TALENT NEWS.
VOL. ?.
TÄI.E.YT, OREGO.V, JAM AKY I5lli, 1S91.
The TALENT NEWS ie published the
l«t. and 15th. of each month.
EDWARD ROBISON,
E ditor .
Jo. 21.
SPIRITUALISTIC.
Mr. J. H. Petabone and wife, travel
ing spiritualists, have been holding sit
SUBSCRIPTION
RATES.
tings in Talent and Ashland during the
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past two weeks. Remarkable material
One year............................. 25 cents,
Six months.........................
of a dollar, izations are said to take place in the
presence of these mediums. The price
Three months..................... Two bits.
per sit is about $1, for each individual.
Any one from St. Patrick down tv tho
Entered at the Talent Pont Office as second latest departure is likely to appear and
clans mail matter.
give your hand a cordial grip. We are
also assured that these spirit hands are
warm. None of that “mid, clamx feel
ing” that we used to hear so much about.
DR. k. C. CALDWELL,
The ghosts of a few years ago were cold
blooded.
Contact with one of them
DENTIST,
would cause an earth mortal to shiver
till his teeth would loosen. We are glad
ASHLAND, OREGON. that spirits have evoluted. Should any
representative of the N ew '8 be fortunate
Office over Bank.
enough to get an invitation to attend a
sitting he will be instructed to interview
the spooks and get their views on the
live issues of the day with us, and also
STARVED TO DEATH.
direct information regarding the situation
political, social and religious, “over there.’
In an attic, cold and dreary,
We shall then, of course, l>c able to run
a scoop on the other county papers by
Lay a mother and her child,
giving a full, detailed ami perfectly reli
Hepless, hopeless, weak and weary,
able account of the hard times if they
And with craving hunger wild.
have any, in Spookland; how they solve
Husband, fither, toil-enduring,
the tramp question; if dinamite is a fnc
Working hard for pittance pay -
tor in politics; their tinacial system; if
that country is the habitat of the gold bug
In a week, enough procuring
if the government owns the railroads,
For his family for a day.
and if so how the system works; ;f one
has to get out naturalization papers to
Neighbors learn their sad condition;
become a citizen after Icing transferred
Gather in to render aid;
from earth; what religion prevails; if the
•Husband goes for a physician—
codlin moth and red scale have made a
start there yet, and if so, the remedies
Cannot come unless I ic ’ h paid.
used; whether they havccoyotics, chicken
Tries another and another,
hawks, shunks, jack rabbit* and (»tin
Until one consents to come,
varmints; the average lifetime of a spook
But too late to save the mother-
their manner of treating smallpox, men
She in Death’s cold arms is dumb.
sics, whooping cough, la grippe, etc.; if
there are as many cranks to the sqlim«
mile there as here; how John Sontag i*
Millions spent in church-adorning -
getting along; how it feels to materializ<
Millions wasted, making laws;
and melt away again; if crops over then
Millions of the people mourning,
were good last year; why they don’t nm
While the demon hunger gnaws.
terialize their Looks and newspapers foi
our l<*iicfit and let them stay materiali.
Oh, ye paid ami trusted leaders!
cd; what breeds of hor t s, sheep, ehickei >
Listen, while ye hold your breath:
etc. take the lead over there; if they b i\*
In this land of Bible-readers,
the dude, also the “400” element; if the
and mother» »tairt ti» dtath! roads are equal to ours, etc, etc, etc.
— Selected.
Just let a N ews man get bis hook *
an intelligent spook for twenty minu*. •
and our reade. i shall have a treat.