Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1907-02-22
A SPIRITS MESSAGE.
Professor HysIop Believes He's
Heard From Late Or. Hodgson.
PLEASED WITH THE NEW LIFE
Dead Psychic Investigator Tells His
Friend He Found Things Better Than
He Thought He Would - Recalls
Welsh Rabbit They Ate One Night
and q Talk With Seoffer.

Answer TO that often repeated query
"Will DIR. Richard ilodgson speak frou
the spirit wOrld?" apparently has been
made to the satisfaction of Proies ,or
James II. Hyslop, who reports that he
has had communications with his late
coworker through Mrs. Piper and also
through several nonprofessional medi.
ums.
Results of his Investigations are pub
lished IN the last number of the Amer
lean Journal For Psychical Research.
of which he is editor Dr. HOdgSon
was the secretary of the American So
ciety For Psychical Research and de-
voted many years of his life to the in
vestigations of the claims of mediums
Although not avowedly spiritualist,
he was so near being one that it is IL
matter OF metaphysical subtletes to
show how his belief differed from that
of spiritualists.
Since his death In December, 1905.
several alleged messages from him
have been received through mediums,
but have been discredited. Professor
Hyslop has made numerous efforts to
get in communication, and the most
convincing messages he has received
are from Mrs. Piper of Boston, who
for about eighteen years has known
them both.
Professor Hyslop asked the control
of DR.. Hodgson to vary the programme
a little by communicating with Mrs.
Piper through some other light" for
all mediums are so called by trance
personalities.
Il will not" was DR.. HOdgson's re-
ply. except through the young light.
She Is all right.. Hyslop will under
stand"
DR.. Hodgson added that after he had
thoroughly recovered from the shock of
his death "he had made an investiga-
ton about this young light and found
that she was indeed all right" Mrs.
Piper did not know the medium to
which her control had made reference,
but Professor Hyslop recognized a
young woman of Boston with whose
psychic powers he and his late associ-
ate had experimental. He learned that
her father had kept her in ignorance OF
the death of Professor Hodgson. Pro
fessor Hyslop soon after this sitting
received a letter from the parent say
ing that his daughter in trance had
seen Or. Hodgson.
. In, tt,n n
sittings that the spirit of the doctor
remarked suddenly to the professor,
"Remember that told Meyers we
would talk Niger talk
81 saw at glance" adds the pro-
fessor. that something was wrong
and | answered. speaking to Mrs. II
per's hand. as we always do NO; you
must have told that TO somebody else
The reply from Hodgson was: An, yes
[ remember 1t was viii james. he
will understand
1t developed that at one time FRO
fessor James of the department OF
psychology at Harvard university hau
said to DR.. HodgsOn that If he ON!
used a little tact he could make the
trance personalities or spirits convert
their deilic verbiage into negro mn
strel talk"
Professor James is not believer IN
spirits. and the remark was made III
a heated discussion, and as far as Is
known there We're no listeners TO that
conversation.
Among the incidents mentioned D.!
Professor Hyslop is the resumption OF
discussions they had had about reor-
yoniZing the society and publishing a
complete repore-of the Piper reveal
tions, which already fill several thou
sand pages. AS DR.. Hodgson could no
longer assist in that direction, they
spoke of the matter only in a reminis
cent way.
No details could be obtained ABOUT
the conditions under which Dr. Hodg-