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Blue-grass blade., 1908-05-17

teachers in home, school and church, and
which also hatters their vanity by promises
of eternal bliss, is not at all strange; but
that noted scientists of both the U. S. and
Europe should squander years of time, large
endowment fund and in half a century
shed not a solitary ray of light upon this
vital subject, or produce a solitary Soul or
spirit" in open court to satisfy the longing
of humanity for proof of such existence,
this is very strange indeed and can only be
explained on the ground that evidence OF
such decarnate souls" or Spirits" has not
been produced.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-05-17
Article Refused Publication by the Chicago
Examiner Which Takes the English
Scientist to Task.
(By Otto Wettstein.)


We have all heard of the Mistakes OF
Noses" of the breaks" of great artists, OF
the foolishness of the wise, etc., to these
must now be added the unreasonable logic OF
the great Sir Oliver Lodge in his desperate
effort to place the doctrine of Immortality
upon a basis of science and reason
In his article rs The Soul Immortalf"
published in the Sunday Examiner he says:
No really existing thing perishes, but only
changes its FORM"
What are the facts? Aggregations or
forms of matter constitute all existing
things" The matter assembled in a rosebud,
when dispersed, survives, but ''the rose that
once has blown forever dies" The matter
composing a fowl, when devoured, persists,
but the bird has vanished forever So when
man is cremated, his constituents are con-
served but the form or organic structure
which was the man exists no more.
There are no eternal forms of matter.
Man is a transient form of matter, hence
not eternal.
Natures modes of procedure are like
child playing with thousand blocks: 1t
builds house. 1t has created nothing but
simply assembled existing material into
a new form. 1t knocks the house over and
builds bridge with same material Where
then is the house? 1t knocks over the bridge
and both house and bridge nave vanished
forever
Here is watch. 1t is composed of case,
frame, springs, wheels, lever, dial, hands, etc.
When these parts are properly assembled
the spring wound up, the watch manifests
activity, which is function Of the watch.
Here is a man. He is composed OF bony
structure, flesh, blood, arteries, muscles, or
gans, nervous system, brain etc. When all
these parts are properly DISQUALIFICATION
the blood circulates the lungs respire, food
assimuates, ETC., these combined dynamic ac-
Invites generate physical functions-mind
and consciousness.
In the absence Of the material which is in
the watch it cannot exist, and of course its
functions cannot be operative They are
cause and effect.
In the absence of the complex organic
structure man can not exist, and his personal
attributes and functions-life, mind, sensa-
ton, etc., are, of course, impossible also.
Mans living physical body is the basis of
his physical functions. They are cause and
effect.
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Mistakes O.. Oliver Lodge

watch which can measure time; and the
physical structure is a necessity to produce
man who can think and reason
We cannot conceive of watch in the alb
sence of its parts or material, we can not
conceive of a manor soul" or spirit" in
the absence of flesh, blood and bones.
This we know. 1t is a self-evident fact,
and there is and can be no dispute about it.
There is soul or "spirit"-so they say.
What is it composed off What gives it the
identical outline of man once living but
now cremated? What's inside of it to give
it form and functionsY What produces its
life without circulatory system, its form with
out flesh and blood, its sensation without
nervous system, its sight without eyes and
its intelligence without brain?
What is soul" or "spiritf'
Spiritists in and out of the church cannot
answer. An intelligent solution to this most
important problem Ito believers) has never
been forthcoming from priest, preacher,
theosophist or spiritualist. Spirits" or
"souls" of tn dead-millions of which are
said to hover around us at all times-per-
sistently refuse to demonstrate their presence
to men of science and sincere and anxious
investigators. When you put your finger on
them they--like the Irishman's flee-are not
there.
The Society of Psychcal Research, composed
largely of bred and born Christian Spiri-
lists, and who, Xix Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
''Would sooner go begging bread than give
up their belief in immortal life," are preju-
diced and utterly incompetent to act as Ju-
rors in the case. They have flooded the
world with literature relating innumerable
phenomena (which" they insist, cannot be
explained on any other basis,' but at the
same time sadly ignoring the necessity of
placing this spirit entity upon rational
basis first. They have not told us what
souls or spirits are.
We gain nothing by posting "soul' or
spirit" inside of the organic structure of
man 20 explain his mental functions or mind,
because, as / have saia, we know absolutely
nothing concerning ''souP' or spirit 1t
evades telescope and microscope, the crucible
and scalpel (most intelligent physicians are
materialists) as effectualy as most profound
intellectual research. Yet spiritists and
the church are content to explain" ~ with
this phantasmagoria--ths airy nothing, sup
posed to be a counterpart of mantle psychi-
cal functions of man and his personal exist
ence during eternity.
That the majority of human beings cling
to this belief inherited from and taught
them as authoritative by their parents and
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-01-30
;: ;, H Ms " s.
50 50 Investigator.

Better than Sherlock Holmes"
is the Term used by the New York
Tribune's reviewer in describing
the stories in Which Martin Hew--
lit, Investigator, plays the lead
ing part. In keen witted deduc-
lion, untfailing logic and unerring
observation of details this Eng
ish unrapezer of mysteries is
unsurpassed among the detec-
tives of fiction or history. No
circumstance is too tritzing to
afford him a czew to the untan-
Cling of the thread of crime or
mystery. Withal, his methods are
SO simple and easily Ineligible
that the reader declares after
following his explanation with
out even a trace of difficulty,
Why I might have seen that for
myseF!" Yes, of course, but
the reader hasn't done so until
Martin Hewitt pointed out the
nay. And therein lies the chief
charm of the detectives disczo-
Sures
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-01-30

'Then this is the used match 2" he oh.
Serped.
ton to consider the robberies in a
lump. Is that your gardener, the man
who left the ladder by the lawn on
the first occasion you spoke OFF, MI.
Hewitt nodded in the direction of Il
man who was clipping a box border
near a lodge gate.
Eyes; will you ask him a%nything?"
"No, no; at any rate, not now. Re
member the building alterations. 1
think, if there is 40 objection, l will
look first at the room that the lady
Mrs. Hewitt looked up inquiringly.
"My sister-in-law? Mrs. Cazenove.
Oh, yes, you shall come to her room at
oncev
"Thank you. And think Mrs.
Cazenove had better be there"
They alighted, and a boy from the
lodge led the horse and dogcart away.
Mrs. Cazenove was n thin and faded
but quick and energetic lady of middle
age. She bent her head very slightly
on learning Martin Hewitt's name and
Sd1o. L AluoS IAddh yOus N1A LIZ
for your very prompt attention. Ny
room is quite ready for you to ex-
anime"
The room was on the second floor
the top floor at that part Of the build
ing. Some slight confusion of small
articles Of dress was observable in
parts of the room.
"This, 1 take it." inquired Hewitt, sis
exactly as it was at the time the
brooch was missed?"
Precisely" Mrs. Cazenove an
swered. 81 have used another room
and put myself to some other incon-
%veniences to avoid any disturbance"
Hewitt stood before the dressing Ia
BILE. "Then this is the used match"
he observed, exactly where it was
foundw
EYES,"
"Where was the brooch?"
II should say almost on the very
same spot. Certainly no more than a
very few inches away"
Hewitt examined the match closely.
ut is burned very little" he remarked.
ut would appear to have gone out at
once. Could you hear it struck"
II heard nothing whatever; absolute
~ nothing"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-01-30

"If you will step into Miss Norris
room now for a moment" Hewitt sug-
gested, 1--WE will try and experiment.
Tell me If you hear matches struck
and how many. Where is the match
stand?"
The match stand proved to be empty.
but matches We're found in Miss Nor
ris' room, and the test was made. Each
striking could be heard distinctly. even
with one of the doors pushed to.
both your own door and Miss Nor
ris' were open, 1 understand; the Win
dow shut and fastened inside as it is
now, and nothing but the brooch was
disturbed?"
eyes, hat was So"
"Thank you, Mrs. Cazenove. [ don't
think 1 need trouble you any further
just at present. l think, Sir James,"
Hewitt added, turning to the baronet,
who WAS standing by the door, Il think
we will see the other room and take a
walk outside the house, if you please.
l suppose, by the bye. that there is no
getting at h matches left behind Oh
the first and second occasions?"
mo-" Sir James answered. "Certain-
ly not here. The Scotland Yard man
may have kept his"
The room that Mrs. .Armitagc had
occupied presented no peculiar feature.
A few feet below the window the roof
Of the billiard room was visible. con-
sisting largely of skylight. Hewitt
glanced casually about the walls, as
%certained that the furniture and hang
ings had not been materially changed
since the second robbery and express
ed his desire to see the windows from
the outside. Before leaving the room.
however, he wished to know the names
of any persons who We're known to
have been about the house on the oc-
casions of all three robberies.
"Well, you know it's quite impos-
sible to answer for all the servants.
You'll only get that by direct question
ing. | can't possibly remember things
of that sort. AS to the family and visi-
tors-wiy, you don't suspect any of
them, do you:"
ITO BE Continued
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-01-30

between the time the brooch was lost
and the date of the pawn ticket?"
"No."
Were all your servants at home on
the day the brooch was pawned?'
"Oh, yes! 1 made that inquiry my
SELF"
Every good. What next?"
"Yesterday-and this is what made
me send for you. My late wife's sister
came here last Tuesday, and we gave
her the room from which Mrs. Heath
lost her bracelet. She had with her a
very old fashioned brooch, containing
a miniature of her father and set in
front with three very fine brilliants and
a few smaller stones.
Late yesterday afternoon as my Sis
ter-in-law IA changing her dress she
left her room for a moment to speak
to my daughter in her room, almost adj
Joining. She was gone no more than
three minutes or five at most, but on
her return the brooch, which had been
left on the table, had gone. Now the
window was shut fast and had not
been tempered with. OF course the
door was open. but so was my daugh-
ter's, and anybody walking near must
have been heard. But the strangest
circumstance, and one that almost
makes me wonder whether l have been
awake today or not, was that there lay
a used match on the very spot, as near.
ly as possible, where the brooch had
been, and it was broad daylight!'
Hewitt rubbed his nose and looked
thoughtfully before him. "Um! Curl.
u certainly" he said. Anything
else?"
Nothing o than you shall sec
for yourself. l have had the room
locked and watched till you could eX.
anime it. My sister-in-law had heard
of your name and suggested that you
should be called in, so of course l die
exactly as she wanted. That she
should have lost that brooch, of al
things, in my house is most unfortu.
nate. You see, there was some small
difference about the thing between my
late wife and her sister when theil
AiolllSl uleu anu lell III. us dlllOSl
worse than the Heaths' bracelet bust
ness. Here are three persons, all la
dies, all in my house, two even in thu
same room, each successfully robbed
of a piece of jewelry, each from {
dressing table, and a used match lief
behind in every case. All in the mos
difficult, one would say impossible, cir
cumstances for a thief, and yet there
Is no clew!"
well, we won't say that just yet
Sir James; we must see. And we mus
guard against any undue predisposi
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-01-30

@HOSE who retain any memory
of the great law cases of ff-
teen or twenty years back will
q remember at least the title of
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-01-30

Nothing whatever for some months.
They seemed quite of a different sort.
But scarcely more than a month ago
I met Mrs. Armitage at Brighton, and
we talked, among other things, of the
previous robbery-that of Mrs. Heath's
bracelet. I described the circumstances
pretty m%inutely, and when l mention
ed the match found on the table she
said: How strange! Why, my thief
left a match on the dressing table
when he took my poor little brooch!'
1.-THE coincidence appealed to me so
far that it struck me it might be worth
while to describe the brooch to the po-
lice in order that they could trace it
If it had been pawned. They had
tried that, Of course, over the bracelet
without any result, but I fancied the
shot might be worth making and might
possibly lead us on the track Of the
more serious robbery"
"Quite so. 1t was the right thing to
do. WellY'
"Well they found it. A woman had
pawned it in London at a shop in Chel-
sea. But that was some time before.
and the pawnbroker had clean forgot
ten all about the woman's appearance.
The name and address she gave were
false. So that was the end of that
business"
Had any Of your servants left You
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son, because from MIN she expected
nothing, required nothing, except what
he offered-the emotionless reticence
feet formality. What did she want,
then = companions? She had them.
Friends? She could scarcely escape
from them. Intimates? She had only
to choose one or a hundred attuned
responsive to her every mood, every
caprice. Lonely? With the men of
New York crowding, shouldering.
crushing their way to her feet? Lone
ly? With the women Of New York
struggling already for precedence in
her favor?-omen significant of the
days to come, of those future years
diamond linked in one unbroken, tri-
umphant glitter.
"About that Amalgamated Electric
company" she began without prelude.
"Would you mind answering a ques-
ton or two, Howard?"
"You could not understand it," he
said, unpleasantly disturbed by her
abruptness.
Gas you please. 1t is quite true l
can make nothing of what the newspa-
pers are saying about it, except that
Mr.. Plank seems to be doing a number
Of things
'TnjunctiOns and other matters" OBJ
served Quarter.
us anybody going to lose any money
III it?"
s'Who. for exampleP"
"WhyZyou. for example," she said.
laughing.
u don't expect to-"
Then it is going to turn out all
right? And Mr.. Plank and Kemp Fer
rail and the major and-the other peo-
pie interested are not going to be al.
most ruined by the Intercounty peo-
ple?"
''Do YOU think a man like Plank is
likely to be ruined, as you say, by
Amalgamated Electric?'
''No. But Kemp and the MAJOR
ST think the major is out of danger"
replied Quarter, looking at her with
the new. sullen narrowing of his eyes.
81 am glad of that Is Kemp-and
the others?''
"Ferrall could stand it if matters go
wrong What others?'
"Why-the other owners and stock
holders
what others? Who do you mean"
"Mr Siward for example," she said
in an even voice. leaning over to pat
her horses neck with her gloved hand.
"Mr Siward must take the chances
we all take" observed Quarter.
"But. Howard, it would really mean
ruin for him if matters went badly.
Wouldn't it?''
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old feeling Of distaste for the touch of
another had returned since the last
mad, crushed embrace in Siward's
arms had become a memory. Now,
blue eyes dreaming under the bright
masses of her loosened hair, she sat
watching the last glimmer amid the
ashes whitening on the hearth, think
ing of Siward and of what had been
between them and Of what could never
be-never, never be!
One red spark among the ashes-her
ambition. deathless amid the ashes of
life! When that, too. went out life
must be extinct.
What he mad reused in her had died
when he went away. 1t could never
awake again unless he returned to
awaken ii. And he never would. He
would never come again.
One brief interlude of love, of pas
sion, in her life could neither tint nor
faint the cool, normal sequence of her
days. All that life held for a woman
of her caSte-all save that-was hers
when she stretched out her hand for
it-hers by right of succession, of de-
scent; hers by warrant unquestioned,
by the unuttered text of the ukase to
be launched if necessary, by that very,
very old lady, browsing, enthroned,
as the endless pageant wound like d
jeweled river at her feet.
So Siward could never come again,
sauntering toward her through the
soI,k I,s
caught her breath painfully, straight
ening up. A single ash fell in the
fire. The last spark went out.
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fro BE CoNTINUED.l
The Winus of lime.

Mamma, said little Tommy as he
closed the big book, what are the
wings of timer"
1.-THE wings of time, my son." re-
piled his mother in loud tones, "are the
faded wings l have been wearing on
my hat for three seasons"
And then Pc coughed uneasily and
told Tommy if he did not stop asking
foolish questions he would send him to
bed.-Chicago News.
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berries, tasted Dig black grape. dis
carded both and lay back among the
cushions, her naked arms clasped be-
hind her head, and. dropping one knee
over the other, stared at the ceiling.
The room was very still and dim, but
the clamor in her brain unnerved her,
and she sat up among the cushions,
looking vacantly about her with the
blue, confused eyes, the direct, unsee-
ing gaze of child reused by a half
heard call.
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FESTIVE horse,
ranged up alongside of her.
Probably" he said. scarcely glanc-
ing at the sky, where, above the great
rectangular lagoons, hundreds of sea
gulls, high in the air, hung tapping,
stemming some rushing upper gale
unfelt below.
On their daily rides together it was
her custom to discuss practical mat
tiers concerning their future, and it
was his custom to listen until pressed
for a suggestion, an assent or a reply.
Sparing words-cautious, chary Of
self commitment and seldom offering
to assume the initiat:ve-this was the
surface character which she had come
to recognize and acquiesce in. This
was Quarter as he had been develop
ed from her hazy. preconceived ideas
Of the man before she had finally ac-
copied him at Shotover the autumn be-
fore. She also knew him as a meth
odical man. exacting from others the
orderly precision which characterized
his own dealings. A man of education
and little learning, of attachments and
little cultivation, conversant with
usages. formal, intensely sensitive to
ridicule, incapable Of humor.
This was Quarter as she knew him
or had known him. Recently she had,
little by little, become aware or an IN
definable change in the man. For one
thing he had grown more retlcent. At
times, too. his reserve seemed to have
something almost surly about it. I'm
der his cold composure a hint of some
thing concealed. watchful and very
quiet.
Condolences she had never looked for
in him nor desired 1t appalled, her at
moments to realize how little they had
in common and that only on the sur
face-a communion of superficial in
terest incident to the fulfllment OF So
cial duties and the pursuit of pleasure.
Beyond that she knew nothing of him,
required nothing of him. What was
there to know? What to require?
Now that the main line of her route
through life had been surveyed and
carefully laid out, what was there
more for her in life than to set out
upon her progress? 1t was her own
road. Presumptive leader already,
logical leader from the day she mar
ried-leader, in fact, when the ukase,
her future legacy, so decreed. 1t was
a royal road laid out for her through
the gardens and pleasant places. A
road for her alone, and over it she had
chosen to pass. What more was there
to desire?
From the going of Siward all that
he had aroused in her of love, of intel
ligence, of wholesome desire and sane
curiosity-the intellectual restlessness,
the capacity for passion, the renais-
sance Of the simpler innocence-had
subsidized into the laissez faire of dull
quiescence.
Riding there, head bent, her pulses
timing the slow pacing of her horse,
she presently became aware, without
looking up, that Quarter was watching
her. She moved slightly in her saddle
to look at him and for an instant fan
cied that there was something furtive
in his eyes. Only for an instant, for
he quietly picked up the thread of con-
versation where she had dropped it,
saying that it had been raining for the
last ten minutes and that they might
as well turn their horses toward shell
ter.
Without reason, through and through
her shot a SILVER of loneliness-utter
loneliness and Isolation. Without rea-
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81 am not familiar with the details
of Mr.. Siward's investments"
''Nor am L. she said slowly.
She spoke about other things. He
responded in his impassive manner.
Presently she turned her horse, and
Quarter wheeled his, facing a warm,
fine rain slanting thickly from the
south.
His silky Vandyke beard was all wet
with the moisture. She noticed it, and
unbidden arose the vision of the gun
room at Shotover Quarters soft
beard wet with rain, the phantoms Of
people passing and repassing, Siward's
straight figure swinging past, silhou-
cited against the glare of light from the
billiard room. And here she made an
effort to efface the vision, shutting her
eyes as she rode there in the rain, but
clearly against the closed lids she saw
the phantoms passing = specters of
dead hours, the wrath of an old hap
piness masked with youth and wear
ing Siward's features!
She saw herself beside him among
the cushions; tasted again the rose
petals that her lips had stripped from
the blossoms; saw once more the
dawn of something in his steady eyes;
felt his arm about her, his breath
Her horse, suddenly spurred, bound
ed forward through the rain, and she
rode breathless, with her lips half part
ed, as if afraid, turning her head to
look behind-as though she could out
ride the phantom clinging to her STIR
rup, masked like youth, wearing the
shadowy eyes of love!
An hour later fresh from her bath,
luxurious in loose and filmy lace, her
small white feet shod with silk, she
lunched alone, Graded among the cush-
ions Of her couch.
Twice she strolled through the rooms
leisurely, summoned by her maid to
the telephone, the first time to chat
with Grace Ferrall, who, it appeared,
was a victim of dissipation, being still
abed, and out of humor with the rainy
world; the second time to answer in
the negative Marion's suggestion that
she motor to Lakewood with her for
the weeks end before they closed their
house.
Sauntering back again, she slipped
her milk and yichy. tasted the straw
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-04-04

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Tea or Tablets. IT. Bennett.
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as it will cure the most obstinate
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