The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-06-22

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MALTA of naturalization The exceed
ingly fine India-rubber masks employed
when it is desired to exhibit a variety of
faces, females may hide in the gathers of
their dresses, or even in their hair. In
deed, should the audience be sufficiently
enthusiastic, and countenances only on the
programme, those countenances NAV be
furnished by so simple a means as a few
engravings. Though the likeness held
up to the cabinet aperture be that of
Wellington, one excited behClder will
recognize in it his much-loved grand.
mother, and another dispute the claim
by pronouncing it the face of her equally
venerated aunt. have witnessed these
sad exhibitions, and know, therefore, of
what speak"
Concerning the bringing of fruits and
flowers, he narrates these experiences:
recall an instance in which about
half pint of gooseberries were thrown
on the table in the dark. 'There = cried
the medium, is not that a beautiful
manifestation p A burst of Indignation
ensued when the other two persons pres
ent could find nothing astonishing in
it. 'Whatp sai3 the wonder. you
think had the berries in my pocket, do
you p And, to prove the honesty of all
this wrath, the said pocket was turned
inside out. Alas for the result! The
medium had forgotten those little
withered ends (the botanical name es-
capes me) which adhere to the gooseberry.
At least a dozen of these were entombed
from the depths of that pocket"
GA gentleman known to me arrived
one evening too late for admittance to the
mystic chamber, where wall or windows
| were being dematerialized to allow of
| the passage of flowers and leaves. The
circle terminated-the floral trophies
were triumphantly exhibited-and the
dear medium was cOmplimented in
most honeyed terms. An aunt of the
| gentleman l have mentioned gave him
one of the little 'spirit-brought'
branches to examine. Just at that mo-
ment the dear medium turned to some
one. AS she did so the attention of the
| gentleman was drawn to leaf hanging |
from the lower part of the red opera
cloak she wore. 1t corresponded exactly |
with the leaves on the twig he held in |
his hand. He caught at it, held up the |
cloak, and showed to all present that the |
| spirit productions had been concealed |
| in the lining. 1t was then remembered |
that the medium (no longer dear y |
had, after being well searched, COM
planned of feeling chilly, and had re-
| quested permission to put on the red op-
era-cloak which she had left (quite pro-
| miscuously of course, } in the hall"
The paraffine moldsl of hands was fab
ricated by a similar device. Mr.. Home
| quotes from the report of an investi
gatiug committee of spiritualists these
facts:
ga packet of parafine designed for
use at the evenings seance was received
by Mr.. NJ. Taking it to an apOthe-
cary near by, he had it accurately
weighed, and the weight, which was
eleven pounds four ounces, avoidupOis,
marked on the wrapper. Mr.. NJ"
and Mrs. s. Kept this packet
sacredly until the evening, when
ence, and before them Mr.. M,
and others, was placed in pail and hot
water poured upon it.. The
lights were rendered so low as to be of no
avail in the back parlor, at the extreme
rear of which sat the medium facing her
audience. No one was allowed within
semi-circle of five or six feet from the
table. The mold was soon declared fin
isned, and on being quickly examined
(by a novice, as it happened), another
bit of dry cotton wool was found within
the orifce of the wrist, which Mr.. A.
has, with the first, in his possession.
Thirty-fve people were present.
"The paraffine in the pail was care
fully collected. Mr.. NJ took the
package, and had it weighed on the
same scales, when it balanced exactly at
eleven pounds and four ounces. He
also received the paraffine mold or glove
from Mrs. H and Mrs. s., and
found its weight to be two and One-half
ounces, avoirdupois. The druggist per
formed the weighing in both instances.
Mrs. A. was unaccountably an
noyed by bits of cotton wool about her
carpets, while the medium and her hus-
band were with her.
"Upon Sunday, the 10Th, Mrs. A.
saw the mediums stockings, worn the
previous evening at Mrs. IS seance
at about two inches below the toe they
were cut across the sole and left open."
The means of producing spirit photo
graphs is described at length, and also
the way in which bells are rung, musical
instruments played on, and the other
manifestations obtained with which the
public is familiar. On the top of all
this Mr. Home wishes us to believe that
the marvels he accomplishes are not the
result of trickery, but the genuine work
of departed spirits.
The book concludes with extracts
from a poem which Mr.. Home processes
to believe was dictated by the spirit of
the poet Chatterton, and in which he
finds great literary merit. 1t opens with
these lines:
One shadow still upon my life is cast,
One fragment of the sorrows Of the past,
The hated chsin of memory links me yet
With days whose deeds I've striven to forget.
Wan from the gulf of Time they rise again
The dead years; heavy with that weight of pain
Whose presence CALLED me to such bitter mirth,
When, in misery, i walked the earth.
And the last passage with which Mr..
Home favors us is this:
And love Thou truly art! and never gave
As limit to that boundless love the Grave.
I bow, and thank thee, Father, that no sea
of flame and darkness shuts my soul from Thee;
Wide are the he4vefis that 6f thy glory tell,
Yet all too narrow for the bigOt's cell.
And still the chastisenents Thou thaPest prove
Thy Justice tempered with exceeding love-
A love that shalt at length he understood
When all of i'll hath blOssOmed into good.
THE Tribune, in commenting upon
the proposition to establish college in
China, based upon the traditions OF our
western civilization, compliments the
Chinese by saving with some truth:
Education occupies higher place
in the state than it does with us,
and in their art, the integrity of ali
their handiwork, their respect for learn
ing, their self-control, and fine courtesy
they have reached a higher plane of ;
civilization than the Anglo-Saxon."
When it adds, however, that: Their ;
religion has in it broad basis of sublime [
truth, both in its conception of the |
Deity and of human brotherhood" it !
does not speak with knowledge. The
aduootad Chinese are what we would call | ,