Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-22
SPIRITS CALLED UP.
Some Strange Manifestations at the
Cassadaga Lake SeanceS.
MEDIUMS WITH MANY CONTROLS.
REMARKABLE SLATE WRITINGS GIVEN

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vino publicly calls spirits by name and in.
troduces them to their friends in the audi,
ence, left on Thursday for her home in Bal
timore. Notwithstanding the open-mouthed
aStonishment with which her tests were re-
garded. one single case of intelligent table
rappIng in private parlor with three or
four good friends present would do more to
convince an honest, intelligent skeptic than
the hundreds of introductions of spirit
friends to earthly relatives by a test
medium, unless of different character than
any have been able to discover.
When Miss Gaule comes upon the plat
form she begins in this way, after passing
her hands over her ewes: ''Oh, L seem to
see so many spirits in this part of the
room' (pointing TO some particular spot),
''and one goes up to that gentleman with his
face on his hands and SAYS" etc Being
interested in knowing how a spirit looks
and sounds, your correspondent had a talk
with the medium in reference to this part
Of the subject Following is the interview:
CHARACTER OF A SPIRIT.
''NIiss Gaule, on the platform vou say l
see spirit; won't YOU please describe rs
clearly as you can what the appearance of a
spirit is?''
Eyes, sir; it looks just like person in
the flesh, except that sometimes part of
the BODY NAV seem Ike a mist and be indis-
Jinct. If body has been mangled the ap-
pearance Of the spirit NAV indicate it. y
"When YOU hear a spirit speak, clairau-
Gientlv as YOU call ii, how does the voice
sound 10 YOU? Is it a real sound or rather
an impression.
''Oh. ii is a real sound and seems Just as
ii the voice came from person i'll this life.
Sometimes YOU say the spirit seems to
BE- that of one who has passed out but re-
Cautlv, or a long time ago as the case NAV
be. Now, what distinguishes the one that
passed over wears ago from the one that
recently crossed oyer?"
Those that have but recently passed
over are weak and can hardly manifest
themselves
Flow do they appear to be clothed? In
the dress that they were buried in? Do they
come in shrouds?''
NO, not to me; though they appear to
some mediums in shrouds. They have come
to me and said: DO you know this old dress
that you saw many years ago?'
when a spirit desires YOU to speak to
some one for 1t how does it make the fact
kuown?"
1T comes up to me, and with both voice
HER SPIRIT CONNECTIONS.
As the subject seemed TO be one upon
which the lady did not seem anxious TO
converse the conversation was changed. She
has several controls in the spirit world, one
negro, under whose control she does not
wish to pass unless among but few persons.
One evening, however, while sitting on the
stage during some interesting performances,
her hands and feet suddenly began TO fly un-
Ill her heels on the floor sounded like clog
dancer. She then came to the front of the
stage and made a very good little speech in
negro dialect. When the trance passed off
she seemed very much ashamed and tried to
conceal herself behind those on the plat |
form. She, like many other mediums, |
claim so have control that they sometimes |
cannot resist, but are obliged to talk, sing
or dance at the pleasure of their spirit |
guide.
Mrs. Dr. See has several controls; one the |
Empress Josephine; another Jenny Lind. |
[ nder the Empress she is developing for |
speaker and under Jennie Lind's tutelare |
she hopes TO make vocalist. She declares |
that once the Empress came to her to show |
the stvie of dress she desired her to wear,
and at other times, while sitting in circle, |
her rings would be removed as an indica-
ton that the Empress did not desire her 10
wear iewelry. In answer to the query
about spirits appearing so far away from !
where they passed their earthly lite, they
say that time and space are not barriers
against spiritual presence, any more than
they are against thought.
NO SPIRIT PERFECTION.
SpiritualistS maintain that all is not per-
fcction on the spirit side, any more than it
Is over her; that We enter the future with
our bad dispositions, low desires etc, and
that they are cast off ONLY by the progress
sion that all there can make. 1t is claimed
that spirits over there may even write false
communications on states, give wrong i'm
presSions through table-tipping, etc.
For example, Meadville gentleman says
that one day his planchette, through spirit
control, informed him that his son, who
was playing ball in Pittsburg, had broken
his arm. He went to the telegraph office,
and learned that some spirit that had not
vet forgotten common earthly fault had
deceived him. There are other instances in
which it seems that spirits do plav tricks
upon each other, or else that progression is
sometimes backward. For example, a
prominent lawyer of Pennsylvania, who is
q sp!ritua!ist, tells me the following: He
question to an old friend in the
spirit land, who in his earthly life was very
choice in his language; a prominent men,
Der Of the Presbyterian Church, whom he
had never known to utter an oath or a word
Of slang He addressed him as follows:
DEAR FRIEND N.-Are you in heaven?"
Soon the writing was heard on the states,
and when it ceased the lawyer was surprised
10 find this answer:
DEAR FRIEND R-Of course am in
heaven. If am not in heaven, where in
- am I?''
VARIETY OF MEDIUMsHIP.
There are many different phases of me-
1iunShip, each having their own peculiar
phenomena to prove that spirits do return.
There are three or four materialiZinc me-
1iums where the forms of loved ones are de-
ciared to appear and talk with their friends d
and then vanish out of sight, going back
into the cabinet, as sometimes is said to |
be the case, gradually dissolving and disap-
pearing. Some spiritualists are satisfied
with no other phenomena but these, while
0thers do not believe in them at all
The largest class of mediums are the ones
who sit among those who wish to learn of
The beyond in a room in a circle, holding
1ne anOther's hands. These circles are
usually held in a darkened room. After
sitting some time, the medium goes into a
rance condition and proceeds to tell those
present what spirits are wishing to speak to !
lem. Some wonderful revelations are
made, if we may believe those who receive
he tests Your correspondent has thus far
leen obliged TO content himself with hear
ug others get satisfactory evidence
There are two trumpet mediums in the
amp. have visited but one, though / am
promised a sitting with the other, who is
Wiling TO take his trumpet and 90 to your
'wn room and hold the seance. This looks