The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-10-21
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/ Rev j. B Morrison Is rejoicing
over the advent Of a bran new boy,
who has come to bring sunshine to
the declining years Of the reverend
gentleman and his lady. o, may
the young lad grow up in the admir-
uitiou Of the Lord, and his life'>
work be as prolific Of good as his
fathers before.
Mr.. John D. Mcclure ot Monroe,
La, i. spending a few days with his
father, Mr. ]. 7. Mcclure, this
week.
Ye scribe went to Texarkana last
Saturday by special invitation, to
witness and investigate the spirit
manifestations as produced by the
noted medium, Mrs. TedfOrd, of
Fairview. On arriving found that
it had been arranged to hold
special seance on Saturday night.
There were some fifteen invited
guests assembled, to form the cir
Gle, some of whom were believers,
a few undecided, the remainder be-
ing decidedly skeptical, but all seem
ed fairly intelligent. and were ami
mated by lively curiosity to see
what they could see. | will say to
my readers in the outset, that l
will give no opinion as to the spirit
manifestations, whether genuine or
fraudulent, but will endeavor to
give a graphic description OF
what | actually saw, from which
you are at liberty to draw your own
conclusions-even shou / it be that
| am a subject tor the lunatic asv-
lum. At about 8 O'Clock, Mr.. Car
ter, the manager, formed the cir
Gle, giving me a seat near the cabi-
net. He then invited inspection of
the sable curtained alcove, upon
which l went into it and gave it a
critical examination and found alb
solutely nothing but the walls and
black draperies. Theu all Being
seated, Mr.. Carter gave an eXp'an-
atory lecture, of which | will men,
ton bat one point. He said owing
to certain conditions the material
lied spirits would take on the fea-
lures of the medium at times,
which saved me, perhaps, from some
perplexing speculation When every
thing was ready the circle was re-
quested to sing sacred songs and
hymns, which they did accompanied
by the music of an accordion,
when, in about ten minutes, the
curtains were seen to part and a
shadowy form appear and immedi-
ately retire, but in few moments
appear again, coming into full view,
and revealing in the din light, the
form of a girl about ten years old,
who they called Nelly, and said she
was the cabinet control After this
phantom retired, the curtain was
seen slowly to part and vague
shape was seen, shadowy at first,
but gradually took an outline, and
after the lapse of about a minute,
a full grown ghost stood before the
circle, with all eyes eagerly focused
upon it. 1t soon retired, | will
say here, all the spirits were robed
in white, from head to foot, other
wise they would scarcely be seen,
owing to the dimness of the light;
will say further that owing to the
lack of time and space, will only
mention incidents in which | was an
interested actor. To resume, soon
after the retirement of the last
torn mentioned, another spirit
walked boldly out of the cabinet;
when asked who she wished to see
she said, "Mr. Mcclure" ! boldly
walked up within a foot of he.
ghostship and asked her who she
was and she said: 81 am your
grandmother" | told her | was
much pleased to meet her. and ask
ed if she had anything special to
communicate, The reply was, "No,
just wanted you to see me-" Then
to make test | asked her how
long she had been in the spirit land,
the reply was 60 years, which was
correct, and ] know no one knew
anything about it, not even my
children. OF course was glad to
meet my ancient relative, and lauu-
ched out into a friendly and allec-
tionate conversation, Now, you
can imagine my mystiIlcation when
| found myself talking to space
she was gone, The next was a baby
who called for Uncle George-well,
that was me-so ! went and sat
down on floor by my little niece,
and undertook to hold a couversa-
tion with The little dear, but it
could give me but little satisfaction,
She said her name was Hattie, and
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