A New Spiritualistic Medium

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 8, 8 December 1884, Page 4

A New Spiritualistic Medium

•€► , A new spiritualistic " medium,"" . Soutiy says, has arisen, and numerous members of the lioyal Family have honoured him with their visits. The late Duke of Albany whs so much impressed with what he saw at one seance 'that - ' he went to the trouble of having a special double slate made, framed m oak, with elaborate brass mountings* and fitted with a patent Bramah lock. Armed with this, he presented 'himself one morning; at the mediumV apartments, 'and a small piece of pencil having been dropped' between the islates, they were duly locked (tile key being attached to the duke's watch chain>, and under these ; conditions — conditions which would appear to preclude all possibility Of fraud— the pencil was soon heard grating over the surface -of the slate and when the key -was applied kb jthb lock^ and the sides' opened, tliqre :> Ws a'loiig message. The latb Duke always considered this' a crucial test,, and from, that day was a. lir'm ' 'believer in" 'the' truth of /* cjirset' spirit - writing:" ti is lioyal *Highness always, maintained that the majority of the written niessages he received came from his lamented and favbiirite sister Princess Alice of ' Hesse, and a man of the late {©tike's abilities and attainments was not at-^all l a' ' likely subj ect to be easlilylmpbse'dTbh by a. "clever ' conjurbr,p?aVsu^ested ip some -quari ters.* r »6'Co / nVihfced indeed I wa's the - Duke of Albany of the possibility of spirits. 1 icdmmuriicatingi m this way with those loir -earth, that before his departure on that fatal journey to'.'Canhes-Mvifh, perhaps} some -foreboding.' of what was ; to luippcn^Hc- deposited- the -slate Ire* UtM made 'wi«h the medium, promising, if anything happened* to communicate a written message: on this particular, slate, and, thus .diifect proof of 'the correctness of the phenomena. ,E ( qr;many days after "bisl decease attempts „ were made to obtain the promised message, but, up; to the present date, none has bedn. rece'vyied^ and the believers] hii spiritualism, for weli-knalyn gwnpngst themselves, confidently assert that none will be receiyed until soibe long period has ejapse.d. ;, ;.• One of the latest devices for attracting notice and pushing trade is that of a clothier m a busy thorough? fare of London, who has m his vyin'dow a 'basin* of , pea^ ?I rand, the announcement;- £hat a. 'suit of boy's clothes will' be given " to the, person who by. a f given date makes the nearest, giiess of, the number of peas ; the ■ basjn contains. '.'\ ''„