The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-10-18
WITH THE SPIRITS.
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cinnatt Inquirer.
was supping with E. A. Sothern and
his sister, Mrs. Cowan, at their elegant
home in We're street, last night, when in
popped Horace Wall, from America, by
the Brittanic, after splendid run. He
stays with Sothern here till December
when they both return to America, Soth.
ern to produce Gilbert's comedy of EN-
gagged" in which predict he will make
a great personal hit. After supper some
marvellous performances in the spiritist-
&c line took place; the curious details OF
the seance l cannot go into in detail
here, but may at another time. Suffice
it for the present to say that the party
which sat around a large table in the
darkened dining room, consisted of Mr.
Sothern, Mr.. Writ Sykes, an English Ia
dy named Mrs. Gordon, Mr.. Moncure
ID. Conway, Mrs. Cowan, Horace Wall,
Mr.. Bentley 1.-THE Asa Trenchard of the
present run of our american Cousin"
at the Haymarketl, and myself Then
these things, among others, happened.
A heavy music box, three feet long,
left the room through locked doors, (the
keys of which Mr.. Conway had taken
the precaution to put in his pocket, and
was heard playing outside up and down
the staircase, now near and now remote.
Ultimately it returned, and when the
lights were struck the box was found to
be in another part of the room from that
IN which we had last seen it. When Mr.
Conway went to unlock the doors, 10!
the keys had been changed in his peck
ct, and the man servant had to be rung
for to let us out
DrauiOuaIu han6o hod I1aov, falt u, n
sitters' heads, a heavy brass hand bell
had been rung, and the clapper pulled
out of it; paper, with paper laid in the
center of the table, was found to have
writing upon it in these words:
I've are all here. Stay! Ned Ad-
ANS"
Electric lights danced about the wall
and ceiling; Japanese fan left the man.
tlepiece and famed US all in turns; the
heavy Oaken supper table lifted, and
there was Mepistopheles to pay gener-
ally. Mr.. Conway was pommeled in the
breast by hands from some unknown
source, and professed himself as quite
wonder stricken at the occurrences. No
doubt some reference will be made to
this curious episode in Mr.. Conway's
book on Demonology, volume of 400
pages, which he is now seeing through
the press.
For myself can only say that don't
know what to think about the matter.
What I do know is that it is a physical
impossibility for heavy music box to
go through door unassisted, and that
the hands which played about my face
and head were very human in their
warmth and plumpness. But whose
hands could they have been? The
whole circle of sitters sat foot upon foot,
and with linked little fingers.
Come, let us have no deception about
this" said SOthern as we sat down and
Joined fingers. "Give me your foot"
And so we gave each other our feet
There was no professional medium
present, and there were several avOWed
skeptics More than one person will
know who l mean when l say that
called upon "Katie'-who promised on
her death-bed to come back in her spirit
form if she cOuld-to manifest herself
to us then. But she did not in any re-
cognizable way to me.
And she never will" said Sothern
Il don't believe in spIrits-ah, strike
the light! l feel a blow like a knife
thrust into my back"
When the light was aflame, we found
that Japanese screen, four feet high
and six or eight wide, had shifted its
place.
1t was nearly a. m. when we sepa-
rated. Sothern had quite nervous at
tack from excitement.
do you believe, though, "he said, con-
temptuously, that the Lord Almighty
would move about miserable little mu-
sic boX?'
mo, the Lord wouldn't" replied the
one confirmed believer present; "but a
spirit did,