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Wha“ elsTcould you expect from a world which does not go to church, and whose chief intellectual influence is the moving-picture show?
D oped By crEe Devil A woman recently brought suit for annulment of marriageon the „rounds that the man she married had doped’ her with drugs and that she did not know what she was doing. She is not the only devil-doped person we have heard-of. Now comes Sir Oliver Lodge, Scientist, from England He has a won- derful discovery. He says so and he is prepared to prove it. He is anxious that the unlearned scientists of America and the poor unsophisticated peo- plfshould have the pleasure of participation m the wonderful revelations which have come to him from the fairy land. We appreciate very i„ y goodness of this old gentleman’s heart in behalf of our I but, unfortunately, he is in error. Our fathers Jearf ^ i ^ r s i s t o s in vival originated here about seventy years ago when two scl^ ™ c,®1f a town near New York City got into touch with the other realm And at the close of the Civil War a great many good people hear fro the departed who had laid down their lives on the battle held bpintist papers were published; seances were held everywhere. We ourselves sat in the dark rooms with hands on the tables and felt them S B We heard the rans wonderful raps, two for “ Yes,” and three for No, to ail ot our auestions. We felt the taps on our heads and strange noises. There we cabinets in those days on the stage, and audiences waited m lightless rooms for the raps and taps and strange phosphorescent faces and forms and banjo m ^ f a s Seinstrument sailed through the air. We paid our quarter and asked for no change. We had double slates m those days with pencils and paper upon which came wonderful stories about our grandparents. We had Planchette boards with pencils attached, only fifty cents each, and when our hands were placed upon them, they would write m a most mysterious man- H H M I Oniia of today We couldn’t make out the messages very well, and the spelling was fearfuily and wonderfully performed, but what did that matter * Were we not in communication with the departed, and if they were hav£g s u i i good time that they couldn’t stop to spell; correctlY we knew that they were living. A good many interesting and interested folk reaped a good many shekels and a good many people lost a good many hours m the vain pursuit of information and some deluded people lost their minds, but what did that matter? Was it not all done in the interest of science, and is not science a wonderful thing, anyhow? K f f n i Now there was one thing that was unfortunate m those days When ever the light was turned on unexpectedly, it spoiled the spirits and spoiled the meeting, also, for the medium proved to be playing upon the fancies of the people, and was found with the false goods upon his or her person We feel sorry to be compelled to tell Sir Oliver all thm- We woukln t hurt his kindly heart for anything, but we must tell the truth. Sir Oliver,
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