The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-04-09

! Later Found.
New York, April 2.-After all these
years the spirit Of Henry Ward
Beecher has come back to this city to
"dun" man for a coin Beecher loan.
cd him many years ago.
The man thus reminded OF his for.
getfulness is DIR. l. X, Funk, publisher
OF a directory.
ii will not say that the story is
true in all its Details" said the Rev.
DIR. l. K. Funk, when a Post Dispatch
reporter asked him about the matter.
But it has a substantial basis OF
fact.
II am not prepared to go into
details until | have completed the
investigation am now making. Ger
tainly | have heard most remarka
BILE message. Whether its origin is
telegathic or clairvoyant or clair.
au dent, or whether it proceeded from
an individuality in the next world
through the fundamentally of the
medium, am not at this moment
prepared to say"
For more than a year, DR.. Funk
has been investigating the possibility
OF communicating with disembodied
spirits in the next world. DR.. Funk
is known all over the world for his
learning. Heis an ardent prohibition
list, the head OF the publishing firm
OF Funk 4 Wagnalls, has written and
published widely read books on trav-
ell, temperance and religious subjects.
He is a tall, gray, spare, kindly gen.
tleman of more than 60 years.
1t is said that the medium told DR..
Funk that his friend Henry Ward
Beecher, wanted to speak to him
fro m the spirit world. DR.. Funk as.
sented.
ASKED FOR COIN OF YEARS AGO.
"Why don't you return that coin
you borrowed from me 80 years
ago?" the medium, inspired by Mr..
Beecher's spirit, said in Mr.. Beecher's
well-known iovial manner.
What coin?" DIR. Funk asked, as
tonished.
"Why, the widows mite" said the
medium, speaking for Ar. Beecher.
"You used it as a model for illustra-
ton in one Of your books"
Il returned it to you years ago."
said DR.. Funk.
pardon me, butyou are mista ken"
the spirit insisted. eff you will look
in your safe, in the compartment in
the lower right hand corner, you will
find my old coin under some papers"
The spirit described the bundle OF
papers and the position OF the coin
with considerable detail, When DR..
Funk arrived at his office next day,
he asked clerk, who was with him
at the time Of the widows mite" in
cident, what had become OF the coin.
The man was sure it was rel urned to
Mr.. Beecher. The search was made
the coin was not found in an old
small safe which was first examined,
but search in larger safe revealed it
in precisely the position and under
the papers the spirit or medium had |
mentioned.
DR.. Funk smiled as the Post-Bis-
patch reporter recounted the story. |
He admitted it's substantial correct
ness.
81 will not try to explain tat pres
ent," said DR.. Funk. "Telepathic
communication by means Of WHAT for
lack OF q better name, we may call
thought transference or thought
wa ives, is a well established fact.
Mo theirs know when their children
are sick; wives have seen as in a
vision the figures Of husbands at the
mo ment OF death. Those things are
common and well vouched for.
SPIRIT COMMUNICATION NOT PROVEN.
"Who knows by what means one
mind communicates with another
without means Of speech or visible
sign Of writing? What part OF the
mind, OF the effo, sends and receives
these messages? Is it a higher con-
sciousness which we have not vet
identified? And is the receipt OF such |