The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-11-04


and hands became LUMINOUS. An owl
flew round the old Abbey screaching.
I attributed the noise at first to Home
but as he passed me he said i'll a most
awful voice: "No, it is not me; you
are mistaken" lie knceled upon the
ground, waved his hands, and appear
ing in great distress, said: "Do you
see that tombstone with the light
shining upon it? it would be better, a
million times better, to lie there in the
cold dark clay, than to spend years
upon years, every moment Of which
is an eternity, in wandering here: Oh!
am so weary-sO aceG1Y." Soon he
awoke from his trance i'll nervous
state. Entranced again, we saw him
approaching, and evidently raised
from of the ground; for he floated
by in front Of us at a height which
carried him over a broken wall, which
was about two feet high. There
could not be better test of his being
entirely off the ground, for, as he
crossed the wall, he was quite hori-
zontal, and uniform in movement
The distance that we saw him carried
must have been at least ten or twelve
yards.
A
When Home came out of the trance,
he seemed excited, and remembered
that previous to losing consciousness
he had been walking about with man
dressed like friar i'll brown gown
"a costume common to this order in
the Catholic Church. The spirit-the
friar-told Home he was unable to
leave earth. Some psychologist law
SCENE d to hold him to the old scenes
of his moral life. Finally he was led
back to tile church, where he kneeled
and prayed. Upon coming to himself
he told US the spirit would be better
and happier, for what had transpired
that night. AS we were about to
leave, Home saw a figure in the air !;
Charlie Wynne and myself both saw
the shadow move across the window.
ADAH ILAACs MENKEN HEEEAN HEARD
FROM.
Buckingham Gate; present. Lord
Lindsay and others. The :seance was
deeply interesting. Immediately af-
ter the commencement of the sitting,
manifestations commenced and sever
al messages were received from Adah
Menken. Lindsey saw two spirits on
the sofa and others in different places.
Adah Menken entranced Home and
spoke through his organism.
MIR. HOME FLYING IN THE AIR.
After little quiet, Home was taken
up in the air and carried out of one
window, and brought into the window
of an other room. During the session
there was the rushing sound of wind
the chirping ola bird heard, and lu-
minous emanations around Homes
head, which, at times, changed into
the form oftongues or jets of flame.
Then entranced again Ire spoke in an
unknown tongue for time, and then
the spirits said they had that day been
discussing the subject of the miracles
of the day of Pentecost, and that the
spirits present, aided by higher intel
ligences, had produced the sound of
the wind, of the bird descending, of
the unknown tongues with the inter-
pretations, and the tongues of fire, to
show that the same phenomena could
occur now that transpired in the un-
corrupted Christian ages. The re-
markable phenomena recorded in this
book, Of 200 pages, issued only for
private circulation, are thrillingly in
teresting and convincing. We hope
that Lord Dunraven, with the other
titled gentlemen and ladies who wit
messed these spiritual manifestations,
will soon see the necessity ofthrowing
the volume into the book markets of
the world. .'Freely ye have received,
freely give"
THE EGYPTIAN HIERoGLTPHS.
There is growing interest in the
present age to fathom and come into
closer relations with the ancients.
The Rosetta stone, which examined
in the British Museum the other day,
with its inscription in hieroglyphs,
Enchorlal, and the ancient Greek text,
has proved partial key to unlock the
mysteries of Egypt. That Sir II.
Rawlinson has the full key has been
doubted by some of the best scholars
of the age. His system has three hun
dred letters, and five hundred possible
variations. Mr.. D.. Smith claims TO
read the Assyrian and Egyptian hero
glyphs by the use of nineteen letters.
His letters, when resolved into primi-
tives, are all triangular. The Egyp-
tians very carly adopted the universal
symbol of the equi-lateral triangle, in
the form of their pyramids. To
show the difference of the renderings
take this sample: On the vase from
Halicarnassus, on which the name of
Nerxes is read in hieroglyphs by some
scholars, Mr.. Smith reads the cune-
form, not Xerxes, but "the king rests
in peace" ..-
THE SECRET ABOUT TO BE REVEALED.
In our opinion, perfect key to the
reading and rendering of the hero