The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-05

manner peculiar to mediums when they
come out of a trance. His face resumed
its natural expression. He picked up his
hat and walked out of the temple.
Immediately a young lady, we'll dressed
and attractive of feature, left her seat
and with a sliding, pantherlike step moved
out into the opening. Her face was
wreathed in smiles. AS she moved about
she didn't speak. Her eyes were almost
closed. With her right hand she beckoned
encouragingly, while with her left she
seemed to be warding off something visi-
BILE to her. but unseen by those looking on.
s'When she moves her right hand, said
Mrs. Van Buskirk, lit means that she is
reaching out for some good spirit. The
motions with the left hand are to ward
off the bad influence"
When she had made two or three cir
cults of the open space, all the time snil
ing and waving her arms, still continuing
that curious gliding movement, the young
lady began to mutter, but in such a low
tone that what she.said could not be dis
tinguished. She dropped into a seat be-
side lady and talked conf1dentially several
minutes. Then, like one slowly and easily
arousing from a nap, she opened her eyes
widely and was herself again.
Toward the close of the individual per
Torrance just described another altogether
to many of the older spiritualists of the
country. She has been medium 90
years or more. Before the young lady
had left the open space Myra Paine was
in the center of it, striking out with both
hands and talking loudly and excitedly.
More correctly speaking, from the spirit
ualistic point of view, it was not Myra
Paine doing this, but the Indian spirit
controlling her. The drift of the talk was
harsh scolding of Myra Paine for hav-
ing, as the spirit said, resisted its coming
tsSquaw didn't mean to let brave come, -
said the spirit, ''but brave was too much
for squaw. Brave did come. Brave had to
fight squaw to get here but brave was
stronger than squaw. Now brave is going
to stay just as long as he pleases
t'Brave will whip squaw for trying TO
keep him away exclaimed the spirit.
Thereupon Myra Paine began to slap and
strike herself, not gently, but at the same
time not in such way as to do much
damage brave will teach sQuaw bet
ter than to keep him away another time, -
said the spirit threateningly, all the time
keeping up the pounding. brave is
master now, and he'll show squaw that
she can't do as she is a mind to-
Then followed the 4strangest part of
this scene. As if with some invisible
person, Myra Paine struggled and wrestled
about the space. At last, as If the unseen
power had got the better of her, she was
/ suddenly thrown PROSTATE ON the ground.
Mrs. Van Buskirk supported the fragile
woman for few minutes and then led
| her to her seat Later in the seanee Myra
Paine came forward and in right mind
said that she owed an explanation. 1t
was true that she resisted the coming Of
| her Indian control. For long time she
had kept the Indian spirit from coming,
/ and she believed that she had done very
wrong. In the past year she had felt at
times loss of mediumistic power, and
she now believed that her bad treatment
of her Indian control was the cause of it.
She felt that she deserved what they had
just seen.
/ These performances in the temple went
on in rapid succession for a couple oi
hours. The Indian seance left no traces
| of fatigue upon the mediums.