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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

for protesting to be able to tell where
lost jewelry could be found, has thrown
the mediums and their controls" into
quite furry Mr.. Hill is the leader,
or pastor, of the "Church of Advanced
Thought" at 20 West Ninety-frst
Street, and when the District Attorney
put two of his very clever women de-
tectives on his trail he was doomed
man, for he is not the first that has
been brought to bay
The detectives went several times
to his "pay-as-you-ent church-50
cents, please-received some very con-
soling messages about sons at the
front, neither having a chick or a
child; advice about lost jewelry, re-
garding which the law is most explicit;
more consol.ng messages about we'd
ding wells hanging over their heads,
marked we'll his methods and swore
out warrant against him, arresting
him ct subsequent meeting.
Mr.. Hill Goes
Of" Slightly
The Hill meetings were conducted in
blaze of electricity, with no pretence
of wirepulling. Wirepulling went out
OF fashion some years ago, assisted out
by the police. Mr.. Hill "goes off"
slightly, closes his eyes, rubs his fore
head and indicates by various grim
aces that the control is in possession.
The audience has previously laid
trinkets or flowers on the table, and
through these the messages are trans
mitted. 1t sounds like harmless non
sense, but no stone is left unturned to
get your money. Success engineering
and mental healing are a few other
names for the same cult. Mr.. Hill will
give you series Of treatments, charg-
ing from 81 up per treatment. But all
attempts to separate you from any
large amount of money is a matter of
the most tactful engineering of your
friendship with him. It is more, 1 am
bound to say, that considerate manner
in which friends separate each other
from their money than any gross
tradesman spirit-or you get value re-
ceived, The spirit in control promising
to protect your friends at the front
- When policeman arose in the midst
OF Mr.. Hills prophesying and served a
warrant on him there was a moment of
wild disorder before an exceedingly
genteel person, who had just declared.
IN answer to question, that she had
never laid eyes on Mr.. Hill before. got
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

crates among the huts. visiting with
the men by day and addressing meet
ings at night. His everyday vestments
are uniform, and the fact that he 10
bishop means deal less to the bows
Than that he is a good scout" MAJ
urally, on Sundays. the bishop admin
ls'ers the communion at least once
Tor the soldiers show a desire for tho
sacrament greater than they DISPLAY
AZ home. Recently, after the first !. rra
action in which the Americans Wv.
independently engaged, the bishop held
two communion services for the men
on Sunday morning-and in the sfte--
noon he sold cigarettes and CANDY over
The counter Of the "Y." And everv-
body who knows the conditions her.
believes that the latter action was alsn
Christian ministry.
These Y. M. C. A. men eat f,rth..
20 the front than even the corre.non
gents. Three have been wounded I'm,
or ,or' .nu one woman worker has boen
KILLED by shell fire. It ia almost -
daily experience for the drivers Of ~
trucks to pass through the fire zona mo
anu notlced that the Red Triangle m
one OF these trucks had been denied
by shrapnel. These men carry gas
masks as naturally and inevitably as
s s.e COWBOYS used to carry pistols. A
equipment. e'
Az this quickly becomes a matter Of
course On the front above Toul 7
nave met repeatedly a business NAV
OF Columbus, Ohio, who has left h;s
store and banks and other interests
and Is out here in the fire zone VOL
ing night and day upon the task of o~-
ganlzing and directing the business
END OF supplying the soldiers with ths
m thhcloentais which can be got only
s smrIugn the ~" 1t is the hardest
80 .niS man mas ever done, but
never mas ne enjoyed anything more
One Family
Finds Its Work
In one of the base cities, where thers
are many American troops. there - y
western physician, with his two adu,+
daughters, who are running Y M
y. "A. cafe and concert hall for tn.
men at his own charge. Few Amer;'
can families, outside Of actual mil
tary service, are doing SO much for
the cause as he. Aux
ers are now in France. Sevar+,, e.
per cent of them have "made GOOD ""
but as many more, beyond draft noe.
are needed. They have to stand in r.
stead OF mother and father and HOME
and church to an entire army Of bovs,
Copyright, 1919. by thu r,,. r.r,,..,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
They Prophesy Great
German Victories

In Germany the mothers and sweet
hearts are no more inclined at thfa
time than the British are to place an
UNIQUE reliance on reason. Hence .
Hourishing spiritualism there, and o.
long. as the mediums continue y
prophesy great German victories they
more than serve the states purpose,
The control in Germany, speaking
through the mediums, is under no delu'|
sion about the war; he knows its every
phase, and its outcome is A B ~
MN. horoscopes are with them, 81
with the English, numerous; but horc1
scopes OF the same crowned head sur
Ter sea change from crossing the
Shannel and invariably indicate Y
deutschland uber Alles-while IN Ems,
land even the horoscope Of Ferdinand
ol Bulgaria inevitably winds up witaI
Britannia still ruling the waves.
Given the consoling optimism OF the
spirits, what more natural than to sesl
In 1t immense possibilities for proPa,,l
ganda, and when Venice was invaded
by the German agents, who popped ~
everywhere in Italy last summer, spins;l
uallsm-the spirit prophesying SIeHI
austrian successes-sociaiism ana pss
iflsm had equal shares Of their ss.i
tention. Italy is fertile ground 1e!
any mystic influence. The evil eye ~
no myth there. and every shrinsf
in Italy is piled high with votivs one.
ings, such as tiny gold legs or ss
efigies of all sorts, placed there II
avert some specially dreaded disastes.
AS for the rumor that "voudoossI
has its followers in Germany, ina. :.
not so hard to believe, for voudoon;.
would naturally claim worshiPpers
war time, because the snake ~ wnls
the Omnipotent Ruler Of the univenY
is personified has the power OF mak'n
charms that ward off bullsts-alsc ~
reviving dead bodies. We kneu ~
that only recently Father Vaugnn ~
Cardinal Bourne, in London, hass ~
to condemn the practice Of soxeeW
England.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
By Daniel Louis Hanson
of The Vigilantes
1 LAST the mask-though trans

A 1 LAST the mask-though trans
~ parent to civilization for four
years past - has been thrown
aside and the Kaiser comes out boldly
IN his true character that of the
worlds arch-burglar. In the document
approved of by him-for the figures
used are from the German govern
ment's statistics - circulated in Spain
ard translated by our State DEPART
ment, we are told just how much he
and his dupes have looted from the
stricken inhabitants of Picardy and
Flanders during these four years past:
about $1,000 watches, 1900 umbrellas.
1875 silver spoons, 1912 embroideries
and women's handkerchiefs, 8,O76 pieces
underwear" ETC., etc.
The anointed-by his God, not by
civilizations chief Dsity-burelar. lust
after enumerating $4,000 bottles Of
champagne" congratulates himself bv
stating: "These figures show a large
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

done by the truck drivers and ware
house men. They must get supplies
up to the front. and quite commonly
they go as far forward as the ammuni-
ton camions. The soldier wants his
cigarettes and chocolate and other
extras as ardently as he wants cart
ridges. In a pon-drinking army it is
important thai the men have the
sweets that they crave, and the con-
fectionery business of the association
Is on a wholesale scale. Little huts
sell thousands of francs worth of to-
bacco and sweets in a single week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

are dead. Familiar comrades are about
them, and they are bewildered as to
the place until their comrades tell
them they are dead"
Reese is we'll known as an enter
tainer, but if you want him for an
evenings performance don't ask him as
a fortune teller, for he is truly high
er manifestation of the genius.
To the woman detective who caused
his arrest he said that to avert some
evil that threatened her he would have
to have s38 for each letter in her name,
"Clara," two AS considered as one. I'm
mediate action was necessary for her
safety, and he quite wept over the
alternative.
These women detectives really are
very courageous in going after them,
though the mediums find it the easier
part not to resist authority, but to
serve their sentence or pay their fine
and again make readjustment of their
practices within the law, thus keeping
their hold on their clientele.
In recent arrest the medium told
the detective she had something on her
understanding important-to be
done, but that she must act quickly
Whereupon, having an Irish wit, the
detective said: "In that case had bet
ter arrest you Immediately"
Among other interesting mediums
who are no strangers to the law is
Monsco, leader of the First German
Spiritualist Church, meeting every Sun.
day at Pabst's Circle. Monsco revels in
the pitch dark seance, and uses trum-
pets, phosphorus and many Of tho old
gags. His control often is an Indian
chief, white Face" who addresses
Monsco as little Turtle"
Monsco is German or thereabouts
and has large following. What these
mediums do by day besides spend their
money is one of their mysteries. The
new Stacker law has a special clause
for fortune tellers." Perhaps that is
why William Lake, celebrity among
them, is now selling frankfurters at
Coney Island.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

prietor in Brooklyn, who wouldn't ap-
pear for anything in the world against
Mrs. Schaeffer because the "spirits
wouldn't like it," And anyway, "It's
the spirits that advised her to take the
dance hall-not Mrs. Schaeffer-and it
was not the spirits fault if the people
wouldn't come to dance''
There is scarcely an accredited
spiritualist who has not been on trial
and not one who has not gone back to
his old tricks. Burt Reese, really
brilliant clairvoyant, is one of the few
that are of any interest to the Society
Of Psychical Research, though they con-
stantly advertise in their magazine,
christensen" medium working
blindfolded who has been "run in" a
dozen or more times.
Burt Reese is a German, and up to
the time of our entry into the war was
German sympathizer. He is an edu-
Gated man and has a trick of rare
cleverness. A woman detective who
had private seance with him told me
she wrote a question on a piece of
paper and burned it immediately-all
the time being quite alone in the room
yet he could tell her exactly what
was on the paper.
After his conviction he gave Judge
Rosalsky such brilliant demonstra-
ton of his gifts that the conviction
was reversed. He is one of the few
that have had descriptions from the
dead of what it feels like to die on the
field Of battle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

as any professional drummer, having
avowedly the time of his life. He does
everything, from the selling of cigar
cites to lecturing upon science, and he
is overlooking with enthusiasm over it..
Another professor, this time theo-
logian from a Western PENNSYLVANIA
seminary, was selling tobacco and other
desirables to marines, down by lit
tie pond in Southern France. An
other professor of philosophy from
New England, whom I met at a naval
aviation base, is called dad" by the
boys, and his present specialties are
the boxing bouts he arranges in his
~" and the brass band he is organ
ling.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Call the Bishop
A Good Scout

The Protestant Episcopal bishop Of
Erie, Penn, is having the time Of his
life over here among the soldiers. He
Is one of those who have made good as
speaker to the soldiers. and he itin-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
They Have Always
Money for Bail

All the spiritualists are working thus
in the open, pushed there by the Dis
trict Attorney, who since the begin
ming Of the war. with its increased pos
sibil.ties of mu' ting the public in this
line, is determined to put the spirits
to rout. No easy matter, this. 1t is
such good money that the spiritualists
are not going to give up without a
f~ht. Then their adherents are as
faithful as they are foolish and refuse
to give them away. So one day the
mediums are in court and the next day
proceeding with their meetings, moth
ing daunted. They can always raise
money for bail and arc never without
we'll dressed, influential followers. It
was not Ike this when they travelled
up and down tho road In a covered
!.
Abe case rf John Hill, recently tried
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
How 1t Feels
To Be Dead

"a profound sleep follows the fatal
blow when the earth rises and hits
them. The soldiers feel no pain, but
sleep and rest up for a long time after
death. Often feeling of vengeance on
their slayer is their first sensation;
oftener they do not even know they
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

up and offered bail for him. So there
was busy week for his congregation
between the magistrates court and the
regular meetings, where business as
usual was conducted. All the mediums
in town went to the trial, which means,
let me tell you, collection of very
pretty and nicely dressed women, a
sprinkling of our colored population
and generous half of Germans-a
"soft" lot of middle-aged respectables.
Mrs. Schaefer
Introduces Olga
During this trial Mrs. Schaeffer,
very colorful splash in the spiritual
istic world, took the opportunity to in
troduce herself to larger public. Mrs.
Schaeffer is medium with only one
trick in her bag, this being her niece,
Miss Olga Neidlinger, who operates at
the Church of Natures Divine Revela.
tions, 902 West End Avenue, and who
has the gift--"a natural born medium"
Hence, Mrs. Schaeffer declares all other
mediums, with their tricks and their
darkened rooms, to be takers, and is
willing to tell the District Attorney
anything he wants to know about such
tricksters, and in the same breath to
prove Olga's gifts by trial perform
ance in the District Attorneys Office.
Notwithst landing, at one of her own
open meetings this week she took up
collection for zone of our members who
is on trial"; also collection to send
herself to Buffalo next month to the
General Assembly of Spiritualists:
also-just a collection. She believes
firmly in Olga. Olga is plump young
German Jewess, and would probably
make a very nice telephone girl if she
could get rid of Mrs. Schaeffer.
AT their meetings Olga is possessed
by the spirit of William jefferson AL
lcn' known as "Willum." Willum has
been her control for the last five years,
Wlllum processes to be five years old
and talks baby talk. "Give pity towers
a dink," says Willum out loud in meet
ing. And the general impression. after
an evening of this, is that Willum has
overstated his age
She Put the Sh! Sh!
On the German
Mrs. Schaeffer, smiling insidiously.
presided like a witch at the Hill trial:
led the applause when Hill stated the
tenets of his religion, led the sh! sh!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
A British Commander
Asks a Question

Once in a while we run across
phrase in the writing Of some one ID
England or France that shows in i
flash the degree of seriousness with
which they have received the war
When commander is on the evs
OF being attacked or Of attacking can
he count upon being supported by sn]
Omnipotent Being" SirFrancis Young
husband asks in 1.-The Atlantic Month.
ly." and considers it earnestly fof
three or four pages. The same ps-
thetic lack of humor, the Same pas
sionate inquiry seems to iniict them
IN their recent craze for spirituslism.
In antebellum London there was al
ways a procession of sandwich mon to
be met in Oxford Street, advertising
the Baroness or the Countess some
body or other-crystal gazer or clair
voyant-which tribe multiplied at d
furious rate during the first year Of
the war with the demands for infor-|
nation as to when the war would end
about 'uterned husbands, advice about
marrying again when ones husband
was among the missing and demands
for horoscopes of every crowned head,
IN Europe, until the law reached out
a long arm and made it q years inn
prlsonment for fortune telling.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
The Prince Carried
His Treasure With Him

Prince Rangi Salada is another
menace to the peace Of mind of the
police. Harlem was his stamping
ground-Harlem and Brooklyn seem to
be peculiarly sympathetic" and he
carries it off with grand manner
charging SIS for public sittings. and was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
A Harvard Professor
In the Mud of France

In the present article, however, I
want merely to indicate the sort of
Americans who make up this staff of
more than 1900 workers. Naturally.
they are Of all types. 1t has been
round, for example, that the wealthy
cluoman makes first-class worker.
especially for advanced and lonely
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
She Can Renew
Your Youth

To return to the Jewess. She Is q
sorceress, writes your name in wax.
makes potions to renew your youth :.
works through all sorts of material
things.
Her last victim, through whom she
was arrested, took her. at her request,
curtains, panes of glass. window sashes,
twenty yards of white goods, FIVE
pounds of chocolate, until $50 worth Of
material had been furnished toward
this marvellous incarnation. She was
finally tripped up on a bit of floor
piping. The girl, not being able to find
such an article, explained to a curious
plumber why she wanted it, and thu
plumber did the rest.
In England, France. Italy, and even
in materialistic Germany, they ars|
asking of spiritualism the one thing
no other religion has ever offered them
communion with their dead: and
ficient explanation of the tremendousI
rise in popularity the cult has acquired
since 1914, a popularity fed froml
dozens of sources, such as innumerable|
case of returning spirits in the dew
astated regions of France, Belgium
and Lorraine, such incidents as thsl
angels at Mons, unofficial angels, but
curiously real to the British-the mani
warnings of Zeppelin raids received al
dreams. and the challenge Of the
spiritualists that this war attack
Christian beliefs and ethics as %
other philosophy has.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
Increase of Manv
Phases of Spiritism
Here Follows Lead
of England and
Germany

able to furnish $1,000 bail out Of b,.|
pocket when he was arrested.
Salada Is tall Indian. wore an all
fez, burned incense and, being ver
much the high caste Hindu, it wa.
a terrible thing to him to be caught
by detective. He was glad to inform
the police afterward that one Of tho..
women who had arrested him had did
and the other one had been cut nm
When the policeman told him he had
just seen one of them alive. Salad.
retorted: "Well, anyway, she will neve,
marry a gentleman"
Beware of the vindictive Salada.
The negroes in the trade-or nm.
fession-are thriving, all of them VAL
dressed and superior; the German.
needless to say; one Chumann. a.
Brooklyn. who works most inane lin.
OF spirit conversation, has FOLLOWING
OF property owners who go to him for
advice before they buy, sell, rent or
take any step whatsoever in busin.,.
affairs
The most voracious of all these bird.
OF prey that have been trapped by the
police is a German Jewess OPERATING
secretly as fortune teller Domestic
servants are her victims. She positive
ly eats their earnings Domestic ser.
wants seem peculiarly susceptible to
their wiles, one nurse girl being able
ID give me the names of six or seven
unknown as fortune tellers in their
own neighborhood. This girl had lust
sent IS to Bordeaux, an American. ad-
vertising himself as able to establish
communication between men at the
front and their friends and families
here.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02

sidered to have made a noble defence
by all his friends.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
One Family
Finds Its Work

Copyright. 1913. by tho Ellis Service,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-06-02
She Put the Sh! Shl
On the German

Mrs. schaeffer, smiling insidiously,
presided like witch at the Hill trial;
led the applause when Hill stated the
tenets of his religion, led the sh! sh!
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-23
EAST LYNNE TONIGHT

The Robert l.. Russell Show CO..
now playing a repertoire Of Standard
plays IN the Big Tent. corner 9th and
Liberty SITS, will present the popular
favorite East Lynne" tonight This
famous play has a worldwide reputa-
ton and is considered one Of the
best comedy dramas ever written,
with an cxeellant cast Of characters,
selected especially for this play
Beautiful wardrobe, settings and
scenery, the Russell Players posi-
lively viii give correct representa-
ton Of East Lynne tonight On
Friday evening "The Red Gross
Muse" viii be the offering, and for
Saturday night "The Wolf.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-23
TODAY'S THE DAY
FOR RED CROSS
COMMITTEES ARE APPOINTED
AND DISTRICTS MAPPED OUT
FOR SOLICITORS.

Chairman Frank Yost has organic.
ed his company Of workers into
squads and appointed a captain for
each aud everything Is ready 10 move
this morning in the direction Of a
successful Red Cross drive The dis
tricts are outlined and the workers
organized as follows:
District west Of Main and south Of
Eighth street--Capt J. NJ. Neblett.
Douglas Bell. A. W. Wood. j. r. Tho
mas. NJ. c. Forbes. J. L. Mcpherson.
J. O. Cook. Ben Moore. Jno. A. Gle
ments. 7. J. McReynolds
District north Of Eighth and east
Of MainCapt Geo. Dalton. L. X.
Wood. N. +. Boyd. A. ID. Noe. Pettus
White. Richard Leavell. W T. Cooper.
j. X. Hooser, W. A. Long. Ben Nc
Reynolds
District north Of Eighth ard west
Of Main-Capt Geo. Dalton. l.. X.
MCGOWAN, George Crcnshaw, c. X.
Clark. Jno. Sites. II. W. Linton. W.
B. Anderson. Frank Rives. j. A. Nc
Kenzie. f. G. Peterson.
District south Of EIGHTH and west
Of Main-Capt ID. ID. Cayce. 4. L.
Irving Roseborvurh, II. N.
Frankel. G.. l. Campbell. l. J.. Figin.
Henry Hurt. W. r Wheeler. r. Il.
Cooper. A. l.. Eib
Every person who can possibly
give to the Red Cross should be ready
to meet the solicitors and make their
donation and let the workers pass on.
They are not coming to urge or per
suade you but TO give you an oppor-
iunity to give TO this noble cause.
While Mr.. Cooper Is perfecting his
plans for the big drive in the county
outside the city. many ladies are at
work getting donations.
Twenty-Five per cent Of the eoun-
lies in the State have already sub
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-23
BADLY HURT
HoPKINSVILLE MAN INJURED
AT COAL MINE IN
INDIANA.

George Morris. son Of Mr., Y. A.
Morris. Of this city. was badly hurt in
a coal mine near Vinccnncs. Ind, a
few days ago. according 10 informa-
ton received here yesterday The
message did not give particulars only
stating that he asd been badly mash
cd. His father. who was visiting in
Evansville at the time, was informed
Of the accident and be Immediately
proceeded to Vincennes.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-23

All the books II the Old Testament
were written long before the birth OF
Christ. some Of them MS much us 400
years before. others from 500 20 1000
years before. and none less than 800
to 400 years before. The Gospels and
other books o. the New Testament
were written from ~ to co or 20 years
after the birth Of Christ.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-05-23
LINCOLN CHAUTAuoUAs

The Lincoln Chautnuauas are help
Ing 10 win The war. a. lecturers are
being instructed hy Uncle Sans ON
clals 10 correctly inform the people ca
th'NGoverumcui's activities. superb
prosrnms for 1918 win give great in
','' y" 'i p. iiign
quality aud Constructive rem.rrnlty
scrvicc ore our il.s'4 our four.
ic'n'h y,fr vim d. our best Or sducn.
Hrgal achievement