Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-24
BISHOP OUT BISHOPFD
THE MIND-READER COPIED -,
A BOSTON EDITOR
what Healthy Man in Mind and Bos,
Can Do-Reading Thoughts, Conr'S
Actions and Playing Music pSing

What Healthy Man In Mind s,s
Can Do-Reading Thoughts. Co os
Actions and Playing Music.
BOSTON, Dec. 20.-One of tho r,o..
tentive spectators at the recent ronos., at
Bile mind-reading performances of va. nd
lngton Irving Bishop, in this civ wa.
Charles ii. Montague, city editor Of .a'
Globe. Mr. Montague is a gentlemon
line nervous organization, and No 80
up his mind that he could duplicate NJ
Bishops performances. He at opoo ''
gan practicing MIR. Bishops feats w,
with such marked success that on Fr,s uu
evening ne invited some twenty of his a.
qualntances to his rooms in Hotel Mid6,o
sex to test his powers. Here Mr. Me-
tague placed himself in the power of w.
friends and under conditions which r1
dered coliusion impossible. He suoooa-
fully performed every one of the mastor,~
achievements with which Mr.. Rioha'
electrified Boston. A scarf pin wsstaIOp
from gentleman and placed in a noteu
safe suspended from the chandelier NJ
Montague was then brought in fro,, -i'
adjoining room blindfol6ed. By tat;au
the hand of a gentleman, who kent h,ss
mind intently fixed on the object M M
Montague easily found the pin. 1Di
various agents were selected from tba
assembly, and with every one Mr. M u'
tague had no difficulty in fnding tho aon
cealed objects. When the .'unnatrSnhaI
process" was tried, articles We're secrs.oS
ABOUT the room by various persona onS
oy having the agent hold his nand Oh.
four inches over Mr.. Montague,s hsnd tpt
latter easily found all the hidden art;oI 'u'
MIR. Montague then enacted the MOI
murder scene exactly as Mr.. Bishon dooa
1t. While Montague was blindfoIded ~
announcer room knife was produced
pretense made of stabbng a Iadv o1s
the knife was then concealed in the sIeava
of gentleman. Mr.. Montague was ira
led in, still blindfulded, and, by simniu
clasplng the hand Of an agent Who's
mind was fixed lntenulv on the Act nv
found the knife and repeated the feat oS
stabbing. This operation was folIowo3
by the finding of spool hidden in tho
attic, Mr.. Montague being connectad
with his agent only by piece OF wire.
Then the mlnd-reader asked a lady 90.
lected at random to think intently on tho
first note OF some piece of music. Hs
then went TO the piano, and, after a mn.
ments lingering, played the ancient
song, "Go Tell Rhody," which the ladv
said was correct. While bindfolded M
Montague succeeded In tour and a hail
minutes In reproducing a geomCtrical
figure drawn by member of the marty
while he was absentt from the room. Many
other far more complicated feats vera
successfully performed.
MIR. Montague says he performs thess
acts through no occult power, but purely
by natural agency. He blindfolded him.
self in order to secure the most perfect
abstraction OF mind He wants the en-.
tire outside world, except his subject or
agent, shut out. The subject must fix bis
mind intently on the object to be discoy
cred, and must give no muscular indlcs.
ton whatever. The secret consists in
this: A person healthy in body and mind
will go toward an object of which he is
thinking a great deal easier than be will
10 away from it. He has been accus
toned ever since birth to do this. 1.-The
fixes his mind intently on some object he
is bound by the very nature of his men.
tai and physical organization to 90 that
way more easily than the opposite.
The province of the mind-reader is sim.
ply to discover in which direction the
subject wishes to go and to lead him
there. Being bIindfolded and having his
mind intently fixed on his subject, the
mind-reader observes the slightest indi.
cations of vOlition, and by Quickness Of
motion he soon throws his subject off his
guard, and the rest is easy. Various sly
tricks connected with the above described
principle enable the reader to perform
teaJs without physical connection almost
as readily as with.