Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1889 — Page 6
THINK THEY WILL LIVE FOREVER.
Peculiar Faith and Diet of Alfred DeWitt and Daughter. Rosedale, In*., tpeclaTto Indianapolis Journal. Alfred DeWitt and daughter Mary Ann, of Rosedale, are very peculiar people. She is sixteen years of age, and keeps house for her father. Mr. DeWitt, when he related his history, was eating a meal consisting of turnips, bread and cold water. He believes he and his daughter will never die; that they will live forever; that they are regenerated and born of God. They do not eat anything that extinguishes life. They claim that which is of God endureth forever. They claim to be joint heirs with Jesus Christ. In regard to his peculiar religious ideas, DeWitt says: “lam fifty-eight years of age. I was born in Vigo county. Indiana. When a young man I was bid. ' I lived in this wicked manner until 1877. I concluded to change my wicked course. A new life came over me. 'Come unto Me all ye who are heavy laden and I will give you rest.' Before this time I had been an invalid for several years. I suffered intensely with rheumatic pains, and was bent as crooked as abo w. I hid Xo walk with a cane. The same year I was healed ..lid received the gift of sanctification.
From that time to the present day I have never been sick an. hour, nor have I ever taken a dose of medicine. [ have - never felt pain except when I met with accidents. Once I aocidentaHy cut . off my big toe, the wound healed tr. one day without the application of anything except cold water. I wrapped it in a rag. and on the second day I wore my boot. On the eight day it was en’irel healed.” Reliable people of Rost'u.lie attested the truthfulness of this statement. —-——rrw -
“I employ no earthly doctor,” continued Mr. DeWitt. -I take the Bible tw my doctor—the book of the Great Physician. God says to his people: “If ye keep my commandments and judgments and do them, I will take away from you all sickness, and will lay on you none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which ye know; but lay them Upon all those whoJhate you.”-Deut. 7. Mr. DeWitt claims that all those who live in strict obedience to the laws a! God will have perfect health. He has many strange ideas which he dlaims to have got from the Bible; as 6-j what he shall eat and what he shall not eat. and conforms strictly to this very strange and rather frugal bill of f are. ■ T do not eat hog meat because it ts unclean and hurtful to health, and an lerstanding (see Dent. 14.) In fact I da ! t eat meat Of any kind, because Paul says it is neither good to eat flesh nor to drink wine. ‘Prove all things. Hold fast to all things that are good. To him who knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is a sin.’ Now, since Ido this for conscience sake, it would be a sin to Cat flesh, although others may eat it without sinning. We know, also, that those who eat meat are not as healthy as those who abstain. My-daughter-iffitr'r eatTany~ thing that grows on n vine, fior" the fruit of herbs, nor the seed of trees. (See Gen. ii. 22.) We eat fruit which has a seed within it; but do not eat any kind of seed grown on bushes.” “You both eat potatoes do you not?” Here the daughter, who had been an attentive listener, said: “We do not eat sweet potatoes, because they grow on a vine. But we do eat Irish potatoes because they grow under the earth, bear seed, have no vines, no ‘holders 1 to cling to anything. The top of them is an herb, which bears seed. Potatoes are not fruits but herbs.” “Well, then, why do you not eat tomatoes?” ‘ ‘Because they are the fruit of an herb,” said the father.” * ‘Mr, DeWitt, do you eat eggs?” “No, sir; because an egg comes from flesh and produces flesh.” ‘ ‘But, I notioe that you eat butter. Is that not from a cow, which is flesh?” 1 ‘No, sir; it is only the strength of the food, grass and herbs which the cow eats. Therefore we are allowed to drink milk also. Daughter and I,” he “expect to he left on the land when the holy Scripture is fulfilled. 'll! that day shall a man cherish a cow and two sheep, and from the abundanoe of milk which they shall give he shall eat batter and honey; for butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in the land.' [lsaiah.]” Mr. DeWitt and Mary Ann are happy. They are very poor, and live in a small rented house. He is a laborer, and earns a dollar a day. Btnoe the death of his wife Mary Ann has kept house for him. She is a slender girl, pretty and intelligent, and is remarkably well versed in Scripture. A true friend is one who is not afraid to tell ufOf oyr faults.
THE VEN EZUELAN CLAIMS.
A Romantic Episode Involve in Former Negotiations. Washington Special. The Venezuelan Claims Commission, which was organized' yesterday, will adjourn for several weeks while waiting for the preparation of suitable quarters. Mr. Walker Blaine, who has charge of this matter, has. selected a building which, if it can be put in order in be made the permanent quarters of the Venezuelan commissien,and will also accommodate the International American congress and the Marine congress during their sessions.
It will be remembered that the Venezuelan claims originated well on to a quarter of a century ago in the destruction of a number of vessels owned by the Americans in the Orinoca river during one of the frequent revolutions of the Republic. In 1871, after years of attempt at arbitration, the whole matter was dropped for a time on account of a scandal alleging bribery against Godlove S. Orth, of Indiana, who was one of Ahe arbitrators at that time. The matter was revived by the last Congress, which-provided for a commission to reinvestigate the entire business. The amount involved is nearly 81,000,000.
When Senator Evarts was Secretary of War he wrote to Judge Russell, of Boston, then minister to Venezuela, saying that he wanted those claims paid. Russell replied that there were two ways of. getting at the matter, one to s.uid down a fleet of gun boats and the other to give President Guzman Blanco a good slice of the claim. The letter came to tho- State Department, when some clerk who saw it thought it was too good to be lost, and gave it to the press. It traveled back to Caraccas. President Guzman immediately sent a file of soldiers, who took Minister Russell in charge and escorted him to a New York steamer, with orders to get out of the country. Senor Shara, a nephew of Guzman his favorite,and the commander of the Venezuelan troops, who Was engaged to be married to Judge Russell’s daughter, went to Guzman and protested against the indignity put upon his prospective father-in-law, and he and the President had a fearful quarrel. At last Guzman told Shara that he must choose between the girl and his political prospects. Shara, in great passion, broke his sword over his knee flung the pieces at his uncle’s head, and rushed from the place. That night he and some companions pulled down and broke in pieces the bronze equestrian statue of Guzman which stood In the public square, then took to horse over the mountains, reached the harbor where the New York steamer lay, boarded her, sailed home to Bostoq with Judge Russell, and married the Judge’s daughter. He is now living as the agent of several Brazilian coffee-houses.
Josh Billings' Philosphy.
New York.. Weekly— generosity konsists in knowing when to give, and when not to. The man who haz sworn not to forgive, has uttered the wust oath he kan take. Thare hav been no man kreated yet who haz been superior to all others in everything. Real poverty, that cums upon us from no fault ©v our own, is the most greavous thing tojbear. Genius seems to be the fakulty ov doing a thing excellently well that nobody suppozed could be done at all. One grate diffrense between a phool and awize man iz this—the phool gaps at and then swollows allmost every thing he sees, but the wise man looks upon most things in this world az perfekly ridikilous.
What’s in a Word.
Harper*a Magazine. A New York pastor who, though a Scotch man, had lived in America over forty years, was one day taken to task by his daughter for the broadness of his accent in the pronunciation of the word difference. “How do I pronounce it?" he asked. “You say ‘dufference.’ ” “And what do you say?” “Difference." Looking at her for a moment, and getting her to repeat, he continued: “Well, now, M —, will you just be so kind as to tell me the dufference between dufference and dufference?” -— — —+ — t —* The daughter gave up her hopeless scholar to “gang his ain gait” in pronunciation henceforth. We can easily see why a powder like Dr. Prioe’s Cream Baking Powder is so well appreciated by a nation of housekeepers. All the articles used in its composition are in the exact proportion necessary to produco a perfect chemical reaction, so that the oven heat liberates all the available gas, which produces such excellent effects.
A FAMOUS FAMILY.
Something About Field and His Distinguished Relatives. The attack of Terry upon Justice Field has recalled attention to and reawakened interest in one of the most celebrated of American families, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. The first of the line to attain prominence in this country was Timothy Field, a captain in the revolutionary army and a man of much mark in his time. His son, David Dudley Field, D. D., was a Congregational clergyman of Connecticut, born in 1781, and dying in 1867, at the ripe age of 86. He was famed as a New England historian and published many local histories; but his chief claim to renown and his great glory lay in the record of his four sons. 4
The oldest of the four, David Dudley Field, has long held rank as one of the foremost lawyers of New York; Henry Martin Field is one of the leading divines of the continent; Cyrus W. Field has an everlasting monument in the Atlahtio cable, the creature of his genius and energy, and Stephen Johnson Field is one of the ablest and purest of the judges who have adorned our Supreme Bench. You shall search the history of our times in vain to find four brothers who have attained to such deserved eminence in such varied walks of life. It is. indeed, a famous family.
The Best Testimonial.
Yet published for any blood medicine is the printed guarantee of the manufacturers of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. which warrants that wonderful medicine to benefit or cure in all cases of those diseases for which it is recommended, or money paid for it will be returned. It cures all diseases arising from torpid liver and impure blood and their names are legion. All Skin, Scalp and Scrofulous affections, Eruptions, Sores and Swellings. Saltrheum, Tetter, Erysipelas and kindred diseases are among those in which the “Discovery” effected marvelous cures. When everj thing else fails, Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy cures. 60 cents, by druggists. A certain amount of wholesome ignorance is necessary to the enjoyment or even to the toleration of existence. CONDUCTOR E. D. LOOMIS, Detroit, Mich., saye: “The effect of Hall’s Catarrh Cure is wonderful," Write him about it. Sold by Druggists. 79c. It was a Westerner who went into a Haberdasher’s and asked the proprietor if he had any family ties. “The race Is not to him who doth the swiftest run, Nor the battle to the man who shoots with the longest gun,” "Allihesauiee” a long gun does count, and “the tallest pole gets the persimmons.” If you are not satisfied with your equipment Tor the race for financial success, or position In the battle of life, take our advice and write to B. F. Johnson & Co., Richmond, Va., and our word for it they wfll show you how to get a fresh start, with the best possiDle chance of winning some of the big prizes. A 10c. smoke for sc.—“Tansill’s Punch.” , ■■■■■— J. ■ i i—i-■■■
A Telegrapher’s Ruse.
Dr. J. Emmet O’Brien contributes a paper to the September Century entitled “Telegraphing in Battle,” from which this incident is quoted: “On one occasion an operator started out from Fairfax Station on a band car propelled by three contrabands to attempt to restore the line so that Pope’s operators could communicate Bis whereabouts. Finding the line cut" bcyond Pohick Bridge, he spliced it and got signals from both directions. While so engaged a party of guerrillas emerged from the woods to the track and surrounded him. Bidding the negroes stand fast, he dictated a swift message over the line, which was being repeated back to him and copied as the Confederate leader leaned over his shoulder and read the significant words: -Buford has sent back a regiment of cavalry to meet the one from here and guard the line. If you are molested we will hang every citizen on the route.’ The instrument ceased ticking as the operator firmly replied, , . . —. —’ (O. K.) A painful pause ensued. The Confederate might have suspected a ruse if at the moment a gleam of sabers had not shone in the direction of Fairfax 6ourt House. Hastily starting for the woods, the leader exclaimed, 'Come home, boys; these yere ain’t our niggers’; and they disappeared, while the hand car, as if driven by forty contraband power, sped rapidly rearward. Pope's wires were not well' guarded at any time.”
A Job for the Old Man.
Baptist Boy Preacher (nine years old and small for his age)—l suppose you know, pa, that I have been called to your charge? Old Parson (meekly)—Yes, my son. And now, don’t you think you had better drop preachingP You never amounted to much, anyhow, and I can 1 use you. I shall want a large, strong, careful person to do baptising for me, and‘you’ll do as well as anybody. Come, wha’ say?
An Insult.
Eastern man—“l do business, in New York, but I live in the suburbs. Do you live in the suburbs, too?” Chicago Map—“ The suburbs of Chicago? Great snakes! Do yoii take me fora frontiersman?"
THE MODEST BLACKSMITH.
A son of Vslcao—and his right Good arm in wielded power’s might; His throne the forge; anvil’s note Resounded ry thins while he smote, There in the fire’s rosy glows, The brazen thing with sturdy blows. The dtmp locks cling above his brow— Once white (no matter) grimy now; His hairy arm and muscles tense; His corrugated face of sense; His bearded lips where sparks have stormed, The prattling prayers of babes have formed. Philosopher <M Iron age Whose gems have graced the equipage; No mould'ring wreaths decaying bay Msy crown you hero—for a day; Your works shall last—though dead your sparks You chain the world, the nation harks; And there against the night-gloomed hill. Your spark of life is glowing still.
ESCAPING A SHOWER.
Two crabs who were out qn the beech to walk Shook claws when thoy met and stopped to ta k. “We’re going to have a storm,” one said. “Just look at those big clouds overhead!” “Then U we stay,!’ said the other “It’s plain That both us us will be caught in the rain.” So, ere the thre itened shower began, Back in the water they puickly ran. —Malcolm Douglass, in St. Nicholas.
Very Risky Indeed.
To tamper with symptons indicative of growing kidney disorder: to neglect for a brief time needful stimulation of the renal organs when their Inactivity points, as it always and unmistakably does, to their eventual permanent disease, is oertainlv very risky inde> d. Thi< i«, however, a risk that many persons perceptibly drifting Into Bright’s disease, diabetes, catarrh of the bladder, etc., constantly incur. So those who read, reflect and heed the lessons of recorded experiences, the advisability of using H«stetter’s Stomach Bitters as a diuretic, need scarcely more than a suggestion. No fact is more generally admitted by the medical profession ana the public than Its efficacy for the prevention of serious renal disease. The unmedicated excitants of commerce, no matter how pure, bear in mind, react prejudicially upon the kidneys when inactive. Tne Bitters subdues malaria, constipation and rheumatism. It takes a man with a pretty strong constitution to rise with the lark after being out on one all night. Do you wish to know how to have no steam, and not half the usual work on wash-day? Ask your grocer for a bar of Dobbin’s Eleotric Soap, and the directions will tell you how. Be sure to get no imitation. There are lots of them. The man who allows himself to drift idly down the stream will never make much of an up-rower in the world. Slavin’s Infallible Female Tonic, as a female regulator, for all female complaints, such as weaknesses, change of life, painful or suppressed menstruation, has no equal. It relieves instantly. If yourdruggist does not keep it send at once to S. I. F. T. Co., Indianapolis, Ind., for full particulars.
HARVEST EXCURSIONS.
The Pennsylvania Lines Will Sell Cheap Tickets. On September 10th, 34th and October Bth 1889, the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pittsburg will sell excursion tickets, at one fare fare for the round trip, to principal points in the Northwest, Westj Southwest and South, good returning thirty days from date of sale. For full information apply to the nearest passenger or ticket agent of the Pennsylvania Lines.
To Those Interested.
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