Show LATTER DAY DELUSIONS DELUSION AFTER all the exposures of materializing humbugs humburgs and charlatans it is certainly surprising that people possessed of ordinary intelligence can be found who will give credence to the stories told by evident impostors and still more astounding that cultured men and women will yield up their persons and property to the will of those deceivers another exposure added to the long list was nade on the 1st ast of april a most appropriate day etwas it was in the city of chicago where unwise people have been taken in by two sisters rejoicing j in the name ot bangs they kave have succeeded in fooling the credulous by exhibiting to them the material teed forms of then their dead fathers and mothers brothers sisters cousins and a aunts and have tarried the brain what there was of it of a photographer named bestram Je he was an associate of the late anarchist spies and the bangs girls have made him familiar with spies alleged ghost host to such an I 1 extent that he has ION lost his reason and is now in an insane asylum on the dinst when the lights were turned low and the superstitious awe of the audience was at its height and materialized forms began to emerge from the cabinet after tile the usual sigie of these popular deceptions two detectives e tec tives and a gentleman gent feman who had made complaint of fraud against the bonges banges prepared for decisive action A russian princess clothed in her royal robes made her appearance when a dash was made to secure her and at the same time the gas was turned up the princess made a vigorous fight too tangible for any spirit and in the struggle mask fell off revealing the fa face of I 1 aby lory bangs A roll of something tb tumbled ed from beneath her raiment which proved to be batting to m make ake wigs and things for spirits to wear and a search disclosed muslin shrouds whiskers moustaches mou staches and other makeup make up materials which with the curtained and double cabinet were put pat with the I 1 mediums I 1 into a patrol matrol wagon and carted off to the police station the bauges will no doubt be cut off from the face of the earth for a season but the imater materializing ial izing I 1 business will still go on and silly people will imagine they are gazing zing upon their dear departed but one of the most remarkable of sl successes accesses in the spiritual spiritualistic latie line has had been achieved in new york b by a woman calling herself madame diss S debar who claims to be a daughter by birth or adoption of the once notorious lola montez by her remarkable performances she has obtained such control ever the mind of 8 lawyer and public officer of wealth dealt all and repute in the commercial city ot the continent that he be has delivered a no P to her a valuable property and she w N likely to become possessed of much ot his private fortune the gent lemans name is luther B marsh a practicing attorney and the chairman of the new york commission to lay out a number of public parks above the harlem P river aver the woman who weighs about two hun hulla dred and fifty pounds now lives in the house which once was his where she has produced such manifestations that he is completely enthralled the cari of these are oil paintings which he Ws says she has made to blush out of the canvass I 1 before his very eyes without any human agency mr marsh has the paintings on hand to show his personal friends and has bas given one public exhibition of them th in new york some of them are alleged to be the work of raphael and othet other old masters moses pharaohs Phara Phar daughter david st paul shakespeare I 1 burns rachel nielson melson and aid many celebrities ancient and modern are in this new ts picture gallery an oil painting of came on to pure white canvass ina in a single night sometimes he be has hel held above his bis head bead a framed canvass ou on which nothing was to be seen and after a time it was found to bear a likeness of some noted person there is nothing more wonderful la all this than the tricks of netter neller or of hermann and other sleight of hoad hand performers er formers and yet the lawyer ham become become firmly convinced ahw these are spirit production product iong and that the medium is possess possessed of supernatural powers there 1 tal nothing remarkable about these paintings as works of urt art and yet they show some skill and talent there are other persons in the house associated with the spiritualist bud unkind people have hinted at collusion sad fald pointed out the actual artist but while we smile at the credulity of the masses and of such educated persons as mr marsh there to is the queen of england and empress et india acting under the of tu t oaf strong delusion of the latter days it is announced that her majesty ahki become convinced of the ahe fact of spirit manifestations and has sent for the tee widow of the late dr kane of arctic celebrity to consult with hex her tw to reference to spiritualistic phenomena when joseph smith the prophet Prop net over afif fifty ty years ago announced that he had received angelic and divine communications for the benefit of all mankind investigation of the principles he had bad to advocate was prevented by the objection at the outset that such things are impossible in this age of the world it was accepted as an indisputable fact that all such manifestations fe had ceased hundreds ax at years ago the days of revelation miracles and all such things had bad passed away forever and therefore be either an impostor or a deluded enthusiast tile the very claim that communications from the other world were WE re possible was deemed sufficient tp tip stamp it as a fraud out but now millions of the human farad family are led away by influences that promote error skepticism and tion of society because they are supposed to be supernatural and some of the most transparent frauds that evier ever deceived mankind pass for genuine manifestations from the spirit world and are accepted because they are believed to be of that origin and yet dt the sublime truths unfolded by that teat great seer beer and revelator are still uninvestigated vesti gated by the world and only w very few have ever given them careful aarif ALI and impartial thought no wonder that the conclusion to is reached by enlightened minds that the masses re regard ard 0 error in preference to truth and 10 lore darkness rather than light |