The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-21
THE PALADINo MYSTERY.

The famous Italian medium, Eusapia
Paladino, is announced ms shortly TO ap
pear in this country. This medium has
attained n greater world wide celebrity
than any other since the first, when the
mcdiumistic business began. She has
been investigated many times by scicn
fists, and usually to their complete be
widermcnt No ono has succeeded in
"cxposing her as other mediums have
been cposcd and yet her manifestations
arc not materially different from the
tricks of other mediums. Hero is an
enumeration of what she is able TO do:
\ peculiar cold breeze seems To Issue
from a scar on her forehead. This breeze
has been known 10 cause a thermometer
90 drop several degrees.
She causes strange hands and forms TO
appear about her.
She makes any light article OF furniture
follow the movements Of her hands as
though II were n0gnctlZed.
\ cold breeze from her left knee some
times blows her skirt out almost horizon
tally.
She causes hands and faces to be pro-
duced on clay that has been previously
covered with netting.
She can nft n table without touching It.
Loud raps frequently occur in remote
parts OF tho room while she IS giving a
sitting
She can cause small objects to move to-
ward her.
She can make musical instruments play
II they arc concealed behind curtain.
Frequently curtains In the room when
she IS giving a sitting will move and blow
as II some ono were behind them.
Ten years ago thcro was an investi-
CATION Of this medium by n number of
distinguished Frenchmcn, and they
were all puzzled except ono. NJ. FIam-
marion conducted the investigation.
One Of the Investigators, M. Victorian
Sardou, was convinced Of the genuine
ness of the manifestation. Others were
puzzled and impressed, but NJ. Antoniadi,
who was assistant TO NJ. F'lammarion.
was entirely skcptical. The table rose
according 10 the programme, and NJ.
Antonladi couldn t press it down. He
was hit by hand and with cushion,
table was pushed around tho room,
bells were rung, and box passed
through a curtain. and vet NJ. Antoniadi
reported to NJ. F'lammarion in tone
of complete skepiicIsm, as follows:
restricted myself to ascertaining
whether there was a single phenomenon
which could not be explained in the most
simple manner. and | arrived at the con
Clusion that there was not / assure You.
on my word OF honor, that my watchful,
silent attitude convinced me, beyond all
manner Of doubt. that everything is
fraudulent from the beginning to the cnd
that there Is no doubt HAT Eusapta shitts
her hands or her feet and that the hand
or the foot that one Is thought TO control
is never held tight or very strongly
pressed at the moment or the production
much astonished when | WAS hit hard in
the back, from behind the curtain. while
| was very clearly holding TWO hands
with my right hand. Happily. however
at this moment. Nine. Flammaron hav-
Ing given ms little light. ( saw 1hat
held the right hand OF Eusapia and
yours
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
saws that "everyone admits that she
will cheat in the most brazen manner
whenever she has the opportunity,
but that Professor William James main
tains that she cannot be discredited' on
shat account as an uumitigated fraud
and trickster His idea is that we can
not conclude that all is trickery and
fraud simply because we know that a
part is such; and he maintains that
the task of science is TO separate the
true from the false in Eusapia's mani.
festations. He considers that she has
two natures, one genuine and one
fraudulent, and that the problem is to
isolate the true from the false. 1t is
much easier 10 dismiss the matter as
whole in the usual way, by the appli
cation of the old rule, "false in ono
thing, false in all,' and this is what
tho public is very likely TO do. Quite
reasonably so, too, because in manifes
tations of this kind. all apparently OF
about the same order, when it is es-
tablished that part of it is fraudu-
lent, there is no reason to conclue that
any OF it is true merely because il
cannot be explained. The reasonable
view to take is the simple one, that
we only lack the explanation, and if we
had it it would be just as simple to
explain it all as it is to explain part
of ~