The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-28
TALKS WITH SPIRITS.

| In that locality VIII secure the building.
a Sunday school will also be organized.
TALKS WITH SPIRITS.
Miss. Marshal of the West Side Has a Won
| derfui Experience
Three weeks ago Miss Maud Mar
shall of Usage avenue, West Side, had
| a remarkable experience which has
| developed into remarkable results.
Miss Marshall is a seventh grade
pupil in the Mccormick school and is
| just developing into womanhood.
| About the first of April she went to
bed one night and five minutes there
after hand was placed on her head
and rubbed down over her face. She
was struck dumb with fright and the
| hand again patted fondly on her fore
bend. She then screamed or rather
shrieked, awakening the entire fam
lily, who ran to her assistance. She
was trembling like an aspen leaf, it
seemed that every hair on her head
was standing on end while she was
bathed in cold perspiration. She told
her story in an affrighted manner
which caused her father and mother
some alarm.
Maybe it was the cat that did it."
said the father.
She knew it was not for both in
summer and winter she sleeps with her
could get to her face.
She would not remain in that bed
any longer, but went to sleep with her
mother.
Next morning she quietly went to the
home of Judge Tucker and told him
her experience.
The veteran spiritualist smiled, and
said: Miss Maud, you had a visit
from spirit land. They are good peo-
pie and will not harm you" That
same night Judge Tucker took his
cane. walked over to the Marshall
home and quietly remarked that he
would like to find out who the spirit
was that visited her. Accordingly
circle was formed and in short time
it was telegraphed from spirit land
that 1t was a young man who died
twelve weeks before that visited Miss
Marshall. He came there it appears as
a messenger from Miss Marshalrs sis
ter who died fifteen years ago. This
young man died in Colorado and was
a Wichita boy but Miss Marshall had
no personal acquaintance with him.
From time to time after that the spirit
of Cora Marshall communicated with
her sister through mediums and she
urged her to go deeper into the sub
ject of spirituaism that il was the
only true doctrine. Three or four days
ago Miss Marshall went into e trance.
According to her story she gradually
went into a sleep. Then some unseen
power lifted her up a a most rapid
gait and wandered through space.
Wonderful scenes opened up before
her. There were paved streets and
beautiful avenues paved with gold and
flowers doomed on every side She
wandered around gorgeous lawns finer
than she ever had a conception of
and picked flowers of wonderful sweet
ness. She arrived at a gate of gold
studded with pearls and while she
stood entranced before it she noticed
an electric button which she pressed.
The gate flew open and a beautiful
girl of seventeen robed in white stood
before her. This young lady ex-
tended her a hearty welcome and i'm
mediately sent after her sister. The
sister came like a vision and took her
around among the other spirits. The
sister has two chums in the spirit
land which she is very fond of
One of them is named Edith Jenkins
of Augusta, Me. and the other is Ber-
tina Stone of Ia, both of whom died
some years ago. After a delightful time
Miss Marshall was taken to another
region where she met her grandfather
on the mothre's side. The old gentle
man took her on his knee, put his arm
around her waist and asked her to
preach Spiritualism. She asked him
whether she would quit school and he
advised her not to until the end of the
term. She then returned to earth again
but in what manner she could not e.
plain. Since then she has ben me-
dunn under the control of an Indian
chief. She has never ben able to find
out what chief it is or to what tribe he
belongs, but a any rate he shuffied off
the mortal coil 81 year ago. 1t seems
that nearly all mediums are Indians
and this is accounted for on the theory
that they are the favored children of
nature.
She called for Miss Jenkins yesterday
while the reporter was present. Miss
jenkins addressed a written communi-
cation to the enissary of the Eagle in
which she vouched for the truth of
spiritualism. but she spelled his name
as il he was a Chinaman instead of a
Christian. The Indian also knew the
reporters father in spirit and said he
was "a heap fine man but was two
grades lower down than the said chief
was himself. Miss Marshall went into
a trance and while in that condition |
telegraphed many messages from spirit |
land. While in a trance she looks as if |
she-was in a catileptic fit.
During the past fourteen years Mr. |
Marshall says his homes have been visi- |
ted with spirits. He never thought so |
until his daughter became a medium |
and accounted for the strange noises. !
When he lived in Nandalia a preacher |
named Newman came to his house one |
time and before supper Mr. Marshall |
gave him the Bible out of which to read /
a passage. As he commenced to read |
the house trembled and somebody in |
the cellar pounded the floor furiously |
with what seemed 10 him to be a big |
plank. He rushed down in the cellar |
10 find out who it was but could find no |
person or plank. Since his daughter |
became a medium he has ascertained !
that the noise in the cellar was caused |
by the spirit OF his mother. who had |
been dead several years. Noises were /
also heard in their house when they /
lived near the West Side mill. Both |
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall are now firm
believers in spiritualism although they /
considered il A fake up to the time that |
their daughter became medium.
WE WANT MORE BRAIN FOOD.