Arizona republican., 1905-03-19

touched off a music box to accompany her for a skirt dance with her robes. done that all myself; it was little invention of my own,and was recog- nized with universal appreciation.
 That was the time for Lillian to manifest herself, and I done 1t artistic. First she rapped and conversed with me in the spirit whisper back of the curtains. You could hear Mrs. Hig gins in the audience drawin' in her breath sort of awesome.
 I says for the spirit, in a little pipin' voice: "Tell mamma not to mourn, be- cause her lamentations flinders my ma terialization. The birds is singin' and it is. oh, so beautiful on this shore"
 Then commandin' the believers on the front seats to join hands in a circle of mutuality, in order to assist the sister on the other shore to put on the astral symbols of the flesh I material ized her nice and easy and gradual
 We was prepared for demonstrations on the part of Mrs. Higgins so when she advanced I began to let it van ish, and the physic circle of clasped hands stopped her while I done the job up good and complete. She lost con- sciousness on the shoulder of Mrs. Schreiber.
 
 details of my career, my business and religious relations with Mrs. Higgins was the beginning of my success. My self and the little circle of believers that guarded the front seats from the protrusions of skeptcaI, parties that come to scoff, and not infrequently come up as earnest inquirers after my control had passed-we lived easy on the proceeds.
 Mrs. Higgins would bring tears to your eyes, she was that grateful She repaired the place for me so 1t was the envy of the unsuccessful in the pro- fession. She had it fixed with stucco like a grotto, and wax calla lilies, and notices and beautiful spirit paintin's (Mrs. Schreiber done them out of the air while she was under control-a hundred dollars apiece she charged). and nice curtains over the cabinet, embroidered in snakes, eyes inside of triangles and discobuluses. Mrs Hig- gins capitalized the expense. When ever we done poor business, We orfgi- mated some new manifestations for Mrs. Higgins. She received ample re- muneration. She seen Lillian every Tuesday and Sunday. Very semi -occa- sionally, when the planetary conditions favored complete manifestation. used to let her hug Lillian and talk to her. That was a tremendous strain, invol- win the use of ice to produce the prop CT degree of grave cold, and my blood nearly conglomerated whenever cir cumstances rendered it advisable.
 All human relation draws to a close in time. After seven long years of the most ideal communication between myself and Mrs. Higgins and the rest of the Phychic Truth Society. they came a time one evenin' when I seen she was missin'. Next day we received message that she was indisposed. We sent Madame La Farge, the medical clair yoyant, to give her treatment, and word came back that them designin' relatives that always haunt the last hours of the passing spirit with mer- cenary entreaties, had complete dom ination over her person. l visited to console her myself, and was rebuked with insinuations that was a insult to my callin'. The next day we learned | that she had passed out. We was not 1 even admitted to participate in the funeral obsequies.
 The first Sunday that she was in the | spirit Mrs. Schreiber was for material | izin' her. I favored omittin' her. think | in it would be more fittin', you under | stand, and more genteel. But We had some very wealthy sceptics in the cir cle, we was tryin to convince. and Mrs. l Schreiber said they'd expect it. Against Toy better coUnsels, seein' that Mrs. l Higgins was a mighty fine woman and give me a start, and l got a partiality for her, I took down my best spirit form and broadened it some, because IT haa hot e,t,e passed out.
 After little Hookah had done her regular dance that Sunday night I got the hymn started, and announcin' that the spirit that rapped was a dear one known to 'em all. I pulled out the new form that I had just fixed, and waited for the tap on the cabinet to show that all was ready. I didn't like to do it. I felt funny, like something would go wrong. But I pulled the string, and then-O God!-there-in the other corner of the cabinet-was Mrs. Higgins-Mrs. Higgins holdin' her arms across the curtains and just look in at me like her eyes was tearin' through me!
 They seen somethin' was wrong, and Mrs. Schreiber got the robe away be- fore they found me-they said my con- ITO1 WAS to SlTOnB-aIu some Sllu 1 was drunk. did get drunk. too, crazy drunk. next day-and when I come round, Mrs. Schreiber tried to do cab inet work with me on the front seat and there I seen her-in her corner just like she used to sit-and I never went back.
 But a man has got to eat, and when my money was gone and I wasn't so scared as I was at first, I tried to do test seances, sayin' to myself maybe, she wouldn't mind that-and the first article I took up, there she was in the second row holding-oh, couldn't get away from it-holdin' a locket just like she done the first night I seen her.
 Then I knew I'd have to quit, and I hiG frora the circle-they wanted me because Mrs. Schreiber couldn't make it go. I slept in the Salvation Army shelter so as not to be alone. and she let me alone for a while.
 But today I seen a party in the street