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SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY.
IS IT A . CRAZB OR A GREAT
DISCOVERY?
BOSTON il ST AT PRESENT DIS
CUSSING IT.
Some Spirit Photographs on Exhi
bition and Said To Be Genuine—
If They Are l'akee the Proeeea Can
Not be Explained.
Spirit photography la the reigning
sensation in cultured Boston. The
old puritanical citv has gone wild, so
to speak over this new phenomena.
The greatest minds in this modern
Athens have become a prev to the
mysteries of tho beyond. Spiritualism
is being discussed at the loading liter
ary clubs and societies. The editions
of three or four of the leading daily
journals (to Bay nothing of the
complete conversion of the editor of
the Arena) have become greatly inter
ested in the subject. A local camera
artist makes a regular business of
photographing spirits of departed
friends of those who can afford to pay
for tho luxury.
There is no city in tho country so
thoroughly taken un with spiritualism
as Boston. That it iR principally con
fined to the educated portion of the
community is an evidence that the
theory of communion with [the spirits
of those departed has come to stay. It
was thought for a while that
when the photographic "racket" was
exposed all spiritualism would
he laughed out of existence. But if
there is any fake about spirit photog
raphy the greatest scientists and
Scholars of Boston have failed to dis
cover it. The fact that it has stood
the test intensifies the interest, and it
is said that hundreds of converts are
being made every week.
The craze has also spread to New
York and rapid progress is being made
there, too, it is said.
But X began to write about spirit
photography. It is a subject that muBt
interest all.
It is now seven years since Madame
Comstock of Boston became the agency
through which this marvellous won
der which has astonished everybody
who has suffocated prejudice long
enough to give it thought. Mrs. Com
stock was what is known as a “med
ium.’’ Hho kept a little notion shop,
and, among other things, made a busi
ness of weaving hair into mementos of
friends living and dead. The idea
being new she secured quite a custom
especially from the wealthier folk.
One day a request came to have a
locket made from the hair of
a dead girl photographed that it
might be sent to friends
in England. She secured an
electric camera and retiring to a dark
room proceeded to take the likeness.
It seems that the camera refused to do
the work properly and she called in a
Mr. Martin, then an engraver in one
of the leading jewelry - houses, who
had a knowledge of the art. Mr.
Martin first experimented on an easy
chair. His consternation can be bet
ter imagined than described when he
developed the plate and found that
the chair was represented as being
filled by a human being dimly out
lined. As he looked at it closer he per
ceived the image of a cousin who had
long since departed. Mrs. Comstock
pronounced it as the photograph of
a spirit who had sought this means of
communicating with mortals. Other
experiments were made and so
thoroughly satisfied did Mr. Martin be
come that a new light had dawned
upon the world that he did not hesi
tate to establish himself in the busi
ness and has since made it legitimate.
Others have followed suit in New York
and other places and according to
spiritualists it is a pretty wicked spirit
that cannot communicate with living
spirits.
Of thd many photographs taken
many have been preserved. Some
of them are copied here.
They all present likenesses of living
persons, which look exactly as ordi
nary photographs do, being, indeed,
taken in the regular Way. But behind
photo.
or it one side of the living sitter op
peers sometimes only a bead, some*
times a head and shoulders, and some
times the full length, of another per
son, rather indistinct and shadowy,
but still in many eases clearly enough
defined for a likeness to be recognized.
One of the most remarkable of these
strange pieces of work is a picture
taken for ex-Banker Marsh of New
York city. Some years ago he lost a
wife to whom he was greatly attaohed,
and who, as he believes, has never
ceased to be present in her spiritual
form with him. On a certain occasion
he sat to Mr. Marsh aud on the plate
these came along with his an image of
a lady, which he aad his friends all
declare to bo a oorreot likeness of hla
deceased wife. The face In perfectly
distinct; one arm is thrown round her'
husband's neck, so that her hand, hold
ing a branch of what seems to be
lilacs. comes in front of his breast.
Another picture being taken, the same
figure appeared in a different atti
tude, pointing with ono hand upward.
On a third triul, however, this figure
disappeared, and the head of an un
known child came instead.
Another picture is that of a well
known real-estate broker of Now York,
near whom appears a lovely child's
faco, fit for ono of Raphael's cherubs.
Mr. M-could not tell, however, of
whom It was a likeness.
One particularly touching picture
was taken for a mother who, not long
ago, lost a darling boy. As sho sat
before the camera she- mentally said,
“Willie, I wish you would ooihe aud
place yourself as you used to when
you said vour prayers to me" and in
rcsponBo to her silent wish there ap
pears a child resting his head upon her
bosom, which she avers is a perfect
likeness of her boy.
At a spiritual seance held recently
a message was received, purporting to
be from the uhild just mentioned, to
the effect that, if his father would sit
to Mr. M-, a better picture of him
still would be obtained. Ills father
accordingly came and sat, and in the
picture obtained there appears within
the father's arms a charming boy of
apparently lo-yearB of ago, which is
said by both father and mother to be
their child beyond a doubt.
An elderly gentleman having sat for
his likeness, found it accompanied by
that of a lady to whom lie had beon
engaged twenty years ago, and of
whose relation with him Ids own fam
ily had not been aware. Sitting a sec
ond time, he gdt the likeness of a son
who was killed several years ugo In
Arkansas.
A distinguished miniature artist of
New York city having tried the exper
iment, was rewarded with u portrait
of his aged mother.
Kvcrybodv will ask this question,
and answer it according to Ids own
notions. Skeptics will insist that
there is some trick, and that the ghost
figures are obtained by using lay
figures or old photograph negatives,
•r by other expedient of that kind.
The great dilllcu.ty in the way of
this explanation (says a photographer
whom wo will call Hrown. and who, if
we gave his real name, would be in
stantly recognized as excellent author
ity on the subject) is that there is no
process known to the trauu by which
the process could be done by any un
fair means without its being instantly
found out. A prepared plifte must lie
used within five minutes after it comes
out of the nitrate-of silver bath, so
that It is impossible that an imago
could be clearly impressed on it, and
yet leave It so tlint the living sitter
could bo taken as clearly as lie is.
The most peculiar case of “spiritual
photography” which has come light
occurred at a liroadwuy photogra
pher's in New York. The circum
stances of the case, which are exceed-,
ingly strange ana startlingly roman
tic, are vouched for by tlio photog
rapher. A young man (a son of a
wealthy flour merehunt) about thirty
years of age, and about to be married
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Photo.
to the daughter of a retired mer
chant, visited the photographer one
afternoon about half-past three
o’clock, and sat for his picture which
he had promisad to present to
his fair fiancee on the eve of
their approaching marriage. The pict
ure was taken in the usual manner,
without any extraordinary event or ac
cident; but, to the surprise [and terror
of the photographer, when the plate
was examined it was found to contain
two portraits, or at least two figures,
one a male, the other a female, dimly,
shadowly but plainly discernible—one
the young man himself, the other a
young and beautiful woman, seated
tenderly yet lightly on the lap of the
young man, crazing upon him with a
look of mimrled love. repr ach and
sorrow. The terror and wonder of the
artist were more than shared by the
young man himself.
On examining the plate he recog
nized the features of her whom he had
wronged. There was no mistake
about it. Ills emotions knew no
bounds. "My God, what have I done.”
he exclaimed These were the last
words he uttered intelligibly. The
photographer, who still preserves the
remarkable likeness, vouches for the
story that the victim of the 'visitation
died a raving maniac in a New York
insane asylum.
With sucli evidence as is offered
above it is not strange that the theory
of communication with spirits is find
ing favor with even the most intel
lectual. What the future progress of
spiritualism will be remains to be
seen. Jas. II. Meai>.
CJlrl In a Trance.
A Michigan school teacher, it is al
leged, has been in a trance-like state
for 130 days, and has wasted away to
a skeleton. The young woman is 10
years of age, and when awake weighed
140 pounds and baa excellent health.
The long sleep came on her without
warning. Liquid refreshment is ad
ministered, but of late siie does not
seem to have the power to assimilate
it. The doctors are puzzled.
Brides of Illnd'ostau.
A native bride in iiindostan is loaded
down with all the jewelry she can get.
She has a girdle at the waist, numer
ous rings, anklets, bracelets and bells,
and decorations for the hair. Although
she has never seen her intended hus
band. she goes and sits beside him the
day of the ceremony. The priest takes
a corner of the bride’s veil and ties it
to the groom’s shawl, and they are
married.
TOLD OF WILD BILL.
SCENES PROM THE LIFE OF A
DESPERADO.
Ha Killed a Large Number of Men In
HI* Day and Finally Died with Ills
Own Boots On—He Ouoe Threw Up
Hla Handa. {
Among1 tho prominent citizen* of
Hayes City In the fast days of Kansas
railroad building was “Wild Bill”
(William Hickok) who had been a serv
iceable scout in the Union army along
the Arkansas border during the war.
Sfil came to Hayes City with the pres
tige of having killed nine men, unas
sisted, who had corralled him during
the war intent upon Ms death. lie,
too, had followed “the K. Kv
railroad along evory inch of its con
struction from Manhattan. His per
HOLDING UP WILD BILL.
•ounl appearance and the complexion
of hla white-handled revolvers had be*
come quite familllar all along the road,
and especially at Abilene, during Its
days an the terminus of the Texas eat;
tie drive, where, as City Marshal, there
was never a cowboy who got “the
drop” on Bill.
“Wild lllll" In those days was "the
Slade” of Western Kansas, the man
who Mark Twain says in “Houghing
It” was respected In Nevada for having
"killed his man.” In physique, as the
writer remembers him, he was as per
fect a specimen of manhood as ever
walked in moccasins or wore a pair of
cavalry boots, and Bill was a dandy at
times in attire—a regular frontier dude.
Ho stood about six feet two inches
tall, had a lithe waist, and loins, broad
shoulders, Binall feet, bony and sup*
pie hands, with tapering fingers,
quick to feel the cards or pull
the trigger of a revolver. His
hair was auburn in hue, of the tint
brightened but not reddened by the
sunlight. Ho had a dean, clear-cut
ft.ee, clean shaven, except a thin,
drooping, sandy-brown mustache,
which he wore and twirled with no
success, even, in getting an upward
twist at either end. Brown-haired as
he was, ho had clear gray eyes. He
had a splendid countenance, amiable
in look, but firm withal. His luxuriant
growth of hair fell in ringlets over his
shoulders. There was nothing in his
appearance to betoken the dead-shot
and frequent murderer—except his
tread. He walked like a tiger, and
aroused he was as ferocious and piti
less as one.
Bill’s means of livelihood at the time
he was in Hayes City went unques
tioned, and there is no reason fog Ml;
tating the subject at this late day. Is, t
“a killer,” however, Bill put himself
record very shortly after coming t§ s
Hayes City. His first exploit wan % ;
double shot, a right-and-left fusUtnAn. '
The writer witnessed the affair. • ,
Two men'eame out of Tom Drantff
saloon and walked toward the uSTTlj
built depot, surrounded by a reiaM
platform. Each man haa a plstnl
drawn, when suddenly from a group of
four or five “crack! crack!” went twe :
pistol shots, and Wild Bill stood tm the &
edge of the platform with a smoking.'
bone-handled revolver in each hnwC
and the two men who had boon ups ,
preaching the plartform were seen to
totter, stumble forward and Ml,
Death was instantaneous in each ease,
as if Jove had hurled a bolt at thessen*
A row over cards the night before
caused the double death, and a double
funeral as soon as the corpses ooeld be ^
prepared for interment. .
It was only “a few moons” after^fhe
obsequies following tlfe demise of the -
two gentlemen, whose sudden tsUw
off has just been recorded, that WQa
Bill came very near furnishing, in hie
own person, the subject for a “Bret -
class funeral.” He was ssnnteriim ]
west on Front street (traversed by the
railroad), when, near the corner of Feel:
street (the avenue leading toward
Fort Hayea), a small man, an Irishman
of the name of Sullivan, jumped oatta '
front of Bill with cocked revolver, as* .
olaiming:
“I have got you! Hold up yoifr
hands. I am going to kill you, you
Up went Bill’s hands, Sullivan hav- :
ing “ the drop” on him. Sullivan then
started into a gloating dissertation
about killing him, wbilo Bill stood be
fore him as rigid as the Apollo Belve
dere. Opening his eyes wide and
frowning, Bill in a few moments ut
tered in expostulatory tones—looking
over Sullivan’s head:
” For God’s sake, don't stab the man
in the back! Give him a chance for
his life.”
Sullivan turned to see his enemy in
the rear—and his funeral came off next
day, Strange to say, several years af
ter the death of Sullivan, Wild Bill
“ died with his boots on” in Wyoming
while at a game of cards, a brother of
the Hayos City Sullivan proving an
avenger._
The Alpine Flower.
The government of the Tyroll has
passed a bill, imposing heavy fines
on persons who may be caught while
selling samples of the beautiful and
rare Alpine flower called edelweiss,
which has been pulled up by the roots
OD the mountains to such an extent
that there is danger of the plant be
coming extinct. The people complain
that tourists are rapidly killing out
that and other Alpine plants, and
Ens best on money-making have
d on the destruction by gathering
_ lanes for travelers.