Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-25
THE STARR AGGREGATION HAS
GONE TO ANOTHER FIELD.
After u Weeks Performance of sleisht-"f
Hand Work Mind Reading Produc
tion- and "a Touch OF Clairyosant Exhi-
bition>. the STAIRS Left To-day for
Warsaw.

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and newspaper comments as company
who were exposing splrltuallsm and
showing up to the public how mediums
got IN their work by deluding the pub
lie. The professors first appearance
was OH Sunday night, when by
paying small contribution the public
could listen for an hour to his own
exaltation. lie told the audience that
evening that they should not believe
in such things as spirits from the other
world visiting this sphere" as it is all
hoax, ana that he was going around
the country exposing the way 1t was
done. lie also impressed upon the
minds of his hearers that to see the
best of his entertainment they should
come on Monday evening. 1t was also
impressed upon the minds OF the peo-
pie that a full exposure of the tricks
performed would be given on Thurs
day NIGHT.
On Monday night he performed some
clever sleight- hand tricks both in and
out of the cabinet. But those who are
acquainted with the work done by the
Davenport brothers or Hermann know
that Mr., starr is not in it for cabinet
worker. Mrs. Starr, as a mind reader,
is good, we believe she has few equals
under same conditions. The figure
work, which is done by other parties, is
excellent, and, in fact, as feature of
enjoyment, was the best part of the
show.
In the main, the mind reading,
the slate writing the latter was shown
up in Saturdays issue of THE INDE-
PENDENT to be very bungling and
other mysterious presentations are a
detriment to any Christian community
and should be steered clear of as
the rankest mental poison. y mind per-
turbed and loaded with these myster-
ious presentations, where no explana-
ton accompanies them to show their
actual unreliability, is endangered as
much as the person contaminated with
the poison of viper.
The announcement that on Saturday
evening he would expose these mys-
teries, brought him large audience, of
course. 1t had been the belief of TIE
INDEPENDENT-and it openly avowed
that opinion-that the professor"
would not expose his tricks, as they were
his stock -in-trade, and this proved to
be correct. OF course he showed up a
few tricks, but not one that had created
and left the impression on the minds of
a large number of people that there
was something supernatural in the
simple presentation of mind reading
Now, we have denounced this man
Starr on previous occasions and the
intelligent people of this community
we'll know that we are not taking ad-
vantage of his leaving our city before
cOndemnlng the "spiritualistic" portion
of his entertainment.
But our principal reason for once
more speaking of this matter is to
warn the press throughout the state
of Indiana aud elsewhere to watch this
gentlemen when he desires their assist
ance in reporting his entertainment.
lie is the first and only man we have
ever had the pleasure of meeting, that
was SO completely stuck on himself as
to believe that he could subsidlze the
entire press.
While there is no doubt he has
succeeded In doing this, as he boast
fully says, with some of the best papers
in the county, yet we are Conscientious
in the fact that he could not make it
stick on TIE INDEPENDENT. by our
refusal we received some advertising,
and, although we lost few dollars, we
have the satisfaction of knowing that
the Christian people, the intelligent
man and woman, yes, the majority of
Plymouth's people, believe that THE
INDEPENDENT pursued the right course.
A man who is not willing to have
the press comment upon his business
needs watching, and we therefore pass
him along the line.
The Saturday night performance was
considerably on the bum; and to cap
the climax, after the performance was
ended, he was not grateful enough to
the people, who furnished him between
$4,000 and S5OO.OO of good money, to
thank them for their patronage. His
effort to stab one of the proprietors OF
THE INDEPENDENT through the com.
mittee of citizens he had upon the
stage proved boomerang and envel