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 y " 11 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 fg 99 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 jfyjjuTT} 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 • • 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 ! _____ i 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.