The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-14

worry. / am watching over you all the
time. ] am with you as much of the time
as L can spare from my other duties l
love TO be with you. dear. and j am with
me-"
Are you my darling?" asks the wo-
man. with a note of suppressed joy in her
voice.
Yes. | must go now / do not come
often, and / am not strong enough TO
stay long Goodbye. dear. You must
not worry So"
Goodbye" sighs the one in the audi
ence. and the vision" from the spirit
world" disappears behind the black cur
tain.
asks for others of the departed ones and
asks why they. too do not come to offer
their words of consolation, and give their
messages of love.
have work TO do They are not strong
enough to come vet, but they will come
some other night
Coin Lured From GulIibIe.
The old come on" game again and the
listener to whom the message" has been
given will part with another hard-earned
half dollar in the vague and indistinct
hope of receiving some other message
from the loved ones who have gone to
the country from whose bourne no trav-
eler returns"
Hoping against hope that the message
they have received may be true. yet with
a seed of doubt still springing in their
hearts, these men and women go TO the
private materializatiOns. and pay SO in
order that they may have another inter-
view in private with their loved ones who
have passed away. i'm the privacy of the
individual materaliZations
Night after night the curtain parts. and
the voice of one of the Arnold-D Dickson
brothers. disguised in fleeting whis-
pers lures the victims to come again
ana part with other dollars for the
shadow of comfort which they think they
receive
Thus the stream of coin flows into the
hands of these men. enabling them to
build costly buildings, enabling them to
maintain private offices and live in ORR
entail, almost barbaric. splendor upon the
credulity of the poor and ill-informed
mus they are permitted by the au-
thorities to gather in the shekels from
those who are easily persuaded and who
are not, IN many cases. in a position to
purses.
The same formula is followed at every
! Thursday night meeting. Sometimes
| there are three. four or a half dozen
spirits in view of the audience at a
time. Sometimes two or three are talk
| ing at the same time. 1t has been noted
| that there are a number of Swedish men
and women in the audiences at times
and these people are addressed in their
| own language by the Spirits
Arnold is almost invariably the spokes-
/ man in these gatherings. while Dickson
| is In the cabinet and leads in the singing.
High Priced Kind.
At the private seances it is different.
] 1hlS is the 50 variety. and one naturally
| expects to get a little more for his money
| tian at the common dollar variety He
| gets il.
AS before stated. not more than two
! persons, and these must be relatives. are
! allowed to attend one private sitting. Ar
| mold may be seen in the office when the
| appointment is filled, but he is not seen
! afterward. Dickson is the leading light
| in these ''materializations
| As in the Thursday night sessions the
| room is dark save for the weak light
gwen by the single lamp at the rear OF
the room. Dickson is alone with the ap-
! pliCantS for the naturalization. After
! one spirit shows itself while the spec
tors are in the cabinet they are asked
! to retire to the body of the auditorium
| while Dickson remains in the cabinet.
In these seances Dickson has as a body
guard what purports to be the ''spook
o. little Indian girl about IA years old
whose familiar name is Minnie" Min
ME" has DicksOns voice exactly. though
she never speaks above n whisper.