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Show D.hhi I'latl. Anythlt? coutiocto-1 with n jxtmnl-M'a jxtmnl-M'a jorouallty dwra not matter pcrli-ips ono way or tlio other to tho general pub lie, nml probably Iom U known of tbo Inonality of journoliatu than of kuy other men wiioao work U cotmUntly Uo fire Dm ptibl lu. Y1imi, rwvntly, At tbo ajteof a-jwuty-two, IXinn Tlntt retlrml from earthly cetn, pn)tulneiit tiewai per aniiount-1 that lio wax (in unbllvet In ndljrlou. Thy fornot. maylj nuvr know, thnt thUilonny, fiery tool wm nurtured nitli-Mtlu-f tUUotnan Catk olio cbareh, und tbxt tlwvotcMtinowa-ji-ier rntr died a trnoaonof mother chitrclii wlii-ttaer bo had Always lived eiK'ti or tmt. Auothtr phntcf bollof lu Mr. Piatt- ran-- waa that ho waa a Sidritualtat. Yeam ngo It mint 1iat Iwn-ii twenty t'li-n- wro In Citifinmiti n nnmMr of mun, moat of tbam nlkire tho ordinary In liitiUVctual power. Who f.r aoiuo lnaoii included to lnviatlgatu Hplrltrtmluun. '1 hey wore wtim moatly Unix Mover lu the turrrtil Uuobyy. Amutij thorn Wu WlllUni Criy, a wealu.y ud eocoutrlo til(ifiof Cincinnati, who had Immii mlu-ated mlu-ated In Fntuco nud lmiiH-l oucl.ilMlo prthdptea. Another wan K. U. Plytnp ton. ti tho edito.-tul HturT of llto Ctucln batl OonimorclHl, m gift.-1 wrltor ami a fut. Dr. Napdeon Honaparto Wolf woo atlll another ono t f tlm friend. Dr. Wolf waa h HpirltnoJlat when tbo other began looking into tho mattor, and It wm nt liU hoaw tlmt tho awuieva wew hold. AH tho root bocatuo Iwllevero. Dr. Wolf waa in tho ndtertiainfc medical lino, and whether aa iintx-Uever or Hplr It-aallat, It-aallat, uutmetl hu rontumptlon remo-dlea remo-dlea oo ahrowdly that whtti ho dlel a few mouth 090 lio left an oatato of mitly a million. Into tbo itrnngely tu-Mirteil tu-Mirteil oouipony catno DotiD 11 at t it tho moat lrtHtUant jwint In hla carver no n journaJUt. Ilia OkUaUo wit und fur'ntfo ntlorauct-o modo htm a power In tbo iwenor world. 80 far tta known, nil tho four remained true to their SnirttunlUUc couvictiona. All rv dead now, nnd Doutt Halt waa the laat of thvm, but Bpiritualiam nevor Miftoued the flereoneta of bla Aulmolty or hi AjrhU njplnt ahama and hum biifa. Ilia aayfnga wvro noted far e'md wtdo, Qhd aotuo of thorn p;taod into the Ainerinm atawch tu Ita pottnnnoiit en richiuent. TIiero waa 000 of l.lacanatlo remarka tuatlio hlmaelf valuo'l rwwcial ly. It wa thl, "Wot Point toauhoo t'YerythlTitf scept jiatrlotUut And tho tut of v r." A volumo of theeo aayingi mlKht 1m compiled, aud tlwir wit would be n kren as that of aomo book of rrtticli nxlotn and eplgriiu. Dotin Piatt ti)UTtop;Hjl flglitinjr, but a ogo prew ou ho retired of tener and longer to til lcaatifal rtutlo homo At Mac-o-Cheo. 'Tho peu la mightier tluu the awurj, sold he, "when It Is a pltf |
