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Show in Piieh a manner tlitit he roulil re:i'l every name as ho cut it olT anl put it in tlio box. Kxptirttn'SB in miml read-injf read-injf would account for all that followed. Tiio so-called "spirit" could rattle oil a lone; communication that mitfht apply to anybody, but tho manner of tha individual's in-dividual's death was not so easily told. Thu doctor freely announced that ho could tell, but it was necessary to writu a list of diseases, in which lhn right one nhould be, included. 'This was objected ob-jected to and tho test failed, The next list of names wero partly cut oil' and put in tho hat by thtiRon-tlemnu thtiRon-tlemnu who wrote thmii. The demand disconcerted thu doctor but he submitted submit-ted to it and tliu result was that ho was hopelosly mixed up. An explanation w as at hand to tho effect that ho had been working hard ami his powers were exhausted. One of tho visitor wrote, a namu ou a slip and asked tho doctor to give some information about the person. The rciiiest was not noticed at tho time, but while tlio talk pn e 'eded tho slip was ipiiutly opened and read Later tho doctor .said: "Oh, you asked about some on, which is it?" Thereupon There-upon ho picked up tho slip and proceeded pro-ceeded to give tho namo. This narrative might be run on indefinitely, in-definitely, hut enough has been told to show the state of facts upon which Tiik. Tutus' conclusions are based. Wo would simply urge peoplo not to accept tests prepared in advance and not be willing to belieVB auything they are told. .Spiritualist) can entrap peoplo moro completely than any other delusion, delu-sion, hut there is no reason why the individual in-dividual should not see its palpably weak points at tho start and trust to reason for the discovery of tho key to anything that may be temporarily puzzling. puz-zling. The mediums have been exposed so often that it would seem to bo unnecessary un-necessary to vuntilato them, but it is just as well to put the public on its guard. In this particular case TllK Ti.mrs has been invited in-vited to publish its conclusions, and it feels that it is a duty for it to do so. Tho doctor, no doubt, thought that nis wonderful expertnoss would carry his subject away, but ho miscalculated, and The Timi.s is able to warn those w ho may be mystiliod by him that there is nothing in his performances that is any moro worthy of bolief than those j tricks which have been practiced by others and which have been exposed over and over again. j TIIK METHODS OF "M KDITMS." Spiritualism is a subject that has interested in-terested a few people in every community commu-nity for many years, but the number of converts does not grow materially, and cannot grow because tho conditions surrounding it are too absurd to entrap the reason of reasoning peoplo. No "medium" has ever been able to stand a thorough test and we may safely con-cliido con-cliido that no one will ever establish lus or her claim to the powers which it is asserted they possess. Tlie so-called manifestations aro usually traced to Bomo physical cause that is controlled by tiio operator; they convoy nothing that is good and tend simply to mako people who believe in them visionary aud erratic. At times tho investigator is pu;'..led but if he observes closely he can never fail to detect enough that is false and enough that is absurd to satisfy sat-isfy him that the whole tning is either a fraud or a delusion. These remarks apply to the performances perform-ances given by Dr. Louis Schlf.singei: of San Francisco who is now in this city, lie invited tlie editor of Tan 1 , Tines to a "sitting" and asked that a truthful report, if any, be given of tho I performance with tho conclusions of j the editor. The doctor is very clever, j and one is at a loss to know whether he ; v. is deluding himself or practicing decep- tion deliberately. Wo do not know how he obtains his ineaniLg ess 'Tappings'' but wo do know that j it was necessary for him to have the : : names written on pieces of paper, and ! equally necessary for him to see them, j He started out with the statement that ! be would go out of the room so that tha list of names being written by one of the party could not bo seen by bini. j i When b returned ho folded that paper |