St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-13

tliO pllCC NItilI iHdbbtI anu BIC dCCOlQ-
ingly went at once into a trance. |
should say that she did not permit
either of my friends to be present dur
ing the ceremony. We were IN cheap
~ furnished parlor OH the second floor.
There were an old-fashiOned piano, q
few chairs and q lounge In the room.
sat upon the lounge and she took my
hand tor moment, and then went
through various cOntOrtiOns and spas
modic movements, as II to show that
her nervous system was being very
hardly strained. or course, 1t was all
acting and very bad acting at that.
Presently she became apparently rigid,
and, with her eyes closed, she mum
bled:
Warned About stocks.
''fIoly Father, see this child kneeling
at the dismal tomb"
There were some other profane re-
marks or this character and then she
lnOaned something or other which /
could not grasp entirely, but it seemed
to be a hymn, for her voice rose and fell
in somewhat regular cadences, as il she
were attempting to sing. Then she
began to talk. For time she simply
rambled in discoursive way over many
topics, but all Of sudden she shouted
out the word, "Johnw | did not know
what to make of this, but judging from
her demeanor that she wanted to have
some kind of assent. l nodded. She
Immediately continued:
john Your brother is in great dan
ger!' and so on and so on. 1t happens
that L have no brother named John, but
presently she got down to business and
said:
Buy nothing, sign no notes and make
no transactions upon the dates of the
9th, the 18th and the Goth of any month
until the end of this year. Whenever
stocks are low hold on to them; you are
at present long Oh stocks that are de-
pressed; hang Oh to them, tor by and by
they will rise. Never sell your stocks
until they are three or four points at
least above the price that you paid for
them. What month were you born in?"
November" replied.
She shuddered horribly and con-
tinued-
TOO bad, too bad If you had been
born five minutes sooner you would
have been under lucky star. AS it is
you will be pursued by varying fortune.
You will be occasionally successful and
again you will be very hard hit. You
Will be up and down constantly in
to come out right"
PaIPably Ignorant.
thought that possibly Nine Clifton
might be informed about Wall street
matters, especially so as she had bOaSted
OF having many business men for Gus
toners. She said they came to her re-
peatedly for advice as to what stocks
they should buy or sell. In response to
my questions she showed a most la
mentable lack of knowledge relative to
the securities dealt in in Wall street.
All she could do was to reiterate advice
as to buying stocks when they were
low and selling when they were high,
all of which l noted mentally as very
sage advice.
Before she was through she came
around. of course, to the discussion of
my matrimonial affairs. She seemed
very certain that was deeply interested
in a brunette young lady, but she did
not tell me, as Nine. Dix had, how many
children l should be able to bring to
years of maturity. 1t was an interest
ing thing to note that both Nine. Dix
and Nine. Clifton accused each other of
being charlatans. Each one SAID that
the other would tell you either in trance
or through cards what you most desired
W CClllC W BdSS. L1lu CdCll OlIC.
larlY enough, spoke about MY gener-
osity, told me l was a good fellow and
spent money freely, and would reward
those who assisted me on the road to
fortune. Each one quoted examples of
men who had been benefited by her
prophecies and had given her a bonaS,
sometimes as much as $780, Neverthe-
less. in spite of the fact that Nine. Cliff
ton quoted her price for trance at S5.
managed to beat her down to 81, which
she seemed very glad to get.
After this l called upon the we'll
known medium Fletcher, at No. 2GS
West FOrty-third street. Fletcher, un-
fortunately was not in, but like the rest
he appeared to do good deal of busi-
ness, and had very interesting chat
with his business manager. This bust
ness manager is very interesting study
| cannot quite determine whether he is
Self-decelyed young man or whether
he is very clever SWindler. He told
me very frankly that although he had
been in spirltualism 'for business pur-
poses" for nearly fifteen years he had
only received three "teSts' that were
satisfactory to him, and one of these was
given by the notorious Slade, who has
been exposed time and again.
Tricks Admitted.
This young business manager seemed
to be man of brains. Seemed to be;
he is man of brains without doubt.
And it was very interesting to hear him
talk about Mr.. Fletcher'S powers while
he himself openly admitted that tricks
were used to interest the ordinary
patrons of the establishment. [ had
been at Mr.. Fletcher's lecture in Adel-
phi hall last Sunday when he pretended
to give messages from the simple basis
of handling a paSr of gloves or watch
or other similar belongings of people in
the audience. The business manager
said that this work was done by what
he called ''psychrometric readings"
Psychrometric is big word, and it GER
tainly means nothing, and the business
manager for Mr.. Fletcher admitted as
much when he Said:-
''Mr. Fletcher uses the term simply as
a definition for what he does, and the
people take it in.'
1t is possible that the young man
meant psychometric readings, which in
itself might be term defin able under
the laws of etymoIogy. But over and
over again he repeated that eXtraOrdi-
ary word with that uncomfortable ''r''
interposed in the middle of it. which
threw the meaning, whatever it may
have, entirely into obscurlty. The
business manager said that he was there
for business reasons only, and he also
said that Mr.. Fletcher was busy almost
night and day in satisfying his clients.
All this shows, think, not only how
prevalent is the spirtualstic superSti-
ton in our community, but at the same
time how easily the fiends who work on
that supersttution make a fat. living
out of it at the expense of pltiable
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