Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-08-23
HOMES DIABLERIE.
Mr.. Homes Latest tAchievements-NIid
Air Suspensions.

Mr.. Homes Latest Achievements-NIid
Air Suspensions.
Lord Lindsay sends the following ex-
traordinary story to the Spiritualist
"On the evening of the 18th of July,
| was showing some experiments in my
laboratory to Lord Adare, Mr.. Berghe-
i'm, Mr.. Home, and my brother-in-law
It occurred to me to try if Home was
able to see a magnet in the dark. This
is an experiment which [ believe was
made by Reichenbach, and although,
like myself, he was never able to dis
tinguish the light, yet he found num-
Der of persons who did see it under
test conditions. [ asked Mr.. Home,
and he expressed himself willing to try
the experiment. I then took into one
of my rooms, which was totally dark, a
large permanent magnet, and having
removed the arInature, [ placed it on
the floor near the wall, at considerable
distance from the door. Mr.. Home
was then brought into the room and
remained standing near the door for
some moments
He then said that he saw some sort
Of light on the floor IN the corner ofthe
room, and Immediately said to me
" Give me your hand, and [ will show
you exactly where I see it. % He then
led me straight across the room, and
without the least hesitation stopped
down and placed my hand on the mag
net. | have been trying for more than
two years to get a satisfactory result i'll
this experiment., but hitherto with only
doubtful success. The instrument
used was a large compound magnet
capable of sustaining weight of twen-
ty pounds. [ may mentien that on an
other occasion [ was sitting with Mr.
Home and Lord Adare, and cousin of
his During the sitting, Mr.. Home
went into a trance, and in that state
was carried out of the window into the
room next to where we were, and was
brought in at our window The dis
tance between the windows was about
seven feet SIX inches, and there was not
the slightest foothold between them,
nor was there more than twelve-inch
projection to each window, which serv-
ed as ledge to put flowers on. We
heard the window IN the next room lift
ed up, snd almost Immediately after we
saw Home floating In the air outside our
window. The moon was shining full
into the room, my back was TO the
light, and I saw the shadow on the wall
of the window-sill and Homes feet
about six inches above it. He remain
ed in this position for few seconds,
then raised the window and glided into
the room feet foremost and sat down.
Lord Adare then went into the next
room to look at the window from which
he had been carried. It was raised
about eighteenincnes, and he expressed
his wonder how Mr. Home had been
taken through so narrow an aperture.
Home sald( (still in trance); " I will show
you; and then, with his back to the
window, he leaned back and was shot
out of the aperture head-frst, with the
body rigid, and then returned quite
quietly. The. window is al out seventy
feet from the ground L very much
doubt whether any skillful tight rope
dancer would like to attempt feat of
this description, where the only means
of crossing would be by perilous leap,
or being borne across in such man
ner as [ have described, placing the
question of the light aside.