Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 15, 1888, Page 12

e HE SPIRITUALISTIC INPOSTERS. How Poor Human Nature Likes to be Fooled. BOMEOF THEIR SHALLOWDEVICES Those who Fool Themselves—Elec- trigity as a Medium-—Spiritualists of the Olden Time—The Develop- ments in the Dis Debar Case. Bpiritualism and Like Delusions. By Dr. Allan McLan: Hawilto lations of n recent sensation- suggestive and amusing as evidences of the virility of a popular delusion and its influence upon a num- ber of intelligent people. wvietim is an experienced and supposedly elearheaded lawyer, who is tricked by the shallowest of devi and the list of dAupes includes many well-known men and women, who, fearful of ridicule, have so far kept in the background, leaving their priestess to her fate. One of them netually so gullible as to pay 8 large sum for the restoration by celestial sculptors of a mutilated piece of statuary, while others without ques- rtraits of dead friends— nted by ‘“spirits” with artistic proc- ivities—some of which portraits would undoubtedly have caused the originals 1o turn in their graves, provided they had during life the least particle of f-respect or artistic feeling, Much of this credulity arises from the love of the occult and mysterious which seems to be an integ- part of our mental make-up, common both to the educated and the ignorant, and 1t would almost appear that if the cultured individual were more cred lous than his less favored brother. cannot be denicd that he is more ob: nate in the retention of his fixed idea- when he has one. There is undoubted, 1y no delusion so difficult to remove as Q{M of a popu nature, especially when it directly concerns the delude one’s environment and personalit; Medical men daily meet with instanci which severely tax their faith in the ex istence of any such thing as common sense. The learned college president or clever railroad operator clothes him- self with disease-defying armor sup- d to be electric, but which, neve: heless, does not cau he slightest d viation of the galvanometer needle, or they seek the assistance of ignorant men and women who thumb g y 8Inying-um'ds or lapse into fictitious rances and guess more or less shrewdly as to the health or business affairs of their clients. The records of a compa nt will case show that no less a person than the late Commondore ‘Vanderbilt was in the habit of sending a lock of his hair to a quack in another city, who made a diagnosis thereonjand persons of unquestionablo sanity ave content daily to go through with the mummery of a supposed faith-cure. An ingenious and ente ing **Cancer Doctor” in Central w York sells to his dupes ordinary pieces of paper to be applied to the offending parts, after he has rubbed them until they are sufficiently electrified to become at- tached to the wall, a demonstration which is usually sufticient to conviuce the patient. The subject of Spiritualism, which immediately concerns us, is but one phase_of a mental state which has prob- ably existed for all time, and a_dis sion of its antiquity would lead us into an interminable history, in which the early Scriptural instances of the vision of Job and the Witch of Endor play a conspicuous part; the mental epidemics mentioned by Hecker, and the state of agitation at_a subsequent veriod which was marked by the epidemics of St. John and St. Vitus are more recent evi- dence of the outbreak of general popu- lar delusions, Modern Spiritualism dates back only to about 1716, when nine persons of the family of John Wesley all had communi- gations with disembodied soulsby means of raps; and in 1825 Justinius Kerner described an outbreak of the spiritual- 1stic eraze in Germany, which in many respects resembled that detailed by Adams, who wrote about the perturba- tionsof the Wesley family. About forty years ago we find our own unfortunate country invaded; but the familiar so-called manifestations of the Fox family need but the briefest men- tion, During the spring of 1848, the good people of Western New York were 8ot agog by the wonderful tales of the Pulvers and Foxes, and these, so far as we know, were the first manifestations of Spiritualism in this country. The pretended discovery of a murder by means of spiritual direction was enough to inflame the public mind toan inteuse degree, and the apparent substantiation ave an air of reality which brought e Bpiritualists many converts. Two men named Bush and Granger, with oue of the Foxes, in obedience to the commands of the *‘spirits,” began dig- g in the cellar of tho latter,in which pappings had been heard, and after ponetrating the soil about five feet, a lank was reached; when this was torn rough, the auger, which was loose in the handle, fell out of sight. A further ‘search revealed the presence of bones and hair, which were supposed to have ‘belonged to a human body; but there 1s no absolute proof of this fact, and it is quite reasonnble to suppose that the 's:.nnce of these things was qu mtal, and under any ordinary ¢ stunces would have Tad no significance beyond that the house was probably ‘bullt upon the site of a grav shombles. In fact, this incid many others had a decidedly suspicious coloring. Bhortly after this time the people of the entire central part of New York state gave themselves up to the most i extraordinary behavior. Each town > bad its ‘“‘circles,” and no less than ‘eighty mediums presented their claims 5 recognition in the small city of ‘Auburn alone. The state of fanaticism - and folly, the mob violence and the wild h.in ;mreummllblfi behavior ap- * proaching fatuity, of the many pcople . whose daily lifc’ was governed by m‘:l» | posed spiritualistic direction, resembled degree that of any of the forms of oraze of the middle ages more lnymiuf clse. Fortunately the sense of the community asserted and after awhile law and order g led; the pretended communica~ B were proven to be wholly false. ‘sad the popular mania subsided. De- the fact that we ccasionally find h exhibitions of folly as that referred it the beginning of this article, the lief in spiritualism and the behavior followers is much more moderate it was thirty-five years ago. The are occasionally called upon to re where a will has been made & “‘boliever,” but the true mental of the spiritualist has by this me been pretty well ostablished. " A mere belief in spiritism does not the ability to make a last testa~ or contract, any wmore than the ce of the miracle of the im- conception &s a truth, or ‘others of & llllrhd nature. It is only e lusio i on. it is clearly associated witl perversion of & worbidtype, and what is known to alienists as in- ' whom T speak were sane and healthy, but sane, that the court must take cogni- zance and protect the individaal ang ty. 1f a bellever is commanded by pirits to do some act of violence—~ move,” as Guitedu expressed it, certain persons he believes obnoxious; to commit some’ unjust actions or if he is 80 weak-minded as to become the prey of designing persons—then his mental state is_certainly one requiring atten- tion. The tolerance of the courts in regard to popular delusions is, how to say the least, remarkable. Some years ago a well-to-do Frenchman named Bonnard died in the eity of New York He was a fiem beli in the doctrine of metempsychosis, and when his will was opened it wis found t han left large sum to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals, A coutest naturally follow but the will was admitted to pro! the surrogate holding that the act of the « 1 man was consistent, inasmuch as his soul would find a_tenement after his demise in the body, possib some canine wail who might rec protection of the society in question. While suvoring of the wisdom of mon—and in a legal sense this decision was undoubtedly a logical one—it prob- ably would been found, on_careful examination, that the testator’s delu- sion was associated with others of an insane character. It is interesting and suggestive to discover the changes in the methods of dishonest spiritualists, and to find how scientific progress has so materially alded them in their forms of deception. The clumsy rappings of the last genora- tion are things of the past, and instead of being produced by anatomical pecu- liarities of the joints, and mechanical contrivances placed within the shoes of the medium, they are now readily and simply evoked by a small ele al helix, armature and sound-board, con- nected with wires passedithrough the table legs and terminating with a “key" controlled by the operator, while storage batteries and small incandes- cent lamps furnish a betler supernat- ural light than the more unsatisfactory ethereali solution of phosphorus or luminous paint. Besant’s amusing ire of Herr Paulut, who completely di: nfitted the non-progre , spiritual- eances of his credulous pat- is aid the resources of mode: through a ¢ an exaggeration; and Herrmann, Ke hd_ Hertz mghtly and unostenta- tiously veproduce the slate, folded puper, and other tricks which in the hands of Slade and those of his ilk continue to mystify the would-be deceived. One’ of the most successful forms of sts in the exhibition of Sgpivit pictures.” When these are not produced by actual substitution, or what is known to the profession as ‘‘paulm- ing,” chemistry lends its useful aid to the perpetration of the fraud. The well known property of certaiu color- less sume color when satu- rated with equally colorless solutions of salts, is often made use of by the ituali fraternity. A picture painted with a solution of the lead- acetate will immediately become blac when it is mostened with some fluid containing asulphite, Silver salts, too, have propertics which are exceedingly curious, and a photograph treated by a mercuric solution, disappears, to return when moisted with a solution of the iodide of potassium. Perhaps, one of the most flimsy impositions is that of photography, twonegatives being taken. One of these contains an opaque likeness which, by a very great stretch of imagination’ upon the part of the eradulous individunl, may be supposed to resemble the face and figure of some dead friend or relative, and the other is a simple photograph of the sitter. When these two negatives are superim- osed and the print is made, it will be Puuml that the result presents the dim outline of a ghostly figure hovering above the living subject. With the proper amount of sleight of hand this trick may be made to deceive persons who possess little or no knowledge of chemistry or photography. The cases that interest us, however, are not those in which common fraud plays a con- ous part, for these are sufficiently ar to the average newspaper- reader, or to any one who has paid any attention to the subject. The examples of which I wish to spenk are those where the possessor of the delusion is perfectly honest and sin- ; and this very sincerity and sim- ple-mindedness must always appeal to our pity. No matter how much we may feel inclined to hunt down the so-called mediums who are responsible for the demoralization, and expose their rascal- ity, it is difficult to entertain for the dupe any other feelings than those of compassion, The consistent possessor of a delusion of spiritualism should not be ridiculed any more than the im- pressed witness of the frequently re- peated miracle of the liguefaction of the blood of St. Januarius,or the devout Catholic who has witnessed the vision of Our Lady of Lourdes. No person is free from a certain rever- ence for the mysterious and unattain- able; it is this very quality that gives most of us the comfort of religion, or, on the other hand, brings us under the dominance of false beliefs which are more or less injurious. Rochefoucald s, On est faux en_ differentes manieres. Ily a des hommes faux qui veulent toujours paraitre ce quils ne sont pas. Ily ena d’autres de meilleure foi, qui sont nes faux, qui se trompent eux-memes, et qui ne voient jamais les choses comme elles sont. This explains much. It may be added that there are many whose vanity leads them not only to the development, but jealous defense of their very delusions. The creature of morbid imagination, either with the assistance of some stronger mind, or_simply by & method of his own, with the sensuous reward it brings, is very likely to develop false beliefs, which may very easily hecome deep seated delusions. "Braid, Mesmer, Carpenter, Fere, Charcot, Beard and others have fully shown the importance of that condition of intcllection known as “‘expectant attention,” in which the subject becomes to all intentsan autom- aton susceptible to the impressions from without, Lflo responsibility being sus- pended for a time, as the higher cen- ters of the brain lose their power of con trol. A survey of the development of all religious beliefs and forms mustimpress the philosphical observer with the im- portant part this mental state plays, and this is especially the case in those veli- ions where emotional excitement pre- ominates. Many of the alleged communications which honest believers in spiritualism have, are the result of some disorder of the organs of special sense, or of the brain itsell, but it is not necessary that actual disease should exist. An active imagination, with suficiently qureloped “expectant attention,” or fixation of the mlnmpfln one subject, will easily lead the susceptible person into a declara- tion of the reality of his false percep- tions. Galton, an observer of great originality, has experimented an de- scribed some very curious mental states, when hesithy persons, byasimple effort will, could conjure up’ visions of the ofgst varied deseription. He thus ve- mrs to some inquiries made by him as fe the prevalence of visionary memor deception cons 1 was greatly struck by the 1nqnenf.\'nl. the veplies in which my informunts described shemselves as subject Lo visions. ’I‘I}Mq of were subject, notwithstanding to visual pres- entations, for which they could not account, and which in a few cases reached the level of hallucinations. This unsuspected preva- lence of a visionary tendency among p2rsons who form a part of ordinary society scems to me suggestive and well worthy of being put on record. The images described by differ. ent persons varied greatly in distinctness; some weére 8o faint_and evanescent as to ap- pear unworthy of notice; others left a deep impression; and others again were so vivid as actually to deceive the judgment. All of these belong to the same catagory, aud it is the assurance of their common origin that affords justification for dirceting scientific attentlon to what many may be inclined to contemptuously disregard as the silly va- garies of vacunt minds, There are many historical instances of illusions and hallucinations among ersous of great intellectual vigor, and may be pardoned for reforring to a strance fact, which is not generally known, in regard to the late President Lincoln, and this is recited by Whar- ton. Mr. Lincoln was remarkably su- perstitious. Just after his e ion in 1860, when he came home tired out, he threw himsell upon a lounge in his bed- room, which was opposite to a mirror. **When he looked into the glass he saw himself reflected nearly full lengths but is face had two separ and distinet the tip of the nose of one being about three inches from the tip of the other. He was a little bothered, per- haps startled, and got up and looked in the glass, but the illusion vanished. On lying down again, he saw it a second time—plainer, if possible, than before; and then he noticed thatone of the faces wus a little paler—say five shades—than the other. He got up, and the thing melted away, and in the excitement of the hour he forgot all about it, nearly, but not quite, for the thing would once in a while come back again; but he never succeeded in bringing the ghost back after that, though he once tried very industriously to show it to his wife who was worried about it somewhat. She thought it was a ‘sign’ that he was to be elected to a second term of office, and that the paleness of one of the faces was an omen that he should not see life through the last term.” Nor was this a single case of morbid cerebral action in_the life of this remarkable man. ““He was,” says his biographer, Mr. La- mon, “readily impresged with the most absurd superstitions. ved constant- lyin the serious conviction that he was himself the subject of a special decree, made by some unknown and mysterious power, for which he had no name. He ad great faith in the virtues of the ‘mad-stone,’ although he could give no reason for it, and confessed it looked like superstition.” There are many other instances of il- lusion and hallucination, most of which are familiar—uotably that of the Great Napoleon, who saw his star upon the eve of battle. Imay call attention to an Buglish case unknown to many, which belongs to a class which is sug- gestive of a very common sort of fa- tuity. Doubtless it has done service in another way, and has been made use of by the spiritualists: A young lady used to play on the harpsi- chord while her lover accompanied her on the harp. The young man died, and the harp remained in her room. After the first excess of her despair, she sank 1n the deepest mel- ancholy, and some time elapsed before sho could again sit down to her instrument. At last she did so, gave some touches, and hark! the harp, tuned alke, resounded in echo. The poor girl was at first seized with a secret shuddering, but soon felt a kind of soothing melancnoly. She became firmly pursunded that the spirit of her lover was softly sweeping the strings of the instru- ment. The harpsichord from this moment constituted her only pleasure as it afforded to her mind the certainty that her lover was still hovering about her. One of those un- feeling men who wanted to know and clear up everything, entered her apart- ment; the girl begged him to be quiet, for at that moment the dear harp spoke most dis- tinctly, Being informed of the amicable iilu- sion which overcame her reason, he laughed ; and, with a great display of learning, proved to her by experimental physics that all was very natural. From that instant the young lady grew melancholy, drooped, and soon after died. There are numerous recorded cases of disturbed functions dependent upon actual disease of tho brain, Epilepsy is responsible for many curious exam- ples, and so are other equally obscure cerebral disorders, I may refer to a case in which the very real hallucina- tion followed the commonplace agency of a good dinner and too much wine. We were on a visit at N—, in Notting- hawshire, and had dined with 'a most re- spectable surgeon, and had taken more wine than usual. It was in the summer time, and the weather very hot and dry, which com- bined circumstances rendered ns feverish and uncomfortable. It was late when we re- turned to our lodgings, and our sleeping room was small and ill ventilated. We went to bed, but not to sleep, and tossed and tum- bled, changing our position every moment, but were too restless to repose; at length we turned towards the window and perceived be- tween it and the bed there stood a short, thick-set, burly figure, with a huge head, staring at us in the face. Certainly nothin could appear moro real and substantial, an after gazing on this monstrous creature, we I:uc out our hand, when the monster opened is ponderous jaw and bit at us. We tried va rious experiments with the creature, such as putting our band before his face, which seemed to cover part of it. The longer we contemplated it the more palpable was this figure, and the more wrathful were its fea- tures, Struck with the apparent reality of the nplmrith)n, we mechanically felt our pulse; it was throbbing at a fearful rate; our skin was hot and dry, and the temporal arteries were throbbing at a_railway speed. The physical condition had produced the phantom. We then jumped out of bed, when the spectre seemed to be nearer, and of more gigantic proportions. We then threw open the window to admit a little air, sponged our head and body, and thus, by removing the cause, the monster disappeared. This illustration, while only an evi- dence of tempor: misconception, e tainly shows how easy it may be for an impressionable man or woman to declare that he has actually seen an actual person: and the chances for deception are so numerous that the truth seeker will always eradi- cate the possible physical and meutal causes even before he proceeds to ques- tion the authenticity of the particular story. A’great many years ago, a clever ob- server, Dr. Forbes Winslow, tabulated the conditions which might lead to the successful *“raising” of ghosts or spirits, and these are so concisely put that I present them: GUIQSTS OF THE MIND'S EYE OR PHANTASMA. Tllusive perception, or ocular spectra: con- version of natural objects into phantom: Tllusive conception, or spectral illusion; creation of phantoms, GHOSTS OF THE EYE, OR OPTICAL ILLU S10N, Atmospheric: Refraction, reflection. Gases. Lenses and mirrors. Diseases of the eye. The conductive temperamental and emo- tional coaditions may be ‘‘eredulity, en- thusiasm, superstition, timidity, imagination, !xmlla frenzy, sympathy, exalted {oy, deep ove, nature, rmtmw snxiety, delirium of fever, alcohol or narcotics; exhaustion, dis- eases of the brain." There is no more unpleasant task than that of gravely listening to the earnest’ story of some personal friend who de- tails with all sincerity some apparentl incontrovertible story of nplrituuum(): which he finishes with a triumphant “Now, what cnndyou say to that?” Iam usually reminded of the schoolboy’s rid- dle which implies an answer affecting the veracity of the lad in question There is always some ‘‘perfectly honest sernon.” or some individupl® *‘of un- oubted standing in the community” who has actually had ' the experience; gud doubt meaus skepticism that ncarly OMAHA DATLY BEE: SUNDAY JULY 15, 188 ~TWELVE PAGEM. 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L BARGAINS Attend our great Semi-Annual Clearing and Mark-Down Sale, as éverything has got to be sold, and gives persons of moderate means an opportunity to buy good reliable cloth- ing and furnishing goods, for what you would have to pay for cheaper goods at other stores. Below are a fow of our bargains. Men’siand Bey’s Summer Coats, 25 cents, Boy'dllflm-. Black Al’:am Coats, ages & to 10 years, 50c; worth $1.59, Boy’s Suit 950; wort Men's Flannel $1.50. Coats and Vests, 75¢. M Mens’ Sec Here Sucker Coats and Vests, Gic, Mens’ Fine Luster Coats and Vests, § Mens’ Fine French Flannel Plain and Mens’ All Wool Cheviot Suits, $7.2. Mens® AU Wool Blue Flannel Suits, color 1,000 pair of Mens’ Wool Pants, at $1.7 Our )Il’mu' Gauze and Balb SI Jeans Drawers, 25¢ and riggan 45¢; worth double the m: worth $12.50. irts, mn-a'r’tltec}. at $7.35, ; worth $4. 10¢, 15¢, 25¢ and 33¢c. Can’t be beal, 5 oney, and thousands of other bargains, at the 5. 1 Fancy Stripe, $3.50 and $4£; worth $9 to §12. 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The Omaha Ol and Mining Compan s ganized a8 @ corporation unler the laws of Kebraska, an1 commenced busness as such on the Sixt arch, 1845, under the name ie of the Omal Ol und Mining Com- its nxistence will terminate on the first lay of March 1950, The general nature ofy the business to he transacted by sald corporas tion shall be the ln(nlmr. buying and selling of mineral claims, oll lands and lands containing other ualuable dsnosits in the territory of Wyoming; the developing and working of said mining claims, oil lands and lands A'UY\Hxllllnfl other valunble deposits: and the dealing in o and other val and such other buse iicas s 1s incident thereto, ' The principle place of transacting 1ts business shiall bo in the ity of Omaha and its affairs shall be conducted by & honrd of (rustees, consisting of nine membérs who shiall elect & President e, Sgos retary, and Treasurer, Its capital stock shall 00000 £0 be puid in s called for by the board Ot trustees, nnd the highest smount of indebted- ness or lHability to which the corporation 1s at any time to subject it; 15 825,000, J. P MaLL Ciias. WENR Trustees, EDWARD A1 L), BRODERICK, FiANK WAGNER, Jy-1-£1m22 TAPE WORM PROF. BYRON FIELD. TOPEKA, KANSAS. B R