New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-09
'SP0OKS IN A SPAT
WITH UNBELIEVERS
One kitteniSh Ghost Pulls
the Chair from Under
a ChrOniCIcr.
SPIRITS GATHER
IN FINAL SESSION
Astral CONFUSION Rocks Circle.
State Meeting Ends and Wraiths
Get Carfarc Home.

1881 last evening hual astral con
vulslon shook pabst circle TO its axis
Mrs Zaida Brown Nstcs slipped Spooi>
named William the return coupon Of his
ticket and the threc-day meeting Of the
New York state Association OF Spiritual
lists Ggurati,ciy and literally gave up the
ghost
There were three cvcntful meetings yes
terday. The spiritualists. M fact. barely
bad time between sessions to 20 down
stairs and get something to cat and
well. to get something TO eat.
In the first place the spiritualists don
care Il bit Tor the way the reporters have
Teen treating the exceedingly serious do
inss w AT the Circle. and yesterday aftcr'
noon they said So. or course that was al
right. but when they persuaded a spirit to
sneak up behind reporter and pull his
chair from under him that was carry ing
The matter prcttv far. BE that as it may.
the chair collapsed. and 50 did the re-
porter. and spiritualists around the room
nodded their heads solemnly and said that
At the evening session Mrs. Hates hung
up a new mark for mediums TO shoot at
by bringing man UP the aisle on horse
back. When this man went 10 the other
world he had found the horse there
ahead Of him. she said lie was IAN in
tellectual man, pure and simple with
eyes that could grow so cold that YOU
felt you were in the midst Of a snow
storm" Did anybody recognize him?
Ghost in Uniform.
Has he got uniform on" asked a
lady in the front row.
YES; ! sec him wearing a uniform
Then" replied the lady. II recognize
him. and 50 do you. lie is Colonel Dur
roll. Of Washington, and think remem-
Der introducing him 70 you one day."
But. no; the medium didn't know the
gentleman, and was not even on speaking
terms with the horse. 1t was purely a
spiritual accomplishment, and did the
lady understand the horse? She said she
did.
Dr. George e. Warne, the president,
spoke at the evening meeting and put
the stamp OF spiritualstic approval on
the Bible 1t contains he declared.
some Of the sublimest information that
the human brain has ever listened TO.
There was no need. he said, for him 10
tell that to so intelligent an audience. he
knew II was an intelligent audience,
though he didn't say so, by the manner
in which members OF it wisely nodded
their heads from time TO time in conir-
nation of his strong points.
Surely, he said. the audience remem-
bered the well known case of Hiram
Powers, the great American sculptor. who
went 10 bed one night and saw hand
some man and woman standing on the
wall II was what he had been wanting
TO see for twenty-five years.
At the afternoon meeting conditions
could not have been better for spiritual
work. When Mrs. Hates arose to per-
form she said there were so many spirits
lowering around that she Just didn I
know where TO begin. Then she conjured
I'D a lady with black shawl and de-
scribed the shawl so realistically that
two women recognized the spirit, and
each swore she had the very shawl at
home, packed away with the extra
blankets.
Spook's Bonnet Slips.
There was a spook named Nancy Strong
who had probably been through good
deal because her bonnet had slipped
down over her left ear A gentleman VINO
had sat next TO Mrs. Rates on the plat
form recognized Nancy instanter, and the
reunion was touching. There was Carrie.
with a strong will--so strong a viii, ac-
cordins to the medium. that one assumed
II must have been Carrie Nation.
1t remained for Little Nell. however, TO
touch the hearts OF the multitude. Little
Nell. said the medium, was some Chick
en-" though that isn't exactly what she
called her. She said something about her
having pure blue eyes and sun-kissed
brown hair and being dainty mower
plucked from the something or other
Little Nell appeared early in the alter
noon and wandered up and down the
aisles for hours. with none TO recognize
and claim her She had a message but'
lacking a Dave" Belasco, she couldn't
get it across.
In the midst Of things the medium
paused 10 tell q man IN the audlehce that
he looked just like his mother in the
spirit world. and the resemblance would
be closer if he'd shave off his whiskers.
The man said this was true.
: j. Richardson. vice-president Of the
association, was cheered for three min
utes when he declared that Christian
Science is a lie because ii teaches us that
we are not sick, and then demands heal
ers 10 cure U.S.