Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 26, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 26 December 1874 — Page 4

19BEBG, HOOT I CO..

JOPERA HOUSEJ

AIM DAILY BECEIVISQ NEW-

Cheap Goods!

I jA S

FOR THE

olidays!!

Every depariumit of our Store is replete wltii a (dock of -da l*tMw and rhMpertbn ever before

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Examine Bargains

In Cloak*, Furs, Nhawl# Skirt», Nilkn. UreM (iooils. Vol ret*. Waterproofs, Cloaking lloodK. iHbiax, es, Nawho*. Hibboun. llandkprchicfs, IjHrffflj Embroiderie*. etc.

HOBERti, ROOT & CO. OjKra li«a«c Corner.

Wanted.

WANT8»-T0paid.

Wfittin*

RENT FIFTY ACIUES

Com Land, clone to the city tor which Ctub irt! will be Apply at 175 Main street.

TEAMthe

ANTKD-FARMER8 AND Btw» to know that they can yet the be*t and cheapest Horae Collars at MILLFK A ARLKTH'H collar ttustory, MILLFK wooth Fourth Rtreet.

WANTE»—THE

LADIES TO BEING

their combings and have them made Into switches. eurisand Mr*. CfarisherV Staeha* alsojost received ffwmi New Yor* aa el«a»t "took of rtaram tor braid and embroidery. She would like the ladkato give her a call aad examine her «to«k beftww KQittf elsewhere. Dont tor«et the place, Ohio rtreet, opposite the Court How. dis-«.

For Sale.

TttJR RALE-—EIGHT Y-FIVBACRE8 OF in Parke county, southwest corn er of Florida township-« acres uiader ent Uvatioa, balance Umber—half mile of milroad station. Hohool house onland. Enqalre of J. K. WALKER, near the land, or addmn him at Atherton, IWt nov21-2m

woo wan 'nd* 9th «wet, and he sottably reMr

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OOMETHING NEW! IL 80CTH TERMS HAPT8.

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THE MAIL

A PAPER I-OH 1 pKOI'l.E.

P. & WESTFALL, EMTOB AND PROPRIETOR. ERRE HAUTE,, DEC. 20, 1874

SECOND EDITION.

THE STORY DEPABTMftST Of Hie Midi Will be fottnd quite read# hie tbfs The laft chaptcrn of "Did Shfi Die aru irfvon: the third in stallnn-nt of tiie iH-w iHu»tr»t«d storj'•OneT Many" »bow» Jt to 1f '»ne nUi'-h power an.! l^CT^f'} 'U1,l Nkhr fHUw Mag®. ..an ex t«u»-hi»ij Christ IIWH *to?y \fivh farp!» givoo"to this (icjMirtr»4nit of The Mail. i.f

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KA TIE KINO.'1

Ko msn jv*r put himself, or has been putf i) it more ludicrous positioo, than that in which oiert Dale Owen, the champion of spiritualism, tioda himself before tho oonntry at the present time. He has bad the manhood and good aense, however, to guard his well merited reputation for honesty and candor, even though tho effort has compelled him to become the laughing-stock of the nation, and practically to fedmit, or rath er, to demonstrate, that his judgment, in mattem of which he claims to bo a teacher of hia ftllow men, is not worth the ink with which it is written, or the time of an idle man to listen to it. When the alternative was forced upon him to appear before his countrymen and the world, as a knave er a—very foolishly credulous man, he chose the latter, and for this nil honor to hiia. But although he is on nil hands admitted to be a good man, and a man of decided talent in certain directions, it is impossible to keep from laughing at him. If ever man was hoisted by ha owa petard, Robert Dale Owen is that roan. He has aleodone another good thing—though for this wa cannot give him any credit, as

it

Lost# 'm

OftT—MONEY, BY NcrT B^ING CX)I Ll lass at MILLER $ ARLETHW HOW# Oo,Ia? Factory, south Fourth Htreet. 08T-THE LOWER PAST OF A GOLD

Ear-ring—circle with three Jropa was Jc»t yesterday morning on Main, Sev«»t.l» or Mulberry streets. The finder will be •uI'ably rewarded on leaving it at this office.

OHT-LADY-B FUR CAPE-LOST ON Ij wrtKT of 7th and ChwunnU The boy woo wan neon to trick it npwlll please return It to VS. SHEWMAKEK, corner of

was unintentional on his part. He has struck, or caused to 1W1 upon that most silly and yet dangerous humbug, spiritualism,the hardest blow which Sftortrno^ed.

The story of Katie King" has become familiar to the country. 8he first appeared in England, claiming to be the spirit of the daughter of a pirate, who had been dead several hundred years, Site "materialised" wonderftilly, could be seen, felt, and heard. Scientific men investigated, and k«ked wise, and ex prewsed opinions which spiritualists quoted exultantly. After a time this wonderful spirit disappeared from England, and soon alter put in an appear­

ance

at the Quaker City, on this side of the water. Whether she "materialized' and came across in a steamer, vras not known, albeit there was plenty of time to do so after her disappearance from England and her appearance here.

Summer she sent fox Robert Dale

Owen. He obeyed her summons, and during "forty memorable sittings,' looked upon, and conversed With, and was received into most pleasant and In* timato relations by this fair Tisltant from the land of shadows. He investigated and win thoroughly satisfied «f th» uuthftilii"» nf hor etrrv. 'He ior in the net, into which It was /jfer ij -it and boiufi got Sbo could even without the presence of a tne iittm. She lwv: ht 1 [•,r. v. h? rsf hr.i i-st. !e .nv fciyp-'nu i.u si'l :»ir, «nd Without am' foji*' aiKiBt itt.iair neck, either. He pive her Jeweli-y wWs she took with hrr to flm spirit v* "Tld. At 1' jir "Ttpf- 'k! it went fthcic, as it was not to

hp

fo 1 In the cabinet when she in* materialized. He gave her bouquets of lowers. She stood in the door of the cabinet with the flowets In her hand and before hia eyes faded out of the material form, the flowers going oat last, and, after a little reappeared again, the flowers coming back first. All those and many more wonderful things be saw during those "forty memorable sittings" She kissed Mm, but felt very much grieved when somebody proposed to kisa her. She permitted 1dm to put his arm around her, and to feel her hands. She even gave him a lock of her "materialised" hair, which be fondly kept. In a word, sbo waa very sweet on her dear papa Owen.

All this, Mid touch mora, be writes oat for the Atlantic Monthly, and it is to appear in the January number. There is theMrub,H"the nnkindest oat of all," it to appear. It is too late to get it out. One of the leading magadnes of the country la to teU this story to ten thousands ef readers, and Hia to be oopiod Into and eommented upon by hundreds of papers ef all sorts, and, In a wont, is to be futlni® every household la the bad. And jrettttaelMea demonstrated be one huge swindle from beginttlngto end, and ia so admitted by Mr. Owen. The jewelry whieh he gave her, and which itoewas supposed to have mm to the spirit worid, has been found to the possession of a fair yonng widow, and returned to its former owne^. was teswsd to her horn#- not to tho skks, nor yet lathe abode diaemWW spirits, Iwt in aproeric everyday w»t of boarding boss*, wfce** she laid In mast beef ham and egg*, potatoes and turaipa. to ussist In maintelnlni: the in which the spirit

We mn thiak of bat one e*wideh wilt be satMbdflHry to

our «piritoalisttefrien(i«,a»d that fa. that

Katie heeottw so thoro««ld|' altanr' (feat tribe eoaidat WBuudeylalhni 8be«rriedthe thinsasteptaeflur, and

mBm

ia now dwelling in the flesh of the fair young widow aforesaid. Mr. Owen, in telling how be placed a gold ring upon her finger, says: "Thehand, beautifully formed, waa like that of a mortal WCWAD, nearly of the Haute temperament aa my own, and slightly moist/1

Young widows oft^n have bands which look that way, and probably those who hate tested the matter have found them warm, and "slightly moist," especially in June, the time of yfsr that this band was plaoed in Mr. Owen's.

One evening she came out of tho cabinet, and, taking Mr. Owen's face between her two hands, she bent gracefully forward and kissed him. He tells hew her tips and hands frit, and the description unsweas exactly to the sensations whieh we 'sho'ttld suppose would 1» experienced won1 a fair young widow t* do the same hing. lint pleasant as this must have been, she promised even better thing*. Mr. Owen says

After closing the door she half openedit aualn with a smile, and with the words: 'Didn't weha^ea good time, Mr. Mwen, a* I promised «'Indeed we did,' I replied 'you kepi vour word.' "'But you'll have for better times by and by, when you come to us.' The door closed upon that earnest, wautmu fece, and we were left alone with the memory of the marvels wo had witnessed.

be gratefully accepted and no questions asked. So also of the following

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IERRW HAUTE SATURDAY "T^VENING MAIL.

IT

"I questioned mv consciousness. Had I held familiar converse with a creature who had already, perhaps returned to her fellow deniaens of the skies?

Many a man has questioned hia consciousness alter such pleasant interviews with spirits "materialised" in the forms of felr young widows.

But somebody else wanted to kiss Katie, and she felt badly about it, so very badly, that the next nifcht she came with a sad, almost tearful face, and appealed to Mr. Owen for protection against such insulta He tells tho atoiy thus 'When you touch me it gives me strength but when, other*, with-whom have no sympathy, are suffered to approach induvrimmtely, it ucarux and ezhauais me. I want your promise that no such ovorttiro us that niado last niznt shall be repeated. They forget that I am a spirit. They forget why I come to them at all.' "'Dear Katie,' said I,

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114Qod

will protect

vou, aa I would my own daughter, from that and «y/®ry other annoyance. No one shall approach you except with your express permission.' "The changed, re hopeful expM8sion was cbaniui to se&, as »bo replied:

bleaa ou! Tell my medium

not to urge me it hurts me to refuse hftr_» At a request from the audience, stated to them in brief what Katie bad said. Nothing more was needed that evening to call forth a hushed reverence, mush as is not often found even in churches.

Who would not be as credulous as Mr. Owen if a fair young widow pretending to be a spirit, were to give blm the privilege of kissing and call for protection against others seeking the same boon Widows can try the experiment without (bar of detection,

as

the privilege would

my left arm gently round her

and sustained her left arm, bare from the dbow, in my right hand. To the touch her torments and her person were exactly like those of an earthly creature

It must have been pleasant. Then she gave him a lock of her hair: "She stooped her head toward me and, passing her hands through her back hair, separated a lock and bade me cut it off. I did so, close to the head. It ved to br1 beautiful ringlet, about :r Inches lonsr, literally of a golden s.tt and fine. After four months it has not faded away, and tt is not diatinflttix'irrf from human hair, though oneseldtnti arc* (ti- •••10 dfTJ'ti/Hi."

It probai) does not seem as strange thai this li.-ur has not melted away in four months, now that Mr. Owen knows that he cut it from, tho head of a flesh and blood widow. With this hair he kept some pieces of gauze cut from her dress, which also bore a striking resemblance to that manufactured on the earth.

These are but a few specimens of the inanities put forth by this man of general intelligence and culture. And, but for the exposure of the fraud, thousands wsuld have read the article and found ia it convincing proof of the return of a spirit from the other world to this. "If it is not spirits what is it t" is the argument. In this case the "what-is-it" is a sharp widow, earning a living for heraelf, her child and her mother by gulling silly people into the belief that she is a spirit. If it were not for the fact that Otis arrant hambuggery is used to promote all sorts of vagaries, undermining the fondly, encouraging licentiousness tod dethroning reason, it might be passed as a joke. But being a souroe of corruptiou and debasement, it is a matter of devout thankfulness that one of the most intelligent and honest of its believera should have been led to pat himself sad this system in Just the position in which they are to^ay. Of course tho spiritualists generally will go on believing, some really believing, and others pretendisg to helivs, In these manifestations, and new tricksters will rise up to beoone the apostles of their frith, and live upon their means. But to the great mass of bonest people, who were in danger of Celling late the conglomeration of all sorts of corrupting isms which the term spiritualism has been made to oover, this exposure of sooaeof the most wonderful asd apparently unaccountable of all manifostatieua, will set as a moot powerful eye-epener,and with them It Is "€to«d«by» spooks."

HITBIT PICTURES of Katie King with the wainaooatiag of the cabinet lowing through her spirit body, can be had at Pew** Hall, or conid have been not k»| rim

Taia say that MK

SolriUiaiista

•HA MBJTUn UW minv fl| VWC WW MM) V17SS I' «nr*" 'W the Mlttt got tfcwtf fest In flsA oa«e Uoliaas Is a good msdlawu Tbatsh# is rtemay ^torn* «&***#»* tbsntbs averag*iher. Is aa^»« !-aths»tl»staM«ll««*rti«»Kli« lllllots«nla4o«W.

THB Cincinnati Enquirer hears it repotted that three of the four Democratic Representatives of Marion County, Indiana, will vote for D. W. Voorhees for Senator. Marion County contains the city of Indianapolis, nod Indianapolis is the home of Joseph E. McDonald*

Tinutx Is no use of attempting to fix up for the country in 1876 any ticket that's got epaulettes about it. The people are sick of soldiers* There*a been so much of tattoo, and reveille, and rub-a-dub-dub f-»r the last ten years that the Constitution has about given place to the Army Regulations.

MAX ADKIJBH wonts ProfessorTyndall to tell him why it to that wh one person yawns everybody near him 1 !s an irresistible tl^fre to yawn and will yawn in spite of everything. The mystery in which this phtivnenon is enveloped ought to bo dispelled. We venture to toy that nine people out of ten when they road tills paiagruph will want to yawn. ^=^j=g=

Kixo lvALAKAt'A, who is now visiting this country, is 88 years of age, a native of Honolulu, and a graduate of the royal school. He is a fine looking man, with moustache and side whiskers and is said to possess considerable culture and an extensive knowledge of International law. Ho visited California in I860 In company with several native princes. Ho married in 1803 a daughter of a Ha waiian chief. Previous to his election he held a position as clerk in the Inte rior Department, and was Secretary of tho Privy Council under the last two Kings,

WBEN Robert Dale Owen had bis arm around the sweet and accommodating ghost of Katie King, if he had only jsst held on and permitted her to dissolve in his arms, what a nice test it would have boon! Besides by this simple and very natural process he would have learned that it was a matorial widow instead of a spook that was permit! ing himsueh privileges and he would have been saved his present mortification. But then this would have been a violation of the conditions I The spirits never put themselves In a position to be tested so thor oughly as that till they are Bure the conditions will not be violated. Conditions are the stronghold of humbugs,

AFBOPOS the discussion of spiritualism,*comeB the declaration of the correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial concerning Foster, the great medium of New York. It will be remembered that a certain lawyer of this city bad his coat tails pulled and his handkerchief tied in a queer knot by the spirits at a seance ol this man Foster. The correspondent says:

Foster, the most popular, successful and notorious of all OHr mediums here, makes little concealment of the humbugging ways to which he resorts, yet the profits of bis business for many years past, have ranged from ten to twenty thousand dollars a year. He is a very rough character in all respects, fond of whisky, profanity and other vices."

JUST now, while the' toy season is at full tide, the question is suggested, when does the toy-living age really cease? Look at the rich man with his establish ment,-what is it but a bigger box of toys? —tho tin carriage grown up big the liomes become alive tho box of sheep and cows developed and better

toy

palaces

HOW TO CELEBRATE A DAW

made,

able to walk, and bleat, and Unv

tlx

grown to palaces4 the tive-i

able to stand more firmly than those little things that were all of that one peaked shape, with the green ringlets up them the box of dinner things with the varnished provisions immovable upon them, exchanged for those grand dinner parties the doll pas*ed into a wife, the baby nurse into a nursery. Hie toy age continues all the life long, though the child's heart goes soon.

IT IS said that in New York there is more work and less suffering than last year. While there has been no grand revival of Industry or business, there has been a decided improvement. The calls for aid have not only been less than were expected, but for less than during December a year since. Parties engaged in the varioas kinds of manufacturing and trade declare their business unexpectedly good, and of a solid and satia. factory nature. All of which is encouraging, and Indicates that the business of tho country lain a healthy way. The greatest danger, at the present time, Is ia the howling of politicians, and the attempts of parties in Congress ta make political capital out of the hard times*

WSSWBtBBSKMStBOSBOB

THK members of the Boston School Board made a great row last year because one oi two women were elected as members of their body and refused to admit them to seats. The matter went to the Supreme Omit, and it was finally decided that women were eligible to the position of school committee, and this year the voters have elected six women. If the old fogies make a fight over it this time, probably at the next ejection only women will be elected. Opposition is good for reforms, and for that matter, almoat any movement, whether reformatory sr otherwise, prospers better under opposition. Too moeh sunshine Is net favorable.

This office ef school committee ia one for which women are especially fitted, and the different towns In MsssarhtisiMtB see showing their practical good sense in availing themselves of the peculiar taleat of women In this direction. The city of Lynn elected several women, and Worcester sleeted one, astd In the smaller towns It bss become qnlso ctt*ton»8*y to have both sexes represent®? on the eebool board. Ihe wo*n»|i elaetod itt Worcester ran sgalnst her husband, a»d beat blm were than two to one. Probably she was (be better man of the *wo.

certain customs which we would be greatly rejsioed to have adopted here. look for instance at the way they celebrate their holidays:

The first thing they do Is to pay off old debts and square accounts to a fnw^tinn. Money matters having been thus adjusted, they next make up old ouarrols, and shake hands all round. Having thus got square, pecuniarily and

wHiiaUv, ^«yj^s drink, and arouaMwryv

discharge of^Chinese flro^nMtona. The

paving of dobta and the making upoi quarrel* is certainly a gr«d way U»begin a celebration."

BY the existing constitution of Missouri, all persons who arrive at the age of twenty-one years after the first of January, 1876, without being able to read and write shall be denied the elective franchise. In other words, it establishes an educational qualification for all persona reaching their majority after that date. Thia will not exelude old Democrats from voting, but is simply an incentive to young ones ta learn to read and write.

OBamSB KATIE KINO.

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KXPOSK OK THB MATERIAUZATOK* HUM-

A Clever Young Widow Aids tn one of the Most Stupendous Swindle* qf the Age. fe.:

[Philadelphia Special to Chicago Times.] A gentleman in this city, persuaded in his own mind tbatthe "materialization" of the spirit of Katie King, under the auspices of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Holmes, was a humbug, and yet without any substantial grounds to rest such an opinion upon, decided to test the matter, and ascertain whether the revived London beauty was not in fact a Philadelphia beauty, of his own day and generation. Ha attended the seances given by tho Holmes, at No. 825, North Tenth street, his

firm

opinion of the Imposition

remaining unchanged, although baffled for a long time in making certain demonstrations of that fact. By degrees, ho vever, an inkling of the whole secret of the matter dawned upon his mind. With others, he attended, night after night to see the bewitching beauty, and was surprised one day, when going up the street, to see in a lady who was passing along, the verv prototype of tlie enchanting Katie. He made some subsequent discoveries which were important, viz., that this prototype boarded near the residence of the mediums, and waaj was still more to tho great object be had in view—a revelation of tbo imposture— that she attended all the Katie King seances given by tho Holtneses. By what in police slang is called "piping off," he found that sho entered the n--i-dnnre of the Holmes prior to the seaixvft that slx cai.x-out ai'tcrtix were over and, fortiu nsiore, t':n* she w:ts nut to be scon in Ih" atnheneCH WhS invariably ««somb!rd to witness the Ratio Kill# phenomenal.

As tlio «uiai. ixu i-aaon" night after u'.it, went on. our jiilev:tw aetcci»ve »vcrod peri'^-i. of toroi

HOLl• and thoroughly unconscious of the part. which the other room took in this boguiv

Dont tough ««l» "HrtmOta." |lj£» jf iTS! until you know what you are laughing

lho door of

about. Thev have some dark ways The door was taken off, and there w«4~ about them, "bat, for all that, they have substituted by Mr. Holmesi a walnut board partition. This partition he declared frequently, might oe examined by'

fU0

and finally wind|°Prt *r*h? boards -tho e.ni

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Now, wouldn't it bo a dly tliiiia to have our holidays ..eel^brated In

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truly (^bristiiiii manner? With \-r much more ration would wt to the ifiH'ming »f cannon on tlis .I'mirth of July, or the blowing of hon«» at Chris:iiiivs,tftlirrr vrerc ropm-eM tfiestt n«»w nnpalatable noi.st kiw. edge of the fact that rybody had »hl his debte that quarrels were made up old grudgofc forgiven and forgotten, and everybody in a general good humor in consequence. Such a celebration would be a harbinger of the millenlutn and being of those who desire to see the inauguration of that happy period, we meve that our New Year's holiday be celebrated Chinese fashion. Who seconds that motion?

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ferttur© I'otwfin Knti.v at'.«l the -fair boarder of a few rqvares oil. Fiiui,. ", after mucli patient i.eievering, thisgeutleman procured an introduction to the lady in question. Without declaring his purpose, in conversation with her, ascertained from her Hps that slie bad witnessed the manifestations, and that, so far as she knew, tho materialisation was all O. K. This was not enough for the detective. Thirsting after fuller intelligence, he proposed one night that both should go in company to the seance and witnes the appearance of the London Hebe but to this proposition lady positively dissented. 8ubj»q«ently, at another interview, she inadvertently produced a number of pieces of jewelry which bad been given, under the sentleman's own observation, to the materialised Katie King by a number of enthusiasts attendants-at the seances. This was another piece of circumstantial evidence of the most positive nat ure. The gentleman's laudable efforts to knock the bottom out of the swindle, resulted later In a foil exhibition of trinkets which had been given to Katie King—some by himaelr-and w-bich were now spread ont to his admiring view by the lady whose

acquaintance

Ou this denouement, the gentlman who effected It consulted with Robert Dale Owen and Dr. Child, and they immediately published the cards withdrawing the indorsement of the materialisation which they had given to the Holmeees. In order to make assurance doubly sum the gentleman Improvised a we»n« which the lady agreed to act. Suitable apartments were procured a cabinet was hurriedly arranged, an audience lnvlted, aiid the Katie

King

e°Yesterday

the adjoining apartment,

anybody prior to tho occurrence of tho eeance and many, including Dr. Child and Robert Dale Owen, did so examine it, finding nothing at the timo to engen-d-r suspicion. These Walnut boards wcro secured by four buttons en eacl^, aide and frequently the gentlemen^M above named were invited to lake tbesmj buttons and examine the boards, It ha*4w* sin.-i» 1'icn di-oovi-r. that Holmes lutdi^ t-Uo ana taUiug ont ono of thc«wi

ui-ana out onu meww-v.

rone,

n, )n ir

.... .. in pit,, the renter. tli'1 lvv»cr pt-rson from t! cabinet, !u the wav ii v. :i

which wssabouU

pv i, _and of anlwtltatinglt.'

that was cut acrosn^ of tho removal ol A-\\y admitting baek into the'"5--T' Tlsia w*.sv

!d!-utt

K.u-cu .redthe,"',"

Cabinet. .v.,.. i,it further dl^mvrTte^ Iti.ide sii'.i^ijtx nily, wl ll W-. mi iiitortsely inte«vs ii-.

tIjar.ie'.er.

If Ka­

tie ontfied tlx1 r.i!• i.i! in thH wav, whon* was she kept er»neea!fd, prior^iii' tite seaiie«-s. ntid' during tlw n*U-rv^KV when di-:i!'i In the reae room there waa a bed, iiich ladies, and oentlemen attendSn,- tlie aeanceM were in the habit of de| their MIperfluences clothing, 'iins room was, a matter to ba ©xpected, subject to clow* scrutiny, the cioawts and the bed being examined, and more than one pair of eyescMit their glances beneath the bed, to see if any confederate might be hidden*,,» there. But no search resulted in such a discovery. Yet, as it afterward turned out, tho bed—like Maelsel's wonderful automaton—did hold a confederate at the time, and tho confederate was none ,, o'her than the lady whose confession we have given above. But where could she.

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burrow? The attendants ou tl»e seanw had the freest liberty of examination. The bed was open, some doubtless even probing the mattress, to ascertain if it did not, for the time, cage the beauty. "Who would have thought of looking at... the bolster? The bolster was so unlm-'!' portant a matter that It never once exdted suspicion. Yet it held the living mystery—none other than the ruby-lip- *f ped and fair-armed creature who was, in a few moments, via the walnut par-

tion, to burst upon the vision of the breathless spectators. The bolster, then, was none or your old-fashioned striped ticking bags, puffed up with down but. instesd, a wicker cage, ingeniously contrived, and aa ingeniously overlaid, in which the charming confederate housed herself until she was to inane, like a gojden beauty from a cocoon. The lady in question is a widow, and has one child, Her com ection with the Holmses dates from a time when she went to board with them. She was in pecuniary diffl-' cultles, and they, it is alleged, believing that with her beauty and talent she could materially advance their interest, proposed to her to act as a "materialized spirit." This she consented to do, and, until the expose, waa no other than the Katie King of the mysterious sesnoes-,

So ends a swindle wnich has beea unparalleled In its way, being successfully, imposed for some time on the most taiented and distinguished people of our time. These facts aro all correct, aa we have given them, our authority being-a number of gentlemen personally acquainted with t" the facts hereiu set forth.

EVEN IX TERRE HA UTE[Indianapolis Journul.l Stne^r the exposure of the "Katie King" materialization swindle, It Is to be hoped the spi ritualists may give us a rest. They may possibly keep quiet even in Torre Haute.

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By this sign we conquer," belongs to aa andent language. Thero aro signs of the

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aro the i-ort

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to herein:

Tiiv."I--ist Sehr.nee'' is on the National i'vd near tho t'.»r|w»mtiiu lino, and tlx'-re is' no pMeo bu\'«eul to "wet your -tie." 11 itert) wtis nono this side of .\hc-t.y v.oui he no-deruand to observe •'!t.iTiler Ii."

St -r r," is on a Fourth atrcet grocery hen-'*, Tie)* figure t»f thf» Indian, whether chi 'i warrior or squaw, Is the sigu of toi a nist. Heyroth, Kataenbaeh, and eM-.e»s (-)nl'ortn to the sign, while Fred. iiWdms not suit the nationality, and i'.rnst Hendricbs is said to be an it i'O of tho worthy City Engineer.

At "the corner of Ohio and Fourth streets is "Jones, up Stains." What Jones is he? Is he Sir William, who. described so well what constitutes a State? Is he Jones, of tho War Office. who became so famous under Tyler's Administration Is he the Baxter

Oaa board 20 feet long

he

had so fortunately made. Then came the declaration, which he one day made to her, that she, and none other, was the being who, in the dress of gauee.and in the subdued lightofthe chamber, had emerged from the cabinet before the astonished lookers an as the materialisation of Katie King. At first she dented the soft impeachment but subsequently, with tears, admitted that she and Katie were one and the same.

seance was

done to perfection. All the given to the lady while

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tberole of

a returned denizen from tbe other worid, ]g*ve been retui®ed to the donorseo for a a A a tie modern splritoalhrtie humbug Is

thhi lady teoeivad letters

from sources which are believed to be foil* known, In which she waa threatened withpereonf 1 vlolenos,ifsbaperiled in akllog the movement to so thor-

tiie bnllding, two rooms being necessary to the deveiopement of tbo materialisatkm. In the front one the audience assembled, witowng there the seanee,

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1st of tho Legislature candidates The President of the Nsrmal School 1* say yes Q, and If so, which of the two brothers? Is be one of tho six Cbarlw, ten Johns, twenty widows, or one of the other seventy named in the city direct©ryf Is be the rich Senator who proposes to mint twenty oent ooin?

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wide, ware in large letters fiw, the disease." This si^n

liam Steven«, the enemy of all human was on the wast ie square, a few *.

It was spirited adjacent to the was lost "amid the

years ago, and on the temple Court Honse. It w« wreck of matter when the oourt build-

iags were removed. •Squire Wolfe displays habitation on Wall street by his name on a glasa door plate. 'Squire McOarty has a time pointer to ^., tell when justice is ready. i-n

Barr A Yeakle ba^othe^reofabig painter making an Impatient fhoe, blow-

Per sail," on a Tenth street hotue.

Iadies, aohool teachers, clergymen, nosliiiHHlfis and others can earn a ft* dollars with great ease by canvassing ia (ptwoiiuto neighborhoods for The Saturday Evening Mail. S^jf»»qoo*»s ia another salaam.

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mg a fly off his nose. A drunken feUow who oould get o« A* answer from the eight-foot mankin of Thomas, the Jeweler, to any qu«-^ tlon he prepcanded, eomforted blmseK with the taunt that he was too big ootica common folks. "Sweat »der," at Parson, on Third and Main.

Two glaassa for ft els," at same place. "Oysters In every stile," swings over a Third street saloon. "Washing and Iraning don hear," adorns a Cherry street laundry.

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IMekhoufa naan and trunk la admired by those who appreciate the artistic. Opposite the Cincinnati Hoase is this: "BAXTKM KAIOON." What's in a name? Send ward to "BUI" at Richmond Ind»- 'j um Siow Mawwwu