The Grange advance., 1874-11-11

moment later, he led Mr.. Chapin to
Mr.. William G.. Mcclellan. the ap-
plause and wonder of the audience
were extreme. The initials ''R. "
engraved inside ring were then spelled
out in the same way, = gentlt man
knowing and fixing his mind on the
initials being in contact with the mind.
reader. A stranger in the audience
volunteered to allow the initial Of his
ring to be read from his mind, Mr..
Brown failed, selecting "B." IA" and
''F." ALI wrong, but the stranger be-
ing requested to communicate his
secret to another person, Mr.. Brown
with the latter, quickly selected "P.''
the right letter. 1t afterward leaked
out that the ''stranger'' was sent upon
the stage by some gentleman in the au-
dience to purpose'y mislead Mr.. Brown
and defeat his experiment, which he
did by voluntary muscular movement
when in the vicinity of the letters VIC
have mentioned, upon which, too, his
mind must have been fixed.
But the crowning event of the even
ing, the most marvellous and incompre.
hensible manifestation of the kind, no
doubt, that any one in the audience
ever saw, and certainly sufficient to
prove Mr.. Brown the possessor of the
power he claims. vas the so.called triple
test. Some gentleman in the house was
requested to give small article to a
second gentleman, the second to give it
to third, who Was to hide it; the first
gentleman then going upon the stage
Mr.. Brown would lead him to the Sec
ond, lead the second to the third, and
the third to the object. Mr.. r. M.
Bridgman gave knife to Mr.. Sydney
Graves, Mr.. Graves gave it to Mr.. Chas.
G. Whiting, and Mr.. Whiting put it
into DR.. Calkin's pocket. Brown had
been blindfolded all the time, but, es-
tablishing the usual contact with Mr..
Bridgman, he led him very soon to Mr..
Graves. but, assuming the mental lead.
ership of the latter, he seemed TO be at
fault. Whether by the failure of Mr..
Graves to observe the indispensable con-
dition of fixing his mind, or for what
ever reason. Mr.. Brown was unable to
find the third party, but, asking Mr..
Graves to tell the party's name to an.
other person, he took the latter in hand.
and went threading his way among the
intricate windings Of the parquet chairs
till he had found Mr.. Whiting. Mr..
Whiting, it seems, had changed his seat,
and Mr.. Graves was not aware Of his
location in the house, from which, it is
easy to believe, the trouble with the Sec
ond link of the chain originated. No
man with his eyes open and full
knowledge could have led Mr.. Whiting
to DR.. Calkin's pocket, and the
knife more readily or directly than the
mind-reader did. 1t is difficult to con.
ceive a more trying or exhaustive test,
or, in its event, one n ore triumphantly
more wonderfully successful. The
next feature was an experiment in
which Mr.. Brown said he expected to
fail, and he did. Mr.. w. G. McClallan
was seated upon the stage, holding in
his hand one end of common insulated
copper wire, twenty feet long, and, by
simply taking hold Of the other ex:
tremity, Mr.. Brown undertook to des-
ignate any object on the stage upon
which Mr.. McClallan would fix his
mind. He tried diligently, and after
fixing upon Mr.. Laisun's cap and MIR.
Seymour's notebook, gave it up. "A
hole in the stage scenery was the object
fixed upon, and no one will wonder
that with such a connection, Mr..
Brown failed to find it. Before small
parties he was very successful with this
test. Finally, he showed the ''passive''
test. Mr.. J. T. Webber, being sum.
moned, was requested to put and keep
himself in mentally passive condition,
to think of nothing and keep thinking OF
it, and, by holding his hand to his fore
head, Mr.. Brown was to read the
thoughts of third person who simply
clasped Mr.. Webber's wrist. In this
order the experiment did not succeed
perfectly, the mind-reader lowering
about and finally fixing upon one Of
the large vases on the orchestra rail,
when the third party was actually
thinking Of the other, precisely like It,
at the other end Of the rail. Changing
the circuit somewhat, Mr.. Brown read.
lily selected the person in the audience
upon whom the third party fixed his
mind. s,r ,-.
Through all the wanderings of the
evening, up and down the. stage stairs,
and threading the mazes Of the parquet,
Mr.. Brown never stumbled Or collided
with any person or other obstruction:
He approached the stairs and descend.
ed them with the readiness and conf.
dence of = seeing man, seeing literally,
IS he claimed to. see, with the eyes o1
his subjects, and. SO far from being
physically led BY his subjects, he
led them, often much faster thar
they desired to be Ted.
The theory that he is guided BY their
involuntary muscular movements seeme
to be- utterly untenable., Whist thil
;Enysterious power is is Is much mys.