Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-03

was dignified, though cordial, and pos
sessed certain sense of humor which
led her TO perpetrate joke about the
so-called next friends whom she re-
ferred to as 'nexters.' There was no
tremor, no affectation of speech, and
besides certain amount of slight
deafness, | found nothing the matter
with her. She fully understood the
nature and object of my visit and was
willing, as long as she could, to an
swer my questions. In doing so she
did not manifest any excess of feeling.
but responded quickly and intelligent
ly when she heard what was asked
her.
THE interview was opened by her
disavowal of any prejudice against
physicians. In fact she said that her
cousin was regular doctor who, had
become homeopath and that her
father had believed that he was get
ting crazy because he adopted this
method OF practice; but that he, how
ever, had taken care of Mrs. Eddy.
who had gotten better, and then she.
| herself, had commenced series of
experiments, gradually giving more
and more feeble medicines until she
gave those with no potency whatever,
but her patients got we'll Just the
| same. She, then referred to her ex-
posures of spiritualism, which for a
time she had become interested in
She said that she had afterwards in
vestigated various religions at differ
ent. times criticising the older minis
tiers, and finally adopted the idea that
Infinite love and salvation were uni
versal; in other words, that she adopt
ed her present faith and that it was
the evolution from her earlier expert
ences.
she reIerred to the fact that she
had done and was performing a enor-
nous amount of work. which know to
be true. She said that she had no
doubt that she was going to win In
this matter, and that her followers had
done much to help her, and that she
would like to have me on her side.
In answer to questions about her
affairs, she said that she had put her
property into the hands of three trus-
tees, Henry M. Baker, Archibald Nc
Lellan and Mr.. Fernals, of Concord:
that 1t was chiefly In bonds, but that
she had other property, and that she
did this because 1t was in conformity
with her faith and that no man could
serve two masters, God and Mammon.
She said that she would do this to see
that her money would go eventually
where she wanted 1t to go, that is. to
tire church she had established. She
stated that she had taken care of her
son, built him house and furnished II
from top tc bottom and had done ey-
erything for rim; that in February
last she had put mt-ey in trust for
him; that he had not raid his insura
ance nor his poll tax nor his other
taxes and that she felt that he was
running in debt and that she had made
a trust of one hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars and had but it
into the hands.6f that honest man
(pointing to NJ Streeter) and two
Others hefeferred to the fact that
many years before, when her husband
died. SHE asked her son to come home.
saying, you are all have; come
home and stay with mother and I will
let you have all my property, all my
real estate. Here Is a home up here
and mother waiting for you if you will
come home and live with me- But he
refused She referred to the condi-
ton In her trust deed that George
Washington Glover and Andrew Jack
son were to have different forms of
education. She declared that the trus-
tees Of the deed were Mr.. Baker. Mr..
Mcclellan and Mr.. Fernald; that she
mad chosen Mr. Baker because he was
good and successful man to be trust
ed, and that the others would dispose
OF her money conscientiously.
Then she said that her propertv
was mostly in bonds; that she could
not be tempted to invest in stocks. not
even preferred stocks, and that upon
one occasion she had taken the advice
OF one OF her students and had lost fen
thousand dollars and that she has
never bought stocks since. When
asked II she had been interested in
mining stocks, she said, No, / despise
mining stocks When asked, has anv
one ever tried to make you buy mining
Stocks? she replied, Yes, indeed
when asked who, she replied. NV
son. She said that when she bought
ponds she always picked out lust
tnose she wanted, government or mn
nlclpal bonds, and that when she Sc
iected any, she had book which she
consulted in regard to the population
OF the chief Cities and that she would
ma out what that population was be-
iore she would take any interest in
tnem, because 1t was safe to know If
the community was responsible. When
asked If 1t made any difference about
the size of the cities. she said, yes
sne found 1t did, and that she had al,
ways formed an estimate of their
wealth. 'n
Throughout the entire conversa-
tion she showed no evidence whatever
,fo1
manifest any decisions, which she
probably would have done had she
been a paranoiac, as 1t has been Al
serted she was, nor did she once refer
70 malicious animal magnetism. which
= understand was alleged to be an evI.
dence OF her state of mind. In person
she was neat and clean and I am in
formed IS most careful about the CON
dltion OF her house, quickly noting any
changes that may be made in the ar
rangcment Of the furniture, books or
decoration; that she gives her own or
ders, manages her own servants and
suggests the selection NJ food r,,.~s-