SEEKING TO SOLVE
RIDDLE OF UNIVERSE
SCIENTIST HAS PLANNED GREAT WORK
Cantte Ramaario*, World’s Most Noted Astronomer, Is Confident He
Cta Discover Troth* Hitherto Hidden — Says: “1 Believe
Tfcai Sck ntii'j, by Meant of New Discoveries, Are
Face to Face with the Great Principle.
CAilllJ>; FLAMMAHION. oat of
it* mats’, at utntaom :id
IbBA lias set !..tt»'.f tbe
»w*ea at Irjitf to sole* tbe riddle j
at tbe wticfM
A «t« «itb III astronomical studies !
be -» trying to feed if tbe Mai coal
uistuoa teiephobe. radium. tek-peth*.
asm »; .ritc-iiMs. are some at tbe mac j
M****t «us at ibis same great power !
Aii.-r wot (tiny years of study
and ia»**tig*fiu& b« baa set forth tbe
result of th.» au.-fc m "Tbe Jdvs'.e
nsms Kjc-c force." whiefa a as be- ,
gas n*» yeais before in bis aork
called "Tbe Inknowa.' in tbls book
he glees tbe result of bis lavesttga
Uon in sptntusJism. at>d in "Tbe I'n
known" be handies tbe questions at
mental tekpetby. dreams, etc. Ttougb
apfeosi ut Ibe subyect diSerently.
be «ttr< to th* came conclusion in
both <jt these studies
By CAMILLE FLAMMARION.
THE atreless telephone and tele
graph tare pi o ten that tbe
«*rti. as seU as the air. lias
bowers of transmission tbit i
•ere neier imagined a quarter of a
century ago interesting ns these die I
rweerte# are It fbemselrea. they are
mere interesting beta use tfaey are |
nrgttg scientists os to find tbe tame
lews mnd prttx-tpie* in telepathy,
spiritualism. and bypnotism
1 bad tbe same lass governing men
tat telepathy that prerail In tbe Mur
cow and -Ar sire less telephone and
thick teat these are only tbe first
M*pe nt greater dls~« cries tba- me
to come I admit that ‘nvestt&atioa
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Tafapc*//>y
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rf vestal telepathy and spiritualism
kaa beougtt toe face to fare with «
great psychic (err* more powerful
than electricity, radium and other
physical forces
Matter la only aa appearance Tbe
vyster-eoa *urcea wo are studying
v# tfccmee'vea manifestations of the
universal dynamism with a fetch our
• »* senses put us imperfectly Into re
tanoa
Theoe ttlt.pa belong to the pxy
ehical aa well as to the physical
They prove that »e are still meg
lu the midst of an unexplored world
ta which the psychic force plays a
role a* yet Itnperieetly studied It
la aa aatalliched tart that this dyaa
miav ext via. though *1 haa Dot been
fully expts.cec. and perhaps will
aever h» fu!i> explained any more
than ar» ail rhe physical manifests
fa** T > » hr cause >« take our
Ideas for readies
-Th «g* Sot What They Stem.*
For example, to o-r senses tbo ulr
to aot a so.;** body, w, paaa inrough
It ui'.hoat eff? r* white ue canasi pas*
through as trot, ioor Tho coaterse
M true of electricity; It passes
through the trot, sad finds the air to
he a solid a'most Impassable body
To tbe «■ er-nclaa o wire is a canal
iexd’rs electricity across tbe solid
rock of the air Glass la opaque to
gfff'Tfr TTTf9-s r-r-ys^gyj-gyryg'v>
e>vtricity aud transparent to -Mq
The liec-h is trausparent to
ray*, w hile glass is opaque
Thu*, for example, if some one had
. aid that there eouid be instantaneous
.riicatiac between Loudon aud
before the invention of the
’-c• ph iieople w- ild have laughed
Later it would not have been adailt
t*d a- po**ib.u except on condition of
* existence cf a wire New that we
have wireless telegraphy, we can r.i
pi> the disco-ery to the explanation
.f wireless telegraphy, spiritualism
and other phenomena.
Likewise spiritualism, auto sugves
y Vurcfrsi Tklt&rjpJi'
ti n. Blind reading, are as real as
eii-aricity and other forces found in
physic* and chemistry, only of a
higher order, lor they have in them
something vital and a kind of mental
tty.
My experiments made during many
years with spiritualism and Its mani
festations have shown me that these
psychic force.- are worthy of being
e.-.braced within the scop*? of scien
tific analysis At present they have
6»-*-n as little studied as in the time of
Ptolemy and have not yet found their
N*-wt' n. yet the} fairly (btrude tbem
>eltes on our notice and cry out to
be examined T'nat is not so strange
when we remember that the earth
and planets were circling about the
■ n in lhe:r harmonious orbits, while
astronomical theories saw in them
only a complicated mass of reventy
ntne cry s?a!lice shells Magnetism
waa encircling the earth with its com
plicated currents long before they
were arrested in their flight. The
•tars were darting their rays through
the ether before any human eye bad
been raised to them
Soul Independent of Body.
From all my experiments, both In
thos- giean »d from spiritualism and
telepathy and set forth m "The Mys
terious Psychic Force” and "The Un
known.*' I come to the same conclu
sion. that the soul exists as a real
entity independent of the body. It is
endowed with faculties still unknown
to science. It Is able to act at a dis
tance without the Intervention of the
senses There exists In nature a
myriad activity, a psychic element,
the essential nature of which is still
hidden from us
Ever since I was a boy of 16 years
of age. along with my studies In
n'roBoay 1 Lave been at work study
ing these questions. The study of
spiritualism was quite accidental.
One day in the month of November.
1***1. under the galleries of the Odeon.
I -spied a book entitled "The Book of
spirits.” by Allan Kardec. I bought
it and read It with avidity, several
chapters seeming to me to agree with
the scientific basis of the book I was
thei writing "The Plurality of Inhab
■ ted Worlds ** 1 hunted up the author,
who insisted that I should enter a
free, associated member of the Par
isian Society for Spiritualistic Re
search. which be founded and of
which he was president
The members come together every
Friday evening In the assembly
room of the society in a little hall
which was placed under the protec
tlon of St Louis The president
opened the seance with an Invocation
of the good spirits. It was admitted
as a principle that Invisible spirits
were present there and tried to ap
peal to ns A certain number of
people were selected They were
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seated at a large table and were told
to abandon themselves to the spirits
In the room and to write; these were
called mediums. Several years later
my illustrious Triend. Victorien Sar
dou. who had often visited the obser
vatory. wrote as a medium some curi
ous p'.ges on the inhabitants of the
planet Jupiter and produced pictur
esque and surprising designs which
tried to represent men and things
as they appeared in this giant
of worlds. One of his sketches
showed the house of .Mozart, others
the houses of Zoroaster and of
Bernard Patissy But I must
confess that \be drawings clear
ly showed that Sardou was not di
rected by a spirit from that planet.
The transference of thought from
nr.e brain to another is a fact proved
by telepathy Several mediums have
r.lso composed, in successive seances,
genuine romances, such as the his
tory of Joan of Arc. written by them
selves, seeming that there is a kind
of doubling of rhe personality of the
subject, a second personality. As to
tiie second, planchette. 1 became fa
miliar with thf.s through the seances
of Mrae de Girardin at the home of
i Victor iiugo. in the isle of Jersey. It
works more independently than the
first method, but still it is only a pro
longation of the hand and the brain.
The third method is the table rap
ping. I mean taps on a table; they
seem more emphatically to be an ex
tension of the hand and brain. Rap
pings trade on the floor by one foot
of the table- have no value because
the least pressure can produce the
seesaw movement.
Greater Things Yet to Come.
What man of gocd sense would for
merly have admitted that we should
one day be able to photograph the
skeleton of a human being, or store
up the voice in a photograph, or de
termine the chemical composition of
an inaccessible star? What was sci
ence a hundred, two hundred, three
hundred years ago? Yes. in a thou
sand years, what will human intelli
gence be? Our actual condition will
be to that what the knowledge of the
dog Is to the cultivated man now—
that Is to say, there Is no possible
comparison There are properties of
matter which are completely hidden
from us. and humanity is endowed
with faculties still unknown to us.
These experiments, as well as those
I have made in telepathy, lead me
to believe that ell these phenomena
are not simply a material order, that
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they belong to a higher, .a psychical
order. ,
I may sum up the whole matter
with the single statement that there
exists (n nature, as I said before, a
myriad activity, a psychic element,
the essential nature of which is still
hidden from us. but which some day
will be understood by a further
study of spiritualism, discoveries in
the physical sciences.
Peculiar Chinese Industries.
In Taochow there are some strange
industries. One is the raising of the
machi, a sort of large pheasant, the
tail feathers of which are very valu
able. as they are needed for the dress
hats of mandarins. Timber is very
plentiful iu this district and is sent
away by raft to ali parts.
Kansas Schoolgirl’s Choice of Ways.
One day last week two little girls
in Parsons were hurrying to school
and were afraid they would be tardy.
One little girl said: “Let's kneel right
down and pray that we won't be
tardy.” "Oh, no," said the other,
"let’s hike on to school and pray while
we’re hikin'."—Parsons Sun.
SPIDER AS AN ARCHITECT
Natwra jt» View With Admiration
the Really Marvoioua Work cf
Tnooo Small Insects
(Jet »Im la desirous of studying (be
uitit«ci oral gift* of tptdrr* may
easily do ao by observing tbe labor*
«d (be K»tb gardes »puiri common
to all lwall(.r* These beautiful
•< b». drrulor to outline, urltb radial
lag thread* running from center to
ctrrna.fem.ro and supporting a ae
rtei of concentric line*. are regarded
by naturalists aa (be tlgbest arcbl
teetural achievement of (be spider.
Tbe mcber of (be neb alia at lia cen
ter. where tbe slightest vibration
caused by tbe struggle* of an entan
gird victim Ja Instantaneously felt.
Tbe (breed* are go fine ns almost to be
Invisible in aomo lights, and at tbe
name time ao strong that no insect not
too pevetfd for (be spider to over
nor I* a Wo to bran* them
He* did (be sptdet learn tbn art of
«*■■ rg ibcao webs? Tbeir great la
genulty and perfection of geometric i
form are conceded The naturalist Is
not satisfied with the reply that It is
a matter of instinct He learns that
there are wide differences to be
found among the webs of different
spiders, and his observations lead him
to thick that ho can discern a sort
of actual progress, which he calls evo
lution. in the art of web making
amotig spiders
The common house spider spins a
web quite different from that of the
cardeu spider The bouse spider’s web
consists of a silken tube bidden in a
dark corner, with an irregular sheet
of closely woven meshes spread be
fore It The tube is the spider’s lurk
ing hole and place of refuge; the out
spread web la tts snare. The wolf
spider makes a tubular hole with a
hinged door for a refuge, and spreads
no snare, relying entirely on Its own
prowess to overcome the unsuspect
ing victim.
According to the best authorities
these different kinds of webs or nests
represent no many stages of develop
ment There are naturalists who are
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of opinion that at the beginning the
only kind of web that any spider
knew bow to spin was a simple cocoon
intended to protect its eggs Then a
web for the protection of the spider
Itself from its enemies was woven
around the cocoon. This web hat an
opening for Ingress and egress, and
such webs, intended for use only dur
ing the time that the eggs are hatch
ing, are still spun by some species of
spidera The next step was the devel
opment of a snare. It has been sug
gested this may have resulted from
the accidental spinning of threads
over and around the opening of a
tubular retreat surrounding a cocoon.
In all this there may be discerned
some resemblance to the progress of
architecture among men. The earliest
representatives of the human race
were content to dwell in caves and
rndely constructed huts. Then more
elaborate dwelling places and build
ing* Intended for other purposes were
constructed, until, by successive steps,
advancing as has the spider, we have
arrived at the temples, palaces and
houses of civilised life.
For the Theater
Pboiograph by Underwood & Underwood. N. Y.
A fashionable society leader has introduced this to Broadway theater
goers. It is made of gold lace, fur band and ribbon laces, and the point com
ing over the shoulders is the very latest idea.
WILL WELCOME NEW CORSETS i
—
Very Graceful and Comfortable Ara j
the Lines That Have the In
dorsement of Paris.
Lower in bust than ever are the
stays, and the sloping shoulders of
the kimono sleeve anti the graceful,
draped fichu are but tendencies which
pointed the way for this new figure.
Some of the newest Parisian cor
sets are but mere girdles above the
waist—quite frequently not reaching
to the bust. The idea is to give one
long line shoulder to waist—a gently
eloping line with the bust as low as
possible.
But not below the waist is the cor
set growing shorter! Far from it!
Longer and still longer grow
mademoiselle's stays—one wonders
how they can be worn with comfort.
But they can. for many of them are
not heavily boned, but beautifully
shaped and so arranged that the fig
ure may be kept slim and youthful
below the waist line. \
Not below the waist line alone,
however, is the figure to be youthful
—but above it as well. The high,
lifted waist line, the low bust, the !
slim, sloping shoulders—all this is
calculated to keep madame from
showing the ravages of time—to keep i
her youthful as possible.
Very comfortable, indeed, are these
new corsets, for if they hold the body
trim and tight below the waist line
they keep it supple and free above
the waist, allowing ease and freedom
of movement and perfect comfort.
STRIPED VELVET WAIST.
This attractive model is of striped
velvet with large revers of the same
over which are tiny ones of black
satin. It fastens in front with but
tons and is finished with an edge of
black satin.
The sleeves are trimmed to corre
spond. The collar is of lace and the
guimpe is of white dotted tulle.
TAFFETA WITH BROWN FUR !
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Effective Combination of Materials
That There Is Little Doubt
Is to Be Popular.
A brown taffeta dress (by the way. i
brown taffeta is certainly going to be
the right wear for the next few ;
months) is trimmed with brown fur.
The corsage is bloused into a narrow 1
taffeta belt quite simply, and around
the throat lies a soft cream lace col- |
larette. The skirt is also bloused
just above the knees, over a broad
band of fur, which rises a little be
hind, and below it the taffeta is tied
into a careless, flat sort of bow. which j
hangs not quite in the middle, behind. !
The sieves are long and have a
touch of creamy lace at the wrists. !
With simply dressed hair, a sable
toque and a big fur coat, could any- !
thing be more desirable or charm
ing for winter weather than this lit- |
tie dress, when people heat their I
homes so much that thin gowns are j
necessary?
GAVE TOUCH OF ORIGINALITY
How One Clever Girl Evolved In
genious Scheme That Is Worthy ’
to Become a Fashion.
Seeing in the shops the tiny nar
row bands of folded black satin, with
their long silken or heavy beaded tas- i
sels. used as a neck finish, a certain !
ingenious girl added the touch of: !
originality to her new afternoon gown
by making, to go with it. a tie or
braided folds of black satin.
The little tie was of the usual
three strand braiding, the satin strips i
being very small and carefully blind
stitched along the entire length. It'
was long enough to go around the
neck and hang almost to the waist,
the ends being worked into a clever
little "rosette." with a jet beaded
center. Another tiny medallion cov-<
ered the black metal "snap fastener”
which held the tie together.
Bias Trimming.
Eias effects in trimmings are the
rage, those that go rcund and round
a skirt barber pole fashion being
called “swirls.” This treatment, when
made of fringe, with the bands widely
separated, is vastly becoming to the
figure, taking nothing from the height
or slimness if the wearer is slight or
of medium build. That is. of course,
when the gown is well made and a,
clinging material, for crude dressmak
ing with clumsy stufTs can not be ex
pected to give the same harmonious
resuits.
Mexican Work.
When doing a piece of Mexican
work that is to be drawn in squares
try outlining "it ss for Hardanger em
broidery. You will surely be pleased
with the result. It looks so much neat
er than buttonholing. After outlining,
cut and draw the threads as usual.—
Needlecraft.
For the School Girl.
The young girl in her teens is pro
verbially difficult to dress, but very
often the simplest and most sensible
solution of the difficulty is to copy
mother and to adhere to the tailor
made.
The fine stripes that are so fash
ionable make very suitable schoolgirl
costumes, especially In the vague
black and gray stripes that are now
■worn. The skirt is cut simply with
an apron back and front fastened
down by large buttons of the materi
al: the coat is short and single or
double-breasted without trimming, hut
with the collar faced with gray vel
vet.
Matching the costume, the hat
should be of gray beaver, with just
one touch of color, a cerise feather.
Resurrection of the Sampler.
Happy ia the woman who numbers
among her Inherited treasures a fam
ily sampler, showing the needlework
of her female forbears and recording
Interesting ancestral dates aad facts.
A few years ago such things were re
tarded as useless, ''If Interesting,
relicts, add were carefully put away
where no one ever saw them. Now
they are cherished and exhibited with
pride, their perlect stitches examined
and their colorings raved over. One
finds them hung on walls and used as |
table covers, but perhaps the best dis- i
position to make of them is to place ;
them under glass in the bottom or a
tea tray, for here the treasure is safe
from harm, though in constant use.
Home-Made Brooches.
The peculiarity of the side frill or
lapel that needs a pin to hold it in
place has brought about the use of
many ornamental brooches. One of
the newest of these is made or gold i
braid with colored beads for the cen
ter. And any girl can make such a
brooch. Disks of dull gold braid
sewed together and centered with
Jewels or beads In desirable color
ings make up easily. All sorts or
shapes are given them, and often
pendants are added to tarnished gold
buttons, of passementerie ornament^
or of beads or Jewels. The brooches
hare strong safety pins sewed on at
the back.
FOREIGN SECRETARY UPHELD
Jir Edward Grey’s Anglo-German Ne
gotiations Approved and His Res
ignation Net Tendered.
London.—Those well-informed in
British state affairs say that it was
the intention of Sir Edward Grey.
3reat Britain’s foreign secretary, to
"esign his post unless supported in
lis Anglo-German negotiations. His
statement on the subject, which was
submitted to parliament recently was
tpproved. and the crisis safely passed,
sir Edw ard has teen secretary of state
tor foreign affairs since 1905.
Irish nationalists are playing a ,
Sir Edward Grey.
waiting game in parliament. Mem
bers of the usually turbulent little
band which sits below the gangway of
the house of commons have kept
themselves in hand so far, although
they are deeply Interested In the In
surance bill which Is oc^uying all the
time of the house.
William O'Brien and his handful of
followers sometimes try to excite their
fellow countrymen by engaging in sar
casm at their expense, but without
success. The nationalist benches are
quietly waiting for 1912, “Ireland's
year," as they call it.
While the rankers of the national
ist party are doing missionary work
in the lobby, the leader, John Red
mond. is busy explaining home rule
to the people of England. Mr. Red
mond's campaign already has extend
ed from Scotland in the north to the
extreme south of England. The colo
nial secretary, Lewis Harcourt, ac
companied him in the midlands, and
at other places ministers and liberal
leaders have sat with him on the
platform.
Press reports of the meetings re
cord very few interuptions uf the Irish
leader.
Mr. Redmond and other Irish mem
bers impress upon their audiences
that what Ireland demands is not sep
aration. but “the right of managing
its own afTairs in a subordinate place,
subject to the supremacy of the im
perial parliament, a demand that
never has been made by any com
munity of white men in the empire
and refused except in the case of Ire-"
iand”.
GIANT ROCK LIKE A* SPIRE
Curecanti Needle In Black Canyon
Rises to a Height of 1,600 Feet
Above Surroundings.
Gunnison. Colo.—An enormous splin
ter of rock, the Curecanti needle, la
an Isolated mountain spire rising to
the height of 1,600 feet above the
Black canyon of the Gunnison in Col
orado. The Gunnison Canyon is
Curecanti Needle.
deemed equal In natural beauty to
that of the Royal gorge.
The GunniSon river dashes through
this wild canyon with such Impetu
ousness that it is beaten to foam
amidst the ragged bowlders. The can
yon walls are pleasingly colored and
are constantly opening and closing to
the view. Chipeta falls dashes down
a lofty wall and the tremendous splin
ter of the Curecanti needle pierces to
the clouds. It is a region of wild and
nigged beauty. •
Elks Battle In Park.
San Francisco, Cal.—The killing of
Insurgent, one time master of the
herd of elk in Golden Gate park, by
Outlaw, one time leader in the pad
dock, in a battle to the death was
avenged by Stranger, a four-year-old
buck, when he all but sent Outlaw to
the happy grazing grounds. Only the
timely arrival of Sergeant of Police P.
H. McGee and two policemen saved the
game old warrior from his younger
foe.
When the police broke up the bat
tle Outlaw’s side was badly gored and
his hide torn from contact with a wire
fence, against which he had been
driven by his adversary.
Steps will be taken by the park au
thorities to prevent further battles for
supremacy among the bucks of the
herd. The big pen will be divided if
necessary and each given a separate
compartment
BAD CASE
OF GRIP
Caused Sore Threat and Ton
siSitis. Restored by
Peruna.
Mr. W. H.
Ilouslcy,
Green v ille,
Ten n e s see,
writes:
“Five years
ago I took a .
very severe
cold which i
r e s u 11 ed in J
la grippe. la
never was so \
bad off. I
was in bed
several
weeks, and
when I did
get up I had
to nsilitis
and sore Mr. W. H. Housley.
throat.
"I tried to cure this for eighteen
months, but it gradually got worse. A
doctor advised me to have my tonsils cut
out, but I did not like the idea. Another
doctor examined me, and told me the
same thing. I finally got a bottle of
Peruna, and after I had taken one bottle
my throat was better. I bought and used
a dozen bottles, and saw I was going to
get well, and I did.”
Ask Your Druggist for a Free Peruna
Almanac for 1912.
Brown’s Bronchial Troches
For Hoarseness and Throat Troubles. No opiates.
Sample free. John I. Bbown 4 Son, Boston, Mass.
RELIEVES
_TIRED EYES
NOT MUCH OF A GENTLEMAN.
JV- - -P
B £• p iiiett
V ~
Jones—If you keep on abusing me I
may forget that I’m a gentleman.
Mrs. Jones—You wouldn’t have
much to forget.
The Thin Girl's Temper.
No thin woman can afford to lose
her temper. '‘Nothing." says a good
authority, “will make you so angular
or give your face such an undesirable
look as the free indulgence of your
own will.” A girl who was thin to a
really painful degree gained 30 pounds
in 60 days on the following regime:
Twelve hours sleep a day; a well
ventilated and cold room to sleep in,
with plenty of fresh air all night;
light down coverlets for warmth and
hot-water bags at the feet if they
are cold; loose, light clothing at all
times, with plenty of space about the
chest, shoulders and waist; a diet of
cereals, cocoa, fresh fruits or starchy
vegetables, potatoes, beans, etc., milk
and cream—everything of a wanning,
fat -producing nature in the way of
food; warm baths, though not too fre
quently.
Her Logic.
It was the week before Christmas.
Emery gnd his younger sister, Mildred,
were debating very seriously the real
ity of Santa Claus.
“There Isn't any Santa Claus," said
Emery, with finality.
“Why, there must be," Insisted his
sister. "How could they make pic
tures that look fust like him?”
The Fool Season.
First Ice Pond—You look thin.
Second Ice Pond—Yes, they had bet
ter not skate on me till I have embon
point.
Most of us have repair shops for
our broken promises.
Post
Toasties
A Treat
So Sweet;
Add Cream
Then Eat.
Post
Toasties
“The Memory Lingers”
Poetnm Cereal Company, Limited,
Battle Creek, Bleb.
