The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-10
SPIRITS WERE BASHFUL
lron-Clad Instructions Not to
Give Things Away.
COULDN'T QUITE HIT IT
A Seance Where the Visitors From the
Other World Joshed the Me-
dium-Slipped a Cog
Somewhere.

Twenty men and women, mature in
years, sat for one hour and Is minutes
last night in a room in the Owsley
block and communed with representa-
tives from the spirit world. The del
egates from the other side had not
much to say. They evidently came up
here with iron-clad instructions not to
give anything away, and they did not.
There We're about 10 delegates from the
spirit world, and they threw their sew
eral and respective conditions upon
Mrs. Dr. Calder, who transmitted them
to the subjects in real life, who sat
in the room. The spokesman of the
invisible delegation seemed to have a
bone to pick with a young man from
the Alsatian mountains. The spirit
took the doctor to the young mans side
and told her to tell the man that he
was going to start on journey very
soon. The road over which he is to
travel is broad and pretty long, but he's
going to get there and be glad that he
is there.
Then the doctor felt the Influence
of a mother who had passed over to the
spirit side of life-they don't die
without first having made amends for
the wrongs she inflicted on her daugh
ter in Butte. She told the doctor to
tell the girl that she was doing all in
her power to right the wrongs, etc.
II am talking to you, lady" said the
doctor, pointing her finger to q young
mother who wore heavy black veil.
do you recognize this?" and the wo-
man nodded her head. Then the doc
tor went back to the young Alsatian
again and confused him some more.
II feel a strong influence; it takes
me over there" and the doctor beck
oned to a friend who. sat with four
other ladies in the rear of the hall,
1T impresses me that your home ties
have been broken, 20, % or 25 years
ago. Do you recognize it?"
The woman shook her head.
well, I'm taken right to you. May
be it's the lady by your side" and that
lady shook her head.
Mrs. Westlake led in singing "Bulah
Land" after which the chairman of
the spirit delegation led the doctor
back again to the young man fran
Europe. Addressing a man two rows
back of the bald headed row, the doc
tor inquired if he was not negotiating
a lease of some property, and she re-
ceived the negative reply.
We'll" she said, when she saw that
the spirit was jollying her, "a spirit
comes to me: it is that of a mother.
Is your mother dead?"
The man said no.
"Well, I'll say that if she is not dead
now she will be within three weeks.
Whenever the spirit of a person comes
to me, if not dead, that person soon
will be-"
Then she told about a "test" she
applied to a Mrs. Minnie of this city.
She told the lady that the spirit Of
her mother had come to her while she
was yet alive, but your mother will
be dead inside Of three weeks" was
the cheering intelligence she impaired
to the daughter
"a few days later the mother called
on her daughter, just as I said she
would. and one day she fell down a
flight of stairs and passed on to the
spirit world
She began to unfold the future of a
woman in the circle and did not reveal
much before she concluded by saying:
"Oh, well, I won't go any further"
and smiled. The abrupt termination
of the story filled the room with con-
lecture, and the crowd did not know
just how to guess out on the rest. The
subject blushed.
IT feel that you must be cautious"
pointing to a lady with two children.
II see rash all over the body, and sore
Threats, dry coughs and the like. Do
you recognize this?" And the lady
said that her children had had the
measles.
well, you must be very careful,
anyway" and the lady promised to be
careful.
YOU I am told, will come out all
right" addressing a dark mustached
man. Toward the end of this year
things will be brighter for you"
The man blushed.
The doctor concluded her tests" with
the announcement that she hoped to
seen all those faces again. and said
that different persons attended each of
her meetings in Butte. This speaks
we'll 1t shows that people are be-
coming interested in spiritualism."