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The Spirit That Burned Witches at Salem Is Still Invoked in Another Form of Persecution

BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. THE Constitution of the United States of America provides for religious liberty. Since the burning of witches in Salem a few hundred years ago there has been a slow but steady growth in liberal thought, and when the man who called himself a "Unitarian" twenty years ago was regarded as a menace to Christianity, and in a measure was ostracised by orthodox people, he is considered quite orthodox today, and no one questions his respectability. Therefore it seems inexplicable that we still have men and women among us who consider it a right and duty to make rigid laws to enable them to persecute another religious sect, viz., the people of America who believe in the existence of the spirits of human beings after death, and who claim to possess the power or the ability to communicate with them. There Have IJeen Seers, Prophets and Mediums in AH Ages. In a recent number of the Progressive Thinker appears the following: "PROTEST. "WHEREAS, There have been in all the past among all nations of the earth mediums, seers, prophets and clairvoyants, and "WHEREAS, The Old Testament Scriptures abound in accounts of seers and prophets who conversed with 'familiar spirits,' and the New Testament tells how Paul heard Spirit Voices, and Peter, James and John saw the Spirits of Moses and Elias, and "WHEREAS, All Pagan nations a3 well as Jewish and Christian also had clairvoyants, seers and prophets among whom was Socrates, the wisest of all ancient philosophers, who held daily converse with his Spirit Guides, and

THE MENDING MAN'S SWEETHEARTS

BY WINIFRED BLACK. THE vegetable woman pulled up her raggedy horse in a hurry. "Whoa," she cried stentorously. "Whoa there, don't ye never want me to speak to nobody that ain't a-buyin' from me." The man who came to mend the hoe and fix the garden hose and see what was the matter with the back gate, looked up. "Why, hello, Mary," he said and he laid down his tools and went out to the vegetable woman's wagon to have a little friendly chat. "How's Laurelia?" said the vegetable woman. "Fine," said the man who mends things. "We're all going fishin' some Sunday." "Fishin'," said the vegetable woman, "how on earth are you goin' to get Laurelia fishin'?" "Goin to take her in my wagon," said the man who fixes things. "I've rigged up a kind of a swing seat that is just as easy as a cradle and I'm goin' to set up the umbrella over that and there she'll be as nice as you please. "She can sit there on the bank and see us flsh--she's pretty tickled over it" Just then something called me away from the window and I didn't hear the rest, but the vegetable woman told me I almost asked her there was something so particular in the way she asked after Laurelia, that 1 really wanted to kinow all about it. "It's this way," said the vegetable woman. "All the neighbors know the whole story, so I guess it's no harm telling you, too. "Laurelia was kind of a pretty girl, blue eyed and yellow haired, and kind of trustful and easy goin'. She went to work in a milliner's store and she got Into some kind of trouble some way and came home carryin' the prettiest little thing of a girl you ever see. "Her folks wouldn't have her around and it looked kind of hard for Laurelia for awhile, but one day this mendin' man met her and her baby and first ' we knew they was married and he put up the prettiest little house for her you ever did see. "They've got two boys now of their own, but the mendin'man thinks all the world of the girl, too. "I asked him one day 'how's your sweetheart,' and he says. 'H've tvo. you know," and he meant the little girl, two. "Well, Laurelia's all crippled up with rheumatism: been so for four or five years; can't walk a step. He got her a wheel chair, tho', and when ever the

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"WHEREAS, Joan of Arc, a simple, uneducated peasant girl, aged fifteen, saved France as a nation and, as commander of her armies won memorable great battles, being directed in all military movements by the voice of a Spirit and "WHEREAS. Earth's distinguished scientists, philosophers and statesmen, among whom were Swedenburg, Victor Hugo, Gladstone, Camille Flammarion, Alfred R. Wallace, Judge Edmonds, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Professors James and Hyslop and scores of others believe in Spiritualism, and Every Human Being Has the Sixth Sense in Embryo. "WHEREAS, The fundamental teachings of Spiritualism are: A belief in an Infinite Intelligence, or God, and a universal brotherhood of man: Death is not extinction but birth to a higher life. The conscious Spirit, or mind of man after leaving the body, lives in a Spirit zone, or sphere, invisi-' ble to our mortal eyes, but a real tangible world to Spirits. We are, each of us, Spirits here in the mortal form. All of us possess a 'sixth sense,' or clairvoyant and clairaudient faculties in an embryonic state. A few favored ones have this sixth sense unfolded or partially so. These are known as seers of clairvoyants, or prophets, and "WHEREAS, To millions of people this belief is comforting is a sacred religion; now; "THEREFORE, We, the undersigned citizens of the United States, do here and now and ever will firmly protest against the proposed enactment and enforcement of statue laws under which Spiritualists and their mediums, who are their pastors, can be persecuted as lawbreakers, and vagrants. "Such proposed statutes are in conflict with the Constitution of the United States, and a grievous outrage per

cirucus comes to town there they both are big as life, and if anybody has more peanuts than Laurelia, 1 don't know who it is. "I saw her the other day riding around with him in his mendin' cart. He'd rigged up a seat in back for her and hoisted her into it someway, and she had on a new pink hat with roses oil it, same as a girl's. "I spoke to him about it just now and he laughed just like a boy and said, 'Yep, ain't it purty? She's got three nice hats, but I like that one best, so she always wears that when I take her out a-ridin'." "Her three sisters is all married now married well, too, far as money goes. One of 'em lives up in the city and has a house bigger than the hotel, they say; but I saw her once in a store up there a'shoppin' and she looked kind of long-faced and peaked. They ain't no children, and they say he hoards it against her. "The other's husband drinks, for all he's so well off and the third one's man ran away Avith some circus girl or actress or other and now she's home herself. They say Laurelia offered her a home, but it wasn't good enough for her. "I never did see a husband like Laurelia's. He never seems to think of a thing outside his work and how to please her. I never like to let him go by without speakin' and askin' after Laurelia. I kind o' like to see him smile when he speaks her name." The vegetable woman has a story herself, they say. I heard that afterwards. She knew the man who mends things when she was young and her skin wasn't so tanned from working in her garden as it is now. But she was delicate and couldn't ever marry, the doctors said, so she just planted flowers and vegetables and had her little house and took care of her mother and now she stops and asks after Laurelia and is happy to see how Laurelia's husband cherishes and loves her. What a queer, little narrow life they lead, the vegetable woman and Laurelia, and the man who mends things, and their kind! No theatres, no opera, no books, not much music, never heard of a good picture, never ate a really good dinner in their lives, couldn't do a two-step or a bunny hug to save their lives, would not know a cabaret if they met it in Broadway. And yet, somehow, there was something about the smile in the eye of the man who mends things that made me feel as I used to when I read about brave knights who went forth to slay dragons and came back on,

petrated upon millions of good citizens because of their religious beliefs." This Protest Should Be Signed by All Lovers of Freedom This protest is quite reasonable and should be signed by every person who values the reputation of our country as a land of freedom. It is urged that it is not the belief which is being legislated upon, but the use of that belief as a means of making r.oney. It might be urged against any and every creed, that it is used as a means of livelihood by its leaders. The highsalaried clergymen and bishops, the pomp and glory with which many church dignitaries surround themselves, the large prices demanded for pews in fashionable churches do not permit the Christian organizations of our land to vaunt themselves as wholly outside the money side of the question of religion. We all live in a material age and we all depend upon material means to exist. It is quite right that the clergyman, who gives his time, thought and efforts to helping his congregation spiritually, should be paid a sufficient salary to enable him to keep a roof over his head and garments upon his body. To Legislate Against Psychics Is Tyranny and Oppression. If we lived in a tropic climate he might possibly subsist on nuts and wild berries and sleep in a tent; but even the wandering priests of India, who claim to be above all material consideration, are supported by their devotees. Some one must furnish the robes they wear and the food . they eat. It would be oppression and tyranny to legislate against the people's right to feed and clothe them. Precisely so is it oppression and tyranny to legislate against psychics.

horseback to a fanfare of trumpets. I wish somebody would find the man who mends things and pin some kind of a decoration on his coat; but, I supose, he'd take it off and make Laurelia put it on a new hat for herself, and then smile all .the more sweetly some men are so odd, aren't they? A Taxicab Vision BY PEFCY SHAW. Y CROSSED the Styx a-tremble; I Said my guide: "Do not dissemI semble, Things have changed since gifted Dante paid his visit to my shore, Every ancient torture measure I have weeded out at leisure And we're better fixed for boarders than we ever was before." Then I said, "From Ebenezer To the reign of Caius Caesar, Through the Byzantine obession and the rise of the Punjab, I am trying to discover absolutely under cover How to cure the grafting genius of the New York taxicab. "This, of course, is confidential, Yet 'tis really most essential; I am getting up some data on the chauffeur old and new, In this age of evolution I am after a solution For the over-greedy driver, so perforce I come to you. My companion broadly beaming, With his witty eyeballs gleaming. Replied with comprehending, almost human in its zest: "On drivers of the Biga, the details are rather meagre; On the coaches they are better and the taxis are the best." "Front," he called and there came flying A submissive starter sighing. Said by frie-d: "Go. show this party to Inferno Number Nine Take the lift and pray remember he's an Aldermanic member, A very pure reformer and a special friend of mine." When we finally alighted The first thing that I sighted Was a stream of cabs and taxis, coaches, chariots galore, With drivers pulling, puffing, sighing sobbing, stooping, snuffing

How to Acquire a Beautiful Figure Through Dancing. By

' w O me classical danci I three things: The I tion of the body, the elevation of the mind and the joyous appreciation of living. And out of these three primary purposes of classical dancing grows naturally the bodily grace that is what the world seeks first from the art of the dance. I have always thought it a very sad j thing that children should bo tausjht to be ashamed of the bodies that God gave to them. The body is a beautiful and holy thing a temple ami every child should be taught to regard it in this way. To keep it clean, and pure, and healthy is not enough it should be reverenced as something that was given by God and i mst be returned to Him undefiled. Through this reverence false shame that is really immodesty will be done away with. Then the next step is to have in the mind thoughts worthy of its own high purpose and of the finest ideals of bodily beauty. So through the beautiful movements of spontaneous joy that go to make up the classical dance we perform a splendid service for both body and mind. THE MODERN COSTUME. The modern costume that veals and half conceals" is t of much criticism, some of i and some of it on the lines "half re-u-object adverse of arguraent that "to the pure all things are pure." To me clothing is immodest whenever it is suggestive in a shamedfaced way that seems to hint; here is a little glimpse of ankle or rounded arm just a hint, for more would be improper. Now, on the other hand, consider the Greek tunic, a eot't drapery clinging material, that clothes the body in a little cloud of mystery, but yet is all-revealing and so makes beauty an absolute essential. Our bodies today are defective because we know how easy it is to hide defects. The ancients, on the other hand, had to overcome defects and make for beauty so great that it could be unself-consciously revealed. This is the whole secret of immodesty, to have the mind dwelling on the body in an apologetic way. Now let us enter upon the study of how to make j the body so beautiful in line and contour that we may accept it as simply as we do a beautiful lily or rose. After a fajrly exhaustive study of the subject I am practically convinced that nothing so surely gives bodily beauty combined with purity of mind as do the ideal movements of the revival of classical dancing. Today I wish to illustrate my theory with three exercises, poses or movements of the dance that make a good beginning for the study of how to beautify the human figure thrcugh dancing. In the first figure the figure is poisWhile the weary ones kept prodding each the gentleman before. "These are free," my comrade muttered, While on hearing what he uttered There arose a clamor ghostly that went ringing through the void, Then from the windows cheering faces radiant came peering Just as if the awful protest were a morsel then enjoyed. "Nobody thought of," I commended, When at last my journey ended, Said my friend: "Of course, the meters never register a cejit, So the passengers elated feel entirely vindicated For their earthly woes and gougings and the money they have spent." How We Are Injured by Insects Selected by Edwin Markham. NOW that the year has swung around to vacation time, it is worth while to note what Dr. Woods Hutchinson has to say on the pests of country life. From Dr. Hutchinson's book, "Com- , mon Diseases," sent out by the Houghton Mifflin Company, I gather the foli lowing for you: "In most parts of the United States, (Copyright 19

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' l j; k', t-!Si.-, ed firmly on the forward foot, while t the other leg is raised to a position ! parallel with the floor, and stretched back as far as possible; the arms, too are stretched to the utmost, while life and motion extend to the very finger-tips. The tension in the stretched muscles will keep the body educated to the point of absolute muscular control. FIGURES 2 AND 3 Figure 2 shows lightness of poise. It will lulp arch the instep and flex th wrist into graceful lightness. Finally, fieure 3 combines lightness of poise with ease of motion. Notice the graceful sway of the body, the flexible wiv.;t and the simple readiness of the whole body to leap from this position of life and light into the next movement ot tne aance. If these exercises are faithfully prac . . . tised the limbs will soon come to have a flexibility and lightness that are the first essentials of grace. That unpleasant consciousness known as the sensaduring the season in which the weather permits one to sit out of doors with any comfort, life is rendered a burden by flies, gnats and mosquitoes unless behind the protection of screens. "The real battle of the human species for the possession of the earth nay, even for the right to exist upon its surface must be fought, not with mammoths, but with mosquitoes; not with lions and tigers, but with flies and gnats; not with behemoths, but with bacilli. "Our instinct to kill Insects at sight is perfectly sound. Out of the quarter of a million species now known to science, a mere handful are even remotefully helpful to man, and most of these only by their power of living upon other and more dangerous insects. On the other hand, thousands of species are actively hostile to man, to his foodplants and to his domestic animals. Whole tribes of men have been swept out of existence by the attack of insects carrying bacilli as within the last two decades in Central Africa, by the dread 'sleeping sickness' carried j by the tsetse fly. Whole nations have i teen weakened and crippled and whole civilizations retarded by another insect-borne disease, malaria. i "Closer study of the habits of the ! mosquito during the past five years jhas brought out the curious and at ' first sight incredible fact that the majority of these insects which carry I disease, such as the malaria mosquito,

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Thete pictures of Lady Richardson tion of being all arms and leps is trained into ways or muscular control and lightness. But what is easy for tue very young is a tjsk in later years. Little children should b tau;;ht to ad - just themselves readily to motions of grace. In later life patience i!l work wonders .and the woman who will faithfully htudy these general move - the yellow-fever mosquito and the house fly, can live and multiply, apparently, only in the immediate nciehborhoed of human habitation. In other words they are literally domestic animals and part of our f.:rm stork. This is absolutely true of the hotn-e j fly and the yellow fever mosquito, i neither of which i.-. over found more j than a mile or two. and usually not more than a few hundred yards, away from human habitations. "Dangerous and deadly s the mos-1 quitoes are, they are only 'middlemen." ! distributors common carrier" of evils which they have picked up from outside sources. For the most part these i outside source are diseased er dirty : ! human beings. So that we Lave really i ourselves to thank for most of the . damage they do. I I JOY OF THE SOUL. Joy is a prize ur.boughl and is freest, purest in its flow when it oemes unsought. No getting into heaven as a place wi 1 compass it. You must have it in you, as the music of a well ordered soul, ths fire of a holy purpose, the welling up out of :he centra! depths of eternal springs that hide their waters ihere. H. Euihnel'.

Flexihihty of Muscles and Poise of Bodv

FIGURE 1. TEACHING THE BODY MUSCULAR CONTROL. FIGURE 2. TO ACQUIRE LIGHTNESS OF POISE. THIS WILL BUILD UP THE ARCH OF THE FOOT AND MAKE THE WRIST LIGHT AND GRACEFUL. FIGURE 3. SWAYING THE CODY INTO THIS GRACEFUL MOVEMENT OF THE DANCE WILL TRAIN IT TO COMBINE LIGHTNESS OF POISE AND EASE OF MOTION. were especially posed for this page. ments will noon have hor reward in a certain flexibility that will make her ! feel as if he were renewing ber preo ' 'ous 'utb. i Th simple practice of dancing as they danced in those Elyeean days, "when all the world waa young Is j indeed the st crtt of reuewing youth j today. I GERMS IN THE BLOOD. Why Fever and Chills Alternate When a Person Hs tlaria. When the cerms f malaria real 11t aiiim-ils tln-e. belonging t the order lr.:z-M -enter tbe Mood with the saliva f t!'f l-itin? uiohquito they Instantly nttnk the red corpuscle. C'.'-h . t-.it its way Into a corpuscle and after a brief rest divides himself Into iixt'H'ti. What is left of the corpusiele is now dead. It breaks down. ai;d the slueen t'w germs plasmodl.-t. as the do tors rail them are et free in the bloo.. Kach of these iustantljr s-ks out a new red rorj,U8C'' which it attack in the same way. This prows, la the ordinary malaria, t.-ike Just forty-eight boats. When the serins are oatins the red corpuscles the teii.trf-rature of the body is Iflcre:wd. e.iu-u'g fever. When the multi; lied g-.Ttii ::re discharged Into the bio k1 the whole ldy feels as if chilled. Thi.t rausw the shivers and shakes that usually come every alternate day and that hive given us the common name "rhiiU and fever." K when you have the chill you may know that your broken down red cor-pnsi-les are divharging myriads of genus into your blood, and when the hiil gives way to ferer you may know that tbeM. germs are busy attacking your red corpus'-le. New York World. Palladium Want Ads Pay. Bv C. Al. Payne