The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-11
PAINS COME FROM
SPIRIT LAND HERE
Sometimes They Hit the Stomach
or Clog the Tongue, hut
Not Much.
FRANKS OF 1NNISIBLES
A Case OF Methodist Possession IL
Medium Is Not Decci,ing
Herself.
FRANKS OF lNNlSIBLEs

Sunday day of rest? For some peop,s
perhaps, but not for Zaida B. ka,es ot
Washington. ID. C.. who spent the long
hours OF the Sabbath day unselfshlv
having pains in the throat, stomach and
now on the right and now on the left side
OF her tongue in quick succession, for
the benefit of those i'm the audience in the
Spiritualist Temple at 1913 East Twenty
seventh street, who sought FOR sight
or sound of angel friends.
Before getting down TO business. how
ever. Mrs. Kates handed the reporters
one by asking why it was that the best
newspapers IN the country always sent
to Spiritualist meetings reporters who
knew so little.
They may be all right as far as politics
goes,- she said. but when it comes to
anything that savors Of gray matter,
they're not there"
Then, in spite of the horribly vitiating
air" in the room, she mana ged TO asce
a man." who came before her with a sense
OF loneliness; he belonged to "a little lady
frail as a flower that when morning comes
is not there" and was the grandest hu-
man" Mrs. Hates had ever known any,
thing about. The little lady must share
his presence. however. with another
woman sitting near her.
"Do you get me?'
Il understand the connection very
we'll" the little lady said significantly.
DO not sign the papers" she was
admonished. for your mother suffered
with the stomach and legs-I know it
because I ache so there
Then there was blind lady who made
you. dear madame lin the audiencel
do things she didn't want to-"and they
call il the fickleness of woman"
Has a beautiful young lady with lovely
blue eyes anything to do with you, my
dear?"
yes, all but the eyes,
After Jim Campbell had been around
walking down the aisle in three big cir
cles to tell a young man that he must
grow and not let those horrid individuals
whom Mrs. Hates would like to swear at
keep on Daggng him, Nettie was in the
midst of the company. "a little girl, with
beautiful. brownsy-that's the only word
for THAR. which just simply fiufrs, and
eyes Just like pansies" She was hugging
a doll that had grown old in service but
she was not for one dear little lady
spoke up first
At this pol Mrs. Hates began to get
"all stuffed up" as she said. The spirits
seemed to be having asthma.
Where did she get her power from,
Why. she firmly believed it was from her
grandfather who WIS a Methodist min
lister. and IL she was possessed Of tn,
devil then the devil was her best friend
we will not entertain you much longer,
announced the Rev. Richard Schleusner.
pastor OF the Temple Of Spiritualism, -but
we cannot escape one number on the pro-
gramme.
She from whom there was no ESCAPE
was Floy Cottrell. friend and coworker
OF Uncle Ike. and although the old boy
himself wasn't on the job Floy moved
with power among the multitude. knock
ing as she went. IT, did not affect her
control in the least that some independent
knocking was done by several men in the
audience who had canes
DR.. George b. Warne, president OF the
National Association of Spiritualists, had
something to say about the remark which
he said was made last year from the
bench by Chief Magistrate Kempner: Il
do not think spiritualism is a religion |
class it as species Of fortune telling"
We media are in good company. said
Or. Warne, "and the prophetic seers OF
the Bible must have been fortune tellers.
It's lucky for them that they don't live
IN Magistrate kempner's time