The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-09-15

tests, says Archie T. Collins in. the
Chicago Inter-Ocean. e
If all men had accepted all phe-
nomena as belonging to the category
Of trickery the world would still be in
state of barbarism, equally as de-
graded as the inhabitants of Northern
Europe were during The glacial period.
Conceptions of Space.
In studying metaphysical phenom-
ena for the purpose Of finding the ex-
act truth pertaining to tanscendental
manifestations it would be well, en-
PEASANT, to state that all are based on
our extended conception Of space and
the existence Of force endowed with
a highly subtle constitution that is at
once infinite in nature. do not as
sumo the reader to be ignorant Of the
fundamental principles concerning
these two agents, but, on the con-
trary, I shall enter into the heart Of
the subject without detailing facts al
ready known.
A private seance was given recently
by medium to three men who
formed contingent Of a psychical
society. These men differed materially
in opinion regarding the causes that
produce writing on states; the first
firmly believed that the messages
written on states without visible aid
were accomplished through spiritual
agencies; the second claimed that he
would prove it to be a mediumistic de-
ception Of the rankest kind, while the
third endeavored to reconcile affairs
by looking through the magic glasses
Of SCIENCE" thus seeing the results as
the outcome Of a natural law.
The second man took two states Of
equal size from among those he had
brought and thoroughly cleansed
them. The sensitive desired that the
states should be placed above and be-
low the table and held in contact with
1t with the left hand. Gig. ~ A
piece Of pencil was laid on the under
slate. The sensitive held with both
hands the left hand Of the skeptic. A
moment later a slight scratching could
be heard, and we all listened with
ears near the states to be sure that
the noise really came from the space
between the states and the table and
not from some other part Of the room.
The Test.
After the writing had discontinued
Tor some moments the states were re-
moved and the following words were
found written upon the lower slate in
clear hand and in the English Ian
guage:
"Who can comprehended the magni-
tude Of time, or the stupendousness of
space? when these two factors of the
universe are understood by mortals,
then will they know the laws of the
spiritual world
Without commenting on this apoth-
egm, strange as it is, we will bend our
energies to show the writing to be the
effect Of the correlation of active forces,
II the sensative's hands were placed
under the table, as they are in some
cases, the writing could be accomplish
ed through the agency of magnetic at
traction, acting on the pencil through
the slate, just as a steel magnet draws
magnetic ore to it through a piece
OF glass or other substance. Gig. 2,)
Matter does not exist that excludes the
force of magnetism. There are num-
berless tests on record where person,
however distant, writes through the
mind OF another such communications
as the former wishes
Mr.: Stead, in the North American Re-
view, explains how he could become the