| Show 1 Tgf1 tt I I j J J I 1 THIS IS AN ERA OF MYSTICISM t i X lltitfl 1 Ill I Famous Men and 1Vomen g 0 t i Search 1 I I i if Ai I w tt i 11 It A 1 ing For the I Truth I I I If I H 4 1 11 Kings and Queens Actors Lawyers Novelists I I ttI1 J Nov-elists Clergymen and Physicians r t P 1 I 1 I f I Seeking Knoivledge oj 1 illi16 IW t 4 Unseen Forces U I im t 1 I I J t i ExTI ll It 1 t II Copyright l 11 ii A wave of psychic thought has swept ral J over the entire universe the very air ill I rel jfI 1 j 4 I f la laden with magnetism I electricity It I I 1I J j hypnotic suggestion and one falls to jf wondering whether we are on the verge ki Ji t I oC a sublime truth or a dispiriting fall fl i Zcy l I lacy 1 I tI The first half ot Ihe nineteenth con 1tlf 1 1 0 e tury was Intensely materialistic but I R It I I 1 I I e i 1 during the fast waning years oC the dy I to i Ing cycle the world Is being dominated 11 I A by mysticism Even the minds of the I t 11 I I III iI sternest realists have become tinged I mi with the new but ever old beliefs call i h n It ii 4V them superstition or what you will IJ > 1 A The grasping capitalist the close listed jj rt hn it merchant the carping scientist I l the coolheaded will ij t I cool-headed philosopher and the empty paled I S 8 woman of fashion all Agra that there jy nso f Ilatth Itl lil 14 t Is a mysterious something In the air K1 I I i 11 I that they feel but fall to comprehend s j i a Astrology fallen Into disuse for ocv ral centuries is now almost recognized II I I r as a divine truth tbeewophy comes to 1 11 fltt I I us from the mountains and jungles of I tf 1 Jndl and America claIm the dltlnc lIt If I I tlon of being the birthplace of modern I R I l spiritualism No Infant Is born In the orient but i4 t slt an a 0 trolower in 1 comallted 1 Am 10 Ill II I stellar conditions under which It came 1 I 11 Into the world Nowaday no child of 1 ij i Z I iI lonunti1 parent pe the light but J tl 1 11 I jM atralghtway some enterprising news Jr 4 t man repairs I to an astrologer I and et rc 11 I has the babya horoscope cast No cele It 11 nU I hratcd personage who commits a crime It i 1 or Is I overwhelmed by dire misfortune < + i th1wo fo uh I escapes this crucial 1 test and all of his I Ifr evil I doings are traced to the Influence V 1 4 ot o baleful I f 1 some star The world condones 9 4 l con-dones his wrongdoing by declaring that Jm y1f he was pursued by a malevolent fate 6 fl i I i and was pushed to his doom by unsoen II I i i agencies Fi AT v I q I 4 1 1 Many men even those oC hard com If 11 j l j t m6n senna never undertake anything m 1 I oC Importance I I without consulting an ff RI I aetrolofrer This Is Vi 11 especially the case tl ft 1 with Wall street speculators sporting fj1f i t Ole ad cfr I 11 1 I J I An astrologer who ho a grot vogue I 11 f 11 I Is I conuJted dally by a wn knon Importer t Im-porter who never make a neW contract J i t con-tract or sign law papers without finding 1 find-ing out hether the Planets are In fortunate i 41 for-tunate conjunction should the configurations 01 4 1 4 config-urations he unfavorable the man waits 11 1 I until a change has taken place This 1J person declarea that when he follows 141 311 I 1 i the advice of Ms astrologer he never makes a mistake and that when ho does 4t Otherwise he I Is unlucky IT4 4y I 11 It Is a well known fact that there Is I a P 1 tj J woman calling herself a psydiometrlst I A I who haunts the New York city Consoll I xq dated Stock Exchange She gives tips to the broke 8 who either pay her a l 13 certain I percentage of their I earnings or I offer her B tee for her services Thin f 11 f Pelf constituted > Ibyl to not however Y Invariably successful and high words i I freiedulo pas between her and hr I I 11L W credulous clients of A dlSttngulhed artist In New York 4 I N declare that his only successful I pictures I I pic-tures Am those Painted uudr Inspirational ili w I Inspira-tional teachings and vows that ho never nev-er has any luck It hn goes contrary to T I 1 the reading of Us adviser a prominent astrologer lIe only begins n great 1 j I painting When certain planet are am lcabl > disposed In his horoscope or I 11 when the moon Is I un tho Increase In his natal elun A i I asked a remains star reader whether n he could give points about speculation 41 i I I I and hethr Wall street operators ever t 4i i I consulted him lIe was honest enough 4 1 to say that It I he could predict for a certainty I lf I r cer-tainty the rise and fall In stocks ha 1 1 p Il I would ba a mllllonalie Instead of a poor t astrologer It i I 9 I I know of course he said that k J I tj certain cunJunctlon J or oppositions of q f the planet Imply dlotr hlle others A i 14 are propitious howevr tho money j C kings of the street make I much cxtraor tit 11 J dlnary combinations that they outwit Pip even the stars and we cannot aluays J 1 il 4 A foretell their mow y I j J Jay Gould put Implicit faith In the f I rulings of the stars and was superstl Mjo 4 ttous to a degree Ho never attempted ltt i any big deal without first finding out i i I J whether the planets were favorably dls j 1 J posed townrtl him The king of finance R4 1 1 I occasionally visited a certain astrologer il 1 in he in he PhIceit I implicit confidence 6 1 hut more often he made his calculations 1 I I himself Ho was entirely eatable ot I I casting a horoscope as he owned a I i i 1 large collection I iC astrological 1 books X I + which he kept hidden away In an obI ob-I cure corner of big library Daniel t 11 I IIuntington Jim Keene and In fact I most men ho are given to speculation It 4 t are believers In lucky days and num 1 I 11 I ben I I j1 It seems that certain stars I Indicate i I the time for certain deals In stocks I t Thus wjien Venus Is In fortunate con i 1 junction I with t the natal t star It Is safe I 1i to take a flier In sugar or If Jupiter Is I happily Reflected wheat will be a good i speculation nnd so on 0 cAn I About 40 years ago the Tot sisters discovered or Invented spiritualism I The Rochester rut Ings became world I A renowned and brought the Fox girls 11 4 before the public One of the sisters i died two or three jean ago after hav ing denounced aMrltuallnn its a fraud t and exposed Ith She afterward recanted I and declared that she nus driven to do so by havi spur of necessity a certain t I um halng been offered her If she i I uld > context to the deceptlo This oman II 00 morallY degraded ana a physical wreck Although this was an I accepted fact she was supported by a I il 1 number of Prominent spiritualists wh I did It In recognition of her valuable din overy She ilaimn ta be the widow = dr jf Kane of arctic exploration fame Mediums I with real or simulated I power pow-er have sprung up all over the world md believers have multiplied until they n i U F I I + 1 I Lat I 149 9 I 4 J114 1 I I I I 11A 11 i I A I 1I I 14 49 It 1 CF F4PI F 1 1 1 Rill J14 7I K I 1 N t are numbered by hundreds of thou and One of the earliest converts to spirit allim was a distinguished member of the New York bar Judge Edmonds Weekly seances were Inaugurated at his hospitable home which was presided pre-sided over by his beautiful and charmIng charm-Ing daughter Laura Tdmondi now Mrs Gllmor Judge Edmonds rest dnce was the rendezvous for all thom who wished to Inquire Into the truths or the new revelation Among the ha billion were Edwin Booth Joseph Jefferson Mrs Kellogg the mother of Clara Louise Kelloggl Frank Carpenter Carpen-ter the artist McDonald the sculptor the sweet pools Alice And Phoebe Cary and may other famqd I In literature and art Judge Edmonds wrote a remarkable re-markable work on spiritualistic line nomena and commenced an batrul law treatise which was Interrupted by death It In I asserted that his daughter was enabled to complete It through communications received from her fattier fa-ttier In the spirit world Edwin Booth with his Impressionable nature became thoroughly Imbued with the doctrine and It Is I said received frequent messages from his dead father and wife This belief Wa quite In keeping with the melancholy temperament tempera-ment oC Americas greatest actor lie was also a frequent visitor at Charley Posters the well known medium Joseph Jefferson after a thorough In vesthrallon became on advocate oC spirItualism spir-Itualism He Is I a fine amateur artist and its friends Pay never took a lesson I les-son It Is said that he believes that his genius Is an Inspiration derived from dead and gone masters In the spirit land His daughter who was 111 for some time was cured through the Intervention of Charley Foster President and Mrs Cleveland who are close friends of the Jeffersons have Ion I It Is whispered I-on convinced of ll 1 ower this Is I a tabood subject except In the Intimacy or the two families find as crt carefully guarded from the public Clara Louise Kellogg was reared In an atmosphere oC mysticism and Paw nothing strange in the assertion that she was gulled by unseen Influences Mrs Kellogg believed that friendly uplr Its fostered the musical Intelligence of I her gifted daughter and were Intimate factors In her succeed Clara I Louise was never ovcrfond of study and was often uundlj berated by her music teacher an excitable frenchman Mrs Kellogg would often poke her head through the doom j and say Never mind professor go away and let Clara Louise alone Site hasnt a bit of sense today The spirits will como to her by and by and explain her lessons Come back tomorrow and shell be all right Tile Irate lorllroor who hadnt tile faith of the good lady would pick up his hat giant the door and < leave the embro prima donna to herself nnd her spirit gulden When ho returned for the next Icsnm his pupil would sing like a bird l Whether Clara Louise Iocmo rent ant and 1 diligently applied hcrielt to her task or whether slit was really Instructed Instruct-ed by disembodied spirits It would be dlllliult ti > say The professor hook his head significantly when questioned About the matter Frank Carpenter the artist was the frlind of Abraham Lincoln I and Hpent months at the White House while painting his portrait Ills book six Months In the White House has gone through many editions Mr Carpenter Is I an eainest devotee of spiritualism lie lecelved the commission ti > paint Ihe great plcturo of the Alabama arbitration arbi-tration through a medium who was In the 4 confidence of Mrs Carson a rich Newburg widow Through this medl urn Mr Carson8 husband returned urged the lulnl nsof the picture nnd It Is I said made many valuable sugges Ions This nne cano wa Prevented to Queen Victoria by Mrs Carson Abraham Lincoln some offil 9 friends aoPrt consulted the spirits when In doubt or pcrp tlty lie followed the odlco oC his mother II ho often cm to him vhen he was In trouble Mis 1lnoln cortlat hr husbands credit lIty and called him a fool for his belief TI it lead and front oC the lattr dy rlrltnallt vine ns Henry J Newton n wealthy And Philanthropic New Yorker now dad H was mainly through hli IIbrality I that the various spiritualistic societies viere supported and he pre Wl I TlIAQT PHUPStll i i POIN 1 I 11 10 I 71 N I Vj I I illhvt I 1 j I 1 X 4 I If rro I e 1 I 5 1 WW M I It ri 7 W X 0 4 7 A it J0 11 4 itrm o I 1 I J fq i 1 six V I Zte 1 I I I 1 lk g yl k 11 IT I 11 I XwI h PIt PI-t Ac g 4 1 TE j I I 14 l JVA tl I Ti 4 Przr EUGtN1 t ildrc over the meetings In Carnegie hall every Sunday His wife has taken his place Mm Mark Hopkins the wealthy Call rotnla vildow now deceased and who mo II led bearle a man many years her jinlor was dominated by mediums and invariably pursued the policy laid down tj her by disembodied beings It was owing to their Influence that the Birgit larly Illoongruou mrrlage tool place and when after her death there wa litigation over the estate witnesses VMT brought Into court who detailed the conversation of the tiplilta Mr Pcarle corroborated much that was eldMn Mn lIuler oC New York now lead woo a kh widow and a well known figure at the Vlttorla hotel ahere she t I rlded Cr a number or years Most ol hr 1 money went to medium who work cd on hr credulity It wn owing to her liberality that the Ktd Jacket mon urient was erected the old chieftain liiuiclf It Is I declared dlicetlng the wink through Mrs Huilers favorite mLilum Strange 10 relate the unelnt KaclivnihudforKottpn hlsmothcr tongue In thp happy hunting ground and could mt speak a word of Seneca to his Indian friends Rich vvllows seem to tako to spiritual spiritu-al 1sna naturally nobablj because they wish In communicate lively with the dear departed Min John nleroon the relict of the dead tobacconist Is I saturated with Irltuallstle l doctrines I lJr medium and bosom friend la I Mrs Mlllmms the lady whose take mote ria lira tlon were exposed several years ago In 1arls Nevertheless Mrs Ander I sin sticks faithfully to her plrltual ad Iopr and consults her on all occasions The beautiful home u allicd by Mr Williams Is I the sift of Mrs Anderson Who besides receives a weekly salary of SZO as an equivalent for the private xeances a he given her tell Mistiness I Th latter holds Intlmnli converse with Socrates Marcus Aur llus and other distinguished defunct erwonages l attracted at-tracted 110 doubt by the personality of tho wife ot the dead tobacco vender who by the way Is I not quite up to the educational standard of today Ministers of the gospel ire many of II cm believers In the occult The Rev Ileber Newton In I one his Berman dim tin tly revealing leaning tom aid mya tlclom IKnrj Ward Deecher although not an avowed spiritualist was undoubtedly i undoubted-ly one at heart Many of the older IIImloe oC his church will recall the strange manifestations that occurred many years Alto nt the porters < table dltectly In front of the pulpit Mrs Isabella Isa-bella Heeclier Hooker the sister of Mr Ltecchcr and a great woman suffragist Is tttons In her spiritualistic faith and Is I herself a powerful medium Mri Llla Dktz Clsnwr of Snrosls IcU Inn I In-n well known spiritualist Her Ideas maY be mild 10 be an Inheritance h she was the favorite niece of Itobcrt Dale Owen who was American consul to one of the Italian ports and the author au-thor oC Ttotfalls on the Boundary of Another World Mr Owens death was hastened by the discovery that the I I V M i4 l P 0 ILl I-Ll Ic 7111 5 Im Ji gAV1 F so I I i I A Z It I f t 1 I 7 t 11WV vq f I I N 1 I I T W I 11 I IiN I A Ikk I I Y I 1 I I I 1 I 1 I f 1 I i 4 7 I k i to 1 I I itllo Ill I iii P U ttN I I I I t v 11 I 1 I KTOR19 0 V1 I I I 1 1 I I a Th I q fW471 W 71 z V Jr17 I rmg k 4 el 1 I a I N I I I X I 0 I 11 r Ir I r k I K04 cl I 1 11 I 0 Tq 0 I I N II 1 ir I w 11 g g w T 11y IN 6 CON t 11 R i W 11 k 1 m 11 7 I US Il 7 7 1 I 1k NOPA T 0PQ u X 7o IpLj R N 1 I i kt n I I 1 I Z T S t M fM7i 1 I 7 I 4 Zt l I 1 t11j111 4r I t NN 2i I I k I I 1 OR I 1 S 4 g7 I Ity V I4 el 91 t ppN It 3 I r 1 V 1 I q th I Io i I 17 It It t 1 911 1 fl i 1 41 1 f jl rIZ A F I C7 t zw g g P I are 10 111Y l 1 I I C Z k 141 I 4 IMa il I e e 4 I it ZA litnz 1 A11 x a1 11 I I q a C 1 I I 41111 I 0 if il I s N 111 5tS 4I X NI 4 Ill I li 41 I 1 4 Ill I 4 t r I I t I I II 1 V I 11 FLQ kVlcr fl A I I PAPRYA7 1 I F Ac I I I i beautiful materialized spirit Katie Kin vyin a fraud Mrs Ciemence taller now deceased i the pioneer woman doctor oC the Uultd States uas a Pronounced believer and It I said was guided In her diagnosis i of diseases by learned M D plrlts Story K > la Dallas the well known writer now dead and who wa cinect 01 MIth The Idger for many years and mas the author ot a number or books mn frequently sen at sanc and wa string III hr belief Mrs Eleanor Kirk Ames the Journal l4t I has herself great medlnmlstlo Power pow-er and Is I a learned writer on matical subjects Besides Edwin Booth nnd Jo tph Jet Ceon there are hundreds of men and wcmen on the fa who acki ow ledge I the power of spiritualism Low come dlans appear to be especially strong In their beliefs and glvo liberally toward the maintenance of the public orators wtn make Inspirational speaking and medlumohlp a Pretension Jolly Nell Burgess one of the funniest ot funnl men subscribes liberally to lMd tile malntlIInc oC the various nrritualistic societies Ho frequently hods sittings at his hospitable home hero many of the professionals as gamble MInnie Palmpr was reared In on ot mespheie of spiritualism her mother Mrs Kate Palmer Stearns being one of the pillars ot that cult The latter mAYbe mAY-be frequently seen In places where the faithful assemble Lillian Itussell although perhaps not nn Avowed believer IS nevertheless brought up among spiritualists Mrs Cynthia Leonard her mother being a spiritualist Lotta and her mother Mrs Crnbtree have all their lives been thoroughly 1m bued with splrltuillsm and when In New York they may bo seen nt the vnrl 0111 halls where the spiritualists hold forth Mrs Lily Devercux Blake Is I raid to be In sympathy with spiritualistic be liefs liefsMrs Mrs Ole Hull and Miss Emma Thurs by were at one time avowed spiritual lots I but have progressed beyond It They have graduated Into the higher I realm of thensophy and are devoted followers of the Snnml Viva Kunanda who disseminated his oriental doctrines In New York to his own tloraetlon Mr Luther It Marsh the dupe of the Impostor Diss Debar has left Nw York and resides at lIddletolln Coun hro he seeks 1 solace In the company oC two sisters who are i profe ed mediums lie expends his money upon them anti Is I quite as much Infat untold vilth spirit uallm an vr nls Debar after II dramatic death ept model hag bn resurrected and Is married mar-ried to a man oC man She was forced to give up name i picture she had bar rowed from a dealer and which wr supposedly the work of spirit hands She has lately been connected with the Onset Day colon Mr Carroll of the New York firm oC Dempsey Carroll who Is I now dad squandered a fortune In the Invotlga tlon of Fplrltuallsm Mr Lovell the New York publisher Is I both a spiritual It and a thosophlst and was a great friend of Mme Illavntsk Mrs Katherine Tingle the leader oC l I I W R A X I l 11 II 110 f f > l I J E l V11 I jJS 1 d1 Wsi I k MN I I J 11 11 W I I the theoophle crusade wa at one time a fervid spiritualist and psycnometrlst She was lont to hold seances at hr house at a dollar a head when she was bllndfoldd and by man or a hand kerchief taken from those lho ought enlightenment wonderCul I supposedly made many c felelatlon She and Mrs nnt lavO Mrs declared wr 10 the lci l1 Dnt for a IIId lIh humbr oC earn Wf mavalsky In I London and hen u 1 died the tnadamea mantle fell l upon her shoulders and she tile hIgh became Priestess oDhlft T Ot the English osoph I Ill Mr > h the nil f Bnt declare that 1Iro Blavatsky has been reincarnated The In th American c Porson or fig ni set Indian boy theosophlMs claim that her pirit has taken possession of the Intent form or f the baby of Claude Tails Wright tho madames former score tot y A number of FA prominent l personages In Frnne land and ltusla are full Hedged spiritualists The Duchesie de Pommel now dead was the leader of tho French branch of spiritualists and be lIv1 horael the reincarnation of Mary queen of Scots Queen Victoria herself Is I firmly con NlUced of the truth ot spiritualism but her i family endeavor to Keep It a secret She gives frequent audiences to clalr vOYantR mediums and astrologer Inc fiat husband death the Princess rntrlc has also been converted It Is I said that during these roal seances the I Ince consort Battcnberg nnd John Drown return to earth and hold ra IIlIIar converse with the living The mystical novels of Marie Corel nro toilas favorite reading The Prlnco oC Wales shares somewhat In this Idlo ncrasy It not a spiritualist ho has gllat faith In lucky and unlucky omens and voll not enter a horse In a roc unless the stellar conditions are favor ible ibleMarie Marie Corelll claims that her won lerfully constructed novels were inspired in-spired by spirit guides the being only their mouthpiece riorenco Marrjit Is I what might bo I callcd a rabid believer I In spiritualism her novel I There Is No Death dealing I I I 1th the most remarkable phenomena Bulncr Ltton elves frequent proof In Ills novdi I of his belief lit the occult Owen Meredith inherited this tendency from his father and refuecd to Inhabit a certain family estate because of a phantom boy who appealed before every ev-ery death I The father of the present emperor of nuslll mal Home the famous AmerIcan Amer-Ican medium its bosom friend and con lulled the spirits on all occasions of Im Irtanco Ionic man led a nusslan prTnceTs Napoleon III was In frequent consultation consul-tation vilth French and American me dlums and had great faith In their mstlcal powers They often held se ances In the Tullerles Alan Kardec was a renowned Inch spiritualistic medium of that period Professor Pollner the distinguished Herman scientist tested the psychic po era oC Slade the American mellum and was Apparently satisfied with the result He has embodied his strange experiences In a took In which he ex rlatns the marvels lie rformed by Slade upon tile hypothesis of a fourth dl mnlon Professor Alfred Ituisell Wallace who collaborated I with Darwin was an en thuolastlc spiritualist Profcsor Crookes the scientist Is also al-so a convert and explains many oC his marvelous discoveries In this vaY Mr W T Stead of London editor of The Pall Mall Gazette and who Is I the author of that remarkable work If Christ Should Come to Chicago I Is an aolvd be lever and belongs to the London Lon-don Soloty oC Spiritualists I rUabth Stualt Phelps Is I a disciple 11V 11 11Wo 1 I I I Lose l Z t1 ii W 4 I I P 1 41 1 1 C i I I f STE4X f I y I 1 X I Z25L I 11 414 1i IRFRM 5 I I I I L I I A 1 I t I 4S l o ir S r W e 6 1 I of the spiritualistic cult and strongly advocates this belief In her books The dates Ajar and The Gates Wide Open Ella Wheeler Wlleox has great faith In nstrologtsts palmists and gypsy for tuno tellers She believes In tronoml gratlon and own a beautiful cat for which she has a great Affection rho declares that her soul was once con talned In the body of a cat Minnie Maddern Tlske the actress has Imbibed the Buddhistic ai Idea of transmigration and I Is a lovr oC the occUlt The Countess de Brazza Is high up In the theosophical ranks and Is I a de utei at the shrine of Buddha Dr Elliott COUCH of Washington whc prepared the ornithological department In the Century Dictionary Is I an avowed occultist and devotes much time to ex perlments SELMA JEPFIHCS |
