Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-27
SP;EITUiLIST.

Katie King Came to pazzlo Us and was
/ exploded b. Philadelphia detective.
| Sill, we are quite as nuch in the dark as
/ TO how that clever but shameless j4de
did her tricks rs ever we We're. We
/ simply know that she has been hu,nUus-
! cins Us How she did it, is the still un-
/ solved question. Still. almost any ex-
| PLANTATION of the so-cai,ed spisitualisiic
or ne tiiUmistic performances and mani
festa.ions IS acceptable. even though
We have to accompany Ike same with
quite rs much of close and faithful
watching of the words and sentences as
the operate critic, with Hbretto in haud
pursues the debu:aate upon the lyric
stage II other words. the following
attempted explanation of some of the
phenomena o. spiritism, by Mr.. Francis
Ferry Fairfield, III TIE current number
OF .ScTib;t'7-'s is almost as difficult to fol-
l5w-through its own togt'osity Of tech
meal terms, as the qEeer things lie sab
jects 10 the chosen conditions Of criticism
and analysis. Says IL. Fairfield. says
he:
IIy own observations CT Spiritralism
have convinced me Of three things:
FiEst. that lis phenomena are invariably
associated with mental and nervous per
version, and generally with morbid
moral impulses OF the type tia. accom-
pan.es epiiGrs,v: secondly, that mediums
are, as rule, persons Of defective
physical organizations; thirdly, that the |
Set5ceS rapidly exhaust the nervous en-
erGy Of the operator. | have notes OF |
enc instance in which the medium died |
of exhaustion consequent upon his most |
celebrated feat Again, so far as l have !
observed at sea',csS given by trance-me- |
diUms, those prcdomata of the erileptic |
attack, Sudden cadayeroUs pallOr and a !
kind OF fading of the eye, accompanied !
by dilation OF the pupil, invariably pre-
csde and announce the supervention OF |
the trance: and another fact conclUsively /
is, that aith )UGh the trance |
superveues at the will of the medium, it ,
must ALWAYS be preceded by stage of /
incubation more or less prolonged, dur |
ing which nervous hebe.uCe is distinctly |
present, and the intellectual faculties are
torpid Miss Fox has been known to |
fall fainting on Il sofa in the midst OF a
seance and Mr.. Homes health is broken
at scarcely forty.
These observations have now covered |
cases enough to permit the affirmation |
that clairvoyance and lis peripheral .
nerve atmosphere are Discriminatory the !
results Of the reflex ezci;abiiity incident !
to epilepsy: and l know from actual |
observation that epileptic commissions |
may be replaced by ariiicially induced |
at least in some instances. |
1 !.are. also. Personally observed that
epiler'ics, Pc nt.ing the stage of ineuba-
ton. always appear 70 be enveioped in |
h:ci.v excited and sensitive nerve-at- !
me- tlerc, which. sometimes accompan-
led with .uilenness, sometimes with |
Sc = .xaltatior, i one OF the precur- |
soIs q the attack. Indeed, this excited |
aura, often Of considerable periphery, |
is, So far as my studies have extended, |
Invariably indicative that n nervous !
crisis = at hand; and. On comparing |
noies with physicians, I find that met.i-
cal men have noticed the same plenom- !
o;Io;3. not only rs incident to epilepsy. !
but Is the exponent Of the stage of in !
cUhai.o2 in periodical mania generally. |