MODERN SPIRITUALISM.^ Jectsina mesmeric state sorcerers, those Exhausted, lianas clammy ana cola. MY ONLY ARREST. are not such a fool as that but you will be started I a pine wilderness, and the who by taking poisonous drugs see everything Nothing prospers but longhair—soft marshes, if you keep on in the track you have started, underbrush all gone, no song ©f bird, and hear everything ana tell everything yielding rank grass. Spiritualism destroys "But," says someone, ••wouldn't it be/of dreamers, people who in their sleeping 1 HI I II the physical health. Its disciples are ever no scent of flower, no flutter oi insect advantage to hear from the future world? moments can see the iuture world and Ur. Talmage Unmasks the Mediums* hearing startling news from the other world. life, a strange, dreary desert of forest. Don't you think it would strengthen Chris, hold consultation with spirits astrologers, *"A lew years ago I had a great desire Strange beings crossing the room in white. tic Charlatans W Prey Upon 1 tians? There are a great many materialists Here was majestic trees aged with a who could read a new dispensation in the Table fidgety, wanting to get its feet loose to enter the United States service. I who do not believe there are souls out if century of growth. Gazing at their stars experts in palmistry, who can tell by I* "V7eak Humanity, as if to dance. Voices sepulchral ana ominous. spirits from the future world should knock the lines in the palm of your hand your origin didn't care in what capacity just so Bewildered with raps. I never knew a stately tops, one could well imagine and talk over to us, they would be persuaded." and your history. From a cave on Mount confirmed spiritualist who ehad a healthy at in a agone perhaps under he JPheir Victims Found Anions the To that I answer, in the ringing words so long as I got my living from Uncle Parnassus, we are told, there was an exhalation nervous system. It is incipient epilepsy and of ths Son of God: "If thev believe not Troubled, the Bankrupt, the very trees "we were passing, he that mtdxicated the sheep and the goats Sam. Mentioning my desire to the catalepsy. Destroy your nervous system, Moses and the prophets, neitfier will they Sick, and the Bereft. poor Indian," had once assembled to that came anywhere near it, and a shepherd and you might as well be dead. I have be persuaded, though one rose from the United States marshal for tn northern approaching it was thrown by that exhalation noticed that people whs are hearing raps shake dice to see who should a for 'After the Rev. T.DeWitt Talmage. T. D., dead." into an excitement in which he could district of Florida, it was gratified. from the future world have bat little the beer. «n the 29th ult., had, in his well-known foretell futuie events and hold consultation Now.51 believe/under God, that this sermon strength left to bear the raps of this world. I was absorbed in these meditations I was at once ushered into the manner, expounded the scriptures, the with .the spiritual world. Yea, before the will save many from disease,insanity and It is an awful thing to trifle with one's nervous perdition. I believe these are the days of when he wagon ran into a huge time of Christ the Brahmins went through system. It is so delicate, it is so farreaching, presence of the United States judgi, multitude of people who thronged the tabernacle which the apostle spake when he said: "In all the tabie-movmg, all the furniture excitement and away I went sailing out into space. its derangements are so terrible. and all its entrances, packing every held up my right hand and, with a the latter times some shall depart from the which the spirits have exploited in Get the nervous system in a jangle, and, so The shot gun a this time decided Available space of standing and sitting room, faith, giving heed to seducing spirits." |I our day precisely the same thing over and so far as your body and soul are concerned, heroism worthy of a better cause, at it was tired of riding and came think my audience, well as other audiences in United in singing: overagain, under the manipulations of the the whole universe is a jangle. Better in swore to support the Constitution of along also. Neither of us were hurt, Brahmins. Now, do you say that spiritualism this day, need to have reiterated in their hearing our ignorance experiment with a chemist's Salvation let the echo fly -~*fi- the passages I quoted some minutes ago: is different from these? I answer, all and we resumed our seats in the retort that may smite us dead, or with an the United States, though at the time 1 The spacious earth around, "There shall not be among yon a consulter these delusions I have mentioned belong to engineer's steam-boiler that may blow us to While all the armies of the sky wagon, the gun rather unwillingly I I was hardly able to support my own of lamiliar tpirits, orwizu d, or necromancer the name family. They are exnumations Conspire to raise the sound. atoms, than experiment with the nervous tnought. 111 it#SC for they that do these things are an abomination from the unseen world. What does God system. A man can live with only one lung constitution. Taking my formidable I* Dr. Talmage announced his subject*. -—_ HiFFSfe. airy-**«**- j.t_ W I unto the Lord," and "The soul that think of all these delusions? He thinks so or with no eyes, and be happy, as men have We were now getting near the a commission and a supply of stationary, ^'Modern Spiritualism."^ He took|for his severely of them that. He never speaks of turneth after such as have familiar spirits, I been under such afflictions, but woe be to 83^ of the enemy and a rather curious them but with vivid thunders of indignation. will set myself against them, and shall be text: the man whose nerves are shattered. Spiritualism I went back to the village of cut off from their people." He says: "I will be a swift witness sensation took possession of me. Of smites first of all, and mightily, "Behold there is a woman that hath a familiar Dead Pine to await orders. against the sorcerer.'^iHe rsays: "Thou But I invite you this Jmornmg to a Chri«tian against the nervous system, and tso makes course it was not tear, but my heart -Spirit at Endor. And Sanl disguised himself, and shalt not suffer a witch to live." And lest seance, lliis cong.ega ion is onlv one life miserable* pat on other raiments, and he went, and two men Dead Pine is a small town so named evinced a curious disposition to de3ert you might make some important "distinction great family. Here is tne church table. •with him, and they come to the woman by night, I indict spiritualism, also, because it is a so. its* pericardium and homestead he between spiritualism and witchcralu God because there is a large live oak in «nd he said. I pray thee dirine unto me by the Come around the church table, take your cial and marital curse. The worst deeds of familiar spirit, and bring me him up whom I ehall says in so many words: "There shall not seats for this great Cnristian seance, put lower portion of my throat I cocked front of the principal saloon. Dead licentiousness and the worst orgies of obscenity -name unto thee."—L Samuel xxviii, 7-8. be among you a consulter of familiar spirits, your Bible on the table, put vour hands on both the rifle and tbe shot gun, have been enacted under its patronage. or wizard, or necromancer for they that do the top ot the Bible, and then listen and hear Pine is not an imposing place. At /Following is the sermon in full: placing them sideways in the wagon The story is too vile for me to tell. I these things are an abomination unto the if there are any voicpg tomino lrom the eternal fil have recently become a spiritualist. At will not pollute my tongue nor your ears at time it had a little depot, some to satisfy the manifest uneasiness of Lord." And He siys again: "The soul of world. I think there aie. Listen! "Sectetthing3 with the recital. Sometimes the" ci ril law •least so some of the journals oi that belief those who seek after such as have familiar the driver. The revolver I took belong unto the Lo.dourGod, stores, some mortgaged farmers has been evoked to stop the outrage. Families spirits, and who go whoring after them, I declare. This, together with the fact that but thing* that ard revealed belong unto us and placed on the seat by roe, covering innumerable have been broken up by and three saloons. It also had a will set myself against them, and he shall be and to our children." Surely that is a voice "mediums" are now being tried in the criminal it with a superabundance of coat it. It has pushed off hundreds of young women cut oft from among his fpeople." The Lord from the spirit world! But before you rise malarial back country, with plenty of tail. The knife I loosened in its courts, setting millions ot psople to into a life of profligacy. It talks about Almighty, in a score of passages, which I from this Cnrirtian seance I want you to "elective affinities, and "affinital relations," "bad men" living in it, a couple of sheath. About half a mile further make inquiry in regard to communication have not now lime to quote, utters His indignation promiss me you will be satisfied with the and "spiritual matches," and adopts the against all this gieat family of divine revelat on until the light ot the eteinal on I saw approacning one of half starved churches, and some between this world and the next, leads me whole vocabulary of iree-lovism. In one of its delusions. Alter that be a spiritualist if throne breaks upon your Virion. Do rot the most villainous"looking men I ad 1- 4» preach this sermon. public journals it declares "marriage is the Christains loaning money at from 2 you dare! go after the witch of Endor. Do noc sit dowa ever seen. was of negro blood, monster curse of civilization." "It is a ^Trouble to the right of him, and trouble to at the table-rappings, either in sport or ,in to any per cent, monthly to their source of debauchery and intemperance." neaily white, of herculean frame, arid i£be left of him, Saul kn°\v not what to do. Still further, we learn from this text how dead earnest. Have your tables so it If spiritualism Jcotild have its full swing it struggling neighbors. It was also the As a last resort he concluded to seek out a it is that people come to fall into spiritualism. made, and their legs so even, tnat they will if not a born criminal and assassin, would turn this world into a pandemonium Spiritual medium, or a witch, or anything Saul had enough tiouble to kill ten not tip and rattle. If the table nw&t move, should have had his face indicted for center of a lumber and turpentine district, of carnality. It is an unclean, adulterous, that you please to call her—at any rate, a men. He did not know where to go ior relief. let it be under the offices of industrious malicious libel. carried a glittering damnable religion, and the sooner it drops where prominent citizens steal Jpiritenof After awhile he resolved to go and see housewifery. Teach your children there are yoma who had cemmunicafron with the into the hell from which it rosej the better ax on his shoulder and eyed roe the witch of En-dor. He expected that no ghosts to be seen or l.eard in this world the eternal woild. It wa a very state and government timber and call both ior earth and heaven. For the sake of somehow she would afford him relief. It was save those which walk on two feet or lour, insolently. difficult thing to do, for Saul had either slain man's honor and woman's purity I say it business. Ins trouble that drove him there. And I human or bestial. Bern -m ber that spiritualism rail the witches or compelled them to stop The driver turned around with a the last vestige of it perish forever. I wish have to tell you now that spiritualism finds at the b~st is a useless thing for if it business. A servant one day said to King In a few days my trouble began. I whisper, "Dat's him, boss." I could gather up all the raps it has ever its victims in the troubled, the bankrupt, the tells wnat the Bible reveals it's ilsnpsrfiuity, "Saul: "I know of a spiritual medium down heard from spirits blest or damned, and My knees now a to ok of the received a portentous document from sick, the bereft. You lose vour watch, and if tells wa the Bible dors I ot reveal it is at the village of En-dor." "Do vou?" said gather them all on its own head in one thundering you go to the fortune-teller tD find where it a lie. Insiead of going out to get other people general excitement, my hand trembled headqunrters at Jacksonville. It had the king. Night iall«. Saul, putting off his rap of annihilation! is. You lose a friend, you want the spiritual to tell your fortune, tell your own fortune as if my best girl was a to refuse 'kingly robes and putting on the diess of a four impressive and sinister looking world opened, so that you may have communication by putting yoi.r st God and doing 1 further indict spiritualism for the fact plain citizen, with two servants, goes out to me, and my blood seemed determined official stamps on the envelope, and with him. "in a highly-wrought, the best you can. I will tell your fortun-: aunt up this spiritual medium. It was no it is the cause of much insanity. There is to go into the cold storage business. ordered me to at once seize the body nervous, and diseased state of mind, you go not an asylum between Bangor and San Francisco "All things work togetuer ior good to em easy thing for Saul to disguise himself, for At the same time an overwhelming and put yourseli in that communication. which has not the torn and bleeding who love God." Insult not your departe jflae tallest people in the country onlv came of Thoma Perkins, supposed to be That is why I hate spiritualism. It takes advantage friends by asking them to come down and victims of this delusion. Go into any asylum, conviction reached me thab this was $p to his shoulder, and I think from the lurking somewhere in the country.and of one in a moment of weakness, scrabble under an extension table. Kemember I care not where it is, and the presiding «rength of the man and the way he bore not the an I was looking for, a bring said body before the United which may come upon us at anv time. We that there is only one Spirit whose dictation doctor, after you have asked him: "What is fiimsel he must have been well proportion#cL at it would be impolite to risk a lose a friend. The trial is keen, sharp, sulocating, you have aright to invoke, and that is States court, then in session at Jacksonville. the matter with that man?" will say: "Spiritualism It must- have been a frightful suit for false imprisonment. almost maddening. If we could demented him or, "What is the the Lo!y,blessed,and omnipotent spirit of God. By a careful reading of the 'Ijjuug to see a man walking "along in marshal a host, and storm the eternal world, matter with that woman?" he will sav: Hark! He is rapping now, not on a table or As he came opposite the wagon, my •tee night eight or nine feet high. I suppose, somewhat diffusive warrant, I discoved and recapture our loved one, the host would the floor, but rapping on the door of your "Spiritualism demented her." It has taken driver drew up and assumed he «as the people saw him pass, they said: vy soon be marshaled. The house is so lonely. heart, and every rap is an invitation to at Thoma had been guilty of down some of the brightest intellects. It "Who is that? He is as tall as the king" initiative. Ihe world is so dark. The separation is so Christ and a warning of judgment to come. swept off into mental midnight judges, senators, perjury in violation of the statutes in __ —having no idea that in such a "Is your name Perkins?" insufferable. Oh, grieve Him not awav. Quench Him not. governors, ministers of the gospel, and such cases made and provided. Plain dress there really was passing the mornin0'. one time came near capturing one of the presidents He has been all around you this "Naw", was the surly reply. But spiritualism say3: "We will open the king. Saul and his servants alter a while of the United States* At Flushing, He was all around jou last night. He has My thermometer immediately re-" An hour later the followingdispatch future world, and your beloved one can come •teach the village, and they say: "I wonder been around you all your lives. Hark! near this city, a man became absorbed with smued its normal condition of 72 in back and talk to you." Though we may was handed to me: Ht this is the house?" And they look in and There comes a voice dropping through the it, forsook his family, took his only $15,000, not hear his voice, we may hear the rap of the shade. see the haggard, weird, and 'shriveled up roof, breaking through the window, filling surrendered them to a spiritual medium in OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES MAKBHAL, his hand. So, clear the table. Sit down. -spiritual medium sitting by the light, and "My good a said I, carefully all this house with tender and overmastering New York, attempted three times to put an JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Put your hands on the table. Be very quiet. __^aJiie table sculptured images, and divining intonation, saying: "My spirit shall not al* endgto his own life, and then was incarcerated To United States Deputy Marshal, Dead concealing all weapons, I am looking Five minutes gone. Ten minutes. No mofon •.tods, and poisonous herbs, and bottles, and in the State lunatic asvlum, where he isto-day ways strive." Pine, Fla. for one Perkins can you inform me of the table. No response from the future vases,*- They say: "Yes, this must be the a raving maniac. "Put your hand in Understand Perkins desperate character world. Twenty minute3. Thirtv minutes. where at most esteemed gentleman {•place." One loud rap brings the woman to the hand of this witch of Endor and she will get help necessary take him dead or Nervous excitement all the time infre one door, and as she stands there holding the lives?" lead you to bottomless perdition, where'she alive. ismg. Foity minutes. The table shivers. candle or lamp above her head and peering holds her everlasting seance. Many years "In at house over yonder," he Two raps from the future world. The letters E as Food. MARSHAL. «©ut into the darkness she says: "Who is ago the steamer Atlantic started from Europe said, pointing about a quarter of a of the alphabet are called over. The departed at dispatch made me very indignant. faere?" The tall king Informs her lhat he for the United Staies. Getting midocean N honest appetite ever rejected an friend's name is John. At the pronunciation mile distant, where a thin spire of the machinery broke, and she floundered faas come to have his fortune told. When Get help indeed! Not I! I was of the letter "J two raps. At egg in some guise. It is nutriment smoke emphasized a tumble down log around day alter day and week after week, 6ho heais that she trembles and almost drops 6 feet 1 inch in height, weighed 185 the pro luneiaticn of the letter "O" two the most portable form and in the and for a whole month after she was due house. v,. the light, for she knows there is no chance raps. At the pronunciation of the letter "H" pounds. If I couldn't alone arrest for a fortune-teller or spiritual medium in people wondered, and finally gave her up. most concentrated shape. Whole nations When about 100 yards from the two rap«. At the pronunciation of the letter one man I was unworthy to wear the all the land. But Saul, having sworn that There was great anguish in" the cities, tor of mankind rarefy touch any house I halted the team a gave a "N" two raps. There you have the whole there were many who had friends aboard that tio harm shall come to her, she says: "Well, bright red ribbon on the lapel of my name spelled out. J-o-h-n, John. Now, the other animal food. Kings eat them few briei directions to the driver. vessel. Some of the women, in their distress, I -who shall I bring up from the dead?" Saul vest labeled "United States marshal. i^pir.t being present, you sav: "John, are With the rifle at full cock I cautiously went to the spiritual mediums and inquired plain as readily as do the humble -Gays: "Bring up Samuel." That was the you happv?" Two raps give "an affirmative Besides, it I got help, there would as to the fate of that vessel. The I darophet who had died a little while before. approached the house. It was of tradesman. After the tattle of Muhldorf, answer. Pretty soon the hand oi the medium not be enough glory to go around. I mediums called up the spirits, and the rappings ft sec her waving a wand, or stirring up some rough logs very rickety, with the usual begins to twitch and tcss, and begins to write when Kaiser Ludwig sat at a wanted it all for myself, and determined on the table indicated the steamship tpoisonous herbs in a caldron, or hear her out, after paper and ink are lurnished, a stick and mud chimney. Outside of meal with his burggrafs and great lost with all on board. Woman went raving "muttering over some incantations, or stamping to bring in the prisoner-elect by message from the eternal world. What is & the smoke from at there was no mad and were carried to the lunatic asylums! captains he determined on a piece of her foot as she cries out to the realms of my own unaided efforts, or occupy remarkable, the departed spirit, althougn it After a while one day a gun was heard off sign of lite about the place. Silently vthe dead: "Samuel! Samuel?" Lo the luxury—"one egg to every man and has been amid the illuminations of heaven, one of the misfit coffins at the village quarantine. The flags went up on the shipping {freezing horror! The floor of the tenement I came up to the back door, with a can not spell as well as it used to. It has two to the excellently valiant Schwepperman." undertaker's. and the bells ot the churches were -"opens and the gray hairs float up, and the lost all grammatical accuracy and can not vigorous kick sent it off the leather rung. The boys ran though the streets: "Extra Far more than fish—for it forehead, the eyes, the lips, the shoulders, The first thing was to locate the write as distinctly. I received a letter hinges, and covered with the rifle a The Atlantic is safe!" There was the is a. watery diet—eggs are the scholar's the arms, the feet, the entire body of dead through a medium once. I sent it back. I gentleman, who, suffering from some embracing as from the dead, when friends figure dimly seen in the semi-darkne3S Samuel, wrapped in sepulchral robe, appearing said: "Just please to tell those ghosts they fare. They contain phosphorus affection of the intellectual liver, had came again to friends but some of those of the room. to the astonished group, who stagger had better go to school and get improved in which is brain food, and sulphur, passengers went up to find their wives in the resorted to perjury. I located him. back, and hold ia«t, and catch their "Thro up your hands!" I commanded. their orthozraphy." Now,just thinic.of sphits, lunatic asylum where this cheat of infernal which performs a variety of functions Six miles from town, in a veritable 5 fcreath and shiver with terror. The dead that the bible represents as enthroned in "If you stir I'll shoot. spirituslism had put them. A man in Bellevue •yprophet, white and avtul from the tomb, begins glory, co-ning down to crawl under the table, in the economy. And they are the wilderness, two miles from any other the figure, in shrill, frightened hospital, dying from wounds made by to wova i.-ij ashen lips, and he glares and break crocuery, and ring tea-bells before house, lived, moved arid had his being, best nutriment for children, for in a his own hand, was asked why he tried to accents, came. upon King Saul, and cries out: "What did supper is ready, and rap the window shutter commit suicide, he said: "The spirits told compact form they contain everything Mr. Thoma Perkins, in whom "Fo de Law'd'ssake, watcher mean you bring me up for? Why did you break on a gusty night. Is there any consolation in me to." Parents have strangled their children, this great government of our was so that is necessary to the growth of the my long sleep? What do you mean, King such poor, miserable work compared with white man. I ain't dan nuffin." and when asked why thev did it, replied: intensely interested. "Saul?" Saul, trying to compose and control the thought that our departed Christian youthful frame—Eastern Farmer. The gun dropped from my nervous* "Spiritualism demanded it It is himself, makes his stammering and affrighted friend-, got rid of pain and lanquishing, are The next thing was to make necessary hands. the patronizer and forager for the madhouse. utterance, as he says to the dead prophet: in the radiant society ot heaven, and that we preparations. I made them. In Judge Edmonds in Broadway tabernacle, Thoma Perkins, alleged desperado, -"The Lord is against me and I have come to shall join them there, not in a stifled and NewYork, delivering a lecture in behalf the morning by the bright light, of a Justice to the Country Editor. was an old crippled negro, about 17 8 you for help. What shall I do?" The dead mysterious half-utterance which makes the of spiritualism, admitted in many nrfgafa beautiful winter's day, a stout wagon, prophet stretched forth his finger to King hair stand on end and the cola chills crerp years old, half paralyzed and wholly I i3 regarded as something quite words: "There is a fascination about consultation Saul and .said "Die to-morrow! Uome down the back, but in an unhindered and drawn by two sturdy and reflective stupid. smart for metropolitan newspaper with the spirits of the dead that "With mo into the sepulcher. I am going illimitable delight. mules, was drawn up in front of the has a tendency to lead people off from their Three hours afterward 1 drove into scribblers to sneer at country editors. now. Come, come with me!" And lo! the right judgment, and to instill into them a village hotel, which was very inappropiately Dead Pine with my prisoner, to be floor again opens and the feet of the dead Horace Greeley's old remark is trotted And none shall murmur or misdoubtWhen fanaticism that is revolting to the natural named "The Delmonico." greeted with ironical comment and uproarious prophet disappear, and the arms, and the God's ereat sunrisefindsus out out whenever a city editor wishes to mind." Shoulders, and the forehead. The flcor On the front seat was rny negro driver laughter. Yes,my friend*, spiritualism comes to those crush his rural brother. It is true closes. Nothing is lett in the room but Saul and pilot, Bill. On the rear seat sat who are in tiouble and sweeps them into its "Did he kick much, Cap?" said one and the two servants and the spiritual mectiurn, It not only ruins its disciples, but it ruins that some fools and some knaves edit delusions. Saul, in the midst of his disaster, the writer. Under a blanket at my big fellow, while another, after eyeing and the sculptured images, and the di-vming the mediums also—only give it time. The country journals, but as a rule these went to the witch of Endor. The vast majority leet was a Winchester rifle Perkins a moment in silence, said, as rod- and the bottles, and the vases, Gadarsean swine, on the banks of the Lake of those who have gone to spiritual "provincial" editors are hard-working, and a double barrel shot gun and the poisonous herbs. Oh, that was an of Galilee, no sooner became spiritual mediums he moved off: mediums have been sent there through.their shrewd, fair-minded, and influential awful seance! than down they went, in an avalanche well loaded with buckshot, although "Yes the thing is alive, I saw its misfortunes. of pork, to the consternation of all the herdsmen. men. They come nearer repressnting I was oppressed with tongue wiggle. I learn first from this subject that spiritualism I learn still further from this subject that The office of a medium is bad lor a public sentiment than their city brethren, is a very old religion. It is natur.il spiritualism aud necromancy are affairs of a harrowing doubt as to whether Fou hours later I was in Jacksonville, man, bad for a vv oman, bad for a beast that people should want to know the origin because they are closer to the the darkness. Why did not Saul go in the hadn't put "the buchshot in first. In and delivered my prisoner to the I bring against this delusion a more fearful and tLe history of a doctrine which is so widespread day? He was ashamed to go. Besides that, people. The metropolitan press owes indictment—it ruins the soul immortal. the pocket of my overcoat was a United States marshal." As the major in all the illages, towns.and cities ot he knew that this spiritual medium, like all First, it makes a man a quarter of an infidel its distinction chiefly to men who have Smith & Wesson double action sixtyeight, audited my accounts and drew a the civilized world, getting new converts her successors, performed, her exploits in then it makes him half an infidel then it every day—a doctrine with which many of been trained in country newspaper check for my expenses he was shaking the night. The Davenports the Fowlers, the and in the breast pocket of makes, him whole infidel. The whole system, you are already tinged. Foxes, the spiritual mediums of all ages, & offices. In fact, few men are properly my inner coat a bowie knife at with ill suppressed laughter. as I conceive it, is founded on the insufficiencv have chosen the night or a darkened room. Spiritualism in America was born in 1S47, of the word of God as a revelation. God equipped to even attempt to represent had once belonged to a Texas evangelist. W at do you see so funny a in fiydesville, Wajnc County, N. Y., when Why? The majority of their wonders have say^ the Bible is enough for you to know sentiment in this Kepnblic who have this?" I inquired, rather tartly been swindles, and deception prospers best 7ne niglit there was a loud rap heard against about the future world. You sav it is not in the night. not lived in the country, bo much for I was wondering what the judge the door of ilichael Weekman a rap a A curious crowd had gathered to enough, and there is where you and the Becond time, a rap a third time, and all three Some of the performances of spiritual me. those who sneer at the "rural rooster." see me off. They knew my mission, will say when he sees him." was the" Lord differ. You clear the table, you shove times, when the door was opened, there was diums are not to be ascribed to fraud, but to reply. aside the Bible, you put your hand on the —Neio York World. though none ot them knew who I was nothing found there, the knocking having some occult law that after awhile may be demonstrated. table, and say: "Now let spirits of the Jus then the judge strolled in. alter. They cheered me with novel been made seemingly bv invisible knuckles. But I believe that now nine future world come and tell me something gave a look at the prisoner, then at En that same house there was a young woman suggestions and well meant advice. hundred and ninety-nine out of everv thousand the Bible has not told me." And although ••Jk JLeave the Dirt Out. who had a cold hand passed over herface me, and inquired mildly, but with a achievements on the part of spiritual I say, Cap," said one, "ye'd better the scriptures say: "Add thou not unto Hia and there being seemingly no arm attached mediums are arrant and unmitigated humbugs. A man has no business to tell to take a bottle of whisky erlong wi' you. merry twinkle in his handsome eyes: words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be to it,-ghostly suspicions were^exeited. After The mysterious red letters that used found a liar," you risk it, and say: «'Come the readers of his newspaper what he There ain't no barroo whar you're "Did you have much trouble in securing a while Mr. Fox and his family moved into to come out on the medium's arm were found back, spirit of my departed father come would hesitate to tell, if there were goin.' this desperado, Mr. Officer?" •Airttt house, and then ev ery night there was a to have been made by an iron pencil that back, spirit of my departed mother, of my banging at the door, and one uight Mr. Fox went heavily over the flesh not tearing it, need in his own home circle. There is My driver looked approvingly at The major fairly roared. companions, of my little child, and tell me feaid: "Are you a spirit?" Two raps, answering but so disturbing the bood that it came up in some things I don't know about you and a part of the divorce court record this speaker. I took my check, and left the in the affirmative. "Are you an injured srreat round letters. The witnesses of the about the unseen world." If God is ever "H won't look very pretty comin' I have not seen prisoner, United which properly belongs to the newspaper spirit?" Two raps, answering in the affirmative. seances have locked the door, put the key in slapped square in the face it is when a back here with a furrer driv cl'ar States marshal, or Jacksonville since And so they found out, as they say, reporter and the public. If adultery their pocket, arrested the operator, and found spiritual medium puts down her hand on that it was the ghost or spirit of a peddler, out, by searching the room, that hidden levers through his chist, will he?" said another. at eventful day, and Dead Pin is the ground of divorce, report to the table, invoking spirits departed to make who had been murdered in that house many moved the tables. The sealed letters that shall know me no more forever.—. a revelation. God has told you -all you ought that effect is legitimate, as is also all were mysteriously read without opening to know, and how dare you, be prving into years before lor his $500. Whether the 'Twouldn't do fer him to go out Hamilton a in Detroit Free Pree. else that tends to a clear presentation have been found to have been cut at the side, that which is none of your business? You ghost of the dead peddler had been there to bar hunt n' at night with that red and then atterward slyiy put together with of the merits of the case. Bu sensation can not keep the Bible in one hand and collect his $500 or his bones, I cannot say, In Petticoat and SunbonnetJl nose shinin', would hit?" gum arabic and the medium who, with a spiritualism in the other. One or the other and dirt lugged in—not because not being a spiritualist but there was a heavy blanket over his head, could read a will slip out of your grasp, depend UDon it at last remark hurt my vanity. great racket at the door, so Mr.',Weekman dedared, they are essential to an understanding is? *i There is now living in Pickens book,?has been found to have had a bottle of My nose was rather red, but it nome and MrtvWeekman, and Mr. and Mrs. of the iegal procedure, but merely because phosphoric oil, by the light of which anybody Spiritualism is adverse to the Bible in the County, Ga., a man who, during the" Fox, and allltheiMttle Foxes. The excitement from an undue partiality for stewed can read a book and ventriloquism, fact that it has in these last days called from they tire sensational and dirty, rebellion, ddnned his wife's dress, spread. There was a universal rumpus. the future world Christian men to testify tomatoes*not from any other cause. and legerdemain, and'sleight of hand, are not legitimate neWsgiviDg and kept his face closely shaded, and .Jion. Judge Edmonds declared, in a book, against Christianity. Its mediums call back and optical delusion account for nearly everything. "When you fire at him, Cap, watch fchat he had actually seen a bell start from ought to be suppressed.—Milwaukee wore a big sunbonnet. in lrder to Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist, Deception being the main staple at off mule's hind leg, fer he's gom' the top shelf of acloset,heard it ring over the of spiritualism, no wonder it chooses the and Lorenzo Dow testifies that Christians Wisconsin. avoid being conscripted a setrt to ter kick," said a long, lank feller on (people that were standing in the closet, then, darkness. are idolaters. Spiritualism calls back Tom thejfront. The officers in search ©f swung by invisible hands, it rang over the i^r^-s the outskirts of the crowd. Paine, and he testifies that he is stopping in recruits frequently visited the house You have all seen strange and unaccountable people in the back parlor and floated through the same house with John Bunyan. They Even the negroes had something to '4't Conkling and the .Reporters. things in the night. Almost every man the folding-doors to the front parlor, rung call back John Wesley, and he testifies and asked his wife where her husband say. Approaching me with deference, has at some time had a touch of hallucination. against the Christian religion, which all his over the people there, and then dropped on The eulogists of the late Eoscoe was, and at the very moment he one of them whispered to me confidentially: Some time ago, atterl had been life he gloriously preached. Andrew Jackson the floor. N. P. Talmage, senator of the Conkling make mention of his exceedingly could be seen working in the field in overtempted to eat something indigestible Davis, the greatest of all spiritualists, United States, afterward governor of Wis. genial way ifc treating newspaper female garb-^lSBy the time he ad before retiring at night, after retiring I,saw comes to the front and declares that the -cousin, had his head completely turned with "Boss, ye'd best tie at fool nigger the president of one of the prominent 'colleges worn out seven of his wife's dresses New Testament is but "the dismal echo of a people. An yet the records of spiritualistic demonstrations. A man as he what's drivin' ter the seat, fer soon's astride the foot of thejbed, while he barbaric age" and the Bible onlv "one of the 'Was passing along the road said that he was he became tired of masquerading Congress bear witness to the fact that he hears a cap pop he'sgwine ter jump demanded of me a loan of 5 cents. When I pen-and-ink relics of Christianity." They lifted up bodily and carried toward hif enlisted and became a good soldier*. he once pointed up the newspaper gallery awakened I had no idea it was anything attempt to substitute the writings of Swedenborg out an' run like de debil." ihome turougn inc air at such great speed he tot &2 supernatural. And I have advise you, if andAndrew Jackson Davis and other in the Senate Chamber and referred could not count the poste on the fence as he Bill gave the mules a stimulating you hear and see strange things at night, to religious balderdash in the place of this old '^A Startling Innovation. passed and as he had a handsaw and a to that loft as "The Buzzards' touch of the whip and away we went. stop eating hot mince pie and take a dose of Bible. I have in my house a book which square in his hand they beat, as he passed Boost."—Boston Herald. ^ffc-%? or two miles out we had was used in this very city in the public service a R. Stockton, at popular bilious medicine. It is an outraged physical through the air, most delightful music. And of spiritualism. It is well worn with good roads. After that the organism, enough to deceive the very elect fJfi^T^ novelist of infinite quaint *the tables tipped, and the stools tilted, and much service. I open the book, and it says: roughest and worst at I had ever after sundown, and does nearly all its work the bedsteads raised, and the chairs upset, Hi a is held responsible for a a in a "What is our baptism? Answer. Frequent in the night. The witch of Endor held her and it seomed as if the spirits everywhere had seen. Stumps, tangled roots, hills, gullies, innovation in the way of wedding glad you must be that your ablutions of water. What is ourinspira. seances at night so do all# the witches. gone into the furniture business! Well, the swamp, coduroy, and the county tion? Plenty of fresh air and sunl ght trips, recently introduced in Washington husband has quit visiting saloons!" Away with this religion of spooks. people said. "We have got something new What is our prayer? Abundant physical exercise. commissioners know what else, made Still further: I iearn from my text that After a certain wedding in this country it is a new religion.". Oh, "Yes, indeed. promise me when What is our lovefeast? A clear a regular penacea for the twin evils spiritualism is 'doom and death to its disciples. too, rny friends. Thousands of years ago we ceremony, at which Mr. Stockton was conscience and sound sleep." And I find he went into business for himself that King Saul thought that he would of dyspepsia and love, according to flnd in our text a spiritualistic seance. present, instead of the voung couple from the same book that the chief item in he would never go inside of a saloon get help from the "medium hut the first Nothing in the spiritualistic circles of our the jolting up theorists. Now we their public worship is gymnastic exercise, 3 going on a wedding trip" the bride's thing that he sees makes him swoon away, day has been more strange, mysterious, and again, and he has kept his word. It were in the wilderness, a solemn, awful and that whenever thev want to rouse up parents Were showered with rice and and no sooner is he resuscitated than he is wonderful than things which have been must be a straggle for poor George, their souls to a very high pitch oi devotion silence, broken only by the trampin told he must die. Spiritualism is doom and «een in the past centuries of the world. In old slippers and banished on a two they sing page (36: "The Night Has Gathered but he bears up heroically." %w~m of the mules, the creaking of the wag"on death to everyone that yields to it It ruins jiU the ages there have been necromancers, weeks' exile, while the bride and Up Her Moonlit Fringes or page 16: the body. Look in upon an audience of and he hiccoughs of the driver, those who consult with the spirits of the departed "What is his business ••Cometo«leW^eds,Hifho^, Youaayyow groom were left in possession of th spiritualists. Cadaverous. Weak. JSTervous. charmer*, those who put their sub- "He keeps a drug store." who was about half drunk when we house.—Frank Leslie's. *Kin- a IS --JE 3U jtMfj te?. ,, iiJ'feky',,