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Imperial Valley press., 1910-06-04
EsHLEMAN EXPLAINS
Non-Appearance of Johnson and
 Works Due to His Mistake-e N Believes Johnson will Win.
the Editor of the Press; Sir:

l, regret very much that the people of the valley have been denied the privilege of hearing MT. Johnson, and the other speakers connected with his party. The blame Is all mine, in as much as I was laborlng under the im- pression that the train for Imperial Valley left Los Angeles at o'clock, as was the case when left here a short time ago, and the arrangements were made accordingly The party arrived in Los Angeles about o'clock from San Bernardino County, and it was then too late for the other mem- bers of the party to be reached, and to make the train, although Judge Works narrowly missed it.
 When left the valley three weeks ago, was at sea as to the gubernator- ial situation, as most every one else was, but after travelling with MT. Johnson for a considerable time, see- ing the enthusiasm that he evokes ev- anywhere, and listening to his very / tnservative though very definite and
 ambiguous speeches, I am convinc- v beyond the shadow of doubt that 5Te will receive more votes than all the other candidates combined. This impression is the result of visits through all the country from San Francisco south. I know nothing of my own knowledge of the situation in the north, but am informed that it is equally good for MT. Johnson, If not better, and the fact that one hundred and forty-two newspapers of the state are supporting him, and not a fourth as many supporting any oth- CT candidate, strengthens my belief that he will receive the Republican nomination.
 The people of Imperial County are capable of determining locally who are the best men for their local of fees, but the fact that the Lincoln Roosevelt League organization claims to be and is the insurgent movement in. California seems to me should ap- peal to our people on state and na- tional issues. Mir Johnson, as the leader of this movement, merely breaches the doctrine of freeing the politics of the state from the domina- tion of the Southern, Pacific political machine, but he advocates the en- couragement and the protection of all corporations in their operations with in the law.
 As far as my own candidacy is con- cerned, I have received nothing but
Imperial Valley press., 1910-06-04
FIRE DESTROYS THREsHER

A new threshing machine belonging to Messrs. Pulliam, Brockman, Fran cis and Anderson, which was operat- ing in Water District No. G. was burn ed, with a wagon load of grain, on Friday afternoon of last week, the fire being started by hot box. The fire spread so rapidly that team of horses attached to the wagon was re- leased with difficulty.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-06-04

Notice is hereby given that all cot ton seed for Imperial Valley must be consigned to the County Board of Horticulture at Ell Centro, there to be examined, treated and held, until they are satisfied that the seed contains no insect infection. This notice is given under the State quarantine order of April 23, 1908.
 w. B. WILSIE, County Horticultural Commissioner.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-06-04
NOTICE

For the protection of the public health and to prevent possible fires, notice Is hereby given to all property owners and the occupants of all lors within the city of Fl Centro to clean up and remove or destroy all litter, trash, papers and waste material ou their premises within ten days from date hereof under penalty of the lawI
 w. B. GIBSON, Health omcer of the City of B CentrO.
 Dated September IS, 1909.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-06-04
TERRITORIAL HIGHWAY SURVEY

The surveyors running surveys for the proposed Territorial highway be- tween Phoenix and Yuma have reach ed Yuma and will complete their sur vey this week. It is expected that construction work will be started ear ly in the fall, and that it will be pushed forward from both ends of the route.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-06-04
NOTICE TO BEE.KEEPERs.

Owing to the reports of the appear ance of European and American foul brood in bee colonies of adjacent counties, it has been decided that all bee colonies shipped into Imperial ccunty must be inspected at Imperial Junction by the Imperial County Bee Inspector.
 49-tf A. F. WAGNER,
 Bee Inspector for Imperial County
Imperial Valley press., 1910-06-04
WILL STUDY VALLEY PROBLEMS

Drs. Roadhouse and Ellis, of the University of California, have plan ned to spend a portion of their sum- mer vacations in the study of agri- cultural and live stock problems of Imperial Valley. They will make their headquarters at the high school build ing in Imperial, where Lr. Ellis will conduct meteorological work.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-06-04
FARR RECEIVES ENDORSEMENT

The Imperial County Bar Associa- tion last week adopted a resolution endorsing the candidacy of it's pres ident, ex-Judge F. c. Farr, as candi- date for Congress from the Eighth district on the Democratic ticket.
Imperial Valley press., 1910-06-04
NOTICE TO WATER USERS

County Horticultural Commission
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25

bridge of Lodi? The military eye of Ma poleon sees that this bridge Is the key to the field, and that if he can carry that the victory is his. He orders the charge, but column after column of the flower of France are swept away by the iron hall and the leaden rain which the enemy pours necessarily upon the bridge The troops recoil and the day seems lost. But presently the waving plume of Napoleon himself is seen floating on the breeze, as the idol of France spurs his steed upon the fatal bridge to lead the charge in person. A wild cry bursts from the French army: "Forwardl Save the Elm perorr The charging columns are now irresistible. thegbridge is carried and the day Is won
 But even If the battle against infidelty sin and heathenism appeared to be utter ly desperate, still there are our orders. At the battle of Balaklava Lord Lucan commanded the English cavalry division and Lord Cardigan the famous light brigade. At a certain stage of the fight Captain Nolan. a staff officer, brought an order from Lord Raglan that the light brigade must advance upon the enemy. Lord Lucan gave Cardigan the order to advance at once. Certainly" said Car digan, "but allow me to point out to you that the Russians have a battery in the valley in our front, and batteries and rifiemen on each flank Lord Lucan re- piled: "I know it, but Lord Raglan will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25

NOME years ago the centennial
 state of Colorado leapt into new o fame by virtue of simple mind- ed man named Schlatter, a shoemaker. a mystic, and, I think, certainly a saint indeed. Throngs of sick folks waited on him as he stood on the edge of a lawn In North Denver, and gave his blessing to each one in turn, promising health. Many who came on crutches went away walking. Many who came wearing spectacles surrendered them with confidence. Others brought hand kerchiefs to be blest by the healer, and kerchief travelled thousand miles to bring the blessing to little Welsh baker who had got catarrh of the throat by long dwelling between the heat of the bakery and the cold of the noun tain air. k G4 Ma.
 A friend who took counsel with scien- tific probabilities took also the trouble to enquire into the details of a large number of representative "healings," followed up the cases personally, and made his report in the papers. It was a disheartening document for those who had stood in line all night to get the healer's benedction. The gist of 1t was that my friend, a Baptist minister of the city, had been unable to locate a single case where the cure was both permanent and actual. By actual cure is meant the cure of a disease of the structure whereby the tissue has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25

K NAPLES Is the largest of Italian
 M cities, and in some respects is the ! most picturesque. It is built from the water front up the slopes of hills and mountains Houses and streets fol- low the irregular topography of heights, ravines and depths and therefore there is continuous variety of scene. rThe streets are narrow and unspeakabiy filthy, and are generally crowded with lazy men and women and half-clad,s dark skinned little children, the latter being like the frogs of Egypt for multitude France is wrestling with the subject of s'race suicide" but I hayerlheart of mo such apprehension among the Italians Naples could part with a.. considerable overplus and yet maintain normal per centage of national increase.'
 Some one has said that he distinguished seven distinct odorss in the city of Col ogne; distinguished none in Naples, but l think there were seven hundred, But the Neapolitan Is as unconscious of them as if he were 1ounuging on bed of thorn less roses in the shades of Paradises
 There. are public buildings. museums, galleries of art and churches in Naples that are invested with much interest and are worthy of many visits, for In them all much may be seen to add to the en- richment of ones memory. ~e'T
 The citys growth has followed the contour of the Bay of Naples, and is, therefore, crescent-shaped, and looked at from the mountains or from the deck of a ship 1t Is most beautiful I stopped at . hotel well up on the mountain side,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25

and from that height there could be seen the sweep of the vast crescent of the bay. The curved line of the shore is 30 miles long. At one end of the circuit are the ruins of ancient Puteoli. at the other stands the promontory of Minerva. From one horn of the crescent to the other :he shore is lined with cities and small towns. and though it Is difficult to discover the lines of demarcation, yet this unbroken line consists of many distinct municipali- ties. The most distinguished object that one sees Is old vesuvius, still waving his smoky black flag aloft, like a giant de- flying the, armies of the world, Within the boundaries above mentioned. from crescent horn to crescent horn. there Is a wealth of beauty and natural sublimity -unequalled on earth, suppose. I have seen many of the most famously beautiful places in the new world and the old. but the gentle attractiveness of the Bay of Naples excels them all.
 There are no skies quite as blue as those that hang above these scenes, and no other body of water quite as per fectly reflects the bending heavens. The sky, the water the mountains all have a delicate tone of softest blue, and when morning casts its prodigality of golden splendor over land and sky and sea, 1t is as if God had suddenly mingled an in- describable wealth of roses and golden rod with an infinite field of blooming vio- let's. In the time of sunset. when the changing lights change not only their places. but their colors, tinting. multi tudes of white villas and white sails In the bay and shining through the violet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25

actually damaged and the damage &C., tually repaired Some of the patients who had thrown away crutches had to return to crutches Others had no need of crutches originally, but had taken to them for the sake of relief from ner
 vous pain. And so with other sorts of sickness The consumptive still coughed
 Be 1t observed that there was no ques- ton arising from the jealousy of the medical profession. The facts were re- ported by an intelligent layman, who honestly sought the uncolored facts
 These facts, intelligently observed and sifted, proved beyond reasonable doubt that persons ''healed" by MT. Schlatter were healed of these diseases of the which are so often inacces- sible to the medical man, and yet not infrequently yield to his management
 The sincerity of the healer was never questioned. The sincerity of the healed was an accepted principle. And yet the healing was more a matter of the mind than of the body, valuable enough thing in its way, but not competitor with scientific therapeutics. In many cases it was a sorrowful disappointment.
 MT. Dowie of Chicago and Zion City fame, used to pray over the sick and persuade many that they were well. There is no sufficient evidence that in doing this, at least In the early days, Dowie was a charlatan, though certain ly he was an egregious egotist. More over, we should do violence to the hon est testimony of many excellent peo- pie If we held that no good came Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25

brought back to the nineteenth century waves of mystical feeling such as aston ished the disciples of Huxley and Spen- cer. And they prepared the way for various movements since adopted by certain churches for the healing of dis ease. They inspired large numbers of physicians to turn their backs on drugs and appeal to the patients nsub-con- scious'' or "translminal' self They in1- pelled large numbers of ministers to grapple with diseases. to set apart rest room in their church parlors, and an hour or two of their daily life for psychological suggestions to the sick. Who indeed did not get acquainted with enbos? Who failed to absorb the wis dom of Dr. Worcester and the Imman- ueists or to distinguish between 'tstruc- tural' and Functional disease?
 One wonders what permanent gain has come of all this to the general mind of the public. Is 1t probable that fewer people now believe. for instance, in the "madstone' as a cure for hydrophobia, more people in the Pasteur treatment, or more people In the absent treat ment" of a suggestive therapeutist? The curious thing which I would note is the pendulum-like swing of the popular at- tention and faith. A healer comes to town, and behold a throng of devoted believers pitching spectacles into the street, piling crutches into sort of memorial cairn, and relegat.ng medicine bottles, ear trumpets and trusses to the dust bin. But, To, the healer goes away,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25
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doctrines the commandments of men, nor to believe that a soul can be saved by machinery. Ohl for belief in the in- herent. God-gfven power of the truth If every minister of the gospel could to- day be brought to believe in the power and efficiency. of Gods truth, to be a Ny Ing impersonation of that truth, to preach It as if he believed It with all his soul. what a .tremendous power we should bel My brother don't preach philosophical theories; don't preach your own crude speculation: don't divide Cnrist's heri- tage with trifes;. but come before the people with the. pure truth of God; De- lieve 1t. live 1t, and your preaching must do good.
 : There is the. joy of the harvest. We have foretastes of this joy even in this life. As I. look back through my minis try I can see scattered along its. course some of the sweetest oases that ever glad dened the heart of traveller through desert land, It should fill our hearts with Joy to think of a, long line of souls all tracing their conversion back through generation after generation to the efforts of one man. It is joyful thing to think of Such a thought as this ought to nerve us. for the conflict, with the pow CTS of darkness here Christian brothers, let us strive to endure hardness as good soldiers, looking unto the recompense of reward. the joy that Is set before us. when the angel reapers shall come to gather the joyful harvest!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25

Brethren, Christian ministers, we have received our orders to advance, and they come from a leader who can not blunder. Whatever may be the danger, real or apparent. we may always know that we are safest when we obey.
 But. the real worker for Christ will often weep. will often have his heart sad dened. There will be much to make him weep. The heart of the true minister of Christ must be sad when he thinks of the terrible destitution now existing all over our land, of the thousands who en- joy no religious privileges. and who hardly ever hear the name of Jesus. The Christian minister is saddened. too. when he thinks of the waste of the seed. or at least, of the great proportion which brings no fruit. Many ministers are made to grieve when they see their most earnest efforts fall still-born upon care less ears! We must expect to weep if we are faithful to our trust. Dead, hardened sinners, and luke-warm, lfeless Chris tans are enough to make any true min ister weep.
 But notice the preciousness of the seed We do not appreciate the preciousness of Gods truth. We should regard 1t as too precious to be mixed with the chaff of our individual opinions, or with any man. made theology. We need to believe more in the power of the naked. truth, and less in machinery, manipulation and, manage ment. We have no right to teach for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25
FAITH HEALING-By George E

and so does the intensely suggested con- viction of health. Again, the eyes re- fuse to see small print and grandma goes to the ten cent store to get her a cheap substitute for the lamented gold filled glasses that cost her 40 or 50 times ten cents. Again, the stiff knee is stiff, the catch in the hip is agony, and the cripple hunts his crutch. Again, the dis tressing cough asserts itself or the deafness Is undeniable or something happens to the weak place, wherever, whatever. 1t is, and in the absence of a visible pillar of faith the patient back slides'' to his doctor. That patient gen. tleman smiles a little, writes a prescrip- tion, gives a little advice, makes an entry in his account book, and wonders whether he will collect 1t. By and by another ''healer" comes along from some near or distant Zion, says some thing about Exodus 526, asserts that sickness Is contrary to nature and grace, and again the self same public pours out its spectacles, It's quinine capsules, it's apparatus of asthenia, catches its hysteric breath. sobs its hysteric pray CT, and leaps up again convinced that there is no such thing as sickness for the truly sanctif1ed.
 Leave thou thy sister when she prays" Is good advice to the scoffer It will not be supposed that in this DOT trayal there is the sembfance of con- tempt. Gentle reader. grow not indig- nant because the lines of my sketch seem more like caricature than sympa-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25

thy. On the contrary, confess to real and profound sympathy with what that remarkable decimator of English speech, Quakenbos, calls Hypnotic Therapeu- tics" Who can doubt the value of spir- itual and mental attitude as a factor In physical health or disease7 But are there no limits to exaggeration? Because the body can be and Is reached through the mind, are therefore the stomach and the blood and the skin and all other organs of the body closed as avenues of approach? Radically this fantastic denial of the physical facts of life Is but a restatement of the alleged doc trines of early Gnosticism, which gave out that the body was a mere shadow, a thing unreal. which could not sin be- cause 1t was separated from the real personality, the soul Hence. the soul could stand by and get a sort of satfs- faction In watching the fool body per form acts which would have been sin had the soul participated. Our faith healing friends do not intend to go as far into extravaganza; and the peril of overdoing 1t Is no proof athat there Is no justice in their plea. Yet. 1t Is well that one should hang out the dan ger signal. 4.,-. ..l. ,
 On the other hand, there is the other and opposite peril, the supposition that the body is merely, material mechanism, whose actions and reactions are prim- arily physical. This both gives the lie to daily experience and shuts out ,prac- tical godliness. We know that the stim-
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mist now universal, the scene suggests the interblending of the colors that one sees in the translucent mother-of-pearl, soft, changing, blending and beautiful.
 Beyond the upper horn of the crescent, towards the sea, rise the high rocks of Capri, where Tiberius once had his pala- tial home. It looks lonely enough now, miles away from the mainland, especially as the shadows of twilight fall and night settles down upon the surrounding sea.
 Along this crescent-shaped shore Virgil located many scenes of the Aeneid, and of 1t Horace and Juvenal wrote. Lucullus, Julius Caesar Horace, Domitian. Virgil, Cicero, Nero. and countless others, fa- nous in song and story, here chose to To- cate their villas. Here was Romes New port, its Monte Carlo, its Vanity Fair. Of this fair spot Seneca said, "No man should come hither who does not mean to subdue his passions He doubtless included Pompei in his mind, and of that city I shall now write.
 Pompeii was destroyed in the year T, and was hermetically sealed up until comparatively modern times. I, there fore, have seen Pompei as 1t appeared in the time of Seneca and Nero, ex- cepting the life and activity of those days. It was then a gay, giddy and guilty city. About two-thirds of the city have been excavated and one may now look upon temples and public baths and other build fngs and see them much as they were of old Here's the amphitheatre where the people gathered in luxurious and volup- tuous vice; here still stand homes of the rich, still adorned with artistic elegance;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25

burst of enthusiasm: it Is not even a de- velopment of the general spirit of Chris tianity; but natural inherent element of the religion of Christ. It Is the vital air of a living. breathing Christianity. Refusing to go forth and SOW the seed Is disobeying Christ. The call comes to us. not only from the peculiar cosmopol- itan population of our cities, but from the mountain regions, from the cane brakes and bayous, and distant plains of our land where the boys and girls are growing up ignorant of the blessed plan of salvation, and the promises of God through ''the only name given under heaven or amongst men whereby we must be saved" Ahl the call is from these mountain coal-pits, where toll and sweat bow the body and heart of man, and shocking crime runs riot in Birming hams shadow. It comes from faraway nations that live in darkness; from China, Japan, India. Read Frank G. Carpen- ter's talk on the Hindu religion in The Age Herald of August '. Does it not fire the heart of the minister of Christ's gos- pei to read of these millions of poor de- luded people, where the name of Christ Is unknown, worshping idols and going to their graves ignorant of God, the Great Jehovah? '"The harvest truly Is plenteous, but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest. that He will send forth. laborers into His harvest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-25

found a woman, doubtless a mother, with her arms around her little boy. The child's body seemed to indicate that he was i'll at the time of the great catastro- phe, and retreat from the doomed city could not be made with any speed and it was just like mother to remain with her child and die with him.
 None of the buildings have roofs, being of wood, they, of course, yielded to the weight of ashes and lava. and fell in.
 The wickedness of Pompeii Is most startlingly revealed, and the glaring signs of its sins are still preserved. The indi- cations of it's depravity are such as may not be spoken of Of course the books do not refer to them. They remain in a section of the city to which only men are admitted. In all the history of ex- cavations there have never elsewhere been discovered such proofs of utter and shameless degradation and unconcealed vice.
 in the days of Pompeiis carnival of shame? Pompeii itself is the answer to the inquiry. Nowhere on earth today is such public evidence of loathsome vice tolerated.
 As strolled through the silent streets of the deserted city I could easily un- derstand the Divine indignation that en- ployed Vesuvius as an agent of judg- ment upon the guilty city.
 Down the fiery torrent rolled in deadly streams of destruction Over smiling landscapes and vineyards; over the walls of the doomed city; on 1t swept, through narrow streets, burning its way into houses, temples and theatres. Then came