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...subject that only brings forth admiration from friends and enemies. The French call him sympathigue, which says much for his character. In appearance he resembles a jovial and prosperous farmer; his features are hardly handsome, for, like his Premier, he is inclined to corpulency and is below medium height. But his iron-grey hair, his penetrating eyes and his smiling countenance go far to give him I'air distingué. Of him his intimates say: "He is the President of the French Republic, but he is also the most simple and modest of its citizens...
...round head is surmounted by a shock of bushy black hair; his eyes, like those of all born revolutionaries, are coal black, luminous, revealing intensity and some times an appealing tenderness, but capable of flashing fire-"ashes and sparks my words among mankind." In stature he is of medium height, with a thick-set figure, beefy as a bull...
...medium's "control" is her dead brother "Chester," who performs a great variety of activities, such as rapping, talking, juggling, whistling, singing, pinching, scratching, kissing, moving heavy objects, making visible clocks strike, playing victrolas, producing psychic photographs. No evidence of fraud was found, and the moral factors were all in favor of the medium, who has put every convenience at the disposal of the investigators. But elaborate objective tests are to be made by the scientists to preclude fraud or error...
...helped. "Lord Kitchener" said he regretted that the lunacy situation was as bad in Great Britain as in the U. S. "P. T. Barnum" mournfully stated that "he had atoned in Paradise for all his little indiscretions and his formula 'The public likes to be fooled.'" The medium's great-aunt, "Julia Ward Howe," related haltingly the embarrassment of her first experience in the spirit world, when she found herself before the great "Judge of the Dead," clad only in "a very remarkable head of hair, my dear nephew, something like Lady Godiva...
...WONDERFUL VISIT ? Through the medium of an angel, H. G. Wells almost comes down to earth...