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extended or contracted at will by pres
sure of the hand holding it.
This rod may be had for $5 from any
reputable dealer in the paraphernalia OF
the magicians. 1t is one Of the adjuncts
to every magician's manipulations.
With still dollar to spend large roll
of gauze, jar of phosphorescent paint and
a rubber glove may be acquired. There
will be a few pennies left out of the
original capital of Sc, and yet the ghost
now will answer the investors summons.
BY ghost, of course, I mean spirit"
There is a distinction with small but i'm.
portant difference. The Antigonish ghost
went abroad. The spirit performs only for
the medium and wanders about in limited
area The ghost is seldom seen, while the
spirit must be. Hence the phosphores-
cence
There must be a cabinet of course. This
is simply constructed of black materials
which will not reflect the light. It is best
that the rugs on the floor be dark and
that there be no pictures covered with glass
or mirrors. Reflections sometimes are dis
turbing.
With these preparations the company
may be assembled. There must be two
confederates. One will remain with the au-
dience-perhaps the one under whose aus
pices the seance, or demonstration, is being
given; the other, man or woman is to be
the medium. What the circumstances Of
the meeting may be depends, of course,
upon its object and its participants. l have
mostly amused myself with friends or OBJ
servers who wish solely to be entertained,
who do not believe and who most cer-
tainly have not been assembled under any
pretense other than that the spirits may
produce would come we'll within an Eigh-
teenth Amendment devoted wholly to
ethereal spirits.
However, we may presume that the au-
dicnce in this demonstration is made up
of the usual mixture-those who believe,
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H6v/Makp clumAs mod ghosts IS,

those who don't and those who don't know
whether they do or not. Among them al
ways are those who approach the critical
moments in fippant pretense These
usually are the true believers" Even I,
who make my own ghosts and provide
them for my friends whenever they feel
as if they might want them, do not look
upon Sir Arthur Doyle's faith with ridicule
or with suspicion. I may deplore, but I
admire his faith, and I even wonder
about 1t.
There are no tables in the room-or If
there are, they are placed against the
walls. The spirit must have free clear
ance-room to jump around if any of the
audience become hysterical and do unex-
pected things. For the medium in such
manifestations becomes the spirit, unless
more elaborate preparations are made and
the spirit is third party.
Let us consider that such a group as
have indicated has assembled. There must
be, of course bit of conversational
prelude. Just as the musicians tune up"
not only to get their instruments to har-
monize but to bring themselves into the
atmosphere" of their musical moods, so
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the proper placing and preparation Of trap
doors to materialize talking writing and
otherwise performing spirit in broad day
light in a room we'll filled with investiga-
tors who do not believe and who are of
that intellectual mold which would not
permit them to believe even the utmost in
evidence.
Mirrors, for example, may be so arranged
in a large room with proper furnishings so
that their very presence cannot be easily
detected. They may be made to reflect the
presence of person who actually is in an
other room or concealed behind unnoticed
draperies. Or they may be so arranged
that person participating in the demon
stration may seem to completely disappear
while apparently stepping across the room
In fact, there is almost no elaboration Of
the simple procedure outlined above which
is not possible. and by which any phe-
nomena of Sir Arthur may not be dupli-
Gated.
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Slowly now the medium lifts an edge OF
the gauze, spreading it as she does so, until
it seems to the interested audience that a
form is arising from the fioor-a form that
casts strange glints and seems to be made
of subdued fires.
The medium so places herself that as
she lifts the gauze its folds envelop her.
She slips her arms through the armholes
and draws the hood of the flowing gown
over her head and face. Then she is ready
for the next stage of the manifestation"
The name of the person to be summoned
from the hereafter is called again and
again by the master of ceremonies. Now
voice, answers--and steps out of the cabi-
net
The program from this moment on al
ways varies according to the circumstances
which have brought the group together.
Perhaps there are conversations with the
spirit. Perhaps the spirit is merely an
unidentified one there to be cross examined
to answer random questions. Or per-
baps it is to he Edgar Allan Poe or Mark
Twain, or STILL a relative of the one for
whom the whole affair has been staged
and who has come accompanied by skepti.
cal friends.
The spirit does not remain long. In
few moments some cynical mind will be
prompted toward sly investigations which
might be embarrassing. While the awe
still grips the audience, skeptics and all,
the spirit shows signs of relapsing.
The medium draws in her arms and al
lows the glowing gauze to sink again to
the floor. Disengaging herself skillfully,
she gently brings the gauze into a ball
again and leaves il glowing on the floor,
in the center of the room, or at the cabinet
door, while she slips into the seat she had
formerly occupied.
1t is now the steel rod and the rubber
glove are brought into play.
The spectators still are intently watch
ing the glowing illusion. They are won
dering, perhaps, what the secret is-what
the solution is. They are certain there is
no apparent trickery-for they can, now
that the gauze ball is on the floor, distin.
guish the medium sitting in her chair still
in a trance. The host, or the master Of
ceremonies, Is in his place within the circle
or close to some other member Of the
group who can vouch that he did not leave
Lis chair or have any part in the strange
happenings.
But the master Of ceremonies is busy,
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In the meantime. however, Sir Arthur
has manifested extreme interest in the me
chanical features OF the laboratory of the
Psychical Institute presided over by Or.
Hereward Darlington, who has participated
in many of DR.. Doyles researches. In this
laboratory the society has developed many
contrivances calculated to thwart just such
impositions as Mr.. Rim declares are so
ridiculously easy to arrange.
Here many mediums come to grief,
while some pass strange tests. The deli
cate instruments are the productions Of
scientists in many parts of the world. Al
most every "seance' situation may here be
subjected to test by a machine that will
record even the emotions Of the medium
the arrival and departure" Of the unseen
spirit-in fact, even the emotions Of the
the society.
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JOSEPH F. RINN, whose office
is in the financial district of

JOSEPH F. RINN, whose office
IL is in the financial district of
New York city, recently an
bounced that he would be willing
TO forfeit a substantial sum of
money to charity or to other pur-
poses if Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
would meet him in sort of spir-
|itualistic debate and succeed in max
ing any sort of "spiritism manifes-
tation" which he, Mr.. Rim, could
not himself duplicate by trickery.
As might be expected, Sir Arthur
ignored the challenge, which arouses
Mr.. Rim to remark: "I can make
just as good ghost as DR.. Doyle
for the small sum of six dollars"
Mr.. Rim is, frankly, sort of
gentleman sleight of hand per-
former" He is member of the
a merican Society of Magicians,
which includes on its roster such
well known names as "Herrmann
the Great" Kellogg" and others
who amuse large audiences with
their weird skill. Mr.. Rim, however.
practices magic for amusement in
sort OF mood for scientific investi-
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nevertheless. He brings
forth surreptitiously the
rubber glove, which has
been covered with a black
handkerchief, and attaches
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
BY
Joseph F. Rim.

Tor the small sum
of six dollars
a my one may
entertain any of Sir
Arthur's spirits and put
them through amazing
tricks. And, the six
dollars once expended,
there will be no further
expense for additional
manifestations.
All that Is necessary
for an ordinary mate
REALIZATION is q slender,
collapsible steel rod,
divided into tw 9 nty
projecting sections so
euuipped that ft can he
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cation as opposed
to psychic research.
He is a skeptic,
naturally; yet he
has a great respect
for the creator of
Sherlock Holmes.
He feels toward the
distinguished visi-
tor to America, he
declares, as h e
might toward a be-
loved friend who is
mistaken.
And he proceeds
to say:
Smyrna times., 1922-03-22
AT THE PALACE THEATRE

"The Offshore Pirate" a Metro
special production, starring adorable
Viola Dana, comes as the feature at
traction at the Palace Theatre on
Tuesday for a run of two days. Opin-
ion in other cities where this pic
ture has been seen pronounces it
wonderfully acted, convincing bit of
work. This is due both to the skill
put into its production, and to the fact
that it is an adaptation from Satur-
day Evening Post story by the we'll
known fiction writer, F. Scott Fitz-
gerald. "The Offshore Pirate" is
story of group of people who adopt
desperate measures to save Ardita
Farnum, an heiress, from the wiles of
a scheming Russian who is after her
money. Piratical tactics in Ardit's
sprue yacht brings about a series of
thrilling escapades, ending is a rever-
sal of the intriguer's hopes, and the
ushering in of new ones. Story adapt
ed by Waldemar Young. Miss Dana
is supported by an able cast, including
Jack Mulhall, Edward Jobson and Ed
ward Cecil.
AL sides of life are shown in "The
Millionaire" the Universal feature
which brings Herbert Rawlinson to
the Palace Theatre on Saturday. Raw
linson's role is that of a young man
who suddenly inherits wealth from a
man who had once loved his mother,
and who was assassinated by a gang
of cutthroats. The young heir is led
by these circumstances to suspect that
a so-called protective" body is moth
ing but collection agency for band
of blackhanders. He determines to
bring them to time and avenge his
benefactor's death. He is supported
in his determination to do this by the
fact that his sweetheart who declined
to marry him when she heard of his
inheritance-on the grounds that
wealth might change his outlook on
life, his nature and his attitude to-
wards her-has consented to change
her decision when he is successful in
his undertaking. The mystery chase
leads through cellars, ball rooms, ap-
artments, hidden doors, roles that op-
en- and close in twiskling of an eye,
and secret passages and halls that
were built by the old man for his own
safety-in which purpose they failed.
For another character Of the story,
Bobo Harmsrorth, role interpreted
by Bert Roach, it leads to a woman
who is highly accomplished crook
Smyrna times., 1922-03-22
MEETING AT THE PALACE"
Professor c. S. LOngacre, of Washing
ton, to Address Gathering Sunday.

Professor Z. y. LOngacre, OF Washing
ton, to Address Gathering Sunday.
Liberty loving Americans are look
ing forward with muc hpleasure to the
lecture which Prof. C. S. Longacre, Of
Washington, DC, will give in the Pal
ace Theatre, Smyrna, Sunday after
noon, March 26th at 800 P. NJ, on
"Why Sunday Laws are Wrong"
Professor Longacre is coming to this
city highly recommended. He is con-
sidered one of Americas champion op-
ponents of blue-law legislation, claim
ing that such laws would eventually
bring persecution upon all dissenters.
During the past sixteen months, or
since the Sunday-law agitation started
in November, 1920, he has lectured in
scores of the largest cities in the
country against the blue laws, and
multitudes of people have applauded
his remarks. His lecture is said to be
full of true Americanisms, and points
out many dangers ahead of the United
States as a nation unless vigorous op-
position is made to the plans of the
so-called reformers.
Smyrna times., 1922-03-22
KENT COUNTY COURT MEETS
Lee r. Cochran, of Smyrna, Gives An
Accepted Bond.


At last weeks session of the Kent
County Levy Court the bonds of the
following constables recently appoint
ed were presented and accepted
Frank Vansant of Fifth District; w. T.
Jewell, Seventh District and Lee r.
Cochran, FIRST District. A delegation
from Little Creek appeared before the
Court asking for repairs to the Bay
Road which is almost impossible. The
County Engineer was instructed to
look after the road and report back to
the Court. The County Engineer was
authorized to rent the wagons of the
county or so many as might be needed
to the several contractors awarded
State aid road contracts at the rate of
so cents per day. The county steam
roller was also authorized to be rent
ed to the ]. D. Sandage contracting
company at $125 a month. Bills for
fumigating certain houses in the coun-
ty by the local physician where con-
tagious diseases have existed were
presented and they were authorized
paid, the attorney being instructed
to collect the same from the parties
where such fumigation took place. In
order to catch up with the volume of
work accumulating in the Recorders
office, the Court authorized the en-
ployment of two additional clerks from
March 15 to May 1 at a salary of $50
per month. The printing of the bonds
for the recently awarded $500,O00 road
issue, was given to the Harris-Forbes
Co., of N. Y, their bid being $3.50. The
following bridge-tenders were appoint
ed by the Court: Fleming's Landing,
Anna Gibbons; Little Creek, w. Reed;
Lebanon, James Vinson; Braker's
Landing, Mr.. Bostic. Harry Riggs
was appointed constable for the Sec.
ond Election District.
Smyrna times., 1922-03-22
and lovabIe woman at the same

and lovable woman at the same
time.
Thursday, March 80, at 8.15 P. NJ.
The Eye Twinkle Co. presents the
musical comedy, Trouble, Trouble,
Everywhere, with a cast of pretty
girls. The greatest sensation of the
year. A riot of laughter and fun
from the beginning to the end. Moth
ing like it in Delaware before. Three
hours of solid amusement. See the
drunkard and his wife making trouble,
and the messenger boy making trouble
for everybody, This is not q moving
picture
Smyrna times., 1922-03-22
At the MOUieS
AT THE OPERA HOUSE


Thursday, March %, Smyrna will be
given the privilege of viewing Dover
High School in action in a different
way than they have been usually seen
this season, when the all-star cast of
"Mrs. Compton's Manager" will jour-
ney to that town to give zone night
stand" This play will be given by
exactly the same cast as presented the
program so successfully at Dover on
the third of March. Between the acts
will be several interesting and instruc-
tive sketches, exercises by Dover Ply
sical Training classes and solo by the
physical instructor, Mr.. William H.
Simpson. Miss Frances Sevil will also
sing solo. Smyrna High School will
receive a percentage of the proceeds.
Opera House, Friday and Saturday
1.-THE Gilded Lily" is a photo-play
in which the director has taken himself
and his work seriously, and has put
real life into it. There is a good
constructive plot, we'll based dramatic
tension and maintained suspense,
tinge of pathos and excellent inter-
probation of the various characters.
! Today we look upon photography as
an art of itself in motion picture max
ing. The public has been educated to
point where they have come to ex-
pect good camera work in film fea-
ture. In spite of the fact that ex-
cellent photography is expected to
make a picture fit into the average
category of the general run of photo
plays, the photography of "The Gid
ed Lily" stands out as worthy of ar
dent admiration. Mae Murray (the
task of lauding her abilities for versa
tility becomes more and more difficult
with each ensuing picture for fear we
grow too enthusiastic) is adorable.
As the feature opens she dances, and
incidentally into the hearts of all who
watch her. The titles have been writ
ten with excellent taste and judgment.
While in the Mad Metropolis the hera
tasted the gay life of the Great White
Way, and he had met The Lily. She
the Lily, when she had met and fallen
in love with him, felt that now the
dream of her life was soon to be real
lied. A dream of a quiet home, a
husband and children. But then she
learned that all he wanted was the
glitter and glamour and gayety Of
Broadway. But she felt that she Low.
ed him and wanted to please him
Then came the revelation that thing:
are not what they seem even though
she had lived on Broadway and haC
learned that lesson a thousand time!
before. Well, she would forget abou
her dream. 1t was an idle fantasy a
its best, far above her reach. AnC
then came the surprise. Love an,
life and home-the real home that sh,
wanted. 1t is a picture that thrill
with its emotional intensity, thanks t,
the conscientious efforts of everyone
Lowell Sherman gives a splendid ac
counting of himself with his usua
compete understanding of his part
NARCOTICS.
On Monday night Wanda Hawley il
"The Outside Woman" Aesop's Fa
bles and Literary Digest Topics.
On Tuesday night Shirley Mason il
ever Since Eve" Sunshine comedy
Chapter 8 "Winners of the West"
Smyrna times., 1922-03-22

Quite few of the contractors re-
Gently awarded contracts by the State
Highway Department for road con-
struction in the State, have signed
contracts and are making preparations
to begin work as soon as weather con-
ditions warrant. Considerable inter-
est is also being manifested by con-
tractors in the next bid opening on
March 20.
Evening star., 1922-03-25
Spring.

Almanac spring is in Washington
even though the thermometer every
other day denies it. The sun, north
bound, has passed the equator, or the
equinox, or the line of equal day and
night, and is headed toward us to take
the chill off things. save the coal pile
and WOO the flowers into bloom. Our
genial and sometimes ardent friend,
the sun, passed his vernal equinox
at 4:49 last Tuesday morning. came
smiling into Aries and is now pushing
on toward Taurus and Gemini, putting
on his best speed to reach his summer
solstice on schedule time, and If moth
ing unusual happens he will get there
on June % at twenty-seven minutes
after midnight.
1t is sometimes necessary to remind
ourselves of these facts. but the birds
are wise and the flowers and the fruit
trees are making ready to hang their
signs of welcome. The signals Of
spring are all around us. The Audu-
bon Society is ready for the march,
the circus raises the big top and let's
loose the calliope, news comes fast
from the base ball training camps and
men turn their thoughts toward the
spring necktie and the shadbake. All
things come to him who waits-even
spring.
Evening star., 1922-03-25

influence and activity throughout New
England in 1920, and the effect on
election day, are glad enough to join
in the anti-Lodge chorus.
The senior senator from the Bay
state thus stands picked out as a shin
ing mark. His friends. at home and
elsewhere, accept the challenge. Keep
your eye on Massachusetts,.
Mr.. Lodge had four terms In the
House before entering the Senate,
and is rounding out thirty years Of
consecutive service in the latter body.
He is his party's leader there, and one
of its most accomplished and scholarly
leaders in the country.
His usefulness to his party has been
increased by his freedom from the dis.
traction Of the, presidential bee. He
has figured in presidential gossip, and
Theodore Roosevelt on one occasion
suggested him for the republican NOM
ination. But Mr.. Lodge-an old hand
in politics. not easily disturbed by
either praise or blame-held his course,
and gave his whole time and thought
not to personal but to party matters,
and thus laid his party under the
obligations it should and is likely to
show at the polls in November.
Evening star., 1922-03-25
Simplicity.

The Brahmins have a proverb that
man is rich, not in proportion to MS
possessions, but according to the sim
plicity of the things necessary to his
contentment. This is, no doubt, need
full to India, where, among the MIL
lions of cheap and casual lives. pow
erty exists to an extent unknown IN
either Europe or America. Yet there
is truth for all peoples in the SAYING.
Philosophers have warned against the
common effort to find happiness oy
adding impedimenta to their lives-1n
other words. the pursuit of happiness.
based merely on wealth People have
refused to believe that contentment
and Zest in life, the better part OF
attainable happiness, are not pur-
chasable. 1t is the tendency OF the
later philosophers to modify the old
and somewhat dreary homilies that
taught that wealth and all 1t mfght
bring was little more than husks ana
ashes. and to encourage reasonable
pursuit of financial security. as some.
place in the social order. But the
moralists today are as firm as their
more gloomy predecessors in declar-
ing that the chief part of happiness
must proceed from the spirit. and De
fairly Independent of anything gross
or marketable. Unfortunately for the
philosophers, this truth Is one tnat
everybody is willing to accept, even
to repeat, but few there be who are
who refuses to let his contentment
be disturbed by the possessions OF
others is we'll in advance of the
masses, and his feet are planted In
the way that leads to wisdom.-ln-
dianapolis News Independently.
Evening star., 1922-03-25
Washington Beautiful "
By Planting Flower Gardens

be several old fellows who don't give
a hang about how Mary's gardens
growing'-or their own, for that mat
ter-and it can be forecast here they
are not going to be taken In on any
citizens associations plan to plant
gardens and all that sort of trash! j..
But it's a pretty safe bet that II
blooming prettily in the yard OF ms
next door neighbor. and hears the
admiring comments Of passers-by ana
callers. he is not going to stand en-
tirely idle-not if he's married man.
anyhow. So if the citizens associa
tions could get the ball started roll
ing in the right direction. the ma
jority would fall in line, while the
minority will be reduced by processes
OF human nature to the minimum.
X X X +
Not every man knows how TO plant
and cultivate his garden. Many men.
and women, too. for that matter,
have had the experience of planting
countless seed in April or May, only
to witness them change miraculously
to weeds during the process OF
sprouting out of the ground. And,
disappointed. they have allowed the
weeds full sway and let the flowers
go.
But here in Washington. with so
many horticulturists and flower ex.
others of the ilk running around
loose, there's little excuse for this
especially when the majority of them
would welcome an opportunity TO aP-
pear before a citizens association
and give layman's talk on the cui-
ture of a home garden. II experts
are not to be called in from the
outside, there's hardly a citizens as
sociation in town but what has on
it's rolls some man who is bug
on flowers and their habits. And
five or ten minute talk from him on
some Of the rudiments of making
flower grow and bloom would bring
great enlightenment--for, If not at
tempted on large scale. a home
flower garden isn't such an intricate
proposition after all.
: Col. Sherrilfs office-that OF pubic
buildings and grounds-is preparing
to make every federal reservation in
Washington bloom with myriads Of
flowers this summer. 1t won't be
long now until the bulbs begin
sprouting and the grass begins
greening and the parks will spring
forth in all their spring glory. Sc
your Uncle Sam is doing his part to
make Washington beautiful. and it's
I'D to the citizen who owns a plot
of ground in front or in rear OF his
home to do his part.
Get out the shovel and the hoe ano
say it with flowers.