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Show SELIX'TEl). A SPIHl'l UALIST mCMIHCtlATK-1.V mCMIHCtlATK-1.V SIAKVKS IlI.-UiKL,!.' TO U&ATII. For twanly-Gvo tlnys. cmlinK hist Thursday mumiiig, Mr. Tutilo bad existed ex-isted without food or nourishment, taking only a few ounces of wine unci wator; but on tho morning ulludcd to lmiuro gavo way, and the spirit took ita tliglit. Tuttlo was a strong believer in spiritualism, and claimed that the spirits had told him that. Iio mast fast for forty days, al'ier which ho would go into a trance and the spirit Would depart, de-part, but alter bix days it would come back, and ho would rise up and eat and then wo would all be brethren, lie said he suffered no pain of any kind, but was tormcuted by those who came to talk wiih hiui. The day before he died wo visited him at the residence of his mother, in this place Going in, we found him alone, in a small room without furniture, lying on a bed with a qu k thrown over him. On entering the room ho told us to go out. "If you want to talk to me," said he, "go round to tho north end of the house and talk through the window. You mako tho air too close too close.'' To gratily him we proceeded to the window. "Do you Fuller any pain, or are you in trouble, Mr. Tuttlo if" "No, I am perfectly easy. You torment me when you talk to me. My strength is almost gone now." "What do you tbink is to become of you ?" "I am going to sleep now pretty soon, when the spirit will depart. After Af-ter six days it wi.l return and I wi.l rise up, and we will all be brothers." To gratify him we were then driven away from the window. Lying there on the bed he presented a horrible hor-rible appearance. All his flesh had been consumed by the vital organs to sustain life, and the skin clung tight to the bones. With long, uncombed hair and whiskers, sunken eyes and nollow cheeks, he presented a wreck to look upon. The Sunday belbre he died he was immersed in Spafford Branch, he believing that it. was nee-e.-sary to cleanse his spirit, and he also had some of his teeth laKen out to carry on the cleansing process. On Wednesday last the authorities called iu, who endeavored to persuade iim to eat, succeeding in getiing him to take a little beef tea, but the remedy rem-edy came too late. He was past redemption, re-demption, aud gradually sank luto the trance from which there was no awakening. awak-ening. Warren, 111., Sentinel. |