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i THE INDEPENDENCE ENTER PRISE, INDEPENDENCE OREOON tAGE eight EIGHT PAGEf BUT DAMN IT, HE CURES THEM An Interesting Story Written By Dr. Wm. Smith, a Seven-year Graduate of Edinburg, Scotland. "But damn It lie cures them!" These were the words that first Interested me In osteopathy, that led me to meet Dr. Still, and that laid the foundation for ten years of hard work In the Interests of the. science. I was In Klrksville, Mo., In the month of June, 1892. In an office on tn south side of the square I met Dr. McCarthy, who was bitterly expressing his feelings at the decline of medical practice In the town, stating that "an old ouack had killed business." 1 remarked that nothing wouiu piease nm mnr were I In practice, than the presence of a quack; he would make bual ness. To that McCarthy replied in the words with which I begin this article. I told him that. In that case, if he cured the people, he was. In my opinion mo ouack. but slmuly a man of greater experience. I backed up my opinion hv siiinir over to see the so-called quack. I found an office in an old log cottage, which was simply filled with persons reciting to one another wonders which they had either experienced themselves or seen others experience. 1 remainea, maae an appointment n half an hour of the doctor's tlme.that evening at the Pool hotel, and waited rnm that moment Imoatientlv lor the evening to come. At that office I hart heard enouch to Interest me. At ih. nnotnted hour the Old Doctor entered my room. Our eonver j.tl.in lasted not half an hour, but four hours. I sat entranced; the theo ne he- introduced were so novel, so contrary to nil I had ever read or heard that I failed to follow his reasoning. Arguments as to their impossibility were simnlv met with the one statement: "Hut It is so; there are no us in,i' hnnt it- I do what I tell vou. and the people get well." At length I asked for proof and until two o'clock the next morning 1 was going fron hnardlne-house to boardtne-house seeing patients and getting coniirinaiion I sMtisfl,d that cures were made of that there could be no doubt. But lot mo interrunt mvself. Refore ever I saw Dr. Still I knew that McCarthy's statement that he did cure was true, for McCarthy told me at that time that rr still had cured him eiirht months before of asthma of long standing, To make a long story short, we sat and talked on the stoop of Dr. Stlll' house "till four o'clock, and when 1 went back to the hotel it was witn tn understanding that in July I would come to Klrksville to teach Anatomy to a small class and myself to learn osteopathy. What an example we have here! As Dr. Heiny Marks said to me at the City hospital In the October of that year: "Still is a philanthropist, but a tool; he couia Keep mi tnniririiri to himself and his family make himself and them all rich; but he rives it to the world. We need more men like that." Our little class opened in September. I can shut my eyes now and see that Catherine in a small back room at the tumble-down cottage. Eighteen students were there (the class had subsequently twenty-three members), and each tnd every one there was there not for the money there was in it. but had either been a sufferer and was cured by osteopathy or a close friend had been. Mamie Harter. Hatten. Ward (who afterwards claimed that he had been the true discoverer) and others had been cured; Mrs. Gentry and Mrs. Peteri had seen children raised from crippledom to health: Bird and Hill naa seen parents' lives saved, and so with all. The class was conducted In a very primitive manner. No bodies could Ije procured, so the skeletons and man nikin only were used. Enthusiasm reigned; harmony was perfect. In the Globe-Democrat one Sunday in October appeared the first news paper notice of osteopathy A page article headed "A Missouri Mecca" gave a fair statement of the condition of matters at Klrksville. The reporter who came was a sensible and thinking man; he saw there only a beginning, but he was sharp enough to see that much. He could have gone away and made a funny story out of it, for there was much which would tickle the risible faculties of the unthinking. But he saw below the surface; he saw men and women In earnest. He conversed with those who had been benefitted. "I look upon that pioneer article as one of the greatest tributes ever paid to a great truth. In March, 1893. I left Kirksville and shortly afterwards went to Kansa City. The school did not meet regularly for some time, and when it did was conducted on lines somewhat similar, but slightly in advance of the elementary form which existed in the first class. In 1896 I returned to Klrksville at the request of Dr. Still and then began the true work by all of ibulldlng up truly scientific institution, which should be able to withstand all criticism. Bodies were, with great difficulty, procured for dissection, and the teaching of anatomy, to my delight, became earnest tnd thorough. With all branches the same thoroughness was carried out. All was not done in a day, but as rach new branch was added to the curriculm it was taught properly from th beginning. It is a curious fact that, with the single exception of chemistry, I taught every subject in the school. I only held the subject long enough to get It In capable hands, then turned it over. This paper may seem as though It were all "I," but the truth is that I am proud of my work for osteopathy and the American School. Then there were forty-six students, all eager for further information than on the subjects of anatomy and osteopathy. In 1898 there were over 700; instead of two teachers, the faculty had a membership of eighteen; every subject taught In a medical school, save Materia Medica. was taught. Surely a marvelous record. B"t it was no marvel. In 1892 I had foreseen that as soon as the growth which would come should begin it would be rapid. At the first lecture which I delivered (the first lecture ever delivered In an osteopathic school). I had prophesied that ten years would see that frame cottage replaced by a handsome britk building; that the class of eighteen would swell to a fhool a tmilance of ovfr five hundred and that there would be five hundred prnctioners in the field. All laughed. That prophecy was fulfilled in less than five tears. What has made the success of osteopathy? Honesty and loval work, self-sacrifice and devotion to a great principle; loyalty to the truth, to man and to woman. And. let me, add. that the essential source of the success of Dr. Still and osteopathy comes from the very truth of that remark of Dr. McCarthy: 'Damn it. Me cures them!" I cannot go further back than 1S92 of my own knowledge back to tne days In 1865. when Dr. Still and Mn-J. Abbott, hiding from the bushwhackers out In a corn field in Kansas, meditated and thought on these lines: to the day In 1874 when Dr. Still stumbled on his first truth; to the time in 189". when Ward was carried to him on a stretcher at Eldorado Springs, to find out if he could be cured of h's asthma. These were before my time; but my experience in osteopathy, my knowledge of it, leads me to look for a great future for it. The seed has been sown; the soil has been tended and tilled; the growth, so far, has ber-n vigorous. The future lies In the hands of the men and women who are now practicing It. If they are faithful to their trust all will be well, and it is my confidence in their faith, their loyalty and their devotion, which leads me to augur a great future for the science to which the best years of my life have been devoted. W llliam bmun, O.. Kirksville, Mo , LOCAL AND PERSONAL, ii i Mr. JoliiiBin, the .'rofssloniil pli' o tuner, at The I-prona till Aug. f't"- 1). V. Sears of Portland, js In th city tills week. Hnswe-U tiregory of Me.lfuM, has boon Pondi'K n few days at tho homo of r. 0. Taylor. Croft Hros. have secured the con tract for painting the public school building and will soon begin work same. A deal will likely he Consummated thta week whereby Vernon J. Urow-n will become owner of the Kliklmul Phnrtuaey. Inventory Is now btUK taken and It Is practically a settled fact that the trt'.8for of the property will be made. Miss Katie Dunninoie, ReglKtnv of the Oregon Slate Normal School, and her brother, U. Fay, will leve on Saturday for Vancouver, 11. C, where they will spend their vacation visit ing relatives and friends. Thw- will ue g6:ie about three weeks.' The summer stliooi at Monmouth closes this evening. It has been a successful term, and the attendance numbered more thun l;0. Students and teachers gave a social last even ing In honor of the dosing, ami this waj attended by several from here. 1 in In i position to do all kinds o! well drilling. Can make a 3-inch rolo In dirt, gravel or rock and also hare a mas.-b.ine to make a hole from 10 v 32 Inches to dirt or gravel. Any me wishing work done la my line 111 save money by calling on F. M. Russell. Phone 2221. A. Oberson don't propose to lot Bascue and .McElniurry beat him in K ........ ml..... ..-A.l. .!.. 11.4 ! too raises em witn iron bands arounu the stem. He says they have be' in the habit of going through the fence into Will Campbell's yard, and he conceived this plan of keeping them in his own yard. DEPARTMENT NO. 2. Ill the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for polk County. J. L. Manna,' S. C. Iluuna, It. 11. llanna and J. I. llannn, Plaint If fH, vs. Thomas Ora Clodfoitcr, Uuy Sharp. Sada (Sarah K ) May, and Will May, her husband, Solomon Tether ow, Jr., i .id Mrs. Nancy June Tiherow, wife, Mnhala Woods, William I ie, Noah W. Ieubo, II. P. Smith Clarence V. Clodfollor, also all ihor persons or parties uuknow claiming any right, title, lion or terost In the real estate deacrlb. . in the complaint heroin, defendants. To Thomas Ora Clodfolter, tiny Sharp, Sada (Sarah K.) May and Will May, her husbnd. Solomon Tetherow, Jr., and hra. Xajicy Jati Tt-therow, his wife. Matilda Woods, William CUaae, Noah W. Umbo, 13. P. Smith. Clarence V. 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IN THE NAME OP THE STATE OK OREGON: You and eaclj of ycu are hereby re quired to appear and answer the com plaint filed agulnst you In th. above entitled Court and suit, within alx weeks from the date of the ftrBt pub lication of this summons, to-wlt: Out or before the 9th day ot August, 1912; and If you full so to answer the said complaint, for want thereof the plaintiff will apply to said court for the relief In said complaint demanded Reports Good Crops. R. D. Cooper writes from Grass Yal !?y, Oregon, to the Enterprise: "En closed finds money In payment of my subscription. Can't get w'.ong with out it We are in the midst of the greatest harvest that has ever been ared for in this county; grain Is threshing out beyond nil expectation and there Is not warehouse room enough to house oe-half of the wheat , grown In the county. Sher- , man county will be prosperous for some time to come." 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