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her-and even him, when it is Mr.. Jay
Hawke or Mr.. Sudge, the greatest mas
tiers in modern science profess reverence
and demand attention. Professor Lom-
broso, for instance, whose name is
household word among aliensts, Sir
Oliver Lodge, much respected English
physicist, Camille Flammarion, noted and
really splendid exponent of astronomy,
have all borne testimony in favor of the
Italian peasant, Eusapia Paladino. A
gentleman, too, whose fictions so often
sweep the skyline of Colorado, the land
of magnificent distances, Hamlin Gar
land, though that he knew how trust
worthy was Paladino But in spite of all,
this particular witch has been caught in
the most insolent fraud again and again.
The story of the latest detection, very
shrewdy made by a group of American
psychologists Is told in the Review of
Reviews for July. To those who are in
terested in learning the facts it is a sat
lsfacton to introduce that sober record
and its illustrations. The much honored
and trusted medium fell among some
cold FLOODED investigators when Professor
JastroW and his friends formed the circle.
Without her suspecting 1t two others
were present beyond the half dozen she
could see in the circle, and those devoted
savauts lay prone on the floor to watch
the feet of their descendant of Pallas 1t
was very ungentlemanly, but it was
very scientific. What did they see? They
saw the two feet of the italian woman
first planted against the feet of her
neighbor. Presently one was withdrawn
and the other was so placed as to touch
both feet of her vs-a-vis, who naturally
was certain that he was touching both
Paladinos feet. Then the free foot did
stunts, tilted the table, kicked 1t and
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1t was all a quarrel over Mambrinos
helmet. Cleveland had the real thing,
but Watson and Bryan and jerry Simp-
son got hold of BARRIERS basin and
swore by all the gods that made Hector
of Troy that they were possessed of the
heros head-piece. The result is history
Everybody now knows that If his party
had followed Grover Cleveland the DEM
ocratic party would have remained In
power to this good day. There would
have been no Spanish war. Cuba would
have secured her freedom. The tariff
would have been made honest and con-
stitutional. The currency would have
been put a sounder basis than 1t Is
and the government as nearly as pos-
sfble restored to It's ancient virtue. Had
the democratic party stood by Cleveland
the republican party would have fallen
into the pit of 16 to l, which engulfed the
democrats.
And Watson has got back to the demo-
cratic party I am glad of it; pity 1t is
that he ever left 1t for yellow politics.
that was simply impossible the wildest
vagary, the appeal to the mob, crusade
against success, with the unspeakabe
Coxey commander of the army, and the
unutterable Coin Harvey its Godoiphin
1t was a failure before it began, a toad
stool that grew up in a night, to make
noxious the political air and poison all
who partook of its witch breath.
Fillet of finny snake,
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q IMPLE folk talked of Pope An
~. gelica, who was to come bye and
~ bye and bring a new order of
things to purify the church from simony
and the lives of the clergy from scandal.
George Eliot. :
Tom Watson in the time of Cleveland
went out on the mission to fix the state
and craftsmanship as Pope Angelica was
expected to cleanse the church and the
clergy inA the time of Savonarola; but
Pope Angelica is not yet come, and there
yet is prodigality in the state and graft
among the statesmen of our blessed land.
Tom did his utmost, and he fought a good
fight but unfortunately Tom did not
possess the temperament of a Franklin,
or a Jefferson He lacked patience, and
that Is worse than a crime in states
man. and again, as Voltaire would put it,
Tom was of the guild who,
"Blind to their own. their neighbours
faults were found
1t Is pity for Watson was the greatest
of the populists, and If he had been en-
dowed with the voice and the lungs and
the love of applause that William Jen-
"Everyman himself" In the agrarian
movement that very nearly wrecked the
democratic party and assured the repub-
licans an indefinite lease of power at
Washington.
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make you swallow your tongue to read
but deliver me from your royalty.
Watson's theme was France, and what
a theme it is! The story of France from
the advent of Louis XI to the defeat of
Napoleon the Little at Sedan is the his
tory of civilization during all those cen
turtles. l very greatly enjoyed Watson's
account of Louis XI, the most eonsum-
mate crowned scoundrel of modern his
tory, and a perfect master of kingcraft
as II was known in those days He
might have cheated the eternal old horned
devil himself out of his furnace. as he
did cheat everyone with whom he dealt
I advise all to read that chapter in Wat
sons history. He tells il even better
than Guizot.
But that is field not precisely fallow,
but nearly So that awaits a future his
torian. who must combine more than Glib
bon and Hume, Robertson and Macaulay.
He must be more than Swift am Burke.
He must be as true to fact as the bark
to the tree. He must speculate as the
philosopher. He must gossip like Pepys.
He must have the flowing style of Livy,
the eloquence of Tacitus, the taste for
biography of Plutarch He must be a
poet as we'll as a sage. The raw mate
dials are there, for where will YOU find
such copious memoirs by public char
acters of both sexes as In France, and
where will you find action so fitted to the
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In the cauldron boil and bake
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog
Adder's fork and blind worms sting,
Lizards leg and owlet's wing
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like hell-broth boil and bubble.
Had this been France, had we been
Latin, 1t would have triumphed: but the
plain, hard. common-sense of our Anglo
Saxon race, even in time of stress, over
threw the craze, and the populist party
is very nearly as dead as the know-noth-
ing party. At the south they went back
to the democrats; in the west they re-
turned to the republicans.
At this moment the democdatic party
has the vantage it had in 1876 There are
but two men who can snatch victory
from 1t. One is Theodore Roosevelt and
the other is William J. Bryan. If Judson
Harmon shall be reelected governor of
Ohio in November he will be the demo-
cratic candidate for President in 1912.
But Mr. Bryan has ordered Governor
Harmon to get off the track. because
the democracy of Ohio thought 1T good
politics not to nominate candidate for
senator in Congress in state convention.
If Governor Harmon Is beaten and Gov
ernor Marshall shall loom up, Mr.. Bryan
will order him off the track because
Governor Marshall is not prohibitionist,
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pen of the historian al in France? Som
day that historian will appear.
There is a gentleman in Congress fro1
the Eleventh Georgia district, Williar
Gordon Brantley. who adds materially
the character and the intelligence of tn
body. He is a leading lawyer of the il
dietary committee and a strong debate
on the floor of the House. His imme
date predecessor was Henry G. Turnel
one of the greatest, and, | believe, tn
purest man | ever saw.
While a thorough democrat. Brantley'
field Is the discussion of legal PROPOSE
tons rather than political. Like JON
g. Carlisle his mind is eminently judi
cial, and when he appears on the hnsting
1t is an address he makes, rather than
stump speech. for he never fails TO sal
something that compels reflection in thu
minds of his hearers.
Like Judge Turner, Judge Brantley is
serious minded thoughtful and profound
man. With him service in Congress Il
no sinecure, no holiday He regards him
self as the trustee of an express trus1
and would treat 1t with no more levit1
than he would duty as judge on thu
bench
Judge Brantley stands high in Congress
a man who will never attempt to set the
Potomac on fire, but one whose opinions
are eagerly sought after and highly es1
teemed.
He harks back to the old south.
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impossibilities, whereat the judicious
smiled or grieved. According to the dear
mans account of things, all his chairs
and tables dictated" themselves-surely
awkward for the soup. Moreover, l have
reason to believe that the earnings of his
grocery business went into mining opera
tions directed by ghosts.
The recrudescence of magic, witchcraft,
ghost-raising and such forms of ancient
pagansm has now been going forward for
two-thirds of a century in this land, and
at the end of the years a reputable
magazine still prints crazy balderdash
from Hamlin Garland, purporting to be
scientific accounts of spiritual phenomena
he has Witnessed 1t Is to be supposed
that in practically every modern city,
however small, however intelligent, how
ever, orthodox, there are devotees of the
same darkroom, who employ mediums to
guide them through the mysterious ways
of Mr.. Sudge, and via Sludge to the
Eternal Throne.
The truth seems to be that in the pro-
cess of race-evolution a certain proper
ton of human beings are born and grow
up with absolutely no sense of humor.
Instead of it they have developed huge
supply of curiosity. But curiosity is
proverbial for idleness; it is a monkey at
tribute, and these persons seldom become
serious students. Hence they fail la
mentally in the first essentials of an
investigator. for they understand nothing
about sitting evidence, they are greedy of
sensations, generally conceited and self
confident and boastful, and all that they
know is vague. general impression rather
than clear-cut science. The absence Of
humor is a serious matter. They cannot
tell how the facts they report are so ex-
aggerated as to be utterly worthless, and
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PSYCHIC GRAFT-By George Eaues, D. D.

shook it, producing supernatural eff
fects thereby. In the same way one
hand was disengaged and preturnatural
arm appeared-"a third arm"-as Mr.
Garland calls it, very supra normal.
Is there any reason to think that any
such phenomena can be honestly pro
duced? There will be when all mediums
are dumb, when the onlookers check ev-
cry movement, other than the alleged
Spirits power outside the medium,
wien the whole seance is conducted in
broad daylight. and when under such con-
ditons something worth knowing is told
and something worth doing is done. But
in these more than 60 years, who ever
learned anything worth knowing from
medium" What has been done to
make death less solemn and terrible?
And who is the better for the oft-repeated
stock proceedings of webbing and tilted
tables, even though they were "levtated'
by something less commonplace than
human foot? Why not give us a rest from
rappings and table minuets and banjos
played with spirit fingers? Too often,
alas, too often Mr.. Sludge and Madame
Jay Hawke have been caught in flag
rante delicta. frantically seeking escape
from ghostly cheese cloth or mosquito
netting. and indignant that the spirit
control has been ruthlessly broken by
an unbeliever. Too often? No. There's a
new crop of gulls out of every seasons
eggs Prof. Joseph Jastrow and his con-
federates have done excellent SERVICE but
1.-THE wizard that peep and mutter" have
an ally in the heart of the young gener-
alton of fools and in the heart of even
that brilliant of journalist. William t.
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that "Monism asserts that there is but
one entity, that God has no existence
apart from the universe, and never had.
The latter is, therefore. eternal. and
there has been no creation. There are
several varieties of pantheism which
have followers among living philoso-
piers, e.g., Monism and Pluralism. And
again, Professor James in his lectures
at Manche ester treats the Bible as be-
ing so Utterly dscredited and out of
date as to call for only a brief. pass
ing reference in a discussion purport-
ing to deal with 1.-The present situation
in philosophy" he says. Il shall leave
cynical materialism entirely out of our
discussion, as not calling for treatment
before this present audience; and 1
shall ignore old-fashioned dualistic
theism for the same reason" and the
lecturer, after remarling that he had
been told by Hindoos that the great
obstacle to the spread of Christianity
our dogma of creation" goes on to
say. "assuredly. most members of this
audience are ready to side with Hin
dooism in this matter
Here we must express the hope that
an audience made up of the people of
Christian England did not side with
Prof. James in his reputation of the
word of God, nor accept with him tn G
doctrines of heathendom. But 1t is
sad to think that the students of q
Christian land should sit under the
teaching and influence of men who
scott at the word of God.
It Is with real pleasure that we turn to
the seventh chapter of the second volume
and read the admirable article on Jus
tification By Faith by the bishop of
Durham, England 1t is a gem of comfort
to the soul looking to Christ for accep-
lance and publication.
This little book Is worthy of careful,
thoughtful reading and can be furnished
by the Testimony Publishing. company"
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IT is to be supposed that in our present
state of culture, and for some time
= to come, groups of apparently normal
persons may be found sitting in darkness,
with clasped hands, around table, wait
ing for that piece of furniture to perform
antics Then, with trembling arteries
shall they presently gasp and greatly
wonder. while the wretched thing tits and
wabbles, or while a tambourine appar-
emily out of reach, seems to sail around
the room, but especially when some sup
posedly returned spirit is materialized'
and sends appropriately spooky sensations
down the composite spine and along the
general pneumogastric nerve of the grerp.
An excellent gentleman whom l knew
and loved in a certain western city.
kindly volunteered to have an interview
arranged between myself and King Sol
ONION. On various pretexts ! postponed
that interview. thinking that the affair
would make demands on my Hebrew vo-
cabulary to which 1t might prove unequal.
Hence while I looked up Davidson's
grammar and Gesenius's Lexicon, I put
out timorous feelers'' In other directions
also, and learned that our much-marrled
monarch had formed spoo1y alliance
viii certain stout matron VINO was lhen
VISITING the city, i think from some place
in Kentucky! This was interesting. 1t
showed how the evil .har men do lives
after them" what lady-kiler Solomon
must have been in the ney-day of his
rrirle ard how habits survive The Gliding
oe the worm Consiier the long centuries
since he was gathered 10 his fathers and
buried in the city of David, his father.
And then think of his gallivanting. as one
may say, uncha=tened through the Rocky
mountains of Americavwith respectable,
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| sos La Sale avenue Chicago, Ill.
| Here is ready-made commentary upon
that Palladium of our lberties-trial by
jury. Some young bloods in a certain
district Of North Carolina went to the
house of a very unpopular old woman,
maltreated her, and almost drowned her
| by ducking her In horsepond. She sued
them for assault and the case was tried
before that able and learned jurist, old
Judge Dick. The shrewd counsel for the
defense introduced testimony TO prove
right Judge was Disguised, and, in
charging the jury said: Gentlemen, you
must throw out this whole witch bust
ness as irrelevant trash, with which you
are to have nothing to do; for the ques-
ton you are sworn to try Is, did these
young men matreat this old woman?
and if the evidence proves that they did,
then you must give her a verdict-witch
or no witch" Under this lucid charge
the jury retired and In few minutes re-
turned the verdict: I'VE. the jury, And
that the plaintiff is a witch
In this reading age a sheriff who hunts
for a jury, who have not made up an
opinion" is hunting for a select company
OF in1penetrable fools.
Tom Hood. in his immensely entertain
ing Copy Right and Copy Wrong says
that the opponents of copy right made
the plea that 1t would raise the price of
literature, and that 1t was highly i'm
portant that the public should have their
literature cheap. Whereupon Hood adj
dressed a note to his butcher. and asked
that, in the interest of cheap literature the
III
cost.
The butcher scntimentiously though not
very dramatically, replied: Cheap liter
ature be blowed. Eff you want your meat
at cost price you will have to buy your
own beasteses and kill yourself"
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and he will manage to find some fault of
Gaynor If he shall loom up.
Of the squad of pops in the Fifty-seeond
Congress Tom Watson was the leader.
Not nearly so captivating public speak
err not nearly so much Of demagogue
as Jerry Simpson, he took his place as
head of the contingent and made some
very able speeches. though in no sense
profound. except when he said an undis-
puted thing Tom Reed became fond of
him. and even got to admire him for the
undoubted robust character that he dis
played. But watson was vicious in tenn
per and that was what pulled him down.
He made a great reputation for a man
who served in Congress but a single
term.
never contemplate watson that l do
not recall an anecdote of the Prussian
tyrant A certain Protestant curate
preached against hell's eternal torment.
The congregation rebeled and put the
thing up to Frederick the Great. who was
not very strong on religion, and who adj
Judged: IF my faithful subjects of
Schrauzenhaussen prefer being eternally
damned, let 1t even be So.
Tom preferred to go off with the pops
after damnation. rather than stay with
the democrats with whom salvation was
free.
And so Tom went off on a wild goose
In, Of Ia 40
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JEWS IN BUILDING TRADES
In Some Lines in New York They Vfr-
tuaIly MonOpOIize the Work

From the Washington Herald.
Almost any day one may see group
of men of type new TO the park
standing on the benches on the walk
in Seward park, at Hester and Essex
streets, New York" said Simon S.
Baehr, a merchant of New York, at the
New Willard.
Many of them have saws and ham,
mers in their hands. Planes stick out
of their pockets. Others, wearing the
white overalls of the plasterers. have
trowels wrapped carefully in cloth. ono
who is seated may hold in his lap
bundle of large pieces of irregular
shaped window glass. The glass is
dirty and looks as if 1t had been picked
up from the wreckage of some house
or an ash barrel.
AT his feet on the cement walk is a
pail, containing a supply of putty and
the implements for putting glass in
windows. Others have bags, containing
TOOLS slung over their backs. Some
have kinky boards and all bear some of
the facial characteristics of the Jew.
"A relatively well dressed man APP
proaches the group Immediately the
men surround the stranger. They elbow
each other in their desire to get next
They argue with each other over the
point.
"'Job? asks one who knows few
words of English. The others eagerly
watch the strangers face.
No. no. the stranger replies.
This is labor market. Its presence
is the evidence OF new class of labor
in the New York market. 1t is not
many years ago that the market for
the sale of this sort of labor established
Itself The Jew as a skilled workman
in the building trades is becoming q
factor In the construction of certain
classes of buildings in New York. One
is accustomed to think OF the Jew as
worker on garments. or as engaged in
speculative trading. Many Of the tene-
ments and apartment houses of the city
are being erected for Jewish owners
by Jewish contractors employing Jew
ish labor.
1.-The Jew practically controls the
supply of constructive sheet metal
work such as cornices, skylights, roof
ing. etc. for tenement and apartment
houses. The Jew and the italian divide
the stucco and ornamental plaster re-
lief work between them.
The percentage of Jews engaged In
trades and doing manual labor for
living is greater in New York than in
any other city in the world. 1t will not
be many years before the Jew In Amer
lea will be as plentiful in the trades az
any other race or religion"
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of Essex overwhelmed his spirit: his long
years of bitter disappointment and blasted
hopes the death of his brother, who,
indeed was his alter ego; and finally
the fact that his mother was afflicted
with madness, in which condition she
died. Were not these conditions enough
to furnish the moods that prompted these
tragedies, Hamlet and King Lear?
Consider one more play, Timon of Ath-
ems, of which the world never heard I'M
til after the Stratford actor had been
dead seven years. The relation of IT.
mon to matters of finance were precisely
those of Bacon. When he had money
it passed through his hands like water
through a sieve. Then friends swarmed
around him because of his prodigality,
just was the case in the life OF Ii
mon; but friends disappeared along with
the growing paucity of his purse. See
1t all in Timon of Athens. Did the actor
ever have a personal motive for writing
such a play? Perhaps, so! but If he
had the world has no record of it. Shaks-
pere was a lender of money; by this
method, in part, he increased his gains.
But Bacon was a poor, aristorcratic
gentleman, to whom if money came, it
soon was gone. If Shakspere wrote tt
HULL Nuclt was tilc pay beiOIe Ills
death? Why did he not mention it in
his will? How comes it that no one
knew of it until he had been in his tomb
for seven years? Alas, 1t seems, that for
all these centuries men have sought the
wrong tomb. So the Baconians say, and
the multitudes that think them correct
in their judgment are constantly in
creasing.
Bacon used a commonplace book, which
he called Promus. Herein he would note
anything in the way of quotations, Illus
trations, new words or new application
of old words, and the like. AS he would
need the notes in this little book he
would turn to them and make literary
use of them. In his Promus, therefore,
we find many entries which he tran
scribed to the plays. We find a curious
and erroneous notion of supposed fact
In the science of physics. in this COM
monplace book; and passing strange 1t
is, If he did not write the plays. that
we find the same idea. set forth in the
same form, in The Two Gentlemen of
Verona and in Coriolanus. The same err
ror in the plays that is found in his pri-