The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1902-10-08
TELEPATHY'S NEW TESTS
REMARKABLE EXPERIMENTS MADE
BY A FRENCH PROFESSOR.
Sensations of Taste and sight Conveyed
from the Operator to tho Hypnotic ID
subject Through the Medium Of n
Third Party - Real Source shown.

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,
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:
!. The experimenter, DIR. Binet-San.
| gle, is a competent and responsible
| man of science. II 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 a scientific hy-
| 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 DIR. Binet.Sangle had
two subjects of the proper nervous
susceptibility. II 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, NJ. o., who was
not himself hypnotized. Tie Soom
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.
He placed on the tongue of M. o.
paper soaked in postassic bioxalate.
Nine. NJ, at the other end of the room,
made 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, ITS 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 AMI M. o. took the
same relative positions and distance
as before. One of the assistants stuck
a paper knife at random into a book
and opened 1t at 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 vulture, showed 1t
to o. and asked him to transmit the
sensation of what he saw to Nine. NJ.
After a few seconds Nine. NJ. said:
ITS birI-it's an odd bird; it has no
wings" and then, IT'S q vulture."
Another experiment was made with
the word small" It was the kind
called 'limace" in French, and only
the drawing was shown to o. Nine.
M. said, ITS 'limande (the name
Of a fish like a sole), and then, catch
ing herself up, described it. ut creeps,
it's slimy-oh, it's a SMALL"
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 its result, was made with the
word "cross." DIR. Binet-Sangle drew
cross on a piece of paper, which he
showed to NJ. o. Madame M, 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 NJ. 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
1t mentally Madame NJ. made only
hesitating attempts to repeat it. o..
asked tue uOctOT W redu HleHtdliy Ut
the same time with himself. The line
| was:
"Souftie, bise. Tombe a fiots, pluie."
| (Blow, north wind. Fall in torrents,
rain.)
At last Madame NJ. managed to say
"soufiie" and then "bise;" but she
could get no further. Another trial
was made with the line:
lie Dieu ne viendra pas. L'eglise est
renversee."
| (God will not come. The church is
overthrown)
Nine. NJ. pronounced the two words
lie Dieu" and then, all together, lie
Dieu ne viendra pas"-but could go no
| further.
In all these experiments 1t is diff
cult not to conclude that the thought
of the experimenter, DR.. Sinot-Binet-