St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-12-11

cabinet until his first -matcIialiLatinu.
the music either helping that process or
drowning ANY noise that William Eddy /.
might make in cn>tuming. The music /.
is trightiul and the singing like the
wailiug of the damned. "Thr Sweet
Bye and Bye" Cover the River" and |.
'.Auld Lang Sync." and IL. song whose |.
refrain WAS ''NicodcmI>." seemed tn he /
the fIVoritcS. Tho room il dimlN light |
ed by il lamp turned down very low and
placed in an old band box. The light Is
81 dim that YOU can not see features or
even faces i'll outline. You can Just dis
tmguish when the figure j. male or tc
male, and the ability of certain imiItu-
atcs in the audience to distinguish
friends is pitiahl exhibition of cred
ulity and excited Imagination. After
some ten minutes of tedious music. dur
inc Which we sat silently watching the
cabinrt.th" curtain over the door WAS
Suddenly pulled aside and ''llonto" the
Indian "irl. stepped out upon the plat
form and Salutrd the audience with il
gesture nt the right hand. She soon
retreatc'i to I'll cabinet but imuCdintclS
returned. walked to the organ. some
eight feet distant. seated herself and
played. She WAS before u>. playing
and dancing. some ten minutes. Her
dancing. and her motions had nothing
feminine in them: she danced Il com
mon shuttle with vi"or and rapditl.
very much aS Il man dances ''at LAM
gam'> ball" Her height waS William
Eddy : allowing fnI he absence. of boots
and the presence ot slippers. and any
man of fair muscular activity could
have pcr>omatcd her A. with the dim
light very little WAS needed for Il COS
tune. Sh" asked for Il pipe. and when
liuratio started tu strike Il match she
Shrunk back toward the cabinet. The
light from the pipe did not reveal her
face
She danced with llulatio. and shook
hands with Mother Cleveland. who l.
able at times to sec Il diamond Il pound
OF two in weight pendant from her neck.
She passed INTO the cabinet III Il most
mrterial manner and shape. while Il re
cent visitor I" and narrator of Il similar
scene maintains that she ">uddcnll
handed back the pipe and started rap
idly towards the cabinet but Just ~ She
reached the curtain ~h,. c"|lap>ci int"
Il >iHpclc>> heap ON the floor. only one
hand being di~lingui>hahlc.
Seventeen other appariti"r> t"Il"wrd
1T shorter or lumgcl intervals. the delay
being cum>id,.Iahir brtWccn the disap-
praIanrc of the last woman and the
coming of the first man. ~ William had
t" do some ScIi"u> untiNiu" before he
could change his >"N. The time that
elapsed hctNcru the disappearance oi
Santum the tall Indian and the next male
figure was considerable. - the rcl>l,in
could not hrcomc Il white man in the
tWiukI ling at IN eye. Oui ut all The ap-
partitions there WAS not Il single one
whose stature W;I> not that of W Nilliam
Eddy save Santum. and in that dim
light where his head and face could not
bc seen. why. he could haN" built Il
structure I> high a> Il huWdah if he
wanted. y" child "l hoy appeared. no
Woman of stature ihli forbade the pos
SihllitN nt an easy PRESERVATION 10y Eddy.
li"ur" j. the only li"iIr that IuuN,~
with freedom and adj amcc> tar from the
door of the cabinet. Santum ~:aua- up
~ >titt and walks with ~ slow and en-
hirIl>>,.d Il stride ~ Il boy with r.-> i'll
his hat
While some very wIrtchcd vcntril"-
/ qui>m that would di~~iHr, Il school h">
/ l. heard from the cabinet. no HplrIiIinu
/ speaks on the stage say" i'll It husky
whisper. and two light. cheap costumes
would have >uttircd. with Eddy "ldin-
any dIc>> tur the PRESERVATION at the en-
! the eighteen figures We SIN. and Vet
. the hr~uttrd hclicNCI> claimed 80 ~c.'
features. to recognize relatives i, ask
ing the tiGIuc II he wasn't - and -.
and he always kindly answered in the
affirmative. and accepted the r"u"tItU-
lati"u>. Ac.. with becoming Ic~igma
/ tiun.
" hen il is remembered that in the
full gI> light of the modern stage Il wu-
man comes out dr.>~td H. i fashionable
Young man and rapidly takes of seven
different suits until finally She stands
before you in IN ordinary bail dress
with Il flowing train. surely the small
amount of cheap material nc,cS>irl I"
Eddl'> slight changes from character tn
character in that dim light could hc
easily bestowed upon his person. We
are asked to bclieNr the >tupcnduE>
doctrine at spirit naturalization "n ia,
strength of performances III the dark.
ut Il distance from Nou, that do not
equal the cnmmnncSt tcIt> of 4 very "I
dinaIN iugglrI done in day light Will,
you stand at his elbow. To this aI~u-
mrnt N"u are answered that all men
like Heller. llaItz. etc. are really me
diuni>." The Visiting committee of tn,
Oneida Community say III THEN report
"Ihr most that the Sl>cpticS undertake,
to prove i that many of thc>, phcnonI
cma might he produced hN >lcight ni
hlmd: II" one has been able L" prov,
that any of thrm are :" produced hN the
I EddN>."
Why: what nonsense j. this when il
i remembered that every avenue "i
proof. every natural way of detection.
every opportunity of Investigation l.
cut off and stopped 10y the Eddy them
selves. They turn away from then
doors all intelligent people unless the,
are introduced and Vouchcd for bN tho~t
known or suspected to Ice Spili'udIl>ts
they insist on darkness: they refuse Il
have the spirits Photographed the.
are unwilling tn have amy but the ah>o-
lutclN crcdulouS or relatives sit ON Tia,
platform near the spirits. and ldStl
they take the most careful and cunnln.
pains To- prevent ANY p"S~lbl" ntrrlup
tiun :it the malcIiIlIZiug >CInccS. BiOWi
is there. llnIalio j. near. and Other
friends 80 that ANY attempt tu slip he
tween lnuto and he door at the c.thimr
Wauld he defeated. H. no man coul,
get through the first line of seats. an,
Jump over that railing before he w"ul"
b" seized. or lI"mtn would Ice in TIA,
cabinet with her rays cast off Lud vii
liam Eddy himself again. WHY that
raiIing at all: Why only true believer,
/ -, ;,I. Il