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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1901)
Mnrch 21. 1001. Wonderful Cures Wrought by a Priest Fiom the llitlo town of Epltdmny. S. D.. come stories of cures as wondeiftil as those Jiroughl about by tho man of llalllee when no was an eann. parts of the world, and several men are ,m, f.,r aVuy, writes I'rof. Simon Now- Tho lame, the halt and the blind have fpi i,Hy a the time hauling his rome- r(,,i, l(, Youth'H Companion. The nearest found lullef In the Dakota hamlet, which au-w to Cnuorn. Is o far that a cannon shot llred In Adam's Is located on the limitless prairie, ten A ,ow calletl Kr0ogor has been Ulm. frolll tm Cardcu of Eden, and flying miles ri out a railroad station. And the nu ,,(, surrounding the farm. In the con- continunlly with undiminished speed, would humble man who Is doing so much for In- tor of which tho laboratory and hospital ,,VtlIl ,nv hnrdlv have started on Its Jottr- vallds claims no dlvluo Inspiration. Ills ro located. Tho doctor has acquired con- m,y, t W(m)( "ho as if a train bound f. r methods are not those of Schlatter and slderable valuable real estate, lie has es- an'0ti,r tmv ii just pulled well out ol other healers who have duped the public tublished a brass band for Eplphuny and ,lu, Bttlon. dm Ins the last decade. erjetod a creamery and a cheese factory. ,ln summer evening you may see Arc- Ulght years ago Father William Kroeger Kocontly the doctor established a printing ,,. ,1(.M ,m (, uth or southwest In camo to Kpiphany to administer to the mt.t, f ,ls own aIul ho now has his j,10 ,)r Juty aml further ,imv Hie WcAt spiritual needs of the Catholics who live In advertising matter prepared In his labora- August ", September. You will know that parish Previous to entering the tory. u , r1(, CH,or Tml ,,. ,, ,,,, priesthood l ather Kroeger had completed a i)r. Kroeger Is a modest, unassuming ylll(. t might ahead ever since astrono courso In medicine. When lie arrived In ,,, ,i i8 resnected bv all persons who huh u tia.i.tiii f.i .iliunrvn It fit Ullcli tl uti.W'il .t. . i. t .1.... l.i . uiu uuiun.i iuM nu iuuiiu linn ma jj.uiu- loners were In need of medical attention. Thero was no resident physician In tho vll- lago and the priest wns frequently called upon to minister to tho physical needs of tho residents of tho Ilttlo town. Tho priest doctor was very successful In his practice. He showed unusual skill In l'ATHlCIt WILLIAM KHOEGKIt. EPI- I'll A NY, S. D MEETING WITH WON- DEHKL'L SUCCESS AS HEALER OP DIS- EASES. iho liontuienl of epilepsy and kindred dls- 01, American soil. Nor has tho practice demands of the time for shorter routes, orders, and 111., tamo soon spread bojond his conic with the American Hag. It is not a afur travel and greater speed Is nlTnr.lod pariah. In u short tune patients came to part 0f the Americanizing of the island, j,y tho Chicago & Northwestern wlieie the ui Kroeger trom all pails of feoulh Da- Hk0 dancing the two-step and turning up dossing of the Des Moines river Is made kola. Epiphany had no hotel and Invalids the trousers at tho bottom, for it existed ear noone, la. A new bridge is being irom a distance were accommodated m tho in Spain's day as much as now. built, and when this Is ready for use the homos of farmers who llvo near tho town. j.s n then psychological? Is thero any- circuitous route down Into the valley and Pour years ago tho priest s patients be- thing in tho mental mako-up of Hie species uround by Moingonn will be avoided, thus camo so numerous that ho had a hotel hoy which irresistibly compels lilni to seek shortening tho line about four miles and at erected which was large enough to shelter his top in tho months of March and April? the sumo time obviating the necessity of n L'OO people. Can It bo hereditary, handed down through helper engine and crew at tho steep grades I'i'iietli'i- mci ciiNON Kiiiiiili.i . an tho ages from tho days of Noah's Ark? near Moingonn. The bridge Is now Hearing Dr. Krooger's parsonage was a largo Possibly Noah's sous or grandsons, who completion, tho only reahon It Is not now building and hero ho maintained his olllco wore shut up In the ark during all tho finished being the danger from spring Hoods until two years ago. Ills practice In- Hood, sought this method of recreation and cC, which has forced a little waiting creased so rapidly that tho house was too when they once more stepped forth onto Mi the part of tho workmen. The bridgo Is small to accommodate his callers and a dry ground, for tho record certainly says: a viaduct bridge LSfi." feet long and nt Its three-story building was erected, In which "And in the second month, on the seven highest point 185 feet above tho water. It Is tho doctor receives all his patients and and twentieth ilnys of the month, wns the a douhldecker, or two-track bridge, all manufactures the medicine used In ills huge earth dried " (Con. vlil, II). This would of steol, and It is calculated that two trains practice. On tho third floor of this building make Pcbruary 2" the day of deliverance could moot nnd pnss on tho bridgo without Is tho doctor's private chupel. from tho stulfy and doubtless by this time tho least dnngcr. Its construction neces- Tho father's records show that he treated unsanitary ark, and what is more natural sltated tho Hlllng of two gorges, ouo of 0,000 patients last year. Every train that than that Shein and Ham and Japheth, or which required 110,000 cubic ynrds of earth arrives at Canora, the nearest railroad their sons, ir they were too old for such and tho other 107,000 ynrds. Tho ravlne.i station, brings patients for the doctor, amusements, should have sought relaxation wore each -100 foot long and from eighty to Proquently all the vehicles In Canora and on the nowiy-drlcd soil of the purified earth elghty-flvo feet deep. About 1.C0O men woro Hie surrounding country nro drafted Into by tho spinning of the merry top. Per- employed on the work last year nnd nbout service to hnul invalids to tho wonder haps they did not have tups in those days, fifty hnvo been nt work nil winter on the worker In tho Ilttlo town of Epiphany. but the Noahehidae must have had plenty bridgo proper. The bridgo proper will Persons wiio hnvo been cured by Dr. of tlmo after feeding the animals to Invent cost when completed nbout J0a0,000, nnd the Kroeger sometimes attribute supernatural things, nnd It was ns easy to invent tops ns entire Improvement, which will result in power to tho priest and many of his patients nnything else. Likely enough, when, "in practical abandonment of eleven miles of havo oven gone so far as to declare that the tenth month, on the first day of the trnck nnd nnotlior bridge, will represent he is Christ and his very presenco has a month wore the tops of the mountains an outlay of $,2.r.0.n00. Tho center span of heallug effect on Invalids. The doctor scon," It sot tho young ones thinking and (ho bridge, which will bo a truss span, will scouts nil such ideas. Ho asserts Hint ho Is tho foundations of tho world-wide custom bo .100 feet long, and tho rest will bo the only a plnln medical mnn who Is prac- of top-spinning woro thus lnld. viaduct construction. The bridge Is being tlclng ns thousands of doctors nro lu nil Now. If this bo not tho explanation of constructed ns rapidly ns possible, and E. parts of tho world. i Tho doctor's history as related by him self Is that he was born In Cincinnati, O., forty-eight years ngo. Ho studied In private and public schools of that city until ho was prepared to enter tho Uni versity of Cincinnati, from which ho took tho degrees of Ph. D. and M. 1). Por tbrco years after his graduation ho practiced iiudlelno in Cincinnati. Then ho took a course In preparation for tho priesthood. After taking the orders Dr. Kroeger served ns assistant pastor in nu eastern parish and was then placed In charge of a church at Elkhart, Ind., where ho romaincd for fourteen years. Ho camo to Epiphany In ISM nnd began tho work which has spread his famo Into nil parts of tho United States. HcnIuiin I'i-iiiii IIIn I'liHlnriilf, Two years ago Father Kroeger resigned from tho pastornto of the Epiphany church, but wns granted tho right to say mass In private. Bishop O'CJorman of Sioux Fnlla granted this right with the provision that Father Kroeger say mass only In tho parish , church. In establishing n prlvnto chapel tho priest Is hold to hnvo violated tho rules of tho church, nnd Hlshnp O'fiormnn has forbidden tho continuance of services In tho private chnpel nnd nlso has ndvlscd Dr. Kroeger that ho must give up tho prnctlco of medi cine or bo suspended from tho priesthood. Although tho doctor hns such a large number of patients In his Infirmary, ho i,na foiiml time to devote to the treatment f invalids who nro not able to come to Epiphany. Ho ships medicines Into all . . . nnvu 0l,0 associated with nun in a tiusi- nofls, or professional way. He wenrs the clerical Krb continually, and In nppenr- ,. i9 iiu, hundreds of priests who jmVl, attained less fame, . . , lop-spiiininy in Cuba Hoys certainly nro boys tho world over, and tho little Cuban youngster Is as like oung America as two peas lu a pod. Just why tho Cuban hopeful should resort to thu spoit of top-spinning in thu spring time und no other is inexplicable, says a Havana letter, but It is true here Just as ii is in the states. All over Havana for the last fow weeks the boys have becen spin ning their tops and "spiking" the lops of their playmates with a zest thoroughly Anglo-Saxon. U Is not remarkablo thai they should spin lops. The strange thing about It is that they should take to Hub lu tho United amusement In (he spring. States thero is a rtafcon for this. Tho win ter has kept tho youngsters more or less bottled up ami tho spurts lie lias indulged in havo had their reason In cold weathor. With the coming of tho warm spring days and the disappearance of snow and Ice, . V.V. . . , , ,,, " Z :,, ; . bv .V: has its run until superseded by marbled, tho playing of which is better suited In tho still warmer days following. Hut In Cuba there Is no such reason. bo IJUb til VUUtt in mini vitwii. far as tho climate Is concerned, the young- sters can spin tops successfully from one end of tho year to tho other. Why Ho tney do It only In the spring? That Ibis Is a fact can not bo controverted, and It Is done, too, by boys who have never set foot r I T7TI NEW NOHTI I WESTERN IIUIDQE OVER DES MOINES IHVEK N 13 A II HOONE, In ilio reason why Ynnkos In a cold littn.ite ami Cubans In a hoi iuu spin tops In I Ho snmo month! of t In spritm and al no other tlnio, U't rouio student of tin1 race f urtilwli another. Star Distances Tin' stnrs arc suns nnil they look HKt ,on - shining points of light becnuse they iwr " ... ....... that It would run from New York to . .ii eago in a small fraction of a minute. You wuild have to be spry to rise from your chair, put on your hat and overcoat and gloves, go out on the street, while It wan crossing the Atlantic ocean from New York to Liverpool. And yet If you should watch Hint star nil otir life, and live as ' I.. M,,tl.ia..ll.li 'iiti iftnil.l iwit lui nliln . " , ' , ui see nun ii iiiutuu in mi. in jwwiii It would mako In 1,000 yenrs would bo an nothing alongside Its dlstnnce. Many, perhaps most, of the stars nr really much larger and brighter than Hie sun. Canopus, ns It appears to us, ts the second brightest star In the heavens It never rises In our northern latitudes, to vi o It well you would havo to go nt least as far south as the gulf states. Although It shines to us only as a very bright star, It Is really thousands of times as bright as 11,0 mm' If ",lr ,,,,r,a "liuuld ,ll'a' l" 11 as 11 IS III IMO SUM, Hie Wllllie tin) niilini seem to be ablaze, and everything com liustlble on the earth's surface forest, houses and fences -would be burned by the fervent heat as If thrown into a hot lire Hut the distance of ( anopus Is iinmoas- "nibly great, so that astronomers hnc not nbl,.tol,nr,.nytl.l..B. ...,, nbiut . t The most Interesting conclusion riom huh Is that Canopus. although It Is only a star In Hip sky, Is really thousands of limes . a ... MKMvr than the sun. New R nil road Bridge An Illustration of the enormous expense to which the railroad companies are pit n reconstruct lug their roads to meet Hie ci:nti:u span ok nuw nouthwkstku n hui ii;t-: nicu hoonh. in A Kellogg, tisststuut superUilomUiii ot the AOiiliweslern, has hopes that 11 will be cady for uso next month. (Quaint Tcaturcs of Lite 'Iho biggest baby every born so tar ns medical records show is the child of Dr. and Mrs. Edward McCaithy of Camden, N. J. This suipiislug boj weighed twenty llvo pounds nt bit lb and a doen physicians hao weighed him and col tilled to that tact, l no boy is pelicctly heallliy. Joseph A. Mnl'but, u member ot tho Mis souri leglsliiluie, belongs to n laiiiuy Willi a iiK'tubi'i'ship of Li, i, all living within tlvo miles of tho lilago of McDowell. Tho liiuiily consists ot four generations, and thero has never been u bachelor or an old maul among theiii. 'ihoy nro u1m noted lor their longevity. 'I hero is n tradition that one Murbut voted tho republican ticket til ii local election. Hubert Miller, Chicago's legless porch climber, explains his lapses trom lawful modes of llto by declaring thai pains in ills lues drive lilm to drink. Now, Mr. Milloi lias not been tho possessor or a loo, gloat or uiiiull, for many years. Ho lost both legs in a railroad accident before tho World's fair. It Is u pliyHlological tad, however, thai persons who have lost n leg or un arm suitor lu exactly Iho way described by Mr. Mlllor. Their lingers or toes -tho nervun that once led to their lingers und toes give them pain. Edith Wagner of v Waukesha, Wis., has been married by a rural Justice of tho pence near Hlnghnmton, N. Y., to her Maltese cat. Her family has Just been udvlsod of the extraordinary wedding. Miss Wng nor Is a believer In tho traiismlgraliou or souls. Some years ngo she was engaged to bo married to u young man nnined Ed wnrd Hamhllu, but boforo the wedding day arrived he tiled of typhoid fever. On his deathbed llumhliii told his sweelhcnrt that ho know ho was going to die, but that ho would always bo neur her Not long aflt r his death a lino Maltese till appealed m Miss Wagners Inline and reiuaiueil there. Miss Wagner was convinced that tho soul of her dead lover dwelt in this feline. Sonio tlmo ago sho went to Now York, nnd while nt Hlughamtou decided to marry the pet. Sho took out n lleeuso lu title form, giving a name that served for tho cat, but when she tried to urruiigo for tho perform ance of the ceremony dlllleiilly was en couiiteietl. Several ministers positively refused to olllclnto und she flnnlly went Into tho country, whore sho succeeded In llndlng n Justlco of tho peace who poi formed somo sort of n marriage rlto. Miss Wag ner's frlcndB nro trying to pmsuatlo her to return homo. A Trick of the Trade A short time ago Hie iiiiuiager of one of tho big Htores in tills city, relules Hi Now York Sun, found that u rival estab lishment had Just received a largo consign ment of a very lino quality of luce. Need less to say that the laco was also very ex pensive. Ho Immediately soul ouo of Ills siiborill nutos over to tho rival store with Instruc tions to buy lilt 1 r a yard of the aforesaid luce. This ho hung up lu n conspicuous position with a very legible price murk attached, anil the price marked was very rciiHonnhlc. Then ho gave some Instruc tions to tho girls behind the counter, and retired to await developments. Two shoppers soon happened along that way, nnil tho piece of laco caught their attention. "Isn't that Just too beautiful!" exclaimed one of them. Hut Instead of answering her directly iter companion grnsped her by the arm and whispered excitedly: "Look at the price!" In uiiswcr to their eager questions the simp girl answered nonchalantly : "That thero lace? I don't think we've got uny morn. Walt a minute." Tho two women waited while tho gill consulted long nnd seriously with ouo of her fellows. Tho consultation wns nbout u dance which was to tuko place thai evening, but the woiild-bo customers never knew tho difference. When It was ovor tho girl rolurucd, and lnfonned them: "Sorry, but wo'ie nil out o' that lace. (InesH you can got nome ovor In Illnnk's. though, mentioning the rival oiitubllshment. The two women hurried uwity, fearing that the Hiipply In the other store might ulso be exhausted before their arrival. It wnsu'l, but they did not buy any laco, nnd furthermore, they advised nil their friends to Btop nt Dash's becutiso the prices there nro so reasonable. "Hut," they added, "you've got to get. there eurly or the nicest things will bo all sold out." Doesn't Like the Name F. H. Nation of Snn Francisco, who Is a cousin of tho Kaunas smasher und who Is on his way east, stopped off at Denver. "I wish hor nuino wns Smith," ho said, re gretfully. ''There aro only u few of us Nntlons, nnd so wherever I go 1 uui asked If I have a hatchet about mo und It I In tend to tnke n drink, and what In the mat tor with Kansas, and a lot of similar conundrums which do not Interest mo nt nil. If I got hold of that cousin of initio I will try to Impress upon him the duty he t wes to tho rest of the family." "What will you do If you meet Mrs. Nu t Ion of KaiiHits?" nskod tho questioner. "Hun," said Mr. Nation of San Frnnclscn, 2