The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-26
IN THE BORDER LAND.
Remarkable Manifestations which
Puzzle st. Paul.

From the Chicago Times Herald.
| st. Paul.-The border land between this
world and the next offers a fascinating
field for explorations. Wideawalze and level
| headed people who make excursions into
this mysterious realm often return with
information that stands the test Of scien-
tific analysis.
People in this city have been good deal
excited during the last three weeks by the
performances of little thin-faced, blonde
haired woman which SAVIOR of the super
natural. hall is thronged every night
with curious people of all classes Some
come from the big mansions on Summit
avenue, and some from the shanties on the
4 Bohemian flats. They write questions on all
| sorts of subjects on slips Of paper which
| they put into their pockets Some prepare
| their questions at home, carefully sealing
them up in envelopes. The little woman
sheet, which is thrown over her head and
falls to the floor. Nothing is visible of her
but one thin. nervous hand loaded with
rings. She calls out in quick succession the
names of forty or fifty of the questioners
each evening, reads correctly the questions
which they have secretly written and hid
den away in their pockets and gives them
appropriate answers. Where the answers
involve things unknown to the questfoners
or yet to come to pass It frequently turns
out that she is correct Now, how does she
know, sitting under her sheet on the stage,
what ali these people have written? The
fake theory does not explain the phenom-
ena. Our leading merchants, lawyers,
judges, doctors and preachers are not con-
federates of the little blonde woman. We
must throw this explanation out OF court.
The popular explanation of such per
formances as this is mind reading" But
what is mind reading Years ago people
used to attribute everything mysterious
new az that tme snd t e them out Of
many difficulties. Evidently the little
woman in some way sees the questions
science recognizes only one way Of seeing,
and that is by the reflection Of objects
upon the retina of the eye and the convey
the optic nerve. AS the woman does not
see the questions with her physical eye,
she must have some other sense OF percep-
ton. There must be eyes Of the soul which
see quite independently of the eyes of the
BODY Then there must be a soul; that is
to say, there must be an intelligent ego re-
siding in the body and able to see and
comprehend things not visible to the phys
zeal sense OF seeing. II there is any other
explanation / should be glad TO hear II.
Living with his wife In a ground-fioor
fiat on the south side in Chicago is a tall,
slender young man with a peculiarly shap-
ed head-very' narrow and very high
one side of a little table, which Is furnish
ed with pads of white paper and a dozen
well sharpened pencils. The visitor sits
on the other side of the table. The visitor
may, II he pleases, write a number of
questions on slips OF paper, fold them up
and put them under an elastic band while
the young man Is out OF the room. IL Is
not certain that these questions Will be an
swered, or that the names OF the dead
people to whom they are addressed Will
be written by the young man. Otner
names may be written, but they will all
be known to the visitor.
The young man fuses around with his
numerous pencils to ind one that rs sharp
enough TO suit him; then, without any
trance business OF any sort or hocus-pocus
he begins to write little letters addressed
to the visitor and purportIng 10 come from
the spirits OF the dead. The curious thing
about the performance IL that he signs the
OF the visitor, some OF whom have passed
out OF this life long years ago. The names
may be those or grandparents, uncles,
aunts, parents. brothers or sisters or per-
sOnal friends. We VIII assume that the
visitor h an entire stranger 20 the young
man, yet the names 81 HIS former kIfh
ana KIN are written ulaHYrIIu1 tle letters
sometimes make reference 70 events mat