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Show I 10 I WW. I.I K.M UN '-ri iikf-.i -liiig-dint:." tinkled the bell. "Jonsled) -Jansr-Jnng'' jangled the Inm-f'batirine; Inm-f'batirine; "iniiui- t; - bump - blimp" thumped the table: 'uuch'" triPd the i'.iiik man whoso c.-r" was pinched; "Oh!" chuckled the old mold whom Komo charitable spirit hissed. "oh, dear! I've hud a physical pbonora--mi "Lead kindly light," sung .i spirit spir-it volte through tin- trumpet floating somewhere In the darkness. Then 1heer waa u bang, a crash, a shlek and deuil silence. When the liciils were switched on tin- trumpet -was found ut the far end of the room where it had smashed a wise. The medium me-dium was moaning plttfull) and nursing nurs-ing a bleeding lip. "We've had some splendid physical phenomena," declared the old maid. "Yes!" snapped the medium as she suddenly came out of her trance, "ami we might have had plenty more If there had not been two sceptics present who broke the conditions and very nearly cut off my return t this life." She stared hard at two BUdwairl Itran-gerg Itran-gerg In the third row hark. "We've had ome physical manifestations," said cne older of the two as he felt of the inuscl" s of the youngev man's arm. "The medium Is too .erlousty exhausted to continue the seance this evening," declared a meek little man Mho had hurried to the side of thel medium, "We bid you all good nlghf!" This sketch Is from life. With shRht modifications it has been enacted so often that it threatens to become as perennial as the first part ot a niln-Mrel niln-Mrel show. Urowninr; has dramatized It in a clusslc way in his "Mr. Slndgr-the Slndgr-the Medium," Which piece of grim humor hu-mor was "mean to pillory the medium Mr. Home-What Home-What are physical and what are psychical phenomena '.' When Spiritualists speak of physi- ; cal phenomena they mean the rappings and other mysterious noises, the apparently ap-parently automatic movement of ob-i Jccts, the materialization of flpwers. hands and full forms; when they, peak of psychical phenomena they mean the super-normal knoweldge Which a medium discloses by automat- c wmin arul speaKing wnne in a jjjMjJS trance. Usually these revelations per- !k)s2J9 tain to personal matters the medium rAjfBH could not very well have known, to matters known only to ti e "sitter" and to the deceased person from whom tho message Is believed to come, but sometimes they presage events of the future. In some manifestations, such as slate-writing, spirit photography nnd r?x trumpet-speaking, both physical and psychical phenomena may be combined. com-bined. While some medium? produce both ' classes of phenomena, the best medium! me-dium! specialize either in the one class I or the other. Thus Madam Kusapla i Palladlno the noted Italian medium produces only physical manifestations, while Mrs. Piper, the moBt distinguished distin-guished American medium is known only for her psychical phenomena, Spiritualists arc broadly divided into 'two campr". those who hclleve in both physical Slid psychical phenomena, and those who believe only In psychical psychi-cal phenomena. As the two classes of mysteries present entirety different problem!" to the Investigator Wo will consider them in separate artli l -i iii iiiktii or SPIRIT! iijsm. uihorities on iplrltuaJissai Siold that the tnysterlmii i n.pmgs In jthe home of the Fov famll) ..i Hydes hrtlle, X. T.. In 1848, announced the birth of this new religion. This .sUto- .ment overlooks the Cacl thai Andrew Jackson Davis "ih seer of Poughkeep-it" Poughkeep-it" wrote and lectured on Spiritual- ,lsm a number of years before these jraysterious noises were heard In the Fox home. It seems true, however, ithat the rapplngs Which occutTed In itho presence of Margaret and Katie I v.. lo v.e,,. the ilr.-t phyBleal manlfes- ( ,tutions of nineteenth century Spirit- uallsm. Two years after tho dobut of the, ,'Kox sisters, Daniel Dunclas Home he-gan he-gan his marvelous career as a medium. The fame of "the mysterious Mr. Home" spread throughout the civilized world, and, If Wc. inu believe th- ac- mints of a host of eminent men and; women of his time. Home was with-' out doubt tho most wonderful medium for physlenl phenomena the world has1 ever had- The services of the Fox slslers and1 Home were speedily emulated by new-! ly discovered mediums too numerous! to mention. We must, however, note I tho remarkable performances of Mr. foster, the Davenport brothers and I Dr. Henry Fladc, which mystified Eu-t'OPe Eu-t'OPe and America for many years. Blade's astounding Slate -Writing later became the trump-card in tho pro-1 :rnms of hundreds of mediums. Last, I but by no means least, among those i i -eminent for physical phenomena une thai most amasing medium, Madam Busania Palladlno. I Hi; ACJD i EST (ik TIME. I Now Jet us hoc how these mediums I for physical phenomena hae stood j . the acid test of time, n gf Hargar-J el Fox made public confession of the! UucXuaa swindles with which she and illCr sister had humbUggCd the world for a half a lifetime She explained In detail how she and sister vatic had, las little girls, discovered how they could pi-'ejnce r.ipidnt.- souine l snap-plng snap-plng their toe-Joint against the foot-end foot-end of tho bed, and how they had 'luter, in order 10 present exposure of their first fraud l loo frequent repetition, repe-tition, devised a lot of other swindles I Under the lash oi her many Spiritualist Spiritual-ist friends she lati r retracted this i confession, but the damage was done; Ithe Foxistera will go down in history as the Instigators ot the most wicked 'system of swindling ever devised to i ii ece guiiioie humanltj . For more than .'! years that most consummate artist in the supernatural, I Daniel Dunglas Home, mystified the cleverest and most distinguished peo-'ple peo-'ple in the world. Famous artists, scientists, literary reb hrtties, mighty 'financiers and statesmen. Icings and cueens, led with each other to have I him as their guest, Cssr Alexander : hobnobbed with him; Count Tolstoi ; waa his "beat man. Hul a sad mishap mis-hap brought all i his glory to a grievous griev-ous end. GES l i: l, r T( III s IIIM. Home was si", inn a sesjics to is'a-poleon is'a-poleon HI and Empress EJuge'ple at the Palais Compelgne; General Floury, who suspected I he medium, secretly stole up behind Home during the dark seance and observed how the medium me-dium opened the sole of one of his' boots and dexterously brOUghl a.bdU rnanlfesta lions beneath the table with his protruding toot. Presently he paw-the paw-the medium bare (oes darl towards the empress" lap and pinch her hand Her majesty was dumb with fright for a moment then she cried. "My hand has Just been touched by the fingers of a dead child?" Then General Fleur stepped fort It and told what he had seen, Two secret service men s .v, Mr. Home ulf for Frightful before sunrise the next morning. Mr. Foster, the brothers Davenport and Dr. Henry Slade wore all exposed repeatedly anil came similarly t crief. To narrate the exposes of physical phenomena mediums since the days ol these celebrities even briefly would re-Quire re-Quire many volumes. Perhaps the 1 exposure oi an was jthat of Madam Kusapla Fnlldino about ten years ago Although Madam Palladlno had successfully suc-cessfully hoodwinked scores mi Euro i peon scientists she quick ly came ! grief after her arrival In this country, After she had been partialis exposed hv Dr. Hugo Muensterberg of Harvard ;Fnlverslty. and after the committee I of American scientists who were "slt-i ting" with her. abruptly ended ih. n1 investigations, a small party ot Interested Inter-ested persons decided to ascertain i"t themselves whether Madam Palladlno 1 could produce genuine phenomena een though she had been at times templed Into trickery by evil spirits,' as her spiritualist friends maintained SVU S ENTER RI IOM This party was headed hv Professor d. s Miiier or Columbia University, and Included I 'rofessorK JastrOW and jLord. ns v . ii as the two eminent conjurors con-jurors Kollog and Sargent Two spies were secretly brought into the room Under cover of darkness they crept I Underneath the seance table Prom this point of vantage they sav thai Madam Palladlpb accomplished most I of her wonders wlih the aid ol bex irars aclle and dexterous left leg. Neither the "quick ' nor the dead told madam nt this "sitting" that her methods hail been discovered. When nt a subsequent seance precautions' Were taken lo ni . venl madam from Cheating In this unladylike fushlon, she could get m. Letter manifestations I han n few raps produced by tin pressure press-ure of her hands. Upon realizing that -die was trapped she et out a dismal wail and broke down completely. Hei spirits, in both senses of the word, left! her miserably In the lurch. And now we may well ,mk, what, knowledge of life beyond the grave' have we gained through the physical phenomena of two generations of mediums. me-diums. None whatever! In the Qplj answer any honest and thorough investigator in-vestigator oap possibly make. One of these) however, who lias "the plft of tongues" added a few expressions like the following to his laconic "none," In reply to our question: The beliei that the spirits of the dead return to shake t.'imbiiurlne.s. pl.n j.-nl1,us and to Pin- li old ladies Is loo utterly ahsurd for word: It Is morbid decadent, noxious, nox-ious, and belongs i, :ige ol ,n,, Goths .ind Winds Is. nnd to the bulla ballon of the Hottentot and Yah 00 j And let no earnnst seeker for the truth take offense at our drawing attention at-tention to this multiplicity oi exposures, expo-sures, nor to the harsh words of this veteran investigator. If any class of persons should, more than any other, welcome the expose or tho humbug and swindle of physical phenomena. It ! they who must sincerely believe I hope Hihi we hholl eventually obtain good evidence of the survival of personal per-sonal consciousness after bodily death I It may be that this wonderful us-1 suranco will gradually conic to us through payi hlo&i channels hut that's the subject of our next article |