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Volume
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Number
18
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ZION'S 
WATCH 
TOWER 
ALLEGHENY, 
FA. 
differences 
and 
these 
are 
to 
be 
published. 
I 
will 
get 
these 
and 
then 
you 
can 
see 
the 
two 
sides 
in 
contrast." 
" 
No," 
said 
the 
brother, 
"I 
do 
not 
care 
to 
read 
them." 
Later, 
when 
the 
reports 
were 
received 
and 
read 
by 
the 
brother 
in 
the 
truth, 
he 
said 
to 
the 
other, 
"John, 
here, 
real! 
what 
Dr. 
Eaton 
says; 
never 
mind 
what 
Bro. 
Russell 
says, 
since 
you 
are 
so 
opposed: 
.lust 
read 
Dr. 
Eaton's 
side." 
The 
brother 
read 
as 
requested 
and 
then 
eould 
not 
restrain 
his 
curiosity 
respecting 
the 
other 
"ille. 
He 
read, 
and. 
l,eing 
honest, 
was 
convmced 
and 
is 
now 
aetive 
like 
his 
brother 
in 
scattering 
the 
good 
tidings. 
VOL. 
XXIX 
ALLEGHENY, 
P 
A., 
OCTOBER 
1, 
1908 
No. 
19 
VIEWS 
FROM 
THE 
WATCH 
TOWER 
MORE 
MIRACLE 
WHEAT 
man, 
he 
became 
drowsy 
and 
listless, 
indifferent 
to 
all 
that 
Our 
notice 
of 
the" 
lIliraele 
wheat" 
grown 
in 
Virginia, 
the 
was 
going 
on 
around 
him. 
In 
this 
condition 
he 
was 
taken 
to 
grower 
rl'ports, 
has 
caused 
him 
lots 
of 
trouble 
answering 
let- 
the 
Liverpool 
infirmary, 
where 
it 
was 
found 
that 
the 
old 
hole 
tel's 
and 
returning 
money 
sent 
for 
small 
samples. 
He 
has 
in 
the 
skull 
was 
an 
inch 
long, 
and 
that 
a 
flap 
of 
skin, 
includ- 
shown 
us 
representative 
stalks 
of 
the 
wheat 
and 
photos 
of 
its 
mg 
the 
old 
scar, 
was 
directly 
attached 
to 
the 
brain. 
What 
growing 
in 
the 
field, 
fully 
corroborating 
all 
that 
we 
have 
did 
the 
surgeons 
do' 
They 
scraped 
the 
folds 
of 
the 
brain 
puhlished 
respecting 
the 
same. 
But 
he 
refuses 
to 
sell 
any 
of 
clear 
of 
this 
skin, 
and 
placed 
between 
the 
brain 
and 
the 
bone 
it 
until 
he 
has 
secured 
a 
fair 
stock, 
which 
will 
be 
in 
a 
few 
a 
thin 
plate 
of 
gold 
in 
order 
to 
prevent 
them 
sticking 
to' 
years 
hence. 
gether 
again. 
Over 
this 
the 
skin 
was 
neatly 
drawn 
and 
se- 
Meantime 
the 
matter 
has 
hrought 
out 
the 
fact 
that 
others 
curely 
sewn. 
A 
week 
later 
the 
patiC'nt 
was 
sitting 
up 
in 
bed; 
are 
also 
propagating 
"miracle 
wheat," 
as 
witnessed 
by 
the 
in 
a 
month 
or 
less 
he 
was 
reading 
the 
newspapers, 
and 
taking 
subjoined 
reports. 
We 
advise 
farmers 
to 
begin 
at 
once 
to 
a 
keen 
and 
intelligent 
interest 
in 
the 
busy 
world 
around 
him. 
inspect 
their 
wheat 
before 
cutting 
and 
cull 
out 
for 
seed 
the 
The 
instruments 
of 
the 
surgeon 
had 
saved 
him 
from 
becoming 
choicest, 
fullest 
heads 
or 
most 
"stooled." 
Our 
thought 
is 
a 
human 
log; 
they 
had 
brightened 
his 
brain, 
and 
sharpened 
that 
in 
this 
natural 
way 
God 
is 
preparing 
for 
the 
Millennium, 
his 
faculties 
as 
no 
treatment 
in 
an 
asylum 
could 
have 
done. 
when" 
the 
earth 
shall 
yield 
her 
increase." 
A 
somewhat 
similar 
case 
was 
that 
of 
Jay 
Lentz, 
employed 
SEVEN·HEADED 
WHEAT 
DISCOVERED 
as 
a 
foreman 
at 
the 
Great 
Western 
mines 
at 
Harmon, 
in 
W. 
W. 
Ward, 
of 
Dayton, 
Washington, 
has 
discovered 
a 
Virginia. 
He 
was 
caught 
under 
a 
fall 
of 
slate, 
his 
skull 
was 
new 
variety 
of 
wheat 
that 
has 
seven 
distinct 
heads 
united 
to 
broken, 
and 
a 
piece 
of 
his 
brain 
was 
torn 
from 
the 
main 
a 
common 
base. 
And 
each 
head 
is 
larger 
than 
the 
ordinary 
structure. 
Of 
course, 
his 
mental 
condition 
immediately 
wheat. 
Ward 
figures 
that 
the 
new 
variety 
will 
yield 
as 
high 
changed 
for 
the 
worse. 
The 
doctors, 
faced 
by 
a 
terrible 
as 
280 
bushels 
to 
the 
ael'e, 
with 
an 
average 
of 
200 
bushels. 
problem, 
resolved 
on 
heroic 
measures. 
The 
shattered 
brain 
Hundreds 
of 
farmers 
have 
visited 
the 
Ward 
ranch 
and 
was 
neatly 
dressed. 
A 
healthy 
yearling 
calf 
was 
tied 
down, 
are 
intensely 
interested 
in 
the 
new 
wheat. 
All 
have 
asked 
her 
skull 
cut 
away, 
amI 
a 
lobe 
of 
the 
brain 
removed 
and 
fitted 
for 
a 
few 
pounds 
of 
the 
seed, 
but 
Ward 
is 
figuring 
upon 
into 
the 
cavity 
of 
Lentz's 
head. 
Slow, 
but 
sure, 
was 
the 
further 
experiments 
and 
plans 
to 
plant 
all 
of 
this 
year's 
crop 
miner's 
progress 
towards 
recovery. 
As 
his 
physical 
health 
next 
season, 
enlarging 
his 
present 
area 
to 
about 
three 
acres. 
improved 
his 
old-time 
intellectual 
brightness 
came 
back, 
until 
Ward 
has 
been 
experimenting 
for 
five 
years 
to 
get 
a 
wheat 
he 
was 
able 
to 
resume 
his 
ordinary 
occupation 
in 
life. 
that 
will 
yield 
higger 
crops, 
but 
never 
exppcted 
anything 
like 
More 
marvelous 
still, 
however, 
is 
a 
case 
in 
which 
the 
sur· 
the 
seven-headed 
variety.-Bioux 
City 
Tribune. 
geon's 
knife 
has 
been 
used 
to 
restore 
the 
moral 
faculties, 
* 
* 
* 
with 
a 
boy 
as 
the 
subject. 
The 
boy 
is 
Carl 
Fredericks 
of 
Neither 
Of 
the 
above 
notes 
relate 
to 
what 
is 
termed 
Hoboken, 
whose 
brain 
is 
so 
peculiarly 
formed, 
say 
the 
doctors, 
"Alaska" 
wheat 
grown 
in 
Idaho, 
u'hich 
we 
understand 
had 
that 
if 
left 
alone 
he 
would 
never 
do 
right. 
The 
growth 
of 
been 
repttdiated 
by 
Government 
experts. 
the 
brain 
matter 
has 
installed 
in 
him 
a 
tendency 
toward 
per· 
IS 
SURGERY 
A 
CURE 
FOR 
CRIME? 
petual 
evil. 
Let 
us 
rid 
his 
skull 
of 
the 
excess, 
said 
the 
sur- 
Is 
the 
modern 
criminal 
to 
be 
reformed 
by 
means 
of 
the 
geons, 
and 
see 
if 
any 
moral 
improvement 
is 
visible. 
Certain 
surgeon's 
knife' 
Is 
our 
whole 
penal 
system-reformatories, 
parts 
of 
the 
brain, 
which 
were 
considered 
to 
cause 
the 
trouble, 
jails, 
and 
asylums 
for 
criminal 
lunatics-to 
be 
abollshed, 
were 
cut 
away, 
and 
the 
effect 
was 
surprising. 
Carl 
is 
grow- 
while 
society 
depenrls 
for 
protection, 
and 
looks 
for 
the 
eleva- 
ing 
good; 
his 
wicked 
tendencies 
are 
gradually 
disappearing, 
tion 
to 
a 
higher 
mOlal 
stanuard 
of 
the 
thief 
and 
the 
murd'erer 
and 
it 
is 
expected 
that 
in 
a 
few 
years 
he 
will 
have 
his 
full 
to 
a 
few 
inches 
of 
steel 
wiehled 
by 
the 
hand 
of 
a 
strong· 
quota 
of 
moral 
faculties.-London 
Exchange. 
nerved 
gelllus 
of 
science' 
CHURCHES 
PLUNGING 
INTO 
HYPNOTISM 
Recent 
miracles 
of 
surgery, 
such 
as 
those 
performed 
by 
About 
a 
year 
ago, 
two 
ministers 
of 
New 
England 
decided 
Dr. 
Bernard 
Hollander, 
who 
has 
recently 
claimed 
that 
crimi- 
to 
try 
methods 
analogous 
to 
those 
used 
by 
Spiritists, 
Eddyists, 
nals 
should 
be 
judged 
according 
to 
a 
medical 
standard, 
sug- 
Mormons 
and 
Hypnotists 
for 
the 
cure 
of 
diseases. 
They 
met 
gest 
that 
we 
are 
on 
the 
eve 
of 
a 
revolution 
in 
our 
treatment 
with 
a 
measure 
of 
success, 
as 
do 
the 
others. 
The 
news 
of 
their 
of 
the 
rriminal 
anrl 
insane, 
and 
that 
in 
a 
few 
years 
a 
dozen 
methods 
is 
spreading, 
and 
a 
prominent 
publishing 
firm, 
with 
cuts 
of 
the 
lancet 
",ill 
effect 
a 
greater 
change 
in 
the 
moral 
a 
Methodist 
D. 
D. 
at 
its 
head, 
is 
now 
sending 
circular 
letters 
equipment 
of 
the 
hhmaelites 
of 
society 
than 
years 
of 
con- 
to 
ministers 
everywhere, 
advertising 
two 
new 
books 
which 
they 
finement 
in 
a 
jail. 
publish, 
explaining 
how 
the 
work 
can 
be 
carried 
on 
by 
any 
Look 
at 
the 
~a~e 
of 
Holzay, 
otherwise 
known 
as 
"Black 
preacher 
along 
hypnotic 
lines. 
Bart," 
the 
tr-rrlJr 
r,f 
half-a-rlozen 
~tates 
in 
America. 
No 
We 
print 
below 
extracts 
from 
a 
long 
article 
in 
the 
Kansas 
treasure 
on 
board 
a 
train 
"as 
~eCllre 
against 
his 
evil 
designs; 
Ctty 
Star, 
detailing 
the 
fact 
that 
Rev. 
A. 
T. 
Osbron 
of 
its 
city 
no 
plans 
of 
the 
detecti,-e~ 
were 
~uffident 
safeguard 
against 
is 
endeavoring 
to 
use 
hypnotism 
to 
regain 
his 
hold 
upon 
his 
his 
desperate 
courses. 
' 
'Black 
Bart" 
stole 
and 
murdered 
dwindling 
congregation 
of 
Methodists. 
We 
quote: 
with 
impunity; 
but 
in 
a 
slack 
moment 
he 
fell 
into 
the 
hands 
"It 
has 
been 
said 
of 
life 
insurance 
that 
'You 
have 
to 
dip 
of 
the 
polir'e 
and 
his 
criminal 
career 
was 
closed 
hy 
a 
sentence 
to 
win.' 
Similarly 
the 
policy 
of 
the 
church 
has 
been 
to 
hold 
of 
imprbonment 
for 
life. 
In 
a 
few 
weeks 
he 
was 
removed 
out 
promises 
of 
a 
happy 
reward 
to 
the 
faithful, 
but 
they 
harl 
to 
the 
criminal 
lunatic 
a~ylum, 
and 
the 
prison 
surgeons, 
de· 
to 
die 
to 
get 
it. 
liberating 
long 
a 
1111 
[llIxioll~ly 
oyer 
his 
case, 
came 
to 
the 
con- 
"The 
reason 
Christian 
Science 
numbers 
its 
converts 
by 
clusion 
that 
"Blar·k 
Bart's" 
(·rimes 
were 
not 
so 
much 
the 
the 
thousands 
while 
the 
orthodox 
church 
complains 
of 
a 
falling 
result 
of 
"cussedness" 
a~ 
a 
~)Ieer 
inability 
to 
run 
in 
the 
off 
in 
membership 
is 
this: 
Christian 
Sciellce 
holds 
out 
the 
straight 
and 
narrow 
path. 
Hi<; 
lmull 
was 
affected 
by 
a 
tumor; 
offer 
of 
help 
to 
the 
afflicted, 
rest 
to 
the 
weary 
and 
health, 
remove 
the 
growth, 
they 
said, 
anr1 
It's 
a 
thousand 
chances 
to 
wealth 
and 
prosperity 
for 
all. 
Its 
helpin~ 
hand 
is 
extended 
one 
that 
"Black 
Bart" 
",ill 
hecollle 
a 
fairly 
decent 
member 
now. 
Its 
promise 
of 
happiness 
is 
in 
this 
life. 
of 
society. 
The 
operation 
was 
pet 
formel1, 
and 
in 
six 
weeks 
' 
''l'he 
old 
church 
with 
its 
policy 
of 
'suffer 
all 
manner 
of 
the 
nature 
of 
the 
once 
desperate 
criminal 
had 
completely 
evil 
for 
great 
is 
your 
reward 
in 
heaven,' 
cannot 
compete 
with 
changed. 
The 
knife, 
while 
removing 
the 
tnmor, 
would 
seem 
a 
creed 
which 
holds 
out 
such 
promises 
of 
immediate 
well-being. 
to 
have 
removed 
his 
evil 
passions 
as 
well; 
his 
old 
blood-thirst.i· 
"The 
Rev. 
Mr. 
Osbron 
believes 
that 
all 
Methodist 
minis- 
lIess 
had 
disappeared, 
and 
prison-wardens, 
who 
formerly 
hesi- 
tel'S 
not 
only 
should 
preach 
the 
gospel, 
but 
should 
"heal 
the 
tated 
to 
approach 
him 
unless 
in 
couples, 
found 
him 
as 
harm- 
sick" 
and 
comfort 
by 
the 
divine 
power 
in 
them. 
In 
his 
little 
less 
as, 
and 
more 
tractable 
than, 
a 
child. 
ehurch 
at 
925 
Newton 
avenue, 
Dr. 
Osbron 
has 
underti1ken 
a 
Not 
long 
since 
a 
Welsh 
railway 
porter 
fractured 
his 
skull 
movement 
portentous 
for 
the 
church 
and 
to 
humanity. 
It 
is 
by 
falling 
off 
a 
truck. 
He 
was 
trephined, 
and 
apparently 
got 
a 
movement 
which 
its 
founder 
hopes 
will 
grow 
and 
encompass 
well, 
but 
always 
suffered 
from 
epileptic 
fits. 
His 
usual 
alert· 
the 
earth. 
It 
is 
interesting 
to 
listen 
to 
the 
opinion 
of 
this 
ness 
dfOlserted 
him, 
and 
instead 
of 
being 
a 
bright, 
intelligent 
prophet 
of 
the 
church 
that 
is 
to 
be. 
£42501 
ZION’S f 291-292) differences and these are to be published. I will get these and then you can see the two sides in contrast.’’ ‘‘No,’’ said the brother, ‘‘I do not care to read them.’’ Later, when the reports were received and read by the brother in the truth, he said to the other, ‘‘ John, here, read what Dr. Eaton says; WATCH TOWER ALLEGHENY, Pa. never mind what Bro. Russell says, since you are so opposed: just read Dr, Eaton’s side.’’ The brother read as requested and then could not restrain his curiosity respecting the other side. He read, and, Leing honest, was convinced and is now active like his brother in scattering the good tidings. Vou. XXIX ALLEGHENY, PA., OCTOBER 1, 1908 No. 19 VIEWS FROM MORE MIRACLE WHEAT Our notice of the ‘‘miracle wheat’? grown in Virginia, the grower reports, has caused him lots of trouble answering letters and returning money sent for small samples. He has shown us representative stalks of the wheat and photos of its growing in the field, fully corroborating all that we have published respecting the same. But he refuses to sell any of it until he has secured a fair stock, which will be in a few years hence. Meantime the matter has brought out the fact that others are also propagating ‘‘miracle wheat,’’ as witnessed by the subjoined reports. We advise farmers to begin at once to inspect their wheat before cutting and eull out for seed the choicest, fullest heads or most ‘‘stooled.’’ Our thought is that in this natural way God is preparing for the Millennium, when ‘‘the earth shall yield her increase.’’ SEVEN-HEADED WHEAT DISCOVERED W. W. Ward, of Dayton, Washington, has discovered a new variety of wheat that has seven distinct heads united to a common base. And each head is larger than the ordinary wheat. Ward figures that the new variety will yield as high as 280 bushels to the acre, with an average of 200 bushels. Hundreds of farmers have visited the Ward ranch and are intensely interested in the new wheat. All have asked for a few pounds of the seed, but Ward is figuring upon further experiments and plans to plant all of this year’s crop next season, enlarging his present area to about three acres. Ward has been experimenting for five years to get a wheat that will yield bigger crops, but never expected anything like the seven-headed variety.—Sioux City Tribune. * * * Neither of the above notes relate to what is termed ‘* Alaska’? wheat grown in Idaho, which we understand had been repudiated by Government experts. IS SURGERY A CURE FOR CRIME? Is the modern criminal to be reformed by means of the surgeon’s knife? Is our whole penal system—reformatories, jails, and asylums for criminal lunatics—to be abolished, while society depends for protection, and looks for the elevation to a higher moral standard of the thief and the murderer to a few inches of steel wielded by the hand of a strongnerved genius of science? Recent miracles of surgery, such as those performed by Dr, Bernard Hollander, who has recently claimed that criminals should be judged according to a medical standard, suggest that we are on the eve of a revolution in our treatment of the criminal and insane, and that in a few years a dozen cuts of the lancet will effect a greater change in the moral equipment of the Ishmaelites of society than years of confincment in a jail. Look at the case of Holzay, otherwise known as ‘‘ Black Bart,’’ the terror of half-a-dozen states in America. No treasure on board a train was secure against his evil designs; no plans of the detectives were sufficient safeguard against his desperate courses. ‘‘Black Bart’’ stole and murdered with impunity; but in a slack moment he fell into the hands of the police and his criminal career was closed by a sentence of imprisonment for life. In a few weeks he was removed to the criminal lunatic asylum, and the prison surgeons, deliberating long and anxiously over his ease, came to the conelusion that ‘‘Black Tiart’s’’ crimes were not so much the result of ‘‘cussedness’’ as a sheer inability to run in the straight and narrow path. His braim was affected by a tumor; remove the growth, they said, and it’s a thousand chances to one that ‘‘Black Bart’’ will hecome a fairly decent member of society. The operation was peiformed, and in six wecks the nature of the once desperate criminal had completely changed. The knife, while removing the tnmor, would seem to have removed his evil passions as well; his old blood-thirstiness had disappeared, and prison-wardens, who formerly hesitated to approach him unless in couples, found him as harmless as, and more tractable than, a child. Not long since a Welsh railway porter fractured his skull by falling off a truck. He was trephined, and apparently got well, but always suffered from epileptic fits. His usual alertness deserted him, and instead of being a bright, intelligent THE WATCH TOWER man, he became drowsy and listless, indifferent to all that was going on around him. In this condition he was taken to the Liverpool infirmary, where it was found that the old hole in the skull was an inch long, and that a flap of skin, including the old scar, was directly attached to the brain. What did the surgeons do? They scraped the folds of the brain clear of this skin, and placed between the brain and the bone a thin plate of gold in order to prevent them sticking together again. Over this the skin was neatly drawn and securely sewn. A week later the patient was sitting up in bed; in a month or less he was reading the newspapers, and taking a keen and intelligent interest in the busy world around him. The instruments of the surgeon had saved him from becoming a human log; they had brightened his brain, and sharpened his faculties as no treatment in an asylum could have done. A somewhat similar case was that of Jay Lentz, employed as a foreman at the Great Western mines at Harmon, in Virginia. He was caught under a fall of slate, his skull was broken, and a piece of his brain was torn from the main structure. Of course, his mental condition immediately changed for the worse. The doctors, faced by a terrible problem, resolved on heroic measures. The shattered brain was neatly dressed. A healthy yearling calf was tied down, her skull cut away, and a lobe of the brain removed and fitted into the cavity of Lentz’s head. Slow, but sure, was the miner’s progress towards recovery. As his physical health improved his old-time intellectual brightness came back, until he was able to resume his ordinary occupation in life. More marvelous still, however, is a case in which the surgeon’s knife has been used to restore the moral faculties, with a boy as the subject. The boy is Carl Fredericks of Hoboken, whose brain is so peculiarly formed, say the doctors, that if left alone he would never do right. The growth of the brain matter has installed in him a tendency toward perpetual evil. Let us rid his skull of the excess, said the surgeons, and see if any moral improvement is visible. Certain parts of the brain, which were considered to cause the trouble, were cut away, and the effect was surprising. Carl is growing good; his wicked tendencies are gradually disappearing, and it is expected that in a few years he will have his full quota of moral faculties-——London Kachange. CHURCHES PLUNGING INTO HYPNOTISM About a year ago, two ministers of New England decided to try methods analogous to those used by Spiritists, Eddyists, Mormons and Hypnotists for the eure of diseases. They met with a measure of success, as do the others. The news of their methods is spreading, and a prominent publishing firm, with a Methodist D. D. at its head, is now sending circular letters to ministers everywhere, advertising two new books which they publish, explaining how the work can be carried on by any preacher along hypnotic lines. We print below extracts from a long article in the Kansas City Star, detailing the fact that Rev. A. T. Osbron of its city is endeavoring to use hypnotism to regain his hold upon his dwindling congregation of Methodists. We quote: ‘‘It has been said of life insurance that ‘You have to die to win.’ Similarly the policy of the church has been to hold out promises of a happy reward to the faithful, but they had to die to get it. ‘¢The reason Christian Science numbers its converts by the thousands while the orthodox church complains of a falling off in membership is this: Christian Science holds out the offer of help to the afflicted, rest to the weary and health, wealth and prosperity for all. Its helping hand is extended now. Its promise of happiness is in this life. ‘The old church with its policy of ‘suffer all manner of evil for great is your reward in heaven,’ cannot compete with a ereed which holds out such promises of immediate well-being. ‘‘The Rev. Mr. Osbron believes that all Methodist ministers not only should preach the gospel, but should ‘‘heal the sick’? and comfort by the divine power in them. In his little church at 925 Newton avenue, Dr. Osbron has undertaken a movement portentous for the church and to humanity. It is a movement which its founder hopes will grow and encompass the earth. It is interesting to listen to the opinion of this prophet of the church that is to be. [4250]

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