The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-13

deep student of the dark mysteries. He
refuses 10 accept the phenomena OF spirit
messages. but puts much stock in the
psychic researchers modern laboratory
tests of astral forces" alleged to move
heavy furniture and cause astral hands"
and such appearances.
! I'VE are on the point or discovering
new and wonderful force which suggests
laws heretofore not appreciated by
science and apparently controvertfng all
many actual personal experiences have
been reported to the American PSychical
Society. OF which he Is now president
and among WI pse leading members are
the Rev. MInot !. Savage and Professor
\. Il. Dolbcar, the physicist and inven-
! tor.
Discovery of Great Medium.
An appetite for The mysterious, devel-
opeg some time back by William James,
perhaps whctted bv his having tried.
since early youth. TO make head or tail
I3l the writings of his brother. Henry
James. which doubtless he had TO ncruse
! TO Keep peace in the family. Be this as
lit may. Professor James's psychical re-
search has forced him to admit that there
are Supernormal phenomena for which our
natuTa! sense Impressions cannot account,
Professor James WAS the real discoverer
OF Mrs Lconore j.. Piper. the now famous
Boston medium. It was twenty years
ago that he found out the peculiar pow
ers Of this remarkable woman. who has
researchers of two continents and who
idt'lN SurfenutIsu nCrSeU completely 10
the British Society for Psychica Re-
search. During these latter experiments
this trance medium. although isolated.
guarded and subjected 10 tho scvcrcst OF
tests by Il committee OF trained SkcDtics,
is reported to have described what other
persons were doing and saying hundreds
Of miles away.
Mime BlaNatS<y was exposed in India
By a strenuous Australian iuVoSticato tor,
Richard Hodcsou. who aftcrward settled
down in Boston, where hc became head OF
the old American branch Of the British
Society for Psychical Research, and where
also he met Professor James, who took
him 10 sec Mrs. Piper. DIR. HodESon
studied this woman for eighteen yearS
and she convinced him that tolcpa thy
automatic writing and communication
with the dead were bona fidc phenomena
To give her a special test DR.. 1odgson
arranged q unique course of experiments,
in which he was aided by DR.. James II,
Hyslop. professor OF logic and ethics at
Columbia
Masked Himself and Disguised Voice.
The professor masked himself and dis
guised his voice during his visits TO her
and while she lay unconscious. with her
head upon a pillow resting on a table.
her hard wrote out messages alleged To
come from his father. She converted
Hyslop TO the spiritistic hypothesis. and
his announcement OF the fact made Il
stir In the scientific world. He and
Bodgson formed a compact that who
ever died first would communicate with
The other, and Professor Hyslop expressed
La me some time ago his satisfaction that
he has received messages from Hodgsou
since the lattcrs death.
A secret password from his dead father
was given To Professor 1lTslop by Mrs.
Piper. il is claimed, before she had ever
seen him in her conscious state. When
la ter he got the same password from an
orthodox minister's wife who had also
developed trance msGiumship and auto
matte writing" Professor HySlop COM
mcnccd experimenting with this new sub
iect. VINO. to protect her from the annoy !
ance OF publicity Is referred to under
the pseudonym Mrs. Smcad" In the re-
ports OF the new American Society for
Psychic Research. Of which Professor
Ilysop is the founder and head.
Prof. Hyslop's Woman Of Mystery,
She is Il woman OF mystery, and all
that has been revealed about her of Il
personal nature is that she is q blue
eyed young woman Of modest and re-
tirinE temperament, who lives about
twenty four hours off from New York !
in town which is surrounded by an
evergreen forest and in which her nus
band enjoys good standing as rector OF
an orthodox church surmountcd by a |
cross.
While she is In a. trance her head is |
held in special h"adrest and her NOV |
ing ting"T writes upon paper spread on a
So wing table at her side. She stud |
led also by pr. Hodgson and on The |
night that he dropped dead while playing