Show The TheW ar Crop Crp a f Following th the Angels of Mons Myth Curious Stories Spread of Supernatural Supernatural Super Super- n natural tural Phases of Conflict Con Con- Spirit Spirit World Said to Have Arranged Drow Drowning ng of Salvation Salvation Salvation Salva Salva- tion Army Men on Empress Empress Em Em- press press of Ireland to Provide Provide Pro- Pro yide vide Reception Commit Committee tee tee for Dead Soldiers on f Side w Other Everyone EnrIoue remembers the marvelous Calc ale of Tho Angels of lousi on ri according accord accord- ing to which a celestial corps of warriors war nar ar succored the British troops on their retreat toward Paris It is also well remembered with ith what avidity it I was seized upon by clergymen spiritualists spiritualIsts spiritualists spirit spirit- I and theosophists nun ann then with wIlli what derision they were covered when then it was ras proved beyond tore that the tho myth hail hall its Hs origin in a n short bort story purely fiction which appeared appeared ap up- upI ap- I in a London newspaper But notwithstanding this conspicuous ous us canard of tho the supernatural the minds of many of the English under tho the strain of the war continue continuo to turn to 0 the tho occult with the result that numbers of curious yarns based upon mysterious experiences have Ime come into currency Many any of these are aro related In a 11 recently published book book Peeps into lute tho Psychic WorM World by 31 N. Mac MacDermot MacDermot Dermot Crawford the American publisher pub pub- usher lisher of which is Lippincotts r-nl r HERE is the story of two Tommies Tom Tom- mies mica who were doing outpost duty somewhere In France and one suddenly said to the other I say look say look there I Look where her 1 replied the other loath loath to take his eye off a possible German head that might expose it- it w 1 self AT f j Just there said the other See t that t dear old lady in gray over K there th er erf j The other his r f turned head Good r rayy Good od Lo lorS LOru iU My y mother he lie exclaimed exclaimed exclaimed ex- ex claimed and fell back dead dcarl with witha a 8 bullet In his Ills brain I f Lord My mother he exclaimed rL rising half in iii his his- excitement Ho Ho fell back ack dead with a bullet in his brain I T Then en there is the tale of the heir heil of ofa a well known own title and family whose life me Was miraculously saved by hIst his hiss hiss' s' s t being pinned d down wn by a powerful 5 1 invisible hand Just as he wanted to toiV iV stand up when he would d have been struck by a shell shel It is not explained why So BO many other heirs to titles were abandoned to their fate by the Invisible Helpers v A Royal Artillery officer the author relates had a strange presentiment one evening at 7 o'clock and acting upon it although all aU the men and horses w were re comfortably ensconced for forthe forthe forthe the night he went and moved them all telling his orderly to put his bed in inthe tho the b basement basement At midnight a shell screamed screamed through th the night lan landing ing and bursting in the very spot from which he had moved his men and andI t. t horses A fragment of the shell shattered shattered shat shat- tm-ed tm the the- windows wIn of the room in which he was to have slept This officer officer officer Is said to h have ve told his Ifs brother officers before retiring at 9 o'clock that he had a feeling something was about to happen A woman went to a firm in London and ordered a fountain to be put up in Westminster in memory memory of her son who o was reported killed at the battle battler of r Mons When the base had been finished she ordered the work discontinued discon- discon tinned stating that she had a very strong feeling that her son was alive Two Jwo weeks later she learned that he was truly alive This is cited by the theauthor author as a case of psychic sensitiveness sensitive sensitive- ness nessA ness A A W woman m n friend of the writer related to him that tha when the tho news from Russia was darkest she was walking in Oxford Circus In London and saw sawa a newspaper man displaying a a. poste poster on en which seemed to be printed In large type Great Russian aIlY She Ghosts called it to the attention of of a sister who exclaimed exclaimed What do you mean It ays ys The Dead Brides Brides' The sister was right as a second glance showed but the next tt day at atthe atthe t the e same game spot they saw V another poster really bearing the legend Great Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian Rally It proved that the news had ar arrived ived the day before before-at the very I hour when the tho woman oman thought she I saw it announced by poster and had been held up 24 hours by the War Office Th authors author's suggestion Is that his friend perceived the news clairvoyantly a day before it was made public From Jetters letters communicated through Mrs C C C- automatic writing by a who died died three years ago to her sister sister sis sis sis- ter it appears appeals that the Spirit World arranged to have officers of the Salvation Army on board the Empress of Ireland when she sank so that they could aid in welcoming the ghosts of soldiers killed In la the war aa n q 4 1 eF n i c. c d 1 tJ r L In sleep the tho astral spy sought to wrest Ills his Invention from tho unwary dren dreamer ler Extracts of the letters are given inthis inthis in inthis this book Aug 6 1914 This war war Is full o of pain and tragedy yet the light it sends hero is much mach purer and finer than I would would have have thought could come with wilh carnage The men have more thoughts of God in them in the danger dangel and hoi hor- horror of ba battle battlo than they would have when working ordinarily at home Weare Weare We Weare are used to help them picking out our affinities by tho the lights of their aural auras I Aug 21 Alfred her dead brother and I are allowed to help comfort the dead soldiers who are coming herein herem here in m thousands No Nove we ve dont don't use me language lan Ian language guage gnage light colors colon olor and thought ex no word language Is Heeded needed need Heed ed here Sept 6 For POl some time before the war special preparations were going goin on hero for dealing with large numbers numbers num num- bers hers of people and it was part of the plan that tho Empress of Ireland had Salv Salvation Uon Army Aimy officers on board when she sank These were needed to form a good link between the tho military life and the religious life for the special ape ape- cial world inter-world duties consequent on the tho warThe warThe war The experience of sudden death of I r i I j I h Through a poster she site clairvoyantly received the news of the I rally 21 1 hours before it was made malle public the Salvationists and of Stead and his companions earlier made them especially valuable and they are now used for the most important organization tion and educational work In connection connection connection tion v vast st number of men has hastily hastily has has- tily tHy flung into the next world Dec Dee IS 18 I aid in comforting the lonely soldiers and their wives I I go goto goto goto to the wives on earth in the night nighttime nighttime nighttime time but we have to meet the soldiers in the daytime Most of them are so tired emotionally allY that all they ther want is rest and quiet at first Sometimes they are like mad people when when they find they have no physical body and we have to keep them as if imprisoned here Then desolation and loneliness and reaction come on them and we help in cheering them up We bring beautiful pew new sights colors and in in- before them to distract their minds I Nearly early all are Interested to find they hey can fly Aviation has made mado such suchA I A tremendous impact on tho minds of the he combatants It is a sign that nu-j nu man beings are now i in b touch with this 1 life ife where flying is the natural means I of moving about I Oct 1 1915 We are very ory busy now We are both at the front helping some I poor soldiers some sOUle of whom do not I realize that they arc are dead so that we have great trouble In preventing them I from Irom frightening the tbd other soldiers Many dany of or these Tommies have such thick spiritual skins that nothing I short of wars war's alarms could make I Ithem them conscious of their their souls or of I God The war wal will bring about great I good and women will get the vote out of It too but it will last a good while The hint given that the death of William Wllliam T. T 1 Stead on the Titanic was I planned so that he might be available as one of the Reception Committee for I dead soldiers in the Spirit Land brings up again the famous story of the British Brit Brit- British ish Museum mummy which may Brit I have been employed by the benevolent spirits spirits spirits spir spir- its to bring about that great ocean disaster The fIle tale is told in the book I This much-discussed much mummy mummy ot mummy 01 to LO be strictly accurate mummy case ease I u as as sold by an Arab to a party of savants who were exploring Thebes E Egypt in m 1869 1360 Immediately misfortunes 1 tunes began to occur When the servant ser ser- vant of one of or the five members of the party was handing him a gun it exploded without visible cause injuring injuring ing log his Ins arm so that it was amputated to sa save ve his life Within a year the i second of the party died in great poverty poverty pov- pov erty eity the third was shot the lost most of his fortune and died and the fifth took tool the caseto England and gave It to hIs liis married sister who from that hour experienced a run of ill ill- luck She caused the case to be photographed photographed photo photo- graphed with the weird result that the picture showed a r. womans woman's face entirely different from that visible to tho the eyes upon the case The photographer photographer photographer died soon afterward To get rid of the hoodoo the owner owner presented It to the British Museum luscum The fhe carrier who took it there died In the same week weck the man who help helped d t to remove H I r f I I I 1 aid in comforting the soldiers' soldiers wives to whom I go In the night time it broke his arm and soon alter the arrival ar ar- rival of the case two attendants in the mummy room died The editor of a newspaper who had the temerity to publish the photograph of the case caseI I died soon afterward j An English peeress and her daughter daugh- daugh ter went to the to see the I i case The fhe daughter remarked that I she he didn't care for that silly old I mummy and made a grimace at the case cane On leaving she tripped and fell fellon fellon fellon on the steps breaking her ankle Another lady versed in Egyptology painted a picture of the case but took the precaution on of placing a plate of apples In front of the case ease These presumably absorbed the malevolent j i influences for they were invariably found withered the next morning By this time the mummy case began beganI I to get on everyone's nerves and It was removed to the basement of the I museum Not long afterward as re reI reported reported re- re I I ported in the London newspapers there was an explosion of escaping gas gasI I In the basement and a and bis mate were severely Injured Then says sars the author an expert on the subject who was examining the mummies in the museum found that this particular case was missing and that it had been replaced by a clever Imitation He questioned the curator who finally admitted that the museum officials had been so warned over the curious train of ot ill-fortune ill following the owners of the case that they sold it 11 to an American multi-millionaire multi who made them a handsome offer for forthe forthe forthe the curio The case was shipped to America I Ithe the curator c continued on the maiden voyage of the Titanic To-day To presumably pre pro the mischief making relic Tell lies at the bottom of ot the Atlantic Ocean According to the author It is widely believed in England that Admiral Jellicoe Jellicoe Jalli coe is a a. a reincarnation of or Francis Drake whose spirit also animated Nelson in popular opinion King AlLert Albert Albert Al Al- bert Lert of or Belgium is hailed as the of or William the Silent vh freed the Netherlands from the yoke of Spain These quotations may v cometo come to 10 an end with The Strange Tale of an Astral Spy as related by Crawford Crawford Craw Craw- ford I For a long and drearily monotonous I ous time A A- A B B had been lying desperately ill in a nursing home but when the crisis of ot his illness passed he fell into a deep sleep and had a curious dream In the dream he was commanded by an invisible agency to get up from his bed go to a certain little book booksellers bookseller's 1 i sellers seller's shop shop buy buy a designated book i iI I the very name of which was unknown I to him bIm turn to a specified page and from the directions found there to tomake tomake tomake make a model that would be very important important im im- im and useful useful in submarine and aerial warfare Then he was instructed instruct instruct- ted t- t ed to write to a friend and borrow borrowa a specified book which would give further details useful to the invention The fhe dream so obsessed him bim that he be worried and implored his nurses to take him out to the shop until in sheer weariness they assented and he went and found the book He was a man deeply interested in inthe inthe inthe the occult and from time to time he was able to gather further r details detail In sleep so that when the teller of or this story met him the Invention was nearly nearly nearly near near- ly complete He fIe was utterly confident of it its it practical success Apart from Crom the details of or his invention gained in j sleep he became familiar with the I I plots tots of tb the Germans and that they were trying to wrest his invention from him in sleep He lie also said that I before they took this despicable means of g gaming gaining ining knowledge for nothing they had tried to steal his model and there theTO had been two atte attempts on his life His chief enemy was a well known and highly placed woman in London society who unsuspected spied for her her Government in circles where she moved without a shadow shallow of suspicion resting on her But in sleep she waged many Ian an astral fight to wrest secrets which would have been of in infinite infinite in in- finite value to those who employed her bel from the unwary sleeper A AB AR AR A- A R R- R Rhad had Innumerable encounters with this emissary but the utter futility futility ity of trying to explain the intangible to persons sons in power is too well known for him to lay himself meddling o og n charge of T being eing a ill t i did though he knew a as rf psychically inclined was a spy of the worst people t this his peace It i is difficult to hovers holers n astral spy Spy who above Portsmouth or above DI I 2 for or hib ted areas where the theor forbidden to penetrate All of this happened a ayears t years ago In August Augut 1 broke out out- Very recently S so o returning from Germany toI Ing while there of or a marveil ma mation marv tion useful in war for submarines and proceed proceeded what seemed to be beed the OIl OIled ed invention or of l our hero n Did they wre wrest t his jeal sects I In sleep after all k kIt j It |