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through her wizardry beautihed them.
had her haunts by the edges Of the
meadow, in the green brook, and among
the waving plantations Out OF them,
and from no other part Of the kingdom,
came what was local in the poetry Of
Ten3y-on.
Where the MilleI's Daughter Played.
Il does not reanire 3 very elaborate
study OF Tennyson's poems to demon
strate that this is the case. In the Jul
yenilla" somersby was practically his
only capital. and in those country
"Idyls." which, TO distinguish them from
the epic Of King Arthur. he spelled with
one Il" touches OF that countryside are
continually recurring. The dreary shore,
the hollow ocean ridges roaring into
cataracts. are 20 be seen at MabIethorpe.
Dora went in these harvest-felds. the
Miller's Daugh,er played by the brook,
the Gardeners Daughter is a Lincoln
lass.
1t was on the dry. dark void the sum-
mer wind blew cool. and here you have
the oat grass and the sword grass and
the bulrUsh on the pool.
And so on and on. through the cata-
lOgue Of characters and Of beauty spots
Of old Lincolnshire, from which the
Laureate drew his inspiration.
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The eFess, the waterweed. and the min
nows all occur as the student Of Tenny-
son might expect them. A large distort-
ed willow throws a gnarled limb across.
forming a natural bridge and a delightful
summer resting place. where you may
watch the shadows cast by its silvery
twinhing leaves and listen as long as
you are content to do so to the soft eter-
nal lullaby which the water sings 20 the
schoolboy Of today. just as it sang to
the schoolboy Of eighty years ago.
As you pass downward a strange as
sortment OF bridges RAY be seen. Near
ly all have been put up by the shep-
herds and farm laborers for their own
convenience. and are Of the rudsst de-
scripuon, consisting in some cases OF a
solitary plank thrown across. in others
OF gate or a length OF hurdle laid
across the stream. But they accord
well with the simplicity Of the sur
roundings, and are ample for the needs
Of maiden who comes 10 drive home
one Of The immense nocks Of geese kept
on the half-proht system from an ad-
joining farm
So we so or by hay field and meadow
till we come to Stockforth mill. u struct-
ure that might well have suggested a
well-known poem to the author. Curbed
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THE LEGEND OF THE GLASTONBURY THORN

IN the National Cathedral close on
Mount ST. Adams. is a slip Of a
4 plant that has had a remarkable
place IN the history of the botani-
cal world Legend after legend clusters
around the Glastonbury thorn. while thu
poet laureate OF the Victorian era. the
noble Tennyson. sums up its virtues when
ne exclaims: The Glastonbury thorn
that blossoms az Christmas. Mindful of
our Lord"
One legend family defined in the pas,
claims the seeds Of this plant to have
come from the thorn that furnished the
crown Of mockery for the condemned
Christ This seems TO have little au-
thenticity. however. and other legends
have more plausibility and SAVIOR Of
more truth
Joseph OF Arimathoa. one of the mis-
sionaries 10 the folk who lived beyond
the Gates Of the West, penetrated into
Britain and settled and began his labora
in Glastonbury. now market town and
municipal borough of England The
heather prince Arviragus gave him an
isle of marsh. wheroon TO build" His
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for some time. it starts on a wild I'm
petuous career down the steep valley
perChance taking its first visible shape
as a burn when It tumbles like a silver
thread down the PERCEPTIONS edge OF o
rock. There il goes dancing and foam
ing, over rock and boulder, going head
long over a cascade, resting below in a
deep pool. spreading later over a wide
stony channel. anon rushing through a
narrow gorge. Burns has described such
a stream finely in "Hallow' cen"
Whyles in a lynn the burnie plays
As though the glen il wimplt;
Whyles round rocky scar it strlys;
Nhylcs IN wiel IL dimplt;
Whylcs gitter'd 20 the nightly rays
W. pickering, dancing dazzle;
Whyles cooSit underneath the bracs
Below the spreading hazel
Unseen that night.
Here is an almost perfect description
of an Ayrshire stream that differs essen
TALLY from the cleaning brook Of tho
famous song with it's grassy plots and
sailing blossoms and crosses and shinglv
bars Even the melancholy refrain g.
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lest the soul should waste it's sacred
energy painting and keeping its tongue
hanging out
When Mrs. Tingley appears in public
10 perform her priestly Offices with Spot
she wears a clinging white robe OF clas-
sic cut.
Point Iona is astir before sunrise. As
the dawn brightens in the east you can
see a procession moving toward the hill
known as the Sacred Ground. In their
midst is the sacred Spot. The men are
dressed somewhat as the Greeks and
Romans were won't 20 array themselves.
in garments resembling pajamas reaching
TO the knee, Below which the leg is bare.
and draped about the shoulders with a
piece OF cheesecIcth. Spot. too. Is be-
comingly groomed for the occasion.
Public Worship.
Passing around the sacred ground
these men range themselves about. fac
ing the sun. There is n sort of recita-
ton. perhaps from the Ghita OF some
other sacred translation. As the sun
rises above the eastern horizon the wor-
shippers stoop down and pick up hand
fuls Of dirt. which they toss over their
heads. Then the procession retraces its
steps and the men don their Greek gar
ments Tor some Of them are guards and
some Of them are guides. This is the
daily ceremony Of the Sons OF the Rising
sun.
while II Is IN progress another cere-
mony Is taking place in one Of the
temples. Men and women, some in ordi-
nary clothes, some in cheesecIoth robes.
all barefooted, circle about the home
stead three times. and. stopping on the
eastern vcranda. chant the praises of
Lomaland- Sometimes they are followed
by Spot. Generally speaking. however.
he seems UNEQUAL TO the inspiration
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The Purple One does not join the early
worshipers OF the sun. Late in the
morning. after the thin disciples have
finished their spiritual breakfast. she
finishes her nap and is ready for break
fast.
The faithful believe that in the early
hours her spirit and the spirit OF Spot
leave their bodies and HE away TO at
tend TO national affairs.
Many special dishes are prepared for
Spot, and there is nothing ideal or soul
ful in the manner in which he puts them
away. Sometimes the little sacred dog
gets of his feed and then there is con-
sternarion in the household. For what
should we ever do. said one OF the
faithful. If our beloved Spot should
die?"
Judges Doctrine.
William Q. Judge had this to say OF
the transmigration Of the soul:
''The doctrine Of reincarnation is Of the
greatest Importance. 1t explodes the fall
lacy of belief In eternal bliss after a
few years OF earth life. and shows that
the soul must return TO earth to be re-
born over and over again until perfection
is attained. In this way there is no
escape from sins even in death. for upon
rebirth the soul, or ego. must experience
what is neglected or avoided before.
This doctrine also reconciles science
and religion. as it teaches progression or
evolution of the soul. and this evolution
is concurrent with the evolution Of the
physical body discovered by Darwin
Very few people know anything about
soul. which means at least dozen things
in the English dictionary. Defined theo-
sophically it means the self Of the human
being. This self is distinguishabIe from
other selves which enter into its compost
ton. such as animal self-the self Of low
er nassions and desires"
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existence millions upon millions OF years
ago. The third race underwent a great
change about eighteen million years ago.
The Fifth Transition.
The present. the Grth. began four OF
Eve million years ago. The races do not
burst out. but are produced by each
other. The sixth race viii not appear
for several million years TO come. When
they appear. according to the theosophy
OF Spot the reincarnated soul of Judge.
they will be thirty-thrce feet tall auo
viii have a third eye in the center Of
the forehead This race viii make it's
clothing with its own mind. II will be a
spiritual. a magnetic garb. 1t will have
luminous appearance. In the seventh
race there viii be- no sex. Entities will
reproduce themselves.
A Dire Prophecy.
And in the theosophy Of Spot there is a
dire prophecy. While the thirty-three-
foot men are walking about in Joyous
dignity and happy in the possession Of
their perfect Greek beauty and third eye.
the miserable remnants Of ourselves viii
be crawling along with enormous heads
on thin bodies, or with tiny nutmeg
heads on fat, pumpkin bodies, and tooth
pick legs.
So much for the theosophy Of Spot, the
rsincarnated soul Of William Quan
Judge II is alleged that Mr. Judge as
sumed the form Of Spot az Point Iona
that his soul might lag behind aud keep
step. as 20 were, with the progress Of
ordinary souls. in order that he might
more effectively watch AID assist In the
development OF the races.
The spaniel IS respected as the re-
incarnated soul OF Judge although there
Is little in The appearance Of The beast
to inspire worship. Far and sleek. he
is a plain, unassuming black-and white
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Il is said to be in this observatory. or
Temple OF Learning. that Mrs. TinElev
is inspired by the small King Charles
spaniel Spot. Her people do not laugh
at this. Spot is recognized by them as
the sacred dog Of the Universal Broth
erhCod.
The masculine follower who is highest
In Mrs. Tngleys favor is often com
manded. it is said. to act as Spots care
tater II is his duty to lead the dogs
out upon the grass or keep damp cloths
on its head when the weather Is warm
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cob. poetical liccnsc!" exclaims the
other with bitter sarcasm. "Poetical
license will excuse anything. I suppose.
Can you tell me where the brook flows
TOP
The sea at Waynfleet." is the reply.
and Il told YOU So is the triumphant re-
ioinder.
Poetic License"
II doesn't join any trimming river at
all. l suppose you call that more poetical
license"
After this there is a general tendency
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In the world lives on the very
top Of Point Iona. near san
Diego. Cal. in the home OF Mrs
Catherine Tingley. OF esoteric lotoriety
spot. according TO the Theosophlsts
is the reincarnation OF the soul Of VIII
liam Guam Judge, one Of the most re-
ncwned Of the faith
Beyond the Egyptian eatewayss ard
within the Aryan temples the soul a
Spot is recognized and revcred. A bark
from Spot Is a command. He is said
20 bark the word brotherhood. so that
he pale ascetics can recognize the syl-
tables
his CTowl Terrible.
when he growls the buds and bios
SONS Of the cult take 20 their buuga-
lows. and grieve until he anger Of the
soul OF Judge is assuaged by the Purple
Mother
These and many other curious things
about the veperatiou in which Spot De-
held at Point Iona were brought out
from such witnesses as Dr.. jerome A.
Anderson, Of San Francisco. and Dr.
Mary +. Green. Of Charlotte. Mich. at
the recent trial IN New York over toe
detention OF number Of Cuban children
who bad started for Mrs. Tlngleys
school
The selection Of the dog Spot as a me-
dium for his reincarnatioI was not. 10 Is
said. a hasty matter on the part OF Sir.
Judge. the great Theosoplist 10 Is re-
garded as only one OF many millions OF
transitions through which ne will pass
before reaching Nirvana.
In his former life as a man Mr. Judgc
often explained that thecsophic philos-
ophy divided life on this globe into seven
races. or seven great families OF people.
Each race Is marked by the development
or sense which the previous race ala
not possess. The first race came into
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soul OF Judge. and nothing more. He
Is there for the purpose Of observa-
lion He has all the habits and pc
culiarities OF other dogs. II he under
stands the occult things about him he
does not let on. He is a sphinx in his
reserve and inscrutable in his thoughts.
Upon the highest point Of the land is
a subinclosure in which there is an OBJ
seryatory called the Temple Of Learn
ing. Nobody but Spot and Mrs. Tingley
and her intimates is allowed within
this Enclosure.
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to set down Lord Tennyson as a fraud,
and that is a fair sample OF the great
British public.
The poet always protested that his
brook had no local habitation or a name
Il was song OF running water. that
was all. But this beautiful streamlet
would deserve attention even IL no poet
had ever lived on its banks. it is so
lowland and typically English. Tennyson
lived till his twenty-eighth year in
the rectory at Somershy. and by the time
he left there the brook and all the neigh
boring scenery must have worked itself
into the very depths Of his mind, become
part and parcel Of him-"bone of his
bone flesh Of his flesh
A Scene Described by Burns.
It flows TRANQUILITY past the meadows
AT the back OF the rectory, and may be-
described by the old word whipping g."
A burn Of similar dimensions among
mountainous scenery-the Highlands Of
Scotland. for example-would have left
quite a different impression on the poets
mind After stagnating in a peat bog
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dog. and his higher thougJs can only
be explained by his interpreter and
prophet.
Mrs Tingley feels somewhat aggrieved
that her m6dest claims have attracted
undue attention. II has also hurt her
feelings greatly when some newspaper
man. actuated by the wrong "karma. ."
announced that Spot was the head Of
the society.
Mrs. Tingley denies that such is the
case. Spot, according TO Point Iona
theosophy. is merely the reincarnated
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reflective and quiet. and suggestive O.
still air and quiet fields:

reflective and quiet. and suggestive o.
still air and quiet fields:
Men may come and men may 60.
But 60 on forever.
And If you follow the brook. Il Is also
to come upon new phases OF rich Eng
lish lowland scenery. somersby stands
| almost between the marsh and the void
and the brook going to the sea ever ad-
yances to more level country. Except
for some minor changes. it is exactly the
same as when the young poet. careIessly
dressed. but full Of thoughts. sauntered
along its banks.
Where the Braeside Slopes.
Where a braeside slopes steeply TO the
edge there was in his time a hamlet. and
you still may see the apple tree. the
gooseberry bushes. and the elders grow
ing in what used to be the cottage gar
den-now tangled wilderness.
Then the stream flows away between
rough billy meadows that once were ara
bic. and among them form the small
bays that are among the brooks more
typical characteristics. A big islet COW
cred with wild flowers occurs among
many OF them. and the water ripples
past II over bed Of golden gravel.
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~ lL'rtihS 10 lne olu l-lHNolllSlllle
- home Of Tennyson are apt 90 de-
vote much of their time 70 the
picturesque bridge. where the
water. emerging from the Holywcll
Glen, passes on with a dark glitter over
a stony Ted. Here they consume their
sandwiches and dilate upon the beau
ties Of the scene. Very few. however.
explore the meadows. but those who do
so are richly rewarded They 20. book
In hand. and sternly hold Lord Tcnnyson
70 question as to his rendering OF the
brook.
"Oh. here are the forget rne-uots.' %
one hears n young lady exclsim. and her
companion rushes al the plots of blue to
have one on her breast-do they not
grow there for happy lovers?
Holding Tennysou to Nature.
"But where is the willow weed o"
another would ask. obuyious OF the fact
that this is but another name for the
tall loose strife that makes long ave
nues down which the tiny brook flows in
webbing line. always with something
dark in its sparkle. due to shadows cast
by The luXuriant flowers. L, was a huge
delight 20 them that two school boys
on holiday. with naked legs and feet
demonstrated by practical proof that the
lusty trout was not far to seek. ard il
there was not here and there grayling
well, they knew no better
So far so good; 5ut one OF The acuteI
spirits takes Tennys5n out OF INF.
pocket 20 refresh memory with. an,
says: Where is the fern?-this is al
grass and green meadow. There are moi
any coot here. only the moorhen. To says
thirty hills. but has anyone counted
HON? And as Tar az one can see There
are nothing like twenty thorDs
The Annoyed Post Lover.
He sees spectator who all the while
has been sitting I'm the cleft Of a willow.
aivided between a novel and the CONVEX
sation OF those whom he unjustIy regards
as intruders.
Are there really half a hundred
bridges?" he asks.
"Poetical license" murmurs he who 4
addressed. turning a page Of his book.
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CCENES Beside the Picturesque Lincoln
- shire Stream, the Beauties of Which the
Great English Poet Immortalized IN Verse.
But Little Changed by Time. ~ ~ * ~ *
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: FE WONDERFUL DOG OF die POINT IONA THFOSOPESTS

~ ERHAPS the most wonderful dog
in the world lives on the very
i top Of Point Iona. near san
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-09-13
The. Hawaiian as a Diver.

The working crews of the islands were
quartered in suitable camps near their
field of labor. They were native LIN
waiians, good fellows, willing workers,
admirably adapted to the duty required
Of them, which was largely in boats and
in the water / well remember one who
excelled in diving. On certain occa-
sion, when the placing Of deep-watcr
mooring had just been accomplished, it
became necessary to detach under water
the end of a hawser, which had been
made fast to the submerged part of a
spar-buoy, about forty or fifty feet below
the surface of the sea. The man was
told to take his sheath knife down with
him and cut the hawser as near its end
as he could, SO as to lose as little as
possible of the valuable cable. Taking
his knife in his teeth, he disappeared be
meath the water, and remained out Of
sight so long that he was almost given up
for lost. when he suddenly reappeared,
and, on being asked if he had cut the
hawser as he had been told 10, reported
that he had unbent it without cutting any
part of it whatever.-James ID. Hague in
the Century.
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HOLES IN THE AIR.
Invisible Pitfalls with Which Airships
May Have to Contend.

Some very terrible accidents may be
expected to befall aerial navigators
should airships ever become sufficiently
perfected to make this species of travel at
all common, owing to the fact, well
known to all aeronauts, that there exist
in the earths atmosphere at certain
places and under certain conditions veri-
table holes or pits Of vast depth An
alrship sailing unwittingly into one OF
these aerial craters would sink with far
more certainty and far greater swiftness
than would a leaden ship Of the same
size and shape in an ocean of water.
Accidents of this nature have actually
happened to aeronauts in the past but
of course the ordinary balloon is not
nearly so much effected by the sudden
descent as IN airship would be. Never
theless, an experience of the kind IS suiii-
GENTLY dlscOncerting even to the stoutest
hearts and strongest nerves.
Nj. Ilssandier. ballooning with two
friends above the town of Vincennes,
some years ago, happened on one Of these
invisible airholes, which proved to be
DOVER mile in depth, the balloon falling
that distance with such incredible rapid
ity that the earth appeared to be rushing
up to meet them with The speed Of an
express train, and the bags Of ballast
thrown out by the alarmed travellers fell
not downward, as might have been ex-
pected, but upward. Luckily a denser
stratum Of air, answering TO the bottom
OF the pit in question, was encountered
when they were a few hundred feet from
the ground, and the downward rush OF
the balloon was checked as If by contact
with pneumatic cushiOn.-PearsoD S
Weekly
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EATING AT NIGHT.
Nourishment that One Can Safely Take
Before Retiring.

This question of a nightcap is one tina,
no woman should ignore. The practice
OF going to sleep on an empty stomach is
a poor one. Nothing brings the lines
quicker, nothing so deepens them, moth
ing so soon makes bags under the ewes.
nothing more surely brings the drawn
!ook about the lips than the habit of go
ing to sleep when hungry.
lt is always easy TO get something TO
eat at night, no matter how late it may
be- In these days of chatting dishes with
gas attachments and Of little arrange.
ments that fit upon a burner, what won-
an cannot heat water. and how easy it is
to add TO it some of the beef tea ex-
tracts that come, well prepared, or put
IN, some Of the preparations of malt, OF
wheat, or milk
Best of all, though, is hot milk. and a
physician who doctors wrinkles advises
the heating of q cup of milk to the boil
ing point without letting it actually boil.
To this he adds an egg. very lightly-beat-
en-, and put in so slowly that ii will not
curdle. A dish of salt completes this
beauty nightcap.-St. Louis Republic.