The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-25
SHADES SPIRITS.
DorxCs OF INVISIBLE TOWER,
A LEADER Representative Takes a
Hand In Spiritual Manifesto
tIons-strange Actions and
Communications.


A representative of the LEADER
had a rare experience last evening and
feels constrained to relate the same to
the mary readers of the paper. He
was invited by G. f. Aunett, esq,
manager Of the A. & p. telegraph, to
accompany him to the room Of DR..
Henry Slade, the famous s~piritualist,
and witness some manifestations"
Those two gentlemen are old acquaint-
ances and the meeting was brought
about through Mr.. Annett.
DIR. Shades quarters are in the Rail-
road house. Arrived there, the writer
was introduced to the great spiritual
list, and found a pleasant hammered
gentleman Of apparently forty years OF
age, a strong face, and attired in half
dress.
Without further ceremony the doctor
asked us to be seated at u table. or
course we examined the furniture, but
there was nothing strange noticed
about either the table or the chairs.
But then they have nothing to do with
the manifestations, anyway. We in
formed the doctor Of III utter scepti-
cism as to spirits OF whatever kind, and
he replied, l%aughingly, that he was
pleased to find a doubling Thomas;that
fact would not in the least affect the
circle or the manifestations.
The doctor proposed to experiment
upon the most difficult task of all-slate
writing. He took two states which
were clean and bare, and breaking off a
small piece of slate pencil, as large rs a
grain Of wheat, placed it between the
states in our full sight. The three Of
us were sitting around the table and We
placed our hands on each others, the
doctor using but N to complete the
circle or connection. The other hand
held the slate in full view on top of the
table. He then asked If any spirit
would be kind enough to write some for
the visitors-three raps, yes. And
forthwith the pencil began writing be-
tween the states.
We could hear the usual sound made
in writing upon n slate, and hear the
crossing of the It's, the dotting of the
is and the insertion of commas, semi
colons and periods. Meanwhile we
were all %conversing on the subject
of spiritualism, the writer saying that
he disbelieved the theory that u spirit
was doing the writing. The spirit was
a slower writer than most newspaper
men, but then he was certainly cramped
for room between those two states.
| When finished, we read his message,
which was written in a fair hand. 1t
informed us that there were real spirits
aud that they could tell us a great
many things if we would believe in and
| consult them. 1t concluded: II am
truly the spirit of S. Clark" Who IS.
| CLARKE is will be consigned to posterity
with tile conundium of "Who struck
Billy Patterson" SO far as we are con.
cerned.
There was no discount on the writing.
1t was there, and Doctor Slade did no
use his hand to write, for the lamp on
the table was burning brightly, tile
slate was held nearly over our hands
and we could see over aud underneath
the slate. The doctor said that lie
could not explain the phenomenon sat.
isfactorily to himself.
During the time of the writing both
the doctor and Mr.. Annett felt the cur
rent of electricity passing through their
fingers, while we experienced no unu-
sual sensation whatever. We were sit
ting to the right of the doctor, and
picking up the slate and pencil, he held
it against the under side OF the table
leaf, and asked
us the gentleman ON my right hand
a medium"
Scratch, scratch, went the slate, and
the answer appeared plainly written
"He is not"
The doctor then requested us to ask
a question. and it IA asked Gould
become convinced of the truth of spir'
itualism?"
Quickly the answer came "Yes, il
you would investigate"
Then the chairs became suddenly de-
moralized. One in q far off corner
took u tumble" and refused to get up,
Then the table raised about a foot,
Doctor Slade could not have done il
alone, for we had hold of his hands
and planted our feet on his, so that
they were firmly anchored to the floor.
We got up to examine the other side OF
the table and u chair jumped after
us. Then several chairs began dancing,
the table became unsteady, mysterious
tsppings were felt on u own body,
and things began to get interesting
We had begun to think that his satanic
majesty had come to call us a little be
fore our time. But the row of the spir
its stopped; it was much like Il row
of rye spirits.
Finally Mr.. Annett and ourseli fount
that we could call the spirits down t
rap on the table for us. After muct
questioning we discovered that thu
spirit of n deceased aunt was talking tc
us, and all the information we could