The herald., 1893-02-13
THEYCLA|M TO TALK TO GHOSTS.
Some of the Features of a
Spiritualists' Seance.
A Series Of Silly Attempts to Cause
Mystificati0n.
The Regular Procedure of . Medium In
Attempting to Impress and Inter-
est an Audience of Credu-
lous People.

the oplrltuailets' meeting yesterday II
the Grand opera house hall.
A lady medium, dressed in black, VIII,
seemed uncertain of her own powers, an
nounced that she would give few test
OF yeading from articles the auditor
miaAt hand up.
Immediately there was a grand rusl
to the platform, and the table in front O
the medium was covered with gloves
handkerchief, poeketknives, rings
bracelets, bangles, empty pocketbooks
etc.
The medium clasped lady's gloves
between her hands, and after a moment
OF silent meditation che began to read
You are very sensitive lady; you par.
take OF the atmosphere of your sur
roundings. If you enter a room and the
! people do not impress you favorably
you leave that room with q kind of an
outraged feeling; or, if the surround
ings are pleasant. you are pleased. Is
that not so?"
As the medium paused for reply the
lady answered that such things did in
| fuence her.
"Some one else has worn this ring"
said the medium, holding up a lady's
| ring, doubtless thinking that there was
love story In 1t.
The lady shook her high hat.
"Well, you have q very dear lady
friend who sometimes wears ii. I see
two spirits here, but there is 90 much
magnetism in it that cannot exactly
describe the person."
"This lady is very ambitious" said
the speaker, holding out lady's pocket
handkerchief. "She starts out to do a
thing but does not exactly know how to
achieve 1t, and while she is thinking of
one thing something puts another idea
into her head and she follows that line
of thought, and"
Several ladies laughed knowingly and
looked around at each other to see how
many were struck.
The medium then picked up an empty
pocketbook. and said she could get
nothing-that is spirits, because
money, in passing through go many
hands, loses its magnetic powers. The
gentleman then handed her pocket
knife. He was told that he had large
mediumistic powers, but perhaps he did
not know it, and that near relative,
wearing chin.whiskers, who had crossed
to the spirit land aome time ago, stood
in the aisle waiting to be recognized--
whiskers and all. He recognized the
description, but evidently did not see
the spook.
"The owner of this glove has lost
dear relative within the past FIVE years."
said the medium.
81 do not recollect of boxing any!"
replied the lady.
of the other articles on the table," said
the medium, hedging. ''There are 80
many articles here that their magnetic
influences confuses me eome."
"The owner of this bracelet never
does anything direct, she invariably goes
round to the back door; she starts in
right, but go many things confront her
and thwart her that che has to proceed
by an indirect method"
The lady admitted that great many
things crossed her path in the course of
a lifetime, but she finally got there.
The lady in black subsidized, as the
conditions did not seem to be very
favorable.
The lady president announced that
there would be some music, and as she
saw a great many spirits in the room,
she would give a few tests, after the
musical tests.
"a spirit is standing in that aisle, near
the lady to whom it wishes to speak,"
said the medium as che began to call out
the spirits. "This spirit is tall and
slender, a lady relative; do you not
recognize her? She has something inn
portant to say and / can see that you
wish to speak-that something is press
ing upon you here"
The lady, who was rather tightly
laced, blushed and bowed her head, but
did not recognize the spirit.
II see q spirit in that aisle, just be-
hind that gentleman, about middle
aged, smooth face and wearing an old
fashioned stock cravat; he seems to be
q minister; his hands are crossed be-
hind his back and his head is bent for
ward as if in meditation. Do you
recognize the spirit?"
"It is my brother and he was min
ister," said the man.
After several other tests, bad and in
different, the man who had recognized
his brothers. spirit, arose and said to
the president that her test was correct.
"Do we recognize the brother aH q
professional ?" asked the medium.
"Several years ago followed the pro-
| feseion, but after getting into little
trouble ceased to follow it. Some 10
years ago, through the aid of spirits,
was instrumental in the arrest of the
notorious Pell brothers, the most dan
geerous counterfeiters known to the
country. Because of my clairvoyant
powers 1 was prosecuted, and theI
ceased to follow the profession"
This created email sensation among
the audience and no doubt somewhat
interested the spirits. The speaker con
tinued, giving at length his view of tht
| subject, and finally came to the point
81 profess to read character by the per
sons shoe. His boot 10 the seat of th'
brain, Just az much 30 az the head; tn,
shape of the head can be determined BY
the shape of the shoe. Now, If any on,
will introduce me on public platform
and give me shoe, / will read th'
character of its wearer."
This shoeology did not Heem to fi
very well, and, Notwithstanding his in
dorsement OF the mediums test, she de
cided that ''the trouble is, there is tot
much lecturing and not enough tests.
Another song was announced. Whel