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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1907)
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Donbtera atroualr Imjtrcaaed. 1 1 11,1 or Will Irwln'i pavera In t'ull'fu'a. iliolirg w'th nienuimi and flalr vnyaoti. ivliurs thsa tj.'iJlntitaiicrB of tint Rum-' ; ..; J : " i- lu trotcmiional lore (here are two or tlifVe qr-nr toile aliout beijlBnlrigs. One la liiM la that extraordinary unonyinoua book, 'Revelatlona ot a Spirit Madluin."At u'ght (vii, tha author was the agnostic member In a family of plrttuallst. A wandering niaterlallslnc medium both converted him and peruaded )ilin that he h(n "powera" which ha could d-relop If he would. For three, montha, then, the boy eat lu the cablr.et one night a Wffk, while hi family n nd friend formed a :k circle outiMe. pithing happeneil. One night a temptation ittmo upon him. He, would glva the circle a run for Ma money, j With hi heel ' he produced a avrlea of rup. ', Tremendous Benaxtlon In the circle.'. The next t'nie he rubbt.t sulphur marches on his finger ard thrust them throuSi- the curtains "spirit if ': .:' Life cf ahoc quality of f b laath r and tb tit. TLls Woma'. Oui Metal, no tip. 'fits lik your foot Ita leather Is tha beat lllty . ycara ot perleoca cia aelact. ' ASK YOLE DEA1EB FOB IIisGotzianSIioo ' j a'iyTrlal'ir'ttrnB.TsatWr- T f i light." From that he went to a long and glorious career In materialising. Btacea of DUIIIaalaaiuent. A well-to-do fish merchant lived In Bos con In the early seventies. He went wild ver spiritualism; and a gang of the en .erprlslng mediums peculiur to Boston took ilm In hand. With the help of a "eplrlt afflnlty," thoy bled him of eveiythlng h .ad. Just about the time that he went tito bankruptcy some one opened his eyes. He determined to spend the rest of his 'lie exposing mediums; and to tbat end he t adit a study of fraudulent method. When .e had become an expert! temptation ar- r'ved. Why not pull back hi money hrough tho very hofe" into which he had loured It? Ho went boldly Into tho business and gained a name ahlch atill Uvea, lie a now pausing hi ota sko on a farm In New Jersey which he bought with the ,'iocoids of his "medlinnHliip." A keen young British sudor ramo Into the port of Ean Francisco ten years ago. With a party of shoru-leave men, he went - to an inde pendent alata writer who charged them a dollar apiece. This Brltisn tar caught the medium slipping a silicate flspx "If looks easy," be said to himself, "I think I can do ; that." ... He deserted from his ship, scared the 'medium Into a confession, and was taken Into the graft. He la the best 'ndependent slate writer performing today. The medium is launched now. What hn she learned In her preliminary stu1i Simply that shrewd guessing, combined with systematic observation, will turn the trick. In four case out of five. It la won derful how til mere amateur can learn throUil. systematic observation to uncover secrets. If you do not believe It. try It some time at dinner, say. Listen, as you never listened before, to the table talk. Try to remember It all; to combine some little thing which you have just heard with something that you heard three min ute ago. Study small peculiarity s in dress, appearance, manner. If you do not discover hidden tacts about mere acquaint! ancea, you are a dull person. Last spring I went to a professional clairvoyant In Warren avenue. Boston.. She had a sitter; t was asked to wait my turn. I had three Boston papcra wlia mo; and after I had glanced them over I out from each the news items concerning a woman suffrage banquet. Having done this, I folded n; the papers and left them on the hst rack. The medium was a long tlmo about It, and I had an appointment; I called her out of the trance stale to tell her that I would be back that afternoon. When, at lant. I got my sitting, Merry Kyea, tha Indian control, sparred a nilnula for an opening and then asked: "Your business has to do with woman suffrage, l aan't it, cli!cftain" Of course, sue had examined those papers, compared tnein with, whole copies, and rnadtf her deduction. tVamea la the Majerltr. Tour sitter out of every five are women, and four women out of every five want to teH their trouble and rehearse their lii.cfs. 'ilii. inediu.n u not iivl-J lUt... back. A small hint here, a slight reference there, the application of a little practical shrewdness In combining the two and be- I hold, a wonderful revelation. The hopes of the litter, too, are always with thu medium. She I ready and eager to grasp at the slightest semblance of truth. Tho medium adds a sauce that makes it all go down an optimistic prophecy of a bright future. Condition are alway going to Improve. The alck child will get well the lover will come back. The sitter goes away desiring, with all the hope in nor foolish heart, to believe. This Sherlock Holmes method of observa tion and deduction Is the basis of the medi um's art. It Is not enough, however, for a real success. The confirmed sitter usually visits mere mediums than one the thing is a habit. Her steady patronage govs to that medium who show the moat acourate and minute knowledge of past relatives and present troubles. Our rising young medium. therefore, begins to revise her methods and to take in confederate either from Inside or outside the profession. Methods Employed. Here Is a typical way: The medium 1 es tablished near a lar.'e factory, employing many girls. Next to bereaved old women, ) working girl are the steadiest patrons ot 'clairvoyants, fortune teller, and palmist. I Attracted by the sign, one or two gliis ! from the factory drop in. One of them, the modlum finds. Is morally corruptible. The medium doe , her best at this "fishing seance" and gives a pretty good readtnt. "How much?" asks the girl when the con trol Is jassed. "Nothing for you, my dear." says the medium. "I want you to help me. I've proved my power to you th evening because -my magnetism and yours are tied up, like. We're affinities. But I can't always count on It, and when It fails, people go away disbelieving and ready tn knock. If ou help me, there' money In It for both of us "and she lay out- her plan. The girt I to tell wonderful things of this medium In th factory, and to fur nish Information about every girl who bites. In return, the medium Is to give her a quar ter of the fees. When the confederal lias sent full and unmistakable personal de scription In advance, the medium may give even the sitter' nam, cold from the wold of spirit. If this confederate show aM Ity, ahe may p'ck up a i:ttle extra money by gossiping with the circle before public sittings, and passing the Information along. Will the confederate "peach?" Not If th medium knowa her business. This g'rl has revealed In the "fishing fitting" certain se crets which 110 woman wants known of her Buch blackmail Is a sure defense against exposure by confederate or awakened dupes. - lafumat lea Peet4. Th bust and surest confederates, how ever, come from the craft itself. Few me diums, after the early beginnings, work 1 alone. They combine constantly to ex ; change information and to trad those j "test bouk which all gocd craftsmnn kt'p. A test book Is not a book at all, but a classified list of Bitters, giving their per sonal appearance, the spirits which they 1 have recognized, and such additional and convincing fact a the medium lias been able to learn about them. 1 Such record are traded continually In ' any given group of medium. Their use become manifold. I showed In describing Madame August how these fakers emulate j green-gopd men, bunco-steerers, and wire tapper by "passing the sucker along." Madame August recommend Mr. Hay wood "her controls can tell you thing I that are hidden from mine, my dear" and ahead of the Bitter goes a personal descrip tion and an entry from the test book. Investigating skeptics liave proved this 'collusion again, and again. A belliver from I Boston went to Los Angeles. Elsie Rey ' nolds, the most marvelou demonstrator I of immortality In the Tar west, had Just ar I'ved from Oakland, and bus nets was great. 1 The Boston believer, sitting with a psychic j whose specialty was reading and answering questions In sealed envelopes, sent up a , cuestlon addressed to her mother, Margaret ! Boone. Of course, I am disguising the name. An Ere Opener. Klther the aplrlt was careless, or the alcohol sponge was not working well that day, for' when tho medium saw a s-i1.lt bringli.g a mother's Influence hovering over the sltur, he caug)it the name Margaret Booth. Tiie Boutun woman did not correct hfm. The next day she went to a slate writer. . He cashed and sailed a pair of double slates; .'here was a sound of writing in the seance loom; he opened the slates and showed a mersaga signed, "Your Mother, Margarot Booth." Later in that week "Effte," the famous child control of Elsie Reynolds, spole from the cabinet to tell this Boston woman that Marg ret Bo 1 1 was there with a n other's Influence and hoped aoon to be ationg enough for full form materialisation. This fictitious "Mar garet Booth" was the -neans of uncovering her daughter. "But 1 was a long time," said this woman, "before I could be lieve that people who seemed to be so kind and good would play upon my grief for money." A foreign corsul in Ban Fran Cisco began te follow the medium game for the joy that there was In It. He I the man who nearly put Elsie Re) nolds out of bus Ineso by scattering fine ticks on the floor for the confusion of her barefoot ghosts. After that, the appearance of the first spirit from Elsie Reynold' cabinet waa al way preceded by a soft, whirring sound along th floor. The believer (aid that tt was a spirit wind; th skeptic said that It sounded just like a carpet sweeper In action. But I digress. This consul, who had peculiar appearance, easily recognised from j description, gave the false name "Mr. Al I bert" to hi first medium. Thereafter, ! nearly every medium ho visited got the ' name "Albert" right out of the air for him. When tivf medium begins to travel, test j busks become a sure help. Ill th great cities, where all kinds of stranger come' visiting, it is Impossible for any group of mediums to keep track of every sitter. In a town or a small city, on the other hand, the believers all know each other; at the coming of a visiting medium, they all "alt." The first medium on the ground goes away with a test book of price. Two of the craft meet In Chicago. "I've Just been through Illinois," aay one. "Any test books?" asks the other. "Best ever. What have you cn Wisconsin?" "Nearly every town In the state." "Suppose we trader' So they copy records from each other and croas paths, one to Wisconsin and the other to the one- night stands of Illinois, there to give con vincing proofs of spirit communication. In every large city certain men make a business of trading test hooks on com mission. I talked this spring with W. D. Le Roy of Loston, a dealer In conjurer' supplies who sells tricks and parapher nalia for "spirit effects" as a side Una. He took me for a professional medium, and we gossiped as two fellow craftsmen. "By the way," I said a I wa leaving, "You don't do any business with test book, do you?" "No," he aald, "I'm not In that line. There I a fellow, thotlgh, who gets up book and run down Information for meil!unn.vHe wa In here three or four month ano." "What' his name and I where can I find him?" I asked. "Why I don't you ask some other medium?" saM I Le Roy, grown suddenly suspicious. That I wa as near ci I ever got to this Jewel of heavenly revelations. A et of Knockers. Those traveling mediums who choose to work without confederates know another way of getting test books. "Mediums." ssid one of the guild to me, "are a set of knockers. Half the exposures Is started by other mediums that Is Jealous. Women especially." He who would dispense with confederates and work by tilts method must have a little capital: and it Is not practicable for a female medium. The operator let b whiskers grow and gets a Job celling book, blacking or wash boardsanything that takes him Into a great many houses. Having laid out the circuit of small cities which he la to play later, he canvasses at his leisure. He engsges the "lady of the house" In talk, encouraging her to gossip about herself and her neighbors. He draws from the drug clerk and the grocery man the record of town happenings. H gets at back file of the local newspapers. From these atltched things, he prepares a teat book, which he supplement by meditations among the tomb In the town graveyard. A graveyard I a test book In itself. After he ha made a careful record of eight or 'ten towns, he shaves, puts on his other suit, and goe over the circuit again this time a a medium. That which wa hid den la revealed through hi marvelous powers, and many are converted. Thi j method known as "planting town" wa 1 common before the traffics In teat book j began. 1 Th teal booh business grew Into the Brotherhood of Mediums, a league of mys tery from which the veil Is lifted now and then, revealing a bizarre fraternity whose great secret Is the fact of Ita own exist ence. In such an Inquiry as this, one If truck with the repetitions of history. What Is this Brotherhood of Mediums but the Eleuslnlan mysteries or the Egyptian priesthood In greasy replica? Indeed, thi connection Is closer than a chance resem blance. Many trick now practiced in physical manifestation come down In tin broken line from the pyramid builders According to general report, this brother hood admits only the best professionals. Its object is mutual protection and the exchange of methods and Information. Especially Is It the center of the trade in test books. About fifteen years ago, some captain of spirit' lndustry"controlled" perhaps by a great organizer gone before conceived an idea for systematizing the test book business. ll and hi fellow established In Chicago "The Medium' Blue Book." It wa not really a book It wa more like a Bradatret commercial agency. They kept In the home office full, classified teet books for every big city In the union. A brotherhood medium might Write from Bos ton, Cincinnati De Moines, New Orleans, and get th full local list or special llts covering cer'a'n district and n,-ti- of business. The fee varied with the im portance and extent of the service, .i is said that the Boston chapter of tha Blu, iiook comprised 7,009 names. Maiingi mt m Crnlc, Love la a lesson we always learn bl heart. n.e younger the man. the more he thlhki he knows about women. W hen we take a man's word for a thing 'an we expect him to keep it, too? Tli truth - mi.hl. n .1 ...III nM...n. but some men would hate to have it tali about them. , Poverty I the soap that protect u from fllthy lucre. Bomo fellow are o full of hot air thai they ought to wear stove pipe hat to let It out. When a woman announce that ahe haa nothing further to say, ahe manage to aay It at great length. Many a chicken live to regret that It hadn't been hard-boiled before It waa born. In spite of the fact that a woman' teeth may chatter, ahe doesn't do her chatter ing with her teeth. , Met Quit Clear. 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