Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1894, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1894—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ELECTION RETURNS How the Telegraph Companies Are Benefited by Political Campaigns. GATHERING THE RESULTS AT THE POLLS Much of the Money for Political Work Used for Telegraphing. KS oat LUCKY EAVESDROPPER O A F THE MANY thousends of dollars that have been spent this fall in connec- tion with polities, the telegraph compantes will receive fully 60 per cent.” ‘This assertion was made one night last week by one of the brightest e x ecutive telegraph officers em- ployed in the big building up on 15th street to a reporter of The Evening Star. He ts fully conversant with the official end of the telegraph bust and speaks by the card. Continuing, he said: “Of course, I do not mean’ that the treas- urers of the different political parties will hand the major part of their funds over to the telegraph companies direct, but in- directly I am speaking of. For instance, take The Ever ing Star's telegraph bill since the campaign has opened. Your paper re- ceives on an average of 2,000 words a day at the very least of special telegraphic cor- respondenc his is purely political mat- ter, and does not take in events of a start- ling nature. That is one paper. Now take the papers of the country and you can imagine the proportions to which we are benefited by the political agitation. Mes- sages of this sort are filed from almost every state in the Union; the longer dis- tance they come the greater the cost. “The different state committees have special wires, and they have work enough to give employment to several first-class operators. The coagressional committees also have special wires and generally make them hum from early morning until late in the night. They do not, as a rule, care for expense, and in sending out instructions will make them es clear as good English can, irresp2ctive of the number of words. But we Keep tab on the dots and dashes that go to make up the words, and at the end of the month, or when requested, the bill is sent in to headquarters, and the party treasurers pay up smilingly. A Harvest at Convention Time. “The telegraph companies commence to make money out of politics before the state conventions are held, through the party politicians laying plans looking to the nomi- nation of their candidates. Then eome the conventions, which generally last two or three days, and the harvest we reap is something tremendous. It is a poor con- vention indeed that does not permit us to handle on an average of 100,000 words a day. After the convention adjourns work is im- mediately begun by the party leaders in the shape of instructions, advice and congratu- lations, and this is kept up until the cam- paign is closed. “The profitable returns of the telegraph companies very much resemble the sowing of a wheat crop in the western states. For instance, take the first year after a presi- dential election. The previous year’s crop bas been tremendous, and they take a great drop, as the next fall's election is generally the running of lieutenant governors or jus= tices of the supreme courts of the different states. Of course the interest is not nearly so great, and as a result little telegraping is done, the special wires on election day being few and far between. The following year, like this fall, takes in the governors and Congressmen elections, and, although it frequently occurs that the interest is not as great as it has been this fall, the excite- ment runs high, and our crop of profits ad- vances fully forty. per cent over the year before. ‘The year following our crop again takes the backward track. The year that follows furnishes us a crop that will return in good cold cash a sum that can be reck- ened in seven figures. A presidential can- vass starts in almost with the beginning of the new year, and it is one continual grind until the polls close on election day in No- vember. Brass bands and printing cost thousands of dollars, but I am sure we get the bulk of the money. An Exciting Year. “The campaign that is now drawing to a close has been one of the most exciting of its kind that I can recall. The situation in New York is, in the main, responsible for this state of affairs, although the ener- getic and stubborn fight of the republi- cans to regain power all over the country has worked up the interest to fever heat. This city has been out of the great money- meking business since Congress adjourned, so to speak, but previous to that the vol- ume of méssages handled by us was some- thing phenomenal. The members of the lower house, of course, did the bulk of the telegraphing, but the Senators also came in for their share in taking care of their state interests. A feature of campaigns as relating to telegraph companies which I have noticed for the past ten years is that the republicans ure the most liheral in sending messages. When they were in power it was simply a case of not paying any attention to the expense, and this fall, while they are battling to regain the lost ground, the same state of things exists. “Election day is our great day of work. Applications pour in upon us for private instruments and wires and our linemen are kept busy night and day. These ap- Plications come from hotels, clubs, news- papers, theaters and many private citizens who have the ready funds to pay for the luxury of receiving the news at their own homes. We generally have a uniform price of twenty-five dollars for this service, al- though there is some talk of reducing these figures this fall. You can easily imagine the demand these private wires make upon us for the operators to receive the news. We must have a large force on hand at the main office, as private messages are as thick as snowflakes in a snow storm on that night. We pay the operators % for the night's work and often draw on the departments and railroad offices to help out The best men are sent to the more im- portant points, and this class are some- times paid by the hour, which runs their pay up to nearly $10. Gathering the News. “Our methods of gathering the election pews, while simple, are effective, and under the circuristances exceedingly prompt. ‘faking into consideration the territory coy- ered, and the fact that we can generally tell by 3 o’clock in the morning the actual results In almost every state in the Union, it ts certainly a wonderful achievement. “You know that we have cffices in almost every little village in the country. The maragers of these offices have instructions ward returns promptly to the super- dent's office in each state, and from e they go to New York or Chicago for gereral distribution. We depend a great deal on local newspapers and correspond ents for this news, but our men are in structed to be conservative, and to make the returns as reliable as possible. ew York and Pernsylvania are our greatest customers. You would be sur- prised to kuow the number of private in- stramerts that are in use in these two states on the night of the election. I am not exaggerating a bit when I say that there is hardly an operator that is not hard at work. Men who have not worked at the telegroph business for years creep back into the ranks on that night, not so much on acccunt of the financial return as to the desire to be iight alongside the foun- tain head of news. Oz course, some of the operators will be found lacking in the abil- ity to take the news off the wires, on ac- count of its speed, but, as a general thing, everybody is satisfled with the service we render. fhe humorous incidents in con- nection h the receiving of returns are many and varied. For instance, here is a man who is assigned to a private club. In @ nearby room a tale pread, with a ideboard liquors kinds can be had for the wanting. If the news that comes in pleases a certain set the operator is patted on the back and asked to have something. Then the returns take on another complexion, and the oppo- sition, not to be outdcne, call on the oper- ator to stand by then, and again the liquor is serv “It has frequently occurred that by mid- right clubs of this kind will be beseeching us to send them another operator, as the man they hav. has gone off to sleep, leav- ing them stranded. Then an operator will agree to receive the news who is unknown to us, almost a novice at the business. The dots and dashes are too complicated for him and as a consequence no news 1s re- ceived. He is perhaps working at a pollti- cal club, who desire, or rather hope, for a certain kind of returns. Not to be out- done, his wits are called into play and he makes up the returns himself. I know of a case of this kind that occurred during the last presidential election, wherein the returns given out were just the reverse of those sent and as a result the club was hilarious with enthusiasm and joy. Im- agine their feelings when the true state of things became known. It took months for them to live down the derisive jests fired at them by their political foes. The same thing came near happening at a big club in Philadelphia, but a high railroad official who had worked his way: up from the ranks tapped the scheme in time, and for the remainder of the evening sat at the — and turned out copy of gilt edge order. Mars jt Jewell’s Story. “I can recall the time when Marshall Jewell was chairman of the national com- mittee of the republican party and heard him tell how he was elected governor of Connecticut through his knowledge of teleg- raphy. It was early in the seventies that he was a candidate for governor, his op- ponent being James English. Jewell had beaten English once before, and at the fol- lowing election had been beaten by him, so that each of them had served one term as the governor of Connecticut. > nents, they were But there was, naturally, some rivalry as to who should take the ‘odd trick,’ as Governor Jewell ex- pressed it. The campaign was, therefore, a very hot one, and the politicians realized that whoever won would gain the victory by a very small majority. “One day Mr. Jewell had been visiting one of the interior towns of Conn-cticut, mak- ing short speeches in his own behalf, and in the evening he was driven to a village where he would be able to make railroad connections for Hartford, his home. “His train was late. Nobody was in the station except the ticket seller, who was also the telegraph operator. He did not know who his distinguished guest was, and, as the evening was rainy, Governor Jewell was obliged to sit in the waiting room. “That dull, monotonous sound of the clicking telegraph instrument was all that could be heard, and Governor Jewell sat there listening to the various messages as they flashed over the wires. At last he heard a name which was that of a very in- fluential pelitician of the party opposed to Jewell’s election. This politician was ‘ Albany. “Naturally, Jewell’s interest was at once aroused when he heard that name, and, without intending to be an eavesdropper, he heerd distinctly the message as it passed through the little sounder in the ticket sel- ler’s office. It was an appeal to this poli- tician to do certain things, and it contained an intimation of the strategical point in the campaign Erglish’s friends were making. In other words, it was a complete revelation of the secret plans of Jewell’s opponents. The governor at once changed his plans. In- stead of going to Hartford, he went to New Haven, summoned the politicians of his own party, revealed to them the tactics of his opponents, and before midnight a plan had been devised to neutralize this strategy of Governor English and his‘friends. Both parties worked with a will and contested every inch of the ground up until the day of the election. “On the morning after the election it was found that the vote was very close. The majority would not be more than two or three hundred either way. The decision was finally shown to be in Je-vell's favor by less than two hundred votes, and when the vote was analyzed it was discovered that he had gained practically the whole of his majority in that district where his op- ponents expected to do great things, and were foiled in a manner which they never knew how to explain. “Several years after he had served his term, Governor Jewell told an intimate friend of the fortunate message which re- vealed to him his opponent's plans, and in this way the story came out. When he was repeating the story to a group of friends at congressional committee headquarters, of which I was one, he concluded by say- ing: ‘So you see that if I had not learned telegraphy 1 would rot have taken the odd trick.’ ” a THE RUBY WAS GLASS. The Pawnbroker Made an Exceeding- ly Narrow Escape. From the Chicago Times. “Ancther clever trick that came near be- ing successful was that of a man who went into a pawnbroker’s with a magnificent ruby ring. “How much do you want?” paw broker. 2 “What will You give? answered the cus- tomer. “After examining the ring the pawn- broker offered $200, which, considering the jewel was a gem, wasn’t any too much. “‘No,’ answered the man, ‘I must have asked the “This the pawnbroker refused, and the man replaced the ring on his firiger. Jus: as he reached the dcor he turned back, say- ing: ‘Oh, very well; I only really need $300." He handed back the ring, and the pawrbreker counted out six crisp $50 bills. He was just on the point of handing them over when a clever assistant whispered: ‘Exarrine that ring.” “The pawnbroker took the hint, and upon examination found the ring to be in every respect the same as the one previously in- spected, except the ruby, which w: mere glass. The setting and the diarronds were genuine. “Dering the moment, for it wasn’t longer, that the man had turned he had substitut- $ ed che ring for the other. The pawnbroker, not satisfied with having escaped a serious loss, had the man arrested. When searched he had three similar rings in his possession. ‘The judge, however, had no sympathy with the prceecutor, and after stating that there was no evidence against the prisoner in such a case discharged him. gadis vasa rinse FOOT BALL AS TALKED. The Advantages of Disputes Prelimi- nary to the University Games. From Life. ‘The disputes preliminary to the playing of the university foot ball have been con- ducted this year with customary vigor, especially the dispute between Yale and Princeton. There are good points about these preliminary disputes as compared with the game Itself. Nobody gets hurt in the disputes, whereas in the games there are sometimes casualties. Moreover, the disputes always last a long time, and are earnest and well contested, whereas the games are brief at best and sometimes one sided. The disputes, too, are easier and cheaper to attend than the games. The newspapers ways have reports about them which one may read to repletion at small expense and only moderate inconven- lence. There seems, therefore, to be much to favor the conclusion that to have a lively preliminary dispute and no game ts an ideal condition. If the Yale-Princeton difference should come to that issue this year the people will have had a rare intel- lectual treat, and the traditional superior- ity of mind over matter will have been demonstrated anew. Thinking Out a Novel. Hall Caine, author of “The Manx- * a book which has had such a tre- mendous success In England, describes the way In which he wrote the book in this way: “Hardly one passage of it was writ- ten with pen in hand. I used to wake early in the morning, usually about 5 o'clock, prop myself up in bed, and, with closed eyes, think out my work for the day, until not only the thing took shape, but every passage found expression. About 8 o’clock I would get up and hurriedly write down the words. This would occupy about an hour, and then I would do nothing but read until evening, when I spent another hour in revising or rewriting what I had writ- ten in the morning, and the rest of the right in planning the work for the follow- ing day.” HORSORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE The Best Tonic Known, furnishing sustenance to both brain and body. QUEER INDIAN BELIEFS Freaks of Superstition Among Aboriginal Peoples. The Lost Inca of Peru Promised Return—Religious Revolt of the Pueblos. James Mooney of the bureau of ethnology has collected some interesting facts about certain freaks of superstition among various aboriginal peoples in this continent. It seems strange to learn, for example, that in Peru the natives have persistently re- fused to believe that the last of the Incas is dead. For more than two centuries they cher- ished the tradition that he had only retired to another kingdom beyond the mountains, from which he would return in his own good time to sweep the Spanish oppressors from the land. In 1781 the slumbering hope found ex- pression in a terrible insurréction under the leadership of Condorcanqul, a descendant of the ancient royal family, who boldly proclaimed himself to be Tupac Amaru, child of the sun and Inca of Peru. At the head of an immense army he advanced to the walls of Cusco, declaring his purpose to blot out the very memory of the white man and re-establish the Indian empire. Inspired by the hope of vengeance, even boys became leaders of the people, and it was only after a bloody struggle of two years’ duration that the Spaniards were able to regain the mastery. So great was the veneration of the people for the last of the childref of the sun that they pros- trated themselves in the streets as he passed along to the place of execution. - A superstitious idea was the cause of a great revolt of the Pueblos in 1680, which was the first determined effort made by the natives of North America to throw off the yoke of the foreign oppressor. The Pueblo tribes along the Rio Grande and farther to the west, a gentle and peaceful race, had at first welcomed the Spaniards as friends who would protect them and teach them wisdom. But the Spanish soldiers treated them cruelly and the priests prohibited their simple amusements. This went on till the spirit of the people was ripe for rebellion against the new tyranny. Revolt in New Mexico, At that time one of their medicine men named Pope had come back from a pilgrim- age to the far north, where he claimed to have visited the magic lagoon of Shipapu, whence his people traced their origin and to which the souls of their dead were sup- posed to return after leaving this life. By these ancestral spirits he had been endowed with occult powers and was commanded to go tack and arouse the Pucblos to con- certed effort for deliverance from the yoke of the strangers. Wonderful beings were these spirit messengers. Swift as light and impalpable as thought, they passed under the earth from the magic lake to the secret jbterranean chamber of the prophet and stood before him as shapes of fire, telling him to prepare strings of yucca nuts and send them with a message to all the villages far and near, so that in every pueblo chiefs might untie one knot from the string each day and know when they came to the last knot that then was the time to strike. From the Pecos, across the Rio Grande, to Zuni and the far-distant Hopi mesas, every village accepted the yucca string and began secret preparation for the rising. The time chosen was the new moon of August, 1680, but through a partial discovery of the plot the explosion was precipitated a few days earlier. So sudden and complete wes the surprise that nearly every Spuniard in the Pueblo country—priest, soldier and civil- jan—was killed, and the few survivors, after hokiing out for a time at Santa Fe, fied to El Paso, In October there remained not a single Spaniard in all New Mexico, An Adroit Pretender. In 1805 a prophet arose among the Shaw- nees. He was a young man named Laule- wasikaw. He announced himself as the bearer of a new revelation’ from the Master of Life. He declared that he had been taken up to the spirit world and had been permitted to lift the vell of the past and the future. He preached that every tool and custom belonging to the whites must be put away. His words aroused intense excitement, and tidings of the new gospel were carried from camp to camp, The prophet declared against the practice of witcheraft, and incidentally he took ad- vantage of the movement to get rid of peo- ple who ventured to oppose his sacred claims. It was only neeessary for him to denounce an individual as a witch to have him pay the forfeit of his life. Several perscns were thus destroyed, one old woman being roasted slowly over a fire for four days. Doubts as to his sanctity arose and he was beginning to lose his influence, when an event occurred which silenced opposi. tion and stamped him as one inspired. By some means he had learncd that an eclipse of the sun was to take place in the summer of 1806. As the time drew near he called about him the scoffers and boldly announced that on a certain day he would prove to them his supernatural authority by causing the sun to become dark. When the day and hour arriyed and the earth at noon was enveloped in the gloom of twi- light, the prophet, standing in the midst of the terrified Indians, pointed to the sky and cried: “Did I not speak truth? See, the sun is dark!” There were no more doubt- ers. His fame spread abroad and apostles began to carry his revelations to the re- motest tribes. In 1875 a great excitement was caused among the Piute Indians of southwest Utah by a report that two mysterious beings with white skins had appeared and announced a speedy resurrection of all dead Indians, the restoration of the game, and the 1eturn of the old-time primitive life. It {s said that the Mormons, who hold the theory that the Indians are descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, cherish as a part of their faith the tradition that some of the missing Hebrew emigrants are still ice-bound in the frozen north, whence they are destined some day to emerge. When the news of this Indian revelation came to their ears the Mormon priests accepted it as a pro- phecy of the speedy fulfillment of their own religious expectations, and one of their leders, Ovwon Pratt, preached a sermon urging the faitniul to arrange thelr affairs and put their houses in order to receive the long-awaited wanderers. Au Opportune Rain. In 1887 Sword Bearer, a Crow medicine man in Montana, claimed and was believed to be invulnerable. On September 30 of the year mentioned he headed a demonstration against the local agency, and troops were called on to arrest him and others con- cerned. The skirmish that followed was rendered interesting by certain very pic- turesque features. When the soldiers ar- rived they found the Crow warriors .wait- ing them on a hill, mounted on their war ponies and in full paint and buckskin. The troops halted for a parley just as a mass of black thunder clouis gathering on the ho- rizon threatened one of those cloudbursts of extreme severity and suddenness ro characteristic of the plains country, While efforts were being made to arrange the parley, a horseman started out of the Crow ranks and galloped headlong down toward the troops. It was the medicine chief Sword Bearer. He was painted and in his battle dress, wearing his war bonnet of floating eagle feathers and with the plumes of the same bird braided in the mane and tail of his fiery little horse. On he came at a gallop, almost up to the troops, and then began to circle around them, calling and singing and throwing his red sword into the alr, catching it by the hilt aa it fell. Twice he rode completely around the troops, who stood in uncertain- ty, not knowing what to make of his per- formance and expressly forbidden to shoot at him. Then, paying no further heed to them, he rode back toward the Crows. It appears that he had told his people that he would ride twice around the hostile force, and by his incantations would call down rain from heaven which would make the hearts of the white men like water, so that they would go back to their homes. Sure enough, while the arrangements for the parley were still going forward, down came the cloudburst, drenching the com- mand, and making the ground on the hills in front nearly impassable; and before it dried a courier arrived with orders to the troops to go back to camp. Later on an en- gagement occurred in which Sword Bearer was shot. Then his followers fled. diseases, hair falling to use ihe best pre- it purpose—Hall’s Halr Re- ‘The out ventive ewer. at way to avoid scalp premature baldness nown for that IN PERFECT HARMONY Pauline Pry Has Her Mediumistio Powers Tested. Ene ye SSeS VOICES AND ° IMPRESSIONS o The ‘Control’! Makes Some Start- ling Prophecies. ds oh AFTER THE SEANOE Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. F YOU KNOW ANY- | I thing about spiritual- haps that there are mediums and medi- ums and among the mission it is to de- velop mediumistic powers in others. I have been developed by such a medium myself, and am pre- pared to tell from my own experience something of the conditions through which spirits operate. * I confess I made this venture in nowise hilarious and scarcely cheerful frame of mind. I had before me a very clear picture of the awful “dweller on the threshold,” that according to Zanoni bars the progress of the intruder in the spiritual world. Then Annie Besant once personally warned me against toying with occult forces without a previous preparation of protracted self- denial and profound study. I felt very much like Eve about to go on an excur- sion with the serpent as I rang at my Geveloping medium's door. A colored boy opened the door, and simultaneously there appeared from one side and the opposite end two silent wide eyed women. They just appeared—nothing more; appeared and stood there. They looked alive, yet I was by no means cer- tain of this until one spoke, suggesting that I send my card to the medium, for whom I had asked. Glancing up, I then dis- covered another apparition at the head of the stairs. It was the medium herself, beckoning me to ascend. The swift, still, automatic suddenness with which these three figures came into view was like the phantasmagoric stage setting of the Black Crook, or Devil's Auction. It puzzled me, but not more than the personality of the medium, as I sat down to visit with her, The Medium. A woman of about fifty-five years, she was characterized by perfect refinement, and decided force, beth of will and intel- lect, that commanded one’s respect and a certain liking. Her face was chalky white and deeply furrawed, . Her eyes had the direct gaze of one» who knows herself, and has nothing to céfaceak ‘I have been a médiym all my life,” she said; “from a lit(le child I have both seen and heard in the Spirit world. I spent two years in the honie of®Madame Blavatsky, her daily associafe arf? >upil. But Helen Blavatsky could’ teach me nothing. All that she knew mae early youth been taught me by my ‘clntrol’ of the spirit worid.”” = = “Taught you hdW?” ¥ asked. Taught by Impressions and Voices, “Sometimes by "impressions conveyed to my mind, as whet have been made aware of the substance pf bopks written in unfa- miliar languages. But more often, by voices that address my! ear. Sometimes these voices seem to be in my own head. Again they sound as if Sime one were speaking beside me. They always speak at my left side. Frequently, when persons are talking to me, I am ¥reatly confused by these spirit ‘voices, contradicting what is being sald to me. Fof instance, the other éay, a wealthy woman came to me in disguise and was telling me a story that enlisted my sympathies when Crow, my Indian ‘control,’ spoke at my elbow saying: ‘Don’t you be- Neve her, Medie; she’s lying to you; she’s lying to you.’ I tried to pay no attention to him, but he was so persistent finally, I said to her, ‘My “control” tells me you are lying to me. She broke down crying and owned that it was so.” This disturbed me a little. I wondered what Crow might be informing her about me. iowever, I spoke the truth when I 1 have been told that I am medium- is a medium necessarily a istic myself. ant?” N she answered. ‘They usually are, but as you sit in the circle this evening you will be able to de- termine just what form your mediumistic powers take.” With Vital Forces. There was a rap at the door, and three women entered—a mother and two daugh- ters. The latter were honest, simple looking girls, despite their badly drug-stored hair; the mother, stolid, stupid and serious in ap- pearance. Following close upon these came two others—one a sweet-faced woman, with sad questioning eyes. The other made me sorry I come myself. She was not ex- actly a monster, though suggesting to me the hunchback of Notre Dame. Her head was drawn over to one side; her face bright, smiling, was marked by the most imperson- al eyes I ever saw. A table was then brought in—a small table mounted on glass feet. “Ah,” sald one of them, “I am glaa you have an insulated table. It holds the magnetism so much better.” “Yes,” rejoined the medium, “it is a great pity we do not all wear shoes that insulate Our vital forces would “It is odd,” said the woman with the twisted neck, “how little is generally under- stood of the natural harmonies that affect us. Do you know,’ addressing me, “that certain metals and certain precious stones antagonize or aid the powers of the person wearing them?” I owned that I did not know this, but the developing medium instanced how she had been cured of rheumatism acting on the advice of her “control,” who told her that a pair of silver bracelets she wore constantly fixed the disease upon her. Being Developed. When we had drawn our chairs around the table the medium who was to develop us said she would not sit in the circle, because the superior means she offered would draw all spirit communications from us to her. “How are you accustomed to sit,” she asked, “with or without a light? I like a light myself,’ she said, very de- cidedly, and that settted it. To my great relief we had a light, turned down, how- ever. We all put our shands on the table, and, I don’t mind telling you, that I was so scared I couldn't drawia long breath. The medium had plaged herself directly be- hind me and wag intoning something in Hindostanee that ‘sent cold chills chasing up and dewn my!back. Then she laid her hand on my heady andiI said my prayers. Scripture was verified. The prayers of the righteous did avajl. She gave me up for the time, and passed on to the girl beside me, whose hand ‘ind arm were twitching in a most horrible manner. This girl was clearly a good subject; The medium, still delivering her strange;incantation, rubbed the girl's head, down her spine—rubbing hard between her shdulders and at the small of the back. ‘fen her white bony fingers tapped the giri’s hand that was jumping about in a way impossible to de- scribe. At the opposite end of the table the old woman with the twisted neck was not an altogether cheerful spectacle in the half- light. Her eyes were shut, her head rolled, her fingers twitched, her arms jerked. If I could have made use of a fire escape I would have lost no time In doing so. When NLY COCOA WITH RICH CHOCOLATE FLAVOR. ocG-s6m ism, you know per- rest, those whose the medium reached this old woman all her movements were intensified. Im Perfect Harmony. Having rubbed everybody in the circle, the medium began speaking in a precise manner, which certainly suggested a dig- nified professional personality. “You are now sitting in perfect harmony,” she said; “every one at the table is a medium; the spirits of the unseen world are in com- munion with you; I, Webster, am assist- Here the old lady with the twisted neck broke in, saying, “Oh, Webster, have you come? I am so glad.” Webster Was Present. “Yes,” the medium under control went on, “I, Webster, am here. A doctor and chemist during life, I understand and con- trol the chemical properties of the atmos- phere about you for the best possible opera- tion of your mediumistic powers. Again, I say, you are all mediums. What you re- ceive, give freely that more may be given to you. This one,” indicating the mother of the two girls, “will develop a nmterializ- ing medium. This,” touching the girl whose hand and arm were working violently, “the spirits seek to write through this young woman. And ycu,” passing on to her sister, “you will become in time a trance medium. Here,” standing at the side of the woman with the twisted neck, “here is one who all her life long has communed freely with the spirit world. The causes of all things are at all times visible to her. She knows the first beginnings and the last end of all that passes before her. You,” she had her hand on my head, “you will never be entranced. The spirits communicate freely with you, but always by impression on your intellect. Now,” said Webster, “I shall be with ‘you all the evening, though not at all times in possession of my me- dium, I,charge you again, give forth free- ly all that comes to you.” ‘Then Webster became silent, the medium emerged from her trance, and sitting down just outside the circle, asked, as if she had not been on the scene for some time, “How are you getting along?” No one directly answered her, but the woman with the twisted neck said, “I see an old woman with a round, bright face, very quick in her movements. Does any one recognize her?” ‘The mother of the two girls asked, “Has she a iittle shawl around her shoulders?” and being told that she had, said that it was her mother. Then the woman with the twisted neck said-to the medium, “Do you suppose your Egyptian would come disguised as an old woman? I see a skinny hand and arm, and a shriveled face partly concealed. I thought it might be your Egyptian.” The medium said it probably was, and the woman with the twisted neck continued to have other visi none of which, how- ever, were famffiar to me. Crdw's Prophecies. Presently medium arose, and, stand- ing with closed eyes, sald: ‘Me’s-come. Me's Crow, and me's just mad with you be- cause you have think-um’s and think-um' and won't speak ‘em out. Me sees yor she was fondling the head of the sweet- faced, sad-eyed woman—“me sees you think- ing and thinking what was you made for.” “That's right, Crow,” said the woman. “I have never yet been able to find out what I vas made for.” “But you's going to pretty soon,” said Crow. “You's going to be something like a chief of a big house with lots of people in t, and you,” passing to the gir) whose arm was still twitching, “you's thinking and thinking about a chief whose you like pret- ty well, but he ain’t got much wampum, and this girl”—now standing beside her sis- ter—“‘this girl have so many chiefs around her she can’t make up her mind which she like best. ‘The strange squaw there”—mean- ing me—‘‘she be thinking and thinking, and she keep her mouth shut all the while. No- body find out what she think and how much she suffer. There be a big chief standing behind her now.” I jumped and looked around, but couldn’t see anything. Crow, paying no attention to this, however, kept on. “The big chief have one hand on strange squaw’s shoulders, and now he put Lis arm around her neck and draw her to he. He be a very big chief, with high fore- head, brown hair and blue eyes, so dark they look like black. He say for the strange squaw not to worry, he be with her always, and look out for her, and he say irjustice will not be done her much longer. She keep up her heart; she will have justice soon.” & ‘This was not“exactly clear to me, but it must be the truth, I suppose, for, oddly enough, several years ago, in St. Paul, a medium there gave me the very same mes- sage from the spirit world. With unabated fury the woman with the twisted neck rolled her head, beat her hands upon the table, pounded her breast, and the girl opposite continued to Jump and twitch. It all made me feel just as charitable and pious as I used to when a child scared by an awful thunder storm. I loved everybody, was sorry for everybody and would be good for ever and ever if the dear Lord would only let me get out alive. When the circle finally broke up the girl whose arm had twitched so constantly was in great pain, and at the request of her mother the medium gave her a massage. ‘This, according to her own statement, soon relieved her. Pauline’s -Mediumistic Powers. The medium followed me out into the hall as I was about leaving, reassuring me that I have keen mediumistic powers, and beg- ging me for the sake of my greater develop- ment to give freer exprssion to the impres- sions I receive. I have tried to act on her advice, but what can one do among ma- terialistic people? The next morning, when 1 happened to meet a man—a newspaper man—about whom I got the impression that he was going to have trouble with his wife and his platonic friend, I shut my eyes tight “Oh, come now, Pauline,’ he interrupted; “I know all about it. 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She had been taking drugs. She told me about her troubles and her tongue ran like the clapper of a farm- house bell at dinner time. I thought she never would let up. Finally I stopped her. ““Do you talk as much as that very often, madam? I asked. “She drew herself up and said in an of- seriously I think I can cure her in a month. It is almost safe to de- clare that there never is a case of real acute nervousness unless the woman is a fended tone, ‘This is no laughing matter, doctor, I assure you. I am worn out from lack of sleep; and though my family do all things possible to divert my mind, and I make calls and see people all the time I get steadily worse. I am worn to a shad- ow. Why last summer— “And so her tongue rattled on, until I again had to stop her. Physicians Could Deo No More—Reliet F at Last—A Modern Miracle, From the (Hackettstown, N. J.), Republican, “* ‘Now listen to my prescription,’ I said. , 1 ‘Go home and keep still. Don’t talk. Time for he your tongue waggirgs. 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