Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-11-07

done. The rappings are simply the result
OF perfect control of the muscles Of the
leg below the knee which govern the ten
dons Of the foot and allow action of the toe
and ankle bones that are not commonly
known. Such perfect control is only pos
sible when child is taken at an early age
and carefully and continuously taught TO
practice the muscles which grow stiff in
later years. a child at twelve is almost too
old. With control Of the muscles of the
foot the toes may be brought down to the
floor without any movement that is percep-
uble TO the eye, the whole foot, in fact. can
be made TO give rappings by the use only
of muscles below the knee This, then, is
the simplest explanation of the whole
method of the knocks and raps.
Some very wealthy people, formerly of
San Francisco, came to see me some wears
ago when L lived i'll Forty-second strest.
and did some rapping for them. l made
the spirit rap on the chair, and one of the
ladies cT1ed out; II feel the spirit tapping
me on the shoulder" OF course, that was
pure imagination. A great many people,
however, when they hear the rapplng i'm
agine at once that the spirits are touching
them. Ii is a very common delusion. One
fanatic gives Sunday services at the Adel-
PHI Hall yet. He is called the ''Old Patri-
arch" He said to some one the other day:
'If Mrs. Kane says that she can make these
rappings without the aid Of the spirits, she
lies" This person win be one of those who
viii see that l speak the truth.
THE MELTING WITH DR. KANE.
AS have said before, my sister Katie
and myself continued in this business until
she was twelve years old and thirteen and
a half After we left Rochester, we
Travelled all over the United States l was
thirteen years CID when DIR. Kane took care
OF me, and took me out of the miserable
life we began IN 1S4S, and it was in 1853
that he took me away from this thing. 1t
was at Philadelphia he met me He sent
me TO seminary, and my vacations were
spent with Mrs. Waters, sister of Sen
ator COckren She hves now at No East
Sixty-second street She was little in
Clined to believe in Splritualism herself, al
though she never let DIR. Kane know it, l
was taken away from al! spiritual" in
huences, and. for a long time, dld not see
any of my old associates. When DR. Kane
came into the room at Philadelphia, l told
him that hated this thing, that l had been
pushed into it. l explained to him that il
was trick, that had been forced into it.
and did not want to go on with it. / think
now that if my brain had not been very
sound l should have been a maniac.
SpirItualists say that am mad now, that if
attempt TO expose these tricks | am mad
l have had life OF sorrow, have been
poor and i'll, but 1 consider 1t my duty, a
sacred thing, holy mission to expose it.
want to see the day that it is entirely done
away with. After my sister Katie and l
expose it, hope Spiritualsm viii be gwen
a death-blOw.
IN TERROR OF HER SISTER.
unOr.rip IN, my l,Fa I b,x,a - 1ofo-o
fne. When l would wake up 1 would brood
over it, and DIR. Kane has said to me more
than once: Maggie, 1 see that the vampire
is over you still" DR.. Kane was certainly
not believer in Spirtualism. He was often
Mortified at the blasphemy of these fanatics
One day he came into the room at Philadel-
phla and an old fanatic asked me to call up St.
Paul The doctor hurried in and took me out.
he was shocked beyond measure. If those
we love who have passed away before us
can look down upon US from Heaven-if we
are ever to meet again-I know my dead
husband is looking me now and blessing
me for my work.
remember one time before my marriage
the death OF Mr.. Brown. the second husband
of my sister, Mrs. Fish, now Mrs. UnderhilL
Although Dr. Kane had no great devotion
to Mr. Brown, he had respec. for death.
He sent his body-servant Morton to SIT up
with the corpse. When he was laid out he
asked me TO come and look at the dead
and TO see how dreadful it was to trifle with
death
There were several champagne bottles
in the room, suppose for the refreshment
of Morton and as 1 entered the room cork
popped with a dreadful noise, and | made
Tor the door terrified. My sister forced me
10 wear mourning for Mr.. Brown and go to
the funeral IN state. This rs AN example
OF how entirely under the influence of Mrs.
Underhlll ] was during that dreadful time.
Katie and l were lei around like lambs
We went to New York from Rochester, then
al over the United States. We drew i'm
mense crowds. l remember particularly
Cincinnati We stopped at the Burnett
House. The rooms were jammed from
morning until night aud we were called
upon by these old wretches to show our
rappings when we should have been out at
play in the fresh air. We made the tour of
the States, and came back to New York
where Mrs. Underhill left us Mother
went on to Philadelphia and took me, and
that Is where DR.. Kane met me and brought
me away from this lite.
LIVING ONLY TO MAKE AToxEMENT.
AL during this dreadful life of deception
had been protesting l have always re-
0eHed against it. L have been going to ex-
pose 1t time and time again. After l mar
r1ed. DR. Kane would not let me refer to
my Old life-he wanted me to forget il. He
hated the publicity. When 1 was poor,
after his death, was driven to it again.
have told my sister, Mrs Underhill, time
and time again: Now that YOU are rich,
why don't you save your soul!'' Bnt.at my
words she would fly into a passion. She
wanted 70 es tabiish new religion and she
told me that she received messages from
spirits She knew we were tricking people.
but she tired 10 make US believe that spirits
existed. She told US that before we were
born spirits came into her room and told
her that we were destined for great
things But we knew when to rap eyes"
or mo- according TO certain signs she
made Us during the seance. After my
marriage my sister Katie still kept up the
heances- She. had many wealthy patrons
here IN New Yorl1-ME. Livermore, a
wealthy banker, and a Dr. Gray, we'll
known homeopaih bic physician They used
70 have regular meetings privately and
Kate was the medium
have seen so much miserable deception
that am willing TO assist II any way and to
positively state that Spiritnallsnl is fraud
OF the worst description / do so before
my God. and my idea is to expose it. l de-
s2ised H. lneyer want to lay eyes on any