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Noted Editor and Publisher Before Dying This Month
Arranged Test Code to Prove Survival of Human Per
sonality After Bodily Death
THAT our savant engage in psy
chic research now have their tar
oPDortuntty to prove that the
dead can communicate with the living
is claimed by many devotees of tbla
rrystlc ectenre.
It has become krtown that prior to
t-'s th, April 1. no Ires a solid c'.tl
mii than Dr. Iesac Kaufman Fcnk,
fctsd of the publishing- firtn of Funk
ft WagnsMs. ad editor of the Stan
t'erd IMct'.onarr. completed elaborate
arrangements to cake, after hla ds
rr'ae, authoritative communications
w'tb the A-nerlcan Society for Psychl
cfl Reesarch.
tfpeakir.g of tits Improved arrange
ments for transmitting these post-mortem
messages. It. Funk said some
months ago:
"We have determined on a certain
code of signals, which no one on earth
fcr.ow but the person to whom I will
communicate and myself. If be
ceives one of these signals after my
Oath, he will be absolutely certain
by It that I have reached him. Ha
will then establish communication
with m, either through a designated
medium or by some meana which 1
may find In the neat world. As I era
a much older man than he in. there
is every probability that I will die
before he does, and while he Is active
ly engaged in the occult studies."
I Is taken for granted by those In
terested in the test that the person
with whom the noted publisher made
this compact is Dr. James H. Hyslop,
former professor of psychology at Co
lumbia University, who had similarly
arranged for, post-mortem communica
tion with other noted men.
Ir. Funk, who at the time of hla
iath was in his 7 Jd year, served as a
Lutheran minister until he founded
the publishing bouse which bears his
name. For a quarter of a century he
lad been active at a prohibitionist and
reform leader. In the coarse of his In
vestigation of spiritualism be had fear
sslr exposed all phenomena which
-.e had suspected waa fraudulent.
Hla Experiaseata Dvrlif Ufa.
Some time ago It was announced that
he bad been the principal la a most
interesting psychic experiment. lie
hut himself In a room In Brooklyn, at
:he same witching hour when by pre-
rrangement. a gronp of people In a
room in Lyons. N. Y waa hypnotised
and commanded to concentrate their
-ninds upon him. Then, when the doc
tor. In his room, drew the picture of
i (1sb. it la said the hypnotized ones
t Lyons pronounced the word "nab."
while when he raised his arm toward
;he celling they exclaimed. "He points
upward."
It la also related that when Dr.
Funk waa compiling the Standard Dic
tionary he wished to use a drawing of
the "widow" mite." an ancient coin
worth hundreds of dollars. A speci
men waa found In the possession of a
friend of Henry TVard Beecher. who
arranged that Dr. Funk might borrow
it.
Then Beecher died, and time paased
without the doctor's thinking more
BT DON MARK LEMOM.
JUDITH QUIMBY. spinster, was a
thorn in the side of the body social
of Watervale. for Judith Quiraby.
spinster, owned the only church in thai
little Tillage she had Inherited the
edifice from her father, who had go:
It by foreclosure and being the pro
prietor of the church building, she had
taken It upon herself to dictate tbe
nms of the clergy who should hord
Torth from it pulpit.
Judith Quitnby, spinster, was a Bap
tist, and so also were the divines en-
eaged to" wake spiritual thunder In the
pulpit of her church. Watervale like,
wise waa Baptist, but Judith Qulreby
eagle nose was a sensitive spiritual
thermometer, which she thrust Into the
Je'pths of each of her clergyman well
of faitl-. and if that thermometer reg
istered the slightest variation of a de
gree from the temperature of her owit
wll of faith, then Judith Quimby.
spinster, arose, accused tbe unhappy
rltrsvmen of heresy, showed him to
!he door of her favor, and drove Mm
J"rth peremptorily. In a year sue
lad dismissed four men of God.
It would seem that the gol people
of Watervale might have take.i Into
their own hands their spiritual peace
irvd welfare, engaged that particular
Jlvlne who most pleased then, and
have set Mm to preaching from an lm
I ro vised pulpit In a barn. If nceu be;
Vut ah! what Is an ordained minister,
that even a religion, without a 'tJ.
lupolaed church.' No! their cler-jty.naa
aiust preach from a regular pulpi. in a
regular church edifice, and Watervale.
Urine too needy to erect a house of
worship of It own. needs suffer all the
If
about the matter until some time ago.
when he waa Investigating a spiritu
alist medium.-who announced a com
munication from the departed divine.
The spirit of Beecher during this se
ance. It la claimed, reminded Dr. Funk
that the "widow's mite" had never
been returned, and directed him to aeek
It In the letter's office safe under a
atack of old papera. Dr. Funk searched
aa directed, and. be alleged, found the
coin Just where the supposed spirit
said It would be, but where no one.
not even the cashier, , had suspected
that It had so long reposed. These and
other alleged experiences brought the
learned lexicographer to the conclusion
that there are whole classes of phe
nomena which point clearly to the op
eration of Intelligent forces that exist
outside of what we know aa human
bodies."
Such experiment brought Dr. Funk
In contact with Dr. Hyslop and a close
friendship grew between them. Their
arrangement for the test of spirit com
munication ia said to have been sug
gested by a similar compact between
i'r. Hyslop and the noted psycholo
gist. Professor William James of Har
vard, who died year before last.
It la rumored that Dr. Hyslop be
lieves that he haa already received
commnnlcatlona from Professor James
and that he la preparing to publish
them In the Journal of the American
Society for Psychical Research, of
which be la the founder and active
head.
Professor James was the discoverer
of Mrs. Leonora K. Piper, the famous
Boston medium. It waa 20 years ago
that he found out the peculiar powers
of this remarkable woman, who has
since been tested by the trained psy
chic researchers of two continents, and
who lately surrendered herself com
pletely to the British Society of Psy
chical Research. During these latter
experiments this trance medium, al
though Isolated, guarded and subject
ed to the severest of tests by a com
mittee of trained skeptics. Is reported
to have described what other persons
were doing and saying hundreds of
miles away.
That queen of mystics, Mme. Blavat-
sky. Is alleged to bave been exposed
In India by a strenuous Australian in
vestigator, Richard Hodgson, who aft
erward settled down In Boston, where
he became bead of the old American
branch of the British Society of Psychi
cal Research, and where he met Pro
fessor James, who took him to see Mrs.
Piper. Dr. Hodgson studied thla wom
an for li years, and she convinced
blm that telepathy, automatic writing
and communication with the dead were
bona Ade phenomena. To give her a
special test Dr. Hodgson arranged a
unique course of experiments. In
which he waa aided by Dr. Hyslop.
then professor at Columbia.
Masked Hlaaaelf ad Visited Medians.
Professor Hyslop masked himself
and dlsgulse4 his voice during bis
Inconvenience and vexation visited
upon It by the eccentricities of the
owner of the one church in the village
Judith Quimby. spinster.
The month of August, embracing five
Sundays, passed, and during this no In
considerable period Watervale remained
wholly without publlo religious edifi
cation, whereat the villagers began to
murmur, but Judith Quimby set her
thin lips and stood firm. The Lord. In
good time, would send a minister of
true orthodoxy, she assured her towns
people, and better that he should for
get their need than that the village
should be corrupted by heresy. Better
no prophet than a false one.
The first week in September came
and went, and it began to look If
Miss Quimby herself would have to
fill her empty pulpit, when her deacon.
Timothy Watts. Esq.. received a letter
bearing the postmark of a city In Mich
igan. Rreaklng the envelope, he perused the
following amaxing communication:
Mr. Tlmothv Wat ra TOfttrvaJ -Reverend
ir: teaming that yo are the deem of
the Baptist Churrh ot Waiervel. we take
the liberty ot tmroducin ourselves to you.
' are knaae aa t Clergymen. Church
and Choir Supply Company, and are Incor
porated undor to lawa of the State of Mich
laan. Wa era pnpmd ta supply tha pub
lic with clersymaa ot every denomination,
and all ahatea of tha same. Oar correspond
ent has Informed us that your village Is at
prtaent in naed ot a Baptiat clergyman.
tar wa bave your permlaslon to submit
eamplT It will coat you eothlns fnr ex
amination, and onr taroe fnr tha ecods. de
livered, will be aa followa: one hundred dol
lar a year, payable quarterly In advance.
The clersymao rhon by your constitu
ency will p(tah one timel. ortslnal aermon
each week, with openln prayer and bene
diction, and be kept In working order at
eer ovpenae.
Only fine loekla clergymen la stock, and
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TITE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, APRIL . 21, 1912.
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visit to bar, and while she lay un
conscious with her head upon a pillow
resting upon a table, ber band wrote
out messages alleged to come from
his father. She converted Hyslop to
the spiritualistic hypothesis, and his
announcements of the fact made a stir
in the scientific world. He and Hodg
son formed a compact that whoever
died first should communicate with
the other, and Professor Hyslop ex
pressed to me some time ago his sat
isfaction that he haa received mes
sagea from Hodgson since tbe latter'
death In 1905.
Through Mrs. Piper. Professor James
and his wife also endeavored to get In
touch with the deceased Hodgson, and
a few months before the noted psychol
ogist's death be contributed an ex
haustive report on these experiments,
concerning which he said:
"But If asked whether the will to
communicate be Hodgson's or be some
mere spirit-counterfeit of Hodgson. I
remain uncertain and await more,fact.
facts which may not point clearly to
a conclusion for 60 or iou years.'
In the course of bis experiments
with Mrs. Piper a -secret password
from his dead father was given to Pro
fessor Hyslop by her. It Is claimed, be
fore he nad unmasked and before ahe
bad ever seen him in her conscidus
state. when later he got the same
password from an orthodox minister's
wife, who had also developed trance
medlumship and "automatic writing,"
all sermons can bo examined before delivery, i
and edited to luttthe tastes of tha congre
gation.
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and at tho most reasonable prtree.
We aleo are prepared to furnish portable
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notice.
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Professor Hyslop commenced experi
menting with this new subject, who,
to protect ber from the annoyance of
publicity. Is referred to under the
pseudonym "Mrs. Smead" in the re
ports of the American Society for
Psychic Research.
The Womaat of Mystery.
She I a woman of mystery, and all
that has been revealed about her of a
personal nature is that she is a blue
eyed young woman of a modest and
retiring temperament, who Uvea about
24 hours off from New York in a town
which la surrounded by an evergreen
forest and -in which her husband en
Joys good standing as rector of an or
thodox church surmounted by a cross.
While she is In a trance her head is
held In a special headrest, which Dr.
Hyslop exhibited to me, and her moving
finger writes upon psper spread on a
sewing table at her side. She waa stud
led also by Dr. Hodgson, and on the
night that he dropped dead while play
ing handball she is said to have seen
his apparition, which reported to her:
"It is better here than I had hoped for."
Another noted savant who made a
compact to thus communicate after
death was the great criminologist and
alienist of international renown, Pro
fessor Cesare Lombroso. of Italy.
Until lie was 65 years old Lombrorfo
believes? spiritualism and all that per
tained thereto to be "low tomfoolery."
Then he was taken off unwillingly to
attend the seance of some spiritualist
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medium, and at the age of 73 he died
firmly believing In the survival of hu
man personality after bodily death. It
was to prove this to the hundreds of
his brother savants, some of whom, be
cause of his spiritualistic views, came
to regard him as a fantastic visionary,
that he made this solemn ante-mortem
compact to place himself, after death
In definite communication with his fellow-members
of the Milan Society for
Psychical Reseated. And be arranged
that his communications should be
made through that famous Italian
medium with whom he had been ex
perimenting for tbe past 14 years, Eu
sapia Paladino, who wag called "the
despair of science," and who made a
tour of America soon after Lombroso's
passing. In this country Paladino did
not make the creditable showing that
her managers had hoped for, and sev
eral of our investigators are claimed
to have exposed her. Whether the Mi
lan Society has received Lombroso's
promised revelations through her or
other mediums has not been announced
as yet to the world of science.
Noted Thtnkera Lately Converted.
It lg remarkable how many noted
thinkers are capitulating to the spirit
istic hypothesis. Professor Charles
Richet, of the Faculty of Medicine.
Paris, claLms.to have photographed the
spirit of a Spanish soldier, and Ca
mile Flammarlon, the French astrono
mer. Is now an aggressive convert to
spiritism. He says he has proved that
such phenomena as the movement of
chairs without contact" and the suspen
sion of heavy tablea In space are bona
fide, he having secured photographs
of some floating In the air.
No less than an ex-prime minister
has recently been a leader of the ghost
huntera of England, where he recently
served as president of the Society of
Psychical Research. He insists that
science cannot explain the psychic
wonders which he has witnessed. While
he headed the society it made a special
investigation of 350 cases of appari
tions or trie aying in fengiana ana
Wales, and of these S3 cases were ac- I
SOLVING THE.
b WLALnW AINU UlUlrd.
"Well, I swan," exclaimed Deacon
Watts, removing his glasses and rub
bing the indentation that they had
made in the bridge of his nose; "this
beats me!"
Again the man of peace perused the
( typewritten communication, then, fold
ing It carefully, placed it In hi pocket
and went over to Judith Quimby, spin
ster, for further light.
Two hour later Deacon Watts posted
a letter directed to The Clergyman,
Church and Choir Supply Company. Ju
dith. Quimby had commanded that
unique company to send down an agent
to Watervale with samples of Baptist
clergymen and the terms for a choir of
two male and two female voices: "For
while we are about It, deacon," snapped
Mies Judith, "we might as well see if
we can get a choir that can praise the
Lord, without scratching each others'
eyes out at the same time!"
The following Tuesday an agent of
the C C. & C. S. Co. arrived and with the
aid of her deacon. Judith Quimby finally
arranged with him for a clergyman and
a choir of four voices which she
thought would prove quito satisfactory.
She then posted a notice to the effect
that her church would open on the fol
lowing Sunday, with clergymen and
choir engaged at her own expense, and
Invited everyone to attend.
Sunday came, and with i'. came the
congregation to listen to the new cler
gyman and the new choir. What man
ner of man would the former be? And
the choir? Really, Judith Quimby must
be at ruinous expense to bear the whole
cost out of her private meana.
At precisely 10 o'clock Deacon White
stepped forward and opened the door
leading from the vestibule to the
cburch, and the congregation entered
the house ot worship. The new clergy-
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I cepted as beyond the law of chance
or the possibility of fraud.
Two noted British Kniphts, renowned
for their breadth of intellect, have sur
rendered even more completely. Sir
Oliver Lodge, head of the University of
Birmingham, in a recent Journal of the
British Society for Psychical Research,
has given details of messages which he
claims to have received from dead mem
bers of the society through the pen of
a writing medium known as "Mrs. Hol
landrones," another of these psychic
"women of mystery." From Edmund
Gurney, one of the founders pf the so
ciety. Sir Oliver received an alleged
message commencing: "I appear to be
standing behind a sheet of frosted glass
which blurs the sight and deadens
sounds."
Our aforementioned medium, Mrs.
Piper, has had a hand in converting
Sir Oliver. He got her to come to his
Liverpool residence, where. In tho pres
ence of a committee, she is reported to
have told Just what two women, utter
strangers to her, were doing minute by
minute In their London home.
Communications From Dead Author.
A brilliant English litterateur, F. W.
II. Myers, died in 1901 upon complet
ing a noted work, "Human Personal
ity," dealing with this problem of sur--ival
of personality after death. Prior
to his passing away he expressed his
intention of trying, after death, this
crucial experiment of exerting his own
Influenco upon minds still carnate.
After a Berles of trials with Mrs. Piper
and other mediums Sir Oliver Lodge
has announced that Myers, Hodgson
and others have, during these tests,
been "constantly purporting to com
municate with us, with the express pur-
pose of patiently proving their iden-
my, giving ua cruos-curi reponoeoco no-
twecn different mediums."
The other British Knight referred to
as a convert is the celebrated chemist
and inventor of the X-ray tube. Sir
William Crookes. Some time ago Sir
William risked his scientific reputa
tion by reporting to an exalted body
how he had communed with a material
ized spirit known as "Katie King"; how
he had had crystals placed in his palm
by hands not belonging to any per
sons In the room with him, and how in
broad daylight he had seen a cloud
condense into a hand, which carried ob
jects about. The exalted body to which
he reported these alleged phenomena
was no less than the British Royal So
ciety. His paper was lgnominlously
thrown out, the great society's out-
PROBLEM
man and the choir were there before
them, the divine standing in his pulpit,
the choir seated on his right.
A murmur of surprise and pleasure
broke from the congregation. What a
noble clergyman! young, handsome.
saintly; everything a pastor should be!
And the choir what a fine-looking
group! One could almosl see their per
fect voices In their intelligent, spirtual
faces.
The congregaton was now seated and,
ifting his outstretched hands, the new
clergyman opened the morning's wor
ship with prayer and then immediate
ly chose his text and delivered
his sermon. The little flock held
its breath In admiration: never
before had It heard such a ser
mon a this a masterly searching
out of the vanities of these latter times,
delivered in a rich, sonorous voice, and
with true Baptist fervency. Verily, a
Summer of spiritual glory had descend
ed upon the village of Watervale!
"The choir will now sing the 47th
hymn." directed the new clergyman,
and at once the choir arose with open
hymnbooks, and, taking the most grace
ful attitude, rendered the song in con
summate style: then, decently, soberly,
Christianly, without staring at face or
bonnet among the congregation, sat
down.
Judith Quimby was triumphant her
townspeople elated, amazed, curious.
The new clergyman now arose and,
speaking in a more familiar tone than
heretofore. Introduced himself to his
flock as the Reverend Richard Bonifleld,
and trusted that only the highest es
teem and affection would ever exist be
tween himself and Ills congregation.
Then, lifting his hands, he spoke the
benediction, and - immediately after
wards the congregation arose and made
Its exit to the vocal music of tbe choir. I
mmms.
raged secretary refusing to so much as
enter it upon the flies.
Quite as enthusiastic a convert is
William T. Stead, the well-known edi
tor of the English Review of Reviews,
who lately surprised the British em
pire with the announcement that lie
had become a writing medium. At first
the noted editor accepted telepathy,
and claimed to have written down the
thoughts of living men many mllea
away. Then, of late years, he alleges
he has gotten Into close communion
with the dead. While engaged in his
automatic writing he claims his right
arm becomes impassive, while its fin
gers guide a pen over paper on which
appear letters from his son, the bril
liant young writer, William, who died
several years ago. Mr. Stead states
that this writing appears without his
exercising any will power to either
hold the pen or move it.
Next Editor Stead announced tho
opening in London of his Julia's bureau,
a public telegraph office, where anyone
might call up friends across (he gulf.
This bureau Is so-called because its
"spirit control" the operator upon the
Stygian side Is alleged to be the shade
of a pious Chicago lady. Miss Julia A.
Ames, who for some years edited the
American organ of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union. It appears that
Miss Ames, like Lombroso, Professor
James and Dr. Funk, made arrange
ments to come back after death, and
that she made good. "Twice she came,
and at the second instance I happened
to be staying at the castle where her
apparition has been seen," says Editor
Stead. "As my hand began to write au
tomatically then, I placed it at the dis
posal of Miss Ames, and she has used it
as her own ever since." .
Thus she became the Julia of "Julia's
bureau," through which Mr. Stead some
time ago claimed to have received the
startling campaign literature sent over
the spirit wireless by th great Glad
stone. Wrote Compact In Blood.
And it might be recalled that no less
a light' than the noted Lord Brougham.
Lord Chancellor of England, reported
the fulfillment of such a pact as Dr.
Funk entered into one made with his
lordship's most intimate boyhood friend.
"G," with whom he attended the uni
versitj'. "... We frequently in our walks
discussed and speculated upon many
grave subjects, among others on the im
mortality of tho soul and on a future
state," wrote tho Ch.-uicellor in his
memoirs. "This question and the possl.
bility, I will not say of ghost walking,
but of the dead appearing to the living,
were subjects of much speculation; and
we actually committed the folly of
drawing up an agreement, written with
our blood, to the effect that whichever
of us died the first should appear to the
other and thus solve any doubts we had
entertained of 'the life after death." "
This chum entered the civil service in
India and seldom wrote to Brougham,
who, after a few years almost forgot
him.
How this compact was weirdly ful
filled Lord Brougham thus tells In his
I journal of December 19. 1709: "I had
j taken, as I have said, a warm Datti; and
j while lyinr in it ... I turned my
head round, looking toward the chair
on which I had depositej my clothes.
. . . On the chair sat G. looking
calmly at me. How I got out of the bath
I know not, but on recovering my senses
I found myself sprawling on the floor.
The apparition, or whatever it was, that
had taken the likeness of G., had dis
appeared." All of this, according to the record,
occurred during a visit to London, and
soon after his return to Edinburgh
Brougham received "a letter from India
announcing G.'s death and stating that
he died on the 19th of December.
"Singular coincidence."
(Copyright. 1912. by John Elfreth "
Watkins.)
In the vestibule Judith Quimby was
Instantly surrounded, to be congratu
lated by every one upon her choice of a
new clergyman, and thanked for her
noble services and, with a questioning
inflection, her great expense. Miss
Judith bowed condescendingly, but still
her townspeople lingered.
"Really, dear," burst out little Mrs.
Pinchin, dying with curiosity, "but we
cannot go until we have shaken hands
with the new minister, and thanked the
choir for their beautiful singing."
Judith Quimby swept out her arms,
making a little open space, the better
to address her audience, and began: "It
Is impossible, friends, that you meet the
new minister or thank the choir. Im
possible! I repeat. The Reverend Rich
ard Bonifleld and his charming choir
are not frail flesh and blood, as we are:
they see not as we see. hear not as we
hear, feel not as we feel; your flatteries
cannot touch them, nor your heresies
corrupt; they are above the follies and
illusions of this little world. In fact,
my friends, you have today listened to
a sermon and to religious singing ren
dered by servants of a new and incor
ruptible church. At last have Christian
souls found the perfect choir and tho
perfect minister! The Reverend Rich
ard Bonifleld and his choir are not men
and women, but steel and wax figures
worked by our deacon and within each
of these figures is a phonograph, the
records of which have been and will in
the future be edited by me, so that
hereafter we shall have the true faith
delivered in the true way. Friends. I
wish you a very good morning this bles
sed baDOatn day. and assure you that
you will always be welcome to this In
corruptible church, which I have estab
lished in your midst. One word more
hereafter there will be no collection,
except that for foreign missions.
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