ll held,
however, in high estimation by all who accept supernatural
communications, and her reply to what her sister Margaret has said
regarding the practice of fraud, would at this time be interesting.
Unfortunately she is now in the country, and there is no person in
the city to speak for her excepting her husband. I obtained an
interview with him yesterday. He was reluctant to be brought into the
controversy, but, while speaking in a most uncomplimentary manner of
Margaret and denouncing her proposed new departure, did not evince
any great amount of indignation.

"I have for years," he began, "helped both Maggie and Katie, and my
wife has done everything in the world for them. We have furnished
apartments for Maggie twice. They might both do well if they would
only keep sober. Maggie can be as nice as you please or as vicious as
a devil. Several persons have undertaken to manage her, but all have
failed. Nobody can do anything with her. The first I knew that she
was back in the city was through the _Herald_.

"I don't think she's in her right mind. I have done so much for her
and she has behaved so badly in return that I have given her up now
and will have nothing to do with her. She says she will lecture, does
she? Well, I don't believe she ever will. She's incapable of it.

"It's a great pity, though, that she should say such things about
Spiritualism, because of the odium which will result from it. But it
isn't the first time she has said that she would declare against
Spiritualism. She has had such spells before. It is astonishing to me
that people have stuck to her and Katie as they have. It is all bosh
about revealing the manner of producing the raps. I don't believe she
can do it. I don't believe she knows how they are produced, except
that it is done by an occult agency. Of course, there are frauds in
Spiritualism. Mme. Diss De Barr was one of them. I don't believe much
in materialization, but I've seen some real manifestations. They were
in my own house. Nearly all my spiritualistic experience has been in
my own house, and these sisters were the mediums.

"Of course Maggie's statement will be something of a shock to
spiritualists the world over, because they regard her and her sisters
as the founders of their belief. In my opinion she