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Newspaper Page Text"DAMN IT HE CURES THEM!" An Interesting Story, Telling tf the Beginning tf the First Osteopathic College, Told by Wm. Smith, Graduate if a Seven Year Course at Edinburg. "But damn It he cures them!" r- 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 WaH tn KlrlCJlvlllf Mrt In (ha mr.nfth "f Ti.na 1CQO f a-. ... , ... ..,, t uiic, u, in an uimo va in 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 quack had killed business." I remarked that nothing would please me more were I In practice, than the presence of a quack; he would make busi 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, no quack, but simply a man of greater experience. I backed up my opinion by going over to see the so-called quack. ' I found an office In an old log cottage, which was Hlmply filled with persons reciting to one another wonders which they had either experienced themselves or seen others experience. I remained, made an appointment for half an hour of "the doctor's time that evening at the Pool hotet', and waited from that moment impatiently for the evening to come. At that office I had heard enough to Interest me. At the appointed hour the Old Doctor entered my room. Our conver sation lasted not half an hour, but four hours. I sat entranced; the theo ries he Introduced were so novel, no contrary to all I had ever read or heard, that I failed ito follow his reasoning. Arguments as to their impossibility were simply met with the one statement: "But it Is so; there are no W and 'ands' about it; I do what I tell you. and the people get well." At length I asked for proof and until two o'clock the next morning I was going from boarding-house to boarding-house seeing patients and getting confirmation I wa satisfied that cures were made of that there could be no doubt But let me interrupt myself. Before 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 Dr. Still had cured him eight months before of asthma of long standing; To make a long story short, we sat and talked on the stoop of Dr. Still's house 'till four o'clock, and whwi 1 went back to the hotel It was with the understanding that In July I would come to Kirksvllle to teach Anatomy to a small class and myself to learn osteopathy. What an example we have here! As Dr. Helny Marks said to me at the City hospital in the October of that year: "Still is a philanthropist, but a fool; he could keep that knowledge to himself and his family make himself and them all rich; but he gives it to the world. We need more men like that." .u .0ur.umVe cIaSS Pened ,n September. I tn shut my eyos now and see that gathering 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 waa there not to 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, War rwho afterwards claimed that he had been ' ' ""1; Mrs. Gentry and Mrs. Peters ""'--1 and Hill had seen ' ' In fl vpr.- . eager for further infoi... . pathy. In 1898 there were over .j had a membership of eighteen; every ol, save Materia Medlca, was taught. Surely s no marvel. In 1892 I had foreseen that as ........ wiiich would come should begin it would (be rapid. At the tlrst 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 brick building; that the class of eighteen would swell to a School attendance of over five hundred und that there would be five hundred practloners in the field. All laughed. That prophecy was fulfilled In less than five years. What has made the success of osteopathy? Honesty qnd loyal 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 tho success of Dr. Still and osteopathy comes from the verv truth of that remark of Dr. McCarthy: "Damn it, he cures them!" I cannot go further back than 1892 of my own knowledge back to the days In 1865, when Dr. Still and Maj. Abbott, hiding from the bushwhackers out In a corn fluid 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 1890, when Ward Mas carried to him on a stretcher at Eldorado Springs, to find out If he could be cured of his 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 been 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 ft is my confidence In their faith, their loyalty and their devotion, which lends me to augur a great future for the science to Which the best years of my life have been devoted. William Smith, M. D., D 0., Kirksvllle, Mo. WOMAN DIED FIFTY SALOONS Mrs. Catherine Stahl, Walla Walla Brewer, Leaves Big Fortune. The estate of Mrs. Catherine Stabl, the wealthy brewer, will be appraised iu a few days and is expeoted to show the largest value iu propeity of any womau in the northwest, says a Walla .Walla dispatch of April 24. Mrs. Stahl bequeathed 30,000 in cash 'to three graudobildreu living bete with their mother, their father haviDg died. Her daughter, Mrs. Lulu Sowarta, and son, Frank H.,' ate to share the re mainder of the property share and share alike, save the son oannot sell his interest Mrs. Stahl had largo real estate holdings in this county, in Colombia and Garfleld counties and in Umatilla eounty, Oregon. She owned 50 saloons in different cities at the time of her death, though her piinoipal wealth was in land. Called to Walla Walla. Dr. Heisley was called to Walla Walla last Friday in consultation over the oase of Mr. Garreoht at the St Mary's hospital. Mr. Uarreobt fell and injured his hip about three months ago. Dr. Heisley was called beoaose of bis experience in several other oases of similar nature, and be diagnosed it as a fraoture of the oetk of the femor. A fraoture of this kind and a dislocation are very hard to diff erentiate. While in the city be was oalled to diagnose two other hip cases wbioh proved to be dislocations, one of wbioh had been treated eight months fox rheumatism. Whitman College Won. Whitman College won the big in tercollegiate track meet at Pnllmau last Saturday between the University of Idaho, Washington State College, and Wbitmau College. Whitman's soore was 63, W. S. Cs 87, and Idaho's 33. Whitman won nine out of the fourteen first plaoos, Idaho won five, and Pullman did not win a single first plaoe, aud lost the relay to Idaho as well. Philbrook of Whitman won four first plaoos, and Martin of Wbit mau tied the Coast record in the 220 yard dash at 22 seoouds flat, and did the hundred in 10 flat Whitman re gards this as the most important vio tory of the year. Having defeated the University of Washington at Seattle in track a few days ago. Whitman al ready has the championship of three States, and hopes to land the North west championship when the Univer sity of Oregon comes to Walla Walla on the 13th of May. With good! weainer martin is expeoted to do the hundred in less than 10 seoonds. Buys Splendid Farm. Mr. Gnstav Vollmer this week pur chased from the heirs of the Fudge estate, 237 acres of wheat and fruit land. This laud is situated on the south sida of the Preston avenue road, just west of the B. B. Todd place. About 65 aorea lies in tbeTouobet bot tom ; 160 acres in wheat on the bill. Consideration $65 per acre. Waits burg Times. DeWitt'a Little Early Risers are small, safe, sure and gentle little pills. Sold by Palace Drug Co. To Cur Constipation Tor. fake Cascarets Camly Cothartic. 10o or So, CCO tall to out, drugHiU KfunU mooes It Reached the Spot Mr. E. Humphrey, who owns a large general store at Omega, O., and is president of the Adams County Tele phone Co., as well as of the Home Telephone Co., of Pike County, O., says of Dr. King's New Disoovery: "It saved my life once. At least I think it did. It seemed to reaob the spot the very seat of my cough, when everything else failed." Dr. King's New Disoovery not only roaobes the cough spot; it heals the sore and the weak spots in throat, lungs and chest. Sold under guarantee at Palaoe Drug Company's store. 60c. aud $1.00. Trial bottle free. Kodol completely digests all olasses of food. It will get right at the trouble and do the very work itsalf for the etomaoh. It is pleasant to take. Sold by the Palaoe Drug Co. A Califomian's Luck. "The luckiest day of my life was when I bought a box of Buoklen'a Arnica Salve" writes Charles F. Bud abn, of Tracy, California. "Two 2So. boxes cured me of an annoying oase of itching piles, which bad troubled me for years and that yielded to no other treatment" Sold under guarantee at Palaoe Drug Co's store. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup does not ooostipate, tut on the other band its laxative principles gently move tbe bowles. Children like it.' Sold by tbe Palace Drug Co. If You Don't suoceed tbe first time use Herbine and you will get instant relief. The great est liver regulator. A positive cure for Constipation, Dyspepsia, Malaria, Chills and all liver complaints. Mr. C . of Emory, Texas, writes: "My wife bus keen using Herbine for her self and children for five years. It is a snie oure for constipation and ma laria fever, which is substantiated by what it has done for my family." Sold by Palace Drug Co. Insist upon DeWitt's Witoh Hazel Salve. It is especially good for piles. Sold by Palaoe Drug Co. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. In tbe County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the matter of tbe estate of W. H. H. Soott, deoeased. All persons whom it may oouoern are hereby notified that Joseph N. Soott has been appointed administrator of tbe estate of W. H. H. Soott, de ceased, and has qualified as such. All person having claims againcst said estate are notified and required to present them to said administrator ".at Athena, Oregon, with proper vonobars as required by law, within six montlhs from the date of this notice, tbe first publication thereof appearing on Fri day, April 17th 1908 and successively thereafter eaoh week for six week's publication in Athena Press. Joseph N. Soott, Administrator. By Poterson & Wilson, Attorneys".' L'o Ton C;cr. Vcav ilTouth " ITi-iiu rrsitis bird and pulji iown what ev it lunl or medicine nii.y be offered you?" f r, do you want to iuiuw something of tbs '. composition and chanu U r of that which s you taUo Into your stomach whether as food or medicine? 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