Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-24

ested in the esoteric mysteries which
had been revealed to him and had come
to him for enlightenment. He began
to smoke up Immediately, to do little
enlightening.
"You see, hits hall as clear as day
to me-" ne said. "Heverybody wonders
ow Hi do it. Lord Bulwer once says to
do you do it?' WELL Hi says, hits
just gift. Wen I was a bit of lad
L wuz dreamin' and a-seein' things,
and the spirits taught me-
Eyes, Hi knew hall the big men. The
professors and scientists hall hover the
world send for me. Hi went down to
South America hon a scientific hexpe-
dition."
Cockney Muffs New Phrase
I was interested in the professors
science and we were drawn into con-
versation on abstruse subjects. The
man is a wonder when it comes to sci
entific terminology. What he hasn't
! conned in the way of involved and in
| tricate phra seology isn't in the books
l asked what he thought about the
"sublimaP' self. This was a new one,
| and he muffed it several times before
he finally got it. But he has it planted
for the next inquisitor. The conversa-
tion was something like this:
@. Don't you think that spirit mani
festations may be rationalized on the
basis of the aura arising from the outer
fringe of the subconsciousness, in a
state of self-induced hypnosis?
A. Supply the cockney). Syncate-
magorically speaking, this may be true,
but you must take into consideration
the varying resistance Of the branchy-
ostigite. under normal degrees of chro-
matization.
This Clears the Atmosphere
@. wouldn't you have to square the
hypothenuse in making the equation?
A. Under certain conditions, OF
course, but it would depend largely on
the supralapsarian manifestations in
lion and perihelion are not always the
same.
OF course I had to admit this, but
came back at him on another tack, and
we resumed:
Q. Isn't it true that the integrating
force is entirely derationalized in the
psychometry of the fourth dimension?
A. This cannot be, because of the
homogeneity of the pneumenon existing
behind the phenomenon, which is, of
course, disembodied.
This made 1t perfectly clear and
told him 1 saw through it perfectly.
II knew you would understand it
when 1 explained 1t to you" he said.
Arranges Seance
I was so impressed with the pro-
fessor's elucidation of the scientific
problems and his information regarding
life after death that I told him l de-
| sired a seance. He said he would have
difficulty in accommodating me, as his
clients were clamoring for his time,
but he finally arranged for IL o'clock
the next day.
OF course I know the spirits are not
particular about such things as the
names borne in the flesh, and I decided
to introduce myself to them as Lewis
Fredericks," which was the name / had
given the professor the day before He
took me into. the inner chamber and
prepared. for slate writing seance. A
table stood to the left of the door as
entered, it's end touching bureau
standing against the wall. A stack of
small states lay on the floor The pro-
fessor took his seat on the side of the
table where the states were, and / SAT-
opposite him.
1t is a great strain, invoking the
spirits, and the professor was almost
overcome. When he could get his
breath he gave me small slip of paper
and told me to address a question to
some dear departed friend who had
gone over to the "other side" |
couldn't think of any who would fill the
bill on the spur of the moment, and
had to manufacture name. l ad-
dressed the question to James Howard
Wells, and asked him whether 1 should
invest in mining stock.
spooks Get Busy
The professor in the meantime had
prepared the states. Two Of them were
fastened together with a rubber band
and / was told to lay the paper face
downward on the uppermost slate. ]
did so and pressed 1t firmly with my
fingers. The professor was distressed
in getting the spirits to write, but
finally they got busy. and he suddenly
tore apart the states, between which he
had placed small bit of pencil apd
showed me one side completely covered
with writing. He gave me only q
glimpse of It, saying IL would be better
to read all the states at once and ther
get the connected message. He placed
! The slate with the writing underneath
| on the table He then produced another