The Press., 1914-02-18

so Intimately connected with her as to hold my attention. I began my work within a week after consigning her earthly body to the tomb. though spent much time before experimenting in thinking on the subject.
 divided my investigations into two branches, the light l would use and the plate and It's preparation which was to receive the image. 1 shall not give an account of my experiments during a term of several years, for even to catalogue them would require considerable space. The difficulty of the problem before me will appear in this-that must find a kind of light that would act with sufficient delicacy on my plate and a plate that would satisfactorily receive the light. would not have made the attempt at all had not remembered that my wife had promised to guide me by thought transference to any infOrma- ton which she might possess in what we have been accustomed to call the spirit world. In this l had much con fldence. because I had noticed that when we were together 1t seemed that one of us could never have a thought upon something remote from what was occupying OUT minds but the other would speak of 1t, This is a common occurrence among many persons, and I attribute 1t to thought transference.
 One morning was sitting alone, running over in my mind the various metals with which I would expert ment for plate for my picture. had a pencil and bit of paper be. fore me and, unnindful of what l wrote. laid down on the paper the let ters ichteptyl There was nothing which. though little known even to chemists, I had some knowledge of Somehow 1t came into my head to ex- pertinent with Solutions of it as a wash for my photographic plate. At another time. while passing from my home to my laboratory. suddenly I was seized with an impressiOn-I can give 1t no other name--that I might try the influence of radium on a plate prepared with some solution of ich- teptyl finally used a solution of nitrate of ichteptyl exposed to tho beta rays of radtum.
 For months l had been making ex- periments with various combinations of these two. leaving my plate exposed for twenty-fOur hours in each case so as to try both night and day. My camera was clamped to point to the spot where my wife used to work In the laboratory For week. had suspected that Something not visible had been photographed on the, plate, and by slightly changing the character of my agents l hoped to bring it out more distinctly r In this way some, times l obtained more distinct i'm. pres-inn, sometimes one less distinct One morning | went to my camera. took out my plate and developed it.
 What l am about to say ask no one to believe, I surely would not believe 1t myself if it had been told me by any one else There was picture. lndistinct. adWit, of my beloved wife turned from her work table toward me. SmlilnR upon Ine ilS IT to eNCIhIu
 We have succeededr'
 But our dream of attaining the emi- hence of the Curies Is not-at least now-practicahle, though l hope at some future time 1t may be. have succeeded in producing but the one picture Whether for reasons unre- vealed to me my wife will not appear again to be photographed or whether there were conditions of light, atmos phere or chemical agents that are not repeated do not know. ! only know that after triats extending over a year cannot get another photograph.
 Why not exhibit the one I have? 1t has been shown just as other so called spirit photographs have been shown to a number of persons. A few have be, lieved that its"is genuine; the many look at me pltyingly, as much as to say. "POor man. his love for one who Is dead has tnyned his brain"
 Nevertheless. there is hope. Scien lists who even a quarter of a century ago would not deign to investigate so called spiritual manifestations are be ginning to admit that there is some thing in them. Why? Was not the an swer given me by my wife when she said to me: I believe that my soul is IAaterial rather than the ghostly thing Oouls have been conbidered. There is in me a faith that we shall make such a discovery. but in order to achieve what I have in mind we must be in different spheres, you in the nor tai. in the immortal. If it Is possible forsme to aid you from the other existenceI shall do so. By trans ference of thaught-a purely material process. I beliave-I hope may sug- gest to you agents or processes to be used in your experiments" b.
 Where Is the summer g1rI of yOre?
 Of riufTs and friIls we sing no more
 So stunnilIESis her fashion book
 That hUnebI. we're afraid to look.
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