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was his father-in-law, Leo Leonard,
who died in jackson, Mich, about
two weeks ago.
Mr.. Crandall, a practical and
prosaic truckman, declared that
the spook had lifted him from his
chair and impelled him across the
room to the feet of his wife last
Tuesday night. Before that, the
specter sifted through the halls
at night. according to the truck.
man. moaning for "Frossie" and
Pearl" in anguished ACCENTS
"Flossie" is the truckman's wife
and Pearl" is the name of his
mother-in-law. the widow of the
specter.
Whatever may be the final dis
position of the spectre of the
haunted house Of Antagonist.
'here sticks another wrath near
er home awaiting physical or
psychical investigation. For the
spirit Of the Vanished Peddler of
Wayside Inn Is abroad in New
ton, N. j.. stirring the town to
nervous fear.
JERSEYS SPOOK REEVES.
A century ago the Wayside Inn
was a popular tavern. but now It
Is the prosaic residence of a pro-
sale farmer. Frank Decker, who
Is eager to get rid Of the quaint
little two-story cottage because
unearthly visitors trouble his
sleep.
The house has a pedigreed ghost
that dates back seventy odd years
to a time when, tradition tells. q
party Of fox hunters put up for
the night at the inns About bed
time peddler appeared with his
pack and a budget of stories to
keep the guests awake until near
ly dawn. He was finally shown
to a room, and soon after one of
the servants went up to speak to
him. The peddler was gone and
so was his pack, and never again
did he appear.
Never again did ne appear In
sight, but in sound he often has
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She Broke the Record
for Uirdling the.
Globe in q Manner
That Made Her an
international Celeb
rity, and She "Cov-
cred" Every Form
of News Event.
She Married a Mil.
lionaire and Oper-
ated T h r e e Big
Industries.

Lord, how long Two been astray!
Nelly Bly, sighed when she read
II aloud, and repeated:
Lord. how long I've been
astray.'"
She had thought to find power
in money, and lived to realize
that there was much weakness In
1t. For money itself mattered
nothing to her after she had It;
less than men mattered in her
life, and they mattered not at
all. in a personal sense.
The prospect Of death never
stirred fear in Nellie BLY,; there
was nothing she was afraid OF
but she did say often:
when my time comes ia IKE
to die a newspaperwoman. I don't
want ever to be retired. for mine
is not a retiring disposition. ID
like to have the end como just
after ia get something 20 well
started that II would keep going
on its own power plus the mo-
mentum I put into It."
She smiled when she said that
tho smils that Governor Altseld.
Of minois, appraised 1t Si.ooo.oos
N q personal and professional ~
set-and II Was Just - that she
aiedi
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I never could write-all I can do
IL put down on paper what 1 see
and how I feel about"
AN ARDENT FEMINIST.
This was the initiation of Eliz-
abeth Seaman into Journalism.
The spirit Of feminism that
spurred her to the work re-
manned characteristic OF the
woman throughout her life. In
her heart. she was convinced that
a woman. az an individual. pos
sessed more brains, moro cour-
age. moro initiative, and moro of
every other virtue than man.
What women required moro than
anything else. she always con-
tended. was to be awakened to a
realization Of their proper place
in tho world.
She was a feminist when fem
inism was questionable, Just az
she was a reporter in an era
when women reporters were I'M
known and would no moro have
been considered fitted for such
work than they are considered
fitted to sail before the mast of
. wind tanning tramp today.
There has been much dispute
over the origin of the pen name
Nellie Bly, and the manner Of
its application. This 10 the own
er's explanation of 1t:
WOULDN'T TELL AGE.
OF her personal assignments
and adventures. Miss Bly, talked
seldom. She wanted never to
grow old or to appear old or
even to think herself old. Often
We laughed at this feminine
weakness, but she always insisted
II was not a weakness but a
practical matter. Sometimes her
desire for "agelessness' caused
amusing developments.
Nelly BLY, looked on life as a
newspaper. with each day an
issue from the presses of time,
and each issue dead with the
appearance of the next. 1t was
difficult to lead her into remin-
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DR.. Prince Is preparing final re-
port for tho research society ar
chives. which win delve deeper into
the Antagonist mystery. of which
several phases are as yet unex-
planned. The expert asserted in his
preliminary report that Mary Ellen
Macdonald, foster daughter Of
Ajax Macdonald. set the fires in
his home, Caledonia Mills. Novu
Scotia This was based on inter.
rogation of the girl and the other
members Of the family. and on
the fact that all the fires were
started when the girl was in the
house, although in places on the
walls and elsewhere which she
could not reach. The presence
of a burned match added to the
evidence Of human agency.
SOME MYSTERY LEFT.
But DR.. Prince admitted that
he could not explain the changing
Of horses and cows in the barn,
the pulling up of deeply sunk iron
hinges from the ground. or the
spirit slappings" reported by
other investigators.
He conceded that all these might
be of Supernatural" origin, es-
pecially the automatic writings of
q newspaperman on the case
which said that a communicated"
caused the fires.
DR.. Prince said the girl was
undoubtedly In subconscious
state or actuated by a discarnate
agency when she set the fires.
So, in the opinion Of Antagonist
Inhabitants. the mystery remains
considerable of a mystery after all.
even II the psychic explorers state
ment concerning the girl is true.
THE CRANDALL SPECTRE.
And before DIR. Prince left
Canada another spook raised Its
head in the Dominion. This wrath
possessed a name and a per-
sonality, according to Franklin
Crandall, of Windsor, who suf-
fered much inconvenience from
its appearances and crimes. Mr..
Crandall asserted that the gnost
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iscence, for she always parted
don't you remember questions
with:
"Oh, what's the sense of reminis-
cence7" You can't control the past
and you know nothing about tho
future, but you can do what you
like with the present. Time II
more like money than people be-
lieve. What's past is spent. what's
coming L. only promised. but
what's here is coin of the realm
awaiting action"
DISILLUSIONED WIFE.
But she would listen for hours to
the experience of others. checking
them up mentally with her own.
After she married Robert Seaman,
the septuagenarian owner Of tho
Iron Clad Manufacturing Company.
which then controlled the patent
on virtually every milk can In the
country, she found only disillusion-
ment in matrimony.
Still In her twenties she was
bored by formal conventions and
sought recreation in travel. The
big Seaman house on West Thirty
seventh street, just off Fifth ave-
nue.. was always open to her old
friends and she established a sort
of salon that was unique in metro
politan life.
REGRETTED MARRYING.
Nelly Bly's marriage to Robert
Seaman was unhappy on both sides.
for the couple were mismated In
other ways than age. He was a
conservative, careful. plodding
merchant, devoted to old.fashioned
methods. Such arts as advertising
he could not understand. and to
him a change was more to be
feared than an illness. She knew
Intimately and affectionately per-
sons whose existence he would not
concede, even when he saw them.
Bookmakers, ACTRESSES, politi-
clans, explorersl Robert Seaman
at first thought his home was In
process of conversion into a menag-
erie, then he developed a mascu-
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partition in the form Of a bent old
man. who walked as though under
the weight of a pack. He called
George Swayze. the occupant of the
inn at that time, and they went
after the weird visitor. They emp
tied the contents OF an old-fashion-
ed shotgun into the figure, Edgar
Hunt said. but the shot just went
through it as though through fog
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By JOSEPH MULVANEY.

AYELLY BLY,, tho greatest
~ newspaper woman that ever
lived. died az she wanted to
Aie-a working reporter on New
York newspaper, after suffering
and enjoying q wider variety of
experience than is included in tho
lives OF hundred average
humans.
She was the first woman to
achieve national reputation in tho
Newspaper trade. She broke tho
record for girdling the globe in a
manner that made her an inter-
national celebrity. She covered"
every form of news events from
sinking in a diving bell to ascend
ing In q balloon; from East Side
politics to national conventions;
from society occurrences to coal
field and stockyard strikes.
She was incarcerated in an in
sane asylum as lunatic to learn
whether charges that keepers
were assaulting women inmates
weret rue; she found they were.
published facts and reformed the
entire system. She married a
millionaire. inherited his wealth,
and operated three big industries.
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and then the apparttion vanished
before their eyes.
Mr.. Hunt bore testimony that
John Calvin. a local septuagenarian
now in Florida, had an even moro
amazing encounter soon after this
incident. Calvin was walking down
the road of an evening to call on
his sweetheart when he was APP
preached by q woman in white.
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MrA Smith oauSht fire. TIE 6laSs
was sxtinsuishsd ~ the PATIENTS
mother. Mr.. John Msy~A Later
the mattress caught fire In another
place.
Two day. later the calendar on
the wall burst into flame. A few
hours after this was put out the
carpet ignited. Mrs. Mary Wag-
ner, aunt Of the invalid, lifted Mrs.
Smith from the bed to . chair.
As tho invalid's shawl touched the
floor 1t began to blaze violently.
SPOOKS INSPIRE ARTIST.
All the Ledding was removed
from the house and the room
where Mrs. Smith had rested was
cleared of furniture. Next day .
now mattress was brought In.
Scores Of neighbors ana . news
paper man were present at the
time. The new mattress was .
mass Of flames in . moment. with
blue tongues Of fire cracking and
darting over the surfAos Of It
DR.. C. c. Rogers. who II attending
Mr.. Smith, comedies that the soiu-
ton Of tho mystery II beyond him.
The local police, guarding the
house now. arc unable to offer
even q suggestion Of the origin
Of the fires.
Phenomcna Of another, Though
equally strange. variety. were re-
vealed last week through Flora
M. Spore. . Michigan girl now
studying art in Greenwich VillAgs.
Miss Spore never took oven . draw
ing lesson IN her life, yst she
paints canvasses under the direc-
ton, she e.ys, Of great artists
long since dead.
A friend OF Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, the novelist. discussed with
her . few years ago the results
Of some experiments made on the
ouija board. Miss 6pors SAID that
she bought . board and soon
began to get messages from her
dead sister. who advised her to
discard the board and use the
planchetts writing system for OBJ
tanning messages from the other
world.
MESSAGES FROM DEAD.
Soon, Flora says, she began -
get messages from her mother, and
the girl added:
II thought that my mSehsr had
been studying drawing Svor there.
but she told me t,as she had met
several great artists- After / b.
gan to hear from her and to make
drawings. she told me to discard
the planchette and just use m,
hands, and since then I have re
ceived all her messages and other
messages from there mentally
She wrote to Professor Hysiop,
then head Of the Society for p!
GEOLOGICAL Research, and came 90
New York to consult him IT,
professor died before she oould
talk to him. Flora mot Or. Primo
and was advised to keep an ac<
rate record Of all her communic-
tons with the other world.
The drawings ana paintings 81
the girl are extraordinary. to phrase
It safely. Still life II . favortts
form Of her art and she paints In
giant proportions under the direo-
ton. she says. Of Gustavs Dors-
Peregrineur and q Chinese artist.
Much of hea work Flora charac-
terizes as symbolic and explains
tho symbolism In phases which
she says have been communicated
to her from the spirits Of the
artists. DR.. Prince will 60 deeper
into Miss Spores work and
methods soon.
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Raaa0AAliEAx HERALD

Tho most extraordinary phase Of
this figure, according to Calvin's
tale, was that the young woman
had no head and her raiment was
20 sheer that he could see through
1t. He turned and ran. with the
headless wrath in pursuit. and
when he reached home, he col
lapsed over the threshold and did
not leave the house for a week.
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and her pet cat. Mary
Ellen was considered q
psychic factor in the An
tigonish manifestations.
come back. according to neighbors.
Frank Decker. who bought the
old house three years ago. is be-
ginning to be convinced that he
Is back again. For the farmer
said:
Along about midnight the
other night my wife and I were
Weakened by footsteps on tho
porch. The front door was bar
red and bolted. but we heard It
open with a heavy crash. Then
something began moving down.
stairs.
MYSTERIOUS RACKET.
'It roamed all over the place,
slamming doors and dragging fur
niture around and making a ter
rible racket. The dog was down.
stairs, too. and barked angrily.
then began to whimper and growl
softly az though he were afraid.
Then suddenly the back door
opened and slammed shut. and all
was quiet. We ran to the win.
dows. but we could see nothing.
and there were no tracks in the
snow. The front and back doors
were locked, found. after COM
ing down. and the furniture. in
stead of being scattered about.
was Just as ] left 1t. I don't
know what to make Of it-but
I'd like to sell the place."
Edgar Hunt. q neighbor Of the
Deckers. nodded his head sagely
when he heard this testimony and
recalled that in the seventies. when
he was a lad, he had seen an ap-
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another weird tale Of celestial
flames of sheerest blue that have
burst in the air around tho bed Of
Mrs. Ona Smith, an invalid in tho
town Of Alva. The entire county
Is aroused over this unexplained
demonstration, which 10 corrobo-
rated by several reliable witnesses.
Watchers at the invalid's bedside
have seen and felt the flames in
their clothing and tho wall paper
and the bed clothing. Two mat
tresses have been burned almost
under the patient, a calendar sus-
pended from the wall has been
ignited. a shawl worn by the in
valid has been burned and fires
have flashed in blue intensity along
the wood work Of the building
frequently.
MARY ELLEN" FIRE.
These flames have been strik-
ingly similar ITO the descriptions Of
the fires in the Antigonish farm.
house. and the solution of the mys-
terry may prove to be tho same.
The first fire broke forth ten
days ago. when the mattress under
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NEW YORK, April l.
MYTH the ghost of the Haunted House of Antig-
w onish exposed as mentally abnormal girl by DR..
Walter Franklin Prince of the American Society for
Psychical Research, other wraiths rising all over
tho country as though in protest against the laying of
the Nova Scotian spectre. Almost a score of towns
scattered the continent are appealing to Dr.
Prince to free them from celestial visitors that have
been reported stalking abroad since the psychic ex-
plorer went north.
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Heroine of Many Ups
and Downs of For
tune, Famous News
paperwoman Often
Had Voiced Longing
That When Deaths
Curtain Fell She
Would BE i'm the
Journalistic Profess
sion, Where She
Could DO Most Good
for the Greatest
Number.
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-WAVE OF SPOOK PHENOMENA FOLLOWS LAYING OF G.
BY DR. PRINCE i'm THE ANTAGONIST "HAUNTEL
JERSEY PEDDLER" AND
'HEADLESS WOMAN" i'm
WRATH LIFE AGAIN

DIR. Prince Blames MacDonald's Daughter for
the Strange Manifestations i'm Nova Scotia.
But ALI Over Country Come Reports That
Shades of the Departed Have Returned to
Old MauntS Like Bad Pennies.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-17

a new Ministry, is now sixty-one years
old. He has been active in French
politics since early youth. Born in
Barbecue, French Lorraine, the son
of O government engineer, he was
educated for the law. He became.
member of the Paris bar at twenty
one and several years later was ap-
pointed secretary TO julius Develle,
Minister Of Agriculture, friend of his
fathers.
In 1887, when he was twenty-seven
years o.d, he was elected to the Cham
Der of Deputies. and in 1895 he was
chosen vice president of that body,
serving three years. In 1903 he was
elected O senator. ~.i'".H 20
. From that time on Pofncare served
in many cabinets-Aas minister Of pub
lie instruction and minister of finance.
Meantime he had risen to the leader
ship Of the French bar and attained
great fame as an orator On. January
IA, 1912, he became premier and year
laterswas, elected. president for a term
of seven years, succeeding NJ. Fallieres.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-17
WOUNDED DEER FIGHTS
PIueky Buck Made Numerous At
tempts to Get Hunter.

That a wounded deer will fight was
demonstrated to Albert StetZer OF
Taniesville, when a good sized buck
caught sight of him and declared war
while the hunter was out alone, relates
a Stroudeburgh, Pa. dispatch. Stet-
ger shot the animal in a shoulder, but
1t failed TO stop OF even turn from its
course. '''
The second bullet struck the deer
in the head and the wounded animal
coming at full speed, was stopped SC
suddenly that it turned complete
somersault and landed on one side
but scrambled to its feet and renewed
efforts TO fight the man. Stctzer fired
a third shot that struck the deer in
hip, but failed to halt it and a fourth
shot in the head merely put it out OF
the combat temporarily.
Disregarding its many wounds the
plucky buck made n number o. at
tempts to rise and renew the attack
but Stetzer used his hunting knife tt
bring its struggles to an end.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-17
humorous Department.

He Knew What.-On a warm sum-
mers afternoon resident was talking
to a travelling ventriloquist who was
going to put on 4 show that night in a
little Southern town. An old darkey
approached. He was balancing a big
clothes basket on his head, from which
protruded the front paws and head of a
large turtle he had just caught in the
river.
Lets have some fun with the old
darkey," said the ventriloquist. So he
threw his voice into the basket: What
are you going to do with me?"
The old darkey stopped and rolled
his eyes toward the basket and then
moved on.
c.Again the question was asked sup
posedly by the turtle: What are you
going to do with me?'
The old man stopped and asked:
"Did you speak to me?"
The voice replied: Eyes, said, what
are you going to do with me?"
The negro, picture of fright, re-
piled: Use gwine ter drap you right
heah!" And he dropped the basket
and turtle and hed.-Judge.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-17
SHE IS
FULL OF pep"
THEY SAY
She Is Good. Looking and
Gay and Always Ready
for a Good Time

Why Is q girl popular? Look around
and see what n good time the good
looking ones have all the time. Men
seek them out and ask them to parties,
dances and entertainments. And no.
tice that It is not the doll-face type
real men like most, but the red blood
ed girl with pep and happy good ma
ttre. Any girl who is tired and
lenguid and has a poor complexion
ard dull eyes can improve her condl-
ton and be far happier IL she will
simply take GUIDES Pepto- Mangan un-
til she has put her blood into good
condition. Red blood means full OF
life" usually means happiness.
Try GUIDES Pepto- MangaE and see
how much better you feel. Doctors
have used it nearly. thirty years for
week, run down people. 1t helps them
get WELL Sold in both liquid and tab
let form. Advertisement.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-17
Billy Sundays Base Hits.-You can

Billy Sundays base TIVE N'
appease the wrath of God by putting Il
stained glass window in church.
Too many of us pray to God in our
distress and forget him in our prosper
ity.
Some people pray as if they eXpec'
nothing, and they are never dlsap-
pointed. E-..
I am surprised that the Lord is get
ting along so well when l consider the
bunch he has to work with here OF
earth
don't preach against sinners;
preach again sin. II / knew of your
secret sins I would not tell on you, ano
il you get anything on me please keel
your mouth shut.
| have to pray mighty hard some
times to keep from fighting some oI
these hypocritical Christians.
If man were to talk to hotei
waiter like he talks to his wife, the
waiter would knock his teeth out.
If you want your wife to be like an
angel don't treat her like the devil.
Sister, If you look better with rouge
then use rouge. Don't go around look
ing like a secondhand store or rum
mage sale. NV 3
The Lord made one woman for every
man, and sir, if you haven't got yours
lit isn't her fault. "a @
A good wife had rather her husband
would give her some flowers now than
to put them ON her coffin.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-01-17
tNTHE GRIP OF THE FLU.
England Is Wrestling With Most Ser''
Gus Epidemic of Recent Years.

Ha'f of England is in the grip of the
dcadliest influenza epidemic Of recent
years, according to government medi-
cal officers. London is the center OF
the epidemic with more than 200 cases
being reported daily.
With a substantial increase in the
percentage of deaths the disease is fast
spreading over Yorkshire, Lancashire
and Kent, in southeastern England, and
going as far north as Glasgow, where
it is hourly becoming: more. serious
Thousands are Ill with 1t in the Scot
tish city, and twenty-five deaths are
reported. i!.! g.. p
A sudden rise in the temperature IL
given officially as the cause Of the vast
increase in the number of cases. Fre-
quently since the. warm swell Of New
Year. week whole families have been
stricken at the same time.
The week Of January 6 saw Isl
deaths in London alone, an increase of
more than 100 in week.
Brighton, England's most popular
seacoast resort, is influenza bound,
physicians working. twenty-four hours
day combating the malady. In the
densely populated midlands the efforts
Of the medical men seem powerless to
stem the tide Of the disease. and many
factories are seriously hampered owing
to large percentages of their labor be-
ing Ill.
In London more than 100 policemen
and 230 street car drivers and conduc-
tors were reported sick today.
The thermometer is averaging 81 to
81 degrees, and unless it turns colder
at, once officials fear far greater
spread of the epidemic.
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HEARS HE is DEAD
kuhl Notifies War Department He is
Very Much Alive.


Mrs. II. +. Kuhl of Denver, Col, has
been notified by the Government War
Risk insurance Bureau that she will
receive the $i,500 due her as q result
of her husbands death in the. service
as soon as she niaRes+ applicationsm In
the regular form. .t.E%I;/
AS soon as Mrs. Kuhl got the notice
she asked her husband what she ought
to do about It. ~; ~ a.lt-'El
1T seemsiypu are dead" said Mrs
Kuhl. ~ 80
P: "Odd," said Kuhl. .y,r. ..
He felt himself speculatiyely. ,.i
d. MARK Twain was right" he de-
clared. ..,.
Here I've been drawing my retire
ment pay regularly since left the SER
vice in 1919. On the first Of every
month pay my premium into the War
Risk Insurance fund. Also have
been besieging the War Department
to recognize my claim for physical or
total disability allotment. Now it
seems that I am dead"
Kuhl said that when he had read
the letter announcing his ieath, he
returned ii to the War Department
with a notation to the effect that the
account of his demise was slightly
overdrawn.