The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-10-28

800 y m twenty-five or thirty |
times" air Willis said. He has iresn
lot OF names every time. oeIas' , a., ne
will repeat IeS names .hat ne nae
given before but In the main the iist Is
new one | have heard MIN can an
the way from hall a 49, a,, hir, 20
be mistaken nnen ne sad ceftalH per
son had died at certain pace. Inc
names are not always ldenuneu az lne
time, but when Investigation mace
II is found hat Joe Stiles was Tight and
those who disputed him were wrong. 1 |
have known HIM to call names from
towns In all parts OF New has d a., sV ,he
names off the gravestones. he must |
travel a lot to do that, and have a pref
ty good memory, for he tells OF people
who died forty years ago. .,.S,, wen ,a as
| months"
Toward the close of the summer season |
at Onset Joe Stiles broke all former rec
ords, The audience when Erected MN, MN
| pie had come down from Boston, up from
| Nantucket, and In from Fall River; Dr.
Storer the Moderate, OF me ,S Sp.duad
| Joe stiles. Il was in the afternoon. The
| smoke from distant forest fires cast a
| haze over all. breeze blew up from
| Buzzard's Bay strong enough 10 drive
| the pesky little cape Cod mosquito back
/ 10 his lair In the pine glades beyond
| the camp. The temperature was denc-
| ious. Joe Stiles wore noseSay OF car
| nations on his coat lapel and was az ms
| best He recited a long poem, IN whlch
| he worked In pleasant welcomes TO the
| visitors from different localities Ihen
| drawing a chair close TO the railing In
| front OF the platform. he waved his arm
| and said:
Sing something"
| Before the lady who rendered the SOTO
| about Sweet Spirits had finished the
| last notes Joe stiles. who had been sitting
| with dropped eyelIds, began
IF haven't broken from the influence
the h PAN a Sef9r sagi me y K ehesSF
| ives, SIR" from the audience, II knew
| him"
"Then Chester Granger and Deacon Asa
| Hayes and Charles Chandler are in the
| same grvaip. Next comes William, last
| name Dennis From the same place Is
| Luke Ransom Churchilly
| The medium hesitateu, put only long
enough for some one TO shout, Il knew
| Churchill"
Wei, then. why didn't you say so
| quick" asked the medium In pretended
| petulance. And before the quiet laugh
had passed he was rafting on with:
| William Hamlin Uncle Reub Sherman.
| Ansel Ward. You remeber Josiah Atwood,
who was in the army
And his wife Hannah"
! NO." hesitatIngly.
you don't remember her? Wei, she
| was one OF the McFariands.
ooh. yes; now do;
81 thought so. And Uncle Ben Ham
monde"
| YES"
AMI Elijah shaw"
| yes ~
"Of course You do. Here's Aunt Abbie
Cole"
II remember her"
wen You've got a good memory"
| The big crowd chucied while the me-
| dunn caught his breath, and shifting
half way in his chair faced IN different
| TaD10lY as with
an entirely different graveyard: r,
Il see Luther-last name turner, ne
was a doctor. After so long an absence
he is pleased TO return again. AFTER MN
| cones Or. Anthony Collamore
Half a dozen people proclaimed recog-
| milton.
"And here is one who passed out into
the spirit weird through an injury; lie
is AIva Joslin; he fell from tree. There
st,nGs before me a good spirit, Isaac
Jennings: he never had a, dollar In his
pocket because he was always giving,
yves. IFS all true" some one said so
earnestly that the quiet Yankee laugh
rippled over the auditorium
Isaac Barnes and as he passes along
another comes. Do you remember Uncle
Emery Borden"
what was It he did that was so beau
tful IN his life?'
No answer. 49,,
The barely audible laugh of these self
repressed Yankees showed the apprecia-
ton OF spirit humor.
So Joe stiles went on. He varied the
roll call enough to keep IT from becoming
| monOtonous He was go breezy that he
| kept all who were following him fas-
cinated by this new game OF spirit rec
! oguition. II is difficult TO convey ON
! paper an adequate conception OF me
| sceue The audience composed OF
we'll dressed inteligent-lookGng New
g England people. They gave 10 Joe Sules
. | hat close attention with which any pub
lie sneaker might feel hattered.
i | Toward the close of the hour the voice
9 OF the medium began to weaken. ltls
{ | manner showed WeLrineSS DREAMING
. "Sjng something. / am obliged 70 catch
. "A woman on the platform started
q "Nearer Nv God. 10 Thee" while n mar
10 I'm the audience set up "Sumrnerlahd'
Fair Summerland.
VI no war OF chords" shouted the medi
J. um. 49, va, v,.nt
e ahead. stiles Joined in the singing a!
Il soon as he who was going TO WIN. oh'
I stanZa was enough 80 A.,
II want TO ask who knows Clark Man
80 nbaster9' he called out before the vol
y unteer percentor could start the tune
7 again. .,.,r,.o-
"Chartes Morrill, ana vernon Noof
IS raeh their names before me. is any oll'
bara Who remembers this spirit Who
holds up a bottle ana says ne - iio''
n "a Anotber OF those repressed laughs
this time at the expense OF prohlo'tlon
. ' %His name is wniam-nO' Henry
~ | Brown -
.tti Sto Abble Chappell, who says sh,
d c,as never hitched TO any man. am
e thanks God she never was.
. KNEW her well .u.9,,
"neoean Graham Allen!
.. ..r6 5s %s' lady with him ana M n
.o,.s Through all my Journey III Ia
had | reason to be thaiMiui ''"'
;? nan 'anditors laughed that same t iov
il eurgle OF appreciation as the n'e0''''
le ad ilTSot was her name" ,,u ,,a m
eiti 10 sTopped lie threw ms he1 49, ~
~ J ward, He opened ms SS q End NM baCI
a | atnund. H. arose si9Mlf o., roo veal
VI Sis chair The power had grown CoI
!, 10 continue. ne said. ~ 'aIiy tn
=, kent ne had called OH 10 ~ mad FOL
minutes. instant recoeilitlola ;rbe AZ
!, loved in all but ie" ca9IS ,differen
,; Ta%rss,ns had lived III "a''S
IS places. 49,. could he one of joe
!, 0eld davs." said Moderator 0'oief VIZ
IS exultation. - ITO one who had Jus
- come out of a hard steep. ~. ~ &C., ,,os
a. CLASSY. the pupils dl!ateu ,,ipnr mart n
i suffused look about tne wy ,h Moo.
J. w face like congestion OF he pioo
tle lace tho pVelidS. ant