The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-12-15
Romance Of Medium-the Love Life
Of DR.. E. Z. Kane,

Romance OF med!um-the Love Life
Of Dr.. E. K. Kane.
The literature of love is entitled to the
best place on all the shelves. Love is the
golden theme Of every language-the only
one towhose charm there is no exception
that enchaius the thought and delights the
fancy Of all ages, classes and conditions of
mon and women. The love stories of real
life are those that have the deepest inter-
est However exquisitely the poet or nov
elist may mould his fiction with what
ever force or nicely of delineation be may
depict bis persons and tell US the secret
of their soals-he can never give to fc-
ton that height of interest or power that
every story has the moment We know that
its events and persons are real 1t is this
faith in their reality that has perhaps
brought down through so many ages and
still keeps alive some Of the oldest love
stories Of the human race. 1t is certain.
y this that has given vitality to the loves
of Abelard and Heloiso. Who does not
read the love history of Sir Temple, or
the story of Horace Walpole and Miss
Berry, with more interest than they can
any mere invention.
Another history not unlike to these is
disclosed in a volume of love letters pub.
lished by Carleton, of which it is said,
fifty thousand copies are already called
for. This story resembles ir various re
spects all the stories alluded to--that of
Abelard, or Walpole, or Swift for his
Stella and of the Chevalier Wykotf for
Miss Gamble. 1t draws tho curtain and
lays before the eye of the world peculiar
chapter in the life of distinguished man
and singular family history. There is the
usual romantic pervers.J Of passion at the
very outset of the history. The persons
we're DR.. E. K. Kane, of the United
States Navy, whose Arctic discoveries
have worldwide fame, and Miss Mar
garet Fox, we'll known as one of the orig.
inal Rochester rappers Or "mediums" of
spiritual communication.
One day-to begin at the beginning
the Doctor went to one of the seances of
the rappers in Philadelphia. "There Ito
use his own words) be saw little priest
ess, cunning in the mysteries of her tenn
pie, and weak in everything but the pow
er with which she played her part. A
sentiment almost of pity stole over his
worldly heart as he saw through the dis.
guise. Can it be that one so young, so
beautiful, SO passionate and yet so kind.
hearted, can be destined for such life
These were his thoughts. Thereupou be
went to work and did all that true kind.
ness could do to get her confidence" and
IN doing this he lost his heart, and fell ir-
retrievably in love.
The Doctor is said to have declared
that he determined to make the young
lady his wife. He told her plainly that
sit was no life for her" to b. there-so
constantly in the public gaze. He was
thereafter at the seances ever day, and
every day bis interest in the sensitive me.
diunl grew stronger.
His attentions of various kinds were
constant, and his desire was always that
Margaret should relinqush her life as
medium because "she was fitted for better
things" In all this we see a true and
noble nature. DR.. Kane became an avow-
ed lover of Margaret, and the constant
theme of bis letters to her is show mush
| wish that you would quit this life of
dreary sameness and suspected deceit -
He vas in constant torture through his
sensitive, delicate tenderness for her. at
was such pity--it was so repulsive, DO
abhorrsDt to refinement to be exposed to
such associations" Finally the Fox fam.
ly gave way to opportunities of the lover,
but apparently not until be and Margaret
were betrothed. Then she was sent to
a school of bis choosing, and to reside
with family Of his relatives. He went
on his Arctic voyage, and they were to be
married on his return and make wedding
trip to Italy. How many Arctic days
were gilded by the thoughts of his italian
journey
But all this time DR.. Kane's attach
ment for Miss Fox seems to have been
secret to his immediate family. lie
wrote to her :-"There is bur one life in
this world, and that of self approval )"
and yet he was slave to the approval of
others. He had felt keenly all that was
atleast refined in her position, but his love
enabled him to bear what he knew others
without that tender reason, would sueer
at. But though the engagement was par
TALLY secret DR.. Kane correspondent
with Miss Fox constantly through q con-
6dential friend, and this person regarded
her as the Doctors afiaDced wife. The
story of his engagement crept into the pa
pers and wounded the pride of the Doc
tors relatives He had not therefore
miscalculatcd its effect upon them when
he Judged it best to keep the engagement
secret.
DR.. Kane was absent from May, 1853,
till October, 1855. His vessel came up
New York bay, and Margaret was in the
city at the time. She heard the cannons
that greeted bis arrival, and in fever of
inpatienco she waited for him 10 come 70