Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-02-08
MENTAL MIIskORING.
Wonderful Exhibition iir Mind
Reading by Nj. M. j. R.
Brown at Masonic
Temple Last Night.
How He Mystiiied His Audience

Last evening was a bad choice in
every respect Tor All exhibition of the
sort chat Mr.. Brown gave. 1t was
! SUNDAY, and rainy; but he had quite u
! respectable audience, A. 4 good deal of
| interest had been excited hy the pre-
| liminary private performances Saturday
| night at the Gait House. 1t mnV be
| well to state here that this entertain
! meat impressed every one as entirely
! free from prelense or humuug of any
kind. Mr. Browns manner, voice and
actions, and also what he claimed and
what he proved, were convincing that
he was entirely simcere-nOne the less
so because he found himself and his
methods entirely ineXpliuable to him
self.
SOMETHING OF HIMSELF.
Mr.. Brown began by giving some
account of his HE. He utated that he
was born in st. Louis. Mo. and re-
moved thence to Council Bluffs, Iowa,
where he pursued the occupation of II
machiuist and MANUFACTURER of wood
work. His father Is dead. The sur
vlvOrs of his family are his mother,
| two brothers, and one sister, none of
! whom POSSESSES a pathetic gitI like
! his. Re does not remember " hen his
! power came directly into his notice. 49,
| As far back a. his recollection extends
| he was aulp, 10y taking hold Of ones
left hand or even by shaking hands.
to hc in some communication with
! them, feeling n sensation similar to
the effect of an electric battery. He
began gradually To experiment, and
found that under rcH~O,iahle and favor
! able conditions he could tel what Nss
| passing in the mind of the person who
subjected himself to the test. Ills un-
usual gift awakened a great deal Of
curiosity, and lie had often tn CRAFTY
it by proving What fame asserted Of
him. THIS became hurdensOnp, and
he At length resolved TO enter upon his
public career.
BEFORE TIE PUBLIC.
lie made his first public appearance
| in Chicago, at the Union Park Con-
gretional church. He utlirms that he
Is not II spirltualist, cluirvOyant or for
tume-teller, and that he is ignorant of
| amy le2erdemain by which to do what
he does, ana that lsgerdemain would
not accomplish it. Bat further than
that he Possesses the quality or power
| of following the mental concentrated
| action OF certain persons. These per-
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lack concentration upon such persons,
ANA upon those possessed Of 10 m.nd
whatever he could not preteld to
operate, but upon fixed and firm minds
he did not often fail
GETTING TO WORK
After this little address he proceeded
to ask the audience to select "A commit
Tee VINO should at upon the stage and
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~ 9ule |" Ieau' TOT an opening Test
"' us iv4ue,L tne coI,'"h'''et cHose
2I,''o TIii"I ,I"lll tne 1uuiehCe
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DIV" ""S guy "l t'le I'nI' hacN % 'he
s, 1919, unuti 'ile si,Ve'l'arce OF TWO
VI tIe '"''i'hI',ee, MAYOR ihoHaS ma
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VIC 'i'o' ""e'' INC ""N was 'ehce'le"'
FINDING HIS MAN.
The next experiment was a. follows:
! TIE committee was To select some one
| rom the audience VINO was to come ON
| the stage, and i'm ms mind mark out
some person sitting IN the auditorium.
ana without writing il down or CON
municatlng the name to any one, he
was TO Yield himself To have his mind
cad, and the person of whom he