Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1911 — How the Spirits Spell. [ARTICLE]

How the Spirits Spell.

“Judging by spiritistic communications I have received lately simple spelling must be more popular in the world beyond than it is in this,” said a man who patronizes mediums. “Half the messages received from the spirit land nowadays are spelled in a way to bring joy to the hearts of the simple spellers. Not one medium, but many, transmit them thus. Mediums who know the old-fashioned spelling book well enough to spell down a whole room full of folks havd gone over to the revised edition. “Whatever force it is that guides their hands when transmitting messages must be impressed with the utility of the new system. At the last seance I attended I received a communication from a man who fought new-fangled spelling with his dying breath, but since be passed over he must have learned something to make him change his mind, for he now writes like a disciple of Artemus Ward.”—New York Times.