The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-07-10

and after a minutes hesitation over a tas-
sci, placed his hand upon the rosette.
The gentleman stated that he had at first
thought of the tassel, but had finally
concluded TO choose the rosette. Mr..
Lewis Leland, of the hotel, asked Mr..
Brown to tell him the name of his birth
place The latter, hlindfolding himself
and taking the hand of Mr.. Leland in
the manner before described, led him
around the room, and pointing to the
printed letters of the alphabet suspend
ed OH the walls, spelled out the name
"Langrove" This is small town in
Vermont and the birthplace Of Mr.. Le-
land In the same manner Mr.. Brown
picked out the letters of the alphabet
spelling George" the Christian name
Of George F. Rowe, reporter of the
Times, drowned some time ago, on the
request Of his brother, who was present,
and also the name of a town in Turkey,
denominated "Albeih," /" where one of that
company was born. In the latter test
Mr.. Brown missed the letter e, which the
gentleman making the test stated was
probably owing to the fact that he had
himself hesitated over it while mental
ly spelling the word.
Another test to which Mr.. Brown was
subjected was made by gentleman who
fixed his thoughts upon watch seal
worn by Mr.. Leland, which was qaickly
pointed out as the object selected. Mr..
Brown volunteered to read the thoughts
of another without coming in direct
contact with him, but through the me-
dunn of third person. To do this he
blindfolded himself as before, and while
taking the hand of a third party-the
latter placing his hand on his (Brown's)
forehead, the man whose thoughts
were to be read took hold of the wrist Of
the medium of communication, and so
the three proceeded around the room un-
til the object was pointed ont, or the
letters spelling the word thought of,
were spelled out from the alphabet
The reporter of the Times, deairous of
making this test, did so, together with
Mr.. Leland. The metallic tag hanging
to the KEY in the door was the object Sc
lected for a concentration of thought
After his usual preparation, Brown led
the way to the door. When he reached
it he felt around few minutes, and the
Times reporter, believing that the scent
was lost, allowed his thoughts to be di-
rected to other objects. As these objects
presented themselpes to his mind Brown
would Immediately lead him and his
companion TO them. At last a violent
effort was made TO concentrate attention
exclusively on the key tag, and Brown
at once led the way to it. This test sat-
isfed the reporter that the workings OF
his mind had been implicitly followed
by Brown, and that every deviation from
a direct course was due 10 the thoughts
of other objects which would persistent
" obtrude themselves. Mr.. Brown is
| ignorant of the cause of his wonderful
power. He believes that spiritualism
has nothing to do with it, and regards
professional spiritualists as humbugs.-
In the experiments yesterday he was
obliged to lead those making tests
around the room by the hand. If pro-
vided with brass wire, the persons test
ting his power could take hold of one
end of the wire and remain in his chair.
He is not infallible, however, in the use
of the wire, and prefers to hold the
hand.
1t does not appear that Mr.. Browns
gift can be made very useful, although
he says that by the use of it he has dis
covered the guilt of several criminals in
the West He says also that he is able
to sometimes read the thoughts Of 9TH
ers sitting near him, but cannot remem-
Der them for any length of time. He
believes that in the course of time his
powers of thought reading will be
so strongly developed that he will be
able to express the thoughts of others
without the use of his alphabet.