The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-01

oyor on the nipht aDeat Of and W giving
our oninions The giYi berae,f remained silent.
looking ON and taking in vbnt VIC eaid
"Suddeniv the vounp uoman's bend fall AGAINST
the back of her chair and drooped TO ono side
Her father said sbo has passed into trance state
"Weprew silent and listened Soon she began
10 sneak of certain spirits abe ssv-her brother
not being among tbem-and whom none OF
us knew or recognized from description. A wag-
pisb fellow nresent said 'peve, mind those INNS
call I'M the man vour father thinks 40 much Of
tell us something about O. b. how he fares in
another world
dTbe medium breatbed hard. presently her voice
sounded strangely as she said-the voice purport-
ing TO be that Of A sprit-'He is not here. YOU will
find him. il YOU look sharply in the room you sit
in. in the shape Of A big black beetle
Some Of us kept serious. others laughed jumped
from tbei, chairs and declared thew were going
% scarab for that beetIe
'Tbcy actually got down on the floor and
searched the room fore md AFT no beetle was
visible
an tbe s,me spirit M VI augerv tbev epain oues-
TONED the medium. and she repoated the same
thing then added YOU did not search tborourbIy
search again and Won will find under the edge
NJ the corpet near the freplaoe'
"Tbey went Immediately and did 60 and there
under A corner Of tho Garnet al the areplaco I'm.
roach M ouiols,v "a a could
"Some questioned ,fterA,rd vbe,b,Y the eib
uaa not ooaniznnt n the beetle'a lodpment there
1 did not question that The girl was we'll known
to me as simple minded and extremely conscien-
tious the least rteIy 10 perpetrate practical Joke
Of that sort N ony ono knew Beside her bipb
ea,een, NJ tbe de,d man would nr.vent a Reside
that the whole family solemnly declared that thew
had never seen such a thing az a beetle in any
room above stairs or anywhere excep, occasionally
in the CELLAR
81 cite this as A queer example Of a sort of pbe-
nomepa | have seen several times II there is
real intercourse between the living and the dead
brought about nv a living medium have seen
enough IN convince me that prsctcal iokine IN not
confined u tbia earthlv sphere and that a good
dea Of n goes on at the other side by those which
the mediums Arc fond Of calling earth-bound
spirits and elementals still undeyeloped
40 believe in current superstt,ons regarding
luc,;v or uulucky days numbers &C. am
often asked this and I reply yos and no The
same dates or numbers that are lucky TO ono per
son are not ALWAYS 80 To others and ~ any
one marks an lucky for him any certain day above
another fail TO see tn g harm OF his keeping TO
il One Of the greatest surgeons I ever met a
man renowned In several cities said once in nv
| nresepce that he liked To undertnke A critical
! Case on Friday. he had never lost A case dating
| from that day.
81 am willing 10 confess that would not know
inplv sit down and make the thirteenth AT table
There NAV he nothing in il hut know of at least
three cases which proved fatal within the year
| And. by the vay a man of nv acouaintance-
| one whose story can be sIbs,antiated in every
de,euis the central figure nj one NJ the stranpest
| number thirteen stories I ever heard Several
| wears apo when high class bicycles were AT high
! prca he saw A wheel AZ $40 which especially
| eapt,,red bis fancy and he determined 10 buy
| II As the bargain Was about COMPLETED some
! bodv noticed that the number Of the wheel was
18,3 More than one declared thew would not
take il At apv p,,c. Nv friend however was
| ALI the moro determined 10 brave superstition
and bought the wheel He afterward told me
! that tho number of small mishaps he had with
that wheel were bevond count-but the closing
and romantic nishap crowned all the others
"Jt WAC stolon one dsv while he left II at the
doorway Of a store He Immediately advertised
II and reoeived account After account which re-
| sul,cd only in sanding him on one after another
wild goose cbaso Finally and after no end of