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MENACE TO GERMAN EMPIRE
SEEN IN CHILDREN'S PICNIC
Berlin Police Also Disperse Religious Gathering Clergy.
mans Home as Peril to National Safety.
Says Visiting Russian Singer

DECAUSE they were considered
- "menaces TO the safety and peace of
the German empire 100 children hold
ing picnic near Berlin one day In Au-
gust. 1914. were driven to their homes
by the German police. This is accord
ing TO Andre Arensen. Russian singer.
The real reason back Of the breaking up
OF the picnic. Mr.. Arensen said. was that
the children were members of families
which had left the German Lutheran
Church and had established reform
church contrary to the dictates of the
Kaiser.
Mr. Arensen vas held a prisoner in
Germany for year At the beginning
OF the war he was interned as an alien
enemy. He had permission. however. to
go where he wanted at any time. pro
Niding he made detailed reports to the
police of his every movement
During one of his trips away from the
internrncnt camp he saw the picnic in
Cident. As another instance of kultur
Mr.. Arensen said that one night he saw
a religious gathering in cergyman's
home dispersed on the ground that the
assen blage was n danger to the en-
pre.
The meeting was broken up for the
same reason the picnic was stopped
"hile walking in Berlin one day Mr.
Arensen said he was attacked by a
German singer. Mr.. Arensen brought
suit against the German and in a lower
court the judge ruled the German should
apologize to Mr.. Arensen. The German
refused and appealed to higher court
IN the upper court. the judge deCla red
from the bench:
You tmeaning the Germany did right
That is the spirit of Prussia. to show
to all enemies of the Prussian rule
nothing but the iron fist. Had been
in your place. I, too, would have ex-
hibted the iron fist and did as you
acted" Mr.. Arensen then was assessed
the costs of the case
For the next few months he was con-
tinually watched and his trips were
viewed by many agents of the German
police who compared his reports with
their own. At the end of year, Mr.
Arensen was advised by a German singer
who wanted to see the Russian obtain
his liberty to appeal to the kaiser for a
pass out of Germany
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CONAN DOYLES CONFESSION
OF FAITH IN SPIRITUALLSM
He Has Written Book That viii Persuade No One Not
already Convinced Experiments of an Engi-
neer With LeUitation

tural authority for It; He speaks of
the failure of Jesus to do many won
ders in one place or another because
the people there had no faith. and he
suggests that Jesus was medium ="
"Blasphemous!" exclaimed Doctor
McFabre.
"He goes farther than that" went
on. "He suggests that when group
of the disciples saw Jesus after his
death and some of the ancient proph-
cts it was merely a spiritualistic ma
terialization brought about through
the mediumship of one of the dis
ciples. Conan Doyle's object Is com
mendable. He wants to comfort the
fathers and mothers of the men killed
in war and assure them that their
sons are enjoying a conscious exist
ence in agreeable surroundings. He
tells us that we shall have to change
all of our theology and all of our
previous conceptions of the future life,
but that the gain will more than off.
set the loss, because the new religion,
based on spiritualistic revelation, will
be true, while the old religion is false.
Doyle has accepted the whole spir-
itualistic theory and believes in the
genuineness of the manifestations, be-
ginning with those that appeared at
the seances of the Fox sisters in
Rochester. n. Y, which started mod
ern spiritualism. He also accepts
Daniel D. Home as successful sum
moner of spirits Of the dead. You know
Home is the man about whom Brown
ing wrote MS scathing poem, 'Smudge
the Medium He takes Sir Oliver
Lodges word for the genuineness of
his communications with his son Ray.
mond. His book is merely the con-
fession of convert.
IF you are interested in scientific
investigation into the physics of spir-
itualism you will find it worth while
to read The Reality of Psychic Phe-
nomena,' by w. J. Crawford, lecturer
on mechanical engineering in the Mu-
nicipal Technical Institute of Belfast.
Professor Crawford, who accepts srir-
itualism. spent two years conducting
series of experiments into the phys.
les of table lifting. He had a medium
who, with the assistance of members
of her family sitting in a circle, could,
according to Professor Crawford, per-
form remarkable feats of levitation.
He found that when the table was
lifted the muscles of the arms and
| legs of the medium were tense. There.
upon he set out to measure the amount
of force she exerted. In one expert
ment he put the medium on some
platform scales. after weighing her
and weighing the table she was to
lift. The table was two or three feet
from her knees. He found that when
the table was held in the air with no
visible means of support the weight
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visits the friend of her husband in the
hospital and in the course of time she
falls in love with him and marries
him. But her real husband. living in
the body of his friend, is continually
jealous of the body which his wife
loves without knowing that the spirit
in it is the spirit of the husband whom
she thought was dead. The story ends
tragically. Yes. think 1t is very
suitable to write fantastic romance
around the mysteries that we do not
understand"
Madame Marbo has doubtless writ
ten very interesting story" said
Owen, But | think it is fatally de-
fective as you describe it. Edgar
Fawcett some years ago wrote a novel
about the transfer of personalities
from one body to another. A man
desperately in love with the wife of
his friend succeeded by Il mysterious
chemical process in transferring his
personality from his own body to that
of his friend and his friends per.
SoildiltN 10 HIS DOuN, Dut MS DOuN Idu
to die to have the thing succeed. Then
he went to his friends house and
greeted his wife She discovered in
stantly that while the body was the
body of her husband the man inside of
it was some one else. And this story
ends tragicaly also"
IF such a thing could happen" said
/, Il think F'awcett's story is nearer
to the way it would be-"
GEORGE W. DOUGLAS.
THE NEW REVELATION. BY Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle. New York: George H. Doran
Company. 81
THE REALITY OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA
BY w. J. Crawford. D. Sc. New York:
+. 7. Dutton Co. s.
MAN Is SPIRIT. BY J. Arthur Hill
New York: George ~. Doran Company.
$3.50
THE MAN WHO SURVIVED. Ry Camille
Marbo. New York: Harper Bros 81 35,
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STRIKING PATRIOTIC SACRIFICE
FOR COUNTRY BY IRISH MOTHER
i We Done Nothing Says Mrs Bridget Kenney Who Gives
Three Sons and Two Sons-inaw TO Service
and Adopts Their Families

MFRS. BRIDGET KENNEY, 2414
4Vl Waverly street. says she has done
nothing worthy CT passing notice. nor
more than is the duty of all mothers. in
giving three sons. and two sonsin-law
to the service of their country and in
adopting their families while they are
gone.
In her neat four.room house she is
giving shelter and food to four families
All are children and wives of her sons
who are with the colors. Five children
OF the men who have gone to whip the
Kaiser are eating at her table. one
young mother and three children are shel.
tered across the street, for the small fat
has not space enough for all to sleep.
With her allotment from the Govern
ment and the help the younger war
mothers will add Mrs. kenney is fighting
the wolf from the door, is watching cheer
fully for the postmans whistle twice Il
day and is closely scanning the casually
lists lest bad news escape her eye.
MY boy Dan was my sole support"
she said. He wanted to enlist. but for
a long while he wouldn't because he 1elt
7 needed him. I found he wanted to &C,
SO told him ] could manage without
him. He arrived safely in France a
month ago. Beyond that I don't know
the Government would let me know.
of course, work sometimes. That's
what mothers are for. but ! trust in
God"
A flag studded with four stars floats
from an upper window Of the small
ktnney fiat. The soldiers in the service
from that house are within draft age
But all volunteered
Daniel kenney was in Glass T. but
when his mother agreed with him that it
was his duty he offered himself to his
country and Is now with the engineers.
Late in May Edward Kenney, another
son. enlisted. His young wife and their
child became inmates of the Kenney
home when the mother suggested that
it could be made to accommodate more.
The wee daughter of Edward Kenney
is just able to lisp "daddys gone to
war" but she says 1t with a pride that
is apparently hereditary, for her hand
some young mother said she also ad-
viscd her husband to answer the call.
He is encamped in Indiana awaiting the
Governments call to go abroad.
When John MCCulom and Edward
Lane, both sons-in-law, felt the stir of
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4 Patriotic Warming

America is still asleep, or at least
lethargic, in the face of many German
perils which threaten ner. in the opinion
of William T. Hornaday. In vtrolic
language that fairly sizzles with wrath
and scorn he verbally burns to a cinder
those whom he considers Indifferent to
these perils in Awake America" His
rallying cry is virtually: No quarter,
military, economic or spiritual to any
thing or anybody German, now or after
the war.
The author claims the distinct ion of
being the first to warn America against
unpreparedness. His present task Is to
warn against German influence and acti-
vities now, and against commercial in
tercourse with Germany after the war.
The book is not limited entirely to
denunciation of Germans. The author
finds time for discussion of "socialistlc
snakes" nder the neadS of The
Anarchist Fetish Called Free Speech" !"
THE Horrible Chespening of Citizen
ship" dealing with giving aliens the
ballot, and "The Abuse OF Personal
Liberty"
AWAKE, AMERICA. BY William 7. Horns-
day. New York; Nonat. Yard Co. el.25,
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OELKSOF CONGRE
TO ATTEND BIG MEET
Special Train to Run From
Washington to Atlantic City
Next Week
Atlantic city, July s.

NNy, July 0tFN1I|
One hundred members of Congress- all
of them Elks, will forget all about war
and its legislative attributes when they
come to Atlantic City for grand and
glorious time during the national retinion
OF the Benevolent and Protective Order
of Elks next week They are to be
jointly the guests Of Atlantic City and {
Atlantic City Lodge Of Elks, which has
raised a convention entertainment fund
OF S25,ooo. and nothing in the big shore
towns locker will be too good for them
The Congressional special" train 10
due to arrive at the shore at $40 4
o'clock Wednesday direct from Washing
ton. After dinner at C 80 the guests are
to be exercised or the swings. the slid
ing boards and various other concessions
to get them in condition to enjoy boun-
tful supper smoker at the Blackstone at
10:30 y. m.
No stipulations as to retiring time are
prescribed in the program, but it is pro-
vided that the Washington delegation
shall be back on the boardwalk at 80
n. m. to participate in Congressional
bathing party at Senator Emerson L.
RiChardss bathing establishment
At noon motor cars will carry the Con-
gressmen to the exclusive precincts OF
the Atlantic City Yacht Club for lunch.
con as the guests of Representative
Isaac BaCharach, of the Second New
Jersey district. a brother of Mayor Har-
ry BaCharach. who is the chief engineer
of the whole Ellis' show.
At 23O O'Clock Thursday afternoon
,,s,h -.
in their respective home divisions of the
big parade and march in review before
Secretary of the Navy Daniels. who Is
coming to deliver a message from Presi-
dent Wilson to the constituted represen-
tatives of half n million Elks, some
10000 of whom. including General
Pershing. are either over there or try
ing to get there as soon a possible Tho
Elks as an organization have been doing
big things to help win the war and they
are going to lay the foundation for a
whole lot more at their shore convoca-
tion. WI
The Congressman expect to return TO
Washington Thursday evening. Chair
man Paggett, of the Naval. Committee.
will be in the party. Pennsylvanians
who have accepted included Ware. But
Ter. ranking Republican member of the
Naval Affairs Committee Graham.
Crago and Mclaughlin.
Samuel Gompers, PRESIDENT of the
American Federation of Labor, also will
be convention guest.
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O SEE that Conan Doyle has gone

q" SEE that Conan Doyle has gone
= oversto the spiritualists, body and
breeches," remarked Doctor McFabre
3 "1tNseems to me remarkable con-
version" said owen. Doyle was edu.
Gated as physician and very few
physicians believe in ghosts. Many
OF them are materialistsewith no belief
I'm life after death"
That is what Doyle says he was
said I. HE has written book that
he calls The New Revelation in
which he explains his change of opinion
1t will be welcomed with enthusiasm
!. by all the students of psychical ques-
: ttons who have already accepted the
3 theory that the dead can communicate
: with the living
How about the rest of u.s." Owen
) asked.
Il For my part" said I. II find the
book the most unconvincing discussion
Of the subject that I ever read. Ny
mind Is open. I believe in life after
I. death. I would not attend Doctor
McFabre's church If didn't. But l
have vet to come across any satisfac.
tory evidence that the dead do COM
municate with the living"
Does not Sir Oliver Lodge say that
his son Raymond communicated with
him after death?' came from the
clergyman.
Yes, he says so, but | have seen
the evidence which he offers in proof
Of it analyzed and pronounced falla
cious." said l. Nov. the curious fact
about this whole subject is that the
spiritualists say that no 'demonstra-
ton of the ability of spirits to com
municate with the living can be given
to those who do not believe.
"Conan Doyle, himself, says il
frankly and he cites the New Testa.
@ment to prove that there is scrip,
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COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD
THE HAPPIEST TINE
OF THEIR LIVES
Mrs. Miller Thus Character.
ICES the Wooing Period Of
T,Uo Young People

Alice Duer Miller Is not of those who
achieve burlesque only when they under
take to put the socially elect of Man
haitian within the pages of a novel Her
charact cters of the smart set live. move
and talk with a convincing air of reality
and their affairs possess the unfaiing
interest that inheres in genuine human
drama Her new story, "The Happiest
Time of Their Lives" Is her most am
bilious piece of fiction. II tells of the
vicissitudes that attend the romance of
a patrician, sheltered girl and a sturdy
youth of the business world. whose ante
cedents and station arc viewed asksnCe
by the relatives of the girl.
Genial humor. deft characterization
racy dialogue and penetrating observa-
tions about numerous social inconsis-
tencies lend richness and variety to the
development of the plot. The mother
of the girl is vastly concerned with the
social eligibility of young Wayne of
whom little Mathilde Severance has be-
slowed her grlish affection. It sur
prises her to learn that the youths very
capable mother is equally concerned
about the effect a girl accustomed to
luxury may have upon her son and his
career. The adjustment and reconcilia-
tion of these alien elements affords the
author an opportunity to introduce
varied incidental episodes of unusual in
terest. such as the ward boss" Marty
Burke. and his framed" fight the un-
willing marriage of a slum girl, and the
vigorous views and personality of Mrs.
Wayne.
THE Happiest Time of Their Lives
very much more than a romance. 1t has
the whole modern. urban panOrap1a
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-06
HASTENS BACK TO TRENCHES
Lieut.. Skidmore. Wounded at
Start. Eager to See Wars End

Il was in at the start and don't want
to miss the finish"
wounded at the battle of Yprcs in
1915. confined to a hospital for several
months then discharged as unfit for
further service, only to re-enlist in
Canada and go back to the trenches,
where he was gassed and buried by an
exploding German shell. Lieutenant w,
p. J. Skidmore, stationed at the British
Canadian recruiting mission. Sixteenth
and Chestnut streets, is going back for
more and today he thus explained his
reason for wishing to return.
In response to his request that an op-
pGrtun,tS% % Ge Sen iSF f nm nm sr, TO return % TO
tenant Skidmore has been summoned
hack to the trenches by the British army
command.
Lieutenant Skidmore will leave here
Monday for Canada, from where he will
go overseas. During his stay in this
city Lieutenant Skdmore has given
manv stirring descriptions of life in the
trenches and has been a prominent figure
in many Red Cross entertainments and
benefits
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patriotism urging them to enlist. Mrs
kenney said: Go ahead Don't stand
back on account of the wives and chill
dren I'll take care of them some way"
And she is doing It. McCullom Is in the
engineers. SO is Lane.
There is another Kenney son of the
age of the best fighting forces of the
army. viii he stay out while his
brothers fight in his stead? Not he I,
There is a small daughter seven days
old at his house. When the little one
is large enough and the mother feels
safe and strong, James w. kenney ex-
poets to enlist. Mrs. Ksnney is already
going through those marvellous calcula- =
tions that enable housekeeper to pro-
vide for one or two more. Her ingenuity
is apparently not taxed. for she cheer
fully says:
why, 7 will make room somehow. of
course. My sons wife and two babies
will come here, and Wen get along.
i've another hoy just fifteen" she
added. He Is making Sc a week and he
helps. He's doing his bit too. | tell
him, for he is buying a Liberty Bond at
81 a week But he wants to go owar
and says he only hopes it will last until
he is old enough to go.
mo. I'm not doing anything" said
Mrs. kenney. "Other women have money
to give. They are giving that Ny boys
have their lives to offer. They will give
them without complaining If necessary.
I'm only doing on little less and work
ing little harder. Surely every woman
ought willingly to do that.
Tin Irish and proud of it, Born in
Ireland and my name is Bridget I've
worked hard all my life and il hasn't
hurt me yet. II it helps my country for
me to work harder now so that five
more men are added to the army it will
just make me happier in my old age
So why shouldn't >"
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TENT SERVICES SUCCESS
lnssmuch Mission to Conduct Meeting.
All Summer at Sixtieth and Locust

The success of the Inasmuch Mission
tent at SiXtieth and Locust streets since
its opening a week ago has been remark
able and II Is planned to conduct meet
ings' every evening except Monday all
summer There has been an average at
tendance of one thousand.
One of the features of the programs
is the music, under the direction of
Watkin Davis, the converted actor To-
morrow night the topic for George
Longs address will be Saved by
Science" The campaign of the Inas-
much Mission is being assisted by West
] Philadelphia churches and letters of ap-
probation have been received from many
residents of the neighborhood.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-06

Mr. Arensen made tho appeal The
kaiser granted the request and Mr.
Arensen went to Switzerland. from which
country he came to America
Mr.. Arensen has brought suit here
against Harry Davis. Pittsburgh the
atrical manager. alleging breach of con-
tract. when the recent opera festival
was held in Philadelphia under Mr..
Daviss direction The singer, through
his attorney, Daniel O'Connell. asks for
$500, which he says is due him for time
the manager cancelled before the eX-
piration of the contract.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-06
OPTIMISM FROM TRENCHES
Machine Cunners on
Job. Writes Philadelphiap

From out of the trenches comes as
surance by letter that the American ma
sands of Germans. The letter is from
Oscar kcrensky, who says he is a sec
ond cousin of Alexander kerensky, the
deposed Premier of Russia.
1t was received by a brother. Isaac,
43O Walnut street. Previous 10 Keren-
sky's enlistment with machine-gun bar
talon he lived al s34 Alden street
You ask me to kill as many Germsns
as I can" writes Oscar. you bet we
will do 1t and with the aid of our ma
chine guns we will kill as many Germa0<|
as you expect"
The writer tells of encounters with the
Germans In the trenches and assures his
brother that Il am lucky as yet"
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Wilmington. Del, July 6.--Trapped on
the trestle bridge across Red Clay Creek,
near Brandywine Springs Park. late yes
terday by crowded trolley car. Sam
uel B. Medkeff and his fourteen-year-
old daughter. Mary, were knocked from
the structure into the creek. a distance
OF twenty feet Allen. a small son of
the merchant. who was with them,
escaped injuries by clinginE 70 the ties,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-06
TRAINING FOR NILLANOVA
War Course Will BE Introduced in
Autumn

A military training course will be pro-
vided at Nillanova College in the autumn.
One professor and eight students will
spend the summer in the Plattsburg
training camp SO that they may conduct
the course. Announcements to this ef-
feet have just been made by Nillanova.
Professor =. \. McGeehan and the
following students will go to Pattsburg
Edward Diggles. John Mcguire. AlfrSd
Kane. Frank Murphy. David Farley, VIII
liam Bride, Harold Weigand. Michael
Blanchfield
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CHE had never even seen him before-yet he seemed
- to know her. What she to do? This man,
horrible, the only one in all that land who seemed
to want to help her-but at such price What was
she to do-this shy little American girl? Read what
she did in
The Cordova daily times., 1918-02-04
WANT ALASKA MOSS
 FOR SURGICAL USE

Sphagnum moss, such as obtains in Alaska, is wanted for use in the war hospitals in France and England, and an appeal for it has been issued by the botany department of the University of Washington, at Seattle.
 The moss, when dry, will absorb twenty times it's own weight without dripping, an absorbent power much greater than that of cotton. Tn pre- pairing the material for hospital use pads six inches square are made and steri1ized for use as dressings for wounds. These moss dressings are very useful for bad burns and as splint pads for fractures.
 The Puget sound region and Alaska seem to be the only parts of the Unit ed States that can supply the moss in great quantities, and the Puget sound supply is so much more available that it will be drawn upon first. The moss is found in and around cranberry marshes, and in very wet places in the forests. The material desired is the young, leafy stems commonly seer around the borders of cranberry marshes and sometimes forming hum mocks even in the middle of bog.
 Through the committee operating al the University of Washington, three thousand dressings have already beer shipped to France, the work being ac complished entirely by voluntary Ia bor. Any reports on the location quantity and accessibility of supplies of the moss will be of immense assist ance to the department.