The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-24
HRS. PIPER, BosToN'S
 FAMOUS TRANCE MEDIUM.

The world, or at least that portion of 1t which Is searching for communication with the world of the dead, was startled a few days ago by the resignation of Mrs. Piper of Boston. from the work in the Society for Psychical Research, and by fer declaration that she renounces all communication with the so-called spirit world
 This woman, who for years has been the pet and chief show card of those who claim that we receive through some spe- cial1y elected beings messages from the dead has done the noble deed of throwing of the mask and undoing, as best she could, before death made it too late, the evfl she has done. She is honest-she has always been called an honest medium and she fs honest now in telling the world that she has guiled, that her famous spirit messages are not of supernatural origin.
 This great society of England, the So- ciety for Psychical Research. supported by men of international fame. has based fits claim of communicating with the dead on Mrs Piper's spirit messages given while in a state of trance and she now, with one extraordinary statement, blasts the claim made by this great society af- ter twenty years research in study of her case.
 That Mrs. Piper has some spells in
  no recollection after she comes to-" is true. She says she was just an automa- ton in the hands of the society She be- Meves that what she says in her trance Is due to mental telepathy.
 It is almost impossible that some oth- erwise great minds have taken as posi- tive proof of the presence of spirits of de- parted human beings, the stuff which Mrs Piper has said when in one of her ''conditions." This Is sample she gives of a report of one of her sittings:
 Tt was" says Mrs. Piper, lat resi- dence in Boston that l wrote automatic ally about a certain famous man called in the report Mir Marte. I wrote under the so-callsd control of Pelham. saying, after a reference to this MT. Marte:
 That he, with his keen brain and mar vicious perception, will be interested. l know. He was a very dear friend of x. l was exceedingly fond of him. Comical weather interests both he and 1-me-him II know it all. Don't you see correct these? We'll I am not less intelligent now. But there are many difficulties. l am far clearer on all points than I was shut up in the prisoned body (prisoned, prisoning imprisoned you ought to say). No. I don't mean to get it that way. See here, H., don't view me with crit ic's eye, but pass my imperfections by Of course, I know all that as well as anybody on your sphere (of course). Wen, think so. tell you old fellow it don't do to pick all these little errors too much when they amount to nothing in one way. You have light enough and brain enough, l know, to understand my eXpla- nations of being shut up in this body, dreaming. as 1t were, and trying to help on science"
 'I do not see how anybody can look on all that as testimony from a person in another world. I cannot see but that it must have been an unconscious expres- sion of my subliminal self. writing such stun as dreams are made of
 When I read over the reports of the society for Psychical Research 1t all seems to me that there is no evidence of sufficient scientific value to warrant ac- ceptance of the splritistic explanation"
 Mrs Piper is said to be a handsome middle-aged woman. with some of the usual requisites to female leader in isms and doctrines left out. She is the happy wife of only one husband dead or alive. Has had no questionable affairs. and is a devoted mother to two lovely daughters. How could such woman be true to liv- ing lie? Even if helped to it by the ap- probation or assistance of some of the great thinkers of the age who are workers in the great Society for Psychical Research? 1 feel that I would like to know this wo- man who has been brave and good enough to scatter to the winds this stuff that for twenty years the poor deluded searehers after something that is not. have used as evidence that 1t Is. It removes material from the wheels of progress that would have clogged them for many a day.
 Perhaps some day Mrs. Eddy, in spite of the dark shadows in her life, will awaken and like the mesmlric show man does his subject who Is eating onions for apples, will slap her followers sharply in the face and bring them to-" Leav- ing them with the one great clean seed of truth that is in their doctrine. That of the good of caring for the mind foi the body's sake Which is only equaleC by one other: That of looking to tn, welfare of the body for the minds sake.