Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-06

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there and look, picture OF your dead
child yill come before you and you will
scream out and say, Eyes, yes" and
fakir has had that picture reproduced
on that canvass or that paper, made 1t
disappear by the use Of chemicals and
brought it back again by the use of
other chemicals, yet they try and tell
you that the spirits made that picture.
The miserable old liars! That Is one
Of their tricks. Spiritualism Is trick
cry.
There are two men, (rather there
were two, one Of them Is dead); this
one man, If I didn't have to go to q
theater to see him would rather see
him than any other man in the United
States. That is Kellar. Hermann
was just as skilled (Hermann is dead)
but Kellar and Hermann never claimed
to be anything but sleight Of hand per-,
formers. They never claimed anything
else. Why, Kellar can pull ribbon
enough out of a hat to start millinery
store. He can yank enough crockery
out of a plug hat to start grocery
store He can yank enough Belgian
hares out of bonnet to start a hare
farm. have great respect for him.
Kellar and Herman challenged the
| spiritualistic mediums and said, "You
take the stage one night and perform
your tricks and we will take the stage
the next night and will perform any
trick you perform and some you can't
| perform" These mediums always
have to perform their tricks in a
cabinet, with the lights turned on. It's
wonderful how sensitive they are
Sure! A burglar doesn't like to BUSH
ness in the daylight. either.
Most Arc Insane.
Most of the converts to spiritualism
have been made insane by grief. The
last medicines have been given, they
have kissed the baby goodbye, the
mourners have gone, the hearse has
carried the little one to the grave yard
and has come back empty. Now, on
the scene come these miserable people.
They will gather up fragments Of his,
tory (and they always have their con-
federates), and they will weave it to-
gether, and at the mere mention of the
dead baby's name the mother goes in
to Mysteries, then they come on with
the slate writing, the picture business,
and all that.
You know, the greatst. feats of me-
diumistic power are nothing compared
with the mysteries of mind-reading.
The devil has supernatural! power I
hold in my hand clipping from the
Scientific American written by man
who had been a spiritualistic medium,
was converted, and he makes an ex-
pose of their trickery. He gives an ac-
count Of their favorite tricks-read
what you put on paper, make the pen
ell write on the slate, and down at the
bottom the handcuff trick. That is
one of the favorites. A pair of hand
cuffs is furnished by the audience, and
by the audience is put on the perfor-
mer while he stands on the stage, and
then, with the handouts locked, the
performer takes his place in the cabi-
net, the door is shut, and in few
minutes he steps out with the hand
cuffs removed from his wrist but still
locked Then they will put the hand
cuffs on him, he will step into the cab
met. and presently he will step out with
his coat off and the handouts on his
hands locked. And the people will sit
there and look at these feats and be
astonished. What is the explanation
This. There are only a few style hand
cuffs made in this country. All that
the performer has to do-and that is
what he does dds TO secure the key
(Which will unlock any style. handcuff)
place this key in a crack in the cabinet,
and then he fits the key to the keyhole
of the handouts either by his fingers
or with his teeth. And the people
think the mysteries have come from
heaven, and let him out. You lying
scoundrel! The spirit that was there
had great horns and long tail. That
is the only spirit that had anything to
do with you.
Bless the Lord She Died.
read of a medium that foretold the
day and the hour she was going to die,
and that day, and at that hour, bless
the Lord, she died. And when the
doctor came with his stomach pump he
pumped enough strychnine out of her
to kill ten women. suppose some old
medium could tell me what kind of a
looking fellow my grandfather was, If
I should show her his picture first. 1t
is wonderful what knowledge they
have, marvellous.
have walked with Gibbon and
Hume down the deserted hall of past
glory; have caught the vision of en-
pires and republics still languishing in
the dust; have seen the blind Homer
as he rushed nladly on; I have seen
Angelo as he carved his dream from
the marble; have seen Alexander the
Great as he sat on the shore of the
Aegean sea, as he wrapped the drapery
of his couch about him and sighed be-
cause there were no more worlds tc
conquer; ] have seen all history as Il
passes before me: but as / have
walked thru the cemeteries of nations
upon the tombstones Of none do I read
Oiled from Free Silver" DIED from q
Gold Standard Died from Free
Trade" Died from Protective Tariff,
Died from Stand patterism," "Died
from Republicanism," Died from Mu-
nicipal Ownership" All rotted into
hell because they defied the true Coo
and made the bible Of non effect and
spurned and repudiated every measure
God could send or every rebuke he
could hurl AGAINST them.
Look at poor old Spain! Three hun
dred years ago the greatest nation or
, earth! Her army made the worl6
. tremble. One hundred years later he,
glory had scattered like the leaves be.
, fore November's blast For $50 years
Spain stood with her heel on the .necl
of struggling, bleeding. dying Cuba
The Spanish falcon ripped and tore a,
the heart Of the Cuban. when from thu