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Paraffin Glove of Conan Dovle Starts Disnute. Is Called “Spirit” Glove. Phantoms Wear Glove. London.—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who recently onened a "phsychic Museum” and Sir Arthur Keith, the famous scientist are engaged in a controversy involving the authenti city of one of Conan Doyle's spirit in'li .Stic exhibits. This exhibit is a glove made of par alfin, which Conan Doyle says came off the hand of an ectoplasmic figure formed from a Polish banker named Kinski. Sir Arthur Keith say that Conan Doyle's glove is nothing of the kind, and thaat he (Keith )• has produced similar gloves in the labor atory of the Royal College of Sur geons. Explaining how the glove in his museum came to exist, Conan Doyle says: “I.et us take the facts as re corded in the Journal of the Insti tute of Metapsychique, which is the . .rgan of that body—a scientific and cot a spiritualistic institution in Paris. ' “First of all we will take the fact that the reoprt of what occurred was igned by Charles Richet. Professor of Physiology at the University of Paris, Gustav Geley. who was the head of the Institute and of Europ ean reputation, finally by the Count Do Gramment, an experienced invest tigataor, none of the three a profes rd spiritualist. Asks Fair Answer “They observed What occurred un der n fair red light, and all were a greed as to their observations. Their scientific reputation depended on the truth of their statement. Now 1 a?k for a fair answer to this question. Were these three men deliberately and senselessly lying? I will as.;.me that the answer is no. “Then the only alternative is that they were deceived. Let us see if ‘tat is credible. They had locked the door and as the room was their own there was no secret entrance. “When Kiuski, who is a Polish banker had sunk into a trance, and when the ectoplasmic figure was, formed from him, it was asked to dip its hand into a pail which contained v :rm paraffin. All the observer:; saw it do so, and controlled the med. ium at the same time. “When the wax had encrusted the hand of the phantom, it was asked to disappear. It did so, leaving the wax gloves which it had formed over its hands upon the table. The wax gloves as anyone can see for themselves, are in one solid piece, and are much narrower at the wrist than across the hand. How, then, could the hand have been withdrawn save by dema terialization inside the glove? No one has ever yet suggested any feasible way in which this could have been done. Called Proof Positive “To show the care taken by the I researchers, Geley had put cholestine in Ihe pail of wax. An independent cT *mist analyzed a portion of the glove and reported cholestine. This of course is proof positive that the glove was not brought ready-made in to the room.” Special comments on the “spirit g'ove” have connected the name of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with his character, Sherlock Holmes. As to tins Sir Arthur says: “I presume that since I am the only begetter of that overrated character I must have some strand of my nature which corresponds with him. Let mo assume this. In that case I would say that of all the feats of dear thinking which Holmes ever performed by far the greatest was when he saw that a despised and ri diculed subject was in very truth a great new revelation and a nepoch making event in the world’s history. “There are many more now who j would subscribe to this opinion than a few years ago, and I am convinced that a very short time at the rate ol its present progress will bring bout, the complete comprehension of it on the part of the whole human race. Disputes Doyle Claim Sir Arthur Keith in the face of Doyle’s statements, denies that it is impossible to remove a paraffin glove from one’s hand. “Before dipping my hand in molten naraffin,’’ he declares. “I lubricaated it with pure glycerine. I found that if I gave* my arm a few vigorous shakes the love presently separated from fingers and palm, and a very perfect spirit specimen dropped on the floor.” Sir Arthur Keith asserted that whenever a “materialized figure,” the thing that Conan Doyle calls an ectoplasm is seized, it turns out to, be an accomplice. The rich don’t all go South for the winter. There are the coal dealers. In some cases oil is pressed from nuts, and in other cases sold to them. Yet 98 per cent of those who go broke in Florida would have been : tickers at home. The chief difference between the i ivilized and savage is that the civil ized know better. The trouble with the bloc signals in congress is that there doesn’t seem to be any go-ahead sign. Ilis iory of “self-made man”: Train ed by^ mother; dominated by sisters; bossed by wife. ! Charlotte. Jan. 21.—Judge Iv Webb of Shelby, presiding at tne present term of civil federal court, is the “'busiest" of all judges of the district courts of States. Statistics prove it ! the United i Who would believe that judge' Wehb disposed of twice as many federal cases during the year 1924-! than the average number oft 192: eases thaat terminated per judge in the whole of the United Stales pro per outside of the District of Col umbia and twice as many cases as 1 two judges in some of the districts? Hut he did. Statistics prove it! In other words. Judge Webb has! the "biggest" job of any district judge in the United States. Whether! tho “territory" he has is to blame, or whether North Carolina needs an other judicial district will not bo at1 tempted to be decided here. But the I statistics will be given. More Than Double The average number of cases ter minated per judge in the whole of the United Staatfes proper outside of the District of Columbia was 940 with an average of 03 jury trials and in the western district of North Car-, olina, where Judge Webb presides, there were terminated 1,500 cases with 276 jury trials. This includes! both civil and criminal cases, and is CO. percent more cases than the av erage. The average number of criminal: cases terminated in 51 districts,, each with a judge, was 591 as against; 1.2530 disposed of in Judge Webb's district, or more than twice the av-! erage. The 1,500 civil and criminal cases j terminated in this district with 276 jury trials is 543 more than in the two districts of Florida, with 1,0171 closed and 110 jury trials; is 520 more than in both districts of Iowa with 1,040 closed and 331 jury trials i is 375 more thuan in both districts of Louisiana with. 1,185 terminated and 210 jury trials: is 081 more than in both districts of Mississippi with I 879 terminated and 30 jury trials; is 255 more than in both districts of* South Carolina with 1,305 termina ted and 193 jury trials is; 200 more than in both districts in Virginia with 1,300 terminated and 193 jury trials and is 945,more thaan in both districts of Wisconsin with CIS ter-j initiated with 49 jury trials. Doubles Two Judges The 1,560 civil and criminal eases j rminated in Judge Webb’s courts' more than terminated by two. dges in the following districts: i Two hundred forty-six more than the district of Arizona with 1.514 j id 117 jury trials: 944 more than the district of Montana with 016, rminaated with 85 jury trials; 848 ore than in the southern district of iorida with 712 terminated and 01 r.v trials; 435 more than in the estern district of Missouri with 1, !3 terminated and 21 jury trials; :i more than in the district to Ne ■aska with 1,139 terminated with I jury trials; 663 more than in the strict of New Mexico with 897 ter mated and 37 jury trials; 1,086 j ore than in the district of North akota with 474 terminated and ven jury trials; 980 more than in j e district of Oregon with 580 ter- j inated and 66 jury trials: 735 more j an in the southern distw s of Ohio ith 825 terminated and five jury , ials and 303 more, than in the pstern district of Washington with , 257 terminated and 11-1 jury trials ; In several districts three judges d not dispose of as many cases as, d Judge Webb. Heads Three Judges Judge Webb’s record is. 145 move r.?s than were terhiinatcad in the uthern district of California with 415 terminated and 11 < jury trials, here three federal judges operate; more than in the eastern dis ict of Pennsylvania with 1.530 rminated and 381 jury trials and 15 more cases than in the western strict of Pennsylavnia with 9;>5 rminated and 98 jury trials, three deral judges in each district. The statistics are not Chamber ' Commerce figures. They were sclosed bv the report of the at ,rney general of the business trans ited in the district courts. Debate at Boiling Springs January 23 The 19th annual debate of the tthamsaeur antid Athonean litery so cieties of Boiling Springs High school will be held Saturday night January ;i4rd when the following program will be rendered: Welcome address by president. Vo cal duet, “Wanderer’s Night Song” by Irene Green and Evelyn Huggins.. Oration, “Ambition and Restlessness” by Roland Hamrick. Reading, “The I.ost Joy” by Eloise Pruette. Piano solo, “Minuet” by Calla Clement. Debate. Query—Resolved: “That the United States Should Have an Aviation Department Equal to Either the Army or Navy.” Affirmative: Lewis McKinney, Joe Lee Woodward. Negative: M. J. Padgett, Lee Wa caster. Reading, “A Yankee in Love” by Zoe Richey. Chorus, “The Chase” by Misses Clement, Pruett, Green, Wil kins, Hamrick, Hodge, Hugging Lan caster and Messrs. Landaster, Allen, Buyher, Hamrick, McIntyre. (Gastonia Gazette.) Everybody in the South is familiar a'it!) “Dixie” and we all know the thrill that sweeps us whenever the tend plays that, stirring, martial, marching song of the Southern arm ies. N. K. A., a hip news gathering geney, which furnishes the Gazette with a great deal of “s features, pic lures and comics recently used the following ns a space-killer on one of its pages. It was written by soie * "'ember of its staff in Cleveland, ihio, under the title—“Dixie Still Holds us in Its Spell’': “The scene is the sumptuous inter ior of a gigantic moving picture the ater in a large Northern city. The ■Tchestra, killing a bit of time before the feature starts, swings into a med ley of time-honored patriotic airs. The audience listens in more . • ' ■' :<,m until, suddenly, ih.cix ruffle of drums and the mu: biting into ‘Dixie.’ “The half-bored audience instantly grows awake. Feet tap the Moor, liny thrills run down a thousand Lacks, and a spontaneous burst of handclapping drowns out the music for a moment. “Why is this? Surely not one in J5 members of the audience comes from the South. In fact, the ancestors T a good quarter of them, probably, wer living in Europe at the time of the Civil war. But it makes no differ ■roc; one and all burst into applause when ‘Dixie’ rings out. “ 'Funnv tune,’ that ‘Dixie.’ 1 eu may be the grandson of a Union vet- i :ran or the' descendant of a 100 per rent abolitionist; but somehow, when the most stirring of all war tunes) strikes up you find yourself wishing. | just for a fractio nof asecond, that j you too, had been one of Pickett s gal- | hint men in the marvelous charge j ihrough the wheat at Gettysburg; or rhat you had stood in the trenches at Vicksburg when Grant was hammer ing. hammering at the gates. “It’s odd, too when you stop to consider it; for the song was origin ally written for a minstrel show, and j was sung in such performances before j the war started. Perhaps, through the ; four years from ’G1 to something of the wild spirit, the fearless ardor, the flaming patriotism of the men who made it their war song infused into the music; it has an echo of the | wild ‘Rebel Yell,’ a touch of the trag i'- pathos of the lost cause. “And the country is better be cause the song does mean these things For it reminds all citizens. North and South, native-born or foreign-born, that the Civil war is not merely a dusty memory to the people of Dixie, but a thing of suffering and heurt tindering that is not easily forgotten. ) “And, also, it reminds us that the ■ Confederate army, no less than Ihc, Union army, trod a path of glory that is our common heritage as Ameri cans; that America is the richer for 1 > wing produced a Robert L. Lee and a Stonewall Jackson, just as it is richer for having produced an Abra ham Lincoln. “Good old ‘Dixie!’ Gallant song, breathing the old fire of American heroism and self denial! May it ring on as long as America lasts! Chero-Cola Puts New Drink on the Market E. E. Holcombe, proprietor of the j Chero-Cola Bottling company is in-; troducing that new drin kknown as j “Nebi” on the local market. It is a | bottle drink, carbonated here in the i Shelby plant under most sanitary con- - ditioris and distributed throughout Cleveland and Ruth : Mr. Holcombe has the ). this territory and has bee f.rcouraged over the sale j ct., for the future. “Nebi” is carbonated end bottled in all the popular flavors. It is a product of the old and long- i established Chero-Cola company, at Columbus, Ga. Just where it got Us name is not made known but it should be popular because the ladies ready-to Wear merchants returning from mar kets announce that the prevailing and predominating style of dresses this j spring will be “knee high”. Mr. Hoi- j c ombe was kind enough to present j The Star office with a crate of assort-1 ed flavors of Nehi. The backbone is that part of man | slowly eliminated by a paternal gov ernment. If only people would pray as hard to avoid war as they pray to win one. And now if the child uses swear words they may indicate the blossom l ing of a great playwright. No league can work if the nations won’t love it when it decides against them. I* A boundary is an invisible line that | places the oil on England’s side. Modern dad: “I must get up early in the morning, son. Wake me when you come in.” A single man can’t tell much about women, and a married man is afraid to. j If all the bricklayers were placou end to end, it would be a fine study in deliberation. Preparedness prevents war. You seldom hear of a pedestrian run down by a five-ton truck. Most grouches are bachelors; they have nobody to cuss by way of relief. The hard part is to love your neigh bor if he has a better can than yours. William Linebetper and M. A. :panpler, of the Parapon Ftirnituri ora puny, are back from th« 11 icr’i 'tint furniture exhibit, reciting; a arrative of the development of the urniture business as displayed by the ifrh moguls of the trade to make he lovers of pood homes and pood iving sit up. They tell of a new world which, has ! 1 . - v ioi! i;i the great business of the ■omrfacUm of furniture. The nnk i: it r.uii:;, have caught the spirit to ‘.he the color, the vividness, [the bright le vs, the l>eau*y. and in jiorporatttl these factors in the chairs i r.d beds anti sofas and things, that in ti e old days were just dray stuff ido ut the home to sit down or i e idown upon and call it a day. “The new designs,” said Mr. I„in< !• over, "are its decorative hb women'* ilothes, mode up in bl ight flashy col or.-, vivid as the colorings in the woods.” “Tim days of cheap furniture are! gore,” itid Mr. Spangler. “Better liv-1 ini. conditions have brought nsiout a; nethand for better homes, and the iinriiture makers have responded. "That Hiirh Point exhibit was an inspiration ami arevelatio. The trend toward these new effects has been jr«» Inp on now about u year. Hut the lat est designs crystallize it. The. new era is here.” From what tne two visitors said, tiie furniture makers, as the makers ot women's (towns, have called upon Florida for the color schemes. "The new deslpnn include every rainbow hue,” said Mr. Lineberijer. "from the severe black through to vivid yellows. Color! Color! Color ev erywhere i what we saw. The bi(T KWktory building in which the furni ture as di played, wa- a veritable paradise. ' The display was so huge that we darted in to see it Monday morning it 8 o'clock and worked until 11 that light; then we went back the next lay at eight in the morning and stay 'd until three o’clock. “Buyers were on the ground from ilmost every section of the country, hundreds of them. There were hun lieds of visitors. The place was alive. And the exhibitors did a flourishing business.” Mr. Linebcrger said he and Spang ler bought five car loads from the new display. Appetizing fresh food well cock ed-. Short orders at all hours. Regular dinner i><) cents. Quick service. City Cafe. J. 11. Morrison, proprietor. ad -Starts In The Cleveland Star Next Week The Whole Family Will Want To Read It—The Best Newspaper Romance Of All. 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