Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-17
Spookist Is Sleepy

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Spookist Is Sleepy
He dropped into the chair opposite
me and leaned his head on the back of
the chair. In a minute his eyes closed
and he began to breathe heavily. Twice
he gasped and sat up straight.
When he evidently thought he had
sufficiently mystified me he asked me
to remove my glove. When 1 started to
take off my right one he said no, he
wanted my left hand.
l did as he requested and he took my
hand and stroked it couple of times,
obviously for the purpose of seeing
what rings 1 WORE.
Satisfied that 1 was not married he
thought he had a good start. He told
me my guiding spirit was Rosy and
that she was standing beside me. He
also called up from the astral world an
old man between 70 and so with gray
hair and girl with a huge pompadour
and hat over one eye, as he described
her.
All this time he lay back in the chair
with his eyes apparently closed and his
body lifeless. 1t was light enough, how
ever, to see that his eyes were only
half shut and that he was watching me
every three minutes he would be COM
PEELED to yawn, although he made
strenuous efforts to control himself
screwing his thin lips together and maxi
ing the lines from his nose to his mouth
run parallel
Talks SIush About Rosey
All this time his body was supposed
to be as that of a corpse.
,,t H. L,
trance" he told me Rosy would an
SWer any question l wanted to ask.
l asked him where 1 was born. He
pointed to the east and said: ROSY
says east; she cannot discern the state,
but she knows it is east" He could
hardly be anything but correct, since he
knew L was not a Chinese or a Jap
anese.
The next question was where is my
mother?" He replied, "She was in the
northeast" That was a comparatively
easy one, as when she had been there
the night before we had said we We're
going to Pasadena.
1 then asked him whether the land
would go up. Rosy's voice, speaking
through him, said: Reserve the land; !;
it will make you rich" l own no land
whatsoever.
His principal stunt was in telling the
dlHefent geOmetflcal signs that adorned
me. For exar pie he said 1 had a
triangle on my forehead with a sap
phire and two rubies, and that they
meant various things which 1 cannot
remember, as they We're so vaguely
given. He also said he saw me picking
flowers, Violets especially, and they
turned to large golden blossoms, SYM
bolizing the money would get from the
land owned.
Talks Rank Nonsense
He then told me, as is the custom
among all such people, 1 was medium
istic and If every evening before re-
tiring l would take a tablet of paper
and hold a pencil lightly in my hand
spirits would guide my hand and
would write all manner of things,
Probably to earn his money, he turned
to my cousin and said he saw man.
Herbert by name, standing beside him.
He told him, too, he was mediumistlc
and that he projected his astral body
out but that he must be careful and not
project 1t too far as he might get lost
and would not be able to return. As
an instance, he said, a woman, one of
his pupils, for some months had been
very anxious to project her tstral body
so one night to humor her he took her
with him on his travels through the
astral world. They went so far that