Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-23
"a SLATE WRITER'S LECTURE.
Dr.. sIade. the sDlrituaIIst, Takes a Trip
Around the WOrId-host OF the Crowned
Heads Practice spiritualIsm.

Dr.. SIade, the sDlFituaIist, Takes q Trip
Around the WOrId-Most Of the Crowned
Heads Practice sDirituaIIsm.
DR.. Henry Slade, the weIl-known slate
writing spiritua1ist delivered another of
his lectures upon that subject last evening
in Imperial Hall. The audince was mostly
made up of believers in spiritualism, there
being apparently no skeptics present. The
talk was on a trip around the world, taken
by the doctor several years ago. 1t was full
OF entertaining experiences in various parts
of the globe. During his lecture, DR.. Slade
said:
"The majority of our statesmen and
crowned heads of Europe are spiritualists.
A great many people of this country claim
that it is none but soft heads and ignorant
people that believe in spiritualism. This
only shows their ignorance of the subject
Fools cannot become spiritualists. 1t takes
brains, spirit and intelligence TO be one. I
was born medium, and was compelled to
accept the knowledge given me.
While in st. Petersburg was sitting one
day upon chair with my eyes closed when
1 saw approaching before me q vision. /
saw box OF Jewels, containing nine pieces,
set with diamonds, etc. remarked what
saw to my servant, who said somebody will
probably make you present No, re-
replied. Somebody has lost that box and
they will want me to find it. Two days
later a rap came to my door. My servant
went out and box was handed in. 1t was
the identical box saw in the vision. I only
made one mistake. That was in the cuff
buttons. which had not described accur-
ately. I still have the box and jewels,
which were presented me by rich believer
in spiritualism.
The speaker then told of a number of
private seances he held in the university at
Berlin. He told a story of holding box
containing coin over a slate. Without
looking at the coin, he saw it was marked
1876. he held slate under the box, and
without any effort on his part, the coin
passed through the bottom of the box to the
slate. He claimed there was no sleight of
hand performance, and the box is still on
exhibition in the Berlin University.
He told another story of being afflicted
with hip paralysis while on board ship on
his way to San Francisco. He said: "The
best physicians in the city pronounced me
incurable. I began to shrink until my left
side was like piece of cloth. A spirit doc
tor called on me and whispered that he was
spiritualist. ordered him out Of the
room and told him if he had not the cour-
age of his connections to go out and
proclaim to the world that he was al spirit
ualist I would rather die hundred times
than be cured by coward. These kind of
sneaks have done the power harm by being
afraid to acknowledge what has been given
them. heard of a man by the name of
McClelland who was an electrical phenom-
enon. He was in bad repute among the
people there and sent for him. He told
me that he could not do me any good. I
had vision in which was told that
McClelland could cure me. was ordered to
be treated twice by him, once upon the 10th
and again upon the 18th of the month. 1t
was not dream, but revelation. 1 told
DR.. McClelland that he would cure me on
the night of the 18th, but he did
not believe me. The first time he
treated me I showed no signs of
and thought he was
going to fail. Upon the second night
took off all my clothes with the exception of
my trousers, and under the influence of Nc
Clelland 1 went into trance. All of
sudden my paralyzed limb drew up with
spasmodic jerk, few out and struck the
doctor in tie cheek, almost knocking him
down. called for pencil and wrote my
name, something had been unable to do
for months 1 had my niece play me the
Highland fling, and in my stocking feet I
danced to the tune of the music. This is
only one of the many cures have come
across that were entirely due to spiritual
ism."