THE MORNIXG OREGOXIAN, FRIDAY. XOVE3IBER .?, 1922
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PHENOMENA STAND TEST
England Rebels Against Strange
Manifestations and Finally
Arc Declared Swindlers.
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Oor American Adventnre, by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle.
(Convricht by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
li22. tor the United States and Great
Britain. Released by North American
Newspaper Alliance.)
ARTICLE VIII (Continued).
Any theory that the phenomena
were caused by rnichievous children
becomes untenable when measured
by the actual facts as given in de
tail in Dr. Nichols Biography of
the Davenports. The father was an
official on the Buffalo police -:orce,
a. solid, tenacious man, who refused
under great pressure to retract his
accounts of what he had seen and
experienced. Levitation was a com
mon phenomenon in the household
and hundreds of neighbors were
ready to testify to having seen the
boys in the air and even to the
fact that Ira was raised with such
force that his head broke the plas
ter of the ceiling. It was fotind
that no ropes could confine the two
lads and eventually this remark
able fact was made the subject of
a stage performance and was exhib
ited all around the world, reaching
England in 1864, where they caused
a great sensation and the truth of
the phenomena was tested and sup
ported by many men of eminence,
working in tlieir own drawing
rooms and under their own condi
tions. Inquirers See No Trickery.
Among these inquirers were Lord
Burr, Charles Keade, Admiral In
glefield. Chambers the publisher,
Carter Hall, William Howitt and
Dion Boucicault, who all agreed
that after the closest inspection
there was no evidence of trickery or
collusion. The instant solution of
all bindings was accompanied with
signs of outside intelligence, voices,
musical performances and concerted
movements. These phenomena were
shown in various public places in
England, but a disgraceful clamor
arose, founded upon ignorance and
prejudice, and the young men were
chased from the stage. It was found
that in practice there was at that
time greater religious freedom in
the wild western towns of America
than in such old centers as Liver
pool. Finally, on the excuse that cer
tain conjurors could with appliances
and under their own conditions pro
duce a clumsy imitation of these
psychic effects, the matter was
shelved, the public mind was doped,
and every one returned to the old
material dreams from which this
BUdden intrusion of outside force
had temporarily aroused them. In
vain an excellent clergyman, Dr.
Ferguson, described how he had
traveled for six months with the
mediums and seen an uninterrupted
series of miracles. In vain men of
position testified that what they
did was utterly different to any
thing which 21ackelyne or any other
conjuror could show.
. World Sunk in Sloth.
The world was sunk in too deep a
eiuin 10 rise to the new possibilities
and the matter was disposed of bv
talking henceforth of the Davenport
Bwinaiers. ana the Davenport rope
"trick." The time is coming, how
ever, when a tardy justice will be
done to their memory, as to the poor
Fox girls, Home, Slade and all the
other persecuted exponents of the
numDie Dut necessary physical signs.
Ira Davenport died recentlv in his
American home, while his brother
William's grave is at Sidnev. where
the Spiritualists have renovated his
Tom o. '
The chair was taken for mo at
Buffalo by a local lawyer, E. C. .Ran
dall, whose book. "The 'Dead Have
Never Died," is familiar to most
Spiritualists. Mr. Randall found most
of the information in this remark
able book upon his experiences with
Mrs. Emily French, a wonderful
voice medium, who passed, away re
cently at the age of 81. In her old
age, when she was so frail that she
and her normal voice was a mere
whisper, the accents of her control,
Redjacket, would resound through
tho house. Mr. Funk, a most careful
observer, and at that time a non
Spiritualist, has recorded in his
Psychic Riddle how he tested and
confirmed these observations. Speak
ing of the laughter of one spirit
Mr. Funk eays: "It is as easy to
think of a rabbit barking like a
bulldog or bellowing like a bull as
to think of one physically made up
as Mrs. F. producing such a
laugh." Who then produced it?
How long can the world continue to
ignore such evidence as that?
ARTICLE IX.
We were greatly interested at
Niagara by the new electric power
development upon the Canadian side.
It represent far the greatest thing
in this line that has ever been done
and is an example of practical social
ism, as it is financed -by a number of
municipalities w'th public money.
As it is costing a good deal more than
the estimate, the ratepayers are
looking blue, but I expect they will
resume their normal color when the
results begin to show, for' they ex
pect to get 600,000 horse power and
to run huge factories of all sorts.
It should be a national asset. The
idea was to tap the river above the
falls, and to make a canal 13 miles
long, and then to throw this canal
down a tube 300 feet deep, until the
20-foot rush of water hits the tur
bine at the bottom and so converts
itself into electric force. They have
had smaller plants running both on
the American and "on the Canadian
side, so there is no question as to
the feasibility.
Niagara Amazing Wonder.
Our whole party put on water
proofs and we made our way down
the dark and slippery duck-boarded
passage which suddenly emerges
under the falls, wnich roar and
spout in front and on either side of
you. 'Niagara, its colossal strength
and impression of might never have
been described and never will be
described. One feels stunned amid
that elemental chaos. Down at the
base as much water seems to be
ascending from the shock as de
scending from above, and wild, mad
turmoil is the result, which Is in
tensified by the terrible din.
To look upward from the plat
form and see the sun shine dimly
through the great arch of water
above you, as' through alabaster, is
one of the most wonderful impres
sions in the world Certainly the
children will never forget it. We
take a great responsibility in break
ing their education, but surely there
are bigger things and more vital
than Euclid or algebra. Few adults
have traveled so much as they, and
yet we flatter ourselves that they
have retained all their freshness.
Mother love is the best of all head
masters. It is curious that Niagara, which is
probably the chief tourist resort in
the world, is singularly weak in
hotels. If it were in Switzerland
there would be a dozen. As it is,
there are only one or two on either
bank which can be called decent.
The result is that visitors are birds
of passage, with r.o temptation to
stay, as they might well do, in that
wonderful atmosphere.
(To Be Continued.)
Heir Long Sought Found.
SHERIDAN, Or., Nov. 2. (Spe
cial.) After two years of effort to
locate the brother of Blanche Sar
gent of Los Angeles, who had left
Your First Choice!
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$25 $30 $35 up to $55
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First in Styles !
The printed word cannot begin to
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ever price you pay in my store
you receive corresponding value
and it doesn't take a "so-called
sale" to emphasize it!
BENSELLIN G at fcuIth
Portland's Leading Clothier for Over Half a Century
an estate of over $140,000, he was
found this week in the person of
B. Thomason of this city, owner of
a fruit ranch near here. Mr. Thoma
son did not know of his sister's
death until one of the numerous
letters mailed from her lawyers at
Los Angeles happened to reach him.
His share of the estate amounts to
about $3000.
EIli9 Parker Butler Honored.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. Ellis Parker
Butler today was elected president
of the Authors' League of America.
Continuous 1 to 11 p. m.
TODAY
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ESTABLISHED 1864
THIS sale includes all hats in stock from the most
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Dress hats with graceful lace draperies; furred toques
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at such really tremendous price conces
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every hat in stock ,
goes to sale at one
of these reductions:
for hats formerly
priced to 1650
14.7 5
for hats formerly
priced to 22.50
18.75
for hats formerly
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20 to 40
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