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Show iMi'iuyvEiV srmi'ru al m ai- FITAT10KS. Mrts, E, J, FnnKCtr, a somewhat noU-tf "medium," whow material body Kcncmlly eXiitsViti Kew-Tbrk, Is hstonisblinf the crcduI6uT6toriiTw?wn' of nncarthly irforraaucc.s. Herfamiliar spirits tlrnw plcturc'ij, IfoWcrs, !tws and baby faces to order, and , in the most riiarvctotfsly short spaco Of time. The. . 'raitlir 'has the following tt'ecount of. tins results of- her incantations; lie? position was i'eullar.- A small circular tdblo stood lu a doorway closed by. folding doo"r?letwcen tvo large rooms. The doors were nearlyclbsed, only giving room' for the table ; niid on "bne '&Ide of I the table, In a'rbbm by' herself, iat'ifVs, French,, while the audience pccuplcd,. the other .room, When the. papers were partially dry; rlnr medium roiled them separately and kept them 'hi motlon undcr a dark screen, which was no tnpro than a reversible coat. Fuper, covered with black lead, was rolled tightly around two common pencils, and ns tho medium handed hand-ed ont eoch roll separately,, the smaller roll of pencils was introduced, into It end-' wise. Then the. medium called time, and; thepictures were produced iu from one to two stccpiids. Wo should gay that the spiritual artists run to flowers. Though on one occasion they produced a well developed cow, and again the picture of a. child, at tho mental wish of a mother . present. The. identity of the paper was well established, it was thought, and the pin holes murked important points in the pictures, as the eyes of the nnujiabt and the outlines of the tlowers. It must be; remembered that the medium marks the . phi holes ami ctits tho paper herself, and whaf undcri4tatding she has with the spirit j j nrtlsts tibiuit these eyes and things Is mys-itcrious. mys-itcrious. Paper ojioiicd before tlie pen; elhi nro put iff Js found blank, Two sc-li-onds ufterward It presents" a picture, liforal, bovine "vt- Infantile; Those preseul ;liist tilght said tjicy were tra'tisGvd, ;cr- recti, that It wis t'upernatural, and "they were pleased, to sco auothbr evidence of tlie spirits' hsudiwork. |