Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-03
ENGLAND'S DISEASED
SPIRITS GREAT LIARS
Ghosts Have Less Regard for
Truth Than Men and Women
in the Flesh.
SOME GENUINE sEANcEs

SOME GENUINE sEANCEs
Spirits, the ethereal beings which
make up the great unknown hereafter
are, in many cases profound aft
painstaking liars. In fact, they have
been found to lie with far less com
Function than men and women OF thu
flesh. To speak Of spirits as liar
seems utterly without possible
foundation. And, granting spirits
the vice OF lying, to speak OF then
a greater liars than human beings
that is, some human beings-seem'
very hard on the poor creatures o
the other world. Nevertheless. thes'
conclusions, along with many other
equally novel and really OF practice
importance, resulted from a life study
Of spiritualistic manifestations by
man remarkably capable of under
standing such manifestations.
The late Palmer Jones of Michigan
made the study Of spiritualism hi
life's hobby, and the conclusion
which he drew are Of vast importance
from both the spiritualist's and tn
layman's view. Jones found, afte
many experiences with spirits, tina
he had to be continually on his guar'
against the falschoods Of the inhabit
ants OF the other world.
Mr.. Jones did not discuss tn
tcnets OF spiritualism in words Q
mystery. He respected the cult o
spiritualism and refused to do any
thing but give it the benefit Of ever.
doubt. Yet he spoke of it in the Ian
guagc OF present day science and ap
piled to it the terms of psychology
His researches in the field OF spirit
ualism are both interesting and alb
sorbing. His deductions follow;
Force Of Habit.
The spirits Of the next world ar
not OF the same status as the peopl
OF this. But the development OF tn
soul goes on there as here. The pres
emit population Of the world amount
to about one billion seven hundre
/, million, but this amount is not eve
comparable to the billions and bil
lions who have gone before
Jones, from his years Of investigs
tons, often declared that the DRUM
ards iocked to imaginary bars !
spirit land and are unable to satisf
their thirst. 1t is to be presume
from this conclusion, that strap-hanl
ers grab frantica1ly for imaginar
straps as they are lurched aroun
corners in the crowded cars Of spir
land, or that the spirit movie fan
crane their necks at pictures whic
they cannot see.
During his life, Jones unearthe
many fake schemes and exposed tn
duplicity of grafters to such an exter
that he obliged many of them to 6
out Of the business. But he also Ct
countered conscientious followers (
spritulism, and was himself believes
although not credulous to the exter
Of believing everything he saw.
The Acid Test.
One time he literally and fgurs
lively applied the acid test to on
/. Of the best slate writer's in the cour
try. ZONES had heard 50 much Of n
mans ability that he made speci,
trip to Washington to make an Il
vcstigation. The man agreed to
meeting and Jones stipulated that b
furnish his own slate.
The investigator procured an Of
binary double slate. such - schot
children use In the lower grade
Having first. cleaned It thorough
with acetic acid, he nailed the tw
pieces Of slate together. As writin
material Jones took along piece
platinum, which Is known to be sbot
the hardest Of al metals.
The medium hesitated when \
learned that the test was to be mad
with platinum, but finally acquicsce'
The agreement was that writin
should appear on one Of the two Il
ner surfaces of the double slate. Cor
siderable difficulty was encounters
presumably on account of the plat
mum, but finally the usual scratching
were heard and the message was wri
ten.
Through the fastened double Stat
.ne platinuIn wIl'ns nsu appeaisSu !. \
Ihe inner surfaces, any never uiu :.
gator. Mr.. Jones, who was chemis
washed off the spirit writing with q
acid, which dissolved the marks, ar
left unmistakable evidences that Il
Wf'ting nag oeen GONG win p'stinur
A Strange Revelation.
AT one seance he encountered prol
career, x swedish girl had been !