The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-11-12
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TELEPATHIC MESSAGE
Sent Across the Ocean in English
ard Received in Latin.
From the New York American.

From the New York American.
Scientific men prominent in occult in
vestigations were greatly interested
yesterday in the reported feat Of tele-
pathng a message from Minneapolis to
Brooklyn, which brought out the state
ment from DIR. James II. Hyslop that
he and those associated with him in the
American Society for Psychical Re-
search had succeeded in procuring the
| sending of a message across the At
| lantic.
The Minneapolis message is a vague,
nebulous affair. merely rumored among
the scientists. but DR.. Hyslop, former
| ly teacher of logic and ethics at Column
bia University, declares the across-the-
| Atlantic message was actually sent by
Mrs Piper to telepath in this coun-
| try.
The feat was accomplished under the
| auspices of the American and British
Societies of Psychical Research, DIR.
| Hyslop declared, and was surrounded
by such circumstances as to make de-
| ception impossible.
II will give none of the details OF
this accomplished fact" said DR.. Hys-
| lop yesterday, they will all be printed
in the records of the American society.
We wish to have published nothing re-
garding our investigations except in
the manner most approved by scientific
men.
"Telepathy is not matter of thought
| waves The solution is so simple as to
| be astounding. Messages are carried
from mind to mind by the spirits. Me-
| diumistic qualities are necessary, but.
possessed of these and able to get in
| touch with the spirit world, telepathy
| should become as easy of accomplish
ment as the telegraphing of a message
| with wires"
| The solid and substantial scientific
explanation of telepathy given by DR..
| Hyslop causes IL to be noted at once
| that telepathy is to be taken from the
realm of science and dropped into that
| Of the medium who "materializes for
50 and gets slate-writing for quar-
ter
DR.. Isaac X. Funk, who recently has
| taken leading rank in this country as
! one of the very few professed Spiritu-
alists deserving the slightest consider
| alton for intellect or scientific attain
ments, strangely enough does not agree
with DIR. Hyslop, but is Of the opinion
that telepathy is due to the transfer
| ence of thought waves or vibrations
! which carry brain impressions as
clearly as telegraphic messages are
transmitted by electrical impulses.
None but scientists should tamper
| with the weird phenomena OF nature
represented by telepathy," said Dr. Hy-
slop. Every investigation should be
made sanely and every experiment APP
preached with a mind clear, impartial
and prepared to weigh and balance
every fact, as carefully as though Il
We're precious gem.
"Our experiments in telepathy / re-
gard as convincing. II not wholly sat
isfactory in number or in the ability
to repeat them at will.
"In these experiments we used Mrs.
Piper. who was sent to England in care
of the British Society. She was al
1 lowed to come into contact with no
one not In league with the persons
making the experiments. We began
our experiments in long distance tele-
pathy in the hope Of eventually getting
a message across the Atlantic, but
failed time after time.
Finally we scored success. 1t was
as remarkable as Il was unexpected.
! The message was sent across the ocean
in way to demonstrate perfectly the
possibilities OF long distance telepathy.
The experiment was conducted In a
manner to eliminate any trace Of fraud
or deception. IL was sent in English
and delivered In Latin"
This discussion over telepathy has
recalled the statement of w. T. Stead
that he and others interested with him
had succeeded In telepathing a mes
sage from Nottingham to London. the
message being sent by DR.. Richardson,
an American, and received by DR..
Frank, an English telepathist Neither
of these gentlemen was ever able 10
repeat the experiment under conditions
suggested by Prof Carrot l.. Serviss.