Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-02-19

them all. and is we'll satisfied that they
are true objective occurrences, not pro-
duced by trickery or mechanical means.
The third class of phenomena consists
In the alteration of the weight of bodies,
which will be presented in detail in an
early number of the Quarterly Journal
of Science. The fourth class, namely,
the movement Of heavy substances when
at distance from the medium, he has
seen in many instances. His own chair.
he says, has been twisted partly round,
while his feet were off the floor. A
chair was seen by all present to move
slowly ND to the table from far cor
ner, when all were watching it. On one
occasion, an empty armchair, at his re-
quest. moved to where he was sitting,
and then slowly back again, distance
| of about three feet. He has repeatedly
seen, in full light, the movement of a
heavy table, and, on several occasions,
chairs turned with backs to the table,
about foot and half off, each occu-
pant kneeling on his chair, with hands
resting on the back, but not touching
the table. The fifth class is that of the
rising of tables and chairs off the
ground, without contact with any per-
son. On five separate occasions heavy
dining table rose between a few inches
and foot and half from the floor,
under special circumstances, which rem
dered trickery impossible, the hands and
feet of the medium being held by him
during this movement.
The sixth class is that of the levita-
ton of human beings, which has &C.
CURED in the four instances In his pres
ence. He has seen Mr.. Home raised
completely from the floor of his room
in several instances. The accumulated
| testimony, establishing Mr.. Homes
levitations, Mr.. Crookes considers over
whelming, and he thinks it greatly to
be desired that some person, whose evil
dence will be accepted as conclu-
sive by the scientific world, shall
seriously and patiently examine these
alleged facts. The seventh class of
phenomena consists in the moving of
various small articles without contact
with any person, which he has very fire.
quently observed, and where there could
be no suspicion of trickery. He thinks
that when he is in his own dining-room,
seated in one part of the room, with a
number of persons keenly watching the
medium, the latter could not, by any
trickery, make an ACCORDION play in his
(Nr Crooke's) own hands, when the
keys are held downward, nor cause the
same ACCORDION to float about the room,
playing all the time. He thinks it i'm
possible to introduce machinery which
shall wave window curtains {; pull up
Venetian blinds eight feet off; tie a
knot in handkerchief and place it in a
remote corner of the room; sound
notes on a distant piano cause a card
plate to float about the room raise a
water-bottle and tumbler from the
table make a coral necklace raise on
end move about a fan so as to fan a
company, or set in motion pendulum
when inclosed In a glass case firmly
cemented to the wall, The eighth class
is that of luminous appearances, which,
according to MIR. Crooke's, require that
the room shall be dark, as the lights are
In many cases faint. He states that he
has seen solid, self-luminous body, of
the size and nearly the shape of a
turkeys egg, float noiselessly about the
room, being visible for more than ten
minutes, and striking the table three
times, with sound like that of a hard
solid body, before fading away. He
has seen a luminous crystalline body
placed in his hand by hand which did
not belong to any person in the room,
and luminous cloud floating upward
to a picture. In the daylight he has
seen luminous clouds hover over a
heliotrope on side-table, break off a
sprig, and carry the sprig to lady !:
and on several occasions he has seen 8
similar luminous cloud visibly condense
to the form of hand, and carry about
small objects
This leads him to the next or ninth
class, namely, the appearance of hands,
either self luminous or visible by ordi-
nary light. Of these phenomena he
gives numerous instances. In one case,
small hand rose up from an opening
in the ding-table, andgave him flower;
it appeared and disappeared three times,
at intervals, affording Mr.. Crookes
ample opportunity of satisfying himself
of It's reality, as it occurred in the light,
in his own room, while he was holding
the mediums hands and feet. The
udutto dlO A4SCAo oO NV appear
solid and life-hke, sometimes indeed
seeming like a nebulous cloud, partly
condensed in the form of hand. He
has more than once seen first an object
move, then a luminous cloud appear to
form about it, and, lastly, the cloud
condense into shape and become per-
fectly formed hand. At this stage it
was visible to all present. Sometimes
if was life-like and graceful, the fingers
moving and the flesh apparently as
human as that of any person in the
room. At the arm or wrist it became
hazy, and passed off into luminous
cloud. To the touch the hand APP
peared sometimes icy cold and dead, at
others, warm, grasplng his own with the
firm pressure of an old friend. In one
instance he retained one of these hands
In his own, firmly resolved not to let it
escape. There was no struggle, no
effort to get loose, but it gradually
seemed to resolve itself into vapor, and
faded in that manner from his grasp.
The next, or tenth class of phenomens
comprised those of direct writing, ex-
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