The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-27
FIFTEEN FAT SPOOKS
TRoTTED OUT IN TIE DARK FROM
a VERY FAT MEDIUMS CLOSET.

Size Unvarying, Age Ranging From 9
Months to 90 Ysars-Recognized
Afar in the Dark by Relatives With
Cats Ely es.
From the Neto York Sun.
Spooks varying in age from months to
% years, but OF uniform weight-about
240 pounds-gamboled over the stage in
Adelphi hall last night and kissed and
shook hands with their earthly relatives.
1t was grand testimonial benefit. of the
First Society Of Spiritualists. Mrs. NJ. E.
Williams, medium, managed it. Two
hundred men and women paid dollar each
to see it.
The ghosts came on In the third act. Mrs.
Effie Morse, who induced them to come, is
a rival of Ann O'Delia In the matter Of
plumpness. Mrs. Williams, who is also a
well-fed woman, made a little speech In
which she said that naturalization in public
was matter of experiment only, and that
she would not promise ghosts for
certain. She directed that the lights be
turned down.
The cabinet was a wooden frame COVERED
with black cloth. 1t was protected cahi-
net-that is, employees of Mrs. Morse stood
could get near it. The lights were low
enough for Mrs. Morse to get In and out
again without being seen. Mrs. Williams
directed the organist to play hymn tunes
and the audience TO sing.
An old and experienced spiritualist who
sat behind Sun reporter SAID that earthly
music was seductive to spirits. They got
tired of the tum tum of the golden harps
and liked to listen to the strains Of an organ,
and they materialized better when the
organ played.
The audience sang NEARER My God, to
Thee" "Beulah Land,n and other Hymns
for fifteen or twenty minutes. All that
could be seen on the stage were the figures
OF two men patrolling up and down in front
OF the cabinet. Ii was so dark that they
could hardly be distinguished.
Then bit of white showed between the
curtains. The music stopped and every eye
was strained toward the cabinet. The
sound of a squeaky female voice was heard.
The men stopped patrolling, and one of them
announced that the spook was Mamie" and
that ''she wanted to see her father"
A bearded man rushed up to the platform
and then the spook showed itself. It was
short and stout, like the medium, and it
glided with the grace Of an Ann O'Delia.
The bearded man threw his arms about it
and kissed it as he murmured me child"
Then he turned to the audience and said:
This is the spirit of me daughter Mary,
who died when she was nine months old. l
recognize her by marks on her."
Besides gaining in weight, The child had
learned the language. She whispered, loud
enough TO be heard all over the room:
Papa, Pm glad you are here. Where is
| Flossie?"
Then she faded away into the cabinet ana
the father made his way back to his seat
The audience sang, "There's a land that
is fairer than day. and the curtain moved
again aud spook two came out. 1t was also
daughter and wanted a papa. One was
found in the audience
He said the girl had died when she was
u. That was ten years ago. He embraced
and kissed her. She was the same size aud
build as 9-months-old No. l. She tioated off
into the cabinet and another hymn was
sung. Spook three came out looking for
Mr.. Drake. She was Mrs. Drake, who had
passed to the spirit world year before.
A man, who said he was Mr. Drake,
hopped up on the platform and went
through the same motion as the two papas
Then he turned to the audience and an
nounced that there was no mistake-the
spook before him was bis wife, Mrs Will
Jams said that Mr.. Drake recognized her
too, and the spook went back while more
hymns were sung.
Spooks 4, and came in quick success
sion. The faces Of none could be seen. but
the outlines OF ths form were always the
same. No. z tottered out of the cabinet.
''She was o. when she died" announced
one of the men. ''She is looking for her
son."
She staggered around aud made remarks
about the weather with trembling voice.
$50 strange, so strange" she murmured.
Yes" said Mrs. Williams, consolinplv.
its been so long since you were on earth
that you are frightened. We're your
friends, though" and she took hold of the
aged spook's arm until man who was max
ing frantic efforts to get to the platform
succeeded. 1t was healthy smack the old
lady gave him when he got there, and then
he called out: "Hello, Johnny"
Hello. granny" answered a man from
the audience.
Granny disappeared in the cabinet. Spook
8 came out as much like gale Of wind as a
24O-pound spook could come. She whistled
as she came.
THAT'S my wife Eliza, /" said a man in the
front row. When she had reached the plat
form he said:
mo. it's my daughter, passed to the great
beyond now year.
Both ladies, It appears, could whistle. IL
took two hymns to get No. out of the
cabinet. 1t was the first and only male
spook Of the show. It looked lust like the
ger, and was looking for its mother. She
she came up and clasped 1t to her bosom,
murmuring: my boy" Her boy left her
at once and No. 10 appeared and called for
her husband. He was on the spot In an in
slant, embracing her. She said she would
bring him picture next time she came.
No. IL wanted "mother and Flossy," and
two women went upon the platform. Mrs.
Williams said the light might be turned up
little. The spook showed her ample pro-
portions to better advantage. but her face
could not be seen. The other spooks that
had appeared had also lacked faces.
The light was turned low again and she
disappeared in the cabinet. Four other
spooks came out, one at a time, after that,
and then Mrs. Williams announced the end
OF that part Of the show.
Slate writing was taken up The trick
was done in clumsy fashion by Mrs. Mott
knight. The inspirational singer, who had
been sitting beside the piano waiting for
the spirit TO move her, sat down at the
piano and sung something. The spirit that
controlled her couldn't make living on
earth now.
Before the seance closed Mrs. Morse ap-
peared at the cabinet curtain, not much the
worse for wear.
VENGEANCE OF A DOG.
Translation of Cuban Tragedy Made