Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1886-05-26
4 SCIENCE.


SPfRTTUALISM a SCIENCE.
TIA wondsrfal Tssts That Resulted in tho
Conversion Of . Now York Man.
Il am naturally inclined to be skepti-
cal, and it vas only after ! had gone
through crucial tests that l was con-
verted. / sat alone nm hour each night
in the darkness Of my room for eighteen
months, and experienced wonderful
things, but still / was not convinced.
Ny right arm would grow cold at times,
and nov Involuntary, until / became
frightened and thought / al about to
be paralyzed. I was at that time a
broker near Wall street, in New York,
and doing a large business. / was sit
ting at my desk in the Office one day,
writing. Suddenly that peculiar sense
of numbness came over my arm, and
my hand moved the pen across the
paper, and l had no power of resist
ance. / wrote in large, bold letters:
'You are being robbed count your cash.
l had not dreamed OF such a thing. and
was completely dumbfounded. A friend
of mine came in at that moment, and |
got him to count the cash over for me
/ made a note Of the amount and care
fully locked the drawer. We then went
to lunch, and were gone several hours.
Upon returning We counted the cash
again, and found it $l1. so short. / was
unable to discover who the thief was.
The spirits will not tell us that so long
as we have the system Of Furnishing in
stead of trying to reform criminals.
II think that was q sufficient test to
convince any man. Afterward / went
into the lumber business in connection
with q house in Liverpool. VIZ bought
quantities Of lumber in Canada, and
shipped it over in cargoes. The system
of regulating the business there is this:
The lumber is graded into three classes,
one, two, and three. The first is free
from knots, the second has q certain
number, and the third more. The gov
eminent employs men to brand this
lumber and grade il as it comes from
the saw, and each class is stamped one,
two, o three. You can see what
amount of damage these branders could
do, were they bribed by the mill
owners
zone winter I received . number of
complaints from the firm in Liverpool
as to the quality Of the material. One
night / was in my Office at Quebec
writing, and again the old feeling came
over my arm. and my hand travelled
across the paper. The pen traced the
words: Go to Montreal. You are
wanted at once / had but fifteen
minutes in which to go q mile and catch
the boat, but l got there. On arriving
in Montreal l went straight to the dock,
where we had a cargo about to start. l
went on deck and declared there had
been fraud in the branding of the lum-
Der, and demanding that the work be
done over again. Under the law, when
such q demand is properly made, the
court must order the work done imme-
diately by three government men. In
the meanwhile, l was mourning an
enormous risk. There had to be paid
to the ship-owners $400 for every day
the ship was held beyond the sailing
time, and $50 a day in addition for every
barge. In case the relanding of the
cargo did not alter the amount 10 per
cent, then this expense fell on me.
The three examiners were appointed,
and it took them eight days to get to
work. They then discovered that all
the second grade had been stamped as
No. l, and the third grade as No. 2.
In this way $4,000 was saved to the
firm in the single cargo, and all the *
penses had to be paid by the bondsmen
of the government employee who had
been bribed by the mill owners. Had
l failed. l would have been laughed at
and called a fool. but I was willing to
incur the risk on the strength of the
spirit writing.
another mistake which is made is
in ~confounding the faculty Of being able
to see and know things by means of q
touch of the hands. This discovery was
first made by Prof. Buchanan, formerly
of Kentucky. He was principal Of o
college in Ohio, and an Episcopal Bishop
went to consult him as a physician. The
Bishop said he was wonderfully con
structed, and could tell by feeling a
piece of metal, without seeing it,
whether it was iron, brass, copper, or
something else. Prof. Buchanan placed
the Bishops hand behind him and APP
piled a number of tests, all of which
were answered immediately. The Pro-
fessor thought there was something in
it. and began making tests with the
boys in the college. Out of $50 there
were about 100 who were more or less
gifted that way. He extended his re-
searches further, and began expert
menting with drugs. There we're about
twenty of the boys he could influence
by placing a drug in the palm of their
hands, and could even cause some to
vomit by putting ipecac in their lunch
without their knowing what it was. He
continued the work, and one day went
to the Bishop mentioned above, and,
placing o sealed letter in his hand, said !:
i want to know if you can divine the
contents of that letter by the sensation
its touch causes The Bishop laughed,
and said: I feel a sensation as OF a
great soldier, who was very angry
You are right replied Professor Blu
chanan. That letter was one written
by George Washington the night he
learned of Benedict Arnold's treason
"And thus it was that the science was
discovered. It has since been devel-
oped wonderfully, but should not be
COMPOUNDED with .spiritualism." -
Charles DaUburn, in Louisville
Times.
E. Bismarck at Home.