The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-11-14
MIND READING.

A cognate branch Of the spiritual NANTES
taiiOn business IS mind reading,"-,hat is,
The medium is able to tell what is going on
whom he is brought into contact One of
the simpler illustrations is, TO have the medl-
UNI blindfoldcd and then some person writes
on piece OF paper and keeping it in his
pocket the medium reads it; or the person
hides something and the medium, though
blinIfoldcd, will 60 through doors and dark
rooms and find it. One j. r. Brown has
been travelling about the country giving
SedHces Of mind reading" some of which
even astounded the faculty of Yale College,
who sign paper coniessing their ms bilty
| TO explain or understand the phenomena.
Since Brown was at Yale, however, several
persons III Hartford have found themselves
possessed of the same power, among Others
Mr.. Dyer, of the Hartford Eecataq Post, VINO
has found himself equal 10 Brown himself in
discoving hidden articles
But the ST. Paul Press makes light OF the
business and says it has bccn but simple
parlor amusement in 81. Paul for year past,
and thus describes the process:
4 young lady of the party was blmGfolded
One Of the party then took Il small table mat
and carried 1t into another room, placing i.
upon a stand. Returning, the lady biindfold.
ed took with her left hand the right hand Of
the person who had placed the mat IN tho
other room, and She placed her right hand for
a few moments upon her companion : fore
head. After standing in this position for Il
very short time the right hand was removed
from the forehead, and raising the LEFT hand
of her companion, still holding it ia her own
to her forehead, she went directly through in.
tricate passage ways TO the very article.
! The reporter, who Witnessed this expert
mcnt frequently IN -, Paul, at one time took
the character of the blind god" himself and
says;
After being Ilndfoldcd aul the articles
hidden, lac began the search iur it, going III
Irccily - II al first, and unconscious OF his
relative position in the house, and believing
he was sill. going forward in straight
line, he suddenly came 10 u pause and
experience the strangest feeling lac
had ever fr1wn in his life II i hard
To explain D., but it WAS more like cndcav
oring to fly. without knowing how Ia
begiu--a seeming effort to 20 up after some
thing. This sensation is explained hv the
fact that The article secrcicd had been placed
some distance above his reach Instead o,
going directly forward as he supposed. he
was told lie had continued 10 walk hv the ar
ticlc without stopping, going from it for O
short time but Immediately returning. The
experience during the second experiment was
much the same. He is told tina, he passed
the article more than dozen times, then paus
ing before IT, The article was placed below
his head, and he only remembers feeling &
sensation similar TO some one pressing gently
on the back OF the head, and realized that hi
head was pressed upon book-ihe article o
which he was in search--sa!cly which lac dc
} lposi,ed IN thclap Of the young lady.
lIwould seem that the only coalitions nece,
sary are that the perscn whom the blind
folded person leads, should keep the mind in
tently on The object aud where IL Is hidden
The mind reader must as we'll keep hi
mind in,en; on the fact thai he searches 70
something. IA the light Of "parior anus,