San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-18

respectful laughter as might have
raised whole hosts of indignant spec
tres from surrounding graveyards.
Him not know YOU" became I
household word. Incl lHHtally my
father was short, square, and veiy
grey.
The Colonel" I might add. furthe,
revealed that America would with
draw from the war befo-e its conclu-
''iCn and that the enemy would be tri-
umphant everywhere.
Two of the young women who were
at that seance are raving II aniacs now
because of hundreds of such ex-
periences. But the medium is still
prosperously going his rounds.
However. to judge this whole field
by one unfortunate experience would
hardly be fair. But there IS an enor-
aous literature on the subject, and
| have it all.
/ have the testimony of Helen and
Harry and Julia and Raymond and
Frederick and many, many more, aud
what does it all amount TO:
Typical Testimony.
".After repeated trials, say the au-
thors innocently. "we were successful
in getting Barbara's pet name. which
was positively unknown to the ne
dium. The pencil wrote 'Babs,' whi':.l
was what Mother had Always called
her. Before this we had gotten BABY,
Pussy 'Toots,' Dolly and 'Lovey'-
none of which was correct. But when
We got 'Babs' we knew it was really
Mothers shirt writing :"
/ have one fat, handsome book,
priced $500 net" in which some four
hundred pages of evidence such as
ti.is occur:
Sitting of April Goth. The me-
dun Immediately went into a trance
and said: 4 get small woman
very small-grey. nervous. She keeps
showing me handkerchief. Passed owe;
some time ago, perhaps twenty-five
years. get the letter J.
"(Note by the author: This may IL
my mother, although her name bega,
with ID, and she was quite a larg'
woman. Cannot place the handker
chief. Mother dead only eleven years
Interesting, but not sufficiently CIR
clmstantial)
1000 Pages of This.
"I seem to get c. resumes tn
medium. Tall man, stout. rosy FAC
he would have died of some throa
trouble. Feels pain in throat. TIL
cid lady comes back. She say
Annie" The tall man says, "Tel
Grace" / seem to feel that he passed
over some time ago. '"T"ll Grace no
10 CO." he says. Grace Davis. 1 g.
Davis or Davids.'
"(Note by the author. We canno
place these entities. b. may be n,
aunt's first husband whose name wa
G., rdon. Have written for details, a.
/ never saw him. A Grace Dawson
was once my mothers cook. have nO'
heard of her for twenty-scveI years.
This sounds like a joke. But there
are 400 pages of it, at 5000 net
The believers say that the nature o.
:he evidence is not important, the il
Illuminating fact is that It comes at al
| They say it helps us to understan,
h.th this life and the next and to LOSE
the dread of death.
Ungrammatical Spirits.
But il anything could fill me will
Q horror of death, it would be to fee
| lEuL L must DecOIne one VI tl'cst NdSu'
and troubled souls who returns to thi.
drll earth to tell a man named Brown
that his old employer once bad an i'll
! FAINT brother named Frank. Having
been fairly reserved and grammatical
in life, why need l burst forth into
-langy irrclevances in ccaiL? Why
do they all?
The "GeorGie" mentioned in the be.
ginning of this article wJs & nice, po
lite boy. But dead he became free
/ almost to coarSeness.
Hello, Pop" he said. through IT,;
pencil in his sisters hand. "Why ar
you all 50 glum? | may be dead, but
I'm not a dead one. Tell C mo-
TO look like u sick alligator !"
Geordie'S communications weT'
taken down ON the back 0f rolls ant
rolls of wall paper-hundreds oi
item. One corner of thu study was
piled high with them. | suppose they
were burned when his m1ther die
and his sister gave up the whole
thing. She said that she calculated
tGat they had spent three thousand
hours at it altogether to learn-notn
lug.
For nothing is more noticeable il