The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-03-18
BELLEVUE, LA. THURSDAY, MARCH 49, 1885,

astrous to me If my burglar alarm
hadn't give due notice of your ingress,
so that could establish the electric
current betweensus. will forgive you
if you will only allow me to perform
some experiments on you before you
go, and, by the way, you will not go out
through the do2r, but through this
exit. Here he.pointed to the drain OF
the sink
81 see you age puzzled" he added.
"What mean is this: Sulphuric acid
will soon put you in such consistency
that you can go out this way without in
convenience, as:several before you have
done, for should like to be sure that
you do not tell my secrets, and think
that will be q sufficient guarantee.
Now l shall tel you something; for it
is quite pleas are to tell my discoveries
to one whom know will not disclose
it. Do you remember when touched
your head with my fingers? From that
day I had you in my power. You
understand pbrenology. of course. I
have found a. way of stimulating or
soothing the parts of the brain that
perform each its own function simply
by establishing communication between
the brain of any person and my will,
by means of the nervous aura COM
municated through my fingers. Now
just for experiment will arouse your
powers of pride and eloquence. Here,
after some preliminary preparation, he
touched the back and front of my head
with his forefnger I instantly became
impressed with the idea that was the
finest creature in the world, and my
tongue kept pace with my thoughts so
that addressed an imaginary audience
with great fuency on my fitness for the
Presidency of the country. With a pass
of his hand became silent, and I OBJ
served that he had been making notes.
Again he touched me and became SO
insensible to pain that he actually cut
off one Of my fingers without my feeling
it in the least, although Iremained con-
scious all the time. Another pass and
my perceptive and will powers
were stimulated-a fatal pass for
him-for at once reasoned
out the whole modus operandi
of his discovery. Leaping toward
him, l dipped my finger in certain
liquid which, / instinctively knew to be
right, I touched him at random and
| willed him 70 work. Instantly he be-
gan to count the glass bottles in the
room; willed him to work faster. His
brow contracted and he began to esti-
mate the number of square inches in a
glass retort near at hand. Faster yet.
He became intensely absorbed and
worked out the most difficult mathe-
matical fornlulae. ] could now posi-
lively feel nay will power, as it was so
intense. pressed him more and more.
His brows contracted till they nearly
covered his eyes. The veins on his
temples started out. He passed from
calculus to some unknown mathematical
science, which he created step by step!
| Faster!
| With sariek he fell forward dead
upon my breast. Intense work had
produced an extreme case of that chem
ical change called softening of the
brain, and the grayish white matter
came pouring from his ears, nose and
mouth, dripping down my clothing and
falling in pools upon the floor, till his
head was an empty shell.
The light burned dim, the storm
shrieked without; was alone with the
corpse upon my breast, but nothing
could allay the stimulation of my
thought. Hideous images rose before
me; imps and demons menaced me-
pressed upon me-and then all was
blank.
Irepeat it, this story is true. What
this man wickedly used for his own
ends may be rediscovered to the benefit
of humanity. May God prosper the
search. lie Grand Benedict, IN
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