Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-03

teriously) cautioned the audience, how
ever not to permit any one besides
themselves to touch the paper upon
which their note was written or the en-
velope containing it, as such an act of
indiscretion would destroy the individ
uality impressed upon it of the soul
with whom the spirits would commune
through him. Everyone was scrupu-
lously careful about allowing their notes
to be handled by another, but notwith-
standing, two women employed as uSh-
ers in the hall, who were of course or
dained with psychic power" and there
fore would not destroy the atmosphere
of sanctity or something or other that
pervaded the missives, looked the notes
over intently One could not help Won
dering, however, if some current of
thought or soul intelligence that ema-
mated from the touch of countless work.
men, and of statesmen who had handled
the paper upon which the precious mes
sages were written, would not collide
with the psychic transmission of
thought produced by the writer's, and
fairly stump the great magi who posed
as the mediator between mortal and
spirit
"Maanetism" Destroyed
This did happen occasionally evil
IDENTIFY, for there We're times when the
medium failed to answer question
rightly or assigned too many wives or
children to a man, and he waived the
mistake by stating simply and conVinc-
ngly that the note had been destroyed
OF it's ma gnetism by some disturbing
element or being defiled by the touch OF
some one other than the author. This
explanation was always accepted with
the most innocent trust, and with in
creased admiration for Doctor Slat-
er's marvellous intuition in discovering
Just why the spirits could not answer
the questions. Doctor" Slater is GER
tainly a wonder-he should have been
politician.
One man named Crater, faithful
believer in mediums and their practices,
had written some questions totally ir-
relevant to the answer given him by
Slater. Slater succeeded in calling the
mans initials, probably by kindness of
the women who supervised the deposit
ing of the notes, but at any rate he told
the man that he had a brother. This
was a very safe venture. and when the
medium observed the light of assent
in Crater's eyes he ventureC still fur
ther and took the risk of saying that
Crater's brother lived in the east. AS
nearly everyone i'm California has at
least some relative living i'm the east,
this was also a comparatively safe guess
Tor even psychic to make. But Ike a
wise clairvoyant, he paused at this
point and allowed Crater's marVeling
to burst into enthusiastic speech. Cra-
ter said that his brother had lived i'm
Chicago, was a switChman on a freight
train and had fallen off the cars one
day and BEEN The spirits then began
an animated conversation with Slater
about Crater's brother, and the medium
broke in: Yes, | see it all! I see youl
]
uncouplng; a mail car was approach
| ing from the rear and ran over youl
| dear brother.
But he was not instantly killed" he
continued, while the audience gasped
! in amazement TO think it possible tina
/ man could be run over and not killed
/ Crater courteously agreed TO all that
/ the psychic said, but when seen after
| the performance by a Herald reporter
/ he said that his brother had been in
stantly killed. and instead Of being
struck by a train from the rear had
fallen beneath the wheels Of his owl
train.
Woman Smokers
| Another case where the spirits anc
! the mediator apparently became mud
died was when Slater told a woman
I'm the audience with the initials of j
w. that there was some family trouble
that was worrying her a great deal
nearly driving her to distraction Will
It's depressing influence. The woman
only snickered all the While and wheI