DIAMOND, THE CENTENARIAN

In a series of articles on "How to Live a Century," by B. F. Richards, in The Signs of the Times, Oakland, California, of Feb- ruary 33, 1899, it is related that:

There is a man living in San Francisco who is a fair sample of what the body will do if we keep it clean, feed it properly, and give it pure water to drink. I have the pleasuie of meeting and conversing with this aged gentleman daily while he is eating his meats at the Helping Hand and Medical Mission in San Francisco. And I do not see how I can bestow a greater &vor on the readers of this article than by giving in his own words his method of keeping his body in perfect health, even at the remarkable age of nearly 103 years, and by also giving his picture, taken when 65 and I03 years of age respectively. (Pictures on ^%igt 95.)

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He says: "My name is Goddard Bzekiel Dodge Diamond. My father's family rec- ord showed that I was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the first day of May, 1796. My parents were Joseph and Mahalla Diam- ond. Tae Diamonds were of Scottish an- cestry, and my father was of the first American generation, and lived to the ripe old age of 106 years, and died at Hunts- ville, Alabama, about 1863.

"My mother's maiden name was Allen, and she was a niece of General Ethan Allen, of Ticonderoga fame. Her ancestry on her mother's side was the Cotton's who came over on the Mas^ower. So it appears in my veins runs the blood of tha Scotch, Irish, Dutch and English, about as desirable mixture as one can wish for ancestry.

"My loss of early education met with some compensation in escaping the poison- ous air of the modem day school-rooms, and the retaining of my nervous system intact, instead of being wrecked by an ex- cited pressure of educational stuffing to meet the demands of the text-books, to the exclnsion of the application of common sense. Blessed is the youth who enjoys the privilege of country life, runs hare- footed and wades every creek and pond in the community.

"While in the South I was employed in the commission business or superintending plantations, and when in tlie North, I was engaged in building the first railroads in the United States, among them being the railroad from Worcester to Boston, the old colony road fi^m Boston to Plymouth, and the road fixjm Albany^ New York, to old Durripp, now Schenectady. I to(^ part in the construction of the New York and Erie canal, from New York to Bufblo, which I twice assisted to enlarge. When the war began in 1861 I was in St. Louis, engaged in building the I^xington and Farmer City Railroad. As I look back over that long period of long ago — aggregating sixty-five years of my life, and then look at men alongside of me who say they are now sixty-five years old, it seems an incredible thing that my age was then more than threescore years.

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which I ever engaged was in 1840, when General Harrison was the candidate. In Albany, New York, of that year, I rode in the 'Log Cabin,' drawn by four hundred yoke of oxen, there being four lines of teams of one hundred yoke to the Hne. Fifty years later I marched in the line of Republicans in San Francisco, who were 'whooping it np' for his grandson. General Benjamin Harrison.

"What I Eat and Drink. — Thatwhich enters within the man tells the story of building up or tearing down. Breathing, eating and drinking are the three processes of taking into the body the vital forces of nature.

"Three things I have faithfully practiced in the last half century, jointly. The first is that of breathing the freshest air possible, long, deep draughts. The second is thi selection and eating of the best l»one and blood-making food at my command. The third is the use of pure water at proper time and temperature. When I began to pre- pare the body for long and healthy life, I left out of my diet slaughtered meats entire- ly. I saw enough in the flesh of butchered animals while it was hanging in the slaugh- tering-pens throughout the country to satis- fy me that there was more disease and cause for suffering in it than therewas food. I eat grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables; I drink boiled or distilled water. I take a sponge bath every night, after which I rub a little olive oil in each of my joints, thus keeping the machinery in good working order.

"I have neverused apipe, cigar or cl^ aiette; never indulged- in wine., nor any intoxicating liquor, omitting entirely the use of tea and coffee. None of these things contain food, and nature rebels at their use. There are better uses for our cash. Food is to build up what is daily being torn down, but there is no food in stimulants, and the person who indulges in them cuts short his life, sins against his own body, against his neighbor and against his Maker.

"For more than half a century I have lived the life of a Vegetarian, and I can see no reason why I should not live a long time yet, for I am perfectly well, with not an

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organic disease. I eat well, also sleep well, and I look mach younger than when I was fifty years old, and I am sore I feel younger, for I was then an old man, with round shoulders and bent form. If I live until the first day of Hay, 1899, I will be one hundred and three years of age. Next April I will take a bath in the Pacific Ocean at Seal Rock, San Francisco, Cal., and will then start on my long walk to New York City, and will take my next ocean bath in the Atlantic Ocean at Coney Island, New York. I walk about twenty miles each day, so you see I believe in bodily exercise. ' ' Mr. Diamond has, we understand, written a book of his experience, a copy of which we &iled to receive, although we wrote him some time ago for the information above published. . The strong feature in the case is as shown by the two pictures on page 95, that he has improved in health and appear- ance since he entirely abandoned the use of flesh meat, and is in better condition for exertion at 103 than he was at 63, 40 years ago. We hope he will accomplish his overland joumef as he anticipates, as we may then have the pleasure of meeting him in Philadelphia or New York."

tism for four months at a time, and could not walk. I had suffered with scrofulotis complaints for many years, which I am certain were caused by my parents' meat eating.

Now, I am free from them and have no desire to return to the bondage of disease and death again. Inasmuch as we partake of that which is slain, do we become the slayer. I have become so well, so strong, and with snch perfect health that it has become a subject of comment among my friends. My conscience is becoming quite clean from past sins, and all fear and doubts are leaving me. I talk to many and some have followed my example with great suc- cess, in regard to health and humanity. — Helen Smith, Applegate, Placer Co., Cal.

RHEUMATISM & SCROFULA CURED, I became convinced many years ago that to take life to sustain life was a senseless as well as useless act. I was working in a printing office, and among the exchanges came across a copy of Food, Homb and Gardbn, which pleased me very much. Some of the ideas haunted me in my dreams. In 1885 I qtiit the use of tea and coffee en- tirely, and have never tasted a drop of either since the day I first said "no more," In 1887 I quit the use ol all flesh and have never tasted flesh since. And I have real- ized that all trouble with my indigestion ceased soon after. All headaches, bad dreams and all rheumatism left me. I was, befi}re qnitting meat, down with rheuma- 86

CELERY AN ANTIDOTE FOR RHEU- MATISM. Celery is a cure for rhenmatism ; indeed, it is asserted that the disease is impossible if the vegetable be cooked and freely eaten. The fact that it is always put upon the table raw prevents its thereapeutic powers from being known. The celery should be cut into bits, boiled in water until soft, and the water drank by the patient. Put new milk, with a little flour or nutmeg into a saucepan with the boiled celery, serve it warm, with pieces of toast, eat it with potatoes, and the painfril ailment will soon yield. Such is the declaration of a phys- ician who has again and again tried the ex- periment and with uniform success. Acid blood is the primary and sustaining cause of rheumatism, and while the blood is alkaline there can be neither rheumatism nor gout.

King Humbert is a Vegetarian. He lives entirely on vegetables and fruits and never feels so well as on bread, potatoes and oranges. — Washinglon Times.

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DR. ELLEN G. SMITH'S RECOVERY. "Take care of yourself," a text oft re- peated, had slipped out of its place in my code of commandments and before I was aware of the pending result, I found my- self on the down-hill grade, and a serious accident left no opportunity to avert the resulting partial paralysis. After several months of home care and treatment by my own methods, mental and physical, I was pronounced by physicians an almost hope- less case of Lacomalor Ataxia, which is rarely, if ever, cured by ordinary methods of ttierapy. I took a long course of electri- cal and scientific massage, with slight im- provement. Then I met with another accident, and for several months could not stand or step without support, and the entire body was out of tune. Every possible method for relief was brought to bear on the case, and I began to walk. But little dependence could be placed upon the limbs for steadiness, and the vital organs were still seriously involved. As a pessimist, my fate would have been that of a con- firmed invalid. But being a positive op- timist, no matter what the conditions, I was sure there must be some way out. In November last, my attention was called to Spiritual Science as practised by one whose success had been remarkable even in cases similar to mine. I wrote the doctor for his terms and with the reply came an invisible power that gave me hope of complete restoration. The brain became clearer, I walked with more freedom, slept better, and, more surprising than all else, I at once began to eat and assimilate my food, which had for three months been almost at the starvation point in quantity, and these results of a brief letter conveying its invis- ible substance to me. My first treatment consist

spiritually. "Peace be still" was spoken to the inharmonies and new pictures to the mind.

Treatment varied according to conditions , often almost entirely mental, again active, physical, with a steady improvement which was evident every day. "Peace be still" has become a reality. Spiritual therapy stood without a rival in the days of Christ and through all the ages it has been more 01 less a recognized force, and to-day stands on its merits, either by itself or incorpor- ated unconsciously into every method of therapy, and the more we recognize the silent operation of the higher powers, the better for humanity in every way. To-day I feel new. A year ago I could barely walk even a few steps alone, and six months ago, although I could walk some, but under great resistance and by watching my footsteps, I now go anjrwhere I wish, can walk two or three miles a day. I am about to resume my lectures and my practice, and am not in any way much like the woman who visited you two years ago, and whom you, doubtless, like many others, thought never would recover. But one by one, old conditions have departed and nature as.serts herself at every point. Each day I realize the force of these words that came to me long ago as an inspiration to many an inva- lid. "By the power of the spirit ye are healed and by the power of the spirit ye shall remain healed," and this penetrating power does not conflict in the least with hygienic law, but the two are harmo- nious.— Ellen Goodell Smith.

Mr. J. Abbott, of Saratoga, had kidney trouble very badly and was advised by Dr. Miller, of San Jose, Cal., to discard meat &om his diet. By so doing he was cured, and is now an advocate of Vegetarianism. — Mrs. D. H. Coster, Mountain View, Cal.

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Vegetarians usually consider the potato the least desirable of vegetarian articles of food, on account of its starchy nature, and yet it seems John Wesley subsisted many years npon potatoes and enjoyed excellent health.

The use of Pure Peanut Butter is rapidly extending. We send this Butter to Maine, Florida, California, Mexico, Canada, Wash- ington and intermediate states. It is as cheap as Creamery Butter and a great deal more wholesome and nourishing.

It is a subject of congratulation that that earnest health reformer Dr. Ellen Goodell Smith has been restored to a normal con- dition. She gives her own account of her restoration. We will never condemn the means by which health has been acquired.

A box of the " Invigorator" Food ad- vertised by Frank K. Brown and Dr. Ellen Goodell Smith has been sent us by them for trial. Dr. Smith endorses it very strongly and states it is invaluable to her and on her recommendation we advertise it. When

The court of Inquiry found that canned roast beef was a suitable ration only two days in ten, and never two days m succes- sion. And this only applied where cook- ing utensils and vegetables were available. The poor soldiers were compelled to eat the stuff or starve, fresh fruits were denied them in a tropical climate!

Rev. Mrs. H. S. G. Lake is conducting services, each Sunday, in Unity Church, Olympia, Wash., the first meeting having been held Feb. 26th. The topics presented cover a wide range of thought, ideal and practical, and many have expressed them- selves as much benefitted thereby. April 23rd the value of a Vegetarian diet was well set forth.

Mr. Rnfus H. Smery of Bucksport, Me., writing to the secretary of the Universal Peace Union, and sending a donation, remarked: "I do not believe in killing my brother man ; neither do I believe in kilting our animal hiends and then eating them. Please extend your congress to our animal friends and give them peace with the rest of God's creatures."

Mrs. Sarah Thacker has sent us a more particular account of her farming and fruit growing operations which will appear in our next. The country where her College and zoo acres are located appears to be very beautiful and productive either with or, for some crops, without irrigation.

When the Court of Inquiry rejected Gen. Miles's evidence of 180 officers, it was stated as a reason that the Court must be satisfied that enough evidence was already in to sustain the charges. Now the de- cision is that the General's charges in rela- tion to embalmed beef were not sustained by the evidence. How about the evidence that was ruled out? Let that also be pub- lished.

Miss M. E. McGraw is engaged in the humane work of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals in San Fran- June,

CISCO. She writes: "I have long felt that the foundation stone of cruelty to our poor dumb friends is the hideous meat-eating habit. I want to abolish every slaughter- house and every meat market in the land and if I could see that work done, then I would be ready to progress to some other planet. But I am sure I uever could be happy even in Heaven, with the memory that there is a planet where these things exist. ' '

Mrs. Pairchild Allen did not make the charge that flesh eating is cannibalism but that it is the fair inference from Rev. C. J. Adams' opinion that animals have souls as man has; that Dr. Adams' oppositiou to Vegetarianism is the more unaccountable.

The eighty-first Annual Assembly of the Bible Christian Church, Philadelphia, took place on Monday, May 22, 1899. It was presided over by Rev. Henry S. Clubb. The dinner as usual consisted of choice Vegetarian dishes. The officers and trus- tees were mostly re-elected and in addition Mr. Bdwin F, Metcalfe was elected a mem- ber of the Board of Deacons and Mr. Henry T. Cariss a member of the Board of Trus- tees. The reports were mostly of an en- couraging character.

A humane lady, a liberal contributor to the Vegetarian Cause, at present in Paris at 5 rue Boissonnade, Madame Louise Bur- leigh Curtis, inquires for information as to the best Vegetarian food for dogs and cats and whether experiments in regard to veg- etarian food have been made in Dog and Cat Homes in America. Perhaps some of OUT readers can furnish the information asked. We were acquainted with an in- telligent German in Michigan who kept dogs for. hunting and he fed them almost 18<W

exclusively on com meal mush. He found them much keener as to scent on this diet than on any other, and it is very cheap as well as nutritious. He said he could not control them when he fed them on flesh and they were less intelligent.

VEGETARIAN SOCIETY PURE PEA- NUT BUTTER. Mrs. E. L. Wilcox, West Somerville, Mass., to whom we sent a dozen cans of Pure Peanut Butter, writes: "The Peanut Butter arrived in good order, I am very much pleased with it as are all my friends who joined me in sendiug so that I have only one jar left for myself, so that it will not be long before I shall have to send again." This is the most economical way of obtaining Peanut Butter as by sending direct the profits of Jobber and Dealer are saved by the consumer.

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. SOCIETY. An interesting meeting of the P. V. S. took place May i8that loaj Foulkrod St. Messrs. Caldwell, Doolittle and Thomas James contributed valuable suggestions. Rev. H. S. Clabb presided, It was de- cided to hold the annual Picnic at Willow Grove, June 15th, 1899, when friends from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are expected to take part. Circulars, later on, can be obtained at our office, which will contain more particulars.

JAMAICA. The account we publish elsewhere in regard to Jamaica is interesting in view of the Low River Vegetarian Colony forming there, of which Mr, George Penlzke, Chris- tiana, Jamaica, is the chief promoter, and whose advertisement appeared in three preceeding numbers. It must be a charm-

iag place to live in, where "the fences are all formed hy hedging of beautiftU blossom vines. Where the Colea plant grows in great profusion, forming hedges four or five feet high, glowing in all its tropical beanty, making a vision of loveliness long to be remembered." The hotel is described as supplying all a traveller could desire, ex- cept intoxicating liqaors.

A DEBASING APPETITE. The Theosophical Review facetiously re- marks: "Each man must find out for him- self what is the best food to keep his own particular body fit for the work he intends to get out of it. The body should be made an obedient instrument for the work to be accomplished, and not the man a slave to some ideal form of nourishment which he . imagines a mythical Adam and Eve munched in Paradise." We may add, nor should he be a slave to any appetite which has debased mankind to a condition of per- petual bloody warfare with an innocent and unoffending portion of creation in order to gratify itself with the flesh and blood of its victims.

ARE WE ALL AT WORK? If, as Vegetarians believe, it is a blessed thing for man to live the true life without batchery, should we not endeavor to extend a knowledge of the principles we believe? The use of Our Postscript as an inclosure in letters is a very inexpensive method, and we ask our readers to aid in this work, making it a rule never to send a letter witbont inclosing one or more of these little leaflets. One subscriber writes: "Please send me fifty each of 'The Synop- sis,''The Vegetarian Principle,' and 'The Anatomy of Man.' All are Our Post- script leaflets and are fine. I use them to send to colleges and in my humane pack- 90

ets. Do not ever let these vitally us^ol tracts go out of print, I beg of you. Wish I could give a fortune for your work. — Mrs. M. C. Jordan, Andover, Mass." See ad- vertisement of Odr PlJSTSCRlPT.

A U.S. VEGETARIAN COLONY. The question is : "Shall we have a Vege- tarian Colony in the United States? In Manitoba, through the munificence and foresight of the Canadian Government, a colony of 5000 VegeUrians with a township, 36 square miles of land, is established and bids fair to be a very prosperous enterpris- ing community. The objection is that Manitoba is a very cold climate during six or seven months in the year, and the Som- mcr season is short. If the United States Government were properly appealed to, we have no doubt a grant of land for a Vegeta- rian Colony could be obtained in Southern Florida, away from frosts ; or in Southern California, or in New Mexico. If such a grant were obtained, the Vegetarians in all parts of the world could be invited to join it and a colony established that would be- come equal, if not superior, to the Manitoba Colony, We asked last month for the names of such as were willing to unite in applying for such a grant. We have re- ceived responses which show that the idea is approved. Those who have sent us their names favor Southern California, Southern Florida and Western North Car- olina or Eastern Tennessee. We invite wide awake friends to send us their names so that application can be made in time for the ne xt session of Congress. Let us have a thousand names at least. It is not neces- sary that the applicants intend themselves to live in the colony, but that, as citizens of the United States, they desire the grant to be made so that Vegetarians can be invited to it.

CoBtribnled by B. K. C.