HOW WAGS THE WORLDS?

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1819, 15 June 1912, Page 4 (Supplement)

HOW WAGS THE WORLDS?

HAS LIVED BEFORE

An American named William. MendenhaH, an occultist; is certain he has lived four lives. He is engaged as a contractor in this, his fourth "little course below/ to use his own words. ' Mendenhall is a" thorough' believer in deincarimt.ion. He has lived on the mountains;, oh the prairies, and in the sunny South, he states. He has been six feet high, five feet high,, and medium in stature, according to the occult view he takes of life. He has married the same, ; woman in every life, and says he can recall odd thi-ags distinctly, such as a hugh iron kettle and an elm tree in the front, yard when he lived in the South., He says he is no professional occultist and knows about his lives because he has proved .them to his own satisfaction. SMUGGLING DIVIDENDS.

Italian. Custom: House officials have just discovered a large contraband with headquarters in Milan and. Lucerne, which regularly pays dividends secretly, and whose field of operation extends across a large tract of the Swiss-Italian frontier, from the shores of Lake Maggiore up to Lugano.'. Over 1000 persons are involved in the operations, and there" have been many arrests recently, though a number of, those implicated have' escaped from Italy by crossing the frontier into Switzer-

land, where, of course, they cannot be arrested. The contraband goods consisted chiefly of saccharine, sugar, and Swiss watches, which were smuggled across the frontier in trucks with the connivance of several railway employees.

FRIGHTENED THE TOWN

How two old women frightened a

town is told in a report that comes

from a little town called Archena, in Spain. About ten o'clock one morning the church bells began ringing, furiously. The neldworkers rushtown/ fearing that some "catastroplid h?4 occurred. As the wondering crowd movecl t@ward§ tiie church—failing to find any natural convulsion-—there wa,s another peal. ■The sacHstafl hurried" ■to the feelfryj &hd tremblingly entered, only to dash out much more rapidly, pursued by two irate old women. 'The latter, both over 80, deaf and half blind, had not heard the closing of the

church doors after Mass and found themselves, locked in. They decided

not to remain there all day, and at once,began ringing the bells.

KING'S SON AS PORTER,

It is not every restaurant that can

boast of employing the son of a king

as ■'porter, even in these' democratic

days. But to a Parisian cafe belongs the honour of utilising the services of Ouiberp Behongin, th<? gpn of King Gle Gle, and brother of thai $usky monarch of Pahomey who gave/ Trance a great cleal of trouble. Prince) Behonzin, who now opens the cafe j d °or xo 6Sswßiers, i? ?7 years of age, j and has had a distinguished, military career. He has taken part in 28 campaigns, was seriously wounded in, three battles, mentioned 13 times in dispatches, and gained the military medal and 11 decorations. Ho came | to Paris two years ago to demand a pension. His request was not granted.' Then he demanded employment. « Again he met with a rebuff. The Government would not even plaeo him in charge of one of the State tobacco shops, on the 'ground that he was not a Frenchman. The prince fell on evil days. In order to livo ho worked successively as a navvy, chauffeur, and a cinematograph artist. Finally, he donned a livery, pinned the medals and decorations he had gained as a fighting man on his breast, and now he stands day and night swinging a cafe door. TRAMPS' FIENDISH CRUELTY. Two tramps revenged themselves with fiendish cruelty on a farmer named Molnar, living at Bartfeld, in who had refused to give them alms. Finding his child, a boy of six years, outside the farm buildings, they'tied him by the feet to tho long tail of a horse in' , a field, and then drove the frightened animal away at a gallop across country. The Molnars missed their child at night, •■ and his formless body was only found ' next day still dragging at the heels of the horse many miles away. PECULIAR LEGAL POINT. The Austrian Coxirt of Appeal has declared the will of a landowner, KYau Rosalie Mayer, invalid because ono of the three witnesses was convicted of theft 32 years ago. This decision has caused tho demand to be raised that the Austrian law, which, renders "criminals" incapable of attesting wills, should bo modi- . iied by tho enactment of some time limit, as otherwise it will be impossible for a'nyono to be sure about the validity of his will unless ho knows the whole life history of all the three witnesses who are necessary in this country. TURKISH LADIES' ATTIRE. In an interview tho Sheikh-ul-Islam has explained the motive in his recent .prohibition concerning tho modernism of Turkish women's dress. Ho ■declares that the Committee of Union and Progress had nothing to do with his decision, which was made solely in tho interest of tho preservation

of the religious law. -The transparent ; face veil and the tight-fitting skirt were a direct contravention of the principle of ~ r "Namechrem," or "envelopment," which. required that a woman's face and figure should be concealed from all eyes but those of her husband and immediate relatives. She Sheikh declares , that his admonition had been welcomed by the majority of his flock, although a number of women had protested against his interference. He had, however, the support of all the husbands. The Turkish woman had nothing to complain of" , at home, concluded the Sheikh. She was encouraged to dress, according „to her fancy, and as extravagantly as she liked . It was not too much to )ask of her, then, that whenever she was compelled to leave the house she should wear the tscharschaf, and be as discreetly attired as possible. J

HERSELF AFTER A FATAL DUEL.

Despite the public agitation against duelling, another fatal encounter has taken place between two army officers in Germany. Lieut. Sprenger, ; who was challenged by Dr. Bfuning, an army . surgeon, was killed during a duel on May 1, at Rastadt, near Carlsruhe. Dr. Bruning was fatally wounded. Frau Bruning, who is said to have been the cause ■ of' the quarrel, poisoned herself on learning of the result. The opinion is steadily growing in Germany that the practice of settling disputes by a duel is semi-barbarous. The majority in the Reichstag in favour of passing & law prohibiting any kind of duelling is steadily growing, although the Emperor is known to favour this means of settling differences in the. army. The Centre Party in the ' Reichstag expects to make a strong fight against the official recognition of duelling. It was proposed to-day that a law should be passed decreeing that no officer should be expelled from the army because he refused to meet an adversary in a duel, .The • Congeryatiyesj maintain that duelling is a necessary evil, and that it must be maintained, whatever the number-of victims. PRISON ON A. MOUNTAIN TOP. The; Federal authorities have decided td build a prison, costing l£Bo,ooo, on top of the fiealp mountain, in the canton of TJri.. The State Council consider that it will be cheaper to construct the new gaol on one of the peaks of the Alps than to acquire a site in one of the towns. a MAN WHO INVENTED ANTI- ■;■ TRUST CARTOONS. Mr. Homer Davenport, the newspaper cartoonist, died on May 2," in New York. Mr Davenport, who was 45 years of age, will be remembered as the man who invented anti-trust cartoons. His yivid and merciless pictures of trust magnates and the evils from which the American public suffered in consequence of gigantic industrial combinations, drew upon him the wrath of many millionaires. : "■ ' . ; ROYAL BRITISH VISITS TO GERMANY, The Kaiser has sent a special invitation, which has been accepted, to the Prince of Wales, to .spend his summer holidays next year at Potedam., There are also to be other English royal visits to Germany. The Queen'is 5 to go to" Neustrelitz on July 19 for the celebrations of the 90th birthday of the Dowager Grand Duchess Augusta of Mecklenßurg-Strelitz. The Dowager Duchess is, a grandchild of George 111., a sister of the late Duke of Cambridge and of the late Duchess of Teck. \She is therefore an aunt of Queen Mary. It' has also* been decided that the visit of King George and the Queen, which was postponed owing to the coal strike, shall take place in the spring of next year. -