Show c c J 1 M 1 i es tr t WJ j. j i f f. f-f. r i. i t M E S SAG 1 f t J rTE J 1 F t r ry 1 iZ 1 f. f it t r 4 f i ff li from the y li Wt i CI om e t Nt t R J. J i i J J. J l i h 1 i t T I A IZ I h l f 1 i l 0 J. J 1 g I or J Sp IRI T WORLD WORL D t v. v Xit f r- r 7 J r tr t. f rot r P. P 9 1 1 r. r 7 Hl z I io iii f i x o. o t. t t o c i l i fi M IS Duncan D un can Rl Fletcher etc h er Wife I e of 0 if t the theL h e t i W r i t S. S tJ f J j i 1 y r 11 Jur 7 fIo 9 1 t i i tl t. t ti t Jw h 0 g L m eJ fd T T t e d St States a t es Senator S ena t or From C r Florida LorI LorIa a a 11 Jt i. i iJ Jf if f lf I J Relating H Her Recent Experiences Sure the I A r 5 r t YF J J. J u Q Day Dav D ay 1 Is S' S B Bound oun d t to o. o c Come ome YV When J en C Communication t ton 2 W T 3 y I. t. t t Between th the Living and the Dead DeadA f t r R r A 5 to R Will 7 ill Be Accepted Generally by Mankind lr e 1 f I 1 S. S i Mrs 1 Duncan U. U Fletcher wife of the Florida Sen Senator tor who asserts she has seen materializations materializations materializations of persons from t the A spirit world By Nell Ray Clarke rNO NO ONE could have hav spent t twenty- twenty five years years years- studying tn the manifestations manifestations manifestations of spiritual phenomena as I have without seriously believing that we weare weare weare are on the brink of a great spiritual era as as' as many mediumistic seers have already prophesied I have had proof of the existence of my loved ones who have passed on and andI nd I I have witnessed almost every kind of spiritual manifestation known to the psychical societies of this country and England said Mrs Fletcher the wife ife of Senator Duncan U U. U Fletcher of Florida a gentle cultured little wisp of a woman who looks as if the spiritual qualities rather than the hankering for bacon and beans might be predominant in her own make up I have seen the materialization be before be- be fore my very eyes of persons from the spirit world They look like a living person even to the minute details of their clothing except that they appear somewhat luminous and when they disappear disappear disappear dis dis- dis- dis appear s sometimes they melt away just justas as a snow man might do or gradually dissolve as if they went to nothing through the floor And of course I have att attended many trumpet here in this very room when the persons persons per per- persons sons present sent with the exception of the medium were my close personal friends and I have seen things carried about the ther r room om MRS MRS FLETCHER admits that she J is fascinated by her studies of spiritualism but she realizes the danger of becoming too much absorbed in any subject which borders border on the mysterious and metaphysical She is serious in her beliefs but she has kept her sense of humor and can joke about them too Her er social obligations are very heavy and she does a great deal of club work fk The o only y spiritual manifestation which I have not seen is the the carrying of a physical object from one one place some distance away to another another another an an- other she continued Objects have been known to drop in the thc middle of a circle of observers observer perhaps observers perhaps they would come from blocks away away or even from miles away frequently occurred occurred oc- oc about forty or fifty years ago Before Defore the time when the air was so impregnated with all kinds of currents radio and other electric currents a great n number n of v v were 4 witnessed CU by oy n v v 4 CU by oy scientific men and other students whose t testimony cannot be doubted A friend of f mine one of the most prominent women here in inthe the capital has seen but I never have I have sat in with tine the famous medium and heard voices speak t through rough a trumpet louder than than than-I l I myself could talk I 1 have talked to my mother and father in his circles Once I had a at aI t I hand touch me on the cheek and fore fore- head Through an entirely different medium who could have known nothing of the incident my mother told me that it was her hand During one sitting that I had with objects were moved around the room and each person person person per per- son son in the circle was touched on the head with a trumpet One of his controls controls controls con con- is a little girl I During the that child materialized enough power to touch ea each h person in the circle with witha a toy balloon which had been placed on the floor in th the center of the circle at the beginning of of the he At another another another an an- other we put a crying doll in inthe inthe inthe the center of the circle and during th the tha teance the doll was turned over and we could hear the crying as it ii was moved mo J by the by-the the the the- child who stalking talking cont n seems seems- conscious during during- part of the se nce and I h have ve heard h ard him l laugh ugh speak and cough at the at-the the same time that the spirit voice was was' talking showing that it is not the trick of a a a. ventriloquist He is not bound during the but sits in the circle In Incidentally Incidentally Inci Inci- i- i dentally much better results are obtained obtained obtained ob ob- when th the same persons attend several and sit in the same positions positions positions in the circle TV MR CARROLL a trumpet medium of Buffalo has his hands held He also has succeeded i in moving my fathers father's guitar around the the- room During During During Dur Dur- Dur ing one of his the trumpet through which his spirit control spoke floated two feet over the the heads of the observers in the circle It had an an il illuminated i illuminated il- il band around the end and was was plainly visible to all of us Mr Carroll sometimes goes into into- a trance and s sometimes he does not I have been in his circles when two and sometimes three spirits talked at at the same same time Once two friends of mine mine mine- man and wife wife sat sat on opposite sides of the circle The mans man's father talked to him in a broad Scotch accent on one side of the circle while his his- mother talked to his wife on the opposite side d dA dM A A M 47 s r ry t y V S f H h 0 of the circle I defy any ventriloquist to reproduce that It was was was' one one of the most interesting experiences I have had during my investigations Most of these are held in inthe inthe inthe the dark but sometimes they can be beheld beheld beheld held in a red light I want to try some in a purple light as i 1 believe the tests might prove interesting The whole question of a spirits spirit's getting in touch with us on earth is a matter of vibration I believe I think we will understand spiritual manifestations when we understand the transmission of voices by radio Just as the voices voices' can come to us only through the the radio radio instrument the mediums are the only instruments through which the voices of people in the spirit world can eRn now come to us The scientists are teaching teaching- us today that that nearly nearly all their problems are questions questions questions ques ques- of the difference in n the rate te of vibrations vibrations vibrations-in in radio w waves ves light waves and sound waves s. s The spirits are evidently evidently evidently evi evi- dently vibrating at a much higher rate than we arc are and various spirits have described the difficulty they have in get get- getting getting getting ting through the heavy earth ate atmosphere atmos os ios- ios phere as a kind kin of choking sensation i u c The picture purports to show a medium swallowing the ectoplasm which emanated from her body during a in which a spirit to took k on form through the medium of the thc ectoplasm S. S F i. i b tr 1 t r S S 1 rA 4 vY M I Na 1 M f N Ay i J 5 SS 4 A t Ja iti itiS SS S S t t 41 S AY x r i r y c Houdini the magician declares all spirit manifestations manifestations manifestations mani mani- can can be explained by natural laws He Hc is shown surrounded by pictures of materialized spirits which he produced naturally The experience must be something similar similar similar simi simi- lar to ours if we were to try to breathe some heavier medium than the air They often say I must go now for they are not hot able to stand the strain for a longer time Scientists have already invent invented rl an n instrument which registers the almost incredibly swift movements of insects' insects wings and instruments which record the sounds which insects make that are far beyond the range of the human ear Soon I I I. believe they may perhaps make instruments which will will- record the vi vibrations vibrations vibrations vi- vi from the spirit wor world d. d THE most remarkable most remarkable e med medium um I I have met is a young girl from Buffalo who has been studied both at British British British Brit Brit- ish College of P chic Science and by bythe bythe bythe the the psychic society in this country It seems queer how many mediums come from around the Great Lakes Jakes Her Hc name is Hazel Ridley She simply sits down and quietly goes into a deep tr trance nce and then her organism can be used by people in the spirit world exactly as we would use ulle a telephone or ora a radio The voices come to to U us as through herSte herShe herShe her She Ste can conduct sear es tl during rin the daylight or in the electric light The I voices seem to proceed from Iron her solar plexus Her lips do not m move move ve during the time she is in the trance trance- People who are deaf can put the end of an earphone earphone earphone ear ear- phone or ear trumpet over her solar plexus and hear perfectly During a sitting one of the worlds world's greatest scientists scientists scientists who was prominent in psychical re research research research re- re search before his death came through It was William James These are his exact words to us I want to explain as clearly as I can meaning that it would he be difficult to tomake tomake tomake make me understand tow bow OW we ve use this instrument the medium We impress impress' the message at the base of her brain and from there it is relayed to solar her plexus and then to her diaphragm From there there- there the the voice issues much on the principle principle prin prin- ciple tiple of the radio It is str strange Mrs Fletcher Pletcher continued continued continued con con- how much of th tha th personality of ofa a spirit is manifested during a of William 1 r ames fames as r ames fames of William 1 as The personality manifested through this medium and others later was different from any manifestation we had ever had before He must have been a most gentle and charming man I never knew him in life but I know just what his hip individuality individuality individuality isI is T I T HAD corresponded with Dr James II H. Hyslop when he was on earth and it does not se seem remarkable tat tl ha lI should talk to me during Dr Hyslop it seems has talked t to tJ Mrs Fletcher on several occasions once telling telling telling tell tell- ing her which of a series sedes of films film which had not then been d developed would have spirit faces on them He Hc also aho explained that her own photograph would appear oit one of the films and explained how howa a had reflected reflected her her image image- upon the wall and caused her likeness to he here re reproduced Miss Ridley was tested in every way imaginable by a prominent in New Jersey who has described d his tests in a book In some of these thee tests he filled her mouth with salt and then with Water and neither impeded the voices of the spirits He punctured her arm armand armand armand and brought blood but she was in such tt S ei 5 ti yS R Fr S Y 1 S rV 4 r J KJ 1 f i F J l i 7 i k r ry I y f f 1 y f a t C y ya N kr r oVAd Y Od OdI Ody f M tf i r f i t 1 t it E k z fi v h if I J I 1 r I f a deep trance that she was not conscious con con- of of- the experiment in any way I j have heard heard persons persons person's in our circle conduct conversations with individuals in inthe inthe inthe the spirit world through h Miss Ridley in French in Greek and my father who was an excellent German scholar carried car car- ried d on a conversation with a young lady Jady from the German Embassy y and I have been told that conversations have been carried on in Yiddish Italian and Russian through Miss Ridley I recognized my fathers father's voice but not so much his voice for that necessarily necessarily necessarily takes on somewhat the sex characteristics characteristics char char- of the medium but his person person- There was no mistaking the absolute absolute absolute ab ab- ab- ab solute individual character characteristics sties of my father in ever every way He discussed with witha a young oung lady from the German Embassy Embassy Embassy Em Em- bassy some som investigations which he wanted ma made in Germany naming places and people concerned The conversation in Greek was ith a young lady whose mother had been born in Athens Miss Ridley speaks no rio foreign lan Jan guage guage She knows absolutely nothing that goes on during her trance In England investigators covered her mouth with cotton and strapped it with adhesive tape and still the voices came froth her body Physicians said that there was not the slightest movement mo of the muscles of the indicating that her he vocal organs are not used at all Her small brother has the same sama power that she possesses but he is just justa a child now and refuses to give up his time to tests or She says his power sometimes causes him Mm trouble in school Th The teacher accuses him of talking talking talk tf-lk- ing and the children around him declare he has been talking and he is sent from the room for punishment when he has net spoken a word When did I first become interested in spiritualism I have always been always been in interested interested interested in- in in it as far Sack hack as I can re re- re member My mother was a a medium Often she would say that she he heard rd voices to the accompaniment of music and the subject was freely discussed ed at home My mothers mother's father wa wag a medium medium medium me me- too and seemed to have remarkable remarkable remarkable remark remark- able power to drive away pain Often the neighbors used to send for him and he would sit with them until the the- pain h had d pa passed sed away I first joined the British Society for Psychical Research more than twenty years ago but when the American Ameri Ameri- can society was Oas formed I withdrew and joined the American organization In fIn our old home in Florida all s sorts of peculiar things used to happen happen pie pic- pic II I have talk talked d to o my mf Y I mother and d father 2 a n I I both of whom have passed to the next world Once I had a hand touch tou h. h me on the cheek and forehead r 1 Through gin an m entirely different t m me medium c d diu i u m who could have known nothing of the thc incident nt my mother told me it was vas her her I hand l Mrs Fletcher tures tures would tumble flown down and ana and objects b fall when there was no app apparent reason reason s n for their doing so I Often I have had experiences which v would indicate some sort of comma pica lation la- la tion by mental tel telepathy pathy I It seems tp me that telepathy is an indication of the the fact that some power to communicate by thought transference does docs exist and I contend that so long as a'S there is telepathy telepathy telepathy athy between two incarnate minds con confined con con- fined in human skulls which necessarily hinder the free passage of the messages messages that when the spirit has left t the body e. e body and the thc is is untrammeled b by the body it is even more possible for the h J mind to send messages It Tt Itis Itis is freer to travel and there is no nore re t on tonto to disbelieve that as psychic rese research is continued we will get mOre frequent messages from those |