The Worthington advance., 1879-01-16

or for ensuing term was presented Will, REF
Baker rs surety He also filed his oath OF Office
His bond was approved. =
A petition from H. d. Winters to have faye,
refunded was read and laid over for future AZ.
ton. -:
a motion was made and carried that the ",
lagos Of Adrian, Bigelow and Hersey, be des,p.
mated as places to receive taxes by County Treas.
urer, and that the Treasurer give notice stating
the time lie will visit said places
The following resolution was offered and =
doptel:
Resolved. That the County Auditor and the
Chairman OF County Commissioners be reauest.
ed to take immediate steps looking toward the
passage Of All act Of the Legislature extending
the time for the payment Of seed grain loaned to
the settlers by the State in the year 1878.
The Clerk Of Court and County Auditor lay.
ing made application to the Board for the repair
ing OF cupboard in Auditors Office and pigeon
case in Clerks office it was granted that the
Auditor and Clerk have the repairs done and
case m'de III each of their Offices ut the lowest
ana best advantage to the county.
The following bills were presented s. allowed.
J. A. Town, Jallor's fees, 80 days @ sl.25
J. A. Town, boarding & washing furnished -
prisoners, 81 20
J. Town, posting notices to school Dist.'s
and Townships, * 60
j. Gordon, flour and beef furui he'd Door. NJ
examining b1 ilges, 40
A. >. Lindsay. printing done for county, i, Is
T. +. fltZgcrAld, goods furnisl he'd paupcrs l3 10
e. St. John Cole, ash buckets furnished, is
The Board adjourned to NEE. ut the call Of
County Auditor.
attest. A.C. ROBINSON, Chairman.
JAS. WALKER, County Auditor.
MOLLIE FANCHER.
From the st. Paul Pioneer -Press.l
The famous Mollie Fancher case in
Brooklyn, N. Y, has oyertlowed from
newspaper in pamphlet and magazine
literature. The Sanitarian takes up
the morse] in its medical jaws and finds
it toothsome; while Dr.. George NJ.
Beard devotes Il handsome little trac-
tate to showing that the phenomena Of
| clairvoyance connected with The case
is mere nonsense and humbug 'because
absolutely disproved by deductive rea-
soning," and because the special scien-
ces, to which the claims Of clairyoy-
ance must be referred, know them 10
be false without any examination"
DR.. Boards short and easy method Of
diSpOsing of the subject is ST. ikiug.y
anscientitic, to say the least. His u
priori style Of dealing with what is
presented to lnn as well-attested plle-
nomena makes it at once evident that
he is purely an ide:slist, an intuitioual
iSt. Yet he claims to be al expert,
specially qualified by his medical train
ing i'll the pathology Of nervous and ce-
rebral diseases; while the formula which
he lays down would forever exclude
himself and other experts from having
anything to do with the matter under
consideration, for they know it to be
false in advance from deductivc rea-
soning," and ''without examination"
1t was deductive reasoning that led
Bacon, A1elancthon, Luther, and other
learned men to reject the CopernicAn
system. 1t WaS upuuctive reasoning
that impelled DR.. Iar'lner to declare
ocean steamship navigation Impossible
Deductive reasoning opposed the intro
duction Of gas, the system of cheap
postage, and many great inventions and
wise reforms Miss Fancher is said to
be able at certain times to read words
enclosed in Il sealed envelope, merely
touching the paper with the ends OF her
tingrrs while She lies with averted head
| on the pillow; to execute pieces of fancy
waxwork and embroidery in the dark;
to describe the appearance of strangers
in ,N adjoining room, etc. Occasionally
she is unable to do amy Of these things:
yet their occurrence at various times tx
tending over period Of ten or twelve
years is voncheu for by Rty. DR.. Dur
yea, Prof. Charles T.. Nest, DR.. II. NJ.
Parklurst, DR.. Srirr, and several 9TH
ers. The fact that these persons are
satisfied rs to the gtEulnentsS of the
phenomena is Of course not evidence
for DR.. Beard, or foranyone else. But,
in the absence of amy motive for t,ecel-
tio.4, the testimony OF these respectable
gentlemen certainly presents (, case for
| the cxpcrtS-a:i1 one which neither Dr.
Beard or DR.. Hammond can afford to
! uenounce as mere humbug and lit the
same time refuse to investigate, with
out thereby tXlmsi1 8 their Lofty preten-
siOns to suspicion and contempt. There
! is besides All amount Of accessible liter
| ature oi, the subject Of clairvoyant phe~
nomena which is not entirely beneath
! the attention Of these ung'natic doctors.
! Mr.. EpCs Sargent. of 3uston,a name OF
som" lromin"nce in American letters,
presents in the New York Sun Of tile
I'D IN admirable review Of the histori-
cal tcs i,nony upon which clairvoyance
establishes a prima facic claim upon
the attention Of medical experts. lie
quotes from the report Of the nine mem
bers Of the Royal Aras!smy of Med Cine
of Paris. who devoted five years to tx-
! periments and then officially reported
that clarvoyance WAS Il fact; he also
quotes, giving volume and page, from
the writings of DR.. Georgrt, Calannis,
Sarjeant Cox. president OF the London
| Psychological Society; Capt. Burton, the
! English traveller; Robert IIoudin, the
great con Juror who declared that there
was not the rcmotest connection be-
| tween his art and clairvoyance. And
this mass of testimony is supplemented
by the evidence Of DR.. Scl,mitz, rector
| Of the High School at Ediuburg; DR..
VIM. Gregory. professor Of chemistry
in the University of Edinbu'g; DR..
Ashburner, Archbishop Whatcley. Sir
William Hamilton, DR.. Esdai]le, DR..
| IIaddock. Prof. a. r. Wallace, and
others. Evidently DR.. Beard is upon
the wrong tack in his attempt to gnaw
file cut of existence by ''inductive
reasoning"