, 1886-01-26
THE MIND
some Curious Performances. all Of
which are Easily Explained.

and hear j. Randall Brown and Lille
May Brown in their wonderful mind
reading and spiritual performances. The
doors Of the Opera house were opened at
7 p. M, and it had been announced hat
the performances would begin an hour
later, but so great was the rush hat it
was $50 p. IN. before the entertainment
began. Prior to the opening of the per-
formance a committee of six gentlemen
was chosen to come upon the stage
and see that everything was done decent
ly" and in order"
The first test given by Mr.. Brown was
that while he was absent in an ante room
in charge Of two members OF the com-
mittee, Mr.. T.. Maggie, who had been call
ed upon, was given n bunch of keys, un-
seen by Brown, after which Mr.. Maggie
carried the keys to some person in All OBJ
scure corner OF the house and left them
with him. Mr.. Brown came out blind
folded, and taking Maggie with him, went
directly to the individual who had the
keys. After that a diagram was drawn
by Mr.. Cropsey of a certain route through
the auditorium and left with the commit.
tee. Mr.. Brown, after establishing what
he called a mental current, between
himself and MIR. Cropsey by means oil
curious and violent oscillations, and be-
ing again blindfolded, took Cropsey
around the route whlch ne had marked
out on the diagram. The latter showed
Tor itself that the route had Deen ioi-
lowed.
Next IN order was what was termed
menta photography by which the
mind reader is supposed to see the same
face which another has IN his thoughts.
Fred heoard was called out ana the elee-
trlc current established as before ne being
directed to iasten his MN upon some
particular person. bhudiolued ana Oh
ing Hepard 5 hand' brown theh wandered
around through the audience several times
and on returning to the stage stated that
either something had distracted MS or
Hebard $ mind or that someone else had
been walking up and own the alsles' put
SAID That there were twoi faces III ms inlhu'
n that oil a young man with hght
moustache' and the other older win gray
hair and beard. AFTER taxing a look
around the audience alone ana without
being blindiolded, he pointed out IL. u
MOTIFS as being the young man whose taoe
he a seen. MIR. heparu stated mat
this was correct, but explained that ne
frst had another individual IN ms MIND
but for some reason he had directed his
thoughts TO Judge Lee VINO answered. the
description OF the older lace Brown mad
described. Ihunders oil applause iolloweu
tins announcement, and 1t was plain TO he
seen that the audience considered TINS a
successful and wonderful test .
Slips OF paper were then passed around
and different persons wrote questions
upon them which 1t was claimed wou'u DC
answered by MIS-. Brown WINE IN Trance
and IN three or Tour instances inc ques-
tons were correctly read. Alter TINS
came the table tipping the spiritual rais'
and a mmunieat IRON the sp'rit
world the who'll concluding with tle old
cabinet racket IN which inc spirit
bride makes her appearance rom ihe
CABINET ana nnally disappears turoush the
moor. In TINS instance 1t "oulu seem the
pride dldn nave a great Instance 10
travel TO get pack where she came iroin'
lar IL was noticed that the Whlte howery
robes IN which she mace her appearance
were lett on the noor oil the cabinet wien
she vanished.
Prior to giving their spiritual tests Mr..
Rrown had ,bo GOOD scnsc In state IN tbo
So
auulehce that nc ulu not oualil In'V 'heIe
was anything supernatural IN them. In
fact he remarked to a member of the com
m;,too an tho s;do ..Yon have c,ugbt nm
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" tn'S i"0Ne'' " '"'" " "'Ns "ih"''
well to a person sitting IN front.
The tests given by Mr.. and Mrs. Brown
WIZ a." " ""s' ""' "fPe "
be but little IN them that cannot DC easily
accounted for. For instance, IN stating
what the questions were written on the
Sims or noncr which Mr. Rrown had never
---I
seen' 1t was ho'iceu ',a' none were S'a'eu
except those written by persons who were
handed a book covered with sensitive