The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-26
IN A REMINISCENT MOOD !
Henry M Wise Unearths Story of War and Litigation From
Old Court Record-Spritualism on Lookout Mountain.

to resist the invasion to the last ditch.
| The first thing her eyes fell upon was
oo%Se tSe "a bS Wnp
had enlisted promptly in the Union
army. 1t is said that Mrs. Snyder threw
up her hands in CONSERVATION and ex-
claimed, Why. Phinny! and subsidized.
evade the Union army, left Chattanooga
! with the Confederate troops. After this
| territory was safely in the hands OF the
United States forces. the bill which
! aroused all these memories was filed, !
and his property. including his mill and
his beautiful home, was sold. The next
| owner OF his home was Gen. Timothy
r., Stanley, one Of the many northern
soldiers OF eminence. who were attracted
to Chattanooga and settled here after
| the war. He win be remembered as
| the FIRST law partner of the late Keno.
| phon Wheeler. Mr.. Snyder went back
to Kentucky a ruined man: He died
there in the early seventies"
The Gen. Stanley spoken OF by my In
formant was Charles =. Stanley's
father. Charley. Stanley is remem-
bered by hundreds of present Chatta-
nooga residents.
splrltualIsm Of Long Ago.
To what extent spiritualism engages
attention in Chattanooga at present
have little idea. Certain II is that moro
and more as years pass and knowledge
persons adopt the dictum of Hamlet,
There are more. things in heaven and
earth. Horatto, than are dreampt of in
your philosophy" Within the recollec-
ton of many persons who are young,
modern spiritualism" was distinctly
militant hereabout. Chattanooga be-
came kind of center for the prornul-
CATION of this religion or philosophy,
and the general organization acquired
property on Lookout mountain for the
n q HIM NJ ~
place---a kind of fixed camp meeting.
Perhaps it would now take the name Of
spiritualists' chautauqua. These, as I
understood. were regular. orthodox
time quite coterie lived here who
were OF different type-more spectac-'.
ular, stricter observers of set times
and places" and especially methods of
demonstration. They became habitu-t
ated to a certain house on Cameron
hill as a rendezvous. It was by the old
reservoir and belonged to the water
company. The housewife was reckoned
medium" of extraordinary gifts.
Red.Hot Methodlsts.
The family moved out rather sud-
denly. and Col. A. M. Johnson, presi-
A. Hargravesl an employe. to move in
at once. He and his wife were, as he
phrases 1t, "red-hot Methodists of the
old school," But they thought of ,spir-
selves, especially when working late at
night, as they were Obliged to do for
some time, getting settled. He freely
admits that every unusual sound had
his closest attention. and his Methodism
could not protect him against hair
raising expectation of hearing rappings.
About week after they moved in some
ladies called and inquired for the me-
dunn. Being told she had left town,
they asked Mrs. Hargraves If she was
n OF nd haip iy,fn uha
was not, they said the spirits had been
coming there for years and would keep
coming until they learned of the medi-
ums permanent absence. But they
no Gears; they, would not harm any
BODY. One of them said. They will rat
tie this window first. then the door, and
then the other windows" Being told
about these things, Mr.. Hargraves ex-
amined the window first mentioned, and
finding 1t somewhat loose concluded
there would be nothing strange about
1t should some rafting be heard there
now and then-but they kept the sug-
gestions in mind. One Saturday night
school lesson in the room Of the loose
window. His wife was in the kitchen,
finishing her evenings work. when
suddenly that window ratified, good and
strong, BY the time he had turned
around to look it ratified again, then the
door ratified. then the whole house
seemed disposed to join in the rattlea-
ton. and varied the program by certain
shakings and tremblings, until it
seemed to him floor and ceiling would
form intimate association. Yes, and the
plaster fell, some bricks came down the
SCOT and plaster covered the
floor, dishes in the safe were upset-in
fine. as an old saying goes, the devil
was to pay and no pitch hot" Har-
graves says he was not scared, for a
man cannot afford to be scared in the
presence of his wife. But his Sunday
school lesson was quite forgotten, and
he was saying to himself the former
were just right-there were
spirits. and they did revisit the pale
glimpses of the moon. When he finally
saw his wife she was "pale as a ghost
and looking straight at him. She de-
clared the spiritualists were right, and
spirits had been right there, right then.
She said, Lets get out of here: I will
not spend the night in this place." He
said yes, they had certainly been there,
and a whole raft of them must have
been on hand, for one or two could not
make all that racket.
He agreed with her that they would
not stay in the house that night, nor
any other night. He was converted to
splritualsm,, but not Injured to spirit
They started for the
nome of Mrs Hargraves' mother, and
IN reaching the W. l.. Digger home, on
Cedar street, learned from him that the
earthquake of 1876 had passed this way
and paused long enough to give us