Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-14


fortune Is that she sufers under the insane
attacks only at periods when her brother 10
Similarly saflssiogs He mss oeeu very vIo-
lent at times and during those attacks his
sisters mind became cloudsd ss If in SYM
psthy with him. At other times she shows
no evidence OF disordered mind"
The Philosophy Of ~ snpa'hy-The Ex-
tent 70 " hfcH Ous Person Influences
ThOuR hl In Another.
Chicago Inter Ocean: The London Society
for Physical Research has Just published a
volume of its proceedings giving the results
of Investigations in regard 10 haunted houses,
reported appearances Of spparItions and
ghosts, aud Of inquiry in that more legiti-
mate field OF psychic research, the relations
bel ween persons OF close sympathy. The
chapters relating TO premonitions, mysterious
appearances, warnings, etc, cover mach the
SAME grouud as similar publications in this
country. Among the stories vouched for by
the committee Is the following:
My mother married, at very early 5ge,
without the consent OF her parents. Ny
grandmother vowed that she would never
zee her daughter again. A few months after
her marriage my mother wa, awakened at
about o'clock am. by a loud knocking at
the door. To Der great surprise my father
did not wake. Tue knocking was resumed /;
my mother spoke to my father, but, SIS he
sill slept, she got HP, opened the window,
and looked out, when, 10 her amazement,
she saw her mother IN fuif court dress,
standing on tina step and looking up al her.
NY mother called to her, but my grand
mother, frowning and shaking her head,
disappeared. A. this moment my father
woke, and my mother told him what had
happened. He went to the window, bat saw
nothing. My mother was sure that my
grandmother, even at that late hour, had
come to forgive her, and enIrested my father
to let her ia. He went down and opened the
door,
BUT NOBODY WAS THERE.
He assured my mother that she had been
dreaming, and che at last believed 1t was go
The next morning the servant were qUes
toned, but they had heard nothing, ana the
matter was dismissed from the mind OF ruy
parents Till the evening, when they hear
that my grandmother had been, ia Cour
dress, at ball the night bsfore-l think a
Kensingtou Palsce-but Of this | am No
sure; that, feeling unweil, she had returned
home, and alter an hours illness had died %
2 o'clock in the morning. she had not men
tened my mothers name during h-r shoE
illness.
There are a dezen stories IS good or bette
but the society has made strong collection
| aud has classified them with much care. w
have only room for one other, OF rathe
less common, If also OF less tragic, and IN
| deed almost humorous type.
Ga July s, 1882, my wife went 10 Londy.
TO have an operation (which bot he
| lieyed 10 De a slight one) performed Oh he
| eyes By the late Mr.. Crichett. The ar
! pointment wss for 1:30 o'clock, and KNOWN!
I from long prev Ious * perieuce the ClD sym
| psJhy Of our minds, about that time L, a
Brighton, got rather idgety, and was mucl
teiieved-and perhaps little surprised anl
| disappojntGd-at no, fee log any clded sen
sation which l could Cousuus 80 sympa
the;ic. Taxing it, therefore, for grant, d the
all was well, ] went out at 2:45 O'Clock Il
conduct my concert at the aquarium, expect
| ing TO find there q telegram, az had be-
| arranged, to say that all was we'll. Ga m
| way | stopped, as usual, TO comDare N
watch with the big clock outside Gawsoni
the clockmsker's. At that instant L felt
MY EYES FLOODED WITH WATER,
just as when chill wind gives one atudde
cold in the eyes, though II was a hot, sli
summers day. The affection was 20 uau
sual and startling that my attention Coul
no. but be strongly directed to it; yet, tn
time being then 2:49 o'clock, 1 was sure
could have nothing 10 do with my wite's OF
Grafton, end, Ga it continued for some it'll
time, thought l must have taken cole
However, il pass ] of, aud the concert in
medialely afterws-d put it out OF my min,
AT o'clock / ceived telegram from IN
wife, Gall well over. A great success" 40
this took away all anxiety. But on going
town in the evening, l found her IN teri
Die state of nervous prostrsuon, ard it al
| peaTed that the operation, though marve
ously successful, had been of a very seSel
character. Quite accidentally it came OF
that it WAS not till 2:S0 o'clock that my wi
entered the operating room, and that Il
operation commenced, after the due admit
is.rsiion Of an sne;thetic, at about 2:i
o'clock, as far as we could calculate.
, But, perhaps, the most interesting ar
certainly the most novel OF the "prooee'
ings" is that which deals with the latest e,
periments Of the society in what they call
THOUGHT TRANsFEEENCE"
! The "agsn" and "percipieut" in this case
10 use the technical terms OF the new &C
! ence-were Two gentlemen living at Brighto
whose minds seem TO be peculiarly symp
: thetic. The manner in which the expeI
meets we're generally conducted consisted
blipdGold NJ Mr.. s., the "percipient," viii
some color, number, word or figure was u
expectedly presented to Mr.. B., the "ageDi
the nature OF which Mr.. S. was then asked
!. guess. The "sgeEt,' during the time
these trials, held The "percipienfs" han(
but in other instances they were complete
separated from one another. Some of the
experiments would seeul ~ chow til AT it
:, more agreeable to be ''percipient" than
It agent" on these occasions; at any ra
=, when, in the simple language OF the Tepo
0 pains" are being Experimental on" Thu
h Tor instance, one test consisted sin pinchi
+ or otherwise hurting" the "agent," when I
s 'peroipient" was asked to say which part
Y MS alter ego was being hurt, an attempt
e which he seems to have been uniformly al
e cessful, discriminating with the incest az
! Psthy between a pull at the hair of
l. trends head and a witch of the lobe of
II cal. But the most curious of all these
periments was the figure test, the manner
which is thus described by the investigator
One of Us, completely out of sight of
3 drew some figure at random, the figure bel
:, Of such character that tie shape could
i, be eisily conveyed IN words. This was dc
n IN order TO meet the assumption that so
- code-such as The Morse alph abet-was u.
, by S. and B The figure drawn by us v
! then shown 90 B. for few moneuts--S. bel
: seated all the time with his back 10 US 8
= blirdfoldet III a distant part OF the roc
! and subsequently, 10 an adjoining room.
. looked at the figure drawn, then held
, hand Tor awhile, then released il. Al
:. being released S. (gho remained blindfoidl
> drew the impression of a figure which he
a. received. 1t WIS generally as like
= original as
4 CHILD's BLINDFoLD DRAWING
ri OF = pig ls ike pig; that is to say, it a
IF scrawl, but recognizable as intended TO r
N represent the original 6gsre Ia no case '
OF there the possibility that S. could have 8,