New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-13

mother Her favrite mode OF punishment dealt
out 10 me for my juvenile derelictions was ses-
sion by myself ina dark closet. While ! sat
huge chest swinging my unhappy legs and contem-
plating the extreme hopelessness Of the situation.
the spirit Of my po,her came 10 me and we talked
1t over When elaed the substance OF our visit
10 my grsndmotar. that aged prosecutor scoured
my mouth out 70 lying. and promptly imprisoned
me once again II the same place. Ny condition
was negative. an' the dark room was the cabinet,
and the situationwas. &c ! look back upon IT, the
most natural Thug in the world. The old lady
placed me in the OF the sisters in the convent.
and there had SIMILAR experiences and as my in
fuence over my ompanions was considered repre-
htnsible, was snt home Then my mother bade
me leave my grandmother and go 10 an old friend
OF hers. which accordingly did. entirely under
sprtua! guidanc, and there | told that was
medium had never heard the word before.
h'eo with those fople until grew 10 be a young
woman, and was ons idered n great medium. They
encouraged me init. and formed circle. Of which
was the centre every night. quite overworking
sss S''Ou' ''S''n '0r was 0'' Ten years Of
Years ago the wole country rang with the curious
ssApoits OF Master Hough. the boy medium When
upon public carer. and nc has been before the
public ever since. faster Housh Is fortyseven years
" age now, and hs held the position OF adjutant-
general OF the SOS OF Veterans OF this State. but
ne ne Is stu knownas the boy medium. Adjutant-
ueneral Dewitt CHough claims 70 have been con-
troled by the split OF General Edwin Baker. who
was Killed In one the battles of the Civil War. He
claims 10 owe all is military distinction TO the
uo OF this spirit, iavnC known nothing of military
tactlcs up 10 the ime when his control urged upon
MN MN the necessity Of lending himself honors in
that direction.
The mother ofthe 'boy medium" deplores the
iact that he had been born
Negative. and Insists that IL was n great mis-
fortune 10 be widowed This negative condition.
sne claims. unitsa for coming in contact with
ne world Of maeral things. The back parior of
nell residence / fitted up with all the paTapher-
nalia OF seanceSving. On the wall hangs an oil
painting OF Genial Baker that hung in the White
House during Incolns Admln!sra tion while the
spirit Of the GAeral has been leading a tempest
,,ossed exstencethrouGh the med umship Of Dewitt
rough with w1Tn Il began operations when he
fourteen years Old For thir;y-three years the
..prit Of Geners Bake- has been striving TO regulate
temporal afrat and 10 reconcile the spiritual with
IN, h material Yrld. The medium in the mean time:
.as been grovng more nervous with each year of
.ne thirv-thre. and Is never quite sure what the
sp,It OF his cntrol Will move him 10 do next
mrs Houe' has a grandson who has ne0umstic
tropensites which she claims TO have discoura ged
T. the fri in order TO qualify him TO fiji place
IN The rrarrlal world He inherits medunsfic
powers frot his mother who died some years ago
William FLETCHER lecturer on soul aura and
Kindred p.chic subjects expressed himself upon
sne subjei OF developed mediumship when inter
=. Mediutshp can readily be developed in chill
oien" sal Mr. Fletcher. but | never advise il
=. How IAN il be done? In the first place tho
osf shgId be CONSIDERATION and under no cir