Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-03

duce it here although / did not sign it and
the matter was never again mentioned:
I, the undersigned, hereby make applica-
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS 49,
for adnittance to one Of its classes for the
demonstration Of PSYCHE Phenomena, pledg-
for the government Of said classes.
Name ..................... ..............
Services every Sunday at II am.
"'Classes Sundays and Thursdays. s pm.
Special classes by request
Do you get slate Wrinng. Mr.. Emner?'
mo, have neves been able to develop
"'Do you do spirit photographic That
was what I was most In search of, but
looked indifferent until he answered:
IT expressed SO much Joy at finding
medium who could really take picture Of
my dear, dead friends that his face lighted
up, too. He arose to get me some samples
of his work, and became deeply interested
in his exhibit He had q little bit of a his
tory for each one. There were faces Of
prominent men on nearly all of them.
oh. I'd give the world to have my pic
ture taken with those of my friends on the
other side | exclaimed. Gould you get me
their pictures?'
"'Yes, think so. might not be able to
get them the first sitting, though. You see
who don't know anything about photog-
raphy; don't know that it is possible for
them to. have their pictures taken. Now.
notice this picture And he showed me the
picture of a woman with several spirit
faces about her. She sat twelve times be-
fore she got a thing
My! I could not spare the time, and
do not see how could do that
THE fact vas. did not propose to pose
more than once at s. per, and wanted him
to understand it from the first. I was con-
tinuing, when he interrupted.
An appointment.
The best way to do is TO make an ap-
pointment.'
An appointment I echoed. What do
you mean?'
Why, 1 mean make an appointment
with your spirit friends to sit with you for
their pictures at a certain time on GER
tain day, and then they will be sure to be
there Had this woman pointing to the
picture) made an appointment she would
not have had to sit so many times
Mr.. Emner said he could not make an
appointment for me: that would Rave to
go to thoroughly reliable Che emphasized
stnoroushly reliableD medium, and then
northwest. You can depend upon anything
she tells yon. Aets see, this is Monday
evening; she has circle this evening, and
there
II was silent and he added quickly:
There's another trouble, too, when an
appointment is not made. Spirits who are
entire strangers to the person sitting are
apt 10 crowd into the picture. I've met
with instances where the picture did not
contain single face that was recognized
by the party sitting. Those cases are rare,
OF course. but spirits are just like mortals,
they love to have their pictures taken
AS arose to go, he handed me one of
MRS. Warneke'S cards, and / promised to
De there that very evening. And kept my
promise and learned many things which
n rntia nf
the mediums fertile brain which sprung
INTO active being by reason of few sug-
gestions dropped every now and then.
At the Mediums.
when 1 arrived at the home of the
medium I found most of the seats al
ready taken, and the medium seated in one
corner ready to float off into space and
call up the spirits from the other side
by long distance phone. invisible, of course.
She eyed me closely with her keen brown
eyes, but looked down and took a seat
l shall not attempt a description of the
circle, for the real Star reporter has prom
ised to meet me here next Monday night,
ana l shall leave the description to him.
But l might add, by way of explanation,
that the medium commenced when she
came to me by eXclaiming she saw a lady
standing by my side calling me child. 1t
was my business to call her mother and
the medium quickly took it up and noting
by black apparel, said: Yes, it is your
mother and she is laughing She says:
Child, don't worry, for am so happy, so
happy! This was somewhat of a surprise
to me, since l had only recently left my
mother in the flesh. Then. by gentle lead
ing, discovered through the medium that
I had baby in the spirit world. This was
embarrassing, since have never been mar
ried and when she called the baby Charlie
or Harry, l said 1 recognized Harry. Then
she saw Mrs. E. D. E. N Southworth, the
hx
me, having been brought by my mother.
She was to be my guardian spirit and d.
rect my literary work. When 1t came time
for me to make an engagement with that
crowd of spirits, all I had to do was to
mention the fact to the lady, and she ar
ranged 1t for me for Friday morning
told her 1t would be impossible for me to
go on that day, whereupon she closed her
eyes turned her head to one side, listened
to the tiuttering of the spirits wings and
said she had arranged it all right, and the
spirit friends would be at Emner's Sunday
morning.
While my confederate was waiting for
the time to come when she could attend
a seance at the Emners and have her pic
ture taken, strolled around to Mrs. War
neke's, having previously arranged to meet
my co-investigator there to outline the plan
of the morrow.
At Mrs. Wnrnekc's Circle.
Twenty-nine material beings and sixty
nine spirits filled the little front parlor of
Mrs. Warneke's house last Monday evening
and participated in 'crcle." A Circle
let me explain for the benefit of the unin-
itiated. is a collection of people who pay
% cents each to receive messages from
their spirit friends in the other world. OF
| the twenty-nine who figured Monday even
! ing in the exercises twenty-seven of them
| at least believed something of what they
heard. The other two We're Star reporters
and they were hard propositions 1t was
my purpose before finishing the article on
spirit photography to pay a visit to the
home of Mrs. Warneke and participate in
| one of her sittngs for the purpose at least
of corroborating what my confrerie had
already learned. 1t was with some misgiv-
| ings of being found out that l rang the
door bell of the little frame dwelling at
IDS I street northwest for already the
word had gone forth among the spiritual
| lists that a representative of The Star was
| looking up the matter of spiritualism. My
misgivings gave way to absolute fear when
| the door was opened and I found a goodly
audience awaiting the arrival of the spirits
Hastily CHANGING around the room. l To-
| Gated my co-worker in the front row. look
| ing demure you please, tightly clasping
| her spirit photograph and anXiously await
| ing an explanation by the great medium of
the faces lowering around her.
| Let me describe this circle. as it was