Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-05-25
sP1Rrr NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
George Friedrich Parsons Tells
Some Of His strange Ex.
erkences.

In spite OF the opposition Whicn
George friedrich Parsons encounter
ed through the press of San Francis
co relative to his views on material
ism, he has not changed his views
and contributes to the Banner of
Light" long communication, some
extracts from which are reprinted
at the request of his friends in
| this city. In relating his expert
| at = New York seance he says:
"A lightwas called for, and before
the gas could be lighted form was
at the aperture to the cabinet. Sew
eral very distinct and complete ma
terializations followed. Some Of
the spirits came into the room.
Then. by request, asmall table was
placed in front of the aperture, and
Immediately my daughter appeared
behind the table, and proceeded to
float upward until she stood upon
it. In that position she several
times elongated her form until
she appeared to stretch within
foot of ceiling; then. STOPPING for
ward and waving her drapery with
a peculiar flying motion, she glided
from the table. At this moment
the lower part of her form had a
vaporous appearance. She slid
gracefully and easily toward into
the air, and alighted on the floor as
silently and lightly as fake Of
snow. Her descent was thirty
inches. but when she touched the
floor she made no sound. Instantly
she ran forward and came up to us.
expressing her delight at the sue
cess of her experiment. Then re-
treating, she entered the cabinet
without moving the table, and SO
swiftly and easily, that she seemed
to pass through that piece of fur
niture. | have never seen anything
to equal this manifestation. Her
floating ascent from the cabinet to
the top of the table was itself very
beautiful; but the grace and light
ness of her bird-like descent from
the table to the floor was altogether
unique, and peculiarly suggestive
of truely spiritual form, free from
the restraints imposed upon the
ordinary body.
We had, however, not done with
remarkable manifestations. Next
appeared Miss Esther Hazard. She
was very strong, and came out into
the room, walked about, spoke to
and touched us. and then took
chair and sat down. When she
came out she wore dark skirt,
apparently of silk. On sitting
down she began to manipulate her
dress with her hands, and we could
not at first perceive what she was
doing. But suddenly she showed
us that the dark skirt had disap-
pcared, and in it's place was one of
pure white. After we had exam
ined her new dress she again placed
her hands over it, and the white
skirt gave place to the black one
once more. This metamorphosis
occurred three times, the spirit all
the time sitting in chair close to
us, and in light strong enough
for us to follow the wonderful
changes closely. 1t was most
perfect and convincing manifesto
ton, and We only regretted that
her venerable father was not pres
ent to witness it.
After this, spirit well known to
us came out of the cabinet, and sit
ting or knecling on the floor close
in front of US, proceeded to create
white drapery until it was heaped
up before her. Then rising to her
feet she drew it towards her with
an upward motion of her arms. and
it disappeared. Next Mrs. Valen-
tine, who was killed in the railroad
accident at Spnyten Duyvil, came,
very fully materialized, and glory
ing in heavy head of dark hair.
She asked for a pair of scissors,
and cutting lock Of her hair gave
it to my wife. The control. Col.
Baker. now directed the table to be
placed in front of the cabinet again
and no sooner was this done than
spirit began to materalize outside
the table on the floor. This is a
most beautiful phenomenon, but |
and others have quite recently de-
scribed it in your columns. The