In the spring of 1903 I was contemplating a trip to Mexico. Certain other business affairs barred my going as I anticipated, and two fixed dates for starting had to be abandoned. At one of our sittings in April I asked as to the date when I would be able to leave New York for Mexico. I named several dates in May, running finally to about the middle, and was told it would be impossible for me to start on any of these. Then I said, "Will I go in May at all?" I was told, "No, that would be impossible." "Well," I added, "as I must be back a few days before the 1st of July, it would be practically impossible for me to go at all, as you see it, would it not?" and the reply came, "No." I was told then that I would go down, and that I would return before July 1st. While this conversation was going on, our medium saw clairvoyantly written out on my breast the date, June 3rd. On asking the guide if that was the date fixed, I was told, "Yes." For weeks following I did everything I could to get away in May. On two occasions I had transportation engaged and sleeper. I was forced to defer leaving on each of these dates, and not until the third day of June did I start. I returned a few days before the 1st of July, and I accomplished my work just as I was told I would do, and within the time named.

In the spring of 1904 I had arranged a trip to El Paso, Texas, to meet some engineers, expecting for business reasons that I might be obliged to extend my trip to Guaymas, Mexico. From the same source I was told that there would be no need whatever of my going to Mexico and that I would complete all my business at El Paso. I was told the people I desired meeting would be there to meet me, and that everything would be accomplished within a few days to my complete satisfaction. Upon reaching El Paso I found myself waited for; and within forty-eight hours I had completed the entire business. To go to Mexico to the point I named I found was not necessary at all; and again, I found there would be no use in doing so as the person I thought of meeting there had gone to the City of Mexico where he was likely to be detained several weeks.

There were many messages and communications received at these sittings that might be presented, but the relation of these would only be to extend this article; and again, to bring some of the best of them forward in detail to the public, I would need to have the assent of others.

As to telepathy, I have found that when I tried to call people to me, I have generally succeeded, though not always. There is one case that was rather peculiar. While dressing one morning I felt the necessity of seeing a gentleman stopping at a hotel, before a meeting that was to take place between him and another at one o'clock. Suddenly it came to me that there was no need of our meeting and I dismissed the thought from my mind. At about half-past ten the gentleman that I felt I ought to see called, and I asked him how it was he happened in my office. He replied he had been down town and had started back to his hotel and paid his fare in the street car. When he reached the point where the car was passing my office, he said he felt impelled to leave it and come. I told him I had called him in the morning and thought it was very necessary we meet before the other meeting, and then later I felt there was no need of it. It seemed, however, that he got the message just the same and he appeared.

Within the past year I mailed a letter to a foreign country that I, a week afterward, decided to recall. I sent a telepathic message to a friend who was in that country, over three thousand miles distant, asking he procure the letter and return it me unopened. One month later I received a letter from him saying he had taken the liberty of holding a letter from me addressed to another, he feeling constrained to do so, believing I desired this, because of some things he had discovered relating to business matters that I may not relate here, and because of an intuitive impression urging him to do this act.

I have sometimes felt that the messages we receive telepathically are brought by spirit guides and passed from one to another of them. Is not this more natural and simple than to ascribe it wholly to those subtle undetermined vibrations through the ethers? If this should be found to be true, then when we sit very quietly and ask our spirit forces to carry the message, we are certain of one thing, and that is, we have delivered the message properly. We have done our part. We then should image before us the person to whom the message is addressed and picture him receiving it. We who send the message following this plan doubtless do all that we can do. Now, if this is how messages may be carried, then it is clearly seen why they are not always received. The messenger takes them from us. That part is simple. But he may not be able to deliver them to the consciousness of another. I can clearly see, however, that if two persons arranged to communicate by telepathy at a certain hour and each put himself in a receptive mood, there ought be no failure in the receipt of the messages. I am only offering these suggestions as a possible explanation for the transmission of messages from one to another by means of what is now called telepathy, not implying, however, that thought is not carried independently also through vibrations. More experiments must be made, and I merely suggest some be made on this theory of spirits being the messengers.

A recent experiment of the Society of Psychical Research has been brought to my attention since I prepared this paper. This experiment shows (Prof. James Hyslop of Columbia University declares) that the message was carried through the agency of a spirit. It was a message of four words transmitted almost instantaneously between Mrs. Piper in the United States to an English medium in England. It was sent in English and given in Latin. Prof. Hyslop remarks upon this: