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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, IOCS. rillE MORNING ASTOWAN, ASTOMA; OREGON. 3 GENUINE "SPOORS" AND FALSE ONES The World Wide Search for the Truth Regarding Psychical Phe nomena. A Bequest to an American University Author Izes Further Investigation of Occultism, BOSTON, Feb. 17, 1908-Modcrn scepticism doesn't if em to lay the ghosts. Belief in "spooks," of one kind or mother, or at any rate in mys tcrlous force which transcend ordin ary experience!, is strong in thi age of enlightenment Enthusiastic nd well trained Inquirers are continually discovering phenomena which in their Judgement can be explained only in case there lit beyond the world of the lenses manifestations of which the human mind is not ordinarily cognl nt The bequest, just made, of I turn of money to Clark Univenity In thi itate for special investigation of the cluinii of ipiritiatn it a new iilus tratlon of the modern disposition to ward the occult, v The president of the univenity at Worcester, Dr. 0. Stanley Hall, emi nent at a psychologist of very prac tical turn of mind, ii reported to have expressed hla entire wiUlogaeM to receive the bequest and to live up to iti terms. Hit desire to do whatever la reasonable in studying the facts, or aliened facts, of occultism Is in line with the attitude of an increasing number of scientifically trained urn, Whatever investigation, further more, Is carried on at Chirks will b simply another contribution to the vast amount of material of this char actcr that has been brought together lit the past 25 or 30 years by earnest students in Europe and America. Many Americana, whether rightly or wrongly, still think of the occult aim- ply as an imaginary realm which vul gar fakirs exploit for the sake of their pocketbooks, and they have no cob The Old Reliable Painless Chicago Dentists Cor. Commercial and Eleventh Sts. ASTORIA, ORE. Phone 3901 Headquarters PORTLAND, ORE. Are equipped to do all kinds of Dental work at very lowest prices. 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Commercial and Eleventh Sts., oyer Danaiger store. ception of the importance of the auth orities who have ranged themselves on the side of , spiritism, or of the number of literary documents by re sponsible writers dealing with cases which, if not due to deception, must have a bearing on the ptoblems of the nature and destiny of the human soul. Only this month the civilized world was startled by the declarations of Sir Oliver Lodge, whom many recognize as the most distinguished living scien tist, that he has believed himself to be in communication with maniestatlons from another world. Sir Oliver, says those who sgree with the late Wil liam E. Gladstone in holding psychic research to be "the most Important work which is being done In the world," should be no easy victim of the itinerant medium or professional hypnotist. As professor of physics for many years, principal of the Uni versity of Birmingham and enthusias tic first hand investigator in the re- pnfent genuineness. In the Inst vol ume of Proceedings, for example Professo" Hyslop himself makes re murkable statements of results ob taincd ' through a new medium, i "Mrs, Smcad," with powers which he believes to equal or even surpass of the celebrated Mrs. piper of Bos ton whose case bai been under con stant study of experts for many years. Through this medium Professor Hys lop received, among many other re markable communications, a tele putlilc message from . his deceased wife to the effect that her father was about to die in his Philadelphia home as, Indeed, he did die in strict ac cordance with the prediction. Mrs. Smcad is said to be the assumed name of the wife of a clergyman living in an Interior town who accepts no money for her services and has never ap peared in public so that she aeems not to have the ordinary motives for deception. Jn addition to these volumes of Proceedings which give Americans specially Interested in the scientific aspects of psychic research an oppor tunity to keep in touch with the latest happenings in this fascinating domain of investigation an extensive general lilertaure is growing up. Professor Hyslop, who has devoted most of his recent years to a study of the prob terns of occultism, has treated in a clear, popular way such topics as dis- Mora than two-thirds of your Ufa you wear shoes. Did you aver think of that? .", " : The Dr. A. Rccd Cushion Shoe Waa built to give your feet comfort two-thirds of your life; the rest you sleep. , '';;"' The W; L. Douglas Has a world-wide reputation. Wear one and be op to date. 543 BOND STREET, t Opposite Fisher Bros. . Best kinds of logging shoes, banc made, always on hand. TABLE RAISING BY PSYCHIC POWER. gion of the new chemistry, involving theories of radium and ionization, no man ought to be better equipped to distinguish between fraudulent and true. " Sir Oliver is not alone, as all the world knows, among European and American men of high attainments in science whose researches in spiritism and kindred subjects) have led to a be lief that we may be about to make fundamental discoveries in metaphys ics. Many of the Englishmen of in tcrntaional reputation have for years been active members of the Society of Psychical Research. Its proceed ings number 20 thick volumes. Of more cosmopolitan caste is the consid erable group of devoutces of pyschic research whose special organ is the "Annals of Psychical Science," pub lished fortnightly in the French lan guage in Paris and in English in Lon don (the Boston publishing firm of Small, Maynard & Company having recently been appointed American agents) and containing contributions by world famous authorities. , The directors of the publication are Dr. Dariex and Professor Richet, while on the committee of publication are such men as Sir William Crbokes, the English chemist,' Camille Flam marlon, astronomer, and Caesar Lorn broso with whose discovery of the methods of modern criminology every American is familiar. In this country the' American Soci ety for Psychical Resarch continues its interesting work. Its "proceed In us" are issued under the editorship of Professor James H. Hyslop, form erly of Columbia University. Ante dating them, and already becoming classics of the subject are the pro ceedings of the old American Society for Pyschical Research, which con tained contributions by such men as Professors William James and Josiah Royce of Harvard University and by the late-Richard Hodgson, the dean of psychical research in America. The three volumes of the newer So e'ety which have been issued up to date cite cases that have attracted widespcad interest through their ap- associalion, illusions, hallucinations, sub-conscious action, clairvoyance, mcdiumistic phenomena and the like in such works as his "Borderland of Psychical Research," "Enigmas of Psychical Research" and "Science and a Future Life." Dr. I. B. Funk, the well known temperance advocate, has written extensively on kindred sub jects. ,' Very entertainingly from the popu lar point of view, Camille Flammar ion, he who beyond perhaps any other writer has made astronomy interest ing to the newspaper readers of two continents, has been looking into subjects of psychical interest for nearly forty years and has become convinced that while undeniably a large percentage of fraud exists in mcdiumistic performances, there are instances in which the lifting of tables the moving of pieces of furniture, the raising of pianos, the blowing about of curtains, the appearance of hands, heads and spectral figures may be accomplished by use of forces that have not heretofore been appraised by scientists. M. Ftammarion in his book "Mysterious Psychic Forces," which has just been translated into English, does not deny that all medi ums may cheat at times but he asserts that "they don't always cheat; and they possess real undeniable psychic powers." ' He has personally carried on many experiments and has con firmed his observations with the cam era. Inasmuch as he has, according to his statements, often seen a heavy table lifted to a height of eight, twelve or even sixteen inches from the floor under conditions where the only lifting that could be practised was due to the hands of four or five persons placed on its top, he has ar rived at the conclusion that the levlta tion of objects by psychic power is no more to be doubted than the lift ing of a pair of scissors by the aid of 4 magnet. The astronomer maintains a truly Gallic scepticism regarding these evi denccs of powers which the more credulous associates unhesitatingly with a world apart from our own. lie merely understands that marvel lous feats are accomplished with the help of forces which are not recog nized in the ordinary text books of physics and chemistry and without expressing opinions ss to the future life or the existence of Cod, he main tains that the soul exists independ ently o( the body, with faculties that are still very little understood, and that in some instances the soul is able to work st long distance without in tcrvention of the five senses. One of the most frequent accusa tions brought against the conclusions of some of the very eminent men of science who have participated in the work of psychical research is that, be ing of a guileless and unsuspicious nature, they are readily deluded That is a charge made by Professor E. W. Scripture of the psychological department of Yale University in a recent article in The Independent Acknowledging, no doubt, the im mense value to human kind of Sir William Crookes studies in chemist ry, many of which have revolution ized whole industries, Mr. Scripture asserts that outside of his own do tmvn of investigation Sir William is a man of childish mind. He throws out similar hints regarding an emin ent professor of physiology of a world famous Americans university who, he says, has been fooled at seances where many of the audiences saw the trick. ' There is at least one investigator into things occult whom even Prof essor Scripture would probably not regard as being necessarily by temp erament and training an easy mark. This is Here ward Carrington, form erly a professional sleight-of-hand performer in England and now a resident of New York City, a member of the Council of the American So ciety of Scientific Research, and an assistant to Dr. Hyslop in certain of his work. Mr. Carrington has been called a "spook detective." It act ually is detective work in which for a considerable part of his time, he is engaged. He shares with Flam marion the conviction that every medium, whether he has genuine psy chic power or not, is peculiarly sub ject to temptations to use trickery. His interest in psychic affairs was aroused by the discovery that through his knowledge of legerdemain he was enabled to detect the more common forms of deception. Investigation led him, however, to believe ,that amog nthe mediumistic manifestations there are some that can be explained only in terms 'of forces beyond our present ken. His studies of individ ual mediums have led him now to Nova Scotia, now to the Middle West, now to sittings with Mrs. Piper who is living in' seclusion near Boston. 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