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Domestic Explosives and Other Sixth Column Fancies
Domestic Explosives and Other Sixth Column Fancies Author:William Livingston Alden Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: It is, then, chiefly as an example that Mr. Crum's exploit is valuable. He is the first man who has tried to investigate materialized spirits in a truly scientif... more »ic way, and there can be no doubt that other investigators will be found who will pursue the same system. It may be suggested, however, that it is not necessary to seize a ghost with one's bare hands. No sportsman goes out to hunt the deer or to capture the salmon with nothing but the weapons which nature has given him. The investigator should catch his ghosts with a scoop-net, a lasso, or a boat- hook, and thus make reasonably certain of his prey., while, at the same time, he avoids any argument with the medium's husband. Had Mr. Crum, instead.of rashly leaping upon the platform, remained in his seat and gathered Sarah to him with a skilfully-thrown lasso, or a boat-hook carefully inserted in her waistband, he would have.fairly landed his game and escaped the interference of Mr. Markee. In fact the chase and capture of the materialized ghost can be made a delightful sport, rivalling fly-fishing in the skill which it postulates, and deer-shooting in the size of the "bag" which the sportsman may make. Of course, not more than one ghost could be taken in a single evening; but the sportsman who should return from a materializing stance with a hundred and fifty-pound ghost across his shoulder and the sweet consciousness of having demonstrated the true nature of materialization, would enjoy a triumph far exceeding that which the fisherman feels on landing a six-pound trout or a thirty-pound salmon. SUPERFLUOUS SNAKES. It may be safely asserted that there is no real need of any addition to our present supply of snakes. Any man who wishes to lay in a full stock of snakes, from the deadly rattlesnake to what may be delicatel...« less