Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-11-07
TELEPATHY'S NEW TESTS
REMARKABLE EXPERIMENTS MADE
BY A FRENCH PROFESSOR.

French science has not shown itself
kindly toward experiments in the
transmission Of thought, or telepathy,
writes the Paris correspondent of the
Boston Transcript. At last, however,
a professor in the Elcoe de Psycholo-
gie-a private but reputable school of
Paris-has published certain positive
results obtained by him in March of
the present year. His experiments
are noteworthy for two reasons:
l. The experimenter, DR.. BinetSan-
gle, is competent and responsible
man of science. 1t is difficult to sup
pose illusion or deception on his part,
or from his few chosen assistants.
2. The results, while modest, are
positive, easily understood as to facts,
and making possible scientific n.y.
pothesis, without excluding further re-
suits and corresponding speculation.
This is all that can be demanded Of
science worthy of the name.
The experiments were carried on at
Anglers, where DR.. Binet-Sangle had
two subjects of the proper nervous
susceptibility. 1t was his habit to
make one hypnotic the other. The
first three experiments were made the
same day. The receiving subject,
Nine. NJ, is woman of 55 easily hyp-
Noticed. She was put to sleep by the
transmitting subject, M. o., who was
not himself hypnotized. Tile loom
was large and the doctor stood beside
M. o., at a distance from Nine. M. of
16 feet. The eyes of Nine. M. were
carefully covered with a cloth, al
though the possibility of seeing would
have scarcely aided her to guess what
was wanted.
On this day it was the experiment.
er's aim to transmit sensations from
one subject to the other. DR.. Binet-
Sangle began with the sense of taste.
paper soaked in postassic bioxalate.
Nine. M, at the other end of the room,
made a movement of the mouth and
exclaimed: 1T bites-it's bad!" The
same result was obtained with bro
mide of ammonium; she spat out, say
ing, TITS salty!" The doctor put soap
on the tongue Of M. O., Nine. M. an
swered instantly, Its insipid-like
starch"
Next came the transmission of Wis
ual sensations. Nine. NJ, still in the
hypnotic sleep, was seated at a table,
and the doctor and M. o. took the
same relative positions and distance
as before. One of the assistants stuck
paper knife at random into book
and opened it at a page, on which he
chose the word "vulture" The word
was not pronounced, nor was it shown
to the transmitting subject, M. O., but
only to DR.. Binet-Sangle. The latter
then drew on piece of paper the head
and neck only of q vulture, showed it
to o. and asked him to transmit the
sensation of what he saw to Nine. M.
After few seconds Nine. M. said:
ITS bird-it's an odd bird; it has no
wings" and then, ITS a vulture."
the word small" 1t was the kind
called "limace" in French, and only
the drawing was shown to o. Nine.
M. said, Its a limande' (the name
Of fish like sole), and then, catch
ing herself up, described it. ut creeps.
it's slimy-oh, it's a snail!"
Here the hypnotized subject had ev-
identity received two sensations-one.
imperfect, of the word ''limace,"
which some one (probably the doctor)
was articulating mentally; the other
OF the drawing, which it was intended
to transmit through M. o. A third ex-
pertinent, equally perplexing, yet pos
tive in it's result, was made with the
word "cross" Dr. Binet-Sangle drew
a cross on a piece of paper, which he
showed to M. o. Madame NJ, blind
folded and 16 feet away, Immediately
drew two crosses, neither of which
had the form drawn by the doctor.
Now came the more difficult expert
ments with words mentally articu-
lated by M. o. A book was opened
as before and line of poetry by
Theophile Gauthier was shown to O.,
with the request that he would read
it mentally. Madame M. made only
HeSlIdIlllS dIteIlplS W IepcdI IL. ".
asked the doctor to read mentally at
the same time with himself. The line
was:
"Soufile, bise. Tombe a fiots, pluie."
(Blow, north wind. Fall in torrents,
rain.)
At last Madame M. managed to say
"soufIle" and then "bise;" but she
could get no further. Another trial
was made with the line:
"Le Dieu ne viendra pas. L'eglise est
renversee."
(God will not come. The church is
overthrown.)
Nine. M. pronounced the two words
"Ie Dieu" and then, all together, lie
Dieu ne viendra pas"-but could go no
further.
In all these experiments it is diff
cult not to conclude that the thought
of the experimenter, DIR. Sinot-Binet-