Pearls at random strung

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LIFE'S TRAGEDY FROM WEDDING TO TOMB

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Preface

My Author has devoted the greater portion of the leisure hours to the study of diseases, and the cause of diseases, and the rational and logical cure for the same. Primarily, he did it for his own satisfaction. As he progressed, however, he found it so fascinating, and that so little was known by the thinkers. Doctors, and non-thinkers, that he kept on until he had unraveled the cause of all diseases known to the lay public. He has refrained from using words and phrases pertaining to the Medical Science in their technical sense; preferring to use simple, plain and unobstructive words and phrases, conveying the same meaning, but better understood by the masses, to whom my Author has dedicated me, for their special use and benefit — not for the Classes. The cause of a disease once mastered, the key to unveil thie cure is, per se, at hand — the zenith of longevity is reached, and with it the conquest of poverty. I contain

— — pages and aibout words, every one of which has a

clear and distinct meaning, and when it comes to Brevity I glitter. I should be used as a text book, read slowly and repeatedly, and should be in the Public Schools. My Author has done this for a d'ouble purpose. First — That you may have to stop and think, as you go along — that you may read between the lines, without which T will largely fail in my purpose. You will find a good many things in me that are unique, new, out of the ordinary, and original. The leading assertions that I make have been proven by my Author, and that, too^ upon himself as the subject, and not by cruel and inhuman Vivisection. He has reduced voluones into pages, so that you can read me in twelve hours, while it took the major part of thirtyfive years to gather the data that I contain.

He has touched on Poverty and Sociology, knowing full well that tbey are so closely related' as to be virtually inseparable. He has, and' purposely too, written me in such a way that you cannot pick me up, read a few Knes and catch my meaning. You will have to read me clear through to get at the cause of Premature Death, and the causes of disease. To receive the full benefit of what I contain, you must not only read me, but you must HEED me, which will make me of priceless value to you.

I a(m made up of suggestions, and to those who can take them, there is in store for them, thereafter at least, a long life, free from adhes, pains and diseases. My Author is a living advertisemient of what he teaches. He wrote me for the benefit of Humanity, of which he is a member in good standing. If you find anything herein not related to the title of this book, credit it up to the Author. Relating to the Classes, Professions and Society he has handled the NAKED TRUTH without gloves, unveiling the dark, weak and many unsaid and unwritten things relatingt to the same, believing it to be for the future good of all society — ^that is, taken as a whole. My Author does not expect to be understood by all who read me; he never has been understood', but by the majority — mostly me'mbers of the Universal Academy of Intmortals, therefore, if one*tenth of my readers HEED me, my Author will feel well repaid for his life's work, and will be contented, knowing that somewhere, some tikne, he will be understood, and that his heart will have been foundl to be on the right side of humanity. He only asks to be accepted as a lay member, brother, in the Great Brotherhood of Man, and the Fatherhood and Motherhood of God.

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Read me for the cause of diseases, remove the cause, and thereafter you will be itamune from all diseases.

"The first physicians by debauch were made, Excess began and sloth sustains the trade. By chase our long-lived fathers earned their food; Toil strung their nerves, and purified their blood. But we their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to three score years and ten. Better hoe in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for his nauseous draught. The wise for cure, on exercise depend — God n^ever made his laws for man toi mend."

— Addison.

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TRUTH.

Let there be many windows in the soul,

That all the glory of the universe

May beautify it. Not the narrow pane

Of one poor creed can catch the radiant rays

That shine from countless sources. Tear away

The blind's of superstition; let the light

Pour through fair windows, broad as truth itself

And light as heaven tune your ear

To all the wordless music of the stars

And to the voice of nature, and your heart

Shall turn to truth and goodness as the plant

Turns to the sun. A thousand unseen hands

Reach down to help you to your peace-crowned heights,

And all the forces of the firmament

Shall fortify your strength. Be not afraid

To thrust aside half4ruths and grasp the whole.

— Selected.

LIFE'S TRAGEDY.

Two acts and two scenes.

Act 2. Scene 2. Drifting and shifting: Not understood

— ^The Author. viii

WEDDING TO TOMB.

A flash, a dash, a smile, a tear and dream:

She and he.

A morning, noon and night, a Tragedy — Eternity.

— The Author.

IF WE COULD KNOW.

If we could know

Which of us, darling, would be first to go, Which would be first to breast the swelling tide, And step alone upon the other side.

If it were you,

Should I walk softly, keeping death in view? Should I my love to you more oft express, Or should I grieve you, darling, any less — If it were you?

If it were I,

Should I improve the moments slipping by?

Should I more closely follow God's great plan,

Be filled w4th sweeter charity for man —

If it were I?

If we could know —

We cannot, darling; and 'tis better so.

I should forget, just as I do to-day,

And walk along the same old stumbling way —

If I could know.

I would not know

Which of us, darling, will be first to go. I only wish the space may not be long Between the parting and the greeting song; But when, or where, or how we're called to go, I would not know.

— Selected.

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MOTHER.

Your life begins anew the wedding day.

Mother! If you but knew pre-natal power —

The destiny of your desires — ^tbe way

To truth: subconscious thought — your divine dower

E'er birth, your embryonic souls would be

Leaders of nations: tillers of sod.

You'd unmake heaven, hell, eternity,

And remake worlds, mother, goddess, God!

LABOR.

Nature has no poor house; no place of ease

For tired souls: no Doctors, drugs, disease.

Every atom in her wide domain

Labors 'till the change — it lives again,

Is intellect and thinks and breathes — is life,

Is law divine, ego, endless strife.

And those that labor not, she puts to sleep

Into her bosom, both to keep.

But live again— 'beautify, unfold

With ether, far above the earth, her sod,

To bear the impress of a mam — a God.

— The Author.

BABYHOOD.

In valleys high and' wildwood's drear, 'Mong /mountain peaks, so near the clouds Are lilies with the dewdrops near.

To heal: no plumes of white, or shrouds.

'Mong lilies fair are children wild, Who know not drugs, bitter or sweet; Who quaff the dew distilled' and mild.

And tread the earth with little bare feet.

— The Author.

A HEART TO HEART TALK TO THE READER ON

DISEASES.

All aches, pains and diseases, from childhood to the tomb^ are unnatural — contrary tO' the universal law — laws of the universe. In the animal kingdom (separate and apart from the environments of man) we find no diseases. In the earliest dawn of history we find man free from disease. Men were then lead* ing pastoral lives. The mind is largely the master of man's existence. !With man's first advent on this earth was: First — His desire. Second^ — Thought. Third — ^Action. Fourth — Habit. Fifth — Character, which with memory is all he takes with him into destiny. Three things are necessary for the existence of the animal kingdom on this earth. First, is air; second, is water, and the third, is food. Man has more intelligence than his four-footed kind (free in nature), and yet, with all his boasted intelHgence, he has degraded hiimself far below them. In the wilds we find no nurses, drug stores, doctors, hospitals nor little white coffins, and yet they derive all their sustenance, like us^ from Mother Earth. Nature always seeks to better and perpet* uate her species; there is where she glitters. No diseases, per se, are inherited. Therefore, all the causes of diseases must either be inherited, or arise from the air we breathe, water we drink, or the food we eat. With tman, thought and environment have a good deal to do.

THE WEDDING DAY.

The wedding day is the proper place and time to lay the foundation to trace the origin of disease. A weak body (low order of vitality) is inherited, but not the disease, per se. It is a notorious fact that the first bom rarely survive childhood,

Cause: excessive co-habitation and ignorance in not knowing how to feed the child. All persons below a normal vitality (life's force) or undersized in stature, are so, either from exces* sive co-habitation of their parents, or from Scrofula, originally Syphilis, contracted by their ancestors. This disease will disappear in the seventh generation, its last stages being eczemas, salt rheum, etc. Nearly all mankind is tainted with this disease in some of its multitudinous forms of expression, classified under the head of Tuberculosis and Scrofula, all ,of which originate from the same cause. We cannot help what our parents do; we can and must help the weaklings. The ones with the high order of vitality will generally survive (unless they are murdered by their parents by over and irregular feeding. The remedy for this lies with the parents and the public schools, by controlling the appetites and passions of the child, beginning at the cradle. Keep them busy at something during their waking hours. This rule holds good for grown people; if they have no work, let them create some, or die, unless they have a hobby; that will do. Nature abhors a vacuum, and tries hard to perpetuate her species. She generally weeds out the weaklings in childhood. If any escape her and get over into puberty, she finishes them there, if they do not reach the standard. If any of the weaklings reach manhood (below the standard) she finishes them with quick consumption, or otherwise; she lulls them to sleep, takes them to her bosom, and without a tear veils them from our sight; she will endeavor to do better the next time. She is a kind and lovingi mother, if we only knew it. Some time, sotne day, we will find it out, here or there. There is no truth, nor harmony, outside the laws of the Universe. In man, Crankdom is one of the first stages of greatness, seeking to know one thing thoroughly.

HEADS. As relates to heads, there are two classes of persons in the Universe — ^long heads and bullet heads; the former rule the thinking world, and the latter the comimercial world. Men's heads (including women's) undergo a constant change and shape, at any age, proportional to the quality and quantity of thinking they do. Greatness is in finding one's niche in society, and fitting one's self in that niche, whether it be a nodcarrier or a President. The whole aim of all the world's thinkers is truth, and they find it all in nature's laws. All cranks end up Philosophical, and a few Philosophers. Crankdom is dangerous in this: they sometimes remain too long on a straight line, a divergence or tangent from the straight line is necessaiy to round out a beautiful life. Otherwise, they are liable to perish in the ''Breakfast Food" stage of their existence.

The two greatest chemical laboratories in the Universe are: First, the Universe itself, and second, the human stomach. Nature tetopers us to the conditions and environments in which we live. If yoti live on breakfast foods and vegetables it will be but a short time until you can digest nothing else. This is a cotmmercial age and requires a good deal of brute (animal) force to secure a livelihood. There are twO' classes of animals (free in nature), the small-stomached, cats, weasels, dogs, lions, foxes and tigers, which take their food in a condensed form. Eat the large-stomached animals — cow, deer, sheep, rabbits, goats, etc., after they have cropped the vegetation direct from the earth, and condensed the same into meat. Man, as we find him, belongs to the small-stomached animals, requiring the cunning and strength of the former class to ''eke" out an existence in this age.

Man has within him all the component parts of the Universe, therefore requiring everything that his appetite longs foi in order to attain and maintain good health. A meal should never consist of tnore than three different kinds of food, which should be changed at least once each day, and eaten temperately, and regularly, from childhood to the grave. People

(cranks) trying to live without salt, one of the component parts of the body, end with cancer (a degeneration of the tissue of the weakest part of the body), or it may be a deficiency of something else, ending in some other organic disease.

Viewed under a powerful microscope, man is a hideous monster — a steam engine with a gaseous vapor oozing from every pore of his body, and inside a big sewer from top to bottom.

Every atom in the universe is a thinker — an intellectual ego. Only about ten per cent of the human family do any thinking (out of the ordinary). The doctor thinks for them physically, and the preacher thinks for them mentally and spiritually. No physician in the Universe ever cured a disease; they only assist nature to do it. Nature does all her own healing. She throws all the forces of the body to heal a cut, and after it is healed, she keeps pegging away to the end of life to remove the scar. If you over-trim? a fruit tree. Nature will kill it; trim it correctly, and she will heal it. Nature will take the trouble and panis to change the color of the birds and animals to hartionize with the vegetation with which they are surrounded, in order to protect them from falling prey to their more powerful antagonists, to perpetuate their species, and beautify the earth. She will do equally as much for man. Man is a complete Universe within himself, and when he knows all its laws he will be a God; he will have equal power with God. The time and place will be at the Circles, and Cycles end. Our mission in this world is to overcome poverty and disease. Wisdom will do it; they are both conditions of the mind.

Everything in the Universe, whether a crystal, lily, bird, man, tree or a planet, is a comm-unity family of atoimites (the doctors call them bacilli), male and female held in that body by the law of love and cohesion. Like attracts like, throughout all the domain of Nature. These atomites, in their various social relations, viewed under a microscope, powerful enough, or under radium light, whether they are born, perpetuate their species, die of old age in seconds of time, or live a hundred years, are loving, fighting and dying: their government is something like ours, and in some respects it is better. So long as there is harmony in these various and diverse fa|milies, there is no disease, mentally or physically, otherwise a contrary state of facts exists, and as there are as many different species of atomites as there are things in the universe. At every breath we inhale we take into our lungs, blood and circulation, a variety of them all, and among them are those whose duty is to tear down and disintegrate any body where there is a lack of harmony (disease); they thrive and grow fat on a diseased body — a rotten sewer, clogged and gorged in mani — is where they glitter. The first indication of a bad sewer is an itching of the anus. This is soon followed by a rotten breath, cankered mouth and sore throat, which means inflammation from the top to the bottom of the human sewer, at which time the tearing down atomites — atomites of death — ^begin to get in their deadly work. The lay public call this a cold; correctly speaking it is a bilious attack.

There is not one case in a hundred w^iere a cold (?) is caused by exposure. This stage is always accompanied by a fever, which increases if the sewer is not cleansed, until the death atomites, by the help of outsiders, have overcome the life atomites, and attack the small bowels first, which, if not checked, ulcerate, then we have what the doctors call typhoid fever. At whatever stage the doctor is called, he gives the fever a differ*' ent name, corresponding to its intensity. This is the cause of all fevers that mankind ever had. The next in order is, how to keep the sewer clean: to avoid fevers, colds (?) and pneumonia. This rule is for all ages, sexes and conditions (excepting infancy), and more especially those persons who are unable to procure an abundance of physical exercise. Immediately on arising from your night's slumbers, and before dressing, as long before breakfast as possible, eat or drink the following things, the value of which will be in the order naimed, beginning with the first: First, from two to five tart raw apples; or, second, drink one pint of butteilmilk, kept in a jug, corked tight, and the same shook well before drinking. This drink contains more medicinal qualities than any other drink known to the human family, and about which I will say more under the head of the cure of Bright's Disease; or, third, five or ten prunes, if dried, soak in cold^ water for twenty^four hours (any kind of prunes, German preferred). All prunes are heavily charged with iron; or fourth, five or six big white figs; or fifth, from one to two oranges; or sixth, from two to four ripe bananas; or seventh, take a good drink of hot or cold water; if delicate drink the former, and if young and strong, drink the latter. The things to do, above mentioned, should be changed weekly, and continued from; childhood to the grave, which will occur when you are over one hundred years, young. The secret of long life is> in eating in proportion to the amount of physical exercise we are taking. Never eat anything between meals, except* ing ripe fruit, and that only on an empty stomach. There is no animal in the Universe, excepting man, that will drink while he is eating; that means you, dear reader, if you do it. Every adult should take three pints of liquid every twelve hours, in some form. Better take two parts of it in fruit, the other after each meal, in tea, coffee or chocolate, alternately.

Now, you have the cause of fevers (a clogged sewer) and the remedy to keep it pure.

I shall now say something about DIET, cooking and what to eat. When you sit down to the dining table to eat, and you do not have a sharp appetite, you are sick. Sick people should not eat; they should live on cold water alone, until their appetite returns.

No appetite! That is nature's plan of calling a halt; she wants to catch up. If every one would do that there would be no sickness, aches, pains and diseases, from childhood to the grave. About one-fourth of the people we meet are dying. They do not know it. Everything in nature has a great and grand zero mark, equilibrium. Those dying people have crossed the mark. Nothing in nature stands still; everything is in motion, either progressing or retrograding. The life and death atomites know that, every one of them know, that w'hen the appetite fails, they are falling below the zero mark. This is the time to reflect. See wherein you have transgressed a law of nature. It may take some years, at ten minutes per day, but it is a good investment. FIND THE CAUSE, if it takes you a lifetime; then remove the cause. THAT'S IT. Incidentally, you will be real ''cute" after ten or a dozen years. You will be quite philosophical, if not a philosopher. Then, it will be no trouble for you to peg along to be over a hundred years, YOUNG. If it was not for the churches, the doctors would soon be driven out of business. Eight*tenths of the nonchurch going people are being healed by other and diverse methods than the "Regular Orthodox Doctor;" he is falling greatly into disuse. Our up-to-date physicians, thank God! — and there are a good many of themi, who are using more common sense, nursing and ''Mental Therapeutics" than medicme in their practice. The author came in one of being a physician, if he had he would have been "barred" out by the "Regulars."

He would have hired out by the year, or, as the lawyers say: "been retained" to ward of? diseases, teaching the cause, instead of the cure. I, however, realize that I should have suffered all that is incident to the Pioneer in every calling of life. So long as the people allow the Preacher and Doctor to- think for them there will be preachers and doctors. Up to about ten years ago, to be a physician was to belong to the noblest and grandest profession on the earth, and in this day, if the physician be up to date, he has the grandest profession attainable. About fifty per cent of the people require medicine yet, that is, you must make them think so in order to heal them. In this Rapid Transit, Commercial, City stage of life, surgery is a grand and noble calling, and will continue to be so, until the Millenium. Nearly all good physicians know the cause of diseases. After all, I do not blame thdm for not teaching the people the causes of disease. They would have to carry a potato masher to knock the patient down every time they met him to make him heed a suggestion given him for the betterment of his health. 1 doubt whether more than one in ten of my readers will heed these suggestions, and even if that number heed them, the author will feel well paid for his quarter of a century research along these lines, and for the writing of this book. Character and Education are made up from suggestions, gleaned from lifers experiences, molded by thought into an ego, which ends at the ''Circles— End^Eternity."

The vital organs of man are nothing more or less than a WONDERFUL CHEMICAL LABORATORY.

Living near the earth means eating all the foods produced by the earth, as near as possible in their natural state. This huntan laboratory has to separate and disintegrate into its component parts all the food taken into the human stomach, ready to nourish and sustain the continual waste of the whole body to the zero tnark aforesaid. The kidneys, for their size, perform the greatest and most important work of all the vital organs of the body. They have largely to do the separating of the fluids that go to make blood, which, if pure, means good health, and if impure the reverse. It is a fact, though not generally known, that the kidneys are the first to give out, simply because the change occurs so gradually, and nearly always painless, nature omitting her blessing — PAIN — her warning. Some* times, unless the patient is a student, it will run along for years without being noticed. It is a slow and insidious blood-poisoning, in the first stages, mostly from uric acid, which destroys the oils of the body, burns out the joint water, affects the leaders, muscles and cords, causing rheumatism in all its various ramifications. This is followed by a lack of life's force, premature old age, weak sight (followed by a goggled nose), and forgetfulness, showing that it attacks the brain, as the eyes are the only organs supplied with arteries direct from the brain, which is, therefore, weakened by the uric acid.

The reason for the early giving out of the kidneys, I will now explain. You can separate the gluten from the starch, in white flour, in a cup of cold water very easily; try it; the gluten will settle to the bottom of the cup, and the starch will rise to the top. Now, take some flour, add some butter, eggs, sugar and soda, etc. Mix well with an egg beater, then put it into a cup, and separate it into its component parts. You say, ''That is impossible," and sO' lit is; it takes a good chemist! Now take what you have left, put into a hot oven, bake it into cake or pie crust; (now separate it into its component parts. It takes a chemist (Genius) to do that! Now, how much of that stuff, daily, are you forcing into your stomach for your poor kidneys to do? They are not so large as your two fists! ''Oh!" you will say, "the liver helps!" Sure! I see your goggled nose at 50. ;What does that mean? You generally look for a cure (?) in medicine, which as a general thing has but a temporary effect, if any. The remedy lies in removing the CAUSE.

The hair is nominally a separate organization from the body. It is a vegetable formation — ^that is, it sustains itself from the vegetable formations of the body. It will grow (colorless) after the body is dead. The potato in a moist stone cellar will grow, thrive and propagate its species without coming in direct contact with the earth. Iron is said to be the basis of all coloring matter, in and above the earth, and with the assistance of the rays of the sun gives us all the coloring matter in existence, together with all the beautiful colors that beautify this earthly heaven of ours, all of which is made perceptible to us by the star — dust ladened atmosphere, in which our earth is enveloped. It follows, then, that to preserve the hair, at least, until very late in life, one must eat the fruit and vegetables that contain the most iron, or coloring matter, from which the little sack at the root of each hair receives its source of supply. Therefore, eat all the deep colored fruits and vegetables to sustain the color of the hair.

There are but four causes for premature baldness. The first is, patronizing the barber shops and allowing the barber to put all sorts and kinds of nostrums on the hair and head. Ninety per cent of the people, prematurely bald, belong to the round or Bullet-Headed class. A hat fits clear around their heads, shutting oflf the air and circulation from the head. That class of people should wear hats that touch the head only one-half way around. They should wear hats with double sweat bands, one-eighth of an inch apart, and the space filled alternately with cork. Another reason for premature baldness is cutting the hair short, letting it bleed to death — imitating the prize fighter in your way of cutting your hair, instead of the thinker and student. The barbers are real ''cute,'' they will cut your hair short, and' before you leave the chair, singe it to keep the hair frc^m bleeding to death. Let your hair grow long, like a thinker, Indian, or a woman if you do not care to be prematurely bald! Never put a drop of water (chemically an acid) on your head, nor soap, nor oil, nor anything else on the earth, from childhood to the grave, excepting a soft brush, dull comb, and give the head an electric sharrtpoo, as follows, to wit: Rub the scalp briskly, with the balls of the fingers and thumbs of both hands, until the scalp burns, repeat this ''tri-weekly'' until the end of life, and you will never have a bald pate to stow away in the coflfin with you. This treatment will bring the hair out on at least fifty per cent of the bald heads on the earthi. It has been known to do it after the hair was apparently dead.

Premature grayness is sometimes caused from grief, fright, or other excitement — all of which dry up the saliva glands, digestion ceases, hence, no coloring matter for the hair, and it goes back to its original color, white, and the same causes produce what is generally termed death by a broken (?) heart. It is, however, merely the death of digestion. You cannot expect to have good health, and fret and worry, or allow yourself to become excited about anything; keep cool under fire — and you are, or the most of us are, under fire all our lives, when not asleep. Think good, hopeful thoughts; look on the bright side of Hfe; be an Optimist; be soriiething, not a Pessimist. Be temperate in everything, excepting deep breathing in the open air and sleep. Sleep until you awake naturally, unless you are poorgoverned by the tap of the bell, or a mother with children of school age (in the winter time), or a child going to school at that time. If you don't belong to that class, sleep whenever you can. If you have kept cool under fire during the day, you can generally sleep well. In the event you are not sleepy at bed time, eat one or two slices of stale bread; that will draw the blood from your brain to your stomach; that means sleep.