Even sober papers will publish letters on the interpretation of dreams; while public men like Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Conan Doyle are ready to provide us at almost every breakfast table with the "latest intelligence" from the Spook World. The Church Congress had a "go in" at the ier this week. It sounds a little like "Short's the friend not Codlin" to hear one band of spiritual advisers industriously thumping the other. But the Church can always go one better than its rivals because it can talk about necromancy (nasty word this!) and can make all sorts of unpleasant allusions to Saul and the Witch of Endor. But the public love it. The newspapers ladle out this old "guft" in every issue and there is nothing like it to bring in the bawbees. Give nie a good spook and I can make more capital out of it from the newspapers' standpoint than all the moral teachings of Sandford and Merton.
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There is only one drawback. It can best be conveyed in the sentiment "Don't marry a woman who believes in it." Spooks in other people's families are all right, but if trotted out in one's own domestic circle they are more than a nuisance. Looking at the matter from this standpoint one rather takes the view of the police, Pextxa, Jan. 5.—Upwards of 100 Northern members of the Old Parliament are meeting to-day, it is believed in connexion with domestic peace.—Reuter.
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