The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-31

was care lily searched for any Of the lists,
do, which form part Of the equipment Of
the ordinary taking, professional medium.
IN England sne was kept in a state OF
voluntary Imprisonment. All her mail
was read by agents OF the society. She
saw no one but our agents and persons
sent to her by MS. And there, as here,
her communal, lions had that consistent
inconsistency, tlat frequent confusion
az OF crossed wires, which We noted here,
winch we have noted IN all our expert
ments. People whom she saw evory day
whose family photographs were In the
house got no message, People brought
all the way from Scotland received startling
me Sag,s which were comprehensive to
them alone. and absolutely established the
test We could never detect the slightest
trace OF fraud.
"Ieepathy? You know that telepathy
IL the explanation of Mrs. Piper's work
III 1t IL telepathy then she can establish
communcation with every person in the
world. Even that explanation leaves
great deal to be explained. For example,
message came to me from my father,
speaking OF my uncle John, who had lost
John who had just died and who was
veteran OF the civil war. But he had never
lost finger. At the same time mention
was made OF two families OF whom l had
my Uncle John by marriage. A little
later l happened to hear Of Great uncle
john, veteran OF the War of 1872, who
had lived in Ohio. | went to Ohio and
found that he had lost finger in the War
OF 1912 and that he was connected by mar
riage with the two families mentioned.
Was that-are a hundred other examples
like that telepathy?
'Telepathy, the straight communication
by the sub-limina mind between two per-
IN nj ltnNA Nfx a,t<~
can transmit only the present thought
of the mind. 1t has nothing to do with
memory. But spirit commu nication has
to do with memory. One day while Mrs.
Piper was under control Mr.. Hodgson
asked:
What is Mrs, Howard doing now?'
Mrs Howard is a friend Of DR.. Hodgson
whom he had not seen for several days
and whom Mrs. Piper had not seen. The
control through the. medium, told what
details. We found afterward that she
had not described what Mrs. Howard was
doing then. but what she was doing the day
Observation-Disclosures Of a memory, you
see; and there is no example OF such trans.
mission in all the many hundred cases OF
telepathy recorded by the society.
IL she a clever faker. who is fooling us?
or course, we are asked that every day.
Now I've told you of our elaborate precau-
tons, but I'll add this: II she is a faker,
nary methods Of the specfotis, public, al
legged medium she must have on her staff
a detective force ten times as big as Scot
land Yard and unlimited money. She has
no money except the small salary we pay her
for her support, and she sees no one except
the people we bring her-and they don't
pay. II you could 60 over our experiments
with us you'd see how foolish the faker
theory Is.
o,,or,ioiop nj fakinU in their records Not
all the public advertised clairvoyants are
absolute frauds. Some Of them are real
mediums. But the unscientifc public can't
understand the curious confusion and I'M
these mediums resort to lies to fill in the
blank spaces. At the present stage OF
experiments. however, we want only medi-
,ims as far above suspicion as Cssar's
wife"
Prof Hyalop said that since it's last re-
port the Society for Psychical Research
has made a most remarkable collection of
American ghost stories. They are locked
up with the society's archives in Boston.
There are about thousand OF them and
they are most remarkable colleCtio OF
hair-raisers.
THAT subject OF apparitions, said Prof
Hyslop, is one into which we have looked
very little We have hardly classified the
data and have not even begun to draw
conclusions. There is one thing, though.
Most Of them cannot be Authorizations.
When an apparition Of person, living
or dead, appears to you, tells you OF an
event occurring at distance and of which
you knew nothing and when later the event
is proved to have occurred, that cannot be
halicination. Yet we have hundreds OF
certified cases of this character
THE curious thing about it all is that
appartions Of living persons are rather
more common in our records than appari-
tons Of dead or diving persons. Thorough
investigation Of these phenomena must
come later. just now We have lifetime
of work with our investigation of clair
voyancy.'