The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-09-24
THE SPIRITS.

Inc WORTH nus nau llS nEeS, ana we
presume will continue to have some
thing Of the sort so long as II lasts.
We have had our golden age, iron age,
age Of bronze, etc, and we are having
what may justly be termed the spirit
agc. Some twenty-five years ago the
Fox sisters, IN New York, started II
spiritual enterprise in n small way that
is now being perfected by more modern
mediums in very grand and magniii-
cent manner. The first indications
we had Of spiritual visitations to this
mundane sphere was by means Of raps
which the unseen hands were repre-
scented as applying to tables and other
items of household furniture that might
he prepared for the communication /;
but now the dear spirits have gotten
! above this plebian method Of CONVEX
sation, and have elected Il score or so
of professional jackasses, whom they
hnve declared test mediums, and who
manage to exc out very profitable
subsistence for themselves as spiritual
scribcs. There is Doctor Slade, and
Doctor Foster and half u dozen other
Doctors, who are about as much ent-
tied to the appellaton Of Doctor rs
General Grant is to third term, who
hold their regular lcvees and grind out
of their gillible visitors snug little
sums for the tidings they detail from
that bourne from whence no traveller
ere returns"
We have never had the pleasure of
seeing these divinegcntlcmen perform
on their spirit pens, but are informed
that great deal fconventionalism il
necessary before the medium has to
become entranced, or, in other words,
before the proper effect can be impart-
ed to his humbuggery he has to open
his mouth, roll up his eyes, bend his
ears backward and attitudcnize him
self after the most approved pose Of
the practical fool. This being done, he
is ready to communicate the NONSENSE
cal gibberish, that invariably result
from the "sittings." The last informa-
ton we have had from the spirit land
indicates that the female spirits over
there arc In favor of woman's rights,
free love, and several other abOmina-
tons that our religious training has
brought us to believe We're never
thought Of by those who have crossed
over the clark valley Of the shadow
Of death" The dear souls are heavy
on the cruel men who do not think it
sweet and angelic in their wives to at
tend elections, chew tobacco and in
dulge in the refreshing recreation Of
free fight, and have so expressed them
selves at n recent "sitting" in New
York, where several quire of valuable
paper was consumed in order to pre-
serve the vague imagining ola test me-
dunn, through whom the world was to |
be enlightened from spirit land.
Charles Dickens has been heard from
recently also, and II reports be true, he
has emoloyed, ut an immense expense,
chuckle headed builoon from Yer
mon to finish his Mystery of Edwin
Brood" The work is being bravely
prosecuted and ere long we will have
the great finale Of the great authors
last work completed by him after he
had passed away, and after he bad be-
come inspired by the new scenes and
associations he is supposed to have en-
countered In his new place of abode.
1t IL great thing to be a spiritualist,
and great thing to be spiritual also.
We have some few spiritual establish
ments in our city, but none of them
have as yet been able to bring spirits
back, notwithstanding a vast amount
Of the article Is being daily dispensed
by them. We like TO see nan spirit
ual when lie can become so genteelly,
but We have never seen n man who
could put himself precisely In that fix.
We like spirits also-somc people pre-
fer sugar In theirs, but the plain article
under peculiar circumstances answers
an excellent purpose, and we have seen
It produce rdppings that occasioned a
good deal OF excitement on the part of
those under It's influence. But these
sort Of spirits are not the sort that are
now revolutionizing the mighty men
and women Of the North. II is diff
ferent sort Of influence that agitates
those people, who are 80 exceedingly
progressive that they can't afford to
wait until the mortal coil Is shufllcd off |
before they would take heaven as ifby |
storm, and find out oil about the gov
ernment THAI prevails under the ALL
Seeing eye Of the Most High. A good
medium, one who is squarely up to the
business, could do well In Dallas. We
have n0thin0 NJ the s0rt In this elt,,