The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-04-26
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city Special After spend
Ing the greater part Of 4 lifetime IN IN
veSt.aa1ng psychic phenomena and so-
calied splrituallatlc manifestations Isaac
X Funk, u. j., LII. u. has written .
book IN which he sums up the result Of
his Inquiries Into these and other rnysteri-
Gus things. The book. THE Psychic Rid-
die has been recently 3sucd from the
press Of the Funk Il Wagnals company.
Or, Funk is editor-in-ch.ef Of the Stand
ard dictionary and author OF several
books
Several years g anagreamentwas made
between DR.. Richard Ho9gson and Prof.
James II. Hyslop, scientific Investigators
of spiritualistic phenomena. that which
ever of them should die first he would
make every effort, if such a thing was
possible. to communicate with the other.
PROT Hyslop declares that he mas talked
with the spirit of DIR. liodgson through the
agency of Mrs. Piper. q medium. 1t was
recently published everywhere that DR..
Funk, too, had talked with the spirit Of
Or. I%Iodgson.
In his book DR.. Funk denies this. He
tells of his different sittings with Mrs.
Piper when she went into a trance and
when 1t was ~purported that DIR. Hodgson
spoke through her, but DR.. Funk says he
does not know whether it was DIR. Hodg-
son speaking or not.
Its Largely Fraud" Says Or. Funk
DIR. Funk sums up all of his investiga-
lions as follows:
what are called s-piritualistic NANTES
tatlohs are, so far as my experience goes,
IN large part due to fraud and in large
part are traceable to certain psychic pow
ers within us-powers which are more or
less active but which psychologists have
not as yet clearly defined, in some cases
/ q even. nnl1y- nlnp CifAI ~r,,A a--EN t,.
which they have not as vet recognlzed.
But aside from these there are, in my
1udginnenJ, whole. classes of phenomena
which point clearly to the operation OF IN
telllgent forces that exist outside of what
We Know as human bodies.
Ihese iore.sn forces manifest at times
,ntelllgence-indisputably so. This intel
lgence Is a chief clement in the psychic
pr3Dleln or problems to be solved.
Whence and what is this intelligence?
MY definition of q spiritualist is one who
holds as true these two propositions:
]. That intelligences who are foreign to
us, that is, who reside beyond our hNe
the physical sense organs with those-or
1lesh.
2. That these intelligences can and do
identity themselves as those who once
lived In tie flesh.
l have no hesitancy in accepting the first
OF Ihese two propositions. AS to the Sec
ohd, nave seen no sufficient reason tor
believing it true. To its acceptance as sci
eHtlllcdl!N proven there remain some very
1orm!dable difficulties.
In his book DIR. Funk gives accounts of
many phenomena. some of which he saw,
others of which We're related to him.
Among the most mysterious things which
he describes are the doings of Mrs. f..
Blake, of Bradrick. o.. who has been a
Wonder to her friends for fifty years. The
account which Dr. Funk gives was writ
ten by David Abbott. of Nebraska. who,
with George w. Clawson. of Kansas City.
and Prof. Hyslop, visited her last Septem-
Der.
Mrs. Blake is old and feeble. She Is the
wife of a humble farmer and is the moth
er of fifteen children. In all her life she
was never more than twelve miles distant
from her birth place. the obscure little VIII
lage of Braderic!l in which she lives. This
village is without q railroad. 1t is reached
by a ferry across the Ohio river from
Huntington, w. Va.
David Abbott, who wrote the account
incorporated into his book by Or. Funk. is
a magician who has a wide reputation in
psychic circles as one who has made a
life study OF the tricks of the professional
Spirit medium. Mr.. Abbott says:
l determined TO make an INVESTIGATION en-
such lines as would entirely remove the
possibility of amy kind OF trickery beng
employed. i will say, for such readers as
may not know, that I am a performer OF
the tricks used by the hundreds of spirit
N'SS tttNt4 y tIit lii4u i dl!l
t~horoushly familiar with the various
systems bl which they gain the infor-
Inatlon that they give their subjects, and
l determined to entirely remove the pos
siolllty of anything of thai kind being used
m TINS case; was known 10 no one ia
that part of the country with the excep-
,sne OF =, Mr. ~ who merely knew my
any of I'm nv es ,.erat he naew nothillg OF
where they resided. - wv GOWNS
The gentleman selected was Az.
George w. Clawson of Kansas City. Mo,
VINO IKE myself. is a member of the
Z AZ isaa Soelety Tor l'sNchlcal Research.
go win ~ e1i o MN. mhete ne vas TO
leo miles of Cii3cf,5na,H Mil NJ : a Win n
fore starting. then merely vrote bfn,
that we would go to Huntington. but gave
no names. | did not tell him the lady's
in a.tl ol toTh until We arrived IN Hunt
.I,ist bafnrn 4 la, stalteH ior ier viliage.
Hyslop in New yerli 49, 80 = w ~ az u To-,
meet In Huntfnrton. Went nv va of
Kansas City where MIR. Clawson was.
ASKED MN TO choose q name to travel UNI
w v anu ne qua so-tae name was c. e.
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hotel under The Tan,o Of - . y ~ WIN holoHoine
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