Arizona republican., 1899-07-05

daughters Gid or proposed to do just
 as they thought proper to tell her.
 Leah perceived at o1csi, evid-ntly,
 that by proper management the sen
 zatlon that had bEea started could be
 made pr0fitablei by bringing herself -s
 we'll aI5 her sisters to more prominence
 fn life and in getting money. Having
 taken charge of Maggie ard Kate she
 had absolute control over them. After | entering upon a course of deception 1 they could not for their own sake con
 fess they were or had bean deae-vers.
 Certainly Maggie and Kate dar5d not
 do so while under the firm hand of l Luah The progress of spiri lullism
 aft.i, having besn thus started is kri0wn generally and need nIot be re- lat-d heTe.
 Beth Maggie and Kate were g3cd looking, or, as some would say, preLty; .hCct in statGrs' and sl ghd i1 figure, but with we'll rounded forms. Their features were reguIar, but small. Trsir
 clL31lilze, winsome manner and good
 r1ture when they first came into pub
 lic wen for them the favor of the peO-
 pEel in general.
 Dr. Kane. the celebrated Arctic ex-
 ptorer met Maggie in the second year
 of her appearance before the public.
 when she YVES about 16 or IT yeacs old
 fsll in love with her. became eng3gad 10 her, and made 8-G1ar ganeris to pre- pa..e hsr to become his wife. Previous
 to his expedition to the Arctic region
 n 1853 he insisted that Maggie Elould g-Ve CQ thai spiritual m-i1:-l ns.EfO, and
 he provided the means to have her
 properly eli1ca ed during his absence
 IL +, -I, placed n an excellent school in Penn sylvania. His intention, TO doubt,
 was to marry her But when he re- turned in 1855 from the Arctic his health was troken and he never recov- cred It. He GG5d not long after. Mag g%9 asserted that 8 marriage had tak- em place, and although this was de nied by some of Dr. Kame's reIativ5s she assumed the name of Kane and was ever after known as Margaqet, or Mag2:e Fox Kane. Dr. Kane left har Q small income from his estate, which she drew for sevsIs1 years; but when she pubIsh6d in 1865 her book. entitled, E@The Love IAfe of Dr. Kane containing letters and fac similiss, the Kana family were Indignant and stopped the income. Tn 1866 she com menced legal proceedings to recover 1t, but failed in her elndsavor
 Between the time Of Dr. Ka1e's death and the publication of her book she resumed mere or less the practice oG a spir;tusliSt But wlen she 5nstI- tcilad tho lawsuit she had become a Catholic, and therefore was not per mitted by the Catholic church to prac- ttcs spi-ttualism. Somewhat later she i and returned to spirituaIsrn, | partly bsc3Ueie sle was in needy c-r- | cumstRnces and partly through the i incessant calls upon her by spiritual ! isits for seances and so-callsd spirit ! communicatucns. One day I asked | Aaggti5 why she had gone back to i spiritualism, when she replied she had ! to do something for a living, and thsn | added, w5th much disgus.: '.The old | fools, they will have it.
 KisIte Fox went to England some | time about 1871, and there marr.sd Q Mn tJencken, a barrister of the Tenl- | pie and an accomplished man. but 3 spiIitualist. He became acqua: :nted :. with her through her performances as ! a madium. In 5, letter to me, dated London. September 19, 1875, she says: 'Since my marriage I am quite out of 55' ritual ism
 When Leah married MT Undarh:nf \ } man in good position, and she was we'll provided for. she e.bandcned sp,r- itUalism as a business. P-ev-3us to 1sr marriage, however. her 9istsrs, af- 5sr they grew up 10 wonanh0od, quar- 'eled with her and carried cn the Spir- tualistic business Independently.
 Magg'b went to England in Septam- Der, 1876. h a letter to me, dat-d london, December 6. 1877, referring to Dar bro;her-in-law. MT. Jencken. with whom she had qUsTrelCd. c1ll to some rther spiritualiSss, is the following yeTb3t+m 6xtI3ct: <
 "Jencken., withal. is fa-ajic and of Ill things on ehrth I da5est fanatics he most Have you Tsa1 of the ; laughter of thha Philadelphia sTil,Hual anatics? Only imagine their invent d spirit r1Eas, az ;n the list EYE Billy he booabl2ck, Rsd Cloud, Sri-lt Wa { CT, etc, etc. They had the nams of ] he Bleszsi Virgin. What old fcols! )ne of the faithful was Mir. S.. one : f. tba b5 3 3f eP6a5a f6i5sas5Da:i dol