The National tribune., 1909-12-02
PEOPLE.

The italian medium, Signora Eusa.
pia Palladino, who has been very much
in print these past years, and who is
said to have converted the celebrated
lcriminologist, Lombroso, to spiritual
liSm, does not seem to have given any
very remarkable evidence of fer pow
ers since coming to our shores. To be
sure. she probably breaks the record
on table raisingS, since she mcde one
ascend to level with the electric light
fixture, more than Six feet. which no
one else appears to have done, but her
exhibitions otherwise consist of the
usual waving of ghostly hands, play
ing of musical instruments, etc, all of
| which strikes the mind of the layman
as very trivial things for real spirits
to be doing. That some people pos
Isess a psychic power which has never
| been satisfactorily explained is con-
ceded by all, but the usual manifesto
tions gwen by mediums are of so light
| and insignificant a character, the con-
versations held by the departed ones
with those still in the flesh so idiotic,
usually, that many earnest seekers for
the truth attending these seanceS who
come to pray have remained to scott
Ito reverse the familiar quotation.
Surely our dear ones who have gone
| before, if they wished to communicate
with us, would not do so by waving
ghostly hands making tables rise in the
air. playing on any instrument. nor
thru some strange personality entirely
unknown to US. like the Palladino's
good friend John" or the Indian
maiden" employed by some late me-
dunn. No, spiritualism, comforting and
beautiful a belief as it is, is far from
convincing to most of us presented as
it has been up to the present time.
Richard Watson Glider. one of our
best known literary men, died in New
York City on the 18th of November Of
| IL years old when he became the cdi-
| tor of paper, which four years later
came out with hot boyish enthusiasm
for Bell and Everett in the campaign
of 1860. During the third year of the
civil war he enl sted in Land's's Phila-
Idelphia Battery. and was under fire at
Carlisle. Mr.. Glider has been connected
with several newspapers and magazines,
| but is best known for his association
| with old Scribner's Monthly Magazine
(which later was converted into the Cen
| itury, of which for many years Mr. Gil
der has been editor-in-chief. His mar
| riase was rather romantic, having been
! introduced TO his wife by Helen Hunt.
the author, who brought to his Office
| one day the daughter Of Commodore
De Kay, and granddaughter of Joseph
| Rodman Drake. author Of that exquisite
poem THE Cu'prit Fay" with which
young woman Mr.. Glider proceeded at
once to fall in love. He afterwards
married the lady, who, with their five
children, survive him.
| 1t has been rather amusing to hear
the various comments made upon the
| recent marriage of DR.. Grenfeil to q
wealthy young society woman of Chi
cago DIR. GrenfeIl. as everyone knows,
cast his lot in with the Labrador fish
ern1en several years ago and has been
doing n noble work among them. That
he should have the teme~ity to ask any
woman to share such q life and lot has
made many people fairly gasp for
breath. 1t is true that he viii take his
bride to a land where the suns rays are
seldom seen, and where she will hardly
have the comforts enjoyed by the poor
| all over this country But that she
should for a moment be pitied for the
choice she -has made of a husband. Of
the use she has decided to make of her
youth, health. and various God-eiven
! gifts, is something no right-thinEing
woman can understand. What happier
| lot could any woman have than to be
the real helper of such a man as DIR.
| Grenfell. TO stand side by side with him
even in that chcerless Labrador coun-
| try, cheering and encouraging him In
| his noble. self-sacrGcIng work. and
sharing with him that inexpressib'e sat
isfaction and joy which only comes to
those who have really helped and
frightened the lives of just such un-
fortunates as these self-same fisher-folk
| of Labradori 1t is said that Mrs.
Grenfell has entirely caught the spirit
of her husbands work. and that she is
not only perfectly willing but most anx-
ious to endure its hardships with him,
which is undoubtedly quite true.
Mrs. o. II. P. Belmont, who has lately
taken up with so much energy the
cause of Womans Rights in this coun-
| try, has like her daughter. the Duchess
of Marlborough. large number of
these Is the annual Christmas tree
given by the Sittig Brooklyn Christmas
| Tree Society, which, for the past II
years, has gathered in the poor children
| of brooklyn on Christmas morning and
| made them happy by simple gifts and
right good time. Mrs. Belmont has
agreed to give this society 5000 dolls
for the coming Christmas tree. and each
of these dolls is to be dressed alike.
How? Why, in the beloved Stars and
Stripes.
The famous Hope diamond, that we
heard so much about when Lord Francis
| Hope ran off with and married May
Yohe, the concert singer, is not. i'll
seems, lost forever, as has been recently
reported. This celebrated stone. of a
blue color, is supposed to have come
originally from the Orient, and was for
many years in the possession of Louis
XIV. who loved pretty things as well
| as any woman. The stone changed
hands several times. bringing disaster
to each of its owners, it is said, until
finally it was bought by a wealthy
Turk who was one of the passengers on
the ill-fated steamer La Seyne and