The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-03-18

y = citieb buu tnOS9 VINO nad gone
across the Great Divide
Nearly 20 years before the Herald
became daily paper Chittenden was
getting a front page position in the
worlds nws. II held the worlds
heavyweight championship as the cen
Ter Of ghostiy activities There are
probably, a score or more OF Rutland
(oiks who can relate experiences with.
the walls Of the Eddy residence
tories Of shado@y forms com ng from
the cabinet Of the mediums and
bringing messages from the dead.
Juli> Ann Macombs born in Yves.
ton, comfort Of Zephan ali Eddy, was
,hn mother Of the Eddy children
William II. and Horatio G.-whose
Aediumistic accomplishments first
aroused comment from the greatest
newspapers In this country and Eng
land
The Chittenden Of today has forgot.
ten the exploits Of the Eddy family
About the only reminder OF this sturdy
scotch woman mother OF two Of the
greatest takers history haj record d.
William and HoTatio Eddy is a moss
covered grayestone standing aslant a
mound in a deserted burial place.
At tho top Of the stone, carved IN a
1oncaye oval, Is a hand with the IN.
, lex finger pointing skyward aud above
are the words. Our Mother" Be.
meath the pointing hand Is the inscrip-
ton Julia A. Eddy wife Of Zeph
aniah Eddy. Entered the world Of
spirit Der. 10Th, aged 50 years 0
nocths ard % days"
Though Zephaniah and his spouse
eng ago made their journey into that
and from which no traveller returns. "
he story Of how these simple coun.
ny folks duped the world OF beliey.
ars N things supernatural win remain
IS one Of the most colo3 al and sue.
aessful schemes to commerciaize
3piritualism
Mary Ellen Macdonald Of Anti
gonish, A. s.. IS, TO use The slang OF
oday. q rank amat ur-if she is the
Shost as reported by the psychic
ileuth who Investigated the mysteri-
1us conditions in her home-compared
with the Eddys
Mary Ellen is not cred ted with high
mentality. But the Eddy boys pos.
iessed the keenet Of inteIlects and.
according to old-tmers, invited the
ikepucs to Investigate their powers. "
To narrate 4 hundredth part Of the
tory Of the Eddys, and how the boys
travelled over the greater part OF the
world giving seances for the coin of
whatever realm they happened to be
N, puts the Ghost Of Antlgonish and
ne spectres that have from time to
time during the last 10 centuries an
1oyed royal families of Europe in
What the sporting fraternity terms the
category Of pikers."
Students OF the occult who have
delyed de9p in the tales Of the Yogis.
~ara and Peruvian sorcerers and Of
Eiito, the necromancer Of the court
II King Wencoslaus, have found moth.
Ing that would make the Eddy family
third'raters in The ghost business
Industry Il could have been termed in
.ha late 40's.
There are toothless men and won.
~. impaired of hearing and sight, who
will rccollect the visit to Hontos cave
that night of brilliant moonlight on
May "a, 1874, after Mother Eddy had
iourneyed from the land of the living
and left the entire ghost business OF
Chittenden in the hands Of her high.
~ competent sons
Rutland had at least two represen.
tatiyes that held down cna end of the
primitive split log seat that accommo.
dated the party on that eoria occasion.
The scene of that manifestation
what the Cameraman today would call
q CLOSE up of ghost-was in a
shadow in the bottom of q rayino and
the "ceye'--about the only thing that
was not faxed in connection with the
affair-was merely, two large frag.
ments OF rocks In such position as to
make sort OF canopy for the noctur-
nal antics Of wraiths
While tremors agitated the spines
Of the men and women out there in
the oPen that cool May night. there
suddenly appeared the ghost of San.
tum, dead rcdskin. and few mo.
ments later thc Indians squaw. who
had gon2 to the happy hunting
grounds appeared
Ghost Santum posed on the top Of
the rock against the skyline vision of
those en- tho rail and, as he silhouet-
ted hmself against the moon-spangled
and starleakod clouds, took in the
Eddy chest promotion project went
up as tastes wheat dropped that me
morabla afternoon two score or more
years aSo when zoe" Letter tried to
bankrupt the Armours
TO have attempted 70 convince that
circle of eyewitnessos that they had
heen douded and that there was any
monboydoodle business about San
t0m's ghost dlsporting N the moon
light atop boulder would have re-