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...f,.v t 4. Found oday. . '. ,: . ;
yOW atrancaljr ra w moved at
M I -tha alght of aom unexpected
, I I - object of whoae existence we
1, . never dreamed. : " ." , 1
. Such Vn emotion forced tself upon.
mi ll 1 touched with tender thoughts or
the dim past two dearly olden new-
papera, faded and frayed, which found
their way to The Journal offloe. One
, la owned by O. A. Rockwell, whoae
" brother, E. A. Rockwell, was editor Of
the Sandwich Island News durlna; the
years of '47 and '48. and this copy of
y the oldest of tha island papera awak
' . aned dreama of a far-off - time aa I
handled ; it with Infinite care. The
i editor, a pioneer of California, died 10
yeara a go, after filling creditably for a
v time the editorial chair of the Sacra
tnhtd-3TiryeTI6WToTir1&aIlMrff
. not In toipii at that period, at least
the Sandwich Island News la abreast
- - of tha timet now. for It is yellow aa
the leaves of October. This ancient
.,- paper did not lack other features cur
rent in newapaperdom : of today; ita
"want ad'' ea' jmn was up to data, and
" i prominent therein was "To let, the room
over the ator of th undersigned,, J. C
; Witi H. Seward' - f -:r
Still Aliy.f: r "vTr7t7.
' By John Kendrick Bangs. .
"I
SiSE. Ba!d-thc!diotrah
folded up the morning paper
and sat on it o that his fellow
poaaession. "that the municipal marah
mallow and peanut-brittle plant at Ho-
' ' hokua baa been sold- to th candy trust,
j-nd -.tha.dremo.comparatively free
and absolutely pur marshmallows and
. paanut-brlttl under control of th city
fathers has turned -'out to be a mere
bit of bankrupted Iridescence."
"It's all Iridescence the whole mu
nlclpsi ownership scheme," said Mr.
.1 Brief, th lawyer. "It's a bubbl with-
---out even th soap." : ; r-
"Oh, I don't think that," aald th
i IdloC ."fteesas to tarn It' a pretty good
, achema. only they ought to make it
comprehensive. What I want to aee Is
' th day when - th . municipality own
. everything that now fill th Individual
: with ear, front th toothaoh and ap-
"pendtoltls up to the trolleys, theatres
and thaoaophy. Did you aver think. Dr.
" Soullls. of what a fin thing it would
i- be to operate on the body pojitio f or a
t. eaa of municipal appendicular'
" -1 hav mover let my mind dwell upon
''' a fertile a field for thought no," said
' the doctor. "It would b rather diffi
cult, wouldn't ItT"
"I suppose It would." returned th
i' Idiot "I suppose it would be next to
'" Impossible to etherise the whole- city
government before you began to grapple
around la Ita inside after th offend
' Ing vermiform, but if it could be don,
wouldn't it b fine! Just think of get
' ting rid of all the useless and inflamed
-' members of the body politic a easily a
man now shed bis personally conducted
" troubl with hi innards."
.Thinkt It ! Easy.
"Do you really believe that govern
ment oould run th trolley aa -well aa
, they ar run by Individuals? asked
- Mr, Brief. '
"If they couldn't they'd better go Out
Of buslneas," aald the Idiot. "I don't
' seo why they, can't run street railway
a well a they run (he atreet manlour-
' Ing department ' And think how nice It
- would be. How much envv. hatred and
malic would dlaappcar If th people
owned th trolley. For Instance, when
- you and I see Mr. J. Willleboy Ducklng
. ton Jh Iking up the pike in his utomo-
"HI whalf demanded the Lawyer.
"HI automotrouble," said the Idiot
"rf a machine ma oy gasoline that
breed troubl of It own power.
When w aee old Willleboy acootlng
along in hlb car, you and I turn pale
pink with envy because we haven't any
thing of th kind to keep . us ,wske
nights and before the police court of
all th rountlea twlxt Cattaragus and
Kennebunk. . , We're too poor to 'pay
even for that long and tolerably consis
tent scent 'that lie In th IralTof lrrconegetrdatw"Tn" thTear-ptatform
ind w gnaah our teeth to think that
we never can get our plcturea .in the
Sunday paper because we shall never
own one of those 'machine. But If v,
an rltlsen of this metropolis, owned the
Irnlleya, it would b different. When
h 4rn vfnu and Oompors aquare
rar oe by we would look at It hrll
luinily AIL rloctrla , Interior, and: smile
with as tie fact lorn "That 1 my new
Wilmington.' we'd aay to our country
coualu who war 'visiting us. Then
THE
Revive
Pv.r fern; r-J
ims tr
Spauldlnc" And while we find no ad
of "Fire Sales," still w see "New roods
cheap .for cash.
An 'item of foreign newa relates to
tha Invention by- a New Jersey man of
a gun' to us In the Mexican war.
Comlnr and roinr. and the aame old
but yet newgtry of human endeavor
areV' portrayed. And wonderful to telL
oneS of the leading editorials la on the
effect seeing man's name la . print
has on the mind and imagination.
Introducing tht Editor. .' '
The leading editorial la an introduer
tlon and appeal to the readers.
In thla iasue the first editorial la de
voted to ourselves." aald..Mr. Rockwell.
"A stranger in a strange land, we ex
pect the forbearance of our reader,
and pray that they will not come to a
decision respecting our merits, until
"they have faithfully pi
i- which we shall write, and have atudled,
rrdrgemytfiarwhlcM rw nWiainoyHbTnte sn lram-wo ririnEWtrmrrni
for you; Many may Inquire who we
ar and where we com from and we
would rpectfully-ay- to thoa who
ar prone to such inqulaltlvenass, and
who will probably feel inclined to re
ject our pretenalona because we wear a
Strang face, that many in entertaining
Afra.nra hiv tharabv : entertained
angels, and who know but this corn-
we'd nod politely to the chauffeur and
he'd- atop end take- ua aboard, and by
and by th conductor would 'com
through and hand u all a nickel"
I 'What lu thunder an yuu talking
aboutT What on earth would the con
ductor hand you a nickel . forT demand
ed, th Lawyer-. r1
"for riding In the carrof--cour.'1
aid th Idiot "That th scheme,
Isn't ltr
"Oh Is ltr laughed th Lawyer.
"Well, I ruees that's th way om peo
ple look at It What I your precis
idaa of municipal ownership, anyhow r
Propaganda of the M. O.
- "Why,"- aald th Idiot, "as I under
stand th propaganda of th M. O. peo
ple a expounded on the editorial pages
of th sporting xtra of th New York
Evening Broiler and th Chicago Daily
Friar, municipal ownership means the
grabbing or everything in alght that
ha a cash register and a meter at
t ached to It sending th original own
era to jail for 11 f and managing what'a
left for th benefit of the people. In
th caa of th trolley, all the en or-
mou profit derived from the nefarious
practice now in operation of carrying a
paaaenger ninety mllea. for a nickel are
to be turned back to the hol-pollol In
the shape of annual dividends with blue
trading - stamps with every dollar's
worth, which, On presentation at th of
fice of any gas company In tha United
States, will entitle the bearer to free
ga for th ret-of hi natural life. ,
"Th expected improvement in th
public service' will lie along the bet
terment of cars, an Increased urbanity
on the part of th motormen and con
ductors, and a far r renter regard for
beauty tn all rapid transit matters. As
I understand the situation aa to th
first Improvements, the cars ar to be
larger to begin with, better ventilated
and -without - trp.. No car "trtlLzpo
so spiall that anybody Will aver have
to stand in or out of ruah houra. Each
paasenger will be provided with a Mor
ris chair, on a swivel, with a writing
desk and an electiio light attached,
stationery and typewriter to -be had
on application to th conductor.
Carnegie There, Too
At' una en
d Of each car mer Will b
a Carnegie library and a reading room
with all th magsslne and weeklies on
Ale, and at the other a buffet wher
oft drinks will be . dispensed by th
best mixer th politician can drum up.
In th . advcrtlalng panel that run
around tha wall of th car, lnateed of
frle'se of patent medicine, face pow
ders, breakfast, foods and corsets, ele
vating literature . will be printed by
such authora a Dicky ' Davis, Ella
Spieler Pilbox and' Hen James, with a
to explain the paragraphs of th laat
named author to those who do not tin-
deratand - reformed rhetoric. Ladle
will be escorted to their seat by bell
boys, and every ear will have a chap
eron aided, by a competent bouncer to
aee- that -al tractive- looking - ahoppera,
dainty little -widow and other of th
femal persuasion ar abl to travel ,a
block without being ogled off th car
by vagrom drummer and lad from
th amok, region lataly. com Into
. - - "
OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL) PORTLAND. SUNDAY
Memories
-v- f r-
If J
wr. ,, .
munlty may have the good fortune to
do' the same. At all events wait and
ee." : ,. v .
A pathetic appeal of a by rone day
when the old, old paper was "new." All
ilts amilea are now Ilk tears, and even
inn wii eeems grotesque ana weira in
these later daya.
The main aally of the comic editor.
who wrote for those who liked "funny
things," is about a Kentuckian who aald
that It got so hot down south hia but
tons fell off by the spoonful. . We look
upon a giant or some great influence
In decay and see traced upon every out
line the power of the once living thing
and let tha imagination trace the devi
ous facts of their existence through a
noted career, and our sympathy may
encompass the character In an all em
bracing admiration; but when the ten
der frayed aheets of an old newspaper,
brown, blotted from the attacka of
time, are apread out before us. limp and
fragile, we wonder If therein one
xlsted that wonderful power of the
preaa which Is so all .powerful today.
Story of Lincoln' Death.
'While rummaging through the books
d papera in a local second-hand -book
nop. Mr. cam acroaa a copy of
patch for April 1, 1S65
He aaked for and obtained the paper,
which h values very highly-aa It was
the first extra published in the north
west which contained a full account of
the assassination of President Lincoln.
Mr. la himself a civil war vet
eran, having; enlisted - a drummer
I boy at th ar of It, and anything that
possession of their father's hard earned
. sayings, t . ,
"All th motormen will be put
through a course of instruction in good
na n ner, aot hat wh en a la dy ona
strict corner hold up her finger a a
algn that she would like to get-aboard.
Instead of cutting her dead aa many of
them do at present and going ahead as
' thouglr-The companydtdd'l ' WanlTany
paaaengera, they will stop the ear, lift
their hats Ilk a pack of Chesterfield,
gather up her bundles, call her atten
tion to the weather, express th hop
that her family are all enjoying good
health, and see to.lt that ah get in
slds. the ear without failing on .her face
or sitting unexpectedly down Irt the
lap of an entire stranger. - -
' , - -
Training of Conductor.
"Th conductor - will b - similarly
trained, only they will be rather bet
ter educated than th man on th front
platform. I can. think of no better way
to show what the conductors will be
than to say that they will resemble the
modern policeman,, that fine flower of
the municipal ownerahlp of th con
atabulary. You know what happen If
yon ask a policeman anything. He at
one touches his helmet in respectful
salutation, flicks th dust from th
breaat of hi blue coat and place him
self entirely at your service. Any
thing you want to know he tell you
with a pleaaant smile, or with an ex
pression of deep and poignant regret
informs you that he la not at tha mo
ment In posaeaslon of th information
you seek, but will find out at the
earliest possible opportunity and send
word by special delivery post If you
will kindly give htm your address. All
of you who hav had that experience
with a policeman, will. know, what to ex
pect from-' the municipal ownerahlp
conductor... The city father aa repre
sented by their commissioner of trol
leys .will :tak the. aam .car. In. th
selection of th men that they now take
through th police commissioner in th
selection of th preservers of th peace,
so that we may rest easy a to th su
perior, moral of th fore. ,
Beauties of the Roadbed.
"Then a foi' th roadbadt which is
nowadays somethlnr of an eyesore In
.lonar will nei tfi co.nnara.tlnn o th.
aloner will seek' the'co-operatlon of the
commissioner of parka. Beautiful
hedges of Japanese Japonic will con
ceal th track from public gas. At
each etret corner will be flowerbed.
In which th number of th street Is
set forth in growing plants; trailing
arbutus and Virginia creeper or. wis
taria vines will cover th trolley pole,
and in time when these have had a
chance to grow the whole trolley line
will look Ilk a beautiful floral and
green arbor, and people llvln elon the
line Instead" of looking out upon "an
ugly highway of steal and Iron and
wire, will gate opon what appear to be
a stretch of Eden running through
their midst. (Now, what, could be bet
ter" . -
"It seem perfectly lovely," 'said Mrs.
Pedagog, the--Idiot' landlady,- enthust--asticnlly.
" ' . ;
"Who's going to pay for. all thisiv
asked Mr. Brief. "You people don't
seem to tsk th cost of thes things
mis censiaerauon.
of
Fast
relate to Lincoln la specially precious
to him.. .
Other - president hav been
nateoV but never has th whole nation
been plunged into auoh hopeless gloom
as on the day when th news flaahed
over th country f th-killing -of Lin
coln by an Insane aasaaaln, ' . - -
Th paper contain dispatches from
New York. Washington. Halifax and
Chicago, telling .of the suspension of all
business, flags at half-mast and traffto
stopped.
Th following description of th death
of Lincoln, which appear tn the Flag's
Evening Dispatch, is from th Evening
Star of Washington. ,It aysj .
When Lincoln Died. ;
"Th president breathed his last at
T:S0 this morning (April IS), closing
his eyes as If going to sleep, and hi
countenance assuming an expression of
perfect repose. There were no Indica
tions of pain. Rev. Dr. Ourley of th
N. W. Avenue Presbyterian church, im
mediately on its being known that life
was extinct, knelt beside his bed and
offered an impreaslv prayer, which wai
responded to by all present. Dr. Ourley
then proceeded to the front parlor.
where Mr. Lincoln, Captain Robert Lin
coln. Mr. Hay, his private secretary,
and others were waiting, where he again
offered a prayer for consolation for the
family. '
"The president's remain wer . re
moved from th private residence, oppo-sUaord'a-aheatMtohfoxecutlva
mansion, at 9:10 o'clock. In a hears
wrapped In the American 'flag, oseerted
by a small band of cavalry. Oenral
Aurur an,d other military officers, on
foot, and a dens crowd, accompanied
the remain to th Whit House, where
the military guard excluded all but the
nersons of the household and the per
sonal friends of the deceased. Th body
wa to be embalmed with a view to Ita
removal to Illinois." ... .
'"Who pay for th parka, th police,
th fir department r aaked th Idiot
T1twlll"all com oufof th pocket of
th city, of course. All th city baa to
do Is to establish a municipal printing
establishment anf publlea'K'fewbdnd
whenever the sinking .fund get below
the water Una. .
The Mitter of Bond.
"Say they need tlOO.000.000 to start
with. 'That mean only a 100,609 bond
of a par vani of ll.OOO. or they might
get 'em out in smaller denomlnationa of
tlOO each, so that th people could buy
them and thu put a lot of ua In pos
session of . a certificate of - ownership.
They'd look mighty pretty framed and
hung on th wall. Th beat way to do,
however, would be to send them over
to England and sell 'em there, for It la
an established faot that there 1 always
somebody In England aomewhere that
will buy anything." '
-"That remalna to b proved." aald
Mr. Brief.
"Well, all I hav to aay 1 that if
you'll pay my axpense to London and
back," guarante- m - immunity from
prosecution, and provide m with the
certificate, I'll ' hav Beaton Common
Incorporated at 11,000,000 tomorrow and
ell th wholo .lasu at 41 before the
first day of next April," said th Idiot
"I'll mak th lat O. Whlttaker Wright
look Ilk 10 cent." -
"That may be, but they'd prosecute
you just the same. They landed Wright
and they landed Hooley for very much
th same sort of thing;. And after
awhile they'd do - the aam with
th city If it put it privately printed
bond for municipal ownership of th
trolley on the market" persisted Mr.
Brief. "Can't you see thatr".
"Yea," said th Idiot. "But that
the biggest point for the municipality
in the whole business. You can't send
a whol city to Jail, you know."
" FATE OF OLD BOOTS
What become of old boot and shoes
ha hitherto been almost aa puixllng
a problem as wher all th p"ina go to.
Th olutlon, however, Is given In th
Boot and Shoe Trades Journal.
"Old boot and shoes of leather." the
Journal. lays, "are tut up mt email
pieces, and then ar put for two day
Into chlorld of sulphur, th effect of
which Is to mak th leather very hard
and1 brittle. .
"When this Is fully effected, tha ma
terial l withdrawn from th action of
th' chlorld of ulphur. washed with
water, dried, and ground to powder: It
la then mixed with aom substanc that
will cause It to adhere together, such
aa ahellao or other reelnou material,
or ven good glu. and a thick solution
of strong gum. i
"It I afterwards pressed Into molds
to form ' combs, buttons, and a variety
of other uaeful object.
"Prusaiat of potaah I also mad out
of old leather. It la heated with peart
ash and old Iron hoop in a large pot.
Th nitrogen and carbon form cyanogen,
and then unit with th iron and potas
sium. The soluble portion ar dls
olved out, end th resulting salt, added
to on of Iron, produce the well-known
Prussian blue, either for dyeing pur
pose or aa pigment" ,
MORNING. NOVEMBER
Qliieer Ghost Stories SSi
THE FAMOUS MATERIALIZATION NOW BE WO iSHOWJf'
m PUBLIC BYeX Jf. .raLV.TTOEiKSUS
By Charles Ogdena. " .
(Copyright In the United Btatre sad Greet
Brltala hr Cutis Brews. All Bl(bts Itrletly
Beeerrvd.) "' "
TWENTY yards of muslin. bundled
- loosely together In Chichester
. at midnight, a re declared to
hav arrived in London flv
minute later. The dlatano between
the two cities on a direct Una 1 a trifle
over 70 miles. The explanation Psychic
Parcels Post Imagine, too, a giant
Egyptian, S.000 or more years old,
munching an apple in th full glar of
gas lights In a London drawing-room In
th twentieth century. '
Thee and other equally aatnnlshlng
thing ar told a actual happenings
by a high dignitary of th Church of
England. A rather extraordinary con
troversy has been going--on- In Oreat
Britain between a venerable archdeacon
and a world-famoua "professor" of th
art of conjuring on the, subject of spir
itualistic manlfestationa.
Th church dignitary 1 Archdeacon
Thoma Colley, and aa thla is by n
means th first tlm that hia nam has
Ogursd largely ' in connection with oc
cult matter American reader may reel
an nrilrflfM wii tn th i-taTarativa 1 If w
of this somwhat extraordinary cliurclf 4
man. Wall, th archdeacon many and
aurprfaing aetlvttl mako htm worth
telling about even wer It not for th
fact that, bealde being on of tha most
ardent student in England of super
natural dolnga, h assert that he ha
had perhaps th most' extraordinary
psychic experiences of which there Is a
record.
After a distinguished early cal
this country th archdeacon waa In
vited by Blahop Coleneo to go to South
Africa, and was - mad archdeacon of
Natal,- " position- wnteh h held for
many yeara. He 1 now rector of Stock
ton, near Rugby, and perhap th moat
generally beloved man In that, lection
of England.
Long Study of Supernatural. '
Archdeaeon-CoHy - baa been experi
menting with aupernatural phenomena
for over 10 yeara. Of all th extraordi
nary experience which h aaya he ha
had In that tlm, however,, perhapa none
la more amailng than that with what h
himself describe lightly as th "psychic-
parcel post." Her 1 th atory
of th "happening" which, for greater
accuracy, I glv In th archdeacon'
own word. ' ,
. "At Souths, aom years ago, I with
no little discomfort wore all day under
my clothe and next th akin several
yard of whit muslin. In the evening,
till wearing It, I cycled to Chichester,
for a surprise visit to a young lady me
dium of my own developing. Making
there ii upwrappd-up email bundle of
the attire and loosely pinning my card
to It with no other address. Land a
friend and the young; lady'a sister aw
the muslin fade away, disappear and
melt Ilk vapor from th lap of th lit
tle medium. It wa then nearly mid
night, and I had willed th muslin to I
go to London to a rriena. Next aay
cam a telegram from my friend, quick.
ly followed by a letter, to th effeot that
at thJ flrt - hotel h had ehanedon
having been to the opera and missed th
laat train that would hav taken him to
hi home out of London the muslin
and card ao insecurely pinned to it had
fallen upon hi face Just a he got Into
bed. and seeing my nam and address on
th card) h wired to m first thing in
th morning. He afterward found that
It had taken less than five minutes by
aerial flight of about 70 miles from Chi
Chester to secure midnight delivery of
th rood In London somewhere at ' a
chance hotel by peychlc parcel post
How the Mahedi Came. . '
This astounding story, told and
vouched for by a respected pillar of th
church is. howaver, llttl less surpris
ing than many of th accounts of ex
traordinary "materialisations ' witnessed
by htm In London and elsewhere given
to m by Archdeacon Colley. Accordlnr
to him. th oen of these renorally has
been hi drawing-room in th evening,
with ga light flaring from many chan
delier, while the coming of th psychic
bodies ha beeir a-follow
'A column of support, standing at
Mm tight sld, I with my left arm at
th back usually upheld our entranced
medium, haying thu th beat opportu
nity that could be desired for closely
observing what took plac. Than was
seen steaming, a from a kettle spout,
through tha tenture and aubntance of
tha medium blua eoat a little below
th left breast, toward th aid, a va
porous filament, which would be almost
lavlalbl until within aa inch or two
18. 1808.
rgV IITi -Tc
,
0
inches of our friend' body. Then it
grw In density to a cloudy something,
which would com forth timidly or oc
casionally boldly and naturally, to com
panion with u mortals. Exhaling again
to Invisibility in a cloud (sucked back
into his body) war they again with;
drawn from ua." - ',
Describeg the Visitor.
Thus,, accordlnr to th archdeacon
cam th moat remarkable of all hi
"psychic visitors," whom ho named "th
MahedL
Prom my own knowtdgw of- andeoffl--'a hastily opened and tho-ehlld-
travel in Egypt" aayaJLh,archdacotvl
"J. straightway guessed that In this ma
terialised form w hsd to do with an
ancient denlsen of tha valley of th
Nil who In stature reminded me of a
mummy of gigantic proportion I one
raw in om museum at Milan or Rome,
He wasi however, by no mean a mum
my now, though a to his dead body it
may be that hi earthly remain r
lowly crumbling into dust in om
mummy caa.
"Our abnormal visitor' bronie-hued
akiq which I was suffered to closely scru-
Unix with roy-Btnhop lena, -and-ob:
and toa nails, th small handa, wrist
fvetandankln, th-owrthy. hali-y
arm and nether limb to th knee; th
feature mobile with llf. yet at time
a 1th a sphinx-like caat of expression,
th haughty, prominent black, piercing,
but not unkindly eyes; hair lank and Jet;
with mustache and beard., long and
drooping limb wiry and muscular, and
tha-helght,' some six feet eight lnene.
. "The ' Mahedt waa Interested ' in
verythlnr around him. He walked up
and down the drawing-room examinlnr
different iticle-wttb great wonder.
Presently he apled . on a side-table a
dish of baked apples. I grot him to eat
them-- Th medium wa a dosen feet
away at th other end of th room. He
had refused an apple, averting h could
tat thosa th Egyptian at th other
end of th room In the full glar of-th
gaslight wa gobbling. - A th Egyp
tian finished the apple I held a plec
of paper toward tha medium and the
kin and cor of th apple -eaten by
'th Mahedi' fell from th medium'
Up into that paper."
. Of another and equally surprising
"materialisation" th archdeacon told
a follow: (
Alice a Dancing Sprite.
"One also Joined ue whom I and my
wife had In the flesh long known
'Alic.' Her womanly shape grew from
tne lert aid of th entranced medium.
Her voice in whisper wa recognised
a eh greeted me with th word, 'tn
glad. to aee you,' and well-remembered
Indication of Identity proclaimed her
to b our dear Alice of former year
before I went to India, and before her
friend, my wife, lived in Italy.V
"There had always been a feminine
playfulnosa of self-will about the mai
den, and thla was now seen in her laugh
ing opposition to th will of -SamueT
In control. Hhe walked about'th room.
In many way with glr..h contumaclty
and - engaging . superciliousness : acting
th prt of a willful young lady. Just
to show that she was not to be ordered
about and had a -will-of -her own, At
my laughing suggestion, that for- 'Sam
uel's' momentary petulance the spirit
maiden should box his ear, ahe merrily
responded and Baying. 0, ye, I 'will do
that,' stepped gaily up to the medium,
lifted her head, and, mlrabill dictu,
boxed hia aar." v f
Archdeacon Colley" ' on, Clarence,
though an' officer In the army In a
battery of th Royal 'ield artillery,
stationed In India, 1 also a spiritualist
He wa "married" about - 'fTariroat4
Mis De Bar res, youngest daughter of
the late Major De Barre of Msryvllle,
Fermoy, Ireland. Tha archdeacon aay
th young couple met through th intro
duction of a spirit medium. . Talking of
hi son th archdeacon Bald: "Through
th lnterVontlon of hi dead mother a
spirit la set to guard him when In
danger. This spirit hia guardian angel,
materialises In tha form of a whit
dov. Thla dov wok him on night,
and h discovered ,hl wife wa very
ill- And nfadBd th doctor, quickly,-He
rushed to th doctor' house but found
th rardeh gat locked and th six foot
wall Impossible to climb. Suddenly, he
was levitated over th wall, rouaed th
doctor) and saved his wife. On many
occasion my son has been mysteriously
levltsted out of d.inger, and the white
dov has always hovered near. One
h waa - ttranAely pushed . away from
a spot on which a wall fell, again when
a tre fell, and again from th path of1
twe runaway horses." .. I
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Church
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.ARCHDEACON COlXFfvS' ;
'SUMMER tf OUiSE WITH THF . ;
FAMOUS '.SFEA K PI FELl
Amonr other thing Archdeacon Cot- '
ley la a- shining light In th society
for th prevention of premature, burial,
which h narrowly escaped himself.
When a child h auddanly became ill.
Th doctor pronounced him dead. He
waa prepared for th grav and th cof
fin lid screwed down. .At th cmf"
tery. beside th yawning grav. th
bearera heard a auaplclou sound. Th
sat ud. rosnlna.for breath. The arch
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deaconhaa. . bcaue perhap of "'tKaTT
terrible experience, bad hia coffin mado ,
an carries It about with him on hia
many travel.. It la built on scientific--principles,
such aa will prevent a pre- ,
mature burial. Ha baa bequeathed hia
body to Birmingham university for cl
entlflo purpose. - .
Th archdeacon has .been rector of
Stockton for flv yeara Hia parishion
er approve of hi very advanced ideaa
and glory In hi Independence and fear
lessness. He ha mad of Stockton a
model vlllng. HI church iav alwaya
ihe . remarltahl.
nt sermons, and
y odlfio rathee-
fascinating and eloquent
f 8holr-bf't-V?i
than th church of an obaour Tillage.
Th archdeacon' aalary 1 net a tenth
part of . what h spends on th choir,
th church and th village. Many of
hi own hymn and anthems ar sang - '
by hi choir, for h la also musician
and composer. . . ; ,
-Most remarkable - of alt- hi -village
Works I that amonr th younr people
and children. It take th form, of a-aeml-Maaonlo
. guild of good behavior,
baaed . aa-tha-my a tlo twain triangles-
of King Solomon,, their six point ug
resting th six-worded Anglo-Saxon
saying, "Do aa you'd be don by."
Swinge and aee-aawa, quoit, bowl,
kittle, archery, amateur photography,
and th splendor of polarised light at
tract th youth of hi pariah to th rec
tory garden. And now a summer
house with- camera obacura, ten, and
flnlal - on roof haa lately been built
overtopplnr th. rectory wall, f rom
which atretche down - every Monday
afternoon a peakpip. It feet long, and
up thla the boy and girls say from th '
vlUag green th texts of holy crlptur
taught in Sunday school. ',
A Pertinent Queitloru
-Archdeacon Colley "Baifatadr th
queetlori of spiritualism ' at -several
church conferences, but has always
been howled down. At last year' great
conference, however, he achieved a vic
tory, for he then delivered . hi now
famoua addres on spiritualism and ac- '
tual manifestations,'- hi opening ' sen
tence being, "Do you think I have com
her to damn my soul by telling lie -,
for your amusement 7" - A thunder of - -negative
wa th answer, "and after
the address he was honored with a pe
dal vot of thank.
" even month ago J. N. Maskslyn.
the famou conjuror of Egyptian hall
attacked soma assertion mad by Aroh
deacon Colley aa to psychic workings
and on particular manifestation. He
boaxted that he. as a professional Illu
sionist could produce the aam effeot
on the stare of his entertainment hall, z'Z
whereupon Archdeacon Colley offered to '
rive Mr. Msnkelyne $6,000 if Tie would
do what he had aald he could- do. The
challenge wa promptly accepted. The
archdeacon deposit! th money In th. ' .
Leamlnrton bank. For seven month!
Mr. Maskelyne worked to perfect hi
llluslin. lie Has Juat produced it. Ha
hi publicly lnld claim to th IS 000.
But Archdeacon" Colley anaert that th
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of a commute of lnvektiratlon, . hav
nor. psen carried out. and that tha lllu. .
Ion 1 by no means th proper and suc
cessful on. For days th fighting,
ha gonb on, ratherlng in vehemence.
Spiritualist are in sympathy-with th-1"
archdeacon. Th pubtlo generally, and -trang
to say, th ehurch In th. person
of a majority of th mlnlater of the
gospel, approv of Maskelyne (Id of -th
question.
Pamphlets hav been printed and cir
culated.. on-both-eldest - Th result haa
been an action at law for libel against
Maakelyna and a threatened lawsuit
aralnrt Archdeacon Colley to reooverx
th 15,000 alleged to hav been fairly r
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Th Brainy Olrl There Isn't a thing
you. can do -that I can't do and do bU .
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Th Pretty dirt Except rttlnf a
at la a orowded car.
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