The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-12-29

snre' Two days afterward Owen
gave the girl a chain of hair, and
was gone the cabinet was examined. and
no ring or chain could be found. The next
day the chain was returned to Owen. and
ne says lone IS lost in conjecture" to tell
where IL was during the twenfy-four hours.
IL does not seem TO have occurred to the
ancient philosopher that the ghost with
MOIST, WARM HAND,
and pulse at seventy-two. had the jewelry
with her at herr clearinghouse. The
old man proceeds to tell us that. June 10.
leach time that Katie issued from the cabi-
net, brilliantly luminous hand, emitting
ngn'' showed itself at the left up
A bad man wanted to kiss Katie one
evening, and she refused and was
greatly shocked. The conditions were
disturbed. So she refused to appear any
more without Mr.. Ovens assurance that she
should not be touched by any one but him.
self, and she told him
when you touch me, 1t gives me
strength; but when others. with whom: /
have no sympathy, are y suffered TO
approach indiscriminately. it wearies
ana exhausts me. L want your promise
that no such overture as that made last
nlgnt snail De repeated. They forget that
am spirit. They forget why / come TO
"'Dear Katie said 1, Il will protect Won.
as would my own daughter, from that and
every other annoyance. No one shall an
proach you except with your express per-
mission
"The changed, more hopeful expression
was charming to see, as she said:
God bless you! Tell my medium not to
urge me; 1t hurts me to refuse her.
"At request from the audience, stated
70 tnem, In brief, what Katie had said.
Nothing more was needed that evening TO
can Iorth hushed reverence. such as is not
often found, even in church."
This does not seem to require much ex-
PLANTATION. 1t was plain to the young LADY
who has been traced to her boarding house.
that Owen was so far gone in credulity that
nothing would shake his faitS, and so she
placed him as sentinel, to prevent others,
not so far gone, from touching her moist.
warm band, with,
A PULSE OF sEvENTY-Two,
and there was "a hushed reverence such
as Is not often found in church. Exactly!
That is according to the conditions, =
which, it is worth while to observe, are al
ways in aid of fraud. After some further
ceremonies, Owen tells us, in the midst OF
the "hushed reverence''-
She stopped her head toward ne. and.
passing both hands through her back hair
separated a lock and babe me cut it OFF. I
did so, close to the head. 1t proved to be a
beautiful ringlet, about four inches long.
literally of a golden color, soft and fine. At
ter four months il has not melted away. and
1t is not distinguished from human hair,
though one seldom sees any so beauti-
full"
Now that the poor girl who played these
tricks so handsomely has been traced to her
boarding house, we hope the old man has
not been such a fool as to destroy that lock
of beautiful hair. He should preserve it
with greater care than ever. If he has lucid
intervals, he would be likely to preserve
woman's hair in preference to that
of ghost. Again, and the last time on that
memorable night" that she emerged from
the cabinet, he says: I" passed my left arm
gently round her, and sustained her left
arm, bare from the elbow, in NV
right hand. To the touch her gar
ments and her person were exactly
like those of an earthly creature"
Then she made some recommendations in
regard to his health-took his face in both
hands and kissed him-and we must let
him tell the stosy: "After closing the door
she half opened it again with a SMILE and
the words: Didn't we have a good time,
Mr.. Owen, as promised?'
"'Indeed we did, / replied; you kept
your word
"'But we'll have
FAR BETTER TIMES
by and by, when you come to us The
door closed upon that earnest, beautiful face.
and we were left alone with the memory o
the marvels we had witnessed. Iquestioned
my consciousness. Had held familiar con-
ver with creature who had already, per-
haps, returned to her fellow -denizens of the
skies?'
But, Notwithstanding Mr.. OWENS ques-
tioning OF consciousness, it did not occur to
him for months afterward that he hadn't
rNoc hfSs lnff t. Oh T.
Soon after the scenes narrated above Katie
cut hole in her veil and dress and gave
Owen the cuttings. AS to the holes she made
sin the course of a few seconds both OPEN
ings disappeared, and the garments were
whole again." and he goes on to say:
"Katie's robe looks like the thinnest gauze,
and her veil the fieeciest cobweb lace. But
the bits of each now in my possession seem
bona tde lawn and lace, such as ladies
wear in this lower world The seeker
for truth did not assume TO ex-
plain this. His mighty mind never sug-
gested that the bits of gauze and lace were
manufactured in this lower world. Some
skeptics wanted TO see these wonders, and
"Katie" called him to the door of the cabi-
net, and he reports:
"Katie appeared at the aperture, beckoned
to me, and before had said word, asked:
rs Mr.. Dreer man upon whose promises
you can rely?'
solemn promise that neither he nor the
friends he proposes to bring with him will
violate any conditions imposed.
"Katie-But you must have some of our
intimate friends in the front circle. need
such aid.
'"I-Be sure that we shall attend to that. -
Before the skeptRs could come in, the
conditions" had to be fixed, with ''inti-
mate friends in the first circle" That is
always the way. The inevitable conditions
are those that prevent
THE EXPOSURE OF IMPosTURE.
When man has got himself in the fix that
Owen was-when he believes in spooks
with moist, warm hands and a pulse at
seventy-twO, and with "literal tears" in
her eyes, as he tells us in one place-a
spook about whom he gently passes his arm
and which kisses him like an earthly
female, and talks to him of good time
coming-we do not think he ought TO be