The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-02-26
WIRES CROSSED
IN GHOST TALKS
PROFESSOR HYSLoP TELLS WHY
BREAKS OCCUR ALONG LINE
TO SPIRIT LAND.
LIKE A TELEPHONE WIRE
Just as You Get Connected, He Says,
Someone Cuts in On Your
Wire--Messaaes From His
Friend Received.

New York, Feb 25.--The story OF
Professor James Hyslop's conversa
don with the spirit of the late Rich
ard Hodgson, as related In book
written and published by DR.. Isaac
Funk and entitled "The Psyche Rid
die" was freely discussed by Profes
sor Hyslop today at his home.
The Columbia professor declared to
the correspondent that since Hodg
sons death. in December of last year,
| he had four different communications
with him through other mediums
| that Mrs. Piper, who transmitted the
spirit message which DR.. Funk has
chronicled,
This specific instance Of commuui
cation with Professor Hodgson," said
Professor Hyslop. does not, of course
strike me with the awe and uncanni-
ness with which 1t might impress
the lay mind, for before my friends
| death we discussed the subject often
and had made a compact that the
one who should die first should com
municate to the other upon the first
occasion upon which conditions
should make it possible; so when Mr..
Piper and four others were able to
transmit the message which came to
me from Dr. Hodgson am gratitied
bur In no way surprised,
Il had such communication many
times with others and have been In
communication with a friend who
passed away on December Ii, the
medium in that instance being the
wife of an orthdox minister living
90 miles away, who had never known
the man.
Messages Are Confirmed.
Professor Hodgson has sent me
coaiirmatory messages through other
sources than Mrs. Piper, and has been
able fully TO iaentify himself to me in
such manner that no doubt whatso-
ever has for an instant entered my
mind that have been talking to my
old friend.
"Of course there have been hun
dreds of the so-called professional
mediums all over the country who
have written me alleged authentic
communications with DR.. Hodgson.
but those things have Immediately
gone into my waste paper basket, as
| give no credence whatsoever to pro
fessionaP mediums messages, al
hr, ull ,,f fhnu1G'
any means. But the general opinion
is that they are and they have proven
to be in so many cases that | do not
rely upon them at all.
Asked why it was that SO many
seemingly frivolous remarks were
made by the spirits he conversed with
Professor Hyslop said that it was
often due 10 the inefficiency of the
transmitter as one might hear the
breaking Of another voice upon a
"city wire" or when The telephone is
"out of order"
Sometimes the instrument or
medium, through which the spirits
choose to communicate with friends
upon the terrestrial sphere is so
"seu tive" Professor Hyslop alleges.
that many messages that have passed
10 the mind of the departed and not
supposed 10 be sent through" as il
were, come to the person with whom
the shade is communicating.
Not Frivolous, He Says.
''What is said of that nature
readily understand" said DR.. Hyslop
"and while il may often sound friyo-
lous. those sentences sometimes iden-
tify thc spirit as nothing else could,
| remember once having a communi-
cation with my father, who had died
some years before, and the first re-
mark he made to me was, Put on
my hat and coat and | will go
Now from that did no infer that
the inhabitants of this sphere wore
hats, but thai II was a message not
intended to have been sent.
81 construed it as thought that
must have passed through my fathers
spirit when he was aroused from his
sleep. He was an invalid in life and
had always called to some one of US
to give him his hat and coat. which
he was unable 10 get for himself.
whenever he wished 10 90 ont. BY
that one sentence ! was enabled u
know Immediately that It was un
doubtedly the spirit Of my father with
whom ! was communicating"
OF the further conversation vi n
Hodgson, Professor Hyslop spoke
length. During one Hodgson's spirit
through "a Young light" (the name
he gave TO a young woman medium
whom he had known on EARTH asked
Professor if he remembered about the
cheese we had in my Toom at
luDch?"
Il then recalled" said Dir. Hyslop.
the interesting circumstance that
once. and only once. / had a midnight
lunch with Or. Hodgson at he Tavern
club. when he made a Welcb rsrebit.
aud wc had Gclghtful time