home, her brother-in-law called at the house of a friend
and told the story. While there the husband came in. Having been
away for some hours he had not heard of any telegram. But the
friend seated himself at his desk and wrote out a careful account,
which all three signed on the spot. When they reached home,--two or
three miles away,--there was the telegram confirming the fact and
the time of the aunt's death, precisely as the psychic had told
them.

"Here are most wonderful facts. How shall they be accounted for? I
have not trusted my memory for these things, but have made careful
record at the time. I know many other records of a similar kind
kept by others. They are kept private. Why? The late Rev. J. G.
Wood, of England, the world-famous naturalist, once said to me: 'I
am glad to talk of these things to any one who has a right to
know. But I used to call everybody a fool who had anything to do
with them; and with a smile--"I do not enjoy being called a
fool." '

"Psychic and other societies that advertise for strange phenomena,
must learn that at least a respectful treatment is to be accorded,
or people will not lay bare their secret souls. And then, in the
very nature of the case, these experiments concern matters of the
most personal nature. Many of the most striking cases people will
not make public. In some of those above related, I have had so to
veil facts, that they do not appear as remarkable as they really
are. The whole cannot be told."

A quotation from this same writer ("Automatic Writing," page 14), says:--

"I am in possession of a respectable body of facts that I do not
know how to explain except on the theory that I am dealing with
some invisible intelligence. I hold that as the only tenable
theory I am acquainted with."

In the same work (page 19), the author, Mrs. S. A. Underwood, as the
result of her communications from spirits, says:--

"Detailed statements of facts unknown to either of us [that is,
herself and her 'control'], but which weeks afterward were learned
to be correct, have been written, and repeated again and again,
when disbelieved and contradicted by us."

On this point, also, as on the preceding, testimony need not be
multiplied. The facts are too well known and too generally admitted to
warrant the devotion of further space to a pr