The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12
Professor Vango
(copyright by Mcclure, Phillips & Coz

Copyright by Mcclure, Phillips & Coz
COFFE1I JOHN looked the thin,
black-cyed stranger over calmly
and judiclally. You'll be one as
lives by is wits,-an' yet more from tho
lack of 'cm in other people. especially
fcmylcs," tho proprietor declared. Yer
one o. ten tharsand in this tarn as
picks UP easy money, II SO be they's
no questions arsked. But II amt mis-
took. ycr'vc come q cropper, an yer
amt much used to swcatin for yer
salary. But that don't explyne wy yer
lad to tumble into this plyce like the
devil was drivin' yer, an put darn
swig O. 'ot coffee to dram yer con-
science, like. Clay Street want atirc,
nor yet in no dynger o. bcin' flooded,
SO I'm switched If | twig yer gyine!'
Well, l have got a conscience" be-
gan the stranger, though I'm no worse
than many what make simultations to
be better, and 1 never give nobody
nothin' they didn't want, and wasn't
willin' to pay for, and why shouldn't
get it as well as any other party?
Secin' you don't know any of the par
ties, and with the understanding that
all say is in confidence between
friends, professional like, I'll tell you
the nisfortunes that have oYercamo
me- Sc he began.
THE STORY OF THE EX-MED1UM.
| am Professor VnnSo, trance. test,
business, matcrinlisin', sympathetic,
harmonic inspIrationnl and dcvelopin'
medium, and independent slate writer.
Before I withdrew from the profession.
them and had comforted and reunited
said that I was by far the best In
existence. My tests was Of the sort
that gives satisfaction and convinces
even the most skeptical. My front par
lor was thronged every Sunday and
Tuesday eyenin' with ladies, the most
gcnteel and elegant, and gentlemen.
When really learned my powers
was palm and card reader. Madame
August. the psychic card reader and
Reno Seeress, give me the advice that
put me In communica ton. She done
It after q joint rcadn' we give for
the benefit OF the Astral Seers' Pro-
tectIvc Union.
''ynngo," she sayc--I was usn' the
namo "Vango" already; it struck me as
real tasty-'Vango," she says you're
wastin' your talents. These is the days
when men speak by inspiration You
got genius; but you amt no palmist-"
why amt II" ! says, KNOWN all
tho time that they was somethin'
\"
You're genius" says she, "and You
lead where others follow; your idea
OF tellin' every woman that she can
write stories II she tries Is one OF the
best ever conceived, but II you don't
mind me sayin' 1t, as one professional
to another it's your face that's wrong"
My face?" says ].
Your face and your hands and your
shape and the balance of your physi-.
ri.
brown is best, but blue will do-and
lots OF looks and easy love-makin'
ways that you can hang a past to, and
I'm frank to say that you aint got
'em. You have got platform talents,
and you'll be phenomena where you
can't get near enough to 'em to hold
hands. Test seances Is the future OF
this business. Take few developin'
sittin's and you'll see"
For the time, disappointment and
chagrin overcome me. Often and often
since I have said that sorrow is q
means Of development for party.
That's where ] learnt it. Next year I
was holdin test sennces in my own
room and maxim spirit photographs
with my pardner for ample remunera-
tiOn OF course, ! made mistakes. but
can assert without fear Of success
full contradiction that l brought truo
communication as often as any OF 'em.
Once sized up woman that wore
black before ! had asked the usual
questions-which is O risky thing to
do, and no medium that values repu-
tation will attempt it-and told her.
about her husband that had passed out
and give message, and she led me on
and wrote me up for them very pn-
pers that was advertisin' in ana al
most ruined my prospecks. You get
such scoffcrs all the time only later on
you learn to look out and give 'cm
rebukes from the spirits. 1t amt no
use tryin to get ahead of US, rs +
used to tell the people at my scances
that thought ] was collision, be-
cause they've only got themselves; but
we've got ourselves and the spirits be-
side.
1t wasn't long In the course Of event.
ualities before I was ordained by the
Spirit Psychic Truth Society and elect
cd secretary of the union, and gcttin'
my percentages from test and trance
moetin's Mt pythInn Hail. 7 was non.