The death occurred recently of Professor James Hervey Hyslop, one of the foremost American authorities on spiritualistic phenomena. Professor Hyslop was secretary of the American Society for Paychical Research, and the announcement of his death was accompanied by the statement that a "spirit" message was awaited from him. The expectation, it is now alleged, has been fulfilled.
At the Vanderbilt Hotel, a Canadian psychist, Dr. Watson, held a seance. The medium, named Benjamin, conversed casually with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Abraham Lincoln, and Plate, whose remarks, however, were not considered worth space in the newspapers. But the reporters give Professor Hyslop verbatim.
Death, he explains, is a painless but peculiar sensation, leaving one dazed. The most interesting news is that Sir William Crookes has worked out in his astral laboratory a precise mechanical invention whereby a kind of wireless telegraphy with departed persons may be established.
The American Society is sowiewhat upset that its late secretary should have selected a Canadian medium for this communication. The Press expresses it thus: "A psychic monkey wrench has been hurled into the astral works."
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