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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, v OCTOBER - 5, 1919. 7 RetswkableMovies oLMtm Mood . . .. .....:. Vf -s j " V ' I VW V t . 5 to W -W I . . j . . . . - . f .l L v- ' 77 , .x , 'v 1 ,tti r-" '" 1 1 1 r11 r 11 1 t in niii 1 11 1 11 m -H i Mir tun- lmtlimmMm- .1 jo MMiinirniii rr rmmimmummmMvmmmmmmma-' ThiM Picture Thmt Looks Like Thmt of a Dark River Flowing Between Elements of Human Blood Greatly Magnified. Showing Divided Streams of Blood in the Arteries of a Frog. High Banks Shows Human Blood in Artery. How the Modern Medical Student Sees the Minute Drama of Body Life Clearly Enacted on the Screen, In eluding the Beating of the Heart and the Building of Tissue BT FVA. COLLINS. NOTHIXO la hidden from tb ey f th camera. It la not only poaalbU to look through th human body, bat moving- pictures may area be taken of the process of life Itself. Surprisingly realistic pictures ara bow made of the actual flow of th blood In the arteries and velna The blood pnmped directly from the heart may b watched aa It flows heck and forth, while th moet deli cate tissues of tb body are built up before one's eyes. It is difficult to realise that until comparatively recent times physicians were wholly lanorajit of Xbe -movement of thr blowi. The hst au thorities once believed that th veins and arteries of the human body were filled with nothing more substantial than air. It was thought by soma that the blood flowed from ttw heart to the liver, but It was not Imagined that It penetrated further Into the human body. As far back as the days I of Aristotle there had been some highly ingenious guesswork, but there was no definite knowledge. Despite the advancee In medicine It was not until the time of William Harvey that the new theory of the circulation of the blood waa advanced which was to revolutionise the science. Harvey was not only the greatest physician of his time, but held a high social position, all of which helped him to convince the world of his-new discovery. He was born In 1578. and died In 1(57. His famous theory of th circulation of the blood was hot announced until 1638. Harvey was a friend of the king and numbered among his patients some of th most famous men in England, including Sir Francis Bacon. When Harvey an nounced his revolutionary theory of the circulation of the blood It was met with a storm of criticism. Modern surgery hai made It possl. ble to discover many things about the circulation of the blood. But it waa not until the perfection of pho tography in our own day that scien tlsts were able to wateh the actual operation of the flow of th blood In th living body. The discovery of the X-ray made it possible for the phy sician to look directly through the living tissues of the body and watch the flow of the life fluid. Many things -which had been hidden from science could now be explained. ine use or tne motion picture cam era in picturing the flow -f the blood has opened a new era In the science of medicine. The X-ray machine at best enabled only one or two people at a time to watch the action of the blood. There was besides always a latent danger' of burning In using such apparatus. The "movie" camera places this discovery at the disposal of alL It i possible, for Instance, to display a motion picture of the cir culation of the blood to medical classes or audiences of thousands and reproduce for them the details which heretofore could only be studied by small groups In the dissecting room. The motion picture camera In connection with a auper microscope has proved Invaluable. It makes It possible not only to look through the eye of the most powerful microscope, but to reproduc. the actual mvement of the blood Everyone is, of course, familiar with the corpuscle of th blood and. their action, but how many have ever seen themT They are so minute that they can only be seen with the airl of a very powerful ml' croscope. The diameter of a human Heart Beats of a Frog Are Shown With This Distinctness of Image. corpuscl Is .0075mm. Now a milli meter is about rne-thlrtysecond of an Inch long. In other words it would be necessary to put about 150 cor puscles on top of each other to make a pile one-thlrty-secondth of an inch high. Pnttta Blood Life the Screes When a movie ts projected on the screen these minute particles appear as large as one's hand and dance about In a very lively fashion. They are seen to be shaped like disks with be v iled edges. One Instantly recog nizes th difference between the blood corpuscles of the human body and those of other animals, and between warm -end cold-blooded animals. It is hard to realize that these disks floating about on the screen, which appear to be a foot and more In length are so minute that scores of them could be piled up on the point of a pin. The' microscope plays some curious tricks on the eye. It Is difficult to recognize many of these movies for what they are. A minute vein, for instance, when magnified and repro duced In the movies, appears like some broad fast, flowing river. Any one seeing such a film 'or the first time might think that it reproduced an actual river flowing through san dy country. At a point where a min ute vein' divides into two smaller veins there is a perfect illusion of a broad stream being split in two by a sharp cape Into two smaller but well- defined streams which continue on their courses. An enlarged moving picture of the blood flowing through an artery is especially surprising. The stream of blood Is magnified until it has the appearance of a broad, deep river flowing between high banks. The illu sion is so perfect that one would not be surprised to see large ships sud denly appear on its surface or build ings rise on its banks. In the moving pictures of the veins and arteries the stream seems to flow with the rapid ity of a mill race. Tito flow Is not steady, however, but changes every second. The pulsing movement one sees in these amazing movies is noth ing less than the pulsation of the heart. Even the heart itself is photo graphed in the very act of contract ing and expanding. The pictures re- , produced Herewith are actual photo graphs enlarged from moving picture films. . The films were made in France by a combination of the X-ray and the microscope designed by Pathe. The Importance of such films In medicine, for Instance, will of course, ba recognized. The slow tedious work of examining' the blood with the aid of a powerful microscope Is done away with, as well as the use of the X-ray machine. A class of medical students. for instance, can enjoy this amaz ing object lesson. The educational opportunity of such pictures cannot be overestimated. The professor In exhibiting these films can present a graphic picture which will impress his classes far more than any words. What may appear a curious bank on the borders of an artery in the films may Illustrate a dangerous harden ing of the wall of the artery which indicates apoplexy. The flow of the dark stream will indicate to the prac ticed eye the exact condition of the heart. The dancing of the little disks will indicate to the medical mind the precise condition of the blood. Even to the layman in such matters the contrast in the form or movement of the corpuscles Is quickly signifi cant. The effect of alcohol on th blood is very clearly seen. The danc of the tiny particles again Is changed if the subject is angry when the pic tures are taken. If the little dinks appear in a certain form It is at one evident beyond all ' doubt that th blood is infected with tuberculosis. It Is difficult to realize that all these objects which dance about th screen are in reality more mlnut than the point of th sharpest needle. Thus the camera becomes in a new sence once more the handmaid of science. You may fancy the vividness of th revelation by recalling your own ex perience in a motion picture theater. Tou have seen wonders on the screen, but Bimply as one who Is being enter tained. With a student, busy about the matter of his life work, the ex perience is more vital and thrilling. Imagine the Interior life of the body, the great secrets usually held for a few eyes, being flashed before an au dience of young doctors-to-be. Th professor stands by with his pointer. "Notice," he says, "the course of th artery and the rhythmic flow of th blood as it is pumped by the action of the heart. Notice the action of this pressure of liquid life on the arterial walls, whose elasticity is so essential to the proper functioning of the bodily processes. In such a manner Instruction aa to the minutest characteristics are Im pressed upon the mind not as they would be impressed by mere descrip tion as between men alternating in at tention at a microscope, but with th map-like plainness that is helped by the action of a pointer that can touch each particle of Image while it actual ly moves In Immense magnification before two or three hundred pair of eyes. Thus, Indeed, the motion picture In combination with the microscopic lenses becomes a time saver in medi cal education, the importance of which it would be difficult to overestimate. SINCLAIR LEWIS ASSAILS THE CLAIMS OF SPIRITUALISTS fContlened From Pas S.) seance. 1 had witnessed Alexander re ceiving th same vague sort of "Com munications from Sister Louis and th Reverend Canon X" In fact. Keeler's "proofs" had been even bet ter than Slater's, because they had bean "messages written by spirit hands." Keeler had, he himself told m later, known Alexander for sev eral years. Alexander's mother was a. well-known spiritualist. Alexan der received several messages at Keeler. Then, out of th 15,000 peo ple at th auditorium. Alexander was again on of th few to receive the Inspired massages! Could any spiri tual birdie hare whispered a little In formation about Alexander from me dium to medium? IsiaJd the Sealed Eavelape. And at th asm auditorium seance, Slater also gav a message from Will lam. her husband, to a woman who baa had the same sort of vagus greet ing from that same William at that same Keeler seance of the night be for! How curious Is th coincidence by which people who don't need any proofs, being already convinced, keep receiving th aim proofs from th am spirit, though via different mediums! Having thns endeavored to get In sight Into th methods by which th spirit ran be assisted, let us Joy fully return to the class In medium ship at Library hall, and to the mas sages which Mr. Bister gav there. His tests were hard to explain, al most convincing, and delivered with truly remarkable rapidity. Mr. Slater 1 prud ef this rapidity. H chuckled, "Get that? Too quick for you. eh? Overheard fellow th other day saying Slater waa too quick and George Way was too slow! Huh!" I heard a plump old lady comment. "That's so. Mr. Slater Just does go so fast. I d'clare I can't hardly follow him and his thought so deed and all." Mr. Slater picked up a sealed en velop. and before even opening It he remarked, TThia la about your worry over th Michigan Central railroad. Th startled questioner admitted that It was. . Slater tor open th en velope, read th question, and gav aa answer which seemed satisfactory. Even mora notabla was his informa tion to a woman tnat her son had nitsted in th 6Ui Ohio regiment, under a false nam, which Slater gave. Mr. Slater's private Tineas was in good form. But th Cncas wanted credit for everything h did. I should hav fancied that a blessed soul on th astral plan, a really first-class TJncas. who could snap out Informa tion' abont th Michigan Central and paradise and strained conditions, would be content to deliver his In spired message, and acorn th earthly credit-grabbing of making the de vote admit that Mr. Slater and the TJncas couldn't "possibly have known that bef or, That shows how nn wls I waa to prejudge, for always th celestial messenger msde the receipt eat alga th A. D. T. book. One h was unusually emphatic: "I that rtghtr Tea. sir." "Ton bet your lif It's right!" Th elect, th students of occult truths, all chuckled at th snappy wit ef th master and his guide. Before this, they had not Tn noticed the exquisite backstreet phrasing of "Shed la what rd call a high-class lady," and Them that has" and "Sh was a hatchet-faced lady." Nor later, in th Sunday seance of 1500 peo ple, war they to be etrtled by Slater's rather intimate query, "Isn't your daughter keeping company with yeang man named WUlardf Wall, yoa let am alone I" X had, pictured seers as gray, sad learned men. Inspired by their awful lor to a gracious dignity of speech. But this, the first authentlo seer I ever met. talked like aa auctioneer. Speaking of Shakespeare, Steveasea, et al. I have chronicled a part of my "pri vate reading" and acknowledged Mr. Slater's generosity in admitting that Shakespeare. Stevenson and James I were assisting me In my attempt to discover the truth about Slater dc Co. That interview I would sketch far ther. Th collection of St. in advance, by the agreeable secretary, was th only spiritual preparation necessary. Th moment I was aeated with the limbs carefully uncrossed Mr. Slater shot In. bounced Into a rocker, put his hands together prayerfully and instantly began to tell m about ma. Here Is a part: "Tou are of an active nature. Tou are dynamic, vital, sensitive. Tou are eager and progressive, as it were, but at th same time you don't overdo you are conservative. If you know what I mean. Tou are thinking some about making a change, but we tell you through Mr. Slater to be very cautious about it, and to go on with your work, and I can positively say that you will succeed In what yon are undertaking. I can absolutely see that you do not need to worry about get ting in touch with many people use those who will be of advantage as Stepping stones, if you know what I mean, but you don't need to know more than Just a few. Tou are going to develop spiritually and before the fall I over you will have reached a solution of th difficulties that are confronting you. Just work ahead the way you have been delng and all will come ouff all right. There will be a change during the next years that will modify all your conditions, but you don't need to worry, for we will be right with you, guiding you, any questions?" Let us analyse th analyst. All of this study of a young man would apply to almost any man on salary who had a alight, nervous body such as mine. It could be Jerked out of it pigeonhole and used on one second's notice. It Is generalisation at its most general. But to me, because of my occupation as free lance. .It happened not to apply at all! I am not conservative. I do "overdo." I am not thinking about "making change" the safe Lily Dallsm for that more or less vague desire for a new Job which la almost universal with young men on a salary. I do, as a fiction writer, need to "get In touch with" very many persons and finally I had ho particular "difficulties con fronting me." How I had profited by sitting at th feet of th new Socrates! Spiritualism in a special IS revelation. Next to Mr. Slater, Mr. Pierre, I O. A. Keeler I th most popular torch- bearer of Lily Dale. Mr. Keeler has been a public character longer than Mr. Slater, but pirituallstio fashions are changing. The pure and high minded mediumshlp of th purely ver bal sort seems to be more In favor than Mr. Keeler slate-writing and bell-ringing entertainments. But he has a regular department in th Progressive Thinker of Chicago, and he gets plenty of business at Lilly Dale. ... And he seems to be abl to produce th same spirits for tb earn eustomera as doe th only genuine Slater. Mr. Pierre L. O. A. Keeler has two form of religious vaudeville; the regular daily work of spirit slate writing and th Jolly acrobatics and musical acta of a physi cal manifestation seance, when th spirit of Mr. Keeler" guide, George Christy, lift fifisllaa- mjastrej, Sla, th guitar, th drum and tambourlns, and perform such side - splitting pranks and snatching off th lace cap of an old lady. The physical mani festations take place every Saturday evening and are the most popular SI ahow in Lily Dale. Tou ara likely not to get In. other faithful souls who were always so lucky at all sorts of seances. I have told how Alexander's messages were so echoed by Slater's guide at the Auditorium next day. Several times the spirit's hand was actually seen above the top of the i screen. The first time the hand ap Forty of us. Including Mr. Frost, i peared several people cried out; the and Mr. Alexander of Toronto, filled the folding chairs at right. We faced a plain drab curtain about four feet, high, across one corner of a summer cottage room, which wa distinguished by a kerosene bracket lamp and a chrome of three American yonng woman In kimonos simpering before a lithographer's dream of a Japanese tea house. Mr. Keeler entered peacefully, aa Is not a brisk poseur. He is a' man you would like. He has a head of the type often called "leonine1 lsrsre head, with a mas of white hair, and heavy mustache very white against his healthy, ruddy face. His shoulders ars broad, his eye Is merry and roving, his manner big-brotherly and easy. He is a man you would trust. When I aaw. htm I wanted the seance to be genuine. He chose a woman and a man- Alexander of Toronto for what he called a "battery." and the three sat in a row Just in front of that cur tain across one corner of the room. He announced that he would hold th woman's left arm with both of his hands throughout the seance, to prove that his hands did not effect the phenomena. The woman's right hand held Alexanders left, and Alexander's right waa visible throughout. Don't stop to get those rights and 'lefts straight! The point of it la tnat all hands were accounted fori The eat tery were covered with a long drab cloth, and left with only their heads and Alexander's hand in sight irre sistibly like thre people in barber chair. Th lights were not yet turned down. All the world know that th reason for dark seances isn't to con ceal anything, but because the spirits are too sensitive to llght-wavea However, Mr. Keeler guide, Christy, wasn't sensitive to tight waves dur ing th early part of the seance, any more than he is during the daylight slate-writing. Alexander, then, the woman beside him. then Keeler, announced that they felt mysterious taps on their shoul dors. Bells were rung behind the curtain, and thrown out over it. Be hind it. too. a guitar waa playing, a drum beaten, a tambour in rattled then whirled on the end of a atick. the top of which extended above the curtain. Once th audience were Invited to look over the curtain to see the gui tar playing automatically. It was darkish in the corner, yet light enongh to see that the guitar was indeed playing by spirit hands. ... Or by a mnsic box. or electricity. During this vaudeville everybody had been cheerfully excited. But a change came over the room. The lights were extinguished, and a candle lighted in a white box with a mov able front over red paper. This box was in another corner of tb room. and not far from the ceiling. Hands from the spirit world unless, alas. they were the hands of a mortal In the room above sharply raised and lowered the movable front of the box. and thus suddenly increased and de creased the amount of light showing through th red paper. Somebody screamed. All the circle became more tens. In the dimness began the really marvelous part of the seance. Spirit hands audibly wrot messages on slip of paper on a small table be hind the curtain, and handed them over. Mr. Frost received several of tbsm Mii Mr. Alexander and th third time, a woman fainted. Sev eral people afterward declared that it wa a hand all of mist and spirit uality; to me it looked uncommonly like the hand of a large, healthy, male human being. The voices came now; people were called for, by name. Timorously ap proaching the curtain. In the low light, they heard what they declared to be the actual voices of the dead. though all the voices sounded metal lie, ventriloquistlc like one of the ear'. phonographs. . . .. Frost and Alexander were again rewarded for their faith! . . . Some of th fav ored even shook hands with the spirit. Thj hand seemed always the same to me, but various were the reports as to how It felt. One woman eald it waa 'soft as velvet, her companion retorted, "Why. I thought it was a firm man s hand, like a workman's." I wondered then how reliable are the reports of the believers after any eeancei And I wonder whether some of the people were convinced that thev were verily speaking to the departed. They answered the supposed dead as caau ally as one answers a telephone In a busy office. But several of the older women believed it terribly. One of them sobbed till I was decidedly enaky, aa she cried to the putative pint of her husband, "Oh, my dear, my dear, it's so wonderful. Oh. my dear, I am so lonely for you. Is Charley with you? Oh, my dear!" Mere waa something sacred not the squeaky spirit voice, but the broken human grief. The last voice spoke. The woman who had fainted ceased her hysterical moaning. The lights were turned up. The cover was removed from the batter, and there Keeler eat with both hands tight clasping the arm of th woman beside him, there by Indicating that he could not have reached behind the curtain and rung the bells, twirled the . tambourine, written messages, and shaken hands. Doubtless It also proved that a mind ventriloquism could not have pro duced the spirit voices. Slate Writtaa- and Slch My second Keeler observation was of his slate-writing, which Is as pop ular as nis seances. Though I had an appointment. I had to wait an hour. tin be had finished the celestial sten ography for those who had come be fore me. When I was admlted, Mr. Keeler sat at a plain table covered with a cloth which was scattered with slates. pencils, boxes, pads of papar. I had written the names of the four spirits" with whom I wished to communicate upon four small sepa rate slips of paper, and these I dropped on the table. Apparently Mr. Keeler never touched them, but dis covered the names contained in them entirely by spirit aid. He bade me also write a message to his guide. George Christy, asking Christy to hustle out into the heavenly halls and find the desired spirits for me. At night Christy never has to have such written request! We had, it seemed, to wait for the spirits. Perhaps they were asleep or playing poker, or at a Slater seance. Do I seem flippant? Then let me quote the sardonic flippancy of Eli jah, the servant of the Lord, upon a precisely similar occasion, when the priests of Baal waited for the spirit of the idol to send fire, and a they waited th prophet mocked them: aside, or he is on a Journey, or per adventure he sleepeth!" Poor priests of Baal, they had no well-trained spiritualistic medium to assist Baal's coming. While we waited we talked casual ly mostly about Keeler's work on a small-town newspaper as a boy. Presently be wrote on one of the slates that Alfred, one of th spirits I sought, wished to speak to "Harry." That was my first astonishment. I had given my name to Keeler, for an appointment, as "H. S. Lewis," but, nowhere at Lily Dale or any other mediumistic haunt had I given of that relic of my school days, the name "Harry." Keeler told me to wash and dry two of the slates; then took those two apparently those two ! -dropped a tiny piece of slate pencil between them and placed them with the plain wooden frames tight together, even fastening them together with a rub ber band. I was asked to place the slip with Alfred's name under the rubber band against one of the slates. We two held the slates, each of us holding one end of them with both our hands and second and more spine - prickling astonishment! I could actually hear writing going on. apparently in the tiny space between the very slates wa were holding! I was told that George wished to speak to me, as well as Alfred. I placed the slip with George's name under the rubber band, also, and the writing continued. Then the slates were separated and third astonish ment! there on those slates which I was sure I had washed were written messages from George and No, not from George and Alfred. First error! The guide, or Mr. Keeler, had made a mistake. George's mes sage was there, but It was Herbert's epistle, not Alfred's, that accom panied it, though the slip with Her bert's name still lay on the table. But the glude made up for it im mediately. On two other bound slates he gave notes from Arthur and the missing Alfred. Mr. Keeler had in dicated to me that if I wished the additional spirit proof of writing in red though the only pencil-fragment between the slates was the ordinary srrav slate pencil I was to write a note to that effect to Guide ChriBty. had complied, and. sure enoguh. there was a message In red from Georsre W. Blood, written across the messages from Arthur and Alfred. How does the writing come to De on the slates? There are many methods. One Is by the use of a flap fitting Into the slate, and concealing the writing already on the slate, as a false Dot torn conceals the bottom of a trick box. Mr. Henry Ridgely Evans, In his book, "The Spirit World Un masked," believes that Mr. Keeler's method' is simpler.. He Just writes the messages in his lap, while he sits there amiably chatting! This explains why the spirits take so long in com ing. Then, with sieignt oi nana ana a charming audacity, he substitutes these Inscribed slates for the slate which the customer has painstakingly cleaned, and goes ahead with the sound of writing! With several slates all alike, it is easy to confuse the victim as to which slats Is which. While I 'was going through the mummery of writing a message to Mr. Christy, Mr. Keeler had time to palm one or more of the slips on which I had written names. During the riga marole of cleaning the slates and finding a suitable bit of slate-pencil. so clever a conjurer as he could easily substitute an inscribed slate for a cleaned one. The one thing not clarified Is Mr Keeler's giving the name "Harry." But is It so difficnlt to guess? The commonest Christian names beginning bi la pausing, pc h& 19 SSSi'siiiM St are. Harry, gefiry ajd Harold: and Harry Is a common substitution for the other two. Another medium did guess the name as Henry. Keeler was cleverer. There are innumerable objections to taking seriously the supposition that any spirit, or any power greater than Mr. Pierre L. O. A. Keeler's good right band, was responsible for these "manifestations." , The error whereby Herbert's writ ing appeared when Alfred, not Her bert, had been summoned by placing the slip with the name In contact with the slate. Indicated that Christy or somebody else did not need the Her bert slip to get the Herbert writing. Then why the mumbojumbo of putting the slips under tr e . ubber band at all unless to mystify the sitter, or misdirect his attention? If the spirit was able to produce red writing without a bit of red pencil being placed between the slates, why shouldnt he produce the ordinary gray elate-pencil as well? Why the written message to Christy, who comes at a vocal call during both the light and dark evening seances? Why the writ ten names, when Christy gets the names verbally In the evening? Why unless to keep the slate-writing Bitter busy and puzzled? Most of the "whys" are In the messages them selves, which are reproduced In illus tration to this article. I give their text: Is It not most strence that I. can (Should?) be here writing you and you not even see me, or know of my presence Beyond tne lact or my written message T Spirit life and return are facts. I cer tainly am alive. I am GEORGE QISSINQ. Despite his position as master of the realistic novel, most people at Lily Dale have probably never heard of George Gissing, hence my choice of him. . I have never seen or had a letter from Gissing. Harry Keep this little token of my life and remembrance. I do not want any one to regard me as lost. I will meet you whenever yo open the door for n& ARTHUR UPSON. The signature of this message startled ma by Its unquestionable re semblance to the real signature of Arthur Upson, the brilliant young American poet who died ten years ago. But my surprise vanished when compared the message with the genuine letter from Mr. Upson repre duced with it. The slate message is all careless flowing curves, the real Upson writing sharp, pointed, exact. The difference between the yous in the two is an example. Harry Tell them all I was her. I have a life as real as your own. The spirit, not the body. Is the real, self, and does not die, X am not lost. ARTHUR H. LEWIS. I had hoped that if I gave Mr. Keeler the name of another Lewis, he would assume it to be the name of a close relative. He did! Witness the use or the Intimate ' Harry," ana the "tell them all I was here" such an Injunction as a member of one's Immediate family would give. But the facts are that I have never seen, never written to, and am not so far as I know related to, this "Alfred H. Lewis" by whom I meant the late Alfred Henry Lewis, author pf the "Wolfville" stories. The reader may for himself com pare the real and the alleged writ ing of Mr. Lewis. The message from George W. Blood, "I am at rest," Is comforting but not helpful, as I have never known a George W. Blood. I hope he will go on being at rest, however, and hope that his message wasn't an error In sending for "I am arrested." Harry: I am not able to write very much of a letter, but a few lines from me will teJl you that I am still alive and conscious. . I don't want to be thought & inhabitant of. tfe sU.est cemetery. The body lies in the grave but the spirit lives on. I am often present. You can develop excellent mediumshlp. HERBERT G. WELLS. This was the real trap I had laid, the message that most pleased me. There is some error here. Mr. Wells' body is not in the grave and I pray that it won't be for 40 years morel For "Herbert G. Wells" Is the easy disguise of the name bf H. G. Wells, author of "Mr. Britllng Sees It Through" and "Tono-Bungay." They who are familiar with Mr. Wells' piquant style will have difficulty In recognizing it in th domestic phras ing of "I am not able to write much of a letter but a few line from me " Finally, I have not the honor of knowing Mr. Wells, and he 1 there fore not likely to address me as "Harry," or to be "often present." And the defenders oh, there will be vsome! will Insist that Guide Christy may have got hold of the wrong. Wells, in the crowded spirit cities, and brought another Herbert G. Wells to write to me. But I have never heard of any other Herbert Wells. And If Christy could make that mistake, perhaps with both Wells and Alfred Henry Lewis, how often he must bring the wrong spirit; how often Keeler's sitters must be mistaken when they think they ar Brown or Robinson whom they want ed to come. The Keeler adherents had often told me that the spirit writings were recognizable in the actual script of the dead. My experience and that of Mr. Evans indicate that these adher ents were self-deceived and make on wonder how much to trust perfectly honest testimonials to the ouija board or any other device. If the Keelerists suggest that Christy did the writing . for the spirits, to dictation, I inquire why Christy should write five differ ent scripts, which obviously purport to be by five several people? . . . Purport to be! But are they really? The scripts of Lewis and Wells seem very different, yet see the resem blance In their writings of the word 'spirit,'' with the same "sp" and th same "t." The "you" in upson'S mes sage Is not much Ilk th "you" in his actual, authentic writing, but it Is very much .indeed like the "you" in the message from Gissing! . . . Tes, that must have been It. Christy must have written all five messages, from dictation, and to comfort me for my loss of Wells ant others, the dear old fellow must have tried to make me think, by rather clumsily disguis ing his writing that I was getting five distinct scripts! ' Note the vagueness of all of th messages except that from my "rela tive," Mr. Lewis. Perhaps the de fenders will explain thiav by remark ing that the "spirits encountered an atmosphere of doubt" on my part That is a classic retort, ranking with the spirits' "objection to light waves" as an explanation of dark seances. But I want them to tell me why th atmosphere of doubt" which I most certainly did carry Into Mr. Keeler's presence and still carry vigorously didn't entirely prevent my receiving messages? The really intelligent reader will wonder why I devote so muah time to Indicating the true origin of these absurd "messages." Not only are the writings and seances of Mr. Keeler mentioned by the faithful at Lily Dale aa one of. the most tangible .proofs of spiritualism, but also, in Washington and else where. Mr. Keeler has adherents who include hundreds of politicians. Jur ats and professional men. Only they know how much they contribute to his support; only they know how pa triotically they are paying for th awfieXuatlon. oi KeeUrisnv