The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-01-25
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Yes. Mr.. ADVERTISER, Mechanics
willie has again been visited by TWO
persons who are blessed with the
power Of bringing the willing spirits
of those who have passed IN their
checks back to earth and into com
munication with others who have not
vet met the great Conductor. These
mediums held forth two or three
nights. and, according to the report Of
the Press man; who, by the way Is
quite certain he could not
swear to it--that he saw man who
used to reside here. He was well ae-
auainted with the party, who has been
dead several years; and although the
Press man sometimes iabors under q
halfucination he is certain that THIS
time he was all o. X, and, unlike one
. who writes for one of the county
papers who never attended circle
.. in his life but writes from what he
- hears on the streets he knows what
he saws rs he was there. Well, what
he knows, he knows" and will back
with his money-as on election day.
But in this instance he admits that
there is great mystery how these
things are brought about and II. as
he says, the conditions hal been righ
the second night so the same success
might have attended them a. n the
first seauce, they would have made
several converts.
In writing up these wonders for the
Press, after telling a story entireiy
favorable to the mediums, the rep3r-
ter saws that ''if this il frand, it
ought to be exposed Why did he
not tell his many 60 readers that these
mediums. Messrs. Little and Barnes,
were arrested at Maquoheta not long
ago-the cause being in the fact that
while Little was in the sealed cabinet
securely sewed in chair las the aud
fence supposed, and "materializei"
hand-a spiritual hand male flesh
again by the will of this great ''mel-
iunln between earth and the ether
world mot the heavenly branch there
of. fearl-was waving before the said
cabinet, some one pulled down the
curtain and there stood Mr.. Little un-
bound, manipulating his own earthly
hands to suit his own sweet will?
Why did he not state that many Of
those present at the very seance he
reported thought the faces shown did
not look like those Of departed friends
and did look like painted pasteboard "
Why did he not say that the oil pain
ting representing an old lady, now
in possession of [. l.. Robbins, was
obtained from this same little Little?
That after gathering up the picture
during seance, after the performance
Mr.. Robbins charged Little with
using pictures and when it was denied
produced this one from under his
coat: That Little then weakened"
and offered to tell all about the m0ips
operandi if he would not publish him? |
Perhaps these things were only |
'street-talk," and unworthy his at
tention, but they can he proven as
undoubted facts. all the same.
We understand that more power
ful medium than has yet been here
will shortly appear. If this be true,
the Investigating committee of this
place desire to make the following
offer: We will give any amount Of
money that may be designated to some
charitable object If he, or she, will
show or cause to be shown any mani
festations which this committee can
not explain or account for by natural
And further, we will give
800 to any medium who will produce
any materializations. or any such
phenomena as they claim for Mr..
Little, under these provisions, viz:
We will not ask him to be fastened in
any way in the cabinet, but after the
medium takes his seat We want the |
privilege of attaching wire to his
person so that a. long as he is quiet it !
will connect with another wire there
BY forming circuit with battery TO
which We will have connected in an
,ther room telegraph sounder On
he other hand, if he should move he
will disconnect the wires and of course
he sounder will stop. Now if they
will perform these manifestations
without stopping the sounder of this
the money will be theirs
and also there will be great many
secured here. NoMLAS.
Mechanicsville, Jan. q, 1877.