The Washington critic., 1890-02-23
OCCULT MR.. ROSCOE.
HIS ALLEGED MEDiUMlSTlc POWERS
ARE INVESTIGATED.
He Forms Jefferson Davis, General
Grant and Abraham Lincoln In
Handle -Ciasping Circle, and Coos
Back TO the Days of the Pharaohs.


| saw an advertisement in the Pest
couple of weeks ago announcing that
DR.. +. II. Roscoe, Rhode Islands cee.
brated clairvoyant, who has given sittings
Tor Congressman, Senators, Presidents, and
| statesmen, as well as men OF science and
professors of colleges ana universities, Is
now located at 1905 l. street northwest,
| where he may be consulted between the
hours OF IL to- aud . to q daily except
Sundays.
Being interested in investigating the
| phenomena of occult science, called
at the house mentioned one afternoon
and was received by a und-eyed wo.
man, who informed me that the Doctor
was engaged, but would be at leisure in
a few moments. After brief convcr-
sation about the weather and the eli.
mate of Washington the Doctor ap-
peared. He was pretty young man,
with white teeth and pompadourcd hair
arrayed in q snowy cloth dressing gown.
| Il have often wondered what association
there could be between velvet breakfast
jackets or elaborate dressing gowns and
the spiritual world, for all the male high
priests of the latter that have ever seen
have been arrayed in either one or the
other) He invited me into the back
parlor, and requested me to be seated
at one side of small stand, while he
seated himself at the other side. He
smiled sweeily and remarked, "My
terms for gentlemen are three dollars. /"
produced the amount, and the Doctor
pocketed it without delay. II do not
charge for what you may get. would
not be allowed by my CONTROLS TO do
so. but only for my time" (The
young woman had informed me that
sitting was three dollars for a
gentleman and two dollars for lady,
and | now began to wonder why his
time was worth one-third more when oc-
cupied by q gentleman than by lady.)
Il will try to explain my method as
clearly as possible. | shall go into q
trance and be controlled by one of the
following - -" He ratified Off
the names Of sages, scholars, foreigners,
actresses and Indians. "They will un-
fold TO you the book of your life-not
onl y telling you the past and present
but unfolding the future. When
shall cease speaking you may ask any
questions you wish. will thank you
to make few downward passes over
my face, and when you have finished
your interrogatories please reverse the
motions to enable me to come out of
my trance"
He closed his eyes, | made the
downward passes, he gave couple of
short gasps like chicken swallowing
very large morseD, and began in the
loveliest falsetto voice Git would have
done credit to a Musio): my friend. /
am carried back to the happy days of
your childhood, when life ran smoothly
rs the placid stream between its green
banks, sparkling in the sunlight aud
rejecting every beautiful tree and
flower on its margin and each fleecv
cloud that floats in the blue ether above.
Oh! happy time! How little appre.
ciated while it is still ours, q time of
in-no cence, happiness and freedom
from care | will now pass onward
over the path of your life, even to the
present time. My friend, you have
had some troubles, but your life as
whole has been remarkably free from
care. You have travelled extensively and
will travel still more. $50 true. / have
made several trips TO New York and
been TO Alexandria lots of times; or
perhaps my daily trips to Takoma Park,
where / live, are considered by the
| spirit world as extensive iravel) You
are thinking about a change of bust
ness and wondering if it will be for the
best | say it will. | see many books
and papers and letters innumerable.
My friend, | see two dark clouds (here
he became decidedly pathetic in voice
and manner, sort of I'm sorry for
you tone); one opens and see in it
the form of an old lady-no! not old l.,
for her face is illumined by the smile of
eternal youth, AS the other opens |
see the form of an old man, with flow
ing gray hair, who leans upon staff.
These are not relatives, but dear friends,
who Will pass away within year. Il
swan to gracious | don't know an old
man with flowing gray hair. who leans
on staff. He must have imagined
was friend of old Grimes.')
There arc many friends around you.
On so many; not only those of your
| relatives and friends, but of those who
form your band, for you are very medi-
umistic. You have wonderful healing
powers. | see men of science. learned
doctors, philosophers and poets around
you; statesmen and military men. |
see the form of Jefferson Davis, of Gen
eral Grant and Abraham Lincoln.
They are claspiDg hands and forming q
solemn compact that they will forever
work together for the benefit of hu.
manlty. see near you fine, noble
looking military man, a general, and
you must have been very intimate with
him while in the earth sphere, for he is
drawn very close to you. (He must
have been promoted since he passed
over) | hear the names of Frank and
George, of Susan and Rebecca, of Mary
and Henrietta"
My hands were lying on the table be.
tween us, my right nearly covering the
left, on which had large cameo cut
with head, said to be Augustus Caesar.
1t was cut in Rome probably about
twenty years ago. He continued: 81
see, my friend, that you wear q very
curious ring (he must have been peep.
ing); it takes me back to the dim ages
of the past, to the days of Egypt
under the Pharaohs there | uncovered
my left hand little more TO give him
better view; | am carried to Rome; /
feel the influence of Lucretius-and
oh what an influence he is creating
over you My friend, the coming four
years of your life will be the most
happy of any you have passed. You
will not die by violence, or by acci-
dent, but your life will be long, and
when the appointed time comes for you
to pass to this side, it will come grad.
ually, like the going out of a candle
that has burned down in its socket and
expires when fully consumed, Now
my friend, you may ask me any ques,
tions you wish"
@. Who is this to whom / am
speaking?
A. Charlotte Cushman.