The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-11-28
TOO RAINY FOR THEM.
Spirits Failed to Respond at
Blue Ribbon Hall Last
Night.
The "lnspirational" Mrs. Es.
kins is Funny and Fair
and Forty.

Mrs. Eskins, the alleged 'inspira-
tional speaker" and medium, gave an
other entertainment at Blue Ribbon
hall on East Fifth street, last night
About forty persons were present in
the small auditorium. Some went
because they believe in spiritualism.
Others attended out of idle curiosity
and probably because they had a
loose dime to s9uander.
The spirits, however, failed to ma
terialize. They are not supposed to
wear gum coats or to use umbrellas,
hence their reluctance to venture out
in the rain. ETHEREAL spirits, like adj
dent spirits, arc often hard to manage.
They don't like to be bossed or bull
dozed. They have to be handled ver'
gently, and coaxed a great deal. The
average reader is familiar with Ban
quo's ghost, for instance. 1t is one of
the few things IN this world that has
never been "downed." Ban9uO was
uOTc stuDUOTu tudu u SONCahnSus
mule.
After the dcOrkeeper had taken in a
few dozen dimes, Mrs. Eskins stepped
to the platform. She is tall blonde
and
WEIGHS TWO HUNDRED POUNDS.
She looks as though she could give old
Goliath's ghost pretty stiff tussle-
Marquis-o Of ueenbury rules or catch
as-catch-can. Her voice doesn't fit her.
1t is very much smaller than she is,
but it isn't half as soft rs some Of the
people who follow and swallow
spiritualism.
Spooks are reputed to be quite fond
of music, but they evidently didn't
appreciate the kind that was iurn-
ished last night. Maybe this, and
not the rain, kept them aloof from
the meeting.
A hymn was called for, however.
and a handsome dressed lady, who sat
in the front row, started up Rock Oi
Ages" Then Mrs. Eskins, who wore
standing co.!.,r with 4 hlacl. cravat,
began the reading of pretty little
essay en- tiled
"MEDUIMsHIP AND WHO ARE MEDI-
uMs."
She seemed to be very weary and
her audience, also, began to manifest
signs of' fatigue. She announced that
she had been haunted by spirits until
midnight the previous night, and that
she had lost much sleep. One Of
these nocturnal guests was a person
who had passed out of this life with
heart disease
The lady again complained that the
Influence" were tardy in their re-
sponses, owing to the heavy atmos-
phere, and she called upon the au-
dience for another song when Nearer,
My God, to Thee" was sung. She
then clasped her hands together,
closed her eyes and announced that
she saw, with her minds eye, the
form of u young lady, about Is years
old, dressed all in white. The girl
had been
BURIED IN A WHITE COFFIN
and four gentlemen had acted as pail.
bearers.
Pointing to lady in the room, the
"inspirational speaker" said: "You
have two sons in spirit land, have you
not ?" The lady answered in the
negative. Mrs. Eskins had barkel
up the wrong tree.
She then asked for more music,
after which she told story of how
she had seen, while in Kansas City,
her cousin die at Rocky Mountain
Lake, Colorado, and how that, upon
visiting that place, she found that her
vision was true.
Next, she designated a certain old
gentleman in the audience and an
nOunced that she saw towering above
his head a SYMBOL very bright
white light" The old gentleman felt
around for a moment in that locality
and found it was only the soft rays of
an electric jet beating
DOWN ON HIS BALD HEAD.
Mrs. Eskins attempted to read the
history Of two keys which were
handed her, but the influences"
were still obstinate and she failed.
Then a lady pressed forward and
asked to have her fortune told in
reference to a lot Of property which
was to become hers from an estate.
The ''inspirational speaker" told her
the property was located somewhere
in the South. The property, however,
happens to be in one of the Western
states.
The ''inhuences" were serving Mrs