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THE DAILY COOS BAT TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1908. 4-H--n--8--8-4-H- T 'K---8-::"--n-U-n-B-H-H t: ! 8 i t t n i I 8 I 8 i i I e are Already for the Fair New and up-todate merchandise specially bought for this occasion xt I :: :: I :: art, Schaffner and Marx Fine Clothing w H I I 8 T 8 I :: I 8 I :: 8 8 :: 8 8 it :: i 8 8 I 8 8 I 8 12 The best the market produces and all styles for the Fall Season can be seen at this big store. Every suit is guaranteed for style, fit and workmanship. TVc guaran tee mem to oe absolutory rree irom cotton. Get something, gentlemen, that will stay with you and a style that is just a little different from what is dished out to you generally. The best $15.00 suit in towi or your money back. H. S. M. Suits range in price from $18.00 to $45.00. We have just received a line of popular priced suits, the best we have ever seen. They come from the best manufacturers of popular priced clothing in the United States. There is value to them, look just as good as our better suits, and you will be surprised to see what a really good suit $15.00 will buy for you. See the big window display Cluett's Latest for this Fall. You will say that they are the prettiest and neatest shirts ever displayed on Coos Bay. Copyright 1908 by Hart Schaffner & Marx ierer Moved to First Trust and Savings Bank Bldg. ----K--::------::---:s-o::--:j-K----a--4---:j--n- -------'JJ:Jt:" -8--8--8-8-8--8--8--8--- n I t t t t t i t i 1 ------- FARLOW REPLIES . 10 CABOT'S CRITICISM Defends Christian Science Against .Magazine Article Attacking Its Healing Methods. To the Editor of the Post: Sir In Dr. Itichard C. Cabot's dis sertation on Christian Science and its cures, which appeared in McClure's Magazine and which was reviewed in your issue of Aug. 2, ho declares: "For if it is true, as stated on Page 120 of 'Science and Health,' that 'health is not a condition of matter but of mind, nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on this subject,' of course 'the material sen ses' cannot be trusted when they tes tify that cancer, consumption, broken bones, or locomotor ataxia have been cured by Christian Science." In reply to this statement, we would say that the evidence of tho material senses, in respect to dis ease, yields under Christian Science treatment to a higher, better, more spiritual sense of being, consequent ly the patient does not need to ask tho material senses to testify to or confirm the fact of the healing. Further, Christian Science plants itself unreservedly upon the Scrip tural teaching that all that God mado "was very good" and that there was nothing made that He did not make. It denies tho actuality of that which seems to exist and yet is no part of the dlvlno economy. Nevertheless, it recognizes tho phenomena of ma terial sense and that sin, sickness and death are quite as real as any other material manifestations. Recognize Existence of Evils. Christian Scientists recognize that these ovlls and discords exist in er ring mortal experience, tho dream of mortal life, and call them by tho Bamo names that others use, and thoy recognize that these evils must bo grappled with and overcome by Truth. Even a ghost must be ex plained away. It cannot be overcome by merely ignoring it, notwithstand ing the faot that tho properly inform ed person knows that a ghost is a mere apparition, a seeming, not a reality, first, last and all the time. Dr. Cabot declares that ho has "studied ono hundred cases of Chris tian Science cures recorded In the re cent volumes of the Christian Science Journal" and that "putting together this evidence and comparing it with" his "own experience regarding the ac curacy of his own patients' state ments about their own diseases," his "conclusions are, first, that most Christian Science cures are probably genuine; but, second, that they aro not the cures of organic diseases." Incidentally he declares "func tional diseases are no moro imagin ary than an ungovernable temper or a balky horse is imaginary. They are often tho source of acute and long continued suffering; indeed, I believe that there is no class of diseases that gives rise to so much keen suffering." Thus the doctor pays tribute to Chris tian Science by generously conceding that it heals "real" diseases and de stroys an immense amount of suffer ing. So far, so good. Every Case a Fit Subject. Proceeding, the doctor declares, "Tho sharpness of this distinction be tween organic and functional trou bles is somewhat blurred," and "or ganic disease is oftentimes produced by functional disease" and "such or ganic dlseaso is often cured by Chris tian Science." Dr. Alfred T. Schofiold, a medical authority, in his well-known work en titled "Tho Force of Mind," says: "There can bo no organic disease without some derangement of func tion," while he also declares In agreement with Dr. Cabot, "func tional disease may after all be or ganic at the bottom." Thus, in tho mouth or pen of "two witnesses" it is "established" that every case Is a lit Bubject for Christian Science treat ment, since according to the testi mony of these reputable witnesses every person with organic trouble Is also afflicted functionally, and every functional trouble Is a fit subject for Christian Science treatment. Without first experimenting with Christian Science treatment, it would doubtless be difficult to determine whether or not a given organic dis ease has been occasioned by func tional disorders and is therefore ac cording to Dr. Cabot's theory amen able to Christian Science practice. Therefore, on Dr. Cabot's authority alone, wo have established tho Im portance of at least experimenting with Christian Science. Dr. Cabot has stated his belief that functional disorders can be cured by Christian Science treatment. Dr. Schofiold, as before stated, has as serted that all organic disease prod uces functional disorders. This Is equivalent to saying that every sick person Is afflicted with functional dls easo. Now It is not posslblo to really cure a dlseaso without going to tho bottom of It and eradicating its foun dation. Christian Science Cures All. Every caso of functional dlseaso having an organic foundation can only bo cured by destroying Its or ganic foundation. Therefore, on the testimony of these two distinguished authorities, the fact is established that Christian Science cures all kinds of diseases, for it is evident that a functional disorder which originates in a defective organ cannot be cured unless the organic disease Is first de stroyed, for tho functional disorder being an effect must of necessity re appear so long as its cause is not de stroyed. Since, as Dr. Cabot declares, the "sharpness of distinction between or ganic and functional troubles is somewhat blurred," It follows that it is not easy to distinguish between an organic and a functional disease, nor would it be easy to distinguish be Itween an organic disease which is , "produced by functional troubles" ' and one which is not occasioned by i functional troubles, and to be on the safe side every individual afflicted with organic or functional troubles should avail himself of Christian Science treatment lest he should be neglecting a means of recovery. The doctor declares that he has grouped the one hundred cases which he has "analyzed" in four classes: "First, 72 in which" ho finds "on careful study, reasonably good evi dence for the diagnosis of functional or nervous disorder. Second, seven cases of what appears to be organic disease. Third, 11 cases very diffi cult to class, but probably belonging in the functional group. Fourth, 10 cases, regarding the diagnosis of which no reasonable conjecture can bo made." Statement Cnrrles Hope. The doctor declares "Experience shows that when a person has had many doctors, many diagnoses, many 'diseases,' or many operations, he usually turns out to be suffering from nervous prostration or some other form of functional nervous trouble." There are a great many persons in this world who have had many doc tors and many diagnoses, many dis eases, if not many operations, and It is kind in Dr. Cabot to point out the fact that there is hope for them in Christian Science. Our critic further declares: "A patient suffering from organic disease rarely consults a Christian Scientist." To be exact it should be said that thus far very few patients suffering with any sort of disorder call upon a Christian Scientist until after thoy have exhausted their hope or their means in experimenting with mate rial remedies. It Is natural that ono should not experiment with some thing that Is now and untried so long as the old ways promise results. Those who apply to Christian Science aro as a rule those who havo failed to recover through medicine, and if it bo true that from a medical point of view organic diseases aro moro dlfllcult to heal It Is likely that moro cases afflicted with organic troubles apply to Christian Science. In my own practice, extending through a period of twenty years, I have seldom had a patient who was not afflicted with both organic and functional disorders and my success has been more uniform with organic troubles than with those which have been called nervous disorders. Other Treatments Differ. Thus the foundation of disease Is destroyed and the effects disappear from the body. Other systems of giv ing a mental treatment differ from Christian Science in proportion as they differ from tho method just de scribed. A Christian Scientist would not hope to succeed in curing a pa tient by the mere belief that the pa tient will get well, although he is aware that such an encouraging be- i lief is always helpful to a patient. j The method which we have described above is not, as Dr. Cabot affirms, i "after Qulmby." I Doubtless our critic's surmise Is ' due to the fact that ho has misunder stood the teaching and practice of Christian Science. Dr. Quimby, according to many re liable witnesses, never recognized God in his treatment of the sick. Mr. John Chapman, a well-known and re liable citizen of Bangor, Me., who knew Mr. Quimby intimately, said that he never talked about God, ho was not a religlouB man In any sense, though a. good man morally and a good citizen. Dr. Cabot declaros : "I bellovo that a good many warped minds just as a certain typo of crooked spine, may be helped by a sharp twist in the other direction." This being true the doctor would logically be obliged to admit that tho last twist must bo in the right direction, other wise it would not be corrective. ALFRED FARLOW. See our lino of BEAR SKIN COATS for tho little chaps. Coos Bay Cash Store. INVESTIGATE. 120 acres of coal land with 1,500,000 of timber close to tide water a few miles from Marshfleld, only $25 per aero. I, $. KAUFMAN & CO. OP NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION PARTNERSHIP. Notice Is hereby given that tho partnership heroto'fore existing be tween Waldo L. Waloy and Hugh C. Brown, both of Coos county, Oregon, has this day been dissolved by mu (uaj consent, and that tho business conducted by said partnership under tho firm name and stylo of Coos Bay Bedding and Upholstering Company, will hereafter be carried on by said Hugh C. Brown, and that all bills, notes and accounts duo said part nership are payablo to said Hugh C, Brown, who is personally Hablo for and will pay all outstanding bills against said partnership. Dated at Marshfleld, Coos county, Oregon, this 25th day of July, 1908. WALDO L. WALEY, HUGH C. BROWN. :Ti IS 1 When the Voice of the American People Speaks. J By Sir GILBERT PARKER. British Novelist. J ;J5IIE "American thinks quickly and acts quickly, but ? TnrrA vomoTlrnmn lm oTiTrfniTinp nlan la nia annrnniA patience with annoyances of all kinds. Ho endures meekly, good naturcdly to tho breaking point, and then SETTLES ACCOUNTS WITH ASTOUND- TOG JUSTICE AND SWIFT PENALTY. I had occasion to take a boat from New York to Atlantic High lands on Sunday. Tho boat was crowded, and tho spirit of tho crowd was happy, in a holiday mood. I found a chair, and near me wero two ovordressed young men and two equally elaborately gowned women. They wero typical of a certain class of cheap clerks spending their wook's earnings all at once. There are in every part of tho world people who PUSH THEER SHINY FACES AND LOUD CLOTHES INTO UNPLEASANT CONTEAST WITH THE SIMPLER AND MORE MODEST TYPES of their own class. Presently along came a poor man with a paper parcel under his. arm, which later proved to bo his lunch of apples and somo bread and sugar. Ho was a big, silent, inarticulate laboring nmn, seedily but cleanly dressed, and with him. was a small, puny, shriveled, up. little woman, who was his.wifo. In looking for a' place to sit ho tried to squeeze past tho four persons, and they offensively obstructed hia way, as if they objected to the contact with his seedy clothes. The incident did not escape tho rest of tho people on tho boat, but, what ever thoy thought, no move was mado, no comment uttered. Pinally ho pushed a little harder, and something was said. Tho man looked about him ; then, turning to his wife, he said, "I thought this was an. excursion of respectablo people, not a cheap crowd." So he was com pelled to begin his happy day in this way, annoyed by tho "arrogant wealthy." A retort followed, and tho offensive youths deliberately pushed a chair against him to block his path. Ho didn't say anything, bu( begap to take off his coat preliminary tp fighting. 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