The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-02-02

young spiritual divinity named Bright
Eyes was paying him marked attention;
and in short, he was getting along as COM
fortably as any young man could be ex-
pected to be under the circumstances. The
bereaved and doting father was delighted
10 hear IL; he declared that nothing was too
good for "Clin." From this time out Mr..
Carroll appears to have deYoted himself to
Mrs. Str, ker. Mrs. Striker removed from
her humble apartments in Brooklyn to
elegant quarters In New York; her house
became marked spiritual centre; seauces
we're held every day and every night, and
shekels rolled in by the bag-full Five
dollars q pop for communications with tho
lost husbands or departed wives; and weep
ing widows who waRtsd to know what
their future chances were In the matrimoni-
al market, were expected to come down
an extra two dollars and half. A year
passed by, and Mrs. Stryksr said that
"Cliff'' THAT was the son) was gsing to be
married to Bright Eyes; this met with the
old gentleman's herty approval, as he had
discovered himself, although he was sixty,
that it Is not good for man to be alone.
When Mrs. CaTrell found out that Mr..
Carroll was devoting to much attention to
Mrs. Str, ker, and that while Mrs. Stryker
was cutting around with Lyons silks and
three-piled velvet, she was having q hard
time. Thereupon Mrs. Carroll got her
mad up and kicked up lively shindy.
She made 1t exceedingly warm for Carroll
and somewhat lively for Mrs. Stryker, bat
Carroll was equal TO the occasion. The
spirits informed him his wife was crazy as
loon; be forthwith summoned couple Of
physicians and they interviewed the dis.
tracted wife, and two days after she was
dragged out Of her house and shut up in
lunatic asylum. Mr.. Carroll then moved
TO Mrs. Stryker's house, and a. the we'd
ding of his son with Bright Eyes approach
ed, he got up magnificent wedding invita-
tions and sent them to all his friends.
The house was bower OF flowers,
spiritual clergyman was found TO tie the
celestial knot, couple Of empty chairs.
wreathed in roses, were supposed to contain
| Ollh buu ASyCSs oh tnO COuipbh1
passed the chairs bowing to tho unseen
spooks, and the affair wound up with 3
magnificent supperAspiritual wedding
wound up IN q blsEs of glory.
After q time Mrs. Stryker announced
that son had been born to Bright Eyes
Cliff Nj. Carroll was ready to stand on
his head-he was grandfather; and the
priestess announced that the child would
be baptized in the middle Of the Falls of
Niagara. Mr.. Carroll hired special train
and carried up party of hundred spiritn-
al friends to witness the ceremony. Down
they went to the Horseshoe Fall; no one
but Mrs. Stryker saw the spooks. but she
saw them as plain as a pikestaf. Mean
while poor Mrs. Carroll was fast behiDd
prison bars in lunatic asvlum, and no
spooks were trying to help her out, though
Mr.. Carroll was spending her money like
water.
Opinions are divided as they were in the
case of O'Delia. Some swear that Mrs.
Stryker is true medium, haying double
actioned telephone communication with
the other side of Jordan; and many more,
equally profound, declare she is a fraud Of
the first water and ought to be sent to the
penitentiary. One thing 10 certain, Mr..
Carroll believes in her as firmly as Luther
Marsh did in Ann O'Delia Dis Debar.
Luther Marsh is not cured yet, and the
best thing now to do would be to have the
! four Of them 20 into partnership. They
would make spirit team that would make
Rome howl.
This, good people, is In the great city OF
, New York in the month Of January, 1889.
We are wont to make fun Of our Puritan
ancestors, and to deride their belief In
witches, and pride ourselves on our superior
intelligence In this year of grace, and yet at
that spiritual wedding and baptism were
doctors, lawyers and rich merchants tax.
; ing an active part in the ceremony. and
I when Madame Blavatzky gets back here
which she will shortly, the high priestesI
2 of Theosophy will haVe scores Of men and
' women in her train among the most gifted
: and intellectual of the land. Few men Of
the century more gifted than Lanrenc,
{ Oliphant, a gentleman and an accomplished
e scholar, yet he knelt At her feet like
E spaniel, and died believing in her as god
! dess.
{ There are plenty of spirltualsts here
8 men and women of the most unquestoneG
l intelligence and honor, who deprecate the
D yagaries of these so-called spiritual pro
D phets. Judge Daley, Mr.. Tics, Mr.
q Keddle, for many years superintendent o.
( our public schools, and many others equal,
prominent, but they are still unshaken ir
1 their spiritual belief, and we may 40 vel
I make up our minds that fpiritualism hal
i come to stay. That can't believe in Il
a may possibly be nothing to my credit, bu
l can't am, unfortunately, constituted
like Thomas the apostle. should wan
, to pat my hand in the wound, and ever
then should be apt 70 distrust the eyi
: dence Of my senses rather than believe IL
t any supernatural thing. But New Yorl
e offers very fine field for enterprisini
n mediums. The crop of fools is bountiful
Let them come and reap the harvest.
|, The end of a romance came suddenl,
t this week whose opening l watched will
e interest twenty-five years ago. 1t was II
i the spring of 1883 when a well to do frien,
y of mine rushed into my house, his face al
u beamIng with smiles, and Informed M
n that boy baby had been left the night be
Il fore upon his doorstep The gentleman
/. had no children of his own, so he recon
e mended his wife to adopt it, which abe did
" Years rolled on and the child grew apacs
d handsome, bright, intelligent, affectionats
, and all that son should be to his parents
The secret of his birth had been CAREFUL
d concealed from him, and be had so Woun
u himself around his adopted mothers hear
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