The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-07-10
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2outhe,n msn gwen to pistols. that he
resented all insults put upon her, and that
he would probably visit Cairo. She
frightened us, but did not obtain any wri.
ting for us. The next afternoon we called
upon her ut the house Of our correspond.
ent. There she was among friends, who
were not gentle in denunciation of those
who had denounced her. At this inter-
view she told us again that the abuse she
had received had so affected her that she
could have no satisfactory demonstra-
tions-that the utilization she had been
compelled to submit to, had
robbed her Of the means through which
she made the spirits manifest. Sugges-
lions Of tests she resented with anger,
talking all the time about her standing,
her trip to Europe, the great people she
had met, the great things she had done.
Her conversation was very entertaining.
but she got no writing for Us. That
same evening at Mound City, In the COM
pany Of believers. she had much slate
writing and wonderful naturalization
manifestations. In the brief period of an
hour or two. her perturbcd mind had be.
come callncd into healthy mcdiumistic
condition.
4. We are asked to ''show the fraud"
and to Investigate" Show the fraud
Ridiculous. These mediums profess to
he enabled To materialiZe spirits. They
hold the affirmative. II is for them To
prove what they declare. They say
Here are spirits" We say; There
are not" They retort: Prove that
there are not, or believe" We know onr
correspondent too well to believe she viii
insist that the Sprtualisl, should not
prove their assertions. Investigate. Our
correspondent intimatcs that we have not
Investigated. How ,locs she know? Has
she mcdiumi-tic or clairvoyant powers
That she goes mp and down with rs, obscrv-
Ing our golngs out and coming, ia How
does She know that all Of our leisure j, not
given 10 the study OF this gigantic sensa-
ton Certainly we have seen ne much -
She. We have heard rapS. have received
communications, have seen spirit hands
and faces, have been in the cabinet tied TO
the Davenport Brothers have seen near.
~ all the phenomena---all but the Katie
King rascality that We were denounced
for not believing until poor old Owen.
weeping, acknowledged Katie 10 be- a
irand and went daft 4; but we have
yet to see anything that leads MS to.be-
iieye that any supernatural power is in the
manifestations. Investigate? When we
suggested tests to Mrs. Hollis. she re-
jected the suggestion with tears OF indq.
nation in her rather comely eyes. She.
who had met Prot Crookes and talked TO
Katie King, submit to tests In such q
place as Cairo Danish the thought I,
When tests were suggested to Mott, his
wife put his shirts into his carpet sack,
drew his share OF the fees from Ellis, and
TOOK him to the train. investigated
''ive MS the opportunity but
until you do, do not preach
to uS as the reformed preacher Taylor
did, and the unreformed Chase, that we
must believe that Spiritualism turns the
laws OF nature topsy-turvy because mel
like Crookes say 1t does. We believe
what we do know. and 90. - -
non4.-. "s,ured that although the evil
| dence we have that the kccly motor Is a
fact is the strongest in the world short
of proof, we have always said, and yet
say OF it, seeing is believing. We even
doubt the motor, although the Familiar
OF Mrs. Hollis told Bross through horn
that he had examined into it and knew if
would rcvolutionizc the world This tcsu-
mony ought, certainly, TO be satisfactory
to orr correspondent who believes so ear.
nestly in Hollis and all her tricks.
8. But, says our fair correspondent
''Do not dcnounce mediums n. YOU have
done and then take them for witncsse,
against each other as you have in the
case OF Mott and Mrs. Hollis" Why not?
Here Is Hollis, great medium-so great
that to doubt her Is to offend our CORES.
pendent and all her acquaintances. Mrs.
Hollis says that another great medium i,
pretendcr and swindler. She de-
nounced several in our hearing. Here Is
Mott, recognized as the great material.
izer of the Wcst-next to the Eddy
Brothers in power. He says Hollis is a
fraud. II the high priests of Spiritual.
ism denouncc each other as swindlers
who can believe?
correspondent says 81 do not envy
you your state Of indicision.' A quite
fair lady correspondent would not haye
said this. We are not undecided. We
say and have said: 1--WE do not bclieve;r
but our correspondent, while rebuking
us for unbelief, says: 1--WE would be
singularly credulous did we not doubt"
Here is lady who dcnounces doubt in
others, but who doubts herself. The
state Of indecsion in which such person