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sp aah THE EVENING WORLD, — —_- -s | s Nixola Greeley-Smith That “We Are in the Presence of a New, Science in the Making, the Possi-| dilities of Which Stagger the Im-) glee vastly greater interest to us.’ | | | Dr. Funk jn a a) r. Funk Suggests a Spook College With $1,000,000 Endowment e _ For the Scientific Study of Psychic Phenomena and Spiritism |] ROCKEFELLER OR CARNEGIE CAN HELP EXPLORE}! ii “UNDISCOVERED WORLD WHERE OUR DEAD G0.” "If either Camegie or Rockefeller could be interested in ‘psychic || phenomena the work of investigation would be greatly helped. “Vast sums of money have been spent in ineffectual efforts to teach the North Pole, yet few persons think it worth while to inves- tigate the undiscovered world: where our dead go, which should be of By Nixola -Greeley--Smith. O you believe in spirits? -Do-you -believe-{n-ghosts?—} Do you believe in second-| ary personality, clairvoyance, clair- audience and thought transference? | Dr. Isaac K. Funk, D: D.,| LL. D., believes in some of these | things and has investigated all of | them. He knows as much about} the spirit world as you know about j your business. | ~. For he has made: the investiga- | tion and classification of: spirits, os as'he preters to call them, intelli-| gences, his —business——for——many> years, and the results of his latest) rescarches are contained in his new+ book, “The Psychic Riddle,” which | | called on him Saturday to discuss. | Dr.-Funk- doesnot -hold-a-brief+ for the spirits. He distinctly dis- putation of crank that attaches to belief in the occult or WIXOLA GRELLLY WaT. pclaims the ir seen, am simply un-investigator,* he explained to me. “Huxtey: sata tat Peecmt-tittiown before 2 fact; Htke-anitle child, and study At. Thats qowhnt Ihave attempted to-do witir the phenomena of sptritualtsm.- ~The A-esult of my investigations has lcd me to beilevo that while there are many Stake" mediums and a great deal of fraud in spiritualism as it Is practiced dro-day, Intelligences who are foreign to us—that is, who: reside beyond our Wve sensce—co cOmayintcate through the physical ora) with some of! + fhosettving In the flesh. 4 {DOESN'T MABE HIM-A SPIRITUALIST; —— > 4% eput that belief doesn't make me a spiritualist. A real spiritualist Iden-° + jifles these intellig widh persons who once lived. As yet I have no | Yaflicient reason for believing this to be true. ¢ ?epprough one of the best mediut : met I was once told that the 51 Dr. F unk, Who Studies Spooks. Bros Ypirit of Theodore Parker wished me to do a certain thing. Later I met | {Theodore Parker’ through another medium, and he positively denied any j i Snowledge of the previous Inte: Not in ail my experience have I suc- | } | Jeeded tn obtaining from an interview with a second medium any accurate = ; fescription of a previous interview with a spirit when the possibilities of: follusion or, thought trunsferency were removed. Either the intelligences {re call ‘spirits’ are not what they claim to be or there {s muci contusion —e ond tifteuity om the spirit side ta comiminfeatlng with us. | aeAe tniperfections-cf-the mediums are responsible. “One apirit accurately dencribgd to me the Inhabltanta and cly!iivation! Mars, claiming to have paid a visit to the planct Mars. Later anothor. “ptrtt; through an equally credibie medium, declared that Mars was a _ Perhaps the psyc neditimshiz public tutely-untnhablied-and-destitute-of atl ite T told hlin what the ‘jad sald, and he replied: *Uknow.! = "Then spirits lle?” I Interjected, vy “They seem to," admitted Dr. Funk. “And one of those Theodore Parkern Fou spoke of wort Of splritualistic wire tapper, wasn't he?’ “Lam afraid,” said the spook expert smiling, “you have not the true _Ayspirit of the Investigntor. Ono may close one‘s-ears-to-truth- 4:may open them too readily, “The day for poking {un at splritualism has passed. Only the other day Prof. Wiliam Tames, of Harvard—ono_ofthe-most-eminent peycholo=+ {sists in thls country—toid « reporter that not only fs It possible that spirits first spirit ‘T can't help what he sald, I am telling you what, “What aro proper inquiries Wasa fako-~ anced, $ust- MONET spirit probit fommunicate with man through wedinms, but that tt ts highly probable.” pe that stagger the imagination, I think that an organization ehoutd be} formed ant -cndowed with $1,000,000 to employ hilt a dozen of the world's | it lorists to seek out and develop a-certain number of * 1 rchics," endow them.so they will be free from the temptations cf | wiahhe Spublie medjumship; they in turn to-aubmit themecives ‘to pationt investign- | a ptton-for-peychic phenomena; as Mra} Piper-in-Boston ee tor twenty years; pcader the direction-of-the: tatesDr- Hodgson.“ for Rockefeller or Carnegie?" "Tf -elther of theso.men could_be interested-tn-psychio-phenomens, “the-work- of tnvestigation-would-be-greatly-halped ~~ “Prof Hyslop has recently Incorporated an institute of the character I Jett-the!sayeAeseribed, undertaking: the work-wtth-$25,000°nuw In hand. Vast’ su Bm," ex! of monoy.bave been spent in ineffectugl efforts to_reach the North Polest while to investigate tho undiacovered | go, which should_he of vastly..greater. {nferest-to-us- HY SLOP BELIEVE Hyslop, as you know, thinks re have been re. Feelved by him from Dr. Hodgson since his death. came through Mrs: Piper, a medium whom “pr. Hod gaan had subjected to | SKBHD ABOUT GHOSTS. ‘il “Have you ever acer a-ghost?'' b asked, getting down to Uie only kind {bf “spirit” that 1 have ever been able to take an Interest {n. E “T have'seen lots-of things that purported to be ghosts,” replied Dr. BUTT have never seen a scientifically demonstrated Khost, w. Lier possibility"o? fraud had been entirely removed.” §) “Do you belteve there are good and bad spirits, Just as there are go: of | as gS ‘Dad peopiet™ i | nhle ext. tlyos! or — 24, 3] here | “That looks, [ike W: “Yes. Death does not-ameet tie mind, which’ Is Indestructible ‘The | pone 5 avil-spirit contro}ing a body on earth -would continue ev!l_after tt ody. Dr; Encausse, in his book on “Oo#iltism and Spirituays laine the matérlalization of spirits in this way: “Between the body and the spirit of man there {s an {ntermediary—! ehe-astral body-—He-compares nian to an equipage, the vehicle rapresent-. ng the physical body, tho horse the astral body and the coachraan—the LWHAL. SUINE—The-shediuns, tie thinks,-has the power of sending: the astray tog “Profs ut from him or her, and to this faculty the materlalization Of spirits » my “the paychic phenomena are due.” STaking-Urat-clasaification, br. ¥unk; T an art before the horse—and the coachman, too," “Yes,” acqulesced the doctor, “many of us do, That maybe tho re aere are so few real mediums, In seance rooms toxlay much pags, ae etligton-thatts gross -materiatiom, —Ataby peopio seom to care to C01 = oh ‘ite with spirits simply to help their earthly affairs along, A eiaal 4 ie spirit-of Danlel\Webster-or St.Paul and all he wants to mrt mis | on the horse whose name {s written on a piece of Daner Isa winatte| | Yet few persons think {t worth world whereour ¢ - death: aiald ment of ws pa acl ee ee hie’ deal | 4 § cations. | published. claimed to be the spirit’ of Dr. ir. Bunk shook hik grizzled head sadly, - 10. CELESTIAL “DOPE SHEET.” | “You think it Irreverent to consult a ceiesti ‘ugust spirits Into racing tipsters?" ————— last achieved nse “Spiritualism,” lal dope-sheet and turn these | Do you belleve in spirits? I don't, y they in tum to: submi “I do,” sald Dr. Punk, emphatically. But I do belleye absolutely in Dr. Funk, THERE IS DR. FUNK’S SUGGESTION FOR A COLLEGE, IN AVHICH TO STUDY ‘‘SPOOKS’’ SCIENTIFICALLY. “I think that an organization should be formed and endowed with $1,000,000 to employ half _a_dozen of the world's ablest psy- ists to seek out and develop a‘certain number of ‘sensitives' or hics} endow them so they will be free from the temptations of themselves to patient in- nomena, as Mrs ae in ‘Boston did for “Why,” replied the spook specialist, “It would be more in keoping with lthe diguity of tho spirit to ask low the brotherhood of man might be ad. or how universal beace may be established.” hink it will be difficult to inter sehen tere ara-sO many material questions’ unnolved— questions of living, of bread and butter?” “Investigations of psychle phenomena,” Dr. Funk replied, “reveal that |i we are in the presence of a new acienco In the making, which has eared T suggested. The communications “Both Hyslop and Hodgson were materiallsts of the scientific. varloty and were brought to a bdelfef in the spiritual universe by spirit communt- The remarkable series of conversations between Prof. Hyslop ANA WHA PIrported (oO be Pror. Modgson'’s “muterialved “ghost have been | “AU W recent seance with Mra, Piper Lrecelved a message trom what Hodgson, through another spirit. | Hyslop, who has always been a painstaking and careful investigator, right in belleving the communications from Dr, Hodgson, then we have at niific demonstration of the future Ifo. concluded Dr, Funk, ‘can no longer be jeered at. The Cay for sneers bas passed, and we should all interest ourselves In the ‘tn. vestigation of {ts wonderful posslbilities.” If Prof is FROM BASEBALL TO SUICIDE, Triple Attempt by Public Official aes Loat on Local Team, “eer CHEMICALS MAKE costed’ § STUBBORN BLNE eae “Diatrict-Atturne an at Because of dense binck amoke and the WHO WANTS ADOG @ |) Almost everybody, of teenpt to commit sulolde yesterday. Ho awallawed morphine, severed the’ Iju- ments and arteries of his left wrist, and cut his throat five times, Physlctans were hurriedly summoned and his condl- on Ia oritical, and Maryland Baseball League, and ia sald to have lost heavily in the venture, a underatood he borrowod funds from ere and | Drovei ank, whieh. recently vised to read the “‘offers'? in yesterday’s Sunday — World, classified-!‘Dogs, Birds, Poultry, cto,’! Kreas-Owens Co., chemical” dewers, at No, 210 Fulton street. Two ularmy were sounded. ne Btored me, >micrmur NOOTE wrrew Quanti- Mas. ot<penibeaniimeniiias aren deans, ha th adjoining excavations of the Mudson/ course. That's why World Rae re ee ha emer Of the Waynes: |stiver,Tunnel Compauy, firemen had “Readers are | ereby ad- re team of tho Pennsylvania, Ofilo} great dimeculty to-day fighting a fire); in a fiyu-story bullding occupled by tho ; the which at | ernment an | struction; 2 i Minister of Forelgn Rolutions and Jus: their Federico ce, \ nance and Public Credit. Presid iio oo Eula eee war, teed times gave amoke which made {t almost impossible for tho firemen to see thelr way In the street. Fulton street, Greenwich, tunnel company, and all of the but have (been shored up with plies’ Hun- dreda’of men employed in the tunnel ex- [oavations and those at wor underneath boarded .atreet were compelled to abandon DKe and water, he loss ia est! of Pul Manon. forth «4 black between Church and been excayated by. the Maines work because of the ted at $75,000. i ———_— NEW SALVADOR CABINET, BAN BALVADON, March 4—Presidant net is made up ay fo no, Becretary of ¢ © Works and In. cla Goujalero, Megia, Miniater resident of SASS. sat 7 MARCH 4, 1907. MRS, EDDY NOT ATHLETE SAVES AICH, DECLARES» ACHILD FROM HER COUNSEL == DEATH IN FIRE Income Has Been Greatly| “tittle Joe’ Cartied'Down) Exaggerated, Gen. | Escapeas Crowd Cheers Streeter: Says. His Rescuer. anything abdut tt for he ts just alx WOMAN'S GOLD PURSE STOLEN IN CATHEDRAL Bag~ Cut from ene of _Mrs. Allom, Who Offers Reward for Recovery. recurs or tie property, much of whic }1e-saived—highty—on—mccount—ot-tts Tm: soctations, Mr. and Mrs, Allom ii at the H nd Saturday but she thought it accidental wee gone. hot Tound, and then ahi the little cliain U been cut. Mra Allom_deciares ahe will make trouble for the thieves {f they will re- Olen. and will |; _ Mr. v and. ‘discov Baby know] Mrs. Herbert Allon, wife of « famous London artist who ta in thts city, en- waged by J. Pterpont Morgan ‘and |Henry M. ‘Rogers in connection with Joe" can't, of course, IS) MENTALLY STRONG) —_——_ months old to-day, but the hundreds of : epectatora and Mamma Holstein, who | To Offset_Effect—of- Glover-}eat— nim—resoued—trom—a—firehiended pee .~Lapartment-Douse, No, €1 West One Hun- | i Suits She May Appear in jared ana Fittn atreet, before dawn to-| : a SOA day, will never forget the aight, and, Public at’ Science Church. ‘|wneh “Joe” growe tp hin mamma will probably tell him how lucky he waa | . ; and what brave man waa Richard | CONCORD, N. H., March 4.—So, great |Gregord. » the uneasiness among the alleged| Gregson, who ts young and athletic, a < ‘to |® corporal in the Ninth Regiment. and wang of conspirators, who are anid tol, membér of, the regimental athletic Baker G. Eddy _a practical Ho ts n winners ty. jeveral prizes for a When @ fire, atarting strangely in the a [ccliar, apread to the dymb-wajter shatt }'and mushroomed on the top floor, | i pnt other? to Itfe- | large fortune, that ‘t . It Iw planned to have the d Christan Science churc regord-picked up -his-invaitt mother from the Bed and carried her down the front Are-escape, Then he packed his ttle brother on his back In ride-a-cock fashion and Then Gregord c by her aon, George Mary Glover, and| Baker, for an} {it ba fought) in A. Prye. itt flo fled er, his daughter, her naphew, George W accounting of her estile w to the last ditch by Cal the —coachinan-secretary, afd the men 17 0e ly associated with him in efforts to keep | saved. aged jwad of the Corstan Science | Arou tt 9at-of court —They_betieve tie Hed: there by Gregord, arene lea t and exposures of thelr sentaigae |e Uy doe. unt aaye my Joa! 5‘ f rath materially, — | dagaii climbed up the five spiracyCwill Hurt the Ce eee | ihe ‘of balcontes, reached the Hol Ven. Str ir, persona. 11 partment as the flames took a endfor several years lesa’ ech grip there, and found Joe purning ores a fety. lim> down in 4 to the fire Hol- © daw, fice Mrs. fi * only cost Eid aor ior of affairs at ieee tkecamoke. with Ms pudgy flats five cents View. iauued a statement to-day, which | Grexord grabbed th coke viet aa ine lin part says: wgod to reach the fire- tale ain a package. ‘Heturday morning 1 sent-to Mrs. her -burstof biame toile. i in equity 48) hands belo: with the Appent: . Fiddy uw copy ,of the bill 1 | published, but not yet served upon ai |of the defendants, so far ae Tam in formed. 1 lave alnce had a long per sonal conference with her, at which Ui proceeding and mattera-connested there with were fully discussed. ‘From. my conference tna time and on other rec rea de tan, able elearnese:of pind * Tpowe have been in ho Te Oy ber advanced years. 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