Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-09
IT TAXES CREDULETY.
Some of the Marvellous Things Re-
ported From Cassadaga Lake.
CASE OF A LINESyILLE LADY.
The Correspondents Experience With
Keller, the Slate Writer.
ANSWERS FROM AN UNSEEN POWER

CASSADAGA LAKE, N. T., aug. o.
The Spiritualists in convention here are
having q lively time of it. Your CORE
spondent has heard of many wonders here
that concern persons he knows are credible
and intelligent. A lady from Linesville,
Pa, Mrs Cher, had an engagement with q
ing question for herself, asked her friend,
Miss Gushing, of Cochranton, to write one.
Miss Cushing did so, folded it up closely
and gave it to Mrs Cher, who carried it to
the medium without looking at it or know
ing what it was. Holding the question in
her hand and the states in her lap there was
written this answer to the question:
"Maggie-You did not know me in this
mortal life, but 1 knew you.
edward CUSHING"
Below the answer were the words, 'Fire!
Fire! Fire!'' and drawing of fire engine
rushing to fire with drawing of a man
being crushed underneath the wheels. Mr..
Cushing had been killed in such manner
20 years before and when his daughter was
too young to remember him.
A MATRIMONIAL TANGLE.
Inc next case Is one IN whicn M5s; Maud
plahe is .ie ncun "a ,Iu! aliu nc. t.us
OAHU; u tieaus M me,s W nSi ~. Isj dsistns
Inc lauy ls teLiaI anu nel Huspanu
a onitarlan' Doth Iao cen nnafrieu pe-
lore, put no sne on lne grounos was aware
OF the lact. AS sooh as Lhe heui1n nau
gone lhto d .ranos G oohui.ioh sne s'iu W Ine
from the spirit world vino wished to see
him and then she proceeded to describe
I'm " 'te h; ininuSI sIo u; -. ' . Ill IT, ~
., ste rn i;f 4mmedioisIr esEi af,ar az this
Saay.o w sLo w t,,r.d 80 thn Iadr I'D ia
II tn ,';sbas n 20 snaaL 20 rau hnt ba ,rnMiS
FL a. so1tlarr,or ,,-sson. ~ Iaara A.
IKE tne gehtienian present. W leave 'ne
roonI. l,
as soon as 'le husoanu iuSsa ~ Hems Tu. ens
eolum gra;pea 'ns s.I naay manu- au Sha A,Iseu 1her
IL seVerai tines anectionateiy; ohe theh
described the lady nrS, nesoana as MIN nuIely
as she mad the husband 1rst wl1e ana tnen
said; He is your husband and his father
ana orotheT are also there. anu MS mother
too! asked tne laoy.
NO, said tne lneolum, sne is at nome
on tne oio larm' WHICH, ny the way was
true'
LOOKING AFTER HIS RING.
r,ho ,,,od;,,r, oo,+;,r.d. uu. s.rs ba
,-o,,tS 80 soa Ia.i, y IaoL ,vos tbe nsn,e "a
tha i;t+io son He ,ben aslod tbronab tba
I;.' s.e S'..i :. H. - -; @
n,,os III" Iod,, ,intoS ,ne I' 4e itS ason sape
w. So ~ ~ IL n,oSirn, so;d. tcUss tcUs
on sars ritt tbat = not I tbe ono Innon tha one
ehs eSss t La 10 ~; ;U;.;aI. nnd 60 ot+; Ue
The lady then told where she had left it at
home, and on his asking what she intended
doing with II sne answered that she would
keep 1t Tor JACK; he sald tnat was rlght
ana an sald ne shouid De giao 70 meet ner again.
Inc laoy theh ASKED the meolum now long
1t mad DeeR since ner nrst nusnano had
passed from earth and after thinking mo-
ment said, Eight years and two days,
which was correct to.a day.
Mrs. Drake then said, "You have two
aunts on the other side"
"No, the lady insisted, II have but one
aunt who is dead.
Yes, the Medium insisted, you have
two, one you may not know, but your
mother WILL her name Is Charlotte;
Inc lady aiterward asked ner mother and
found she mad halt sister charlotte In the
spirit land On being asked Tor the name
OF the other aunt she SAID, Il do not get the
name, but thlnk over the names OF your
aunts and perhaps L can get 1t. The lady
went over some names mentally ana the IN
stant the name of her aunt came into her
mind the medium pronounced 1t.
In the course Of the conversation the me-
dunn said: Your husbands father seems
to have some trouble regarding some papers.
1t is his will; there seems to be dispute
over 1t, and such was the fact.
A sLATE-wRITING MYSTERY.
The next case shall give is an expert
ence of your correspondent, who has never,
so far as he knows, been charged with being
too credulous in spiritual affairs. 1 took
two states and went. as matter of curiosity
more than ANYTHING else, before the slate
writing medium. Keeler. He asked whether
I had the questions written. / said that I
had not. He then asked me to write from
two to eight questions, directing them to
some persons had known in life, but who
are now, as we say, dead, but as Spiritual
lists say 'who have passed out" L wrote
the questions, folding them up very tightly.
L had the states on INV knees. He asked me
to open them enongh for him to drop
in a piece of slate pencil which was
about as large as grain of wheat, and then
said for me to tie nv handkerchief around
them. 1 did so, and placed them on the
table before me, and we then talked awhile
on different topics In about 20 minutes
his face suddenly assumed a very earnest
and he said he thought the