The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-07

The receiver on this same night first
thought of sponge, but concluded
that 1t was suggested by the SOUND
of running water. Next" says she.
IT had more distinctly an impression
of a reddish metallic lustre. and
thought 1t must be a Moorish brass
tray on Mays mantelpiece; but at last
l saw quite distinctly a small jug of
a brownish metallic appearance be-
low, with above that a white band
with colored flowers, lilac and GRIM
son, on it,"
on the fourth night the transmitter
drew a square, but after making 1t
saw that IL was not as correct as It
might be, that the figure in her i'm
aginatfon had tended to slope up to
the right" The receiver on the same
night drew an irregular quadrangle
whose right side was tilted up. Hav-
ing finished these interesting diaries
the two experiments exchanged them.
The postmarks on the containing en-
velopes proved to members of the So
ciety that Miss Campbell posted her
letters before receiving the one from
Miss Despard, and that Miss Despard
hearing from Miss Campbell. 1t is an
interesting fact that the experiments
with objects were more successful than
those with diagrams. This is explained
by the supposition that the transmit
ter had taken more interest in the
former.
IN THIS COUNTRY.
Another series of interesting expert
ments in thought transference, made
in Kismet, Morgan county, Tenn, have
also been reported to this same So
ciety. In these the receiver, A. s.
Wiltse, NJ. D., covered his eyes with
fold of dark cloth, while the trans
mitters, who were several individuals,
concentrated their minds upon forms
previously unknown to the receiver.
out of six trials made on one day,
when the doctors wife acted as trans
mitter, she is reported to have trans
ferred three images which the latter
saw vividly and correctly. One was a
mountain, another a house, and the
other a man on a horse. In the lat
ter the transmitter concentrated her
mind upon the appearance of the doc
tor when he used to ride horseback in
years gone by. While Mrs. w. was
concentrating her mind upon her moth
cr's picture the doctor saw the image
of his mother-in-law. While the trans
mitter was thinking of a chimney, with
smoke pouring out Of it, the receiver
said he saw a circle, but could not
tell whether it was a wheel or a ring,
on account OF dull, smoky clouds. The
same doctor tried additional expert
ments OF the same kind with his wife,
his 15-year-old son, and several friends
on another occasion he appears to
have been possessed of the strange
power of taking stolen interviews with
his wife's meditations. One day while
writing at his desk he preceived that
she, in the same room, was in deep
thought. He dropped his face on his
arm and attempted to catch the drift
of her reveries. He saw mountain
scenery, her brother and two women
on horseback. He afterward learned
that she was at the time thinking of
her home in the Cumberland Noun
tains, of her brother who lived there
and Of herself and another woman who
once resided in that region. She did
| not remember having thought about
horses, but since horseback riding is
the ordinary mode of travel in the To-
cality mentioned she may have uncon-
sciously visualized her method of loco
| motion. At this point the wife, per-
haps becoming alarmed at her hus-
| bands power to read her innermost
thoughts, declared that she would in
| a second experiment foil him, but was
| obliged to confess later that his i'm
pressions in the other instance were
perfectly correct Numerous neighbors
and friends testify to the truth of the
assertions concerning this doctor and
his strange telepathic power.
An interesting case directly bearing
upon this subject and reported from
London is that of man named Fred
| w. Rose, who contrived the idea of
sending his astral body" to the room
of an old lady at whose house he was
in the habit of calling. One evening he
went to his room, and without having
previously mentioned the fact to any
| one, concentrated all of his thoughts in
an endeavor to imagine himself going
down the steps of his house, walking
along the streets. arriving at the old
lady's door and afterward going to her
room Having expended considerable
| mental energy upon this imagined eX-
| plot he fell asleep About the same
llIlS' ttS lepOI lSu 10 lnt society, une ola
| lady's daughter was startled several
times in her sleep by imagining with
unnatural vividness, that she heard
some one walking outside in the pas
sageway leading to her door. Her son
had experienced the same sensation,
while the old lady herself, while trying
to read herself asleep, had been
startled by feeling of awe and after
ward by seeing a strange blue, lumin-
Gus mist, creeping upward toward her
from the side of her bed. She was too
terrified to move and put her book up
before her face as If to ward off a blow.
| Suddenly the brow and piercing eyes
Of the strange Mr.. Rose appeared over
| the edge of her book. In the next mo-
ment the mist and face had as sud-
denly disappeared. The testimony of
all persons figuring in this successful
experiment i'm thought-transferenc
has been submitted to the Society Of
Physical Research including a lengthy
! statement signed by Mr. Rose.
These are the most interesting of the
many cases of experimental thought
transfrence brought during the past
year to the attention of the Society
of Physical Research, upon whose rec
ords Professor Crookes partly bases his
new theory, as explained in his recent
communication to science. The details
of the majority of such tests indicate
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