The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, June 06, 1907, Image 3
VICTIM IN TRUNK
Turns Out to Be an Agent of the
Turkish Sulton.
THE SLAIN PRIEST
Was Known to Be a Politician and
Bitter Dislike of llim Was Openly
K.\pressed by Ore''1 7 and Others.
He Crossed Amer.v In Society in
America Which Seeks to Fret? Armenia
From Turk's Control.
Dillig-ent effort on the part of a
score of detectives from headquarters
did not prake much headway in
the solution of the problem of how i
the body of the Greek priest, Father
Casper Haran, or Vatiarian, as the
police records have it, came to be
found doubled up in a trunk in a vacant
room at 333 West Thirty-seven
th street, New York, Sunday May
26. Two men, and possibly four,
whom the police believe to be implicated
in the murder have not yet
been found.
The developments have brought
forth two facts tvhich may uncover
the motive of the murder and clear
away to some extent the doubt concerning
how and when the priest met
his death. Most important of these
discoveries is the fact that Father
Casper was a politician as well as a
cleric, and that he had close alliance
with one of the American secret revolutionary
societies in this city.
It was learned that very recently
there had been a split in the ranks
of the revolutionary workers of the
local Armenian colony, and that
much bad blood had been engendered
between the two factions.
REVOLUTIONARY ORDER.
Vahram Sopossion, an Armenian,
who has a restaurant at 137 East
Twenty-sixth street, and a number
of Armenian^ gathered there explained
to a reporter just what relation
the affairs of the Honchekis
or Henchagain society may be found
to bear with the murder of Father
Casper when the hidden facts in the
case are brought to light.
Throughout all Europe and in
America wherever there is a sufficiently
large colony of loyal Armenians
branches of the Honchekis have
been established. The order is purely
a revolutionary one, and the avowed
object is to free Armenia and
neighboring Christian countries from
the rule of the Turks. The New York
branch of the society had been established
some time ago, said the
Armenian restaurant keeper, and had
worked many years in harmony until
two months ago.
Serpossian said that as a member
of the new branch of the society he
could not enter into details of the
split, but feeling was high and there
was still bitter recrimination and accusation
of unfaithful passing between
the two branches of the revolutionary
order.
SPIES HAVE BEEN SLAIN.
In Europe and in a few instances
in this country spies have been discovered
in the ranks of the Armen
ian society whose duty it has been to
nip incipient revolutions in Armenia
by passing up to the Turkish authorities
at home information of the Honchekis
campaigns.
"There have been spies in our own
number," and Terpossian. "The accusation
of spy has been made members
of our society."
"Was the priest a spy?"
"If he was a spy he died like others
have died before him who have
been s es," was the answer the Armen'
made.
Thofrestaurant keeper and his companions
were asked if Father Casper
had been a member of the Honchekis.
They said that he had, but they
would not specify which branch of
the recently divided society he belonged
to.
BITTER TOWARD PRIEST.
"Father Casper had a bad reputation,"
continned the speaker for the
group. "He was known to be miserly
and to prefer to beg his bread
and bed than work for it. We have
always known him as a man who loitered
around and did as little as possible
for a living. He had the reputation
of being no good."
The second fact brought out in the
investigations which forced the detectives
to revise their theories of
the time and place where Father
Caspar was murdered is that he was
snori alive at. 12 o'clock noon on Wpd
nesday and in the restaurant of the
man Serpossian, who is strong in his
condemnation of the dead priest's
character.
According to this man's story, the
priest came to his place of business
alone and carrying with him the
black hand bag which he always took
with him on his wandering through
the city. When he left the restaurant
about noon he said he was going uptown
to meet some friends.
Up to the present the detectives
een able to trace Father
Caspar's movements after he was
seen by Mrs. Scherer, the German
woman who rented a room to the two
Armenians who disappeared on Wednesday
evening.
MYSTERY BECOMES DEEPER.
Mrs. Scherer say the priest in the
company of the two at 8 o'clock in
GROWS WITH TIME.
Some Interesting Data About the
Older of Masonry,
1h Hah Kxpaiulcd Until It Is Now
Found in Every Civilized Country
of the World.
Some few weeks ago there was a
great gathering of masons in Atlanta
to lay the corner stone of a grand
temple in that city. The Atlanta
Journal says this great gathering of
Masons directs special attention to
the oldest and most noble fraternal
organization in the world, which now
numbers its membership by the million
in all the civilized countries of
the world. The Journal goes on to
say:
Secret societies, having the fatherhood
of God and the brotherhood
of man as their basic principles,
have arisen from time to time, have
lived their life and followed one another
into the shadows of the past.
The oldest of those that still survive
are but as creatures of yesterday
compared with the brotherhood of
Free and Accepted Masons. It is a
guild which can afford to look down
with indulgent patronage on all the
other guilds and crafts, howeuer ancient
may be their charters.
The origin of Masonry is lost in
the remotest period of the past. Tradition
has ascribed it to the building
of Solomon's temple, and it is alleged
to have had a leading part in
the construction of the pyramids.
That there is more than a mere basis
of truth for the former claim is
practically undenied, though it is
not denied that the order has been
materially modified since that era of
remote antiquity.
As soon as mankind evolved from
his nomadic habits of life and began
to erect fixed bodies, the mason, as
an artisan, began to come into reel
uest. He was necessarily a man of
skill and combined something of the
architect with his craftsmanship.
As the Christian civilization spread
over the earth, particularly in Europe
and in England, magnificent
cathedrals arose as the expression
of the pious devotion of the people.
An adequate idea of their size and
magnificence may be easily gathered
from such of them as still remain,
and one may readily understand that
in the building of them men of the
highest skill were required.
Some of the oriental forms and
ceremonies which had been their
birth in the days of Solomon, undoubtedly
came down through the
ages, but it was at the period when
artisans of every craft were organizing
their respective guilds that active
masonry acquired its regular organization
in something like the form
in which we find it today.
But there were necessary conditions
which differentiated the masons
from all other crafts. The weavers,
the drapers, the goldsmiths could
each attach themselves to a given locality
like London. They had their
guildhalls where they met and intermingled
and it was an easy matter
for them to know and remember
each other.
Not so with the masons. From the
very nature of their service they were
called upon to travel from one city
to another, to build a cathedral at
York or an abbey at Kilwinning.
Signs and pass words were devised
that the liveried members of the
craft might make themselves known
to one another and claim hospitality
from their fellow-craftsmen as they
the morning, in the hallway of the
Scherer flat, on the third floor of the
tenement at 333 West Thirty-seventh
street. The German woman told
the detectives she was sure that she
saw Sarkis, one of her lodgers, and
a strange man coming upstairs, to
the flat with a heavy trunk in the
afternoon of the same day. The detectives
seem to accept as positive
the assumption that the priest's
body was in the trunk that Mrs. Scherer
saw being carried upstairs.
Now that it has been developed
that the priest was seen alive at 12
o'clock at 137 East Twenty-sixth
street, the puzzle of how and where
Father Caspar's murders did him to
death is deepened. Within three
hours, at most, after Serpossian, the
restaurant keeper, saw the prest, his
body was coiled up in a trunk at a
place fully three miles away.
An examination of the records in
the Adams Express office shows that
the trunk weighed 145 pounds, just
heavy enough, the detectives say, to
indicate that it contained the body of
a medium-sized person. The weight
they declare, is far above the average
of that of the contents that could
e placed into a trunk by anomadic
Armenian.
REPORT OF INHERITANCE.
It is assorted that Father Caspar
Vartianan had recently inherited a
snug fortune from a brother, who
I died in Chicago, and that he also posi
sessed a jewel of great value in the
form of a crescent or a cross, which
had been handed down generation to
generation of priests. Those workj
ing on the case who subscribed to the
robbery theory, believe these reported
possessions furnish the motive for
the crime,
The criminal examination of the
organs of the dead priest is progressing,
and until the result of this is
known, the police will not say positively
whether Father Vartianan was
killed by drugs before he was placed
in the trunk.
WOl'LI) KILL ROOSEVELT.
Rumored That lirother of McKinlry
Assassiu Was in Canton.
Despite a rumor of doubtful orgin
that Michael Czolgoscz, a brother of
the assasin of President McKinley,
would be in Canton. Ohio, Wednesday.
the funeral of Mrs. McKinley
and the contingent visiting of President
Roosevelt passed off without incident
of sinister note.
Taking precautions against the
one chance in a thousand that the
rumor of Czolgoscz's presence was
true, the local police, assisted by secret
service men from Washington
and Cleveland, exercised the most
alert vigilance during the president's
stay in the city.
No trace whatever was found of
Czolgoscz nor any anarchist, although
three strangers to the city wore held
in the jail during the president's stay.
There was nothing against them,
however, and they were released.
That the police were taking no
chances was evident by the precautions
taken at the McKinley home.
All friends and relatives of the Mckinley
family had to go to their carriages
through the front door.
Crowds had gathered in front of
' the place, including a number of men i
with cameras, who wished to catch
snap shots of the president. The
original plan had been changed, however,
and while the crowd watted on
north Market street the presidential
party was led out. of the side door to
carriages waiting on Louis street.
The trip to the cemetary was made
quietly and without incident and tf>
minuted ahead of the appointed time
the president reached his car. A
large crowd gathered for a speech,
but the president merely lifted his
hat and wished them "good luck."
DON'T EAT (JVATL.
Pathologist Says They Contain Deadly
Disease Bacilli.
That hacilli of the most dangerous
variety lurk in the organs of the
quail has been announced by Dr. (loo.
Byron Morse, of the division of pathology,
Bureau of Animal Industry, sit
Washington.
A morsel of the flesh of si bird infected
with the disease, called epizootic,
will kill the strongest man.
No antidote has been found and until
more is learned of the malady, it is
considered dangerous to eat quail.
Experiments with guinea pigs and
mice fed on the infected birds invariably
caused death. It is ssiid that it
is difficult to tell when a bird is in
footed, for the flesh looks natural
and healthy. The disease is said to
he similar to that which breaks out
among grouse in England.
traveled.
It was perhaps from this circumstance
that the arcana of Masonry
was first devised. These were perfected
and elaborated by Elias Ashmole
and his literary associates in the
early part of the seventeenth century,
and from that time may be dated
the masonry of today.
Charles II and William III were masons,
and the visible connection with
operative masonry was kept up by
the selection of Sir Christopher
Wren, architect of St. Paul's cathedral
as grand master.
While it is not necessary to go in
detail, it may be said incidentally
that the lodges of Scotland trace
their origin to foreign masons who
came to North Britian in 1150 to
build Kilwinning Abbey, while the
English Iddges go still further back
and assign their origin to the assemblage
of masons held by St. Alban
York in 926. Such differences as existed
were arranged in 1812, and the
fraternity has since been managed by
the United Grand Lodge of Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons of England.
A century before that time, however,
when the cathedral of St.
Paul's was finished, the way was
opened for others than operative masons
and builders to become members
of the organization, and that
practice has grown and expanded
until the present day, when it is in a
benevolent band of brothers, without
regard to craftsmanship, who
"meet upon the level and part upon
the square."
It has not escaped the fate of oth
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ci nouie insuiuuons. oupersuuon
and ignorance have attributed to it
designs and purposes for which there
was no foundations. It has been accused
of entertaining sinister projects
against religion and government,
and has been assailed with
fiery zeal in many countries and at
various periods of history. The oath
of secrecy stirred the suspicion and
resentment of the uninitiated and
factionalism has waged fierce war
around it. But as it has lived through
so many ages, unimpaired, so it will
no doubt continue to exist, to paraphrase
Macaulay, "until some traveller
from New Zealand shall take
his stand upon a broken arch of Lon,
don bridge to sketch the ruins of St.
Paul's."
The alleged "exposures" by Morgan,
his alleged capture and death,
together with the anti-Masonic party
in America constitute one of the
most thrilling chapters in the life of
the republic but these agitations only
served to confirm the order in its
growth and prosperity until we find
it today, as we saw it represented
last week, composed of men high in
the councils of state, distinguished
in their private life and ornaments
to society in general.
It has expanded until it is represented
in every civilized country of
the world, with a membership of
millions. The widow and the fatherless
are their especial charge; visibly
or in imagination the eye of God
looks down upon them in all their
walks of life, and their ministrations
make the world brighter and better.
V*T ' ~r
BRYAN WILL WIN.
Champ Clark Says the Commoner
is Going to be
Noniinntcd for the Presidency audi]
That Ho is (ioing to Ho Klertotl Ity
a I'nitod Democracy.
A dispatch from Savannah to tho 1
Augusta Chronicle says that Champ
Clark, member of Congress from Mis- i
souri, can soo nothing hut Bryan on
the Democratic horizon. He also he- ?
Moves tho Bryan sun is rising, not
setting. He does'nt take much stork .
in the "favorite son" idea, lie thinks
Bryan is going to be nominated for (
president and that he is going to be
elected try a united Democracy. ,
Mr. Clark believes the Republicans
are hoplessly divided. He thinks .
there is going to lie much of a row in
(?. O. 1'. circles before their candt- (
date for president is named and he
would not he surprised to see Roose- ,
velt run again if Taft is turned down :
in Ohio.
Mr. Clark said: "I don't think the j
time has arrived when a Southern
man can be nominated, because the
plain Democrats are for William .1.1
Bryan. For years I have advocated ' j
the nomination of a Southern man. 1
may not have been the pioneer in ,
that, matter,* scores of men in the *
South who would make tiptop presidents,
but it seems to me from reading
and from conversing with the
people of eight or ten states in which
I have lectured since congress adjourned,
that the runic and lilo are
for Brya i, and that he can havn the
nomination if be wants it.
"As to platform declarations they
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miviniu tiiv/l I Y U^IIIUIM ill Hi <111(1
only Democratic. New fads in the
platform are more likely to weaken ;
than to strenghten us. The surest I
way to win is to nominate candidates
who are not only Democrats from ;
skin to core, hut whose opinions are 1
known to place thein upon a platform I
thoroughly democratic in every plank i
We do not propose to buy any more i
presidential pigs in pokes." 1
rout nfgkofs dkownkp.
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Team ami Fourteen Occupants ( <> In
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to Swollen Stream. I
Four negroes, Mamie Robinson,
Geneva Sellers, ICssie Montgomery
and a baby of William Strobles, were
drowned near Moores, Spartanlnirg 1
county, Saturday afternoon when a
span of tlie* bridge over the Tyger
river gave away with a mule team
and wagon occupied by I I negroes, j
who were following the remains of a |
colored friend to a neighboring come- (
tary for burial. i
The wagon containing (lie corpse "|
of Mose Lanford, colored, had just
crossed the bridge en route to the j
graveyard some distance beyond. The j
corpse was followed by a double mule ^
team. .
Fourteen colored people were in
the wagon and just as the team
reached the middle span of tne bridge
the span gave way and the mules and .
its occupants were thrown into the *
stream, about 1 f> feet below. The *
river was much swollen by the heavy }
rains of Friday and Saturday morn- t
ing and the wagon floated down t
stream. One mule was drowned, the .
other being rescued some distance j
down the stream. j
Standing Together.
It is very hard to get the farmers (
to stand together, but we are glad (
to know that some of them have
made up their minds to put an end to '
this and have gone to work intelli- !
gently to protect their interests.
There are two great organizations of !
farmers in the country, both based
upon a determination to give to the
man who takes life's necessities from
the soil a fair return for his work.
Hitherto the farmer alone has had |
nothing whatever to say about the J
price to be paid for what he actually
produced. !
Some man in Liverpool, some mill
owner in the North, might settle tne
price that the Southern cotton grow- :
er must take per bale of cotton.
Some other man, thousands of miles
away, could settle the price that the
Western farmer should have for his 1
grain. The farmer alone had nothing
to say about it. The railroads decided
what they should charge him.
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a i unui UCtlUCU WII kllUil UALUl IIDI1H. (
Tariff builders decided what tax the
farmer's wife and daughter should ,
pay on their dresses. But the farmer '
was forbidden to have any say in fixing
the price of his goods. j
This is to end, and we congratulate
the country on it. The farmers of the j
country are the backbone of the .
country. They develop the nation's t
real wealth, which is the wealth of '
the soil. They are entitled to a full
share of that wealth and of the na- ,
tional prosperitv. By combination,
by insisting on fair prices for their
cotton, their wheat and their other
crops. And by refusing to sell the
non-perishable products except for
a fair price, they have already added
tens of millions to the annual return
from the farms. They will add tens
and hundreds of millions more annually
as their unions increase in
power. 1
The isolated human being, whether
he be farmer or mechanic, is at |
the mercy of every form of greed .
and cunning. The farmer has too |
long plowed, harrowed, sown, reap-'5
ed, sweated and fretted to build '>
up bank accounts for others, and pay 1
interest on mortgages. We are glad !
that he has decided, Hy Union, to 1
I keep for himself and his family, <
j which means for the people of Amer-,
I ica that to which they are entitled.
What are our farmers doing to help
along this grand work? Every man
| should do his duty by helping along
I the good work. j
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
The (iianil l/odgr Mad a Pleasant
Meeting "t Anderson.
The twenty-first annuui convention
of the Grand Lodge. Knights of
Pythias, was held in Anderson last
week. The meeting: was one of the
largest ever held in this State. Much
business of importance to Pythianism
In South Carolina has been disposed
:>f, possibly the most important thing
being the decision to establish a
monthly Pythian Journal.
The following otllcers were elected
for the ensuing year:
Mendel L. Smith, of Camden,
Stand chancelor.
1,. S. Mattison, of Columbia, vice
;rnnd chancellor.
Prof. A. (i. Retnbert, of Wofford
'ollege, Spartanburg, grand prelate.
Dr. J. 11. Thornwell, of Fort Mill,
;rand keeper of records and seal.
Wilson Ct. Harvey, of Charleston,
grand master of exchequer.
J. L. Reeves, of Hranchville, grand
niter guard.
The representatives to the sutremo
lodge, which meets In Uoston
n IStOS, are (Jen. M. L. Ronhatn of
\nderson. Col. II. A. Morgan of
Jreenville and Col. I'M mil lid Hacon
>f Columbia.
'Memorials were adopted on Knights
\. 0. Mustard of Charleston, J. M.
Knight of Sumter and James Thayer
>f Charleston, who died the past,
fear.
TIIIO ACT OK \ DKMON.
\ged Woman lllimled ller Son-inl.aw
With Acid and l.ye.
imm <i |>|mi i *'im i v no rouson ni ;111.
Mrs. M.irgairet Dorriss, aged T."?, of
Chicago, hlndcd her son-in-law, It. F.
Wilson. l?y throwing csirholir arid
tnd a niixt uro of ehloride of linn? into
his face.
Mo staggered in to a police station
tnd when officers wont immediately
to apprehend tho woman sito was
found doad in a cornor of hoc room
in a flat. Nor death s a mystery. She
is thought to have died of tho passion
which inspired Iter diholical act or
Iso committed sttieido of remorse.
I lor daughter, Mrs. Wlson. said her
not Iter must have hocn insane. She
mid there httd heen no hard findings
n tho family. Wilson's sight has
toon destroyed forever.
urii/TY or ML
rwo Men Convicted of .Murdering
Another Man.
At Buchanan, (la., after dellheratng
all nig??L tho jury in the case of
ten Adams, white and Millard Lee,
'.olored, charged with the murder of
teese Jones, a white man, February
I 1 hist, returned 21 verdict of guilty,
md recommended life imprisonment
or both men. The evidence against
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itantial. Motions for a new trial
vere made for bom prisoners.
( ambling at llall (James.
Chief among the "knockers" of a
baseball team are a few tin-horn
tports who have lost about $2 on a
fame. This sort of a calamity is so
icute to this class of individuals that
hey at once get out their hammers
ind begin to pound. The loss of $2
s in their eyes decidedly the worst
feature of a game dropped by the
lome team. In other words, their interest
is promoted by a very low orier
of selfishness.
We agree with the Spartanburg
Journal that those guilty of this
would do well to quit gambling on
baseball games. Baseball is not a
gambling sport anyhow, and only in
the small cities and towns is any betting
done on it. In the big leagues
baseball is as clean of gambling as
tennis or golf, and it should be so
here. It would help the attendance
at the games.
There is a state law, besides a city
ordinance, against betting and anybody
who indulges in it on the ball
field is committing a crime. Let the
sheriff or his deputy or the police
give attention to the open proposals
u> net and me open declarations of
having bet that can be heard on the
stands and make cases against a few
of the sports whose grief is so poignant
when they lose a couple of dollars.
A little vigilance will rid the ball
field of any open betting and most of
the cheap skate gamblers will not bet
at all unless they can do it with a
flourish and a show. We are satisfied
that very little betting is done
here, but even that little should be
stopped by the authorities and the
base ball management. It will tend
to popularize the game and gain the
support of many who do not believe
n betting.
Raseball is intended for wholesome
unusement and recreation, not for
gambling. If you want to gamble,
,hrow heads and tails and keep quiet
ibout it. If you have anv money
fou think you can afford to ?se, go
)ay your debts before i -King it.
\nyway, keep your disgusting mix..c
:,i 1 - . l
,m *; wi. swruiu urccii a l cneap nOlO iety
out of the clean ?port that is
>rovided for ti c people of Oran^ejurg
by the l>a-e ball association.
A subscriber once received a dun
.hrou?rh the postoffice, and it made
lim mad. He went to see the editor
ibout it, and the editor showed him
a tew duns of his own?one for paper,
one for tppe, one for fuel and
several others. "Now," said the editor,
"I didn't set mad when these
came because I knew that all 1 had
to do was to ask several reliable gentlemen
like you to come and help
me out, and then 1 could settle all of
them." When the subscriber saw how
it was he relented, paid up and renewed
for another year.
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THE UNSEEN WORLD.
Remarkable Utterances of Paulist
Father.
i
Says ScIcium' lias I'l-uvcd tlio Exist*
i-ikt" of Spirits.?Tin1} should Wo
l.i<( A lone.
George M. Searie, rector of the
Paulist Fathers' Catholic church New
York, caused a sensation by his sermon
last Sunday morning in which
he declared his belief in spiritism.
Thursday he consented to elaborate
his views, as follows:
"What I wished my audience to
understand is, in the first place, that,
though there will, of course, l>e
found here and there in spit itistic
seances some attempts at fraud or
trickery, particularly where there is
money to be made by it, phenomena
often occur in them which cannot be
accounted for in this way.
"These have been carefully examined
by scientific men, and those who
have done so agree that those 1 <inomena
indicate forces entirelx beyond
our normal powers and i s
practically certain that these for.?s
Are directed by intelligence which
are not of this world. The only ouestion
is, what are these intelligences?
"They pretend to be deceased human
souls, and support their pretensions
by what are called "proofs of
ident it v ' Thnf i ??->???%??
. ?. Ifitv an tin J rvm/VY IlKillJT
even Us in the earthly life of those
whom they represent which could not
naturally be known to the medium
or others who had not been acquainted
with them personally. But they
fail in other points which ought to
be as well known, if they really were
what they pretend.
"Furthermore, they fail to agree
in (heir description of their present
(state, in their teachings about Clod,
I about Christ, and religious matters
generally. Truth should agree with
itself; falsehood, whether coming
from ignorance or malice, will disagree.
It, therefore, appears that
these intelligences are not what they
claim to be; and it seems more probable
that they are deceitful than that
they are ignorant.
"Besides, their control of a medium,
when habitual, has been known
to culminate in what is called diabolic
possession; and in no case does it
seem to have had a good moral ef
feet.
"Also, the spirits communicating
seem to have a dread of spirits and
of the rites of the Catholic church. I
know specially of one case in which
a priest, going incognito to a seance
for investigation, was requested by
them not use holy water.
"On account of all these reasons,
as well as of the distinct prohibition
in Scripture (Deut. xviii: *2) of such
performances, which are by no means
merely modern, the church is absolutely
opposed to them, and considers
them as extremely dangerous to our
salvation."
Or. Searle is a man of high scientific
attainments, and his name is associated
with astronomical research
and discovery among savants all over
the world He was formerly a Congregational
minister in Boston and
has oeen connected with Harvard
observatory and with the observatory
at Georgetown college. He asserts
positively that spirits can be
communicated with through mediums,
and believes that these spirits
are evil ones?fallen angels?who
have never inhabited a human body.
Dr. Searle said that in his sermon
that only ignorant persons now deny
the existence of spirits and the possibility
of human communication
with them. He is a member of the
Society for Physical Research and a
friend of Father Paupert, who showed
the "spirit pictures" in his lecture
before the Catholic club last
week.
"The overwhelming probability,"
said the preacher, "is that the spirits
communicatio.i are either devils or
lost human souls subject to devils in
hell. These devils are not confined
in their operation to a local hell. Such
ma.y hi* UK- case anor general judgment,
but not now.
Warning his hearers against experimenting
in this field. Dr. Searle
said in his sermon that endeavor to
ascertain the truth about the departed
by means of seances is not only a
waste of time, but extremely dangerous.
It is prohibited by Divine
command, he said.
1'KISOX LIFE IS HELL.
Aged Offender Sentenced for Third
Time for Forgery.
Sentenced to the penitentiary for
the third time for forgery, E. H.
Havens, aged GO years, told the court
at Cleveland, O., that prison life was
hell, and that there is no ehanee for
mail ? urn um:t' ii?* 11 i? S DOC'll Oe.'lllHi
prison pars.
Havenfc Is well educated, and his
first offence was forging the name of
a friend In the hope of making good
in a business venture. Judge Kennedy
gave him but one year.
Small men with small purposes
do not help to make a town lively and
progressive, The man who never
contributes to public enterprises or
voluntarily assists in supporting any
of the public enterprises is not worth
coaxing to remain in a town, and
should he decided to move out it is
always a matter of congratulations.
It's units and not mere ciphere that
counts for something. "Be u unit."