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Show MliVS SBJ1T f TIIHOVCH SPACE H. Addington Bruce describes tie attempt of as English clergymen named Clarence Godfrey to reject himself" Into the presence of a end at a distance. The attempt was made on the night of Nov. 15, 1885. The result of hla attempt, as de- scribed In the account written out at his request by the percipient," who it should .perhaps be added, had had no intimation of the experiment, was as follows: Yesterday viz., the morning of Nov. 16, 1886 about half past 3 o'clock I woke up with a start and an Idea that someone had come into the room. I heard a curious sound, but fancied It might be the birds In the ivy outside. Next I experienced a strange, restless longing to leave the room and go downstairs. This feeling became so overpowering that at last I arose and lit a candle and went down, thinking that If I could get some soda water It might have a quieting effect. On returning to my room I saw Mr. Godfrey standing under the large window on the staircase. He was dressed in his usual style and with an expression on his fact that I have noticed when he has been looking very earnestly at anything. He stood these and I held up the candle and HAVOC ft 37 WROUGHT A thrifty woman of Augusta began experimenting some time ago to learn what effect the Georgia clhnate would have upon Imported silkworms. A room in her house was given up to their use and mulberry leaves In ahundanoe were supplied to them. Later, when they began to Increase in numbers and to escape to other parts of the house, whatever spot they chanced npoa became sacred to them. No one was allowed to Interfere with a silkworm is its pursuit of happiness, no matter where it might have established Its cooooo. This was strongly Impressed upon the servants. All the while the worms were growing. Maady, the colored cook, was making preparations for her wedding. In order to take advantage of every mlmnto she oonld spare, she brought the materials for her wedding drafts to the kitchen, and there constructed a thing of beauty with which to bedeck herself. At last her day of arrived, and her mistress consented to allow a substitute to cook dinner while Mandy was sway for a day to celebrate the event. That evening, however, Mandy appeared In the kitchen as usual, and et about getting supper. Her eyes hap-pln- e SVMMER y sap-porte- d p port At the American League meeting it was announced that the Washington Club doubled Its business over 1904 and that every club In the league did better than break even financially. The Athletic club led in total attend- - of the Cincinnati club, busy making his day was a star, but dissipation denials of the things thRt are written Late News by Wire. caused his downfall. about the Reds. The scribes all take James Houeyman, the outfielder, too much interest in his club to suit for a bus offered Edward cup King who played two years with the SL At c him. the same time Herrmann a yacht race to be saillikes the newspaper men. ed in 1907. Tbe race la to be from Joseph Western League baseball team, died in New Mexico of lung trouble. The Robisons have two new catchSandy Hook to the Needles, under He had not played baseball regularly ers for the St. Louis Cordlnals. One the management of tbe New York of them Is Jack Slattery, who was Yacht club, and open to yachts of tbe since leaving tbe St. Joseph team. Honey mans home was in Cincinnati, with the New York Americans for world. Ohio. about two days last summer. Tbe time one C. at Gustavus Rlchholm, Ralph Glaze, the big Dartmouth is other Raub, an Eastern Leaguer, considered tbe strongest chess player Wbo was a member of the Chicago In the country, and for over forty right end, will forsake the college diamond for professional baseball next Nationals three years ago. years chess editor of Philadelphia spring. Glaze Is the star pitcher of New West Point has written to the newspapers, died In Philadelphia Nov, York league club asking for one of the 30. He was secretary of the Franklin tho Dartmouth team, and after much worlds champions to coach the army Chess club and a member of other apersuasion, he has promised to sign contract with the Boston American team this coming spring. It is pos- chess organizations. League club.' lie was Dartmouths sible that Mike" Donlln will accept The steamer Iyo Maru brought main stay in the box for two years. the position If It does not Interfere news that a group of famous wresJoe Kelley has sent bis resignation with the spring training plans of tlers, including the noted Kodlmlrl as manager of the Cincinnati National In going south. and Komugatake, who have made a League team to President Herrmann. successful tour In Korea and China, Kelley has been captain and manager American Association Affairs. will shortly start on an American tour Pat Donovan has been in Toledo They will leave for San Francisco of the reds for four years. Tbe old Baltimore star says he bas a for several days, and gossip Is that shortly. contract with Cincinnati, andl be will manage the Mudhens next At Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. 29, Far- will leave the reds to with an year. mer Burns defeated Albert Carlson of eastern team, perhaps play a MinneManager W. II. Watkins, of Minneapolis In a League aggregation. apolis, last week signed Mlque Kehoe wrestling matcb, winning the last two Arrangements for the spring trainto catch for the Millers next Beason. falls. Carlson weighs 242 pounds. ing trip of the world's champion It is reported that lnflelder George Carlson won the first fall in twenty-thre- e Giants are rapidly being made and the to decided has of Columbus, Wrlgley, minutes and Burns the next two plans thus far for the Invasion of tbe Jump to the proposed new Pittsburg In fifteen and ten minutes respecSouth are practically settled. On e League Club. tively. March 1 Manager McGraw and the week Shortstop Hulswitt was last W. J. Hall, the Yale runner who will report at Memphis, where piayers dismissed . from Mt. Carmel Hospital won the intercollegiate cross country will remain until the 20th of that they de at Columbus, Ohio, after a long championship over the Travers Island month, playing some exhibition games layed recovery from an operation for six mile course, scored another tri- with the local team. appendicitis. umph over the same course Nov. 30, President A. II. Soden of the Boswhen he captured the Individual na- ton Nationals said the Billy Hallman will be with the Colattempt of onels again next season. He had a tional cross country championship of Frank V. Dunn to buy the club was Hallman bad year fighting malaria. the Amateur Athletic union in the ex- off, and that he would represent the la one of the most popular players in cellent time of 32:59 Boston club at the annual meeting the association. George Dockerell, the next month In New York. Soden says boy who holds the 100 yard and quar- the club Is still for sale at the price Manager Dick Padden Is not expected to arrive In St. Paul until after ter mile swimming championships of offered Mr. Dunn, $200,000, and If the holidays, but in the meantime he Ireland, arrived in New York recently there Is no bidder before spring the will keep busy arranging for players and will be a prominent figure In the old management will continue. for next season. aquatic meets this winter. Dockerell Football. Is an excellent water polo player, havthe informed George Tebeau has Ker-wi- n ing won a place on the people of Louisville that Danny George R. Charters, full back, was will have a chance to play right team, and It Is possible he will atfield for the Colonels again. Dan has tempt to Induce the clubs he visits to elected next year's captain of tbe Be lolt college football team. take up socker water polo. signed his 1906 contract Never has such a crowd assembled The worlds record for the mile Indoor relay race was broken at Urn annual games of the Twenty-Secon- d regiment at New York. The event derecided the military lay championship, in which the Thirteenth and Twenty-thirregimental teams were the contestants. The former quartet won In the fast time of 3:27 which Is 1 3 5 seconds better than the former record held by tbe trans-Atlunti- Me-Gra- w non-reserv- e Tri-Stat- n Tri-Stat- d Inter-regiment- d 2-- IROf 'ROOF Boxing. It was the most responsive house, by far, in a rainstorm that I ever slept In. On the first night we were there we were wakened by the sound of what we thought at first must be s buckshot cataract falling on the head of a giant drum. But in a moment again we realized that this was the sound of rain falling on our corrugat-eIron roof. And talk about the patter of the rain dropt on the old. moss-growWhy, on this shingles! roof the rain came down like like buckshot? Like grapeshot, cannon balls; innumerable, countless, conof cannon balls tinuous millions pounding with a constant roar." New York Sun. d n are accompanied by babies, equally unused to keeping quiet and Inclined to resent the foreign music as Intended to be personal. Very often the presiding minister has to pause and give directions as to the treatment of the unruly Infant At Sulfu Dr Tompkins had Just returned from ushering out one mother, the door being difficult to manage, a hen Dr Openshaw announced from the pulpit 'Theres another. Doc, referring to another wailing child. Of course, thTa did not detract In the least from the dignity of the occasion, for the Chinese, being spoken In English, but It was hard for the rest of us to repress a smile. So It Is with all the services; we have to content ourselves a 1th trying to create won for the feople, shtpful atmosphere ar and they, knowing nothing bett content; but we cannot help 'onglng for the rcstfulncss and quiet of our home church service." tyrant npoa thft will for "tha good old eye. the fubuloua doya "f yore. , charer are wlmt the r'tht must o than ever man sow be ore. rark of 'TlO-c- thft that the problem tha: yet us ow ftra ere to our errant c. View, eve gnlneJ the eight, -s wa yft nlnrd the might, that ou.- grand-Ire- a never knew; ro swung from the day when might me right to the day when Right nirtof her face, dlvlneir fair, tft t he veriest clod who feel: h th long, alow awone we v Hrtl preood, aft ftver our Uod halft im h th Right been jrewned ftur Ing. or there haa the Hreng boea , iemuch to muebt hvft taught Uatr do. them .a aa the right must . than .vmwhat Yv.totoaoa. rin, for th i'cWrftr ae Charlie Mitchell, the of England, sailed for home Nov. 30. He will spend the holidays in the old country, and Intends to return to America early next year. Mitchell Bald before leaving that he would bring Joe Bowker, tbe British lightweight, back with him and arrange a matcb Captain of this season's victorious University of Chicago team. with Abe Attel. The glove contest be- to watch a game of Rugby football a tween Gus Bezenah of Cincinnati and saw England's defeat by New Zealand Tommy Feltz of Brooklyn, N. Y., re- at the Crystal palace at London, Dec. sulted In a draw. Both men weighed 2, by a ccore of 15 to 0. 122 pounds. Tbe people seem to After weeks of dickering, TCrry Mc- have won out in their tight so far as Because of Govern and Batllng Nelson were Columbia la concerned. matched to fight six rounds In the tbe many injurlea received by memSecond Regiment armory at Philadel- bers of this year's team and the poor phia during the week of Jan. 6. Tbe scholarship among the players tbe uniboys agreed to weigh In at 133 pounds versity authorities have taken a most at the ring side and will receive 75 radical step In abolishing the game Inper cent of the gross receipts. Soft stead of reforming 1L bandages will be allowed. On thft Turf, Jack (Twin) Sullivan was awarded tbe decision over Mike Schreck at the end of tbclr twenty-rounOConnor, the American jockey, la fight before the Pacific Club at Los Angeles creating something of a sensation la Berlin, where he has been riding Jsov. 28. winners with the most astounding WANTS TO BOX FOR TITLE. Ills style of riding has regularity. been something of a revelation to thq fifteen-roun- Cecil Ferguson, who was secured last season from the South Bend Club of the Central League, la a young man of athletic build with a large assortment of curves and an abundance of peed. To Bay the least be has more than made good and the patrons of the game In Louisville and other cities throughout the American Association circuit predict a bright future for him ance, with TO CHINESE regiment team. Twenty-thir- d It upon THE WORLD GROWS DETTER Tea m not. tn your doleful wy, that thft world grows ftvrr worn; from the drear, That w cannot ew-ao'd sway of ths drear, old primal curse; TU nIn nut that there la no hop except the grace of Oml, It lie true, lie aeta that grace For, though In I lie verleet human clod. The World la sweeter than ftar It was; I rand not far or deep Till I know that out of tha alnush of tin tha mulmuiloa upward creep, Our slaht may lie dim while we walk our time on thla minty, earthly ahnre, But wa denier ere what tha right must be than ftvar man aaw before. Thft world la better, aye, better far, than vraa In the days of eld. When they might take who had the now, er and they might keep who held; when the helled knighie rode to and fro, their cruel will to do. Afi the king wae lord of hla euhject brawn, end een of hla spirit, toes when woman'o name waa ft thing tft toast and her virtus a thing to own: Whan ft atrf and s bondsman bora thft American League Note. Tha New York Club has sold pltcWer Ambrose Puttmanu to Toronto. The Cleveland Club haa turned Nick Kahl over to Columbus. The St. Louis Club haa asked waivers on outfielders Frisk and Van Zandt. The Washington Club has asked for waivers on Hulseman, Adams, Roth-ge- b and Shaughnessy. Connie Mack Is strongly opposed to the reduction of the playing schedule from 154 games to 140 games. Manager Lajote has returned to Cleveland from Philadelphia, where he attended the funeral of his friend Johnson. Catcher Ira Thomas, drafted by New York from Providence, la pronounced by Manager Jack Dunn as a better man than catcher Gibson, now with Pittsburg. Detroit scribes deny that Charley Murphy, of Chicago, is the youngest magnate In the game. They claim that honor for William Yawkey, the young millionaire owner of the Detroit Club. Umpire Jack Sheridan left Chicago last week for his home in San Jose, Cal., after resolutely declining Ban Johnsons earnest efforts to Blgn him for next season for the American League staff. Sheridan will become an undertaker. Charley Comiskey left Chicago Immediately after the league meeting for a trip South on hla houseboat He waa accompanied by hla wife and aon, as well aa several friends. The "Old Roman will spend some time fishing in the tinted waters of the Red river. Jimmy Whalen, the San Francisco pitcher, purchased by Manager Clark Griffith for the Highlanders, la doing some talking In 'Frisco. He says while he is satisfied with the salary of $2,600 offered him, the club must pay his expenses East before he will re- heard coming from' behind us sounds which we realized in a moment came from the house itself. It was the Iron roof, now In the shadow of that cloud, contracting when the heat of the sun And then In a mowas withdrawn. ment, as the clouds passed on, we heard from the house again the roof expanding as the sun once more fell ft OISE ATT E AES Of native church services Mrs. Roberta Montgomery McKinney writes from a mission in western Chins: The men sit on one side and the women on the other. It Is almost to keep the place really quiet In the first place the Chinese are not used to keeping quiet; It Is entirely foreign to their training. Their temples are about ss noisy as place could be, their Ideas of worship being associated with noise rather than quiet The roan who can make the most noise Is evidently considered the greatest succes as a worshiper witness the din Just now in process down the temple, which may be a great benefit to the soul of the pilgrim and to his ancestors, but it Is a decided hindrance to me when I am trying to write a letter. "Another feature which adds to the noise and the restlessness of the service Is the fact that half the women SILKWORM were swollen and her face gave evidence of long weeping, which was by the persistent coavsMve heaving of her shoulders. Why, Mandy!" exclaimed her mistress. Im right glad to see yos bask. Did the wedding go nicely?" said Mandy, then No, ma'am, burst Into a storm of tears, "No, maam, it Just didnt go at all. t atot been married. Not married, Mandy f Why, that Is too bod! What was tha mattor? Didnt Henderson coma?" Yaesm, he done come. EveYhody done come. The whole chu'ch was plumb taQ at people. I reckon actme of em in there ylt Sveybodf .was there but me. Bobs again shook her and later fared with speech. Well, what was the matter, thewT finally inquired her mistress. 'Did pan change your mind?' O. lawsy, no. Miss Sally. I wanted to git there bald enough. But, Mtss Sally Miss Sally" sobs again Miss Sally, one of dea plaguy, squn8hy white woms done done coocooed In my weddln drel" Youth's Companion. VJVVER I had scarcely thought. said the middle-age- d man, that I should ever the hear patter of the rain on again the roof as I heard It In my youth, when I slept In the garret In the home of my boyhood. But now It has been brought back to me most vividly. "In the summer Just past I lived for cabin built of a time In a corrugated iron. The little house had a nice little veranda across the front and was very comfortable within. And besides these distinguishing features, the little Iron house had some other characteristic traits. For one. It was the most sensitive house I ever knew to changes of temperature. "It was a lovely day on which we truck the place. As we sat on the veranda and looked out through an opening in the trees In front upon s broad and varied landscape of water, woods and mountains and then up at a fleecy summer cloud we thanked the good luck that had landed us there. And then, as that light cloud floated on across the face of the sun, we one-stor- gazed at him for three or four seconds in utter amazement and then as 1 passed up the staircase he disappeared. The Impression left on xny mind was so vivid that I fully intended waking a friend who occupied the same room sb myself, but remembering that I should only be laughed at as romantic atd Imaginative I refrained from doing so." Arguing from analogy, It a as held by those advancing the telepathic hypothesis that the mind of a dying person In reverting to a distant friend conveyed to the frlend'B mind a distinct impression which took the form of a vivid visual hallucination. To the reply that the apparitions were by no means uniformly coincident with the moment of death and not infrequently occurred onjy after a lapse of several hours It was deemed sufficient to point to such cases ss (hat of Rev. Mr. Godfrey as Illustrative similar deferment of experimental hallucinations. In the Godfrey cabs the willing" begun at 10:45 p. o. on the night of Nov. 15, and lasted only eight minutes, after which Mr. Godfrey fell asleep; whereas, it was not until 3:30 a. m. of the following morning that the hallucinatory vision apPaMlc percipient. peared to the Opinion. Boston second third, and Cleveland fourth. Chicago the National League. While hla averages do not show up as well as some of the other pitchers, this can be accounted for by the fact that in a majority of the games in which he has taken part he was accorded ragged support. His averages up to Sept 7, at the time of the railroad accident at Kansas City, are as follows: Pitching, .419; attlng, .144; fielding, In .946. Mike Kelley declared In Cincinnati the other day that he would make an effort to get hold of the Minneapolis franchise. Thla looks as If he had about given up the Idea of Joining National League News. Matthewson admits that curve pitchforces with Grillo. ing Is severe on the arm. . Second baseman Billy Gilbert, of Charley Strobel has the Giants, has become a regular golf purchased a one halt Interest In tbe Ingersoll-HopklnCompany, owners player. Good exercise. As Frank Dunn has failed to pur- of Luna Para, Pittsburg, and the firm chase the Boston club, Herman Longs will produce shows la tbe future under dream of becoming a National League the name of Ingersoll, Hopkins Strobel. manager has faded. Billy Cllngman writes: Walter Frantz, the pitcher drafted Im a colt by St. Louis from Kansas City, has compared to Charley Nichols, Jake announced that he will desert base- Hockley, Kid Gleason and' a host of others. Me retire from baseball! Say ball to enter the ministry. It not As long as my soupbone holds According to Stanley Robison, Manager Edward Hanlon still has under out Willie will take tbe magnates consideration a $6,000 offer to man- money.? age the Cardinals next season. Southern League. Manager Frank Bancroft of Cincinlnflelder Charley Babb, late of the nati, Is of opinion that Manager Frank of New Orleans, discriminates against Brooklyn Club, Is negotiating for the National clubs In favor of American Memphis management. Ed. Lynch, little Rocks catcher of clubs In spring dates. 1901 and 1902, has been asked for Fred Tenney says It Is far harder terms to manage tho 1906 Travelers. than outfielders good to secure good Louis Whistler has resigned the inflelders from the minor leagues for Jthe reason that hard hitting outfield-er- a Memphis management and returned hla home In St. lxmis. It Is thought are the rarest thing In minor to Bob Gllka, of Shreveport, will manllcngucs. age Memphis next season. The Chicago National players will j Sam Dungan hns announced his reeach be given a solid gold watch tirement. Dungnn is wintering In San In set diamond the a with charm, Jose, and has built a home with money center, as their reward for winning saved from many years of dutiful toll. tho of Windy City He the championship he will never play basedeclares from the American Leaguers. ball again. denies the report President Fulliam Brcltenstelns 1900 contract with ths that several of hla staff of umpires New Orleans Club bas been promulhave signified their Intention of quit- gated by Secretary Farrell and the ting the business. "I can have every southpaw will bo with Cbarlio Frank man on the staff again next season another aenson. Ho escaped selection If I want him," said the League chief. by a major league or class A club Chicago critics point out that Frank and the danger la past Eddie Beecher, tho Memphis third Chance, who Is to manage the Chibaseman for two years, has been draftcago Cubs next year, was considered a socond-clasplayer for many years, ed by tbe Baltimore Club, tn tbs Easb and only by sheer dint of hard work ern League. Beecher has declared and perseverance fought hla way to that he will play ball on the Pariflo coast nest season, but the Marylandthe top. It keeps Garry Herrmann, president ers will have first csll on his service. d anti-footba- ll d German horsemen. Thomas II. Williams, president of the California Jockey club, It Is said will shortly resume bis position asi one of the big turfmen of America. The purchase of a new stable will soon be commenced, with which tho California will start an eastern camHorses from ,tho Williams paign. stable will be raced exclusively In tho East, and will not be seen In tho local tracks. s , s Browning's Inspiration. light on Robert Brownings relation to the stage has been shed by Oils Skinner In a recent Interview on tho subject of the great English poet. Declares Mr. Skinner: Browning stopped writing play with tbe stage In mind right after hla y. quarrel with the After that he did not care whether or no his dramas ever saw the footlights. He did not aim at actual theatrical representation, and so allowed hla psychological genius Its full away, Irrespective of the conditions that circumscribe practical dramatic endeavor. When Lawrence Barrett pioduced his masterful work, 'The Blot In the Scutcheon,' Browning felt a new Influence come Into hta life and art Ho wrote Mr. Barrett a warmly appreciative letter complimenting him. upon the popular success he had won for tbe piece, and I had only had you to adding: write for In the past I might havo written more actable playa.' It was too late, however, for Barrett to become tho Inspiration he might otherwise have been. How difficult Brown-lug- s verse Is for actual stage presentation I experienced while playing Norbert In 'In a Balcony' with Mrs. bson-Le Moyne and Ml' A new his new spurring partner, Marvin Hart again expressed his willingness to defend hi claimed title of heavyweight champion against any white man who wants his giime. Hart does not see why hi title Is not as good as any ones, lie Is eager to get on a match with the a Inner of the Fitzsimmons-OBrie- n fight. Baseball. lnflelder George Mil, of the Washington team, last week became a Mason at FL Wayne, Ind. Both of the Washington backstops, Klttrldge and Heyden, have slgnod for next Seuson. Kit" holds his own wonderfully well. Arthur Hlllcbrand, the rrlncoton twirlor, has been tendered a fat contract by Manager Btahl, of the Washington Club, which he will probably accept. -- Amos Rusle has signed with tho Springfield (Ohio) Central League dub to pitch next season, Rusle In actor-manage- if r, Mao-reud- |