The morning call., 1892-01-17

MoHie Faucber as she is today.
thought to be simply the fmazinincs Of a
diseased mind But later they were con-
ITmcd by the testimony Of the absent ones.
After that she was more closely watched.
At times she would start mp in bed as
though shocked by an electric battery. Her
body would become rigid, sometimes in
sitting POSITION, with her hand pointed
hrayrnWaTd. and again with the hand out
stretched, as # invoking silence Her face
Was that Of corpse, sometimes smiling
sometimes set with a stare Of horror In
this frozen state Of trance she would tell of
The movements Of distant people and Of
what size saw In fax away countries.
Il was not long before these manifesto
tiOns became uoi,ed aboutam0ug the friends
Of Miss FsncheT. She was intensely seuSl-
tive on the subject, however, and 10 was a
long time before she wCUlJ even allow her
friends 10 see the operations or Ter powers
or talk OF them. After time she admitted
tntimltes O. her confidence, aud eventually
permitted scientists and cleTzymen to test
her power under tie promise that these tests
should not be made public.
Among the scores Of men or prominence
who investigated tie marvellous powers Of
Miss Mol - these were tie most prominent
and exhaustive in their researches: The
Rev. Dr. JoSrp0 l. DgrYea, the Rev. Dr.
Henry j. Van DycK, Professor Charles +.
West George ". Benson; Henry NJ Park
hurst the astronomer; the Rev Dr. Prime
and Dr. r. Fleet Speir. or these Dr. Speir
and Professors West and Parkhurst have
taken VUlumI nous memoranda. which viii
te published after tile death Of Miss
FaBcher.
The tests applied by the scores Of men
who visited Miss Fa0obeT would fill vol
ume. One Of the earliest manifestations Of
her power was the ability to see friends
approaching the house While still blocks
away. An this time she was blind. She
would say: | see - closing his desk in
his Office in New York" Then at inter-
walls she would continue: He has taken
the Fulton Ferry. Now he has taken a
Gates-avenue car. He has jumped of at
Gates avenue aud IS coming this way. He
IS near the corner now; look out and beckOn
to him." The person in the room would
look out the window and see the gentleman
whose movements M0ilie described, aud the
accuracy Of the description would be VeTi-
fed by him. Every day, and often dozen
times a day, she would announce some one
IN the room, the approach Of the postman.
or Of some friend long before the dO0T-beil
rang
a new power was discovered one day,
when she announced the approach Of the
poStman. He has a letter for me from
-," she said, j4yfully. The letter was
from the person she had named; and she de-
mRnded II the moment her aunt entered the
room. She run her thumb rapidly across
the envelope, and then repeated, word for
word, the contents Of the letter This
power Of reading the contents Of sealed
letter she seemed to cultivate until in
short time II was not necessary Tor her to
pass her hand over the envelope, but she
could read It instantly as il was brought
into the room. The power became more
extended every day, until she could read
book or newspaper, unopened and lying
IN any part OF the room.
She was always industrious, and one day
EFf an nr n Hn md md h.ar
paTently idle. Why, MOlle." he exclaimed,
lit is unusual IN see you doing nothing"
"Oh, I'm reading" she replied. Where is
your book?" he asked. Here, under the
covers" answered Molie, pulling out
book. Il was a familiar one to the visitor,
and Mollie talked of the contents in a way
that showed she had read Il carefully.
One day tde dOOJ-bell rang while her aunt
was ~ the room, and MOllle exclaimed
why, It's Uncle Ike. But how sick he
looks. He must have consumption" Mrs.
Crosby was mystiGed, but hurried down to
the door. and saw a mptive-lOoking
man there whom she did not recognize.
Explanations showed that he was her
brother, who had gone to California before
Mulies accident. He was then a very TO
bust man, but had contracted consumption,
aud had wasted away 80 that his own sister
aid not know him. but VI lie did.
The Rev. Dr.. Duryea, VINO was pastor OF
the CasS0n-ayenue Presbyterian Church at
kub ttu.ts went 10 see -1lSo Il AuCtltI IN COtll-
pany with Mr.. Benson. As the latter en-
tered the room he said. "MOilie, who is this
with me?" Miss Fancher made move
ment as If from mental effort and replied,
''Oh. its Dr. Duryea."
She then told Of having seen DR.. Duryea
talking 10 her aunt on the street the week
before, and recalled incidents Of the con-
YersatlOn that were verified by Dr.. Duryea.
The doctor was convinced Of MOilie's pos
session OF tie strange powers attributed to
her, aud frequently mentioned her in his ser
mons. lie advanced the theory that owing
to her physical condition her mind or spirit
had burst the confines OF the material body,
and being freed was governed By higher
laws than was known tOthe average mortal.
Professor PsTkhurst of Brooklyn, who
was very skeptca, thought that Miss
FaDcher was simply a mind-reader until lie
investigated. His first test was to pick a
letter, which he had not read, from the
Waste-basket of a friend, tear it into
ribbons and carefully seal it in an
envelope Miss Fancher passed her
hand rapidly across the envelope, and
wrote out the contents Of the letter.
Then the professor prepared another
test. lie took an old report of a
mining company cut IL into minute pieces,
threw some Of these on the floor, and gave
the balance 10 a friend He sealed them in
an envelope, and two other friends placed
il in twO other envelopes, and the last one
was handed TO Miss FanCher She instantly
said the contents were nonsense, but wrote
out what was there, and the pieces thrown
on the floor, fitted 10 what she had written
out. made the report perfect
The first indication that the strange
power was returning to Miss Fancher was
when her attendeut, an intelligent French
woman, entered her room a couple OF weeks
ago, and while arranging the covers of the
bed that Miss Fancher had occupied for
twenty-six years, was startled by the re-
mark: Il hear Professor Vests terrible
cough. lie is coming to see me-" The
French woman had heard no cough. and
hurried q ownstairs 10 see the Professor
He was not there, and she had just about
concluded that Miss Mollie WAS a victim Of
a delusiuD, when tie door opened and Pro-
lessor West walked in. As he entered the
store on the ground floor he was coughing
violently.
The French woman was puzzled, Sne
had heard vague rumOTs Of this wonderful
power Of second sight, bun as she had never