Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-01-20

fABLEs MOVING ABOUT OF THEIR OWN &c
CORD, ALL ID oPKR DAYLIGHT AND
ABOVE BOARD-sOkB COHkUHI
CATIONS FROM THB DEAD
On Sunday afternoon an APpEAL reporter
spent All hour with DR.. Siade the medium,
who during the past ten years has become ia
msus in two continents He found the DIR.
at the Arlington House occupying the front
parlor,
He 10 well built, pleasing looking man With
a fine head and face, light, eushy hair and
mustache He greets a visitor in such a way
that he feels at home at once and settles down
Immediately to basiaess.
| YaR MErIUMs TABLh.
! 81 want a seauee.
"Certainly: sit down at this table,
! n would like to examine it.
The madiun turned the table upside down
and invited the reporter to inspect its ma
| ehinery" 1he tabs was an ordinary pune
affair, 50 simple and cheap in fact that any
| carpenter would duplicate it for s.; table
could not be palmer, The reporter turned
| it upside down and IN other directions, and
examined every hinge Of the leaves, until he
WAS satisfied that maa who was an impnster
could not make his salt medium if he de-
pended solely upon such affair DR..
SHADES table.
TIE YIksT kAPs
The medium seated himself at the corner of
the table and the reporter took the other side
of the same corner so As to give Slade as little
room as possible to manipulate his tricks If he
had any. AS soon as the two were seated
several raps were heard under the table
"Do you hear the rspsi"
81 hear raps but can't say believe them
to be produced other than by human agency,
you think l made themi"
Exactly"
Just then the raps were on the reporters
chair and the vibration could be distinctly felt;
a moment later they proceeded from q wood
box about ten feet from the doctor.
Are you satisfied
"Ventrioe uism"
Wills the doctor vas talking the raps CON
tinued and ventriloquism was impossible here
from the fact that his speaking aud the raps
were simultaneous
THE sLATR TEsr.
Il see you are sksptical," said the d.etor,
lifting couple of states from the table, II
en- Joy a ssancs with s skeptic bette, than with |
a blind believer Examine the states and wipe |
them carefully with the sponge,
The reporter cleaned the surfaces with a |
sponge The states presented were of the or |
binary si1s. Laying one of them on the table |
Slade bit off the end of 'late pencil and put the
piece, which was about the size Of a pea, on |
the slate He then lail second slate over !.
the first and placed the two pressed firmly to-
gether, on the reporters arm, and directly |
under bis nose Immediately the scratching
of the pencil could be heard GA the slate.
There was no mistaking the sound and the
pauses where an was dotted or was
crossed could be easily determined. The
scratching occupied about three minutes and
when it ceased the states were opened. The
lower slate proved to be written full. The
writing was clear and legible and written AS if
by the hand of Some one who had pressed very
strongly on the slate The littls piece eff pen
,il which had been used was worn half away.
The communication read ss fellows:
DEAR Friends You must not doubt your
future or the doctrine of Immortality. Your
ives and actions on earth are watched by
hose who love you and who are now in the
world of spirits. The good which you do
adds to the felicity of their lives, and your
nisdoings make them weep. If you try and
make them happy they will do all in their
power to reel proca,s and ysu will have true
happiness BE- honest, be true, be just and
If the brightness of your everlasting future
'su need not fear. Yours very sincerely,
JOSH BoURr.
The writer WAS stranger both to the re-
,ortsr and the medium.
oTnKR CURIOUS Traits.
The medium then asked the reporter to call y
or some dead person John Coon" was
allied and in an instant the reporter received
severe slap on the knee. This did not cone
rom the medium, as his feet were not under
he table but in plain sight. The slap on the A
nee called to mind habit Coon had about J
en- years age in Chicago of Shaping the re-
orter on the knee whenever he found him
itting down; sort Of familiar salute. The ]
troks received st the mention of Coon.
aws was iadentical with this Half dozen
amos were called and all gave some NANTES