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as it was a wonderful test and greatly surprised and delighted 

 him. His first wife had died twentv-seven vears before in 

 California. She was an English lady and he was greatly 

 attached to her. This is the message : 



" Darling Francis, 



" I come now to greet you from the high spheres to 

 which I have ascended. Do you recall the past? Do you 

 remember this day? This day I used to look forward to and 

 mention with such pride? This, my darling, is my birthday 

 anniversary. Do you not remember? Oh, how happy shall 

 we be when reunited in a world where we shall see as we are 

 seen and know as we are known. 



" Elizabeth Lippitt." 



General Lippitt told me it was his first wife's birthday, 

 that he had not recollected it that day, and that no one in 

 Washington knew the fact but himself. 



A German gentleman who was present had a message given 

 him, which was not only written, as he declared, in excellent 

 German, but was very characteristic of the friend from whom 

 it purported to come. 



On this evening most wonderful physical manifestations 

 occurred. A stick was pushed out through the curtain. Two 

 watches were handed to me through the curtain, and were 

 claimed by the two persons who sat by the medium. The 

 small tambourine, about ten inches diameter, was pushed 

 through the curtain and fell on the floor. These objects 

 came through different parts of the curtain, but left no holes 

 as could be seen at the time, and was proved by a close 

 examination afterwards. More marvellous still (if that be 

 possible), a waistcoat was handed to me over the curtain, 

 which proved to be the medium's, though his coat was left 

 on and his hands had been held by his companion all the 

 time ; also about a score of people were looking on all the 

 time in a well-lighted room. These things seem impossible, 

 but they are, nevertheless, facts. 



Before passing on from my Washington friends, I wish to 



