—heaven-sent potions. More quacks of this
sort advertise their wares to a select audience
of the gullible. And then John M. Spear
and his daughter announce that they have
taken rooms for educational (alas, for the
word!) and healing purposes, and also for
the delineation of character. Hours for the
public will be from nine a.m. to one p.m. At
other hours, they will visit and counsel the
sick and the disharmonised at their habitations.
While charges will not be made,
offerings of gratitude will be thankfully received.
Love's labours should be without
hope of fee or reward. Did ever comedian
invent a clumsier cant of hypocrisy.  Arrangements
(J. M. S. and daughter add) may
be made at their rooms, for discourses on the
facts, philosophy, ends and aims of Spiritualism.
The advertisement itself is discourse
enough upon its ends and aims. They shine,
as we have said, through every column of the
paper. The following, which we are unable
to distinguish from the announcement that
has just been quoted, appears not as an
advertisement at all, but in large type among
the leading articles:

"Mr. E. M. Mayo, of Waltham, Mass.,
writes: About three years ago, I became a
writing medium, very unexpectedly to me.
I sat making sport of the spirits, when suddenly
my hand caught a pencil and wrote
me a communication, which I trust I never
shall forget. It purported to be from my
mother. Since that time the spirit of a
departed physician, through me, has examined
eight hundred and sixty-five different
diseased persons. I have received no fee,
until the commencement of the present year.
Now the charge is—nothing for the poor,
twenty-five cents for those in moderate
circumstances, and fifty cents for the wealthy.
So you see that it is not for money that I
believe in Spiritualism." Spiritualism itself
is not more clearly demonstrated!

That was a leading article, but we will
take another advertisement or two, before
looking at the other columns of this gull's
gazette. Several chemists are prepared to
put up with care spiritual, clairvoyant, and
other prescriptions. A physician and surgeon
advertises himself, and adds that he has become
developed as a clairvoyant medium, and
can perfectly describe the locale of disease;
also the feelings experienced by the patient.
Consultation fee, one dollar. Charles Main
cures by laying hands on the sick, and informs
those sending locks of hair to indicate
their disease, that they should inclose a dollar
with them. At T. H. Peabody's is to be found
a rapping, writing, and test medium; also the
best trance medium for the examination of
diseases in Boston. Miss Gay, a reliable
clairvoyant and healing medium, is to be
found at Dr. Channing's (alas, for another
desecrated name!) the great cancer, scrofula,
and humour doctor; and she is prepared to
give advice on business, &c. Thus it is that
the Spiritualists manage to attend to number
one pecuniarily, while they impart of their
gifts to others.

Of the correspondence of the New England
Spiritualist, a part is made up in support of
the gentlemen and ladies who have advertised.
Mr. Charles Main having advertised himself
as a layer-on-of-hands, a letter in another
part of the paper, signed "Yours fraternally,
L. N." (Leader of Noodles?) tells of two wonderful
cures by brother Charles Main's truly
apostolic mode. G. A. Redman, being an
advertiser of his business in the rapping, tipping,
and writing line, is helped by a wonderful
paragraph, detailing how the spirit of the
late Mr. Andrews used Mr. Redman's hand
for writing backwards, in a style free from
stiffness, having bold and easy flourishes.
Very bold and easy are indeed the flourishes
of all these mediums, and, if we may judge by
the New England Spiritualist, of the editors
who back them.

"Thine for progress, Warren Chase,"before
starting for his prairie home in Wisconsin,
advertises his movements as a lecturer on "the
light from the spirit sphere which is now so
genially flowing (though often refracted)
through many mediums;" and he makes his
announcements cheaply, if he pays nothing
for the privilege in the form of a letter to the
editor, dear brother Newton. Brother Newton,
by-the-bye, edits his paper upon exceedingly
good Spiritualist principles, advertising
that, in its conduct, although for the present
the pecuniary responsibility is assumed by
the editor's personal friends, this is expected
to continue only until such time as the success
of the enterprise shall enable him to take it
upon himself.

We find it very difficult to keep the dollars
out of sight in observing the contents of the
Yankee Spiritualist, but we will endeavour to
do so henceforward; and so go back to Miss
Emma Jay, from whose reported lecture at
the Melodeon we started. Miss Emma F.
Jay, we find by another communication,
advertises herself not only as furnishing the
entertainment of a spiritual sermon deliverer
in the state of trance, but she announces that
she will wind up with a song. An admirer
from among her audience reports that she
was tastefully dressed in a black silk skirt
and black velvet basque with flowing sleeves,
without collar or undersleeves, or adornment
of any kind, except a plain dark brooch. Her
hair hung in short curls down her neck. Her
voice was strong and clear to the very end of
her discourse, which occupied about an hour
and a half. Her eyes were closed during the
whole time. So we get back to the good
Rapper's doctrine—keep your eyes well shut
and your mouth open. This lady, before
preaching, sits down and goes through sundry
gyrations, whereby she is supposed to put
herself into the state of trance; then her
eyes shut, and she goes glibly through the
whole of her oration. At the conclusion of