Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 3, 1916, Page 14

; hinese Soldiers ' layman's view. SPIRITS GREAT LIARS Ghosts Have Less Regard for Truth Than Men and Women in the Flesh. SOME GENUINE SEANCES Spirits, the ethereal beings which make up the great unknown hereafter, are, in many cases profound and instaking liars. In fact, they have !:,eu found to lie with far less com- unction than men and women of the esh. To speak of spirits as liars seems utterly without possible foundation. And, granting spirits _the vice of lying, to speak of them as greater liars than human beings— that is, some human beings—scems very hard on the poor creatures of the other world. Nevertheless, these conclusions, llons with many others equally novel and really of pucuul portance, resulted from a life study of spiritualistic manifestations by a man remarkably capable of under- standing such manifestations. The late Palmer Jones of Michigan made the study of spiritualism his life's hobby, and the conclusions which he drew are of vast importance, from both the spiritualist's and the Jones found, “after many s with spi that he had to be continually on his guard against the falsehoods of the inhabit- ants of the other world. Mr. Jones did not discuss the tenets of spiritualism in words of mystery. He respected the cult of iritualism and refused to do any- ing but give it the benefit of every _ doubt. Yet he spoke of it in the lan- of present day science and ap- 7 to it the terms of psychology. i a c%h h:he field of s lri;: . ualism ar teresting and al sorbing. e!llu deductions lgllow: Force of Habit. Thc' jtits of the next world are|is of ti same status as the people of this. But the development of the soul goes on there as here. The pres- ent tion of ‘the world amounts i tbonefll:illlhn mes )u:mlred m , but this amount is not even P ble to the billions and_ bil- T who'luveh el)elof:i - ones, from his years of investiga- M“ohenvdcchre’r that the drunk- ry bars in p e unable to satisfy eir thirst. s to be presum from this conclusion, that strap-hang- b frantically for imaginary as they are lurched around co in the crowded cars of spirit or that the spirit movie fans I eir necks at pictures which on one of the two the double slate. - ty was encoun account of mughfiv u the usual scra » eard mfhmmh the {:pmhedddouble siste Im writin, al the nner surfaces, and never did the n qd n done with platinum. A Strange Revelation. seance he encountered prob- | M xmuut circumstance of his . Swedish girl had been at- to the place through the hope t get some message i e » but who hng - eared. medium dec that several nights there had been a spirit trying to make himself nd, when the fil was pres- the it did materialize. Swedish, which had not at of the previ- the manifestation com- i to the girl the fact that and his brother had been caught e fire in Minnesota. The ad hap- nned them. The spirit explained that did not know he was dead and had been wandering for a long time in a strange land trying to make himself “known to his beloved. ~ The investigations of Jones were all { lines,—St. Louis ra -|or et | Bt the message was writ- | public Threaten Dynasty (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Peking, Oct. 12.—Military leaders from the various provinces have just held a conference at Hsuchowfdf in Kiangsu province, which threatens the existence of the present govern- ment, should the parliament persist in its efforts to restrict the power of itary. General Chang Hsun, who is probably the most feared of all the old-time military leaders in China, called the conference, and many of the newspapers which are in sympathy with the present parlia- ment, charge that Tuan Chi-jui, the premier, is in sympathy with the posi- tion taken by the military. The conference declared that party politics is displacing all desire for peace and harmony under the present government, and that the national assembly which is now wrangling in Peking has accomplished nothing and is being manipulated by political leaders, “who would be willing to sell their country if they were able to attain, their selfish ends.” It was the chief purpose of the conference to form a military union for the checking’ of violent characters and the preservation of peace. While the military conference favored the gnncgple of having a national assem- ly, it went on record as being in favor of a dissolution of the assembly by military force, should that body take steps inimical to the welfare of the nation, [The conference also considered the proposed constitution which the na- tional assembly is about to draft and inisted that the legislators should be gmded m'fuminz the constitution y the advice of experienced military men. Chang Yao-tseng, the new minister of justice, was singled out as a member of the cabinet who is wholly unworthy to retain ‘his po tion and a protest against him was sent to the central government, The objection to the minister of justice based on his alleged connection with the recent opium smuggling case at Shanghai. Large quantities of Yun- n opium were taken into Shanghai an official party, of which Chang tseng was a member, ‘He was officially exonerated, but both the press and the public regarded the of action as a whitewashing, and his retention in the cabinet provoked wide criticism even before the mili- u% conference took action. e military leaders also insisted ed | that a comrete,m minister of foreign affairs should be immediately appoint- ed to look lherml':: :: {t:lm;::::- national questions which China now faces. ‘ Parliament and the milita; stand at ‘opposite poles. Tur:np(‘:rh‘l n t Ehmflul me ' inese who bel e u:)ld-tlx‘nc ve that the strict exercise of military power is the only means of maintaining peace in China, President Li Yuan-hung, while prim- a military man, is not so strong- ly [ thy with the military B g A onize the parliamentarian and the military His success has not been While the revolutionary ve b:: entirely J-imd at in other parts of Kwang- ce, and the Szechuen is no' longer threatening, &unl issatisfaction ina with the inaction ent, and a clash between and the military is ilson's Mexico of The Assoct 3 ex, Oct. 2 Barely 3,000 Americans remain in the republic of Mexico, as eomrlnd with the 100,000 more who lived in that country A lontlu Madero revolution, i; ese figures were recent eoflsfld here by an American wh cons ud.o‘d ten weeks' tour :)f thew re‘3 mate and can citizens below the border is: Mexice ?ity, approximately 300 Tampico, approximately 900, Panuco oil field dlmic{. near Tam- pico, Scattered through Sonora state, 350. 2’o§mum through Chihuahua state, State olzgcmA Leon, including L orreon, 30, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, 25, Five hunderd additional Amer he said, are scattered through various other states and cities of Mexico mostly at points remote from rail- roads, where they are engaged in renching or mining. Whisky-and-Soda Scarce in Sweden (Correspondence of The Associated Pross.) ' , Stockholm, Ocht ain's export prol n on whisk has moved Swedish dealers to uk{ account of their stocks, with the re- sult that they have found that six months more will about see the end of the available supply. In no first-class restaurant in Stock- holm can whisky-and-soda be had for less than one crown, or about 2814 cents at the ent exchange rate. Some places charge as much as 1.30 cr\;lvgn‘ll. or J6fl cenw ade liquors—particularl; um,fn rands manufactured b; monks—are scarce and dear. The same is true of French cognac and French wines, which have increased ~Great Brit- ith | wholesale from 25 to 40 per cent. This ard e sum- center at Karuizawa he addressed vm‘,‘ u&?“‘kfifi?e ce [a great is due in large part to a scarcity of bottles, not only in the countries uf origin, but also in the diminished ca- pacity of Swedish 1llulmuker|. since rt of the liquors and wines imported is brought in in Swedish bottles. No shortage of Swedish punch, th: so-called mt‘mnll drink, thr‘:l’!l:nl. l: may become necessary, however, to ;|drink in November\and December some punch not properly aged, on ac- count of the difficulty the manufac- turers experience in getting sufficient sugar. L3 eall_among to have MI; eritics. Gophers are ™ ,umuy pleked lel win the Westorn con- ference champlonshlv. THE _BEE: SOLDIER WITH TWO COUNTRIES WORRIED Austrian Baron Has Won Brit- ish Medals for Service Under Kitchener in Egypt, HE WILL NOT FIGHT (Correspondence of The Associated Press.) Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 3.—There came to Stockholm a little while ago one of the distinctly unique personal- ities of the' great world was—a man who had lived by the sword almost from boyhood, but who in the sudden turn of events in 1914 found himself, not a man without a country, but a man with two countries—two coun- tries arrayed against each other in the bitterest of all world combats. He had served under the Austrian crown prince and had been aide to Kitchener of Khartoum. He had gone into Egypt when Kitchener was there as a lowly subaltern. For twelve years he was a prisoner of the fanati- cal Mandi and lge wild Dervish tribes who threw back, for the first time in centuries; the ever advancing fron- tiers of civilization, Esczpinlg1 from the clutches of the barbarians he won the opportunit{ of participating in that remarkable march across the desert and the wonderful campaign along the ugper reaches of the Nile which brought civilization back to the Sudan and won for Kitchener his first great fame. Britain Honored Him. He came to Stockholm from Vien- na unannounced and to all intents and purposes ‘“incog.” There were few who recognized him as Rudolf Carl von Slatin, baron of the Aus- trian empire, pasha of Egypt, lieu- tenant general of the Egyptian army, major general of the British army an: times the recipient of the coveted British. orders from Companion of the Bath to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, all won by distinguished service, He was in- spector general, of the EEyptian forces under General Sir Francis Wingate when the crash of war in 1914 brought a new crisis in his al- ready eventful life, en the plrtinz of the ways came in_1914 Slatin found his love for Aus- tria was still strong although most of his life had been devoted to Brit- ain and its wards in Egypt. He had become essentially a part of the Eng- lish military ine. But he could not fight against his fatherland, nor could he serve in any way against the country which had meant so much to, him and which had lavished hon- ors upon him., So Slatin regretfully met the issue. ned his English and Egyp- ssions, sheathed the sword which had been part of his very life and passed into comp: ve security in the very midst of war. Slatin felt, however, there was one service he could render’ with all pro‘;‘;rie . He returned to Vienna, attached himself to the Austrian Red Cross and now is doing all he can to better the con- dition of prisoners of war, not alone in own country, but as part of a plan to bring about reciprocal agree- ments lmon’ all the nations in arms. Slatin suffered sufficiently himself as a rrhoner in the Sudan and has the widest possible sympathy with any sort of captive. 3 It so happens that this very unique ersonality of the war now has come to more or less direct relationship with America. His mission in Stock- holm was to meet here a representa- tive of the American embassy in Pe- lro‘gnd to discuss further means of relief for the hundreds of thousands of Austrian war prisoners now in Russia, as well as the immense colo- nies of Austrian civilians interned in various sections of the big northern empire. The Austrian government, he said, was ready anxious to co- operate in any p le way to bet- ter the condition of prisoners gener- ally and would gladly reciprocate for anything Russia might do. He also exprelged the appreciation of the Austrian (government for the relief work already actomplished under the direction of the American embassy at Petrograd. Slatin, who devoted his life to militarism, speaks now of war only from the standpoint of humanity. Norwegian-American Bank To Facilitate Business (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press, Christiania, Oct. 12—The steadify increasing mercantile connection be- tween Norway and the United States has made it desirable that a house in New York handle Norwegian inter- ests, especially money transactions, it is'announced in business circles, Some of the leading Norwegian banks are co-operating to establish a Norwegian-American clearing bank in gloaw ork with a capital of $2,500,- Yale Returns to Form. Both the varsity and freshm Yalo bid fair to furnish a and to revive the old Ell g« the gridiron. teams at INstnL euel—-no waling. Your clogged nostrils open right up; the air passages of your head clear and Kou can breathe freely. No more awking, snuffing, blowing, headache, dryness. No struggling for breath at night; your cold or catarrh diu%uars. Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist now. Ap- ply a little of this fragrant, anti r- tic, healing cream in your nostrils. It penetrates through every air pas- sage of the head, soothes the inflamed or swollen mucous membrane and re- lief comes i ntly. It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed-up with a cold or nasty catarrh.—Adv, Women’s — OMAHA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, Sweden’s Poor Feel Pinch of War Prices (Correspondence of The Assoclated Press.) Stockholm, Oct. 16.—Fortunes have been made in Sweden, as in the other neutral countries of Europe, as a re- sult of the war, but the pinch of war rices is beginning to make itself {eenly felt among the middle and lower classes. This has been evi- denced this week by the filing of peti- tions for increases of pay by repre- sentatives of the railway postal, tele- graph and telephone employes of the kingdom, by the city teachers of Stockholm apd of other Swedish cities and by the Stockholm school- teachers and other bodies. A special food commission in Gothenburg has decided to recommend to the city council the granting of an appropria- tion of 300,000 crowns to relieve the distress of the lowest paid classes in the city, and other cities have also been considering the question. Dr. Guinchard, head of the statisti- cal bureau of Stockholm, reckons that the two years of war have brought an increase of at least 50 per ‘cent in the cost of living in Stockholm, in accel- eration of a movement which really set in twelve years ago. Dr. Guin- chard said to the correspondent: “The budget for an ordinary mid- dle-class household has exhibited a steady increase for all the necessaries of life since the year 1904. This in- crease had amounted to 67 per cent at the end of last June. In other words, what this family could buy for 670 crowns in 1904 cost 1,119 crowns three months ago, and since then there has been a further increase.” House rents in Stockholm increased 158 per cent from 1905 to 1910, 3.3 per cent from 1911 to 1914, and 15 per cent in the last two years. Fuel prices, according to figures cited by the Stockholm teachers in their peti- d | tion, have more than doubled in the last ten years, a great part of the in- crease having come into the war years. . With so much new wealth in the country, Dr. Guinchard and other so- ciologists believe the way is clearly indicated to help the less fortunate. According to Municipal Councillor Dahlberg of Malmo, this year's as- sessment lists very genérally show big increases of taxable property, run- ning from 40 per cent up to as much as 100 per cent. Gothenburg, Helsin- burg and Malmo all show large in- creases. The figures for Stockholm are not yet known, but it is believed that they will show an increase of at least 25 to 30 per cent. This, Dr. Guinchard points out, would mean an increase in receipts from municipal taxes of some 6,000,000 crowns with- out niumg the tax rate, and would, even making allowances for the in- creased cost of running the city, fur- nish an adequate fund to relieve all distress. - Cornell Has Stuff. According to reports emanating from Ithaca, Cornell has rid of class material at work. The substitu Just about as good as the first string A Single Application . Banishes Every Hair (The Modern Beauty.) Here is how any woman can easily and quickly remove objectionable, hairy growths without possible injury to the skin: Make a paste with some powdered delatone and water, apply to hairy :surface and after 2 or 3 min- utes rub off, wash skin and the hairs are gone. 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