The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-12

pileu. IT Oilen CCtS, anu IOT tHi
reason First, thoughts are things l
man can be mesmerized, or what W,
call now by pnotized. by the will anc
thought-power of an individual, wha
will naturally be the effect upon sen
sitive person who is easily hypEo;izec
by the spirit when he finds the menta
powers of several skeptical persons ART
turned right against him. and their in
fiuence is thrown all around? Anyon,
who has studied the subject Will a
once see the effect
False Mediums.
81 think there is large number o.
false mediums, who pursue the calling
principally for money. But they car
be detected by insisting on what i.
called test conditions Say 10 them:
am not sl1eptic. l am perfectly will
ing that this phenomena shall be true
and l am willing 20 accept It but
want to investigate it and ] want yor
to accept test conditions If they will
not accept such conditions have nothing
to do with them
Although many mediums pursue
the calling for money, think larger
mum Der do not and are not known &c
the world at all
Spiritualistic Phenomena.
'It is my belief that nearly every
thing has been done which Spiritualists
claim to have been done; that is to say,
/ believe in the posi- bility of all of the
phenomena claimed by the Spiritual.
lists. But / do not admit that any.
thing like such actual phenomena 90.
ours as the most credulous of the Spir.
itualists claim There is deception and
fraud connected with Spiritualism
which comes from the desire of tbs
people to turn it to money making adj
vantage. I have seen, however, what
to my mind, was nunmistakaoie man
Hesitation of nearly every phase OF
phenomena claimed by Spiritualists
have seen independent slate-writing.
gicians, may criticise this phenomena
as they see fit, but undertake to say
that it is absolutely impossible for them
to initiate it, or produce anything like
it under the same conditions II they
will come here and allow me to take
my own states and put them down on
that ia Bile, one on top of the other, .
piece of slate pencil between the two,
the states held together with my hand
on top-if they will write on those
states while am holding them there l
will give them 81. 900. But they must
not touch them / have seen slate
writing done under such conditions.
Once the writing was over the
name of my father, and another time
over the signature of deceased sister
of my wife. There were two separate
handwritings My father had been
dead a bout thirty years and died long
distance from the place where this phe-
nomena presented itself. My wife's
sister had been dead fifteen years, and
it was utterly impossible for
the medium in this case to
have known the name of either.
Then l have seen hand produced in
the broad sunlight, without the aid OF a
ca binet, in room containing five win
dows, the blinds being open. On that
occasion l was sitting at the ta BILE with
two other persons. / have seen naked
hand, without an arm to it produced oe-
fore me. In the presence of five per-
close by my side, without any cabinet
or any preparation, or any idea that
there was going to be anything ike
that phenomenon presented while we
were sitting at table. | have seen
the form of human being slowly shape
itself from a sort of etheriZed suo-
stance of lightish color until it took on
the form of a person. with a body,
Iimb bs and head, finally disappearing
with the rapidity OF lightning.
] have seen that Gone five times once
in the evening when the light was suf-
ticiently bright to read the newspaper.
When l have attended NATURALIZATION
and detected fraud, people have asked
me afterwards, did not that destroy
your confidence? No, for the simple
reason that the medium was nearly
to death and was incapa bic of
producing these materializations. To
produce this phenomena is exceedingly
on medium. Finding, some
times, they are going to fail by legiti-
mate means. they resort to trick and
device to do such thinga II you ever
hear of medium materializing five or
six forms in one evening, you can set
him down as fraud
Spirit Photographs.
81 know there are such things as
spirit photographs am satisfied that
the camera can take up what the hu-
nan sight cannot l have seen this
lone under remarkab BILE test conditions
have no dou BIT that occasionally, in
he presence of what we m az call ma
terializing aid, that the spirit form be-
comes SO much habitated in ETHEREAL
su bstance that the camera viii present
The appearance OF it l know of an in
stance where friend of mine. highly
-espe ecta bic man, was takin the photo
rraph OF house, and strange to say.
he windows were full OF human faces
cannot eyrlafu how IL was done, uut