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IR U, 107—1882. *82.50 A. YearQuit in Grief and Disgust, Mrs. Stewart,'' which, to our great . The Medium’s Friend, a sjiir- 'Wfw* *!*lt;' immediately did, Ink-itnnl paper estoblislxsl a few J 11 .T'/'' ‘ri'lt;r' .... ., . , r.camilialioll. 011(1 COM inclin'd heal-months ago in lerre Haute, has bull nfll.rj been deceived by Mrs. Stewart the finger np/H'nuost, os Iwfore. This; “mejum” in whom it had all faitii. ' time we saw the \col protrudingThe Medium's Friend was one of f''oni her finger nearh/ an eighth ofj the crazier sort of spiritual papers. : I1-. . . , She wrote a message purporting asIt was started ostensibly to abuse comil|g froIU a Moved sister of! J. C. Bundy ami kill (lie R-P. 1 unvs. which we will not take thelt; Journal which *lut the Terre i Haute jugglers higher 11 a kite some time ago. But waxing crazier i and crazier in its delirious efforts 11 « out Roberts the doughty Rob-. erts of Philadelphia, it snapped ; the vital chords that connected it with torre firm a and went up the * Hu me. And it died in grief, hav-; ing detecteil fraud in Mrs. Stewart, 1 one of Bundy’s victims, and one by whom it had sworn in nil the moods and tenses. Heur its heavy grief:I Monday, November 27, Dr. W. I Harry Powell, the noted slate writing medium of Philadelphia, came to our city, calling upon the editor of this paper, who, upon i seeing him, immediately called ! him by name, the impression coming to us that it was Dr. Powell, j although we never before met, or j even seen a picture or heard a de-i script ion of his person. He came unexpected, and we never had any | communication with him. We welcomed him as we would any me-! diuni of like standing and usefulness, giving the right hand of fellowship, and wished hint success during his sojourn in Terre Haute. He created considerable interest here, oil account of the unique manifestations coming through ! him. and his gentlemanly bearing won him the respect of not only all honest spiritualists, hut skeptics, too, evinced their admiration by testing his marvelous powers.He hod been in the city about e week, when we learned that one of our noted and world-fumed materializing mediums, Mrs. Anna Stewart, lnut de\‘ebied into the same media mshiji us that demon-strafed by Dr. I’otcell, with the additional power of beiug able to write with lead peueil, materialized upon her finger. This surprised us, and it was with feelings of local pride that we took the first opportunity offered to witness her powers iu this direction. We went, we witnessed and were dumbfounded. To say that we were pained with our experience, does not express the feeling that came over us. Mrs. Stewart met us, we congratulating her upon her newly-acquired development, signifying our desire to see for ourselves what we doubted not she possessed. Wo asked of her no test conditions. She placed upon a slate a sheet of note papor, and then placed her linger in her mouth, and, taking it therefrom, held it ubovo her head, with index finger extended, the bull of which was uppermost. She made a few passes iu the air, and with a circular motion she brought her linger down ujon the paper, without allowing any examination whatever. In trrding, the piece of lead pencil dropped from herjing-er ond rotted doini the slide into In r top. IIV distinctly soir the bit oj pencil i/s it rolled, ond il appeared to us tike o sharpened pood broken ojf from o common lead pencil, about one-eighth of an inch in length, the larger end of which was the size of an ordinary lead contained in a pencil. She tried to catch it again from her lap, and a lady near by mady the remark, suck your finger again,space to reproduce, for ire horc great doubts os to the genuineness of the manifestation ire witnessed.We do not blame Mrs. Stewart so• much as we do Minnie, her con-, trol. and her advisors and protect-! ors, by unwittingly, maybe, eu-! couraging her, by extoling her me-1 diuinBhip above all others in the ! world, creating within her an am-| bition to have within herself all I the medial powers known to mortalj man. This writing was done while j Mrs. Stewart was in her normal condition, immediately after re-| ceiving the message we excused -ourselves, leaving in a der.ed, senti-unconscious condition.| On Wednesday evening we again I called on Mrs. Stewart, for the | purpose of ascertaining whether she claimed that it wns spirit power that produced the pencil, the re-jxirt reaching our ears that she was , only doing this as a practical joke, i and in answer to our question, re-i plied that if that was not genuine | the rest of her manifestations were ; not: that it was a manifestation as• her materializations: that if what ! she accomplished was a trick, Mr.llowell's manifestations were the same. We told her that her manifestations were nothing in comparison to Dr. Powell’s, and that it was our hope and prayer tlmt they were genuine. But we know that the manifestations yireu to ns on the occasion re ferred to abore were frudulcnt, anil make this slob meut without any fears as to the ultimate resnli.Aud in the midst of his grief aud disgust the poor fellow wrote:The Mediums’ Friend will suspend for a short time with this issue. To our subscribers we would say that they will receive all the numbers of this paper they havefiaid for and they will not be the □ser, for when we commence again we will number were we left off.The t oMtom lienee m Niilnaiirc.Wf.lland, Ont., Canada,Dec. d, 1882.Dn. Monkoe:—Somo weeks ago you, or some one, sent me The Age. 1 sent it to a friend of mine and he now wishes me to send for it for him, so find funds enclosed.I think your paper is an excellent freethought and liberal paper, and more outspoken than some others. As for myself 1 think I am taking all the papers I can afford to; but will be glad to extend the circulation of The Age, aud hope it will find its way into more families here.We are about as heavily priest ridden here ns inanv other part of christeudom, though in this particular place the freethought movement is making fair progress.I had thought of sending for some of your publications hut the custom house is such a uuisanco. There is now laying in bond for me at the custom house the third volume of D. M. Benuett’s Around the World, and I shall have to drive twelve miles there and back to pay the trifiing sum of perhaps twenty-five cents.Hoping soon to be able to get you more subacribere, I aw,John Ray.■■ ..The girls have (1i«overvd lint the thin leg*of habitual cigarette nmokm prevent them from waliting well.—Atlanta Constitution.
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Indianapolis Monroes Iron Clad Age
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
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