The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-22

Both Maggie and Kate were good looking, or, as some would say, pretty;
 short in stature and slight in figure
 but with well-rounded forms. Their
 features were regular but small. Their
 childlike, winsome manner and good | nature when they first came into publlc | notice won for them the favor of the
 people in general
 Dr. Kane, the celebrated Arctic eX- plorer met Maggie in the second year
 of her appearance before the public, 1 when she was about sixteen or seven
 teen years old, fell in love with her, be-
 came engaged to her. and made ar
 engagements to prepare her to become
 his wife. Previous to his expedition to
 the Arctic region in 1853 he insisted that
 Maggie should give up the spiritual
 mediumship; and he provided the
 means to have her properly educated
 during his absence in the north; conse- | quently she was placed in an excellent
 school in Pennsylvania. His intention, no doubt, was to marry her. But when
 he returned in 1855 from the Arctic his l health was broken and he never recoV-
 cred it. He died not long after. Mag
 gie asserted that a marriage had taken place, and although this was denied by some of pr. Kanes relatives she as- stunned the name of Kane and was ever
 after known as Margaret, or Maggie,
 Fox Kane. Dr. Kane left her a small income from his estate, which she drew for several years; but when she pub-
 lished in 1865 her book entitled, 'The Love Life of Dr. Kane" containing let ters and fac-similes, the Kane family
 were indignant and stopped her in come In 1868 she commenced legal
 proceedings to recover it, but failed in
 her endeavor.
 Between the time of Dr. Kanes death
 and the publication of her book she re-
 sumed more or less the practice of
 Spiritualist. But when she instituted
 the lawsuit she had become a Catholic, and, therefore, was not permitted by
 the Catholic church to practice Spirit ualiSn. Somewhat later she relapsad and returned to Spiritualism, partly be- cause she was in needy circumstances and partly through the incessant calls upon her by Spiritualists for seances and so-caled spirit communications. One day I asked Maggie why she had gone back to Spiritualism when she re- piled she had to do something for liv- ing, and then added, with much dis gust: "The old fools, they will have it."
 Kate Fox went to England some time about 1S71 and there married MT. Jencken, a barrister of the temple and an accomplished man, but Spiritual ist He became acquainted with her through her performances as a medium In letter to me, dated London, Sep tember 19, 1875, she says, Since my marriage I am quite out of Spiritual ism.'
 When Leah married MT. Underhill, a man in a good position, and she was well provided for, she abandoned Spir- itualism as a business. Previous to her marriage however, her sisters, after they grew up to womanhood, quarreled | with her and carried on the Spiritualis- tic business independently. Maggie | went to England, in September, 176. In a letter to me, dated London Decem- Der 6, 1877, referring to her brother-in- law, MT. Jencken, with whom she had quarreled, and to some other Spiritual ists, is the following verbatim extract:
 Jencken, withal, is a fanatic and of all things on earth I detest fanatics the most Have you read of the slaughter of the Philadelphia Spiritual fanatics? Only imagine their invented spirit names, as in the list are Billy the boot black, Red Cloud, Spirit Water, etc, etc. They had the name of the Blessed Virgin. What old fools! One of the faithful was a MT s. one of the wealthiest men of Philadelphia. He had spent hundred thousand dollars in his great effort after truth, and at last he had got it-and as the naughty little boys in the street say, he has got 1t bad. Pardon me for stopping so low as to quote the language of the naugh- ty street boys, but it comes in so apro- pos that l cannot help it.
 At another time she wrote humorous y:
 Yours in sisterly love, as the old Spiritualists would say. Apropos, how gre you progressing in the faith? Do you believe as of yore?
 She knew well I did not believe in the silly fraud, and that l had all along begged of her to repudiate it; but this vas her way of showing I was disbe- fever and of making fun of the "old Spiritualists."
 In the same humorous vein she wrote ,n another occasion:
 Imagine how happy I am to hear that 'ou are still in the land of the living. vas a little fearful that you had passed away" and that perhaps you ; were giving some startling manifesto l ions through some Spiritual medium.
 I could cite many other sarcastic and humorous expressions, and also of dis ust, from both Maggie and Kate, { ghen writing or speaking of Spiritual { sm and Spiritualists, all going to show ' heir disbelief and contempt; but the z bove instances are sufficient to con- { ince any intelligent person. i When I first met Maggie it was at he residence of distinguished people, gho were inquiring into or gratifying l heir curiosity about Spiritualism. In . he evening a seance was held all sit | ing around a table with hands joined. | Previous to sitting down I told Maggie ' l a whisper that I did not believe in l he Spiritualistic stuff, but that I l 'ould not give expression to that to the V thers present nor reveal any of her se- | rets. As a consequence she placed me d y her side 1t the table, where she Il 11,11 ralao ca I,ar hand f,o,,, ,,,;,,,, |