Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-28
THE MIND-READER.
Bishops Wonderful Exhfbition-Millard,
the Comnoser aud Yacalist

the Composer and Vocalist.
| At the Metropolitan Theater last evening
Bishop, " the mind-reader," gave his first
entertainment in this city. 1t was won-
derful exhibition. The song recital by
Millard, the popular composer, was brief,
but exceedingly enjoyable. Millard's voice
ranges from baritone to tenor registers.
His enunciation is the most distinct and
| the nearest perfect of any voice We have
heard. He sings with feeling-the secret
| of all successful musical Interpretation.
His tones are strong, sweet, melodious-it
is, indeed, an admirably preserved voice,
of very wide capacity. Miss Katie r.
Heyman acted as accompanist for Mr.. Mil
lard, who gave a selection from "Travi-
ata,' when the Tide Comes In y and
Dear Little Heart" the TWO latter of his
own composition. AT Bishops request, q
| committee was chosen by the audience to
watch him about the stage, and consisted
of Judge Beatty, DR.. Cluness. Colonel
Hamilton, Frank Miller, ". E. Gerber, D.
| Lubin, DR.. w. a. Briggs and a RECORD
| UNION representative. The first expert
leading Colonel Hamilton to a gentle
MANI. A Smith-in the audience, whose
name the Colonel had written upon paper
| and sealed in an envelope. The second was
| deception as TO location of sound by mental
| suggestion. Two coins were repeatedly
struck together in front of and close to the
| face of DR.. CiuRess while blindfolded, and
in every instance the doctor, by mental
| suggestion located the sounds in other
directions than the right ones. In The
! third experiment two of the committee
removed Bishop from the stage and into
close room. DR.. Briggs then took an open
knife, went into the dress circle made
motion as if to stab Charles A. Neale and
| then secreted the knife under drapery in
mezzanine box 2 Bishop, blindfolded, then
| led DR.. Briggs from the stage rapidly to
! Neale and repeated the motion, and thence
to the box, found the knife, and returning
| to Neale repeated the stroke again. The GO
| ing first TO Mr.. Neale the doctor said, was
due to his thinking of that gentleman
instead of the hiding place of the knife
The fourth experiment was very difficult
| Prior to beginning it DR.. Cluness certified
that Bishops pulse had risen from normal
| to 14S. Bishop was removed from the
stage by committee. Judge Beatty took
| from three persons, without their request
or suggestion, three articles and secreted
| them in the lobby. Blindfolded and leading
| the Judge Bishop speedily found the arti-
| cles and returned them to their owners.
One was a pair of glasses As he tilted
! there another pair. This puzzisd him and
! he placed them upon the nose of q gentle
man near by but soon removed them and
| manifested great confusion. He was told
he was in error and after some inquiry Mr.
| Figg admitted that the glasses were his but
that after Judge Beatty had taken them he
| borrowed a pair from friend. Bishop at
| once took Figg's hand and presently found
| the friend, who had changed his seat, and
effected a proper disposition of the two
| pairs OF glasses amidst the warm applause
of the audience While Millard sang DR..
| Cluness returned and wrote upon a slip of
paper the name of William Cullen Bryant
| and the name of the national song. The
| slip he sealed up in an envelope and placed
| it III his pocket. Coming upon the stage
Bishop gave him a pencil point secured
| from Colonel Hamilton, and requested the
doctor TO place it in the envelope and again
seal and put it away. He then sat at a
table little distant from the doctor, de-
| scribed the personal appearance OF the
man whose name was IN the envelope,
wrote few words of message, and signed
il backward " William Cullen Bryant" in
a manner resembling the poets signature.
Seating himself at the piano he played sew
eral bars of The Star Spangied Banner"
DR.. Cluness tore open his envelope, un-
folded the inclosed slip with the name and
| the song title upon II, and TO his astonlsh-
ment found scrawled beneath his own
| writing the words g Good night, ". C. B."
This, Bishop announced, was Fosters great
spiritualistic feat. He pronounced it and
all other spiritual manifestations q" frauds"
and declared his readiness to ex.
pose any and all mediumistic phe-
nomena, and added that tonight
be would do some of the difficult
physical feats of mediums, and for coin
challenged anyone TO bring handouts from
which he could not release himself The
final feat wss the writing, after considera-
Bile trouble, the figures 2, 0, 8. 3, 4, 8, !,
which Frank Miller and DR.. CluneSs COM
mitted to memory outside the building
from bank note one of them possessed.
1t was throughout Eeat and thoroughly
enjoyable entertainment. Bishop mystified
everyone who attended, and did all he un-
deitook with perfect confidence in his
powers, and under tests completely mega
tlving the idea of the possibility of con-
federates, collusion or fraud of any kind.
He insisted that there is mental sight-so
calied-through the minds of others; that
his is not muscle reading, because in many
tests he does not touch the person. Several
mind-readers have appeared here, but not
one that can for moment be compared to
this nervous, quick witted fluent talker
and singularly successful operator. lie
gives fnal entertainment to night, intro
duciDg examples of both mental and phys
ical phenomena,