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Date 1912-08-01

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MEDICINE HAT NEWS- Mr. Joseph F. Rinn, Friend and Critic of Professor Hyslop, Scoffs at Psychic Phenomena and De- scribes How. He- Himself Has f pes . F Reproduced Mediums Feats. by r Trickery serial ta. 63 tu ew Sab Sel Ge lan vac scclly HERE are no ghosts, no psychic knowledge, and the greater number of ph tiomen: there is no such those who have witnessed her phenomena a thing as telepathy. Such is the have gone away convinced. According to i, iconoclastic statement of Mr her manner of producing phenomena, a Joseph F. Rinn, 2 New Yors/spirit takes her hand and writes, Ques- business man, who ds president tions are asked of the hand. Dr. Hodgeon of the Brooklyn Philosophical Assocte+ is alleged to be the spirit now controlling aud who spends mnch*of: his time her. Yet she made Dr. Hodgson recognize uo little money in inyestigating. the Professor Stanley Hall as a friend simply * because she thought from something he tion, medinms, t 2 experience of more than had said. that he wss an intimate of Dr. rs he ig more than ever con- Hodgson s, when, as a matter of fact, they at these persons are either con- had never met, Also when Mrs. Piper unconscious frauds and that went to England Dr. Hodgson's spirit 0 believe in them are credulous failed to recocnize his friends unless Mrs. ons who can easily be deluded or Piper knew that they were his friends. ito be. Mr. Rinn- is very strong in. Unable to Read Letter. dis conlemmation of persons: standing F in the seademie world who lend their I have a letier from Hodgson which perpetrated by mediums than other sioycrt to claims which he insists enn- I received a few days before his death, classes of individuals. Morcever: tke ie tests. but Mrs. Piper is anable to tell me one college man know that Word that is in that letter. detect fraud in Bever told anything that was not known What does world epics enable hi itors and fishes for thin a many college professors to get at tle real trath Sehind the medinm s *towgh Mrs per orninnees, By reiteration of : about her. ther call facts many gentlemen posing * ? an a ists have led thany to beliere lt; Prfessor Hyslop contenils that only that persons have the pow traneeend what we call natural law and thht these persons have the power to comrmunieate with the dead and to re- d ceive messages from them. a. When a man eminent in science tells is a place to - Ipersons ns of something it bis particular sphere, into which no fraud ean intrude, and which ean be verified under scientific con- itiows, he i entitled to a respectful herring, but if he stares that on a par- ticular night his: cow jumped over the Post office bis testimony on that point is/of blind teachers that sightless girls and no nore lid that the testimony of other womea are taught many percons, The mere fact that a man is incident to everyday life, At the nord in his particular field of research, York Association for the Blind, No. mis. physics oF MM not be considered as presumptive struction hax passed through the experi- eof his ability to see: correctly mental stage and is now established as Thins ontaide his experience. HERE in since have been: writing about spirit- Iess, istiy phenomena. and by constant itera- Jt was at the instance of Miss V tion have gathered a following of adher- fred Holt, who devotes mnch time and nts. In snite of the fact that they havelattention to the welfare of those who doen duped time and again, -thes seem doomed to live in darkness, that the continue to pese as qualified investi-/German method of home Instruction of the. blind; by the blind. was introduced. erful phenomena demand won- When the work was begun son. three jerful evidence in thelt support, and N0 years ago, there was but oue teacher; such evidence existay as at no time have now there are four, and with the begin. mediums produced phenomena under con-lning of the new year more names will * where frand has Deen impossible. be added to the list. a individal. aga member of the o.. Gf the hed of the ty, for, Peschica , Regearch, after cthorvje Mine Alte te Penne i ; tenchers-is Miss Alta de Frances. She delnils. with Dr. Hodson, Pro-ls.e heen with the ansoclation from. the fessor Hyslop and others, 1am convinced i). it began its work, She hes been that nin -tebttis of the so-ealled evidence of these men of science Fecofited in the Wolumes of the Society for Psychical Re- search Is cnly fit for the waste paper Whaler. A great. part of this evidence cotsists. of stories that John Smith and Mary Jones. told of what happened in their fainilies five, ten or twenty years before. with person: embellishments. blind nearly all her life, but has algo been ambitious, and now her elfief work is to lead the blind and teach them to work. for themselves. There ig little she cannot do that comes within the power of the arerage person who can s 2. You do not know, said Miss de Frances, ax she sented herself in an up fown car, for she had aak d. me 16 ac Reward Offered for Proof. compay ter in a round of calls, you do have; knowledge-of all the evidence noe know what 1 wonderful bedeit this: outstanding, and in face of it I stand nome instruction is proving to tinny blind ready to reward handsomely any.one whol Firs and women. Few persons realize Wvill proddae Sheponiens Contrary to law) che uitscultien that must he oxeimpme: be- Giubder conditions where: ffs0d: Js Iipow rors, blind woman learns: to. db tullies seible. that will make her even slightly helpful. Many persons believe that the evidence ry oussnis of terns who hare leat for telepathy bas almost proved the case, 11,,; were born blind have yet a reputable firm of solicitors in Eng F lt;cn nearly hclpleds ai their inces, bes Jand has publicly offered 5,000 for 80) cause they bave been unable to obtain In- authenticated Incident. The firm's clieat) struction. Of course there are the excep- testimony of no person with a financial Mrs. Piperfinterest in a medium should be accepted. istic manifestations? he asked, ' some living person, although in herjwas utiassail ould rather take six men from the *ittings, which are conducted in the most Piper's testimony has been accepted, as streui. teamsters or common laborers, ;U2Satisfactory manner, she pumps vis- Professor Hyslop acknowledged to. me. Information. AT Bu Piper goes into a trance, lor dishonesty of one man to affect phe- what t* is keenly alive to all that goes on nomena which are alleged to transcend natural laws? persons who are intersted in the spirit- iphysiciaus and psychologists are proper istic invest'gate the phetiomena vf lexistence of a force mediums. Now, they are much less ilkely timony is in its favor. to perceive and understand the frauds dium should be made by some one useful things woman, who acts as guide for Miss de/ mde. New Frances, and with just the slightest pos- 218 sible he: mathematics, Rast Fifty-uinth street, this mode of in-jtexcher stepped from the car. We stopped in front of a tenement: Frances guided herself by the railing of the stairs and travelled far more casily had previously endeavored to find one for himself -which-he -could -accept, but bla yered and learned things. by wearch proving unavailing, be bad this advertisement placed In the newspapers. No one bas yet submitted anything that will meet a practical scientific test. The compiling of a large number of stories told by reputable persons is the evidence upon which the Society for Paychical Research largely depends. The ablest.members of this society were Kd mitind Gurney, Frederic Meyers and Frank Podmore, and yet. they were deceived. If they can be deceived what are we to think of the evidence -aobmitted by other mem- ders? lt;*Professor Hyslop has assumed the rote of authority on psychic phenomena in this tions, women and men who have perse- mselyeert hat the average person without sight needs instruction. Many who are poor cannot afford to go to the echools; even the car fare is too mach for them, and they can- not obtain a guide because all of their people are working. So we reach the women in their homes, teach them the essential things of home making and cre- te a happiness about them of which they never even dreamed. Frequently I have been asked why it was more satisfactory to the blind per- The sightlens teacher has a kee pathy with the pupil ym- than we who tried to see. to the g son to receive instruction from one whola young girl, could not see than from one who could. stood before us Oh she cried, an xhe No matter how er's voi Mrs. Lenore E. Piper It wax because Dr. Hodgson's honesty lable that so much of Sirs, detect trickery, which the minent college professors are not. Now, when I helped to expose Mme. Eusabia Palladino I had associated with me a m:n who had had experience as a public medium, 2 manufacturer of magic toys and an expert conjurer. Of course to prove the/for the occasion we were all professors. and all their tes-/They were what she was accustomed to The test of a me-/and she knew that she could fool them. able to We got her ix private house, and a is it scientific to permit the honesty Most of these learned theory .are seeking understand with a touch room, and with her quickly moving hands she showed Miss de Frances the bed and with her eticate touch Miss de Frances saw how well it had been Here was a girl of nineteen, who until a year before had never received instrue- tion. She had always been blind. As a result she sat all-day in her chair, afraid almost to move, for she had mo one, from Here we are, said a cheerful young tation this very capable blind was the home of those not over sup- a very important branch of the work of/plied with this world s goods. Up three babyhood up, to give her self-confidence For suum sears persons Sustly noted bringing light into the lives of the sight- flights, through dark balls Mixx de Alone all day, she became melanchol and there were fears that her mind would give way when Miss de Frances was sent Miss de Frances. jsome woinen eves 1 has taken months, 1 patience comes in, for every bi a her fingers over the raised-characters-of a book printed for the blind. -feorrective touch imaginable, set her right struction to another who cannot see teach soine wom j work with for her new. lesson and she Was delighted and only too wi undertake something new, where the next lesson was to be given, some blocks away, called a cheery good moruing Professor James H. Hyslop Photo by Pach Bros Columbia College young man dressed :in the same color as the carpet crawled in at a cue from our confederates, and under cover of the noise-of their ejaculations it Just to show the pencil is ull right, then my shoulders an and comments got under her chair, 80 that we could watch, and tonch if we lwanted to, her fect. We caught her tipping and raising the table and I can Jdo that or auy of her tricks just as fwell as she did-them. No wonder she would not submit to the public test, al- though she had promised to do 0. Mr.-Rinn gave an exhibition of his silver at the other. While I talked IJand a black bag wh mediumistic powers in a public hall recently, including in his r pertoire all Blind, She Teaches the Sightless to Sew and Cook. in New York makes her where the blind actually lead the things that it would take another person blind, and it is through the medium days to teach in words. imple matter fot-one who can see, but) ere Was a young woman who must use her fingers instead of her eyes, and, laying her fingers delicately on those of er teacher, and following each movement of them, she was learoing how to turn a hem and gauge the-depth of it. It looked ex- actly as though four hands were turning the hem, but the second pair only followed the firet. Half of the hem was turned in this way and then the towel was handed to the be- ginner. She worked hesitatingly for a few inches, then she lost her way, and Miss de Frances, with just the slightest again. The teacher's fingers-had been con- stantly following those of the pupil, not guiding, but watching, and when the mistake was made the little movement. of correction was slight but effective. With a touch the girl was taught the proper length of a stitch in the hems and part they should set, also the for a proper hemming stitch. It is won- derful to watgh a blind wouan giving in- Few words are spoken; few are.necessary. In- given through the understand- og of the touch, rather than words, + It ix by no means simple m how to sew, -said I hnve tried to teac We all bavi fr a -wanderfnl sym- The blind pupil was left a hem to ling to In the house Miss de Frances t utter to when we stir the batter, person stenct to Baste and it she hat is where our right. d person joven itis not by sticking it with a straw bas found many-things thatitthas seemed that-she-tinds out whether or almost itupossible for her -to-learn how done. but b to do. pathy und patience with each other. who could see, byt i who keeps house for twelve boarders, b does her cooking and the sewing for her; considerabl through ing. 7 - the familiar manifestations of the regu- The sponge which I rubbed ovet the lar mediums which so impress and baftic slate yas dampened with acid. The the uninitiated, yet It was given in warmth of my body did the test. There full daylight and with no properties. was the worlderful mosaage from the spirit Mr. Rinn foole his audience to the top world, lof their bent, then explained how easily man bas a double slate wrapped In he had footed them, and was bitterly re- per. Could I read the message within Jprowched by believing apiritualists for I sald I would try. This act required a his exposure, which was tuken as anjconfederate, I gave my friend the cue. attack, Then I talked, passing the slates about Questions were passed up to: the plat- the head of the man who had. presented ltorm and as Mr. -Rinn answered them, them and who sat conveniently within persons In 'yarlous parts of the honse tch of my confederate. In order to get Rcknowledged that they were their e influence of the man's personaltiy I IGuerien. How did he do ie? As he atood Placed the slates agalost hiy forchead. Apparently reading the question he was front and back; on his chest, shoulders aud about to answer he was really reading back: always talking. At one of the mo- sre ae ne uiwagy Recpive ene ahead tents that I touched his back mny-confed- als jerate exchanged slates. By the 1 Phat made lt easy Bath a an bed finished my task he had excha , Mary, mother says, Belleve and alllsiates again and I had, the mess wil be well Mr. Rinn way able to accede to the re Joho, Jquest to write on a elate while his hav It is too dangerous, were tied. It was placed in th Of course, Mr, fore him, and while talking to do not bily the Father Rinn really r ad the ing stock ; John question when he was supposed stout the diffiealty of secine abo setting th to be reading Mary's question. To bexi lie pot one of hie with, he had to have a qnestionof hisl with a peucil fasten lown providing whose answer he knew:lupon the slate. few nie after that it was eas was standinz, botlr fect iu bis slippers. With a sented paper be dealt ju anthis hands still tied and the mes nse om tie e way. A person in the audi-lstate, ence hid written the name of a patriot Mr, Rinn s crowning ac i and statesman, Mr. -Rinn agreed to telllrepresoutation of a medium in 2 who it was. He flourished the envelope/of an impartial committec . about, put it upon the table, pressed it searched, most of hix clothing temore ent against his forehead, and, placing it upon he was tied in a chair, t the table again, discoursed on leroes./about six feet from him, Meanwhile -he had curelessly rubbed alfolded to simulate the darkness the ,en- the ordinary sitting takex place, yelope and when he took It opscas able usiructed to tell what they felt to announce the name of Abrabam in order that a stenozrap'icr m colt ja record of it. Soon the: nee from. ons other, How Slate Writing Can Be Done, -00 and another. little non-odorous, alcohol. over Slate writing has converted more per- One touched my forchend tistic belief than any other There is some one sitting on my,,tip.* said Mr. Rina. Of course Ob, he is in his chalr ou:my kize: he Tean do the slate writing act. Here is teans against my face and tcane te and here ism pencil. I write upon te x walking knees, row on my head, T take a sponge and rub out what I havelthe preasure of his. slippers written, There is- clam slate. I hold 4 : 4 it in my hand and talk. I preas it to my Fooling His Audience. breast and talk. Always Keep talking They did feel all these tiiazs. dala that is three-fourths of the battle. Pres- Mr. Rinn.* In apite of the search, . 1 ently I open the slate at the psychological it was as thorongh ax any comnitt moment and. behold, a message The makes, IT bad concealed about mr a pencil was slate at one end, nitrate o: knife. piece of tnpy I van feel had turned it and no one noticed which head and which eame well down over end T used, body. Protection I conid sei the messages. that had been passe ij ia. me, holding them undec the electric Ij Then I cut the tape with which I was bound and performed spirit aunties wth my committee. I touched.their havi their knees, then heads, I pliced sy chair on their laps and leaned iy. In ae Perhaps it seems strange to you, said the woman, turning o me, that I do not yeui, i . i i 5 laguinst theirs, When this was 0 know how to make a bed. I bave trledjtied myself in my chair again unl was Hine and again by myself, but it bas ready to be examined) by my committe always failed. -N : . rT 5 Now that I am learning if had desired and had had time the right way to go about it it seems very could have produced hands, made piv's simple, but at first I was almost in tear8/or hands or farce ty cag or ns more than once. h 2 2 i Jone any of the things that the mediums As the bed making proceeded four bands usuaiiy dor ne at once patted and smoothed and tucked away at the clothes. At lest the bed was. made and there was not a wrinkle to be seen in it. Also it had been made in remarkably short time. Another one was: still unmade, and the pupil tried to ac- complish this by herself. She did well, hut not as well ax the teacher, and of course a great deal more time was neces- It all sounds so easy and so simp when Mr. Rinn tells how it is done that one is a little ashamed of ever having been impressed with apparent spiritistic or psychic phenomena, In all the manifestations Yhat. have taken place since the days of the Fux sisters, Mr. Rinn says, nothing wei hus been developed. Each so-culled phenavi enon is only a variation of some old one and is as easily explicable. Only: those persist i-believing tretHt te eper nat ural or in contravention of natural Inw is woman bad also learned how to She showed us some cake of which many. a housewife not so afflicted would be proud. Who, do, not winh to have thelr exes she said, Mi opened to the trath. People are going bits taught me how to cook. When a feat igotng for-pevchic wonders blind person learns this she mu Baa Psst g isis : must worl through the senses of feeling, taste and PAYING A CHURCH smell: DEBY IN UGANDA. That ix So, said the teacher, For pees stance, we know when a cake is of t conisteniey by the way it feels When a blind who is alert has received in- HE capital of Uganda has always centred round the native king, and formerly it was the custom for each an aaa akes PeW king to take up'his abode on a Wif- Hos eal alt 6 doe: akg oT waa sige apart oo are When;the cake is taken from the Ueces or had hen court. e me sears acs a eathesral ot it ia Milt upon the sive of the prenemt npits the schse of smell. This BOTu, the eng.ueer iisiomiry. wu nner of Hiding out whether a cake is) she the Ba: baked or-not would never occur to one *tFucted the young niet is most satisfactory 4 other hundicrufts, a 0 the. blind. this, thelr tiret Hatlding operation om a There is a blind woman:in New. York rg scale. The building uf the cathedral involved drait upon (he resources. wo daughters; ilso the washing and iron- 0f the charch, gnda.large debt remained is woman lost her sight a number ? be pald. Afjer the segolar consecr: tion service one year the offvring was in Girpe the half open door of a small apartment. ;of years ago. She bas had to learn how became radiant with smiles as she heard /home and give her instructions. her teacher's voice. There are numerous blind women in A lesson in bed making was to be given New York who, through this tustruction in.this home. The woman had attended by the blind teachers in their homes, have jone of the echools for the blind, but there become capable of. taking care of their she tyad learned only how to read and sew, partments, of their children, and of all and now she was to be taught those things 0rts of domestic affairs. There are even knock, the door opened wleader and d/At present she is a. very capable little white, housekeeper and Is heginning to tearn a how to sew. Tt was a xewing lesson heard her teach: that Miss d xi that make overy real woman happy she Women who can select m at almont better In response to her and began the work of instruction. was to learn the art of home making. than tiiany with thelr bight: They are The bed clothes lay across the back of t ught this in their-bomes, the marketing, air, and picking up one of the sheets first being done for'them and brought Misg-de-Frances tan her hands down one home; then they are taught the correct ide. There was no hem: evidently this shape of certain cuts and also their At to ahow pnt Xow are here, I/Frances had come to give. Needlework was not the top. Four hands travelled fhames. country and scolds every one who dis- swret of disposition, bow gentle or ear- do xo want to show you what 1 here ac Bs not ree ee ee up. ae oe dawn the ma of che shect, the pupil fol- It is far more dimcult to deceive a agreed with bis conclusions. He professes nest one who has her sight may be, there eqmplished . nnd teen sitting nearly all her life, and lowing the teacher. The narrow hem was blind person who has ance learned how eae eer Re eee reign ate times when she becomes impationt, At fits, whan she eealised iter. aleneiicc, even encruine af housemere: nt focade bet eae th bottoas Feeling aig to eigp than 14d te: woniag, who cin The was converted to epititualinm ehrough for it is nerve wearing work for oue siranger wax present, whe was a yw nenses eve eee vee ed, Miss de Frances discovered which see. The number of blind women an Bits. Piper. Meeling Tor Professor Hyslop, but I must NYeriticise ifs attitade op this question. In Pander (lan twenty years Mrs, l'iper has to Wabi pi.cuerd ene COntribaticn. to Lunian vides the pupil's hands und sometimer I have Only the friendliest who-has ber sight to teach another who almsled, but soon she be is blind. ur verything must be ized by ch, scent or sound. The blind teacher wa i mate The blind tee tt wuprs arated theme was the Hend and which te foot, then,/Ritls whe are vecoming capable: aud a niga seven side by side, amt the papils hind the front side, most xelf-dependent iv on tne increase, nw. TE svunt to show Mimeetiing quickly: t+ the linet on exactly bow And their Lonies, that were o1ce no more Tianhe, wurttotora Pte stable whe walled ont m towel thing wens Net 10 make it Pretiy thaw Lirk prinon houses t det, are being eI the way into a Wark bect-jo Wemtaed, Naw ajrnitiz a bem fan iy wtenigh, on thet Wind Wich Fght and haprh ess. Here we found woman of about/to do, all these things without the use of taken Up to iicet this debt. A little army. forty-two sitting by the window, running her eyes rather'late in Ife, but she began f mien was employed, going to.and fro to study conscientiously and of her own With large bage and cloths. Her face aecord had a blind person come to her turnet' tothe chancel heavily laden with Phey re strings of cowri hells, besides the coin- age introduced with British rule. The English members of the congre- gation could not repress their smiles when the first chicken was solemnly carried up. the aisle and deposited at the foot of the table, followed almost immediately by a couple of goats that showed a marked ob- jection to being dragged und removed by a side door. It then appeared that contributions were flowing In, not only from the co lgregation proper, but from the yet great- er crowd which had faiked t) gin admis sion.and thronged round the building out- ide all through she service J.oad after rough the the vollection wicd Thuraday, A-Poor As the is termed, sfovies which a s The fact is womer co be under such t Every women the most oxperies and in absolute cos the World's Digp Pierce, M. Dy has been chief oo Hotel and Surgica msny years and be In the treatment o His medicines are stamps to pay TRAILS 1 VICTIM . co Startling Evi ed in Coron tion into Mt tore Macarv Montreal, July the evidence at tt death of Salvatore Killed on Monday of St. Genevieve the affair is one blooded and revens record, The mur jan, supposed to b 10 Tea Foam Ww 12 Sets of Sand and 14 Coal Bo 1 Heavy I 1 8-barrel 114-barrel 4 Plows, 3 Wheel Sc 1 Filling-it 1 Wagon I 2 pair Slei; 1 new 5-te Hoi Winches, 1 Capsole 1 150-yare boil 1 50-yard a eng Tar Boiler Shovels, F Mortar Bc Lanterns, Blacksmit Oak Rolle con Also a full and Builders Pla Fel * ALI

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