The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 17, 1897, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO C! OCTOBER 17, 1897. LL, SUNDAY, PRESENT STANDING OF THE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGY IN EURO COUNT AKSAKOF. QL A AL L AL LA LL LA LLALLLLLLL AL AL ELLEL L In view of the great interest at present being taken in psychology in this country it is important to know just how the science stands in Euro.pm what men are studying it and what is being accomplished. Professor Van der Nailien of the school of engineering of this city went abroad about 2 year ago for the purpose of ascertaining these facts, and now gives them to the public. TEETEETTY 292229209 | matters; Count Arnani de Gramont, be- 1 | longing to the highest aristocracy ofFrance t&uumn uum&mxmummuuxummuuj When such men as Flammarion, Schia- | pareili, Lombroso, Count Aksakof and Colonel Rochas make statements in re- gard to ordinary :cientific matters they are given the greaie:t weight. So when these same men make siatements in re- gard to the progress of psycholozy the stalements cann be lightly passed over. In fact they must meet the counsideration of the greatest minds in the world. Should the zreat discoverer of the canals of Mars tell you personally that he had seen objects moving through the air with- out the assistance of what commonly known as ‘foree” you would be very likely to believe nim. 8» it would be if you were told the same thing by any o! the other great men just mentioned. It is therefore somewhat astonishing to know that these meu do make such state- ments and aiso put their names to papers containing the accounts of certzin psychie seances. They have also permitted their photographs to be taken during these seances so that all the world may know they are thoroughly convinced of psychic force. With them there is no b word as *'sp ' Although sounds are duced out of the atmospbere and objects raise themselves from the floor without apparent assistance, these men bold that such phenomena are only manitesta- tiens of natural law. Professor Van der Naillen while abread visited these men personally, attended certain seances and brought back with bim photographsand statements to certify that all he had said was absolutely an- thentic. A few days ago the professor de- livered a lecture before the Psychical S5- ciety of this city, setting forth at length the result of his investigations. This 13 the first time the exact stan: g of psychi- cal research in Europe has been ex- pounded to the people of the Pacific Coasl, so that it at once becomes of the greatest importance and interest. Follow- ing are some extracts from his lecture, which Professor Van der Naillen has kind!y made for THE CaLL: It was through tue courtesy of M. de Laiande, the Consul of France for the Pacific Coast, 1hat I was able to make my investigations of psychology while abroad. This gentieman was in Paris at the same time I was, and it was he who introduced | E as, cclone »unt Aibert de ineers, and owledged anthori ychic mat e colonel is aut bocks on m the subjects ever published. They have not yet been trans- latea into English. The *‘Exteriorization of Motricity” con- tains the sizned statements made by the wonderful Italian se e, Eusapia Paladino. The phenomenon produced 1n her presence in Italy has been invi ted under the most complete and try ing tests, applied by such eminent men as Professor Lombroso, the greatest alien- ist of Italy; Schiapare the famous as- tronomer—discoverer of the canals on the planet Mars; Prince Alex r Aksakof, state counselor to his Majesty the Em- ror of Ru sia; G. Geroea, professcr of physical science in Portici; Professor Chiaia and others egually weil qualified. These gentlemen, ufter many seances, have ascertained as absolutely genuine the following phenomena: In the lignt, ion of hands, warm and witn re. flesh, as in life; heavy curtains be- drawn aside by unseen p_wer; moving of tables and chairs by an unknown fore:; impres<ions of the of an unseen hand in a di g clay; a series zed faces which have leit their impress on the c'ay spread on different dishes or plates, these being a distance of three feet from the sensitive, or from any- | body else. After these phenomena vouched for by these eminent men cited above, sapia was invited fo Varsovia, the capital of Polan Durng forty seanc nder the test condi- tions, phenomena ar 1o those pro- duced in Italy took 1so playing of had been he piano without visible contact. From Varscvia, Eansapia we: to Encland to Cambridge. There the test conditions were of such order and of st to convince Eusapia that sidered fraud, and endeavors of the h nature as he was con- that the entire majority of the | and in MOVEM to e varticipanis were dire end, not of studyin ¥ ic phe- nomena which might taks place through ber mediumship, but nf detecting her 1n flagrante delicto, of fraudulent practices —and according to thereport, Eusapia was t detected in a long series of . M Ochorawicz, however, analy these seances, proves plainly that tue report was urfa:r and ihat several phenomena produced, and absolutely genuine, were not mentioned. While L was with the Colonel Countde Roclas in Paris he told me about these contradictory experiences with Eusapia, ormed me that he had engaged her T OF A Without Touching the Tray of This Scale Eusapia, the Great Sensitive, Caused | te the Weight of Fifty Grammes. sole | Prosecuting Attorney-General; Count de | hands, which have later on been ascer- Drawing From the Mask That Was Produced in Wet Modeling Clay Entirely services and would n meet her at his | them ail as spurious. Tne commission of castleo! L’Agnelas in the South of France. | investigation placed itseif outsite of any He extendea to me a gracious invitation | consideration coming uuder the bead of to ass at these sittings. My limited | spiritism or occaltism, desiring to study time compelled me reluctantly to decline, | the psycho-physiological manifestations.’” | sayinz smilingly that I would find myself | Before the sittings Countess de Rochas | in good company, the other members be- | was present at the undressing and very ing Dr. Dariex, director of the Aanals of | jight dressing of Eusapia, making it ab- Psychical Sciences, an authority on such | solutely certain that noobject of whatever nature could bs concealed upon ber per- son. The test conditions were of the fol- | and a scientist of merit: M. Maxwel), | lowing order: One member of the com- | !mlsslon stretched himself en the floor | | under the table, his hands resting upon | the knees and feet of Eusapia. The head | of Eusapia was held by snother member. | Doors and windows were minutely in- | spected and locked, These wers certamly test conditions of a superior order. Under these conditions and in sufficient lighta toy piano was seen moving from s chair | in the room to the top of the table and | several tunes played, the white keys| being seen depressed and again rated without the force doing so being per- ceptivle, i The piano was also seen being carried | by an invisible force over the heads of the commissio: Arms and hands were ma- | terializad, At another seance a heavy chair was slowly lifted and rested itself on the arms of the Count de Gramont, | one arm having passed through the | spokes in some unzccountable manner. A { | tact which the committee admits, after | meny sittings, that Eusapia has the power of actinz upon material substances, | at a distance and without contact, is bzau- tifully illustrated in the following phe- nomena, which took place in full day- | light, and the observation of which was direct and fully convincing. letter- weizher can weigh a3 much as 50 g-emmes. Eusapia, baving exten ‘cd her hands toward the platter of theinstru- | ment, but not nearer than five and six | centimeters, all the members imme:diatelv | ebserved to their stupefaction that the | psychic force emp oyed registered at sev- | | eral different times 50 grammes, the lever | f being depressed to the very bottom o!f the | | instrument. All observers had their faces within a few inctes of 1he letter-weigher. | I had the honor and pleasure of meet- ing M. Aksakof in Paris, and was invited | to dine with him by Dr. Hahn, the libra- rian-in-chief of the fazulty of medicine of | | the Un versi'y of France. | This Dr Hann is a gentleman of great rning ond a devoted searcher af.er ical truths, basing Bis researches on positive science. Prince Aksakof is 72 years cold, is Counselor of State to his | Majesty, the Emperor of Russia. Heis | the best posted man on the two conti- | nents on what is going on in the field of | psychical research. I inquired of him | the present status of the psychical sci- | ences in Ecrope, what had positively been ascertained as true and what was yetin { doubt. LETTER SCALE, | Facts acquired and indisputable proofs | of which have been produced: 3 First—Invisible materislization, such | as heing touched in the dark by supposed nesinm giun, colonel of engineers, | 'ained to be hands by the m: honorary member of the committee ap- | photography. pointed by ihe Minister of Public In.| S:-cond—Visibleand tangible materiali- struction for all historical and scien- | zation, butincomplete or part! tific resesrch; Civil Administrator of Third—Complete visible and tangible the Ecole Polytechniaue of France; material zzlmnollhevrzlire bu.dy,hnx)nx Sabatier, professor of zoology and com- | of Wilham Crookes, Katie King having parative anatomy; Baron C. de Watte- | been photographed over forty times, ex- ville, Bachelor of Physical Sciences, and | periment conducted with Mme. Espe- Countess de Rochas d’ Aiglun. | rance and many others. “Each one of us,”” said the Count, | Psychicscience hasalso pesitively asce:- “wis anxous to know whether the |tained, sccording to M. Aksakof, tnst in production of these phenomena was a | all cases of materialization a correspond- | | physiological reality, devoid of all fraud, | ing dematerialization of the body of the | or whether we sbould be obiiged to rej:ct medium takes place. Prince Aksakof Rochas LA | tial, incomplete as 10 form, | rium, a repartition of organic matter be- | | the first or | inal form of the medium, while differ by Psychic Force. This Has Been Certifiei To by Man classifies these phenomena in the follow- | pr ing ers ) Fir<t—Materialization in the dark, cor- responding :0 a dematerialization minima | of the medium. Second—Materialization visible but par- corresponds to a dematerialization incomplete or par- tial of the medium. | Third—Materialization complete and | visible, corresponds 1c a dematerialization maxima and complete of the medium. Princs Aksakof said usiastically “The mystery of mater if not a solution, at least a'natural expla- nation. It isnolonzer a miracle, a pass- 4 ing creation of organic forms out of noth- | projec ing. ltisa transiormation, a transmuta- | mation or f that the orzanizi o do2s not it earthly body from pericr ego has wroug transformation or And who transform now phase or of N r ti0n, be all the worg LIFTING A TABLE. This Scene Has Been Certified To by M. Schiaparelli, the Great Astronome tion of one real organism into one or two real forms. *This is certainly marvelaus, b 1s not am In asimp'e case of projection of the double, when the seusitive is ina trance, we have a phenomenon of equilib- 1of the higher ego of the me: Moreover,” added the the ¥ sesses all th living enti he proof that a superior individual ego, separate from that of the medium, bas taken posses of the me m’s orzanic matter o tr form it into and create a form- according to its own de i And still amid all these proofs Cou {de Rochas writes me ti “Ihope you me for not answering your The fault lies 1n the state and overexcitement at which [ nd myself in the presence of the difliculties which beset me every from those ot Florence Cook, while the |sid- when I endeavor to penetrate more facial features still indicated a great re- | deeply into the search of truth in ths semblance to her medium, we have the | psychical realm.” lon ing to one body d bodies with the con: ribu'ed into two ation ot form of sec the medium and also the ic the newly oreaniz:d or materialized form keers a general resemblance to from it in several particulirs, hke Ka King, in one instancs, wuose nails, e and thecolor of her hair were different THAT LITTLE HUNGARIAN Kaiser Franz Josef’s Magyar Hussaren | Kneben Kapelle, or, inevery-day Enclish, The Hungarian Boys' Military Band. Forty little naimra-born musicians. Forty litile magnats, 6000 miles from | home. Forty little romances, for there is | a story, mostinteresting if it could be told | in all its detail, with each of the forty littie men in red and silver who have de- | lighted 80 many at the Orpheum auring | the past ten weeks. But the romances we will pass, for sometimes even the story of the innocent maid who flirts with royalty is best forzotten, and sagain there is| enough that interests in the every-day | life of these little chaps without going | into family history. But mark you, every one of these forty little fellows is well born and bred. Each is the son of a magnat, which, in the language of Hungary, means 2 man as far removed from the common people, or serfs, in culture and education, as Vander- bilt is above a brakeman on one of his raiiroads in wealth. To bring tho boys out of Austria it was | necess¢ary to secure royal consent and fur- louchs for two years for them and for Niklas Schlizonyi, their director, and for Michael Nussbaum, the teacher. | The salary which Mr. Walter has to pay for the band, director and teacher has to | be paid every ihree menths and in ad- vance. It goes direct to the military authoritics at Billed and is used as a tuna for the supportand improvement of the | school. By the aid of this fund a number | of poor children will be taken in band and | receive a military education. Not long azo Schilzonyi was a nttle Knaben | Kupelle, but early developed a talent | as a director. When only 10 years | of age he directed a band in the Billed school and three years later, when Kairer Franz Josef visited the school the geniusof NiklasSchiizonyi atiracted the attention, and =« few weeks later Mr. Bchiizonyi was ordered to Sxebenbunraer‘ to take the directorship of the Staats Ka- | peile. He was only 13 years of age, and | directed the State military band, com posed | of men old enough 1o be his father, in some cases his grandfather. Five years later he was commi:sioned as lieutenant in the wriny and ordered back 1o Billed | & a sort of zeneral music director. ] While in Vienna the lads gave a series | of ten concerts at Dreher’s Parlk, the great | suburban park of the city. Here they ap- | peared 1u competition with three other bands snd were the sensation of the day. 11 was their first appearance in public out- side of their own town. But their fame | Lsd gone before them and the big nlrt] will its accommodations for 30,000 people concert. | of bursiing. | irait, eggs, coffee and that good o'd Ger- | was filled to overflowing. 50,000 persons attended No less than their farewell A driveway was cleared past the bandstand and the elite of Vienna and Milan circled past, the richly dressed ladies showering bouquets upon the little | Knaben Kapelle, who sat with eyes wide open wondering wiat it was all apout, for this was their first great experience. There were bouquets from Duchesses, Countesses and Baronesses galore. Their reception in musical Vienna, where mili- tary bands sbound, was a gala day for the forty littie maenats and it fornished them material to talk about and write about until they reached Bremen, where they gave another concert under patronage of the Mayor. Forty hittle firsi-class passenge:s held a reception on board the steamer next day and half the ladies of Bremen were there to bid them bon voyage. In San Francisco they reside at 437 Geary street. There they have grown fat until they are already swapping uniforms S0 as to keep the fit within the da Their breakfast consists of man standby, apple pancake. Tuis is varied with am, bacon, steak and chops, but the apple pancako must appear at every meal or there would be a little Ger- man riot. It takes 120 b g loaves of rye bread each week to feed them along with 0 pounds of meat, 400 pounds of vege- tables and no end of sundries. They eat 10 less than 300 cantalouypes each week, for | this is one of the home fruits w:th which | they are tamiliar. When they first started | housekeeping Mr. Waiter sent out inio the | country and bought 100 pounds of best | § ill has jt all | iresh country vutte-, but he on hana, for the liitle magnats draw the line at smearing their rich rye bread with grease. lnstead of butter they sprinkle the bread with “*paprika,”’ or Hungarian pep- pers. To eat tread with hot pepper on would be as much of a novelty for Amer- ican boys as it is to these boys to put but- ter on their bread. But they are rapidly learning American ways. They no longer attempt to break bananas in two instead of peeting them. They have learned that ice cream is coid instead of hot; that oranges are a delicious fruit and not toy- | balls; that candy and popcorn are pretty Rgood eaiing alter a taste has been ac- quired. None of the lit'le fellows worry a bit about candy, but every day of their lives they anxiously inquire about the arrival of 500 pounds of sausage ordered from Germany. When it arrives there will be a feasting and stufling at 437 Geary street, er line | | Every little Knaben has to be out of bed | by 6 4.3 and at breakfast by 7 o'clock, and from 8 to 11 o’clock the schoolmasier, Michael Nussbaum, takes them in hand, putting them through a course of reaaing, writing and mathematics. The system followed is exactly the same as though | they were back at Billed going through the school routine. Not for a moment is the miiitary aiscipline relaxed, for the hand of the Emperor is still over the Knaben Kapelle. Recreation from 11 to 12 0’clock and then lunch. Study from 1 to 2 o'clock. Tn>n Schizonyi, the mu- sical director, takes them In hand znd puts them through their ta-ras and pom- toe | THE DRUM MAJOR AND THE WONDERFUL DRUMMER. the | poms, teaches them to improvise in case ) notice, orchestrating the parts in = it shou!d be necessary, and they rehearse | meantime. their evening prozramme, for they change | They rest from 3:30 to 6, then dinner every second night. There 1s not a boy | and the theater, a change of uniforms and | in the whole band, from the little drum- | they are ready to enteriain with popular | mer of 7 years of age to the cornet player, | airs, Italian operas or the weird love-song aged 15 years, who cannot orchestrate his | music of Hungary. At 10 o'clock every parto! any piece of music banded him. | Knaben of the whole brond neativ folds Their musical education is most thor- | bis uniform, duns his nightie and is 1n ough, else little tots of fellows whose feet | bed. Twice a we>k they go to the baths stop short at the chair-round when they | and rub and splash to their hearts’ con- are seated could not glide easily from | tent. Twice a week they go for a ride, and | populars like “A Hot Time” right into | there is hardly a point of interest in this | ! Wagner's masterpieces. When they ar- | city with which they are not as familiar | rived in San Francisco they knew of the | 8sa nativeson. Twice a week a physician | popular airs not one. They were called V:sits the house and inspects every mem- togetherat 3 p. 3. and handed the music | b'r of the Little-boy Band, and if any are | of A Hot Time,” and in one hour they | ailing ever ro siightly the proper treat- | bad it down pat. They can take any | mentis given right then and there. | American air and master it at an nour's| Every two weeks the whole band is | | marctied off to a barber-shop and their | | Iittle towheads trimmed in the most ap- proved style. Tne hair-cutting, bathing and laundry are all let out by contract, and the physician receives a weekly sal- ary to keep them in physical trim. Their mending? On, no! Did any one | ever bear of a soldier who could not at- | tend to his own mending ana darning? | | Every member of the Knaben Kapelle is | | 10-day and will b for the rest of his life a | soldier in the Austrian army. Thav's| what they are being trained for, and noth- ing is reglected that will tend to make each and every one an sctive and useful so'dier in his particular capacity. It may be a shock 10 some folks to know the littie Knavbens are all wine-drinkers, tut in Hungary reople would te equally | shocked to hear that they had developed | into tea-drinkers, should such a thing come about. Ba: this is not likely, for | they don’t take fo tea. Thev are beer- | drinkers as well, but Hunzarian wine is | what they like b:st and are most accus- | tomed to at home, Th-y are aliowed a | half pint a day, which is only about haif | the amount deait out to them with the | rationsat the school ot Billed. To cat off their wine would be like depriving a baby of its miik. In fact these littie chaps are much more accustomed to wine than milk, | water, tea pr coffee. | To say that they are enjoying them- | selves in Ban Francisco would be putting | it mildly. They never had so muct fun, | saw so many strange sights, had so many | strangeand funny experiencs, nor had | so much to eat as since they have been established in the house at 437 Geary street. They are particularly delighted | with California climate and fruits. The former in temperature is quite similar to that of Billed in rummer, but they are hourly expecting it to rain. Of the fruits they cannot get enough. They sperd much of their leisure time writing home of the good times they are having, all un- conscious that these are the happiest days of their lives, ALVARD J. MOORE. Leota, Leola, Leona and Leon Know compr ise what is known as fhe “Latah Quad.” They were born all at one time to the wife of J. W. Know, s prosperous young L}unh (Wash.) farmer, June 20 tast, at 2:30 o. M. They are now @ exhibition for the first time in Spokane ana are healthy and happy voungsters. Mr. and Mys, Kuow were married February 12, 1892, in Benton County, A kansas, andilmamed } y removed to Latah. They have two otuer children, a boy aged 2 anda girl aged 3 years. The motber is a siight but heaithy woman, 26 years old, #d weighs pounds. She was able to be upa week aiter the birth of the quadriplets. Neithe she nor her husband know of any instance among their-ancestors were even twins were born. Leon Know, shown at the exireme rizht of the pictur is a husk y who weighed 4)¢ pounds at birth. His sisters each weighed 314 poyds at mm,.‘1 has un_rk browu sair and dark eves, while the girls have light Vir and blue eves Ilu'pwluu thows mother and quadruplets as they now appear, Offers nave been received to exhibit the babies elsewhere, but they have declined toccept. Mr, Know makes considerable money this year, beiug a wheat farmer, and d¢S not want to havye his family enter a museum.