The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-24

but has found irs development IN numerous
interviews and in all sorts Of DISCUSSES. For in
stance, at ten O'Clock In the morning l called
upon one, simply as o gentleman who had lost a
watch; at midday called upon her again dis.
guised q negro, and at five O'Clock In the alter
noon visited the same woman, Tor the third time,
dressed IN female attire, representing myself as
poor woman. began by the following letter.
ADDRESSING MISS TEMPLE.
MY DEAR MADAM-Please let me state at the
onset that have but little confidence In the pro-
fesslon to wrich you claim to belong. and that
apply TO you simply for the sake oil returning
home with the message that l have LETT
no means untried TO find one whom
circumstances are these. Between Christmas and
New Year my sister strayed away from home.
Whether she went away OF her own Tree will or
whether she was led away by some unknown hand
we cannot tell. She was engaged to young nan
named Reynolds and she was passionately devoted
Since her absence Rey nolds has remained at home,
apparently under deep aIIltction l apply to YOU
after exhaustng every other means TO ind her,
but with no hope that any happy result
may be attained. oh, II there is any virtue in
Spiritualism, assist me l have never before been
reduced to the necessity OF seeking such aid, and
assure You that for every single thing you do Tor
me you shall he abundantiy paid. Write to me at
once Ga Let me know when and where can see you
you wish you to visit me here at my hotel. En-
closed please find the amount required for first
ROBERT STUART.
The principal defect in the above letter is that
have no sister, and, as o matter OF course, having
none, she could not very well have wandered from
home. Consequently, l claim that were Miss
Temple regular first class Spirtualst, as she
claims herself to be- she would have detected the
fraud and censurcd me severely for my attempt to
thus grossly deceive her. On the contrary, she &C
cepts my letter in perfect good iaith and responds
as iollows:-
THE sTIRrTUALIsr's REPLY.
DEAR SIR-r you viii please call upon me will
DO Oil that can for you. ! canuot get the clair
ing, as / am, Spirituallst, require yourself and
spirits | am myself lame, and cannot travel
around without difficulty. return the money you
sent, and shall be happy to see you: Respectfuly,
Miss TEMPLE.
The woman states in this letter that to find Sis
ter who was never lost and who, indeed, never had
an existence 1t would be necessary to have my own
personal presence as well as that OF my attendant
spirits. After due rejection determined to afford
the lady precisely what she did not desire, and
hence detailed friend to interview her who rep
resented me and my efforts to learn Of the where
abouts OF my ideal relative.
AWAITING THE RESULT OF THE NvERvIEw.
Touer street Is away out Of town comparatively,
and 1t was not until an hours hard work that my
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neiChboring corner while he went in to 60 through
with the rites. While was standing there the
heavens suddenly grew black, bright fires leaped
out OF the clouds, the thunder rolled and crashed
and the rain len In torrents. was COM
pletely drenched to the skin, and heartily
wished that. / were indoors with my
friends. 1t was the most furious thunder
storm that ever beheld, and the trees dashed this
way and that by the wind, moaned and creaked
like thousand criminals ut the rack. Suddenly
there tore around the corner team Of runaway
horses attached to q soda water wagon, and at
every leap OF the steeds the bottles new in proms
cuous disorder. They popped and they squtrted.
they crashed and they sizzled, just like fireworks
upon the Fourth Of july 1t seemed as II my friend
would never come out, and l really began enter
tanning some lear for his personal safety. Alter an
hours tedious waiting however, he came.
''She's an internal humbug!" said he.
Gas matter Of coulse,n said l..
Please bear in mind that during this interview he
had impersonated myself, the author Of the letter
given above.
.srhe house." he continued,' twas miserably
furnished, and general disorder prevailed. There
sign Of tidiness while the chairs were dusty
and the carpet worn.
MISS TEMPLES HUMBUG EXPOSED.
"After had seated myself the woman clasped
her hands, tied up her slender body into ever so
many knots, and, in a drawing, stammering tone,
began her long and ridiculous address.
The first thing she told me was shat Reynolds
knew just exactly where my sister was.'
The last thing she said was, 'that Reynolds was
a virtuous ana honorable young man, and knew
nothing whatever about her." She said that my
mother was neither long nor Short nor fat nor
lean. nor young nor old, and that my sister was
sale in a distant land in city she could not see,
and In street she could not name, but at
no far-on day she would return, and that
all would, eventually, be WE'LL" These are the main
points she touched upon, but between them was an
immense amount OF uninteigiblc nonsense and
detail of not the slightest interest to the reader
This interview was sufficient to convince us that
Miss Temple was, as a clairvOyant, fraud; that
she had failed to detect our deceit that she had
taken our money in payment for information which
she could not Afford which were all the lacts that
we needed TO secure her arrest.
HOW SHE RoBs POOR GIRLS.
Andyet this creature, this lowved. contemplate
vagabond does large business and manages to live
comfortably upon her il-gotten gains. Up from the
public thoroughares, out from the factories and
the dollar stores, daily and hourly trudge the
weary shop girls TO assemble in her room and spend
the greater part OF their days hard earnings in
listening to the base fabrications and downright
lies OF this coarse, lazy vulgar woman. Even
while we were standing there several passed us
en- route for her abode, and patiently waited in
the midst Of the storm for the opportunity Of an
audience in which they might learn their future and
ascertain at how remote a day the spirits had
fixed their marriage, and yet in face Of this, we
smile at the unlimited superstition Of the past,
and in glowing sermons grow eloquent concerning
the glory and grandeur OF the present century, as
though their maudin sentimentality did not exist
ana Oh II the mountebsnks were, indeed, all dead.
Oh Eben Bonapben was right when he said that it
was this love- this gross animality, for which there
seems to be no other name than love, was danger.
Gus knowledge, was the cause of half the Ills Of
earth; that care, sorrow, weary days and sleepess
nights were its attendants; that It withered the
bloom and
BIIGHrED THE JOYS OF YOUTH
and brought on the griefs OF premature old age.