The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-05-11

upsei,ins the table. playing on thu
accor'!e n. with no human hand OF
the Kew. they jerked the slate on,
Ut Mr.. SHADES hand, and carving j,
~ swiftly as il it had been shot on,
Of gun. under the table. made il
appear ahont half way up at the
Opposite sI,ie Of the table. When
the ac'oI's,"n. which, to all appear
ances. Vas just like any other instru
men NJ lna' name, was played. Mr..
Slad. hrll up one side against the
reporter ,nd having hold OF only one
side. worked the bellows. the
side "ext the reporter remaining
stati"n,ry. though not held there by
any visible power. The KEYS move
and Lilly Dale was performed
quite crr,ii.ably.
CTi~ DE YOUNG's SPIRIT
was a-kei for. but he could not he
foun.s 1T this moment there was a
vioi.,.; k.neking against the hack Of
the reporters chair, aud then his
hand. hich rested on his leg under
the table. was touched BY some colder
hand. and passed over it several
times. The Land was suddenly with
draw tw5 or three times in the hone
Of getting glimpse OF this handsome
spirit. hai without success. and then,
aftera minute. hand appeared at
the reporters side. extended out from
under the table. II was impossible
." suppose that this was Mr.. SHADES
hands. FIR at the same time they
were on the table. AMI he was sitting
At the sppos,te side.
MIR Shade claims that all thes.
are
THE WORK OF SPIRITS.
Things equally - wonderful a. any
he pertrms have been done by
necrumancers. but they have been
WAS some trick. The
difficulty is 10 catch him, If b. is
simply slight # hand perforn,er.
He has been subj cied To the most
cruicsl tests. Four years ago there |
WAS grand Convention If spiritual
SIS called at ST. Petersburg tor the |
purpose "f testing the thing. Medium,
rom ali parts of the Country were |
present, and Mr.. SIa.le WAS selected |
rom America. After the convention
Vas dismissed. Mr.. Slsde accepted ,
IN invi'sti'n from the professors Of
he university Of Leipsic tn display
lis wondsriul power To them. He
sent to Leipsic. aud the prufessor Of
eger,lemain tn Emperor William was
'lso present. Every effort was made
% discover how these things were
lone bat they finally gave it up.
They ioak him to their own rooms,
provided their own states and tables,
,ut the manifestations were the same.
The singular thing about it is the
'pera,ion Of the two minds, the
'isitors who asks his questions by
writing it, and does not allow Mr. i
'lade to see it, and Of some other
ntellik ence which gives the answer.
de claims that it cannot be mere
Electricity because it acts intelligently.
When asked Why the spirit must be
flowed to write unobserved, for even
'hen the slate is laid on top Of the
able the writing is on the under side
{ the slate, he argued that the in
|uence Of the human eve Is stronger
han the influence which controls the
movement Of the pencil. The eve Of
he living soul. in other words, is
nore powerful than the spirit.
Mr.. Slade went ON around the
Iorld through Asia and came by way
{ Australia on his return to San
francisco. During his trip he has 5
iven seances to many people of many
iiierent languages, and the messages
'ere always written in the language
poken by the spirit when living. {
|ften these messages were written in
language unknown to him, but they
xcited u much wonder as If written
, English.
The St. Joseph papers having pub I
shed the statement that this is not
be orr ,;inal DR.. Slade. a reporter Z
sked him last evening what evidence
e could give that he Is not the man
HON he represents himself to be.
nd he referred to DR.. Tiorne, with
HON he had sittings in New York.