McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1922-06-09
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By Lindsay S. Perkins
Editor Independent:

! i2&ASoA 4A0SPtliuIlts
| In a recent letter | described a
radio apparatus | saw here for
receiving music, ETC., in a mans
home, through the air. These
sendings are carried through the
air on waves of ether" other
wise known as Hertzian waves,
from the man who first described
or discovered them. Powerful
electrical apparatus is required
for the sending, costing a great
deal of money. | do not know
what arrangements the senders
will finally make to get their mon
ey back for these things that they
send out, but it will no doubt be
done. At present anybody who
can buy a receiving set and tune
it accordingly can get the send
ings free.
There are other ways of send
ing impulses through the air, diff
ferent from the electrical method,
but we have not yet reduced them
to a scientific basis. We have all
had some experience with thought
transmission. and that is what /
am going to write about now.
First, let us see what the French
Investigators have done.
Becquerel and Blondlot (pro-
nounced "Blondlow" found that
each peoson has radiation of his
or her own, and these rays are
sometimes plain enough to be
photographed. The rays are un-
doubtedly affected by the thought
or character of the person send
ing them out. If so, some of us
had better be very careful, when
the receiving instruments for this
sort of thing are perfected.
This thing has often occurred to
me. andfno doubt to most other
people; ! have been thinking Of
something, and all at once, my
wife or some one else near by has
spoken Of the very thing / was
thinking of. That is thought
transmission, or telepathy( from
the Greek teIe, far or to the end, |
and pathe, feeling.) 1t has hap-
pened to me so often that there
is no longer the slightest doubt
in my mind that there is thought
transmission through the air, and
perhaps independent Of space. |
| am going to give two incidents
which impressed me deeply, as
they were my own experience.
On the evening Of May |, 1912, |
| was in Baltimore, Maryland, |
where / was located as pension
examiner for the government. II
had been going to the movies for
amusement Of evenings, but on
that evening, which was a We'd
nesday, had no taste for the
theater, and wanted to go to a |
prayer meeting something rare
for me. | went to a church bnt
found it closed, and then took the |
car for my room, uptown, feeling
an underlined religious sentiment
and a desire to be alone. As / |
entered the house, my landlady, |
Mrs. Phillips, told me there was
a telegram upstairs in my room
for me. My heart sank with fore
boding. | knew my mother was
sick in Jacksonville, Florida, but
was not expecting her death, but
the message told me she had
passed away that day.
Still more remarkable was the
experience | had about a year
later. | was examining pension
claims in Northern New York
State and on June s, 1918, was
at Amsterdam, N. Y. That morn
ing | was due to take up a case
at the town of Hagaman, N. Y,
about ten miles away by electric
line. but something held me back,
and | went to the Carnegie IL
brary and stayed there all day
till the afternoon. reading. Ire
member there was one very in
teresting book, telling of the ex-
periences of w. Morgan Shuster,
as treasurer-general of Persia.
But while | was reading. some
thing seemed to be dancing be-
tween my eyes and the pages,
and there a peculiar feeling not
to be described, came over me