The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-25

1 name of friends, etc., and yet this in l formation was not given by 'Phinuit, | Further, indeed, I have known Phi l nuit' under such circumstances to bt | confused and to make mistakes upor l points well known to Mrs. Piper. Still all this ignorance may be the per ] lection. of acting on the part of Phi nuit, and possibly many of things giv- en by 'Phinuit' in his attempts to de- scribe my distant doings were specula- tions resting upon Mrs. Piper's knowl-
 edge. In giving a diagnosis, he spoke of 'bronical,' but immediately correct
 ed it to bronchial, and day or two later Mrs Piper, in her normal waking
 state pronounced the word 'bronical without correcting it. l mentioned the circumstance to Mrs. Piper and eX- plained the word. and she was appar- ently unaware that it should be pro-
 nounced bronchial Later still, after
 I after I had been sent out of the room
 by Phinuit' during a sitting, I fingered
 within earshot for the purpose of talk
 Ing notes, and heard 'Phinuit say
 'bronical without making any correc-
 tion."
 Professor James has given the follow
 ing account of test to which he sub
 mitted Mrs. Piper more than ten years
 ago: Mrs Blodgett of Holyoke,
 Mass. and her sister, devised, before
 the latter died, what would have been
 good test of actual spirit return. The
 sister, Miss H. w., wrote upon her
 death bed letter, sealed it. and gave
 it to Mrs. Blodgett, After her death
 no one living knew what words it con-
 tained. Mrs. Blodgett, not then know
 ing Mrs. Piper, intrusted to me the sealed letter and asked me to give to Mrs Piper some articles of the de- ceased sisters personal apparel to help mission I performed Mrs. Piper gave correctly the full name (which even l did not know) of the writer, and finally, after delay and ceremony which oc- cupied several weeks on "Phinuit's" part, dictated what purported to be a copy of the letter. This I compared with the original (of which Mrs. Blod- gett permitted me to read the seaD; but the two letters had nothing in com mon, nor were any of the numerous do- nestle facts alluded to in the mediums letter acknowledged by Mrs. Blodgett to be correct. Mrs Piper was equally which she made to reproduce the con tents of this document, although both times the revelation purported to come direct from it's deceased writer.'
 Regarding the manner of the sittings, the following report of Professor Oli- yer Lodge, F. R. S.. who made an in vestigation of Mrs. Piper ten days af- ter her arrival in England, is sufficient ly representative of what happens Professor Lodge, in company with Frederick w. H. Myers. went to the home of the latter in Cambridge, where Mrs. Piper and her two children were stopping, and what follows is in the language of Professor Lodge: Mrs. Piper was soon ready and we com nenced a sitting, l sat facing Mrs. Piper in partially darkened room, and Mr. Myers was within earshot on the ! other side of curtains, taking notes of | what was said. Mrs Piper sat still, eaning forward in her chair. and hold | ng my hands. For some time she l would not go off, but at last she said. Oh, I'm going The clock happened ! 0 strike one (for half-hour) and she f witched convulsively, calculated | Don't and went into apparent epilep- y I had seen epildpsy several times , before and recognized many of the or
 inary and obvious symptoms. Gradu-
 lily she became quiet, and still holding ny right hand cleared her throat in a nale voice. and with distinctly altered nd hardened features, eyes closed and
 unused the whole time. Having been old what to exiect, and how to humor his impersonaton, I said, We'll doc or upon which he--for 1t sounded Ike man, and I quite forgot that it 'as woman who was speaking for the est of the sitting; the whole manner nd conversation was masculne-intro- uced himself as 'Dr. Phinut,' and we lade the usual commonplace remarks
 found it difficult to know what to say ut I said I had heard from him from lyers. He said, Hal Myers, is he ere? He wasn't here last time I ame,' upon which Mr. Myers replied, Zes, am here, doctor He said few lore words to Mir Myers, and then sked me if there was anything I anted to ask him, at the same time utting his hand on my head and feel
 g all over it, saying he wanted to ecome acquainted with me; that I as a nice fellow worked too hard ad full head, and such like things ; he probably would say to any one gagged in similar pursuits. I asked m if he could tell me anything about y relations, upon which he began a mbling and excited conversation con- sting of short sentences and curious latches and jerks, with occasional into momentary (apparent relevance, but every now and again ', ming to a point energetically and :, it into me with insistence ,th verbal and manual. The occa- )nal irrelevance faintly coming in w and then amid the more constant herent and vigorous communication minded me of listening at telephone here, whenever your main correspon- ,u mt is silent, you hear the dim and fragments of city's gos- v 3, till back again comes the voice ob- ously addressed to you and speaking ~ tn firmness and decision. The de- ills given of my family were just such
 one might imagine obtained by rfect stranger surrounded by the II lole of ones relations in a group and II