St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-13
SP00KS AT LARGE.
They Give a Banquet to Peo-
pie Still in the
Body.
Phantoms Cut the Cake and
Pour Out and Pass the
10 Refreshments.
A Strange Visitation--It Was
- the Ghost of His
ba Father.
Tricks the Imagination May
and Does Play on Nerv-
Gus Bodies.
Pittsburg Dispatch.

! Plt.sDurg DlSpatcn.
RS. BLISS, the
Rv noted spiritual
AA ! istic medium,
| who has been in
| this city f O
| I@1W @ jsome time, last
| S~ N38 S evening gave a
( sn reception to her
| VA Ek ~ spirit guides. or
| IL Tx the peOpl e
| EtIAT whose company
N she has found
| 49, most cOngenial
spiritually IN her many seances in this
vicinity. The reception was held in the
! parlOrS of William C. Kr0eger, No. 232
Franklin street. Allegheny, and the
work OF the medium was certainly Won
derful. A number of well-known skep-
tics were present, and were astOunded
at what they saw and heard.
For the past several years Mrs. Bliss
has been holding the spirit receptions
on Christmas evenings. Some weeks
ago she sent out invitations to number
OF Well-Known people, and every one re-
| spOnded.
There were about forty persons pres
| emf, and their amazement knew no
| bounds.
| The cabinet was beautifully deco
| rated with evergreens. flowers, etc. A
bouquet for each spirit guide, with his
| or her name upon it, stood upon table.
| In the center of the table was 4 large
| cake.
After the guests had been seated the
the first number of the seance was
| given. The first spirit to appear was
that of Capt. William T. Hodges. Ad-
vancing to the front of the cabinet. the
spirit picked up a large carving knife.
which lay upon the table, and proceeded
to cut the cake. H&cut it into num-
Der of pieces, and then disappeared.
Pipes and tobacco were then placed
upon the table for the Indian chief
Little Wolf" The spirit of the latter,
however, did not materaliZe, and this
part OF the programme was the one fail
ure.
The following named spirits appeared
in succession: 'Miss Alice Brooks"
Josephine" Billie. the Bootblack,'
"Queene. "''Helen, "'Lucile Western
ami ''Blueflower," the Indian girl
Frank KrOeger, a son of William c..
had bottle of "Golden Wedding"
whisky for Mother Mccarthy. an Irish
woman's spirit. She appeared,
i POURED OUT THE LIQUOR
and passed it to Mr.. Fleming, of Wood
street, and to John II. McElroy, and
they tasted the liquor. After the cake
had been carved Lucille Western ap-
pearei and gave piece of it to Allen
the cake on the end of knife, and,
being tall woman, held it out of reach
of Mr.. Price, who tried to reach it, but
could not do so. Mrs. Bliss is very
short woman, and could not, it is be-
lieved, have held the cake so high, even
if there had been any deception prac-
ticed. 1t showed plainly that the spirit
was not standing on anything elevated.
She raised one of her feet and showed
the audience that she had both feet on
the floor. The audience felt sure then
that it was not Mrs. Bliss who had held
the cake alOft.
The spirit of DR.. Hostetter appeared
during the reception and was recognized
by number of people in the audience.
He vanished before the audience could
do anything with him.
At the conclusion of the seance ban
quet was given by the medium, without
the further Attendance of the spirits.
A Horrible Dream Realized.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
About ninetyy years ago there -four
ished in Glasgow club of young men
whose extreme dissipations earned for
it the name of the "Hell Club" Be-
sides their regular meetings they held
one grand saturnalia of drunkenness
and blasphemy a year, and one of
the leading spirits of this was
a young man named Archibald B.,
a brilliant and handsome fellow.
One morning after returning
from one of these carOusalS, B. retired
and dreamed that he was mounted OH a
favOrite black horse and was proceed
ing towards his own house, when
stranger stopped him and said; you
must 90 with me-" He tried to escape.
but was powerless, and in his efforts to
escape was thrown from his horse, and,
instead of striking the earth, felt him
a great distance, and, observing the
stranger at his side, asked: "Where
are you taking me?"
''To hell" replied the stranger.
At length light appeared and soon
increased in blaze: but, instead of hear
ing cries and groans, as he expected, he
was met with sounds of mirth, and
found himself in front of building
within which was a scene of revelry and
where every amusement of earth was
carried on with vehemence that eX-
cited his unutterable amaZement.
He soon perceived that he was among
old acQuaintanceS whom he knew to be
dead. and each, he observed, was pur-
suing the object that had formerly en-
crossed him. Finding himself relieved
of his conductor, he ventured to address
his former friend, Mrs. D., whom he
saw sitting, as had been her wont on
earth, absorbed at loo, and requested
her TO introduce him to the Measures of
the place. which appeared to be eX-
tremely agreeable. With cry of agony
she answered that there was no rest in
hell, and the cry of her companions
took up the cry, NO rest in hell!'
while, throwing open their vests, each
disclosed in his bosom an ever-burnlng
fire. These. they said, were the flames
of hell In the midst of this scene his
returned and restored him to
y,lfis bed with the warning: ''Remem-
Der in year and day we meet again."
At this crisis he woke up, and from
the effect of his dream was obliged tc
keep his bed for several days, resolving,
however. to abandon his wild life. lie
was no sooner well, strange to relate,
than his companions won him over,
feast, year later, he took part; and, to
drown his intrusive thoughts, drank
deeply. In the dawn of the morning he
mounted his horse and started for home.
Some hours afterward his horse was
found quietly grazing by the wayside,
and short distance away was the corpse
OF b.
This story is no fiction, and the cir
cumstances as detailed actually oc-
cured.