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SPIRITUĀLISM IN THE COURTS
JUDGES DECIDE IT IS NOT A
"REGULAR" RELIGION.
ROYAL ITALIAN " CIRCUS King's Bench Division recently, when
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THE FATHER OF TBE TYPEWRITER. "DEATH OF ME W KJENNE. Is à spiritualist minister a regular
There recently died in America, at the minister of a religious` denomination "I
age of eighty years, William K. Jenne. This question puzzled three judges in the known in America as the father of the typewriter."; In the little down of Ilian; Mr. E. W. W. Onten, the president of in the Mohawk valley, where the Reming spiritualist body, appealed from a deci. sion of the Shedietd magistrates who had on Typewriter Works are situated, he decided that he was not a minister of a lived his life and, was loved and revered
IT. Outen claimed that as a minister he was exempt
as the grand old man." His memory from military service under the Military deserves more than the love and honour. Service Acts, and he WAS prosecuted qf his neighbours and townspeople. it
the Acts as an absentee The under magistrates decided that the case was
should be held in equal honour by steno proved, but, in order to avoid inflicting graphers and typists every where through punishment, they dealt with the matter under the Probation of Offenders Ack out the world. He was in a sense the Mr. Onten appealed on the ground that, erenter of their profession. as the matter stood. it. left hur under the
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un absentee, which be desired to have removed,
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Hawke, K... for Mr. Oaten, reminded the court that the justices of be. Sheffield held that his client was liable. but they thought it inexpedient to infict any punishment. They therefore, dis-plete without one. "It has become india missed the information. Mr. Caten was pensable, so much so that it is hard to not satisfied with that decision, because he said it left him liable to be called up should the necessity arise.
Afre Hawke mentioned that in England the spiri tualists had 300 churches, with Sunday attendance of 150,000, and 250 Sunday
whole of
est in the
PRINCE BİBESCO AND MISS
PaSQUITE. --
MARRIAGE CEREMONY AT THE GREEK CHURCH,
Miss Elizabeth Asquith and . Prince Antoine Bibesco of Rumania were married recently. Frince Bibescu, First the son of the late Peiner and Princess Secretary of the Rumanian Legation. is Alexander Bibescu, and grandson of Prince Georgy Bibesco, whose reign ended. in Ramania in 1949.
Greek Church of St. Sophia, Bayswater. The Arst ceremony took place in the
The Very Rev. Constantine Pagonis, the Great Archiomandrite, and the Very Rev. mandrite, wearing their golden and silver Agathangolas Moschowwayis, the Archi- vestments, officiated. M. Nicholas Misu,
the Ramanian Minister. one of the Ru marian delegates attending the Peace Conference, was best man.
The ceremony was rich with symbolism To-day the typewriter is taken as and picturesque in every detail, In the matter, of course, and no office is compared table ornamented with flowers and "middle of the church was a specially pre
fighted candles. At this, the wedding table, the betrothal took place, in which were used two rings that had been pro eviously consecrated. The bride and bridir groom approached the table. Taking the rings. Dr. Pagonis blessed the bridal pair, making the sign of the cross three times with the bride's ring over the bridegroom, and three times with the bridegroom'á rins over the bride. The rings were then placed in each case on the Tittle finger of the right hand and exchanged three times
realise that it had not always been. And Fet the writing machine is young-dne of the youngest of all the great modern inventions. Its actual age by the calendar is just forty-five years.
:
The main facts of Mr. Jeane life are quickly told. He was born at Lancaster, Glass, in 1807, the son of a well-known inventor from whom he inherited his mechanical gentus.
by the bride and bridegroom,
This performance of an act thrice! frequent throughout the proceedings) symbolises the tiny Trinity.
Mr. Daten shou. They suggested that is now the home town of the Remingtons. Having been placed, un the heads of the
was still t
furves
Golden Crowns were used at the service..
bride and bridegroom, they were exchang- ed three times by the best man. Then wine was drink three times, the chalicu being arst handed to the bridegroom, and afterwards to the bride.
In 1861 he moved to Ilion, MY., where he was destined to spead the remaining years of his long, ictive and useful lite, ilion was then as it and even in these days the name "k mington" was already famous, for it was in those civil war times that E. Reming and Sons, the great gun-makers, were establishing their world-wide reputation it was to be the destiny of Mr. Jenne Led by the Great Archimandrits, and to make this name even more famous in attended by Prince George Bibesco, the connection with the typewriter. Young groomsman holding their crowns, the Fr. Jeane soon entered the service of the bridal party circled the lectern three times Remingtons and in the year 187 held in while the choir, under the direction of mportant position in their sewing maM. Napoleon. Lambelet, sang Rejoice, thine department. It was in that seat Isaiah Holy Martyrs," and that the typewriter entered the atory,
Glory to God." Then Dr. Pagonis took
scho 1, M aten, he said. devoted the
bis time to
to ministering to the puple. And. performed tae ceremonies of
ge, and funeral. paper. marts, for the Crown, said that
Branson, when the proceedings were started it was a test case, but now desired to make it that the Military Service Acts were in abeyance the Crown had no further inter discontinue the appeal and the Crown would not ask for costs.
Mr. Justice Darling said the country
military for any part of the world. He was told that the question night he wanted and had actually arisen, in another case just set down for argument. Continuing to review the ens the judge said the She held magistrates, in proceeding under the Probation
of Offenders Act, took a Bourse not open to them. He thought that an appeal lay, and that the court should proceed to hear it--an opinion in which the other judges concurred.
The case then proceeded its merits before three judges Justices Darling, typewriter carries one back 15 years. The prayer, Bray, and Avery. In the result the court first known attempt, shown by the records groom and in the same way the crown dismissed the appeal.
of the British Patent Ofee, was that of of the bride was taken. The circling off Mr. Justice Darling, in giving judg Henry Millin 174. The first American the table symbolised the unending nature. ment, l
said the spiritualistic body cer attempt was made by William Austin of the wedding bonds. taiply
had distinctive religious tenets. Burt of Detroit. Mich, in 1929. Many
The service at St. Margaret's West- and was therefore in a sense a religious other attempts, mainly in America, follow minster, where the Church of England denomination. But the case did not come ed during the nest forty years.. Charles service was performed later in the day; before the court on a question of fact, as it did before the magistrates. It
Thurber of Worcester, Mass, built a type drew a very large congregation, and not for the court to decide the facts. The writer in 1943. Fairbanks in 1848. Oliver crowds assembled outside to watch the question for them on the facts before the T. Eddy in 1950, A. E. Bench in 1930, and arrival and departure of the bridal party, magistrates was: Were the magistrates other attempta were made 1338, 1859, and c bauda, as a matter of law, to come to 1396. All these machines wrote, and the conclusion that this body a religion of them wrote well, but not one of ous denomination, and that Mr. Oaten was them was practica!, because they all lack- a regular rainister of that denomination ed the prime essential that of speel. For himself, be should have conclusion
Without exception. they were alow,, slower even than the pen. magistrates
The problem was
on
was a
different from that
W
There was evidence that
wBy-
onus was on Mr. Outen to satisfy the magistrates. He could not hold that there was no evidence which justified the magistrates in coming to the conclusion at which they arrived, and therefore the courts
arts were not entitled to interfere, and the
must be dismissed. Justicas Bray and Avory, without ex pressing any opinion on the question of fact, poncurred, and the appeal was dia- missed, with costs.
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DRAKE'S DRUM
A GHOSTLY INCIDENT OF SCAPA FLOW
Everybody knows the legend of Drake's Drum, and the belief in the Navy that it is always heard on great occasions.
Arthur Machen, founded or the state The Outlook pablishes air article by Mr. menta of officers who were present, as to how Drake's Drura was heard for hours in November gist, when the Corman Fleet surrendered to the British. It was not believed that the enemy would surrender without fighting, even in hopeless condi- every preparation" was rendu resistance.
The strictest discipline prevailed, and every man was at his pince
this was a religious denomination and anaily solved by three mechanics of Mil good deal of evidence the other Thewaukee, Sholes. Soufe and Glidden, whose names will have a lasting place in history as the inventors of the writing machine. Sholes and bis associates began their labours in the year 1867, and the story of their preseverance in the face of difficul ties, is an interesting chapter in the romance of invention. After six years, of hour they thought the machine was sufficiently perfected and in the year, 19, it was taken to the great Remington gun works at Lion in the hope of interest- ing the Remingtons in its zannufacture
when the fleet steained to the rendezvous. The negotiations were sucessful and the One of the ships was the Royal Oak inventor's model was placed in the hands chiefly manned by sailors of Devonshire. of Mr. Jenne for development, Mr She was ing on that day a magnificent Jenne's labours during the following silk
Devonshira made for her by year constitute his principal claim to ladies. On her bridge, sixty feet above faune. The inventar's model was so crude the top deck. Wax a as to be of little value except to show that Admiral Grant, Captain Maclachlan, of of officers: group the ideas were practical Under Mr. the Royal Oak, the Commander, and Jenne's efforts the machine was reduced others. It was soon after 9 o'clock in the ed into a model suitable for manufacture Grant saw them and waited: he could in size, improved in design, and develop morning when the German fleet appeared and sale. Early in the year 1874 the scarcely believe, he says, that they would looming through the mist, Admirs!
first machine was placed upon the market. This machine was then known simply as
not instantly open fire. The Typewriter. To-day it is known
HEARD BY THE CAPTAIN. as Model Remington.
Then the drum began to beat in the Its correst Royal Oak, The sound was unmistakable; historical designation Ancestor of it was that of a small drum being beaten play with a purpose." Writing Machines." This first practical but it is
is a good story in itself, with
typewriter was enclosed in a wooden case bridge paid little attention, if any, to in rolls At first, the officers on the some" capital scenes, and the necessary and was mounted on what looked like the sound; so intent were they on the
love interest, so that it does not dewing machine stand, the carriage return approaching enemy. But rend for attraction on the Royal person being operated by means of a foot trendle, evident that the Germans were not to when it became ugis alone, though, they will doubtless It wrote capital letters daly; and show fight, Admiral Grant turned to the form its chief claim.
to popularity. The play, written by Mias E. Alma altogether it was a very crude and im- Captain of the Royal Oak, and remarked Stout, nine at showing the value of the perfect fore-runner of the present day on the beating of. the drum. The captain training which Women's Service (found- Remingtons. But it contained these two said that he heard it, but could not ed by the London Ecciety of Women's great, fundamental features, the step by
understand it, since the ship was cleared Suffrage) is ready to give women who step escapement and the type striking at for action, and every man un board was wish to become skilled and efficient work one central point, which constitute the
Teaching. medicine, gardening, underlying principle of all present day also heard, but over the ship
nt his battle station. The Commander engineering and accountancy are a few writing machines. of the careers for which it offers advice construction are so obvious and self-evid These principles of and training.
ent that it struggles of three that today the ct discovered until after follows the charmingly played by Miss Dibley, Miss Mary Forbes, and Miss century and a half of inventive effort beat. Then the Commander himself made Unity More, who, through their father's Mr. Jeane's services did not end with a special tour of investigation through sudden failure and death, are compelled the appearance of this arst Remington, the Royal Ouk. He, too, found that to earn their own living Inexperience He continued until 1904 the active superman was at his station.
want of training bring their first intendent of the Remington Typewriter.
grief, and they are in a despair Works when he retired with full honours. All the while the British Fleet was when a friend recommends them to go In the years intervening between the first closing round the German Fleet, coming to the Women's Service Training Bureaus typewriter and his retirement he was to anchor in a square about it, so tant There
they
are helped to be trained as a responsible for many wonderful improve the German ships were bemmed in. And journalist, a gardener, and 1 nursements in the writing machines and nine all the while that this was being done, the other Benington models passed out underuse of the drum was heard at intervals, meet one of them
at Clarence House, her training as a gardener has secure management la 1878 he turned out beating in rolls. All who heard it aro
convinced that it was no chance
sound by all ast rolling of a drum
ars.
sithe
girls,
afforts to
where
ed her
D
to in-
but could not understand, and sent messengers vestigate. Twice the messengers were about the ship, about all the decks station. Yet the drum still continued to reported every his
NO CHANCE SOUND,
до
every
post, and, while she is at work the No. 2 machine, the first to" write both such that the it was the Crown Princess of Sweden and Lady small and capital letters, inventing the recoge two o'clock, in the alterc.con Patric some moments they engage in the typewriter which had made very slow the Gerinan Fleet was en and
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Ramsay are seen crossing the conversation ith the lady gardener.
universal shift key. From then, on
At about
progress went steadily ahead. During lese, and the British
And
at
temple of inventions not only in America captain, I'Meld
them and "hold"
Felp In the meantime another sister has been the last fourteen years of his life he rest anchor, some fifteen miles off the Firth of as a journalist, and while she is ed from his long and strenuous laboure, Forth, The irrevocet rain of the Ger working at an aircraft factory to gain and he enjoyed in the evening of his days man Navy was consugamated. experience Queen Mary, pare a visit and the homage from typewriter men which that moment, the drum stopped
the journalist, who, fudging he has earned by many years of remark and was no more Her Majesty's anniserent, is evidently able service, He Ails the niche in a by
Those who had hurd admira). confessing that she is an amateur
other officera, and search of copy
third
Hit throughout the world. He lived to see
men of all to Queen Alexandra and Princess"
the nurse is prethe various improvements and particular sound they
now one
They believe that the in recognition of her war work, and at ly the rat typewriter with a tabulating Drum" the audible manifestation of the was that of Drake's
41 last all three sisters, after many difficul: attachtrent develop step by step into the spirit of the great sex captain, present at ties and misunderstandings, marry the great Remington accounting machine of this hour of the tremendous triumph of men of their choice, and all ends happily. the present day.
Britain on the seas.
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