Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-01-23

and who greatly dlsapproved Of spirit
ualism during his life, but who. once
dead, took possession OF my arm 10 my
great surprise orc day, and said he
knew now that there were many things
he had not properly understood before,
and that he was always willing to help
me, He Is not as good as Or, siprlo,
however and do not often call on him
TO help me-"
AZ soon as he could leave me the boy
ran off to play with a comrade, evil
IDENTIFY beaing far more humanity bOylsh
than other-worldly His mother told
me impresslyely that he has cOmmuni-
cation with great number Of other
spirits, II Of them often speaking to
him consecutiycly. None Of them pre-
diets the future. nor Is the boy clair
voyant One OF them. named Gallon,
says he died in Peru 10 years ago and
was great traveller. He gives In writ
ing long lectures on spirirua ISM while
another PROT evidently he Joking
spirit Of the party, was matchmaker
OF Montlgny II Is seriously asserted
that he often winds the clocks " the
family and has occasionally mended
them.
Returning to the subject Of the spirit
OF Dr. Siprio, the boys mother con.
tlnued.
1T Is not unusual for him 10 say (al-
ways In writing through the boys
agency: This Is q case ! will visit to-
night and prescribe for tomorrow
This is done and with wonderful re-
suits"
CROWDS OF PATIENTS.
Naturally the peasants crowd to the
door whenever they are sick. and even
those of better classes do not dlsdain,
when the resources OF the family prac-
titioner do not succeed, 20 send an en-
V0y or to write and beg the aid Of the
extraordinary boy, The local doctors
scot and rage, but cannot explain the
cures.
| was so interested that ! asked
whether might attend a seance, which
| did another night wading through
deep snow In company with two Bel
CLAN journalists, one OF them was the
editor Of thu Journal de Chartered not
believer In spirtuallsm and inclined
TO doubt the spirit cures, though he
owned he had heard OF such marvellous
effects OF the herbal spirit treatment
that he was fairly puzzled. He had
like myself, paid a previous visit to
Chevelipont, and, struck by the reports
he heard on every side, decided to
test the wonderful spirit cures He
therefore described the case Of an old
lady who was very Ill, having been un-
able to sleep at all for many weeks.
She had, moreover a badly swollen
leg which no one had been able TO cure
and which prevented her walking and
kept her In bed.
After listening to the details the boy
withdrew few moments to a darken-
ed ROOM and emerged with a paper on
which was written, 81 win visit the pa
tient tonight A prescription followed,
Wholesome herb being required that
was not In the house-was TO be for
warded, The editor lived some distance
by train from Cheyelipont. and return.
ed home late without telling anyone Of
his errand. Receiving the medicine next
morning he called on his cid friend TO
recommend its use. Greatly to his
amazement he was told she had had the
first good night for weeks and that she
was still sleeping like a child. She has
continued to mend ever since the ont-
ment has cured the bad leg, and she Is
walking about. Such testimony from
the editor OF paper like the Journal
de Charlerol and man who is not a
spiritualist, was very striking.
sEvEN-FooT JUMP FROM A
TABLE,
The seance was n a Kitchen d.
vlded In two by /, ion about seven
feet high, one-half bt,Ag used for dis
pensary and the clerical work connect
ed with the quarry. The door between
was open and we were constantly In
and out. The room was absolutely bare
OF anything except the chairs and n
heavy kitchen table The party consist
ed OF about II, the Pirsch family, the
Belgian Journalists myself, and some
stolid looking peasants with certainly
nothing suggesting Imagination about
them, The boy sat at the head of the
table with a blank copy book and pen.
ell, and began writing under the inhu-
ence OF Gallon, the guiding spirit, as
soon as the room was darkened. The
boy wrote without ceaslng In absolute
darkness for an hour and a half the
only break in the silence being the
croaky voice Of the grandmother In the
chimney corner, who every time she
heard the three pencil taps which was
the spirit s'onal that the bottom OF the
page was reached, cried, turn, turn"
like some voice Of Fate,
The essay when finished land glad we
were when the drop OF the pencil on the
table gave the intimatlon that II was
ended proved 10 be a clever treatise
on splrituallsm. excelently worded and
admirably presented. II also touched
on religion and politics, and would have
been u pralseworthy production from a
man.
Many other spirit messages came lat
er on, but this and the table. turning
that followed differed little from ordI.
nary seances except that there were no
properties In the room to aid In any
cheating, The table was the most live
ly ! have ever seen. II endeav0red 10
climb the wall, and actually succeeded
IN leaplng the seVen-fOot partition into
the next room, The noise az II clatter-
ed about and turned top down on the
stone floor with resounding smacks was
deafening and by the end OF the even
Ing the top OF the table was well split.
A SPIRIT PRESCRIPTION.
The seance closed with A consultation
OF Dr. sprIo by the various persons
present on behalf Of their friends, and
letters were read from sick people anxi.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS