The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-24
HARRIERS ANNOY HBR.
INCIDENTS OF MRS. PEPPERS
FIRST AUTUMNAL SEANCE.

Letters or the ARrcSerent Ance.
Mrs. May q. Pepper. head OF the Brook
lyn flock OF true believers in spookery,
held services for the first time this season
at the Aurora Grata Cathedral in Bedford
avenue. Mrs. Pepper and Little Bright
Eyes, who tips of the medium as to what
Is going on "over there were right on the
Job with cheerful MESA ges for papa mama
and all the little ones.
About the first thing Mrs. Pepper did
last night was to let Printer Davis OF Spruce
street and David Goldberger, a pair Of
spook barriers that ave caused hes ex-
treme mental anguish, know that hereafter
she doesn't intend to pay any ate alton to
them and that she is going to run h>r own
church as she pleases. II the little printer,
who knows a few lodges himself in the
sealed envelope business, was present last
night he must have writhed at tho cruel
things Mrs. Pepper said about him.
The stout medium appeared as usual in q
flowing robe Of sombre hue with wide
and Tapping sleeves. She was greeted
with a murmur of applause by her followers
and rewarded them with a smile. She
preached for hAlfa an hour and left the gen.
eral impression that the early Christian
martyrs had e soft snap compared 70 her
job Of uplifting and beneiting humanity.
Then she turned to a small table which
was piled high with sealed letters.
There was a shifting and a bending for
ward in the seats. Mrs. Peppers face
frightened and you could tell at once that
Little Bright Eyes had slipped in at the back
door, past the old gentleman with bushy
whiskers who was making notes, past two
maiden ladies' in deep black. straight to
Mrs. p. After that it was Little Bright
Eyes who did the talking, and the little
one occasionally alluded to Mrs. Pepper as
IL that very substantial person we're miles
awav from Bedford avenue.
Obi" aid the medium. pnching the
air lightly with thumb and foreinger.
Here is Eliza Eliza wants 10 speak to
Thomas. Where is Thomas?"
Here, " said deep bass voice. the o wner
Of which shifted I'm easily in his seat.
Eliza says to tell you that there is to
way with an old GENT eman in The earth
life. Dye understand? l can see Eliza
making a sign with her mouth like a big
s. The old mans name is s. Do you
understand"
Il do, l do said the man agitatedly.
And that's all right" Mrs. Pepper re-
marked briskly, passing on to the next
cage.
GTanOmA ruler W8nDeO 10 speak 10 0or
granddaughter, but she didn't think grand
daughter would like the message. The
audience rubbered at the girl, who blushed
and fidgeted.
Grandma says she is going to tell you
what's best, but she knows you won't like
it, said the medium. She makes a d
and an s. You won't like that as well
as if she had made a d, now would your"
Mo-" faltered the young woman
Good Mrs. Pepper shot out briskly.
GTl.wala WtIfA AlhA1W hA1. n4nRAaNAA
with Willie? Wait a moment. It's Willie
Slater, as l live. He wants to talk.
I'm his father" came from a middle
aged man in the crowd.
Mrs. Pepper shook her head.
You won't do at all. He doesn't want
you. He wants his sister,
-Oh-h.- muttered the disappointed papa
Of little Willie.
How little Willie has grown exclaimed
when he went out. eh?'
Yes" murmured Willie's sister.
Look. look cried the medium. right
between Willie's father and sister. There's
a tall. beautiful woman. and right across
her forehead l see Lottie' written in bright
letters
Everybody looked for Lottie, but there
was not hing doing. Lottie didn't have
anything startling to communicate. and
Mrs. Pepper moved on.
William Powers sent word to a young
man that he would have been the young
mans uncle IL he hadn't died too soon.
He told the young man to throw away a
spirit photograph and try to see and bear
things himself.
Now, don't you let any doctor tell you
that indigestion causes IL when you see
spirits" said Mrs. Pepper emphatically.
William tolls me also that he is Watching
over Ed. who has been Misunderstood
The medium fumbled among the letters
and suddenly became rigid.
Who's asked about a ring2 l hear, a
spirit say Alice. Is that your Well, the
spirit says that Emma didn't lose that ring.
They took it,
oh, dearI" whispered a woman at the side
Yes, and il was a woman who took it,
Mrs. Pepper went on. Just keep quiet
and watch her and you'll get IL back. The
spirit says he's had his eye on that ring and
Can't do much about it, can youf Things
sometimes cross each other in this world,
don't they? Well, just watch and in good
time you'll get the ring
A spook that was silently frisdng around
Mrs. Peppers yellow hair was grabbed and
made to speak.
Hes making signs like a big T. said
the medium. ct, that's IL. l know. It's
Tom Todd. isn't it. now?.
Its Tom Todd"
We'll, Tom Todd says that he and his
m~other-in-law's family didn't get along
yer yWelI because they mad Inherent rellR-
ions, He says he Is looking out for your
boy"
4 lonely spook named william got Little
Bright Eyes's ear. He was hunting for
Tabitha, but Tabby wasn't in the house
william didn't like il very well, thought It
was ungrateful for relatives to act that
way, limited that he had important in
formation and finally skiddooed.
In the bunch Of letters were a dozen or
more that had been handed in by the spooh
busters. They had sealed those letters in
a peculiar way FASTING the flaps in a few
and others who AVE had III with Mrs.
Pepper say that letters which have been
sealed in that manner and read by the
medium were found afterward to be pasted
all along the flap. Last night Mrs. Pepper
lodged those letters.
Davis and his gang have run this church
two years, said she, but We are going tC
do as we please after this. l I'm not going
TO pay any attention to the mean tricks
they attempt to play on me-
Some Of Mrs. Peppers toTmentors gol
out a lot of dodgers last week and scattered
them through Brooklyn literally. Tb'
dodRer clio sed with this:
o. IL will be joyful.
II she doesn't get caught again,