"TRICKED BY SPIRITS."

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 90, 17 April 1929, Page 8

"TRICKED BY SPIRITS."

In the January number of hi* journal, Mr. Featherstone relates the happenings at a test "sitting" at which a medium was present. ''Now, had I been well-advised." ho said. "I would have let Spintuali-m drop at this stage; but I did not, and. in the course of some months, I myself developed some mediumistic qualifications that gradually grew until 1 Hung the pursuit from me entirely, in indignation. For I had become the victim of a coterie of spirits who fed me with a mixed diet more of lietion than of fact for their own entertainment. They represented themselves to me as of 'the second plane'; but, later on, a spirit of different cast came to me in warning, told me that they were mischievous though not evil earth-bound spirits, and advised me to abandon spiritualistic phenomena altogether. I was in the mood to do this without advice.

"Among the statements of these playful people tuat proved false was 011 c that my agent in British Columbia had disposed of a property I had for bale there, and another that a tale from my [ien entitled 'A Deed of Chivalry' had been "filmed' in California. Xnrina Shearer was in the role of the heroine— a cheque to me had been posted at Los Angeles. I approved the selection of Miss Shearer and made plans for the disposal of the money for which I waited in vain.

"As to the trickery—they made 110 hones about admitting it; they cheerfully confessed that they had been jesting at inv expense." Later, Mr. Feathersfone said he had communications "rotn a cousin, dead nine months, who gave him among other information, something interesting to himself: —

"I asked if I could hope for an early release from earthly labour. "The answer was 'ves!'

"I inquired if I might ask the date of mv release.

"The answer was, 'the night of the 10th of January of the present year. 5 "