Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1874-12-12

at the bottom. The communication
contained, among other things, an ex,
planatiou which threw much needed
light upon what happened the proceed
ing evening. 1t said that the spirit
could not avoid, when materializlng,
the dire necessity of taking on the con-
ditions of earth life, and in addition,
found it impossible not fall more or less
into the mediums sphere Of thought
and feeling. We may here quote a few
sentences from the slate:
Ma, this coming back is uphill bust
ness. 1t is difficult to say what | wish
to, especially when my brain is materi-
allied. Then feel something OF my
old symptoms. Last night, when | was
talking so wildly, my condition was
very much what it seemed when leap
ed into the Mississippi. After | have
materialzed, I'll get along better with
it. o, ma how much good it does me
! thus TO converse with you, notwith-
standing the embarrassing conditions,
and tell you wherein I've done wrong.
Tell pa not to be troubled about me,
for 1 am happy. Ma, you remember
when came and talked ugly to yon
about not wanting TO Keep Annie |
can see to this day, how you looked at
me, for it was uncommon for me TO
speak to YOU so. thought hard OF you,
yet was certainly wrong, and now l
ask your forgiveness. Give my love to
pa and sister Ella. Tell little Gilbert
to be good boy; kiss this little girl tor
me. Her mediumship leaves my mind
freer than the mediumship of an older
person could, and it is better way to
come than through the materalizing
plan. Ma, if you see Annie tell her l
still live. From your son, JAMES.
OTHER STRANGE PHENOMENA.
The apparition claiming to be her
son begged her to bring his little broth
er Gilbert, child three years old, to
see him materialzed. Last evening she
did so. When the apparition appeared
| took Gilbert in my arms and held
him up to the aperture. The apparltion
seized his little hand, patted him on the
cheek, pulled his arm into the cabinet,
shook it heartily and for quite a time,
whispering, the while, smotherlng, l
could not understand. When the moth
er came up, he insisted that she should
allow him to take the boy into the
cabinet This proposition the mother
declined. fearing that the child might
become frightened. The controlling
spirit. as he is called, insisted that he
might have the privilege Of shaking
hands with Master Gilbert, at the same
time putting his face out well into the
light. The little fellow gazed at him
with evident curiosity, but manifested
no fear, and readily gave his hand to
the smiling stranger, no doubt taking
him for a man such as he had seen on
the street, at church, or III company
with the family at home.
HOW TIE WINDOWS AND DOORS ARE sE-
CURED.
A gentleman, writing ME from st.
Louis, wants to know how the windows
and doors are secured, so as TO make 1t
certain that no confederate enters the
apartment. Well, last night gentle
man from New York city made thor
ough examination through the house;
then locking the doors, took possession
of the keys during the seance. The
night before two gentlemen from
Bloomfield, Iowa, Gen. Weaver aud
Mr. Traverse, both lawyers, took the
precaution before nightfall to tic the
window shutters, aud then seal them
with court plaster. They also secured
the doors, after all were in, in similar
way. BY no possibility could windo"
or door have opened without breaking
the court plaster.
Now, with regard to Elsie, the chllt
medium, | value the communications
received through her, not so much fo'
the information they contain, as for tho
clew they furnish to what has long beer
regarded as inexplicable, if not impossl
bic barrier. To my mind the high TONED
communications, coming through one ST
young and entirely untaught, shed
new and much needed light, not only
on underlying principles, and the occul
law, so little understood, governing the
phenomena, but likewise upon the In
mentable fact that much common place
stuff and numberless fiat contradiction
come through adult mediums.
All Investigators of the phenomen'
know what drawback this has hithert
proved in the whole affair. AS to hov
the phenomenon of the slate-wrltlng
through the mediumship OF the child
pours new and glorious light on th'
shadowy path of the investigator,
have not space here to explain:
Isaac KELso.
ST. Louis Democrat