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he has never before seen, have been sent
to him, and TIE Photographic results
have been startling.
MANY TEST PHOTOGRAPHS
The man who has been most vigorous
in investigating this branch of psychic
photography says this about his work:
A test photograph must be produced
under conditions that preclude any posi-
bility of fraud. 1t must, to begin with,
be taken in room to which the medium
has not previously had access or the
camera used ought either to be one which
he has had no opportunity of manipulat-
Ing secretly or one which should be tax
en- to pieces and thoroughly examined
before it is used.
The plates should be newly purchased
and the packet opened for the first time
Immediately before exposing by the ex-
perimenter, who must himself mark them
and place them in the slide, not permit
ting the medium to touch them. The
plates should then be placed in the camera
and exposed by the experimenter-the
medium never touching them, or the
camera-then they should be taken out
and developed in the dark room; the
medium might be present, but he must
not touch the plates from first to last.
Then. il when the negative Ia freed,
we'll defined psychic form appears on the
marked plate, it may be regarded as
test-psychio photography produced IN
der conditions which absolutely preclude
| fraud or collision,
Snow, in my experiments with Mr.. z.
I have obtained psychic figures on
| marked plates under conditions which
only failed in one or two particulars of
these drastic conditions. I,.have got forms
on plates which brought marked, which
l had placed myself in the slide, which I
exposed and which l developed, or
watched Mr.. 2. develop, but the photo
graph was taken in his own studio, or
on the one occasion when it was taken
elsewhere, Mr.. q. used his own plates.
''Hence, I do not profess to have suc-
| ceeded to my complete satisfaction, al
though I have had sufficient success to
dissipate nine-tenths of the explanations
put forward by those who are quite sure
they know all about it,"
For these reasons it has not yet been
absolutely proven beyond the shadow of
all doubt that the photos are genuine,
but SO many facts have been discovered
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worthy of the closest investigation that
the most scientific minds of the day can
give. He is not a spiritualist, and it is
needless to say is not aotuated by vul-
gar or maudlin lovo of the mysterious.
He treats the matter as one susceptible OF
great scientific study, and just now he is
deeply interested in phase of psychic
phenomena which, if it is proven to be
absolutely free of fraud and imposition,
will develop into greater wonder than
the much talked of x rays.
1t is nothing more than the photograph
ing of objects which are invisible TO the
naked eye. A London photographer
claims to have accomplished this. This
man makes living by photography, Is
of nervous temperament and is spirit
ualist. AT first his claims were laughed
at. 1t was asserted that he was merely
trying to bring trade to his shop by IN
usual means. But now his work is being
regarded with close study. Every posi-
BILE means has been exerted to catch him
in some fraud, and after each failure the
Investigators have been more convinced
of his honesty. 1t is but fair to him to
state that his trade has fallen off since he
began taking his queer pictures, and his
wife, who Is matter-of-fact woman and
strongly opposed to his ghostly line of
work, has had many rows with him be-
cause he will not give more time and at
tention to his legitimate business.
This photographer is known as Mr.. z.
among the scientists who have Investigate
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palm, have produced sons very curious
diseases, one man getting a species of in
termittent paralysis from the pressure of
a ball-topped cane on largo yien in the
hand.
Some leaders Of fashion are trying to
bring into use again the famous elouded
canes used by the dudes of the seventeenth
century. but they will never be very pop
ular with the masses, because of their
great cost There are few in existence
now, and their owners are generally men
whose wealth permits them the luxury
OF collecting all kinds Of canes. These
cloudod canes are now worth from 81, 900
to $1,000, one being for sale in New York
at the present time for 81, 200
The firm which has placed this cane
on the market nnws the owners of all
the famous canes the world over, and
keeps track of the growth or decline of
the great collections. If an unusually odd
and valuable cane is to be placed on the
market they communicate with list of
probable buyers, md always make q rioh
commission by effecting the sale. They
have little or no competition, as the bus
mess is quite uncertain, and can only be
regarded as a side issue.
GUIDE TO THE KEYHOLE.
John Jacob Astor is credited with hav-
ing one OF the most unique canes in the
country, and if HIS friends in the mil
lionaire set Of Gotham knew little more
about electricity it would probably be-
como quite popular. In describing this
cane it is necessary to preface all refer
ence to it by saying that Mr.. Astor is
not drinking man; that his favorite
beverage Is milk; and that he has never
been known to look upon the wine when
it is red
Mr.. Astor's cane has small electric
light in the handle. BY pressing a tiny
spring the top Of the handle is thrown
lback, a little inoandescent light of four
candle power hobs out, shedding luste1
sufficiently bright to enable anyone to
find the Ike yhole in his front door, no
matter how late he may have been sit
ting up with a sick friend, attendin g
lodge meetinsg. or indulging in other
time worn subterfuges.
1t was not for keyhole purposes, how
ever, that Mr.. Aston invened the cane,
for he is one of those fortunate men who
can afford to keep a lackey at his front
door every hour in the twenty -four He
was anxious to show the possibility of
placing storage battery In minimum
OF space, and has demonstrated it to his
own satisfaction. Several of his frisnda
nave tried to induce him to part with it,
Tor uses OF less lofty nature, but he
has declined
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because of their assistance that Paddy
Hart saved his guns.

because of their assistance that Paddy
Hart saved his guns.
SIT was here on the Weldon Railroad
that we lost Capt. Charley Hyatt, one of
our best officers. We had practically
finished the fight and Hyatt sat down
with me to rest. ! noticed that he did
not appear in his usual spirits and rallied
him little. He said that he was op-
pressed by feeling that he could not
understand: he believed that something
was about to happen to him, and that.
for his part he was satisfied with his Ca
reer. He had glory enough. Why said
he I have lived to command company !;
l have served upon the staff of my old
commander when he was at the head of
the brigade; have even been assigned
by him to command the darling old regi-
ment in battle; isn't that glory enough
for one man"
"Just then noticing that the last rebel
regiment which had charged upon our
line had approached so near that they
could not get back with the rest of the
attacking force had thrown down their
arms and held up their hands in token of
surrender thought that I.would ada little
more glory to Hyatt's score and so sent
him to take the sword of the command
ing officer. This he did and was return
ing with it whom stray shot cams fly
ing across the field and tore off his leg.
He submitted to amputatIon cheerfuliy
but 1T was at the hands of a laundering
and Incompetent surgeon there on the
field and he never recovered. He was
sent to the hospital at Alexandria and
then moved to Philadelphia Amputa-
tion had to be performed again, gangrene
set in and he died. I have often thought
of what he said to me there just before
/ sent him out to receive that surrender
of that regiment and wondered If it was
premonition Of his approaching death.
Charles P. Hyatt was most gallant
officer and in the command of skirmish
line could not be exoelled. The hotter
the fire the cooler he grew until II I were
telling campaign story | would say that
he 'froze the water in his canteen.'
Another peculiarly sad case in the
same battle was that of Lieut.. John
Timons. His term of service had expired
some time before but the order for his
musterout WAS unaccountably delayed.
He was another brave officer an Irish
man, quiet, full Of humor and brimful
of pluck When we went into the bat
tie advised him to remain in the camp
as his orders for muster out would soon
be along and I knew that he intended to
be married as soon as he could reach
home. But when the regiment moved
he went with it into the fight, and in
this battle where Hyatt was shot down,
he too, was shot and instantly killed.
"Just after the battle his application
for discharge cams back from Washing
ton asking if he had taken the veteran
rurlough.' I returned 1t, with the in
dorsement: This officer has taken his
long furlough. He was killed in the
BATTLE -
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CAPT. RoGERs's COMPANY.
North Yarmouth Militia of 1879 at Fall
mouth

A copy of the original roll of Capt
George Rogers's company of militia of
North Yarmouth has been sent me, with
request that the service for which they
were called out be given.
The General Court ordered, Sept. 8,
1779, that the militie be called out to take
| the places of the regiments Of Col. Jona-
than Mitchell and Col. henry jackson,
that had been stationed on Falmouth
Neck for short time. Col. Jonathan
Mitchell's regiment had been in the dis
astrous Bagaduce Expedition of 1779
and after the defeat had garrisoned the
Neck, because Of AN alarm that the Brit
is b feet was coming to again attack the
town. There were about three hundred
of the militia under Col. Nathaniel
Jordan, and they served from Sept 23
until the latter part of October. AS late
as 1871 it was ordered that they be paid
the same wages as those soldiers called
out under Gen. Wadsworth in 1880.
Capt. Rogers's company served from
Sept. 20 to Oct. 20, one month. The
feet at Bagaduoe, now Castine, Me-, of
which the people of Falmouth Neck had
so much dread, was under command of
the much hated Capt. Mowat, who de-
stroyed the town in October, 1775. The
militia were poorly equipped, but they
with as much spirit as possible for un-
disciplined militia to possess
Col. Nathaniel Jordan, who was in
command, was born at Spurwink, Dec.
"a. 1918, and was the son of Major Do
minicus and Joanna Bray Jordan. He
married Aug. 2, 174o, Hannah Woodbury.
of Beverly, and had nine children. He
ha6 ~ ho Tn
dian war. was an ems; gn in Capt. Do
Ininicus Jordan's Snow Shoe Company
in 1744, and in his Training Company
IN 1857. Col. Jordan was the First Ma
| jor and Lieut.. Col. of the First Cum
berland County Militia regiment in 1776
| and later, and was Lieut.. Colonel in
| Col. Jonathan Mitchell's regiment in the
| Bagaduce Expedition in 1879.
| These North Yarmouth boys came to
defend our town when our forefathers
needed them and 1t gives me pleasure to
publish their names that their posterity
may know the good deeds of their ances-
| tors.
North Yarmouth in tho Revolution
consisted also of what are now the towns
ct F1eeport, Cumberland and Yarmouth.
| HarpsWell was set off in 1850. Il he
| whole territory was named North Var
| mouth, Sept. %, 1880.
"A Muster Roll of Capt. George Rog-
ers's Company in Col Nathaniel Jor-
| dams Reg iment at Falmouth, Sept. and
Dot. 1779. Raised Sept. % and Dismissed
Oct. 90, 1779.''
Capt Rogers,
1st Lieut.. Mioh'l Cort lie.
End Lieut.-Wm. Rose.
Sergeants-John Psnnel, Caleb Hall,
Jno. Spear, and Jno. Parker.
Corporals-Abner Merrill, Samuel
Linnet, Jno. Wallis, Phi. Stanwood.
Privates-Robt. Dunning, VIM. Chase,
Jno. Bailey. Adam Grips. Jno. Ander-
son, David Gustin, Benz. Raokly, Iohab
Soul, David Booty, Seth Griffin, Am
brose Talbot Benz. Lake, Jno Stagpole,
Jno. Paddock. Isaiah Buoker. limo
Bastor, VIM. Alexander, VIM. Barns.
Dan Bucker, Jno. Smith, Aaron Snow,
Sam'l. Small, Phi. Obiner. Tho. Warren.
Geo. Cooling, Jno. ViniDg, Rich. Fer
rem. Tho. Cotton. Jno. Mariner, Niche
Senate. Dan. Jenkins. Jos. Gray.
Mass Archives Vol. %. Page 1872.
NC.
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A SPIRIT PICTURE.

Regarding the reproductions Of photo.
graphs shown here, two of them are
claimed to represent the spirit of young
daughter of John Dewar, of Glasgow,
who died on Dec. so, 1887.
Regarding the likeness shown in this
spook portrait friend of the family has
made this statement:
Son the evening OF Sunday, Nov. TO-
after the close of the services at Glasgow
Associations rooms WHARF had been
acting as chairman, 1 found MIR. John
Dewar showing number Of unmounted
photographs to circle who had gathered
around him, and which he said had been
sent him by his son, now resident in
London. looked at them, and. picking
up one, at once said: why, this is your
daughter Jeanie.' He said: You are the
sixth person who has said that
''Mr. Dewar is a man naturally skepti-
cal, was long in accepting the facts of
spiritualism, and today is far removed
from being enthusiastic about anything
he witnesses. 1t is rare to find him
speaking very positively, and he only ven
tured to say. L think it is she' He fur
Their stated that his son wrote him on
sending the picture, Is not this like
Jea nie2' | was very much struck with
the resemblance, which was in keeping
with the memory of her I had held for
years knew her we'll, saw her often,
and would have picked it out as n good
likeness in any other circumstances"
HOW THE SPOOK FEELS.
Some of the spiritualists claim to know
all about how the spooks feel when being
photographed, and one of them does not
fear to describe these emotions, claiming
that the spirit told all about it. 1t was
to the effect that spirits to be photo
graphed had to abstract from the atmos-
phere some kind of matter coarser than
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telope, from all parts of the world; some
just the round-based spike horn of the
yearling deer. These may be decorated
handsomely with deposits of gold and
silver. Such decorations are very hard
on gloves. and have developed a new
industry. where a concern makes "a spe-
cialty Of knitting covers for such cane
handles.
1t may not be known generally that
canes with rough metal handles, by irri-
tating the palm, and also those with ball
handles by pressing uneveEly on the
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to the right and left This cane sells as
low as ten cents and as high as S.. for
fashion DEGREES that the value depends on
the arrangementof the knots or joints
If these are regularly placed, with equal
distances between them, the cane is
comparatively yalueless. 1t should have
rather knots or joints, with spaces vary
ing from nearly two inches at the handle
end to half an inch at the ferrule end,
the cane tapering in proportion. This is
because the tapering cane ia the very top
of the bamboo, and only one comes to
each cane growth, while in fifty or
sixty foot bamboo several of the more
and the vogue.
The most popular cane this spring is
the Congo. Why it is called the Congo
is difficult to perceive, because it is the
wood Of an oak sapling dootored in Pc
culiar way. Most cane dealers, however,
will solelnnly assure you that it is called
the Congo because it Is made of Congo
wood. The reason of it's great popularity
is that the Prince Of Wales invariably
carries cane of that kind, and, of
course, what he does in the way of max
ing fashions is never questioned by the
men who pay attention to such ma tiers.
THE FIRST CONGO.
The Congo is a peculiar brown stick,
marked here and there along it's entire
length with thy dots, making one won-
der what kind of appearance itpresented
when all these embryo shoots came to
maturity. They never did mature; as q
| matter of fact, for they are not natural.
1t is simply an oak sapling, colored to
taste, which, when growing in the forest,
is plioked or bruised with a blunt in
strument and left for a time, the growth
attempting to heal the marks, and SC
producing the curious pricks on the in
neH wood. The cane dealer may not
acknowledge this, but this is an unde-
niable fact.
oak. The stick was produced by chance.
A Fenohman happening across sapling
accidentally wounded set it aside for a
cane. After receiving several offers of
money for the stick, he began wounding
the saplings in large numbers keeping
the secret to himself for two years, until
he had enough to offer them in wholesale
lots to a manufacturer. Then the Congo
cane became the style
All the fashionable canes this year,
with the execution of the golf cane, have
the handle formed into what is called
the Prince of Wales hook. For two years
this style has survived. and 1T is more
firmly intrenched now than ever before.
The handle is bent into a long, graceful
hook, the end being tipped with silver
and the cane itselfSjust below the handle
circlel with band OF silver.
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ODD HANDLES COMING.

Next year all kinds of odd and unique
handles will be in vogue, for there Is al
ready we'll defined tendency in that
direction. Men who are not content to
keep abreast of fashion, but insist upon
walking in advance of her DEGREES, are
appearing with canes with ell kinds of
wonderful tops.
Natural horns predominant. Some OF
these have hippopotamus tusks; some an
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john Jacobs Aston Has an Electric Light
dering Keyhole.
Fashion makes her changes in canes
with the same regularity that she does
in hats, coats, gowns, shoes, gloves and
other articles of attire. In the old days
if man had a good cane he grew fond
of 1t just as he does of an old pipe that
has served him faithfully for many years.
He would no more cast aside his old cane
than he would be disloyal to tried
friend.
But Fashion cares nothing for senti-
ment or the ways of old fogies. She is
cold hearted, calculating old wretch
who never ceases her demands for some
thing new.
Just now she is devoting her energies
to the uane world, and as she is an in
dustrious, tirsless old lady. her efforts
are fruitful.
There is very little change in woods,
but the golf craze has made an indelible
mark in the style Of the handles. Not to
have a zane which looks for all the world
like one of the weighted drivers used in
the swagger game Is to announce one's
self to the world as being completely
out of the fashionable swim, and this is
exactly what most people refuse to do.
BAMBOO IN FAVOR.
The newest cane is the Whangee a
curious bamboo of bright yellow, with
leaf branches from each alternate Joint
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An Invisible Light that ReprOduces
Invisible Images.
SAID TO HAVE GONE THE X RAYS
ONE BETTER.
A New Science Fathered by London Spir-
itualists in Which Professor Crookes Is
Interested-Some GhostIy Pictures.

London, April git is not generally
known that William Crookes, the inyen-
tor of the tube by which the wonderful
Koentgen x ray photographs are made,
is deeply interested in the study of spooks,
ghosts and all the phenomena of the other
world. He is president of the Psychiosl
Research Society of London, and regards
the work of that organization as being
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MANY TEST PHOTOGRAPHS.

to authenticate them that the honesty of
the work is no longer questioned by
those who have tried their best to pick
flaws in it,
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A machine for saving granite is being
tested in Montpelier, VT It contains
81, 600 worth of diamonds, and the total
construction costs about $4,000.
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TO CURE A COLD INONE DAY.
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets,
All druggists refund the money if 1t fails
o.cure. 25c.
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NEWEST IN CANES.
Whangee aud Congo the Most Popu-
lar Sticks.
THE QUEER HANDLES NOW in
VOGUE.

Cane Which Always Detects the Wan
dering Keyhole.
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to him, and tie Photographic results
have been startling.
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ON ANTIETAM FIELD.
Acts Of HerOiSm in the Midst Of the
Battle.
HOW GIBBONS MEN FOUGHT FOR
THEIR GUNS.

His Famous Battery Band Its Fortunes
Guns which Were the Pets OF BIZ
..de-A True Story of the War OF the
Gtotas
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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-02-22
Church Row at Dayton Over a
Love Affair
HESTER WAS The L0THARI0
Engaged Himself 10 Two Girls. Both
Church Members. Which
started a Feud.

Starbuck. Wash. Feb. 16.-The Day
ton church row among the Baptists,
which reached a crisis yesterday morn
ing about 4 o'clock. terminating in
bloody battle, was the outcome of
love affair.
In the first place the teud started over
Bob Hester engaging himself to two
young ladies. Miss Mary Fables and
Miss Mary May. the latter being the
one whom he married.
Mary Fables was a dressmaker. He's
ter went to Honolulu. and sent her
handsome silk dress from San Francis
CO. Miss Fables made the dress. pre-
paratory to her marriage to Mr.. Hes
ter on his return. When Hester did
return, six months later, he brought
with him another silk dress for Miss
Mays wedding gown. and Miss May
took it to Miss Fables to have it made.
The latter, prompted by curiosity, asked
Miss May what occasion it was to be
for, and Miss May told her in conf
dence that it was her wedding gown,
and that she was going to marry Mr..
Hester, and the girl learned for the
first time that they were expecting to
marry the same man.
fist church, and the affair led to a
church trial. the result being that both
the handsome wedding gowns were
burned in the church stove. Subse-
quently Hester ingratiated himself into
Miss Mays favor again. and she be-
came his wife. Miss Gables friends
took it up, and wanted Mr.. and Mrs.
Hester put out of the church. and then
it was that the church divided into two
factions-the Hester-Booth faction and
the ACCOMPLISHMENTS brothers faction
and there has been a row ever since
over the possession of the church.
About three weeks ago Levi Ankeny
the Walla Walla banker, locked the
doors against both factions, as he had
a mortgage on the church. The Hester
Booth faction went to Walla Wallar
paid the interest and got possession OF
the church, which they have kept since
until yesterday morning at daybreak
when the Embellishments faction
| broke into the church, taking the sleep
| ing guards by surprise, and precipitat
| ing a bloody fight
This morning the floor and the walls
were spattered all over with blood.
Several were injured besides Bodwell
who had his head nearly split open.
This row has been going on for NOR
than a year, and it is said that tn
whole town is divided on the subject.
1t is said that Hester was engaged L
six young ladies at one time, but Mis-
Fables is the only one who has causes
him any trouble.