_Answer_. In the first place, I don't believe that anything such
as you describe has ever happened. I do not believe that a medium
ever passed into and out of a triple-locked iron cage. Neither do
I believe that any spirits were able to throw shoes and wraps out
of the cage; neither do I believe that any apparitions ever rose
from the floor, or that anything you relate has ever happened.
The best explanation I can give of these wonderful occurrences is
the following: A little boy and girl were standing in a doorway
holding hands. A gentleman passing, stopped for a moment and said
to the little girl: "What relation is the little boy to you?" and
she replied, "We had the same father and we had the same mother,
but I am not his sister and he is not my brother." This at first
seemed to be quite a puzzle, but it was exceedingly plain when the
answer was known: The little girl lied.

_Question_. Have you had any experience with spirit photography,
spirit physicians, or spirit lawyers?

_Answer_. I was shown at one time several pictures said to be the
photographs of living persons surrounded by the photographs of
spirits. I examined them very closely, and I found evidence in
the photographs themselves that they were spurious. I took it for
granted that light is the same everywhere, and that it obeys the
angle of incidence in all worlds and at all times. In looking at
the spirit photographs I found, for instance, that in the photograph
of the living person the shadows fell to the right, and that in
the photographs of the ghosts, or spirits, supposed to have been
surrounding the living person at the time the picture was taken,
the shadows did not fall in the same direction, sometimes in the
opposite direction, never at the same angle even when the general
direction was the same. This demonstrated that the photographs of
the spirits and of the living persons were not taken at the same
time. So much for photographs.

I have had no experience with spirit physicians. I was once told
by a lawyer who came to employ me in a will case, that a certain
person had made a will giving a large amount of money for the
purpose of spreading the gospel of Spiritualism, but that the will
had been lost and than an effort was then being made to find it,
and they wished me to take certain action pending the search, and
wanted my assistance. I said to him: "If Spiritualism be true,
why not ask the man who made the will what i