives"
he said. mo wife can appear on the street
save swathed from top to toe in loose drap-
cries that gibe her the look OF. walking
feather bed"
Mr.. Hyde laughed.
IAN Arab of prominence In Bagdad. on
his harem's return from the daily consti-
tutional said to his chief eunuch
Did all go WE'LL?
"'All went well. SIRE the eunuch gravely
answered, but for Fatmah. your recent
bride-you remember her-a fattish little
Mozabite.
Drown her at once. roared the hus-
band, and he added bitterly. These married
fiirts make me tired"
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In the Want Ads.

Clyde Fitch, at one of his Sunday lat
homes took down a scrap book and read
a number of curious want advertisements
that he had clipped from the papers. from
time to time.
Among these want ads were;
"WANTED-The gentleman who accident
ally pocketed three billiard balls on Satur-
day evening last to return them immediate
ly or come for the table Reward and no
questions
GENTLEMAN wishes board and lodg-
ing In family where he can help in house
work."
YOUNG MAN desires lessons in ventrilo-
quism in return for window cleaning"
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Classed Low.

Dr. w. C. Farabee, the Harvard ethnolo-
gist, complained quantity one day before
he set out on his chronological Investigations
among the Indians at the head waters of
the Amazon about the sighting way In
which the world still looks on science
only in Germany" said Dr.. Farabee
docs science get her due. In some coun-
tries she is so hardly used. indeed. that the
deduction of the western trapper comes TO
mind.
This trapper, noticing place where
roots had been dug up, examined the spot
and then said calmly as he rose and
brushed the dust from his knees:
This must have been done either by a
wild hog or botanist'
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lot Just charIatan, surely this short,
stou, prophet of Chicago. a forceful per-
SuualitE. an ecclesiastic. an autocrat a
hhanc'er and an anti-medicine .aithhealer.
Adorei as he has been by his followers.
holding them with tyranncal Sway in alb
so!ute subsection, derided by the pubic as
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DIR. Edward Everett Hale whose eighty
NTH birthday is to be signalized by an i'm
pressive and fitting celebration next month,
said al dinner in Boston:
I'm my ideas about birthdays l am like
a certain schoolboy.
Which do you like best?' ! asked this
boy: day school or Sunday school,?
Sunday school, he answered promptly.
Why?
Because il only comes once a week."
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Dowie's Barn.

a calculating hypocrite, there can be little
doubt that Dowie had complete confidence
and belief in himself.
Reports as to the prophets appearance
are as much at variance as theories OF hi4
spiritual nature. Says one: His personal
appearance Is striking; his figure though
of medium stature. is imposing; his eye Is
penetrating and his countenance, naturally
stern, frequently lights up with smiles; In
bearing in private he is a gentleman. and
his official aspect is that of a man born to
command and incapable of following. With
his majestic brow and venerable white
beard, he seems like some biblical patri-
arch"
On the other hand writing Of Elijah III,
who made his invasion of New York with
a cost of $4,000 and was laughed at for
his pains one of the unredeemed says:
AT the close OF the hymn Dowie assembled
the pulpit and began to read from mas
sive Bible. The people saw short, squat.
podgy old man whose pink face was
framed in long white hair and beard His
age had been advertised as fifty-seven
years. but he looked fully ten years older.
His sharp little eyes cleaned with cum
ming from beneath shaggy black brows
slightly tinged with gray. The voice of
Dowie was a shock. harsh, shrll, metallic.
grinding, the expression of a bullying
spirit that will not tolerate a suggestion OF
opposition. 1t suggested scolding."
But however these things may be, and
Dowe himself kept official photographer.
for whom he was constantly posing, and
his pictures with his LEAVES of healing
were sent everywhere all over the world
for edification of his converts, it must be
true that he had for certain classes at least
exceptional personal magnetism. 1t has
been said "Cagliostro had no surer grasp
on the faith of his dupes and Napoleon was
not followed half SO blindly by his SOL
diers."
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According to Habit.

Senator Cullom was pooh-poohing the
alarmist talk about war with Japan.
"Such talk is so absurd" he said. that
they who spread 1t must have some motive
some selfish motive
Altogether it is like the case of the
schoolboy~ and his home work
-. john, said the schoolmaster to this
boy, your home work is neat enough. but
you always make errors In your additions
I get father to help me. sair.' said the
boy, timidly.
DO you? Why. that's strange. 1 don't
see how your father can get along In life.
He can't add at all. His additions in
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The man let's romance die. He forgets.

The man let's romance die. He forgets.'
Mr.. Nixon unused awhile.
cit is like this. he said. "A man of mid
die age and youth of poetical appearance
sat side by side in the smoking car or a
nearly empty train In the solitude the
youth took photograph from his pocket,
looked at it, and then said to his companion
feverishly:
Were you ever. sir, in love?
THE man of middle age started. He
laughed.
WAS I ever in love-? he repeated. as
he relighted his pipe. Was l ever in love?
Well / don't know if
"'You don't know? cried the youth
Well if you ever had been in love, you d
know it. Why. when you're in love. your
life is a sweet dream, you have no taste
for food. you think of nothing but the
beauty Of
".Were you ever married.? snapped the
middle-aged man.
No. but
"'well, If you ever had BEEN you'd know
it, Why, when you're married. your life
is
But the youth. with a seowl. got up
and changed his seat"
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variably are much too large. What is his
business, anyway?
lies a waiter, sir said the boy"
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he said. ended a striking climax with the
question:
"'Where would man be If ii had not been
for woman =,
..She looked around the crowded hail
The silence was intense She raised her
hand and cried again, impressively:
II repeat, where would man be II 1t hao
not been for woman?
Then a coarse voice from the re-
piled:
" In Paradise. ma am. "
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John Alexander Dowie was a genius
The story of his rapid but gradual devel-
opment into the general overseer of the
Christian Catholic Church of Zion is a Won
derful financial If not the more unusual
kind of miracle.
He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Nav
2S 1S47. Only after trouble in Chicago in
the last few years did he announce that
Judge Dowie is not his father. He was said
to be proud of the fact that a nameIess
Scottish duke made a morganatc marriage
with his mother. and, dying suddenly, left
the mother of his son to marry again in or
der to escape comment but two months
before the child's birth.
There was nothing in the mans early up
bringing TO give hint of what his life was
TO be. He was thirteen years old VIXEN his
father took the family to Australia and
John Alexander was soon engaged in com
mercial pursuits he expressed it. in
Adelaide. In reality he was a clerk in a
shop. He was wont TO tell how, by the
time he was twenty. he had laid by enough
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NneCdOteS COnce1ninU
WeIl-knOwn peODle,.
The Fewer the Better.

pie that behaves iverything they see in t.e
papers
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Hard to Dodge.

Hard to Dodge.
Senator Hale in an address at Ellis
worth, said of the national prosperity:
1.-TWO tramps were conversing over
pail of hot ale.
These is terrible times said the first,
as he set down the smoking pail and wiped
his mustache.
.'"They certainly is the other answered.
"A Teller can't ask for DIX nowadays
'thout bein' offered it. "
Among the cobwebs.
A lawyer was talking about the late sam
uel c. r. Dodd, the Standard Oil lawyer,
whose salary from the great corporation
was 500 OoO year.
mr. Dodd" said the lawyer. had an
excellent legal talent He IT was. you
know, who organized the Standard Oil
trust What further endeared him to Mr..
Rockefeller were his strict views on the
observance of the Sabbath. .
They tell story about Dodd when he
was a struggling practitioner in Franklin.
There was a Franklin minister who vent
cunning a good deal, and altogether was
rather sporting character
Eat little church supper one night the
minister was Boosting about his knowledge
Cañon City record., 1907-08-22
WILL RESUME MINING
OPERATIONS AT BARNES CITY

Mr.. and Mrs. N. E. Barnes OF New
York city, accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. d. Stecher OF Chicago and A.
D. Weller, the latter OF whom Is pri-
vate secretary to Mr.. Barnes. were at
the Strathmore hotel this morning on
their way to Barnes City in the west
ern part Of this county where the for
mer will direct the operations OF the
Cottonwood Creek Copper Mining
company OF which he is president. Mr..
Barnes says he is confident from the
assays he has received that one Of the
richest copper veins In Colorado has
been uncovered at the old Montezuma
property at Barnes City and that its
exploitation will pay handsome divi-
dends to the company. The shaft IL
down about one hundred feet and the
ore shows increasing value as depth is
attained. Mr.. Barnes has such conf
dence In the property that he 10 willing
to spend $40. 900 In testing the matter.
The return of Mr.. Barnes to Colorado
from New York city means . restora-
tion Of mining activity In the western
part of this county. II. n