(Three raps—­given slowly and deliberately—­are heard.)

Mr. Sellers:  Will you communicate with Mr. Pepper by raps or by writing? (No response.) Will you communicate by raps?

The Medium (to Mr. Sellers):  Well, my hand does feel like writing.  Will you give me a piece of paper?—­and maybe they will give me some directions.

Mr. Fullerton (to the Medium):  How does your hand feel when affected in that way?

The Medium:  It is a peculiar feeling, like that from taking hold of electrical instruments.  I do not know but that you might possibly feel it in my hand.

The lady here extended her right hand upon the table toward Mr. Fullerton.  The latter placed his left hand upon the extended hand of the Medium, and subsequently remarked that the pulsation of her wrist was a little above the ordinary rate.

The Medium, ostensibly under Spirit influence, with lead pencil in hand proceeded to write two communications from the Spirit of the late Henry Seybert.  The first of these covered two pages of paper of the size of ordinary foolscap.  The Medium wrote in large characters, with remarkable rapidity, and in a direction from the right to the left, or the reverse of ordinary handwriting.  The writing, consequently, could be read only from the reverse side of the paper and by being held up so as to permit the gas-light to pass through it.

The communications, as deciphered by Mr. Sellers, with the aid of Mr. Fullerton and the Medium, were as follows:  “You must not expect that I can satisfy you beyond all doubt in so short a time as you have yet had.  I want to give you all in my power, and will do so if you will give me a chance.  You must commence right in the first place or you shall all be disappointed for a much longer time. Princiipis Obsta Sero Medicina Paratum.

Henry Seybert.

“Mend the fault in time or we will all be puzzled.

Henry Seybert.”

The foregoing were understood to be directed to Mr. Pepper, in accordance with the assurance given by the Spirit that it would communicate with him.

Subsequently, when the trance condition had apparently disappeared, the Medium complied with a request to write, as it would be read to her, the Latin phrase at the end of the first communication.  Using the pencil in her right hand, she transcribed slowly and in the usual direction from left to right.  The style of her handwriting was small and comparatively neat.  Apparently in every particular her writing in this instance was the exact opposite of that made by her while in the alleged trance condition.  She here stated that, ordinarily, she wrote in the same manner in which people generally write, with her right hand and from left to right.  With respect to her inability to transcribe the Latin words until these had been spelled for her, she explained that she was not at all familiar with Latin.[A]

[Footnote A:  Mr. George S. Pepper, who was present, said that Mr. Seybert knew no Latin.—­G.S.F.]