Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-19
peration. The circulars sent by Col

peratlon. The circulars sent By Col
HERS since 1907 to the Grandin
Agency. and signed in rubber stamp
with the name of the advertising man
lager, were interpreted by Mr.. Posts
counsel as attempts to make the
Postum Company advertise, and the
request for display matter instead OF
Testimonial reading notices in Mr..
Nast's polite letter of cancellation, as
la yelled insinuation that Golfers"
Expected the Postum Company to in
Grease its advertising, since display
Igenerally takes up more space, and is
therefore more costly than reading
notices.
4 This is a bare view of the bare is:
Isue. But the case went further. The
Iattorney for Golfers" stated in open
ling that he would rest not only on the
claim of libel, but on the. truth of Mr..
Adams's| statement So, from the tes-
Itimony taken at the trial, yer. slightly
supplemented by other facts which
will help make it irfe'igi5le, we arc
able to tell the readers of Golfers"
what Postum and Grape-Nuts are, by
what means they are advertised, what
is the real source and motive of their
elaborate testimonials, sample of
which the reader can doubtless find by
referring to this mornings newspa-
pers, and, finally, who and what is c.
w. Post.
i Mr.. Post first: for he is probably
more interesting than his wares. Post,
It appears, came to public notice as
mental healer near the city of Battle
Creek, Michigan. He has testified in
mother trial that he was cured of
chronic ills" by a mental-science
healer named Mrs. Agnes Chester
just as he was later cured of appended
lis by his own Grape-Nuts. In spite
IF his prosperity, he has been heavily
J afflicted man, it appears And in 1898
ne was running at Battle Crek, sani
| tarium or boarding house, called La
Vita Inn, for persons under mental
treatment. His particular brand of
} mental healing was known as Scientia
J Vitae. To spread the sect and fill the
! inn he published in 1898 his first book,
} treatise on Mental Healing, entitled
Il Am Well" Really, this book was
! only more ineligible copy of ideas
! presented in other more popular and
better-known works on healing by the
J mind. There are the same pretentious
claims to divine guidance-''it pro-
duces a feeling of great quiet and
} Our Father conveys to you his great
truths which will make you free from
pain and disease" says Post in be-
ginning-the same generalities con-
corning the perfect man and the denial
of pain, the same stories of marvellous
'4cures. Concerning these tales, let us
return to the late trial. By Golfers"
counsel, and by one of the jurors,
Post, a squirming witness, was pinned
down to the successive, admissions
: that he had charge of mental healing
J at La Vita Inn, that he practiced it
himself, that he told, in his book, how
! he had healed" case of erysipelas
! by Scientia Vitae. Later, warming up,
Mr.. Post spoke quite readily of that
case, testifying as follows:
"A-That case of erysipelas was a
man who came to me one morn
ling when l was out in the carriage
house of my stable doing little work.
sorting some pears, in fact and re-
member the case very well, indeed,
because when / turned to look at the
individual, there was a face swollen
half beyond it's ordinary size, with evil
ldence of erysipelas. /. He was in
J great pain, as he stated, and said that
he had been treated by some physi-
clans downtown and had heard that
there was some remedy out at the inn.
so-called. /. am unable to say
, any more exactly, or to analyze exact
ly what it is that conveys or carries
the healing impulse; it is sufficient to
say that when the man told me his
trouble told him to go into the house,
and that / would be in there shortly.
went toward the house and at
the back corner, found the man stand
ing. 1 said: Didn't tell you to go
around to the front and go into the
house?' He said: Yes, but have no
reason to go in there said: Why: g
He said: Because my pain has left
me, / have none said: DO you
mean to say that you have no pain, no
: trouble?' He said: None at ALL :.
said: Go downtown and don't dig
lit up again, and in the course of two
or three days Nature will set up a