The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-10-24

Advancing in her experiments, Mrs.
Lee tried tying plates enveloped in
opaque paper to her forehead. Remark
able results were obtained. One plate
showed a message doubly signed by the
dead clergyman, reading:
This is my signature for the preface
of the history.
(Signed twice. "Kemper BocoCk."
Mrs. Lee had intended to write an ac-
count of her experiments in photography.
Another film obtaine4-by Mrs. Lee
showed the image of a human brain.
which she believes to be her own. as the
plate was tied around her head
After explaining at length the I'M
doubted honesty and faith OF Mrs. Lee,
Professor HysloD writes: There must
be no illusion regarding the position OF
the writer (Hyslop himself in regard to
these phenomena the writer
does not believe either the affirmative or
the negative Of this hypothesis. He is
absolutely ignorant OF the facts beyond
the assertions of Mrs. Lee and her
friends"
While the search for the bodies Of IT,
tanic victims was still in progress, and
before it was definitely established o. az
Mr.. Stead was among the dead. consider
able interest was aroused by the claims
OF Miss Eta De Camp. New York
writer, that she had heen commissioned"
BY the spirit of the late Frank r. Stock
ton to complete several of his unfinished
stories and to write others as he die
tatpd. Afterwards she produced the
parts claimed TO Nave been dictated by
Stockton's spirit, and the literary style
bore close resemblance to that of the
author of THE Lady and the Tiger the
only story of StOCkton'S that the girl adj
mitted she had ever read. That, too. she
said. she read when she was too young
to remember the dictiOn.
Miss De Camp. who was possessed of
mediumistiC powers. was put to exhaust
i've tests. She was taken before mediums.
all unknown to each other, and when
Miss De Camp had summoned StOCktons
spirit, the other mediums were set 10
work, not knowing with whom they we're
in communication. After considerable
difficulty they succeeded in getting Stock
tons name and the fact that he was an
author. This, TO Miss De Camp, was con-
elusive proof that the spirit was in COM
munication with worldly beings. OF
course she believed that she was the
means favored by the departed author
for the transmission of his ideas from the
spirit world to the material.
So a message purporting to have come
from Stockton's spirit about the same
ing the entry OF Europe's belligerent
spirits into the beyond. is of additional
interest. Miss De Camp is still the
medium through which Stockton crosses
the border. The first message read:
while am glad that you are. able to
go on with your work again, ybur not
being able to do so for some time has
not mattered so much as it might, be-
cause of conditions since our last writ
ing.
Things here have been trying to ones
heart and sympathy. Fearful as war Is
on your plane, few realize the effect of
It on this. The scenes are beyond
description, as thousands OF souls are
hurled unprepared into this condition,
suffering from the effects of the battle
they still believe to be in progress. For,
not knowing they have passed through
the change called death, they think they
are still alive. Then confusion Of mind
follows. when they realize where they
are, and they become grief-stricken over
the thought ofhoved ones left at home.
"And SO 1t has taken all OF us here
on this plane to minister to them the best
we can. My time has been so taken up
with this work that I have given no
thought to my own affairs. I will come
again tomorrow at the usual time and
take up my work II possible"