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In this advanced, enlightened twentieth century it does indeed scem wouderful that_the_old-time spiritism, with_ita unsound pretensions and palpable little
never really dies
PORTUGUESE IN FRANCE.
A NEW FORCE:
FROM FILSON YOUNG.]
grey figures sitting with trench naps
MARCH 1ST.
WHAT IS A NEWSPAPER?
A COSTLY OFFICIAL JOKE
BY SPENCER LLION HUORNY, ]
The authorities—to use a vague but con
the history of journalism there may have been some forlorn paper that appeared once and once only, never reaching aum ber two, and such a newspaper would not hea periodical, but a paper that comes out daily is most undoubtedly a periodi
10174
THE STATES REVISITED. PEACE SENTIMENT IN THE WEST WEST
MR. WILSON'S VICTORY
of the true believer which has given tone Fores one more fighting unit is thrown as long as it manages to surviveep up. This war has been a great
to the movenient and, at the same time mude possible much of the chicanery at tached to its
JOURNALISTS AT THE.
FRUNT
TWO MILITARY CROSSES AND A DOM FOR FAR EASTERN MEN. The
following detaile, are given in the latest Institute Journal the clcial orgaa of the Institute of Journalists-of For Eastern Journalists who have volunteered for Active Services Dat
AF. Briggs, South China Morning Post Hongkong, Black Watch (T),
Somme, Davies,
Llewellyn ross
for our part of the country sought Peking, and formerly of the Daily
Definitions are difficult things, and tormation, a univers our people
he said,
Today I saw the beginning of Portu
PROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT TO gal's native participation in the struggle | venient phrase--are wrestling, not for the
THE TIMES.??] on the western front-end I dare say it frst time, with the question What is
GOMATA, NEBRASKA was as unlike anything that the officers ʼn newspaper↑ ** The question has become
Here is a deep pool of peace. Perhaps concerned liail expected es it was unlike important just now because newspapers nowhere on the habitable globe are the what you or I would imagine. A bars be sold later in the day than some reverberations of the great war in Europe tricks, of which the hard-headed had room in a house in the narrow stree other things, and as they thus enjoy ex fainter and less headed than in the DCM Wongkringhai Meroury, Hoval
ceptional treatment it is necessary to dog-called inter-mountain States. It seems Flying Corps, I come to accept as things of the past an aid French crts score of blue-cide what they are
incredible that anywhere there should
Jones, Shanghai, Lieutenant, should flourish so strongly in our midst. before them and an English staff officer, I notice that the Home Ofice has exist so great a community of intelligent filitary
with a blackboard beside him and a man announced that the word ning not be human beings who could care so fits H. L. Pearce, North Chinn Daily News, But the bankering after the occult,
in his hand, chatting to thum in French taken to include * periodicals," but sure and know so little of a moving event that Middleses Regiment, the desire to lift the veil and peep into on the artillery features of a typically a newspaper, whether morning, evening in its outcome will affect them all seWalter Sugars, North China Daily
For weekly, is a periodical, as one of the profoundly the future, has ever been with us and sector of the front line which it may meanings of that worth is a publication Coming up in the train from Lincoln News, Shanghai Second Lieutenant, at
their fortune to Gun
Steptoe, Peking and Tientsin Timer, For one prore has been added to the
contact, of a casual seat acquaintance, Lieutenant wounded.N - With some it is an lionest deep belief, many nationalities out here who are
"Are you not interested in any aspect of
Tisdale, China. Press, Shanghai, amounting almost to a religion; with giving this ultimate expression to
the war?"Sure we are, as his FA.B.COM their opinions on the merits of our
ready reply, Wo are interested in the E. Victor, Hongkong Daily Prean, others list a post or a mere murret with Germany, and with the
high prices and how long they are going Lichards, killed. making "ganic. It is this dep conviction arriva of the Portuguese Expeditionary
10
E. Wearne, Reuter's. Correspondent,
into the scales against her..."
Another person from whom
plain, Anzacs Military Corps. professor, pre traublisme, nuthority has posted it sented the obverse of
Wood North China Deity is a smun uuft as armies go now that when you try to define a word you Is this fe:Itisa
angle of vimon
Sergeant, Black Watch A. C. the war because the high cost of living have just
Royal Irish Fusiliers. The China rera says In the above has forced its meaning home to the list a mistake appears to have been made The price they are inving in to ch kas to our former cartoonist, Mr. Tistale. their best realization of what war meatsle went to Trance to endeavour to get
necessities life has brought and brought them into a state of indigna
into the American Ambulance Corps, b tion against the mere fact of wor and was unsuccessful and is now in Washing-
hymn
however, who was of a member of The Ching that, and have furnished debuitions of pretend to say how widespread they are, men have been not quite so poor-spirited these are two actual
taken at first hand. One does notater our correspondent in Tsingtao throughout the siege, enlisted in that be word "newspaper." Hero is one that but they how more vividly perhaps than suaps-as o driver and is still so noting,
any other examples that could be cited so far as is known,
Colin
formerly of the has been generally approved--
how far removed the whole meaning of U. Morning Fast, is understood to
Campbell, the war is from this part of the United
have joined the British forces. States
- From the north, there should be added Bo long ago as last February agents of Mr. Ryel, formerly of the Teking and two men who sought the nominations for Fientera Times, who enlisted in King Ed the Presidency met by chance in Montana
sard's Horse This is not likely to satisfy the hyper and agreed after comparing their impress critic. To begin with he may fall foul stons that more than a million votes would former Shanghai journalist, Mr. James Valentine Walsh, is Second Air Mo of the word "intelligence, and will wow be cast for Mr. Vilson in the interamque chaaie in the R.E.C.d Air that he knows papers which contain tain States solely on the ground that "he In all no fewer than 3,300 British nothing of the sort. He is almost sure to had kept us out of war." say this about some paper whose editor
Theon inter-mountain States are the realists are serving or have served has, with polite and profuso, regrets, sug- State lying west of the Mississippi with the forces. From London alone gesting a feeling of desolation, returned a Valley Bistes and east of the Rocky there are 700 journalists on active serviné. masterly contribution proffered by the Mountains. They are agricultural intes hyper-critic Again, what wo generally sparsely populated, without large centres BETTER THAN QUININE FOR mean by a daily paper is one that appears untouched by the winds of opinion, pre- population, and remote from and on six days in the week. To my ut they judice, and emotion that blow around the
but they
days but if one can judge, from a very do so by giving its meaning in other think to get indignant about Role: Chronicle, Second
fragmentary first impression, it has this words, and that there is a possibility of elements of high efficiency in it. These dispute as to the meaning of each of those officers whom I met vere artillery offers, other words, Having shown the difficut and a their daik Latin faces one read ties thus involved the troublesome authu a keen and alert interest in the technique rity wound up by qucting that overwork of those grim arts in which they have ed tag Quis custodiet ipsos custodes attendy graduated in and who shall determine the meaning of the words which make up the definition?!!
No argument will convince the ont and-out believes that this or that mani fostation alleged to have occurred in his presence or through his own uiodiumship is merely the outcome of expectation or false deductions. With him the dif- Terence between facts and Inference, from facts has no actual existence, and as he has convinced himself of the gamtine ness of the manifestations which he freely and that is the greatest compli alleges have been personally vouchsafed ment whiel such an audience can pay to bim, he declines to see trickery in other 2 lecturer. For le soldier is always directions asd resents us an attack onging to school. There are schools of his own genuineness of belief the unmask death (son of which I hope to describe) ing of other people's trickery Ln my all over France as well as in England,
postures.
for
They asked inteligent questions what is to say he gave it up. But other made them hate it.”dan won an A. M. Brac Presa staff, and
PERIOD OF STUDY.
endeavours to arrive at the truth in connection with so-called spirit mani-
The first thing the trained recruit doce festations have, it goes without.
when he comes out here is to go through Baving, incurred the condemnation of those worthy folk whose aims and cona complete course of training in the victions have my profound respect in- Intest methods of fighting. When he joins stead of receiving their approval in his army carpe la goes to school nggles weeding the cause of its palpable im-and there are divisional schools, brigade page schools, and even battalion, schools, te keep his koowledge up to date in the At an early age 1 commenced my in-intervals when he is not in the line vestigations, with much entusiasm any of So no wonder that the Portuguese Army perfectly open wird. The University of trained as it s has to begin its work Oxford was good enough to be interested liers by a period of study and training in my work and, on a signed request methods which are quite now to it, my first exposition was given in the Hall and which are changing from month to of Christ Church, which was kindly month and even from week to week, placed at my disposal for that purpose. About that time he Church had become somewhat naribed at the spread of this spiritualistic movement and all the tricks of the trade that went with it and at the Church Congress at Newcastle an important feature of the programe was The Duty of the Church towards
a sheet containing intelligence, or re- porte of passing events, issued at short but regular intervals, and either sold or distributed gratis
____ DIFFCULTIES OF DEFINITION.
world.
INTERPRETATION OF THE ELECTION.
MALARIAN
Quinine does not cure Malarin All it does is to bring rehef for a time; if persisted ia iw mction is harmful, causing
Spiritualism and Infidelity. I had do all she care to help the great cuts, gratis, but are known, I believe, a Teeper offers this explanation-sufferers will tell you so, that they awe
the honor of being invited to speak at th's congress in the Town Hall New castle, where I was by several years the youngest speaker
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The Portuguese are delighted with the welcome they have received from their British cobrades-in-arms.
i-
to come out at shurt intervals, are not regular intervals, as the space of The general impression produced by time between the appearance of the Saturn ads then resenting hotly the deafness and other troubles this first glimpa was of smartness a day and the Monday issues is longer than
ficiency and of an army that is that between thoss of Monday and Tues suggestion that has been freely made in Dr. Willious Pink Pills have eured thoroughly in earnest about its business day. And then the allusion to papers the eastern States that their love of peace completely many cases of Malaria It. This is no joy-trip o mercy formal being either sold or distributed gratis grows out of supineness, lack of virility, Ceylon, Burma, Siam in every part of demonstration of military alliance; it is does not include those that are offered for or cowardice. The editor of a Church the world where Malaria exists, cured
real effort on the past of Portugal to sale, are not sold, or not distributed
109s anybody seriously boliève the immunity they now enjoy from aguo the West has lost its virility, is
and fever entirely to this renowned. supine is cowardly, is too proud to fight, in specifie end to do it as well as she can. Her turis. little Army means business. It has got - E
paper will admit the existence of impervious to considerations of
honour? The reason is that
that Malaria is a disease dergone a thorough training on modern such things in connection with other Has overween luxury ea
eaten out the of the blood, is caused by the preselice fines at home, where, the compulsory papers. I bave heard of a desperate sheet spiritual vitality of the West beyond the of myriads of parasites in the blood, and.
followed by a visit to the East, in pur four to seven months, and it is ready contribution. All the other copies print the manufacture of munitions and waring and blood-making remedy yet devised. with a period of training varsing from in is, and each of them read only his own men have made grem fortunes through perfect blood purifying, blood-strengthen- suit of my investigations, hoping upon and anxious to profit out here by ed the trivial round" from the publica supplies Are the powder factories, the Whilst dispelling the malarial germs they hope that I should eventually find one genuine instance of occult manifestation, all the experience which is being gained. tion department to the resting-place for steel plants, the great gun and shell manu- build up the system, thus giving to it the The equipment is gooit and serviceable, returns, and in that way may be said to factories; in the West jego powr to withstand further attacks of the I heard much about the alleged miracu
being very similar to that of the French have enjoyed rent circulation. Are
*
***
Everybody knows they are not. The discard victim of Malsin you can long from people whose honesty of pure with the addition of a khaki grentcoat, to deny the name newspaper to such a idea that the Wilson, voto is n voto of If you pose was beyond question and whose voracity was above suspicion; and 1A division, as at present constituted, publication because most of its copies supineness, or of love of cass, or a vote begin your own cure to-day by sending to saw much to which an eccult origin, was contains three brigues-each brigade were neither sold nor distributed gratis induced by war profits, is simply dis the nearest medicine vendor for a bottle attached but the assumed occultism of having six buttalions-a regiment of have said that this question as to what proven by the inces
also obtainable, post free, 1 bottle for which proved, on the one hand, to be cavalry, engineers and held stillery newspaper is has confronted the authe West ate the fatte Why, then did the of Dr. Williams Pink Pills. They are
ritics before to-day. When it was decided Mr. Hughes was the
Candi $1.50 6 bottles for $3, from The Dr. Wil the outcome of bigaly strung exppetation consisting of eight ex gun batteries of that newspapers should be taxed there date in New York and the
pro-German liams Medicine 75's (3in. pieces):
was not mnou hesitation in the part of candidate in Wisconsin. We are not Shanghai
C, 90, Szechuan Road, or false sensor impressions or on the other, to be the reault of skilfully
those authorities, for they they inxed any asking in which section ho was more For all maladies traceable to weak im- thing they chose to include, They did accurately portrayed Sitting at the pars blood or disordered murves, auch as the thing well, from their point of view meeting place of the two sections, we are Annmin, Norvaus Debility Indigestion anil they would have storieil to exclude simply stating the pinin fact, that must Back pains, these pills are of the atmos
periodicals. But the powers that be be understood. East as well as West, West value. Ladies everywhere tell one another 7 will take a different view of a thing when
as well 46 East, if either section is to of their efficacy for woman's aches and understand the other; and particularly illeg
be understood in Europe -if the deliberation, they have re-elected, mony that his speeches met with little or are to be understood aright......
na Isponse. He has written since the And what, then, is the real Wilson election, as perhaps your ronders know- Here the view must be, not that of his The appeal made for Mr. Wilson was enemies, but that of the men who voted one which would tell very strongly with They have voted for him in good, honest citizens whose preoccupation, For many said in spite of limitations in the nien they could not be expected to look deeply supernatural than a natural explanation he complaing is, to put it quite bluntly, years there had been attempts made to whom he has chosen as his official advisers, into our international relations and the of what may em mysterious or out oild in ts injueus effects as compared repeal the tax and dris question au
in spite of some mistakes in his adunia general world conditions. This appeal the way to flieni,
with the possibilities of harm arising to what is a newspaper had been raised tration, herause they believe in substitut-was in its essence that we should vote for It is just this longing in human nature these oldiers' sorrowing relativegin | again and again. Thuse who did not ing diplomacy for war just as far as it Mr. Wilson because he had kept us out. upon which these professional psychic, their pursuit of the umuntural. Any hesitate to tax newspapers were poß can be done without forfeiting national | of war and because we were prosperous.” frauds are preying to day.
mental authority will testify to the shamed to say that they could not never honour, and because they believe Mr. It would have been highly creditable Today, with its berry death toll and metal dangers associated with such prac matter was debated with exceptional farther. They have indoubtedly rejected vision and disinterestedness to disregard
the question. At length, in 1854, when the
will carry it that far and no to the average man if he had possessed fateful uncertainty so closely affecting tices,
vehemence, the representative of the the idea that the United States should such an appeal but the fact that he did every section of the community is andeed
There is not space for me here in which Board of Inland Revenue said airily that, have toted as international judge and not disregard it merely means that we the moment for the practitioners on the to relaus my impressions and experiences while he could not state what a cersexcensioner after the invasion of Belgium, were not able to make the issue clear to shady side of spiritism. There is of shirits I have known, Logether with paper was, ho could most certainly They have rejected the idea that this his eyes. It does not mean that he would. natural desire aiming the bereaved, or other phases of the socalled occult, It plain what it was not it was not, heuation, which was not a party to the remam morally obtuse if he could be those in doubt as to the acting facts forms too long a story, I would, how said, a publication treating of only one guarantee of the neutrality of Belgium shown in convincing fashion where his surrounding the missing, to seek for ever, like to say tha. I am desirous of subject. That may be said to have done was under a like obligation with the dute news and guidance unobtainable through extending my knowledge of spiritism roducer
immediately nations that were. They have rejected the No tensible mur wishes to go to war the ordinary channels. These credulous and occultiste so as to include the latest
papers called folk are told that this or that medium is exponents of the mystic athe I am qui Navy Dispatch War Times, War fact that in assenting to The Hague when to this natural inclination in adeled Telegraph towar you treated
assumed any single
single obligation that it has pazzled about the issues involved, he is
In a word, I have never yet in Duy land with any medium or adept dis covered any alleged occul manifestation It is not only a shady business, but it is they want to tax it from that which they
on it.
that was not explicable upon a perfectly a mean and eruel one, and should be put take when they are conferring a privilege must people and the President whom, war began, and it is the common testi-:'
natural basis and which in the majority |an cad to. If the foolish cannot ur will, of instances could not be liumanly not protect themselves, they must be pro- duplicated under precisely similar cotected against their own folly. ditions: This, as the true believer would say, has been my misfortune. But there
it is. So inherent is this hankering
crusade
AN OFFICIAL BLIP.
And it was owing to an official slip dur in a debate on the newspaper tax, and General Smith - Derrien's
slip made when a Treasury Benen being of the young soldier; but the vice, gard to the definition in
American
with
after the super-natural in human natur against vice bad for its object the well- gentleman was trying to be art in re for hun, toolish things that he has with their own pursuits was such that I that many would much rather seek for a allaig alluring uaturalness of which tax eventually disappeared, that the spite of some
t
for enterprising Army and allegation--because it is contrary to the if he can honourably to
and
the
out of 20 ent
real wonder who has given such and open to conviction and should rejoice bearing similar titles. All others Conventions the United States has the fact that the man is very busy and is
such person the most astounding revela to find something which, under proper of only one subject," namely, the Crimean not rigorously fulfiled. They have certain to cast his vote on the side that tione. So what has been vouchsafed test conditions and with due investiga War, which happened to be the only sub-rejected others cao quite as well be revealed to ion proved itself beyond question the
the idea, that there should be an he is told will guarantee peace. Evidently
Son" munitions or food stuffs. people tend to look at the dreadful crimes. them. ffence the run upon the plausible outcome of spirit power. A manifestar ject that interested the public at the time.
Even the callong officials felt that they
who go seantly trade opor i tion which is capable of being demon could not put a newspaper tax on publicaro rojected the insinuation that coramitted in Belgium and Armonia, 10
their credulity strated cun alone be beyond question tions which had been declared from the COCHES NOTES Are empty words. the sinking of the Luxitent and in
recognize the fact that safety Mexico, as analogous to disasters such as The foolish, credulous dupes never for when done under conditions from which Treasury Bench to be top newspapers, and of non-belligerents at sos; though not an earthquake or a fire, as properly- a moment consider the utter incongruous alf chances of trickery are eliminated these prints were untaxed. But the made certain link been made much more exciting discreet sympathy, but not Es hess of the association of their beloved There are apparently other forms of other papers which contained the same, nearly certain by means of those much calling for any action which would dead or missing with these professional spinis power which while not the or as much, war news were taxed because maligned Notes than it has been made by jeopardize the comfort and well-being of **Spookists." It never enters their heads pending upon outward and visible they dealt with other topics also. Now the whole British Navy or than it could those not immediately concerned. that if the spirit of suyone dear to them demonstrations for their proof, claim even the official mind recognises that there he made by the whole military arm of the We are at the moment well off. The could return at all it would be to them to give the inquirer glimpsed into the is a limit, and that the line should be United States. Not because Mr. Wilson cost of living is very high; and the was once so unfortunate as to say that Government is rapidly becoming unable direct that his return would be mai past, present, and future They, too, drawn somewhere. And so it came about fested, and that to have to go to some clipped of their patter and ungraspable that because of a remark that was intend there is such a thing as being too proud to pay its debts; but business man strange crook" and part with money ambiguouses, are interesting in their ed to be smart, an official joke that re to fight, but because he has often showed farmer, and wage worker are all profit
that he with the spirit is the height of absurdity spirits alone can or will work laughing matter, the newspaper tax-dis the at least, is not too proud to learn, ably busy. Under such circumstances for the privilege of being put in touch way as showing on what lines certain sembled many official Jokes in being no
American people, in the Bearèful: appeared
exercise of their sovereignty, have y men of unusual insight and foresight will make a political change because of They are told that they themselves are
Honestly the whole of my inquiring, This is supposed to be the only benefit deliberately called him for a second time just concern about futuro conditions not mediuminic and that is only investigating sout, gies on to all the this is so this country other than to be President of the United States. They did not pay much heed to the fore communications possible. Besides, it is three dead friends on the slips of paper the Crimean War. It will be seen that isolation. There, is, indeed, no articulate conditions and the state of mind that the
unit for peace and non-interference and That the fashion or the thing to go to the passing of matter through matter officials should be wary and should walk public opinion about the war or the itinerant analyst finds out here at the
a perfectly
live and who are entitled to payment for the sepulchral voice that comes from the delicately when trying to define the word attitude of the United States towards. the rent time. It is a condition and state the exhaustion they frequently undergo medium's own mouth the clutching base temptation
Beyond Gually to find couching newspaper Should they ever yield to belligerents
through the truly measumister are such bootless materialised form in white, home war profiteers derived from All the people in the States are a casts of politica mary of the
thasa mediums, who, ́- pour dears, must
try
papers
in getting in touch with the spir le. No spirif-controlled land that scribbles end again, they will be confronted by the fact ME ZOOSEVELT'S READING, inbourer, in fact, is so worthy of his hire less messages from the other world re- that the Home Office has decided that the Mr. Roosevelt was in this part of the beginning of
of the New Year It seeme is one in the spiritual vineyard gardless of the shortage of paper in this ward cannot be correctly applied to a
country before the November election, making speeches, and expressing strongly and vigorously, as be does, the views that that a daily paper is not a periodical he has made known to everybody since the
(Continued at foot of next column,)
› And the wise be prosses as he rakes Yes, I am ready and eager to become periodical. And I imagine that they will in the notes is the flow of tears from the closely acquainted with them all and to find it difficult to establish their point make known to the world the truth that
sorrowful and distressed.
(Continued at foot of neat column,)
in them is
Daily Chronicle.
fof mind that can be overcome, ani. În all probability will be by events after the
fair to suppose that knowledge of this state of mind has not been without Ske are of influence in forming Mr Wilson's foreign policy during the past
two years.