The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-02

fine hair Immediately after. The light was
such that the hair itself was easily visible
.Ihat there should remain no doubt as 10
the part played by the hands OF Eusapia,
a. third experiment was begun under spe-
cial conditions. Professor Sabatier placed
himself behind Eusapia. passing his arms
ing her right hand in his right and her left
in his left hand. He thus imprisoned each
OF her hands in his own. leaving outside of
his gra sp only the tips of her fingers united
in a point. b. leaning his head slightly 10
one side he could see perfectly over her
shoulder both her hands and the letter
weigher. His own hsnds moved with hers
and he could not hep being conscious If
they swerved from the ~up-and-down move
ment so as to come in contact with the
letter-weigher. Under such conditions. II
there was trickery possible. Professor
Sabatier would be equally implicated with
Eusapia. The pan was again completely
All of the observers were absolutely certain
that there had been no possible contact
with the hands of Eusapia.
This experiment being satisfactorily over.
three Of the men withdrew. Eusapia re-
manned with Professor Sabatier. Colonel de
Rochas and the wife and grown-up daugh-
ter of the latter. The letter-weigher was
placed on the table one foot from the edge.
Opposite Eusapia stood Professor Sabatier.
so as to have between himself and her the
letter-weigher. In this way he could see
the hands of Eusapia and their distance
from the letter-weigher In each Of their
motions. He asked her to open her hands
az " q ~ SASaA faAAto
parallel with each other. one on each side
of the letter-weigher. and to move them
forwas I'd horizontally as If to produce a
movement of the entire machine. After
two or three motions Of the hands, which
were constantly held more than two inches
distant from any part of the. machine. the
~letter-weigher glided along the surface of
the table. without shocks and with in
creasing rapidity. until it tumbled over the
edge on to the floor.
These experiments are Of scientific value.
precisely because they are so simple and
well defined. Others of a more weird and
spectral quality were made on other occa-
the same in all of them. Is 1t invisible
hands that move the objects, or some un-
known vital force?
A few phenomena. which are mysterious
under any superstition, have also been SUB
jected to scientific observation in the case
of Eusapia. Thus distinct pencil marks
were made on the shirt of one observer I'M
derneath the outer garments. Another's
finger, clean so far as could be discerned
through careful examination. when. passed
pencil marks on it Ave times running. DIR.
Richet, like Professors Lodge and cOchoro-
wicz, declares that he has been repeatedly
tinctly felt. while he was himself hold
ing both hands of Eusapia. He adds:
which makes this kind of experiment
very instructive. and to my mind absolute
absurd, or an iii-timed joke on the part Of
some one present, which 1t is Impossible
clusion to which / have come-something
like the naturalization of a living hand, a
conclusion which / accept in despair of
any other, and to which l do not resign my
self without PAIN"
Ii only remains to say that Professor
Ledge. who took part in two of the Cam,
shaken in the validity of the evidence which
proves the existence of these abnormal
powers in the organism of Eusapia Pala-