Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-04-05
9lNIIHa FOR sPoOks.

..st mailing Authorizations, perrin,
s., - haunted houses and beardin,
..oks in their dens, experimenting
- thought translerence and mes
Ism and in general monkeyin,
~ all the uniathomabls mysterie,
8 ,be human soul, this is the uniqu,
s,,,,pstlau Of body OF learned men
nd the American Society for Psy
,bical Research.
II 4 back room in a modest lookinI
e,,ss IL Boylston Place, Boston. i.
. ~. 'bcadauarters of the society's sec
X Richard Hodgson, LII. d.
n Hodcson isan Englishman. about
.h;rtv.seyen years old, graduate o
ssmbridce University, profoundly
l,ssrned scholar and a level-headec
"a, ~ much common sense.
ssilar society was fosmcd," he said
.s.r fbs PURPOSE OF making an organ
81 and systematic attempt to in
- that dark border of human
s~,srience and to examine critically
~ phenomenal which are not now
s-nlained by any satisfactory theory
Semitic men OF eminence IN all coun
sr;ss admit the possible existence o.
What the uneducated call ghosts OF
s,irits. and further, that one mind
nav exert upon another positive in
: ,1a.nce otherwise than through the
,rssornized sensory channels.
I'M accordance herewith, the re-
.eareh work oil our society is divided
smorp Eve COMMITTEES. all of which are
sresiled over by men OF unquestioned
ability. learning and fairness. Pro,
isssor ii. p. Bowditch, of Harvard, is
shsiru,aL OF the Committee or
Tbought Transfererce; Professor 10.
s;as Royce, OF the Committee on Ap
saritioiis and Haunted Houses; C. B.
lory. a weIl-knowa Bostonian. Of
ne Committee on Hypnotismi
~ W. n. Billiard. OF Boston,
n the Committee on Mediumistic
phesomena. and Professor C. S.
uinst. OF Harvard, of the Committee
:. Experinental Psychology.
The Society for Psychical Research
-aards its gathered materials with
srest secrecy. Its rich fund of facts
1 not published until they have been
passed rpon and thoroughly examin-
q by the various committees; even
then the names of those who contrib
urs their experiences are in no case
furnished to the public. Among the
following are some OF the most aston
ishinc facts on record:
on January L, 1856, ct 10 A. NJ,
Mrs. t.. a lady living in western
town, writes to a member OF Congress,
The husband OF her daughter, in Wash
ington. DIR. Hodgson has seen the
original letter. This letter explains a
telegram which Mrs. t. had sent
puly three hours before, inquiring
about her daughters health. The
original OF this telegram has also been
seen by DIR. Hodeson. The telegram
reads
To The Hon. ---, House OF Repres M
tatives. Washington. d. c.: can. Will
tome If Nell needs me-
The signature is the mothers name.
Mrs. rs letter OF explanation first
says that she had been tor some days
anxious about her daughtsi n ellie's
health, although there had been no
illness OF late. Letters from Washing.
ION had been lacking for some days;
the last one had reported the daugh.
ter as having just seturned from max.
ing fifteen calls, "very tired and near
~ frozen." 81 walked" said Mrs. IT,,
last night between II and O'Clock.
deeply impressed with the feeling that
Nell NEEDED me. | wanted to get mp
and send a telegram. If / had con-
suited or followed my own molina
tons, would have dressed and gone
down to the sitting-room." Later,
however, Mrs. T. went to sleep again,
but in he morning the vivid impress
sion returned. At Z g. m. Mrs. II,
sent the telegram and wrote appar-
entity before she received an answer, for
in the margin o! the letter she added
The postscript: Telegram bere; thanl;
GOODNESS you are WELL" The lady in
Washington whose mother had has,
so vivid an experience had been
seriously i'll the same night,
although the morning had found her
much better. Her attack was a very
sudden one. which she described as
neuralgia OF the lungs. with a harl
chill. 1T must have BEEN" she says,
s.about the hour men.i Toned in my
mothers letter | at last exclaimed,
oh, don't | wish ma was here
shall send for her tomorrow if / am
not better In the morning came
the telegram Eom the West, but the
patient was better, and she and her
husband were puzzled at her mothers
oneasiness and replied by telegraph,
Ne are all well; what Is the matter
With you2'
sHE FELT ASoTHER's PAIN.
An old gentleman living at Albany
had been i'll for months. His married
daushter resided az Worcester. One
evening last summer, she suddenly
iaid down the book she was reading
and said to her husband; 81 believe
lather is dying" She was strangely
overcome by the impression, as there
had been nothing whateveri in the con-
rersation or in her own thoughts to
lead to the subject OF her fathers
health. All that evening and the next
morning the feeling haunted her, IN
al a despatch came saying that her
iather had died the evening before.
A Lowell physician was called to
see patient about 10 O'Clock one
night. 1t was extremely dark, and il
ailghtlng from his conveyance he made
a misstep and sprained his ankle
severely. HIS wife, who was at home,
u bed, asleep, suddenly awoke with
The vivid impression that an accident
had occurred to her husband. She
arose, wakened the servant and com.
inundated her fears to her. Nothing
could induce her to return to bed. At
l O'Clock the doctor returned, and it
Mas found that the moment of his &C.
cident and Of his wife's awaking were
Simultaneous. He was three miles
away from home at the time.
Here Is q narrative, vouched for by
the highest authority. OF experiences
Y house some miles from the city of
worcester. The man who sends l. in
= a well-known manufacturer, and
ms word is az good as his bond,
which would be honored anywhere for
100000. He writes:
In relating what | saw on July
morning in 1888 at my house. which ]
had !nt recently purchased, ] will first
aescrIbe the room in which | saw il.
u IS bedroom, with a window 1T
alther end, door and fireplace at
opposite sides. The room is in the
upper story os a two-story house. said
20 have been built before the revolu-
tion. Inc walls are unusually thick
3. the roof high. pointed and uneven.
= ne occupants at the time j SPEAK. oil
were my brother Henry. myself and a
servant woman. The latter slept in
= room on the baserp.nt story. A
hallway divided my brothers room
rom mine. Or the night before the
morning mentioned | had locked my