The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-27
BRIDE FROM SPIRIT-LAND.
The WOOinS and The Wedding Of the
Master Of POulSOn Mansion.


Rich Old Doctor Was Told Silk
Dresses and Gold Rings Gould Be
Transferred From This Earth to
Jupiter.
From the san Francisco Examiner.
The stories the spirits whispered to DR..
Peter w. Poulson at his mansion of mys-
rerv on the hilltop of Fruityale were
many and varied 1t was through the
spirit world that DIR. Poulson met his
present wife, and to all appearances the
same spirits who negotiated the marriage
are now manipulating the divorce.
Dr. Poulson is in the east, and is said
IN be about to return to Oakland. Mrs.
Poulson is still consulting with her
friend. Mrs Seip, and the turreted house
of mystery still stands on the Fruitvale
hilltop in the midst of its grove of trees,
Guarded by the dogs and Mrs. Poulson's
father and mother.
The neighbors look askance at the
weird place. and shake their heads and
saw that it is a haunted house
The house was once an ordinary combi-
nation dwelling and hospital. 1t was
built about five or six years ago by DR.
Poulson shortly after his first divorce and
he intended it to aid him in the practice
of his profession.
The doctor. who stood high in his pro
fessiOn, wanted private hospital and he
selected site that combined all the ad-
yautages of good drainage, immunity from
fogs and winds, plenty of sunlight and a
delightful view that made 1t pleasant
place of residence and almost an ideal
spot for a hospital.
JUST AN EXPERIMENT.
In those days DR. Poulson was simply a
good physician He had no spiritualistic
tendencies. The house was erected with
its strange, tOp-heavy turrets and its
small base as an experiment.
DR. POulsOn was cool, calculating
man, and he wanted to know whether his
Fruitvale hospital was a financial success
before he spent any more money on it, so
he built only as much of the ground plan
as was abs0 lutely necessary, ran the
turrets up toward the sky and left it so
that additions could built to the house at
any time When the plans were finally
completed it would have been very i'm
posing place, covering the whole hill.
Then the doctor decided that he would
plant trees around his place. Had his
Druidistic ideas asserted themselves at
that time the grove would have been
composed of anything but fruit trees. He
would have chosen the heavy oaks that
composed the groves of Stonehenge, or
had those been too slow of growth
would have planted the eucalyptus as a
nineteenth century substitute. But DR.
POulsOn was a matter of fact man. He
had a taste for fruit and an eye for main
chance, and he hid his turreted house
from public gaze behind peach and cherry
trees, and this very matter of-fact grove
was afterwards transformed into the
meeting place of the Doctors spiritual
istic friends
After the hospital had been built and
the fruit orchard had sprouted the doctor
began an investigation of spiritualism
He was then a man of nearly 90. He be-
gan the study Of spiritualism and the
mysteries of the unknown. His practice
left him, he has now a wife who is trying
to free herself from him, his hospital has
become the abode of mystery, and he is a
wanderer in the east.
STUDY OF THE UNKNOWN.
But be that as it may, DIR. Poulson
went into the study of spiritualism in
most hearty manner He became CON
vert, a firm believer, and from that mo-
ment all of the practical uses of the
Fruitvale hospital departed.
From the giving of physic and the adj
ministratiOn of pills and lotions DR.. Poul-
son turned to the study of the occult. He
found that there was more that was
photographs and the naturalization OF
his old friends and enemies than there
was in the setting of broken bones.
Then the value of his strange, half
finished hospital as an abode of the spirit
world and as place for the weird cere-
monies that he found so interesting be-
came apparent. The half-grown orchard
was turned into a grove of mystery,
where the powers of the planets were
invoked from the heavens above. The
bare hospital wards were turned into
seance chambers, and queer rites were
gone through with where the doctor had
once intended that patients should rest.
THE STORY OF A SPIRIT COURTsHIP
The doctors story of how he met his
wife, who is now suing him for a divorce,
IS but another feature of the strange
case. This is the way the doctor has
written of the story:
81 was much broken up by a former
matrimonial occurrence and l visited my
melancholy soul with several seances. In
one of them there came to me a spirit
VINO said that her name was Alice, and
That she came from Jupiter, where she
Hyed or spent her spiritual existence.
she pretended great love for me, and let
terS were written to me which purported
10 come from heaven. They told of her
Wdyng love for me, and called me her
spiritual husband, and said that she was
my eternal wife. Then the letters said
mat she was shOeless and stOckingless
ana IN want of money and clothes. | be-
came interested in her wants and did not
understand how material matters could
De wanted on the planet Jupi-
Ter. I asked them how trans
portaton could be secured for the
material things by this earth to Jupiter
She told me that anything sent her would
De demateralized and pass to her, and
would then materialize again, and she
Wrote me: 1 love you so, my eternal hus-
odud Here was a new doctrine to me,
mat the things of this earth could be real
III Jupiter. Such an idea had never en-
tered my head and l investigated The
9fSl thing the spirit wanted was a silk
ufess and a ring After while the
spirit was introduced to me behind the
scenes, and proved to be Susan Coleman,
d deserted wife with bad cough.
FEEDING A HUNGRY SPIRIT
l invited her to my office and saw a
poor girl, with short cut hair, ragged
ureSS and worn out shoes. | wanted to
idNe her to dinner, and before we went /
udu TO spend SO for a hat and SO for a
wrap TO hide her poverty. She was very
she afterwards adopted the spiritual
uaIne and called herself Alice"
Inc doctor, in view of his recent matri-
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