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Show A HMR-RMSINC STORY- Itcmurknblc. material i,ut ion nl I'vrru llante, lud H 1ml u Sceptic Saw Tho most remarkable "materializa, tions" yel attained seem to havo boon reached by a medium at Terro Haute, Ind., Mrs. Stewart by name. Isaac Kelso, of St. Louis, who has been sojourning at Terra Hauto, writes to j the Saint Louis Globe an account ot I his cxperienco at this lady's seances. The medium is described us "a littlu wo.nan, carrying about her no indications indi-cations of tho wondrous power bIio possesses. Plainly, yet neatly dressed is blio, modest and unassuming; greets you with a smilo, and takus your hand with cordiality; converses a little with her Iriends; passes on to the cabinet; enters, and dunes the door alter liur. "By and by," Hay8 Mr. Kelso's account, ac-count, "ouo wing ol tho cabinet door slowlv onens. and out slum a ulii'lil. hut boautilul figure, robed iu pure white garments looking a girl of about seventeen; not rjuilo bo tall as the medium, but with step more elastic. Pausing uu iusLanLncar the threshold, alio sayn, 'Good evening 1' in tho soltesl imaginable tones; thou turning round, throws open tho wing of tho cabinet door, showing us the medium sitting iu a chair apparently itolcep and deadly pale. At this a stranger whispers mo, 'May not the figure in tho chair be made up, and consist of something other lhau llesh and blood, while the creature in white is really the medium proving ghost?' Did some invisible car, as woll an my own, catch his whisper of uutipi-cioni' uutipi-cioni' Immediately tho chair on which the medium sat entranced commenced com-menced rocking, and llio unconscious occupant thereof lifting her arm waved a white handkerchief. But all al' this failed to satisfy the skeptic. 'Ah, tho thing iu a machine,' said he, 'moved by wires.' Those words, though uttered iu an undertone, fell not unheard by the apparition moving mov-ing before us, Guing at ouco to the iinjdiuin, the Jigiiro in while raised her to her feet, brought her out ol' the cabinet, unit aloud sido by sidy with i hor. Having thus swept away our dark suspicion, the apparition returned re-turned into the cabinet with the mo-ilium mo-ilium and closed (bo door." After this a tall man came out, well i materialized, and Bliook' hands with ibis wife, who was in the circle. The I scene was affecting. Then the figure in white came out again. We quote from Kelso's narrative: nar-rative: "I requested her to give me tho best proof she could that she was not a mortal like ourselves, After expressing her willingness to try, she called for ft pair of scissors, which, being furnished, she handed to me; then kneeling down before me, requested that I should cut a lock of hair from her head. I complied, clipping quite a large lock from her crown. The tress was passed round tho circle, as all were curiouB to feel of it. The apparition then taking the hair into her own hands, laid it upon a white handkerchief close by me, and folding it carefully therein; then rising, sho went into tho cabinet, and Bhut the door. Directly the kerchief ker-chief deliberately unfolded itself, ftnd the hair straightway appeared to act like a thing of life, rolling over and moving about with a strange activity. After a littlo while it leaped off on lo the carpet.and began traveling toward the cabinet. While it proceeded in that direction, the apparition, opening the door, camo out and stood motionless while the lock of hair leaped leap-ed upon her white skirt, and climbed slowly to her shoulder, and theu sprang lo her crown, seeming to fasten itself to the very spot from which I bad clipped it. |