Show JAMES SAKQENT is one of the many who believe the slitswriting spiritual manifestation is simply a clever trick of the sleightofhand order Like Bothers he is bound to admit that it ia nmost i puzzling test to the looker on and he ia baffled in his efloitj to fatbom the mystery As many of our readers file aware this trick is performed under disadvantageous circumstances to the spirits A t doableslate is firmly tied together with strings a bit of pencil being I f enclosed the elate is firmly pressed under the table and seemingly without with-out interference on the part of anyone any-one in the material body when the slate is removed and the strings are loosened writing appears on the surface I face It is true that in a good many of these spirit communications the orthography is bad and the writing is execrable but considering the cram pcd position of the spirit the chjro I grapby onghrt to be excused What Mr Sargent propones ia thisto give 1GO if the spirits will writo within a doubleslate sealed up by him EO that the seals will have to be broken before be-fore the writing qan be rf aJ This proposition ought to bo regarded as liberal t According to testimony ol mediums stone walls and bolted doorenr9 as nothing to the epirite uence eealing war should not stay their ghostly hands |