Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-09-10
psce. lv, In. sm. 6m, 1yr.
SpfritualiSn,

OplrltuRllsm IL uUt CuoQl0S u SSeu-lS uOt
an exploded fraud, and there is sem athing in
it whether you believe it or not. Just because
you do not happen to indorse q thing, ia it
bound to be false on that account9 I hate such
men as you are; you stand 10 the way Of pro-
gress; you would imprison the men who say
the earth moves if you could.
II have been forty years a spiritualist aud
have seen aud heard things stranger than are
dreamed of in your narrow philosophy. which
makes man clod, aud says that there is moth
ing in the blue air and space What good
has ever come of it2' "Plenty of good I
Gan give you just one instance out Of many
which have come under my own observation.
During the winter of 1871 there lived q few
blocks from me young man who was con6deu.
tal clerk 10 one of the leading firms on Main
street.
"Oae day as he sat at bis desk his arm com.
menoed to trembe violently. 1t wa, broad
daylight, and the house was crowded with Gus.
TONERS. Mr.. Jamison-thst's not bis name,
but it will do-Has making out bill, and not
knowing what was the matter The bad never
deavored to 90 on wiring. But instead of
tracing on the paper '30S0 pounds clear sides
at l4,,' the pen wrote, Go to No. S35 Biddle
street without fail. HI turned white as sheet,
but made a strong effort to regain bis self.
possession, aud went on writing. Again the
pen traced the same sentence. Hb tore the
paper into sbreds and took new billhead.
"A third time the sentence was traced, aud
be became TO sgitated that his employer took
notice of it, and asked him the cause. He
pleaded sickness. and, crumpling the paper in
his hand. went to bis boarding house. That
evening he o.me to me was then president of
the St. Louis Society aud asked my advice. It
was to 60 at once to the number indicated. He
invited me to accompany him and / accepted.
When ne came to the house We found lady
stretched on miserable bed, starving to death
yes, sir, absolutely starving to death. Her
daughter, beautiful girl Of nineteen. was sit.
ting at her side, wan With hunger. holding her
mothers hand.
I'VE learned their story from her lips. Her
father, wealthy Chicago merchant had lost
everything 10 the great fire. With his wife and
daughter he came to st. Louis to engage 10 the
real estate business but died 10 few years
after his arrival What littl, money the two
ladies had was soon spent, aud in the dead of
winter, being too proud to beg, and too honest
to steal, they were starving together in that
wretched lodging. We brought them provis.
ions aud coal and sent for a physician. The
mother rallied and was soon we'll enough to be
removed to better 1arters, which my friend
provided. He learned for the first time on re.
ceiVing the mysterious message that he was
a medium. Duriog seance which We held
together, he again received communication 90
from the same source, tho spirit identifying
itself as the girls father. A few months
after
There was quiet wedding, eh?'
"Yes, sir, there was. aud he married that
girl, and now they have three children as foe
ss you evar saw-tbe second one named Charles
H., after me. Spiritussm never did any good
What do you think Of that2
why. thiok it's a mighty tough story;
sounds like one of B,adle's," said the reporter,
as be want through the door.-St. Louis Times.
"HoHo RABLE I'VE see itststed in one of our
exchanges, as something remarkable that every
candidate for Off ,e in one Of our sister States has
Hon." pref1ed to his name. This we do not
consider very extraordinary, for almost every
man who has filled the most Insignificant office
rejoices in thi, most honorable prefix, and it is
consequently hard to find man up for any 20.
stion, great or small, who is without it. The
"Hon." is even more common than LII D. or
D. D., and it is expected to 20 before pub ic
mans name as certainly as the adjuact Esq"
is looked upon as the regular title OF an ordinary
gentleman, which once meant something, but
now means nothing whatever. 1t is reprosch
| to as Americans, often uttered by Europeans,
| that we are the tondest folk of titles in the
| world-and We believe that the imputaton is
entirely jus; nevertheless, absurd es is the cus-
tom of pref King or af1Iing m m,anin2less titles.
we have got into it. and wa presume that it will
spread still farther until "aon." will be the
title of every freeborn American who has been
supervisor of "Deestrck" or his clerk.-N1r-
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