Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28
SEEING WITHOUT EYES.
Some Remarkable Manifestations of
.Psychic Sense"

Some Remarkable Manifestations OF
Psychic Sense"
"There are five senseS-seeing, hearing,
feeling, smelling and tasting" This, writes
a Meadville pa correspondent OF the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, is the lesson which
the child learns at school, and Materials
tic science still enforces it upon oar ripper
years. But of late there has been grow
ing belief in the popular mind-that is to
say, the mind of the public not bound by
..ae traditions of the schoOls-that science,
so called. has not yet discovered all the aV-
euues Of communication between the soul
and the outer world. We are beginning
to suspect that there may be windows In
the body which the prying eye OF science,
with her most perfect microscope, has not
discovered; that knowledge may leak into
the inner chamber of the soul through some
chink too small to admit the scapei OF the
surgeon. Even suSh palpabIe TACT as the
circulation of the blood is modern discov-
cry; many functions of the body are stili
unknown TO the closest students. and 1t IS
barely possible that the well-worn lesson OF
1.-the five senses may have TO be revised
by the addition Of sixth, whose function
is in a field too spiritual for examination by
the ordinary instruments Of science
Sogaetine since had an experience with
a lazy who possesses the power 10 detect
hidden things by means other than the
known FIVE senses. The lady calls her
strange power psychometry,' when
means soul-measuring, but which, II seems
too me, is no name at all for the power ia
question. had Just received letter from
home inclosing one from my grandfather,
a "a r-r-f4t ton
me at my home address. In an interview
with the lady, Mrs. S. "a pleasant-appcar:ng
and modest little woman from Tennesseel, 1
handed her the envelope containing the two
letters, and requested her TO tell re what
she sensed from them. We were standing
al the time on the hotel veranda, IN broad
daylight, and she could not have read tie
letters without detection, even Il she had
been capcble Of such deception inaHedi-
ately she replied: There are two magnet
isus here. one male and the other female"
fright" replied, conforming 70 her ter
raiuology; "b1t tell me what you get fro1l
the male influence" She at once began
series Of startling revelations. The let
ter" she said, Is from your grandfather
on your mothers side. The magnetism IS
not healthy, and judge the gentleman IS
not well / see a broad eZpaase Of water
between him and Is. he - across TIE
ocean, replied that be was travelling for
his health She gave ne ether details q q
personal nature which ste could have
learned only By some mysterious sense not
possessed By the majority q people 4
opeues the letter and showed Der a; Tho
head OF the sheet . snail oval pecio prllt OF
Carrickfergls, seaport tovn on tie coast
OF the north Of Ireland. near Ballast
That SAID I, lis The place where NJ
grandfather Is cow stopping, ard a. yo2
hare said IS correct An szd she.
"thst Is his frs, Place" and @ reflection
knew il &c be true
How 90 yoa know these telngsF asked
In ac.azenezt BIT she o0Ed 10: tel TIC
Il was as zsIcb . mystery 70 Der As 70 myself
s'Do ycu believe iEat spirits TEL yCzS'
ASKED NO. get is b. touching tb> .e:-
ter, but car not tel yo1 hcs, f" ale replied
AZ sometimes make mistakes, u, mistakes
ouIy prove :hzt the power IL natural, and
Ike nv ether senses, Liable 20 err" SIZE
declared = was ocs EainG-rcSctcT fas:soay.
that tern explains no:aing), for IL was 1eoes-
sa-y 70 bod tic Letter II her ra4nd IN order
20 reveal - ccsteats-
a. another the lad rncegved letter
from . friend who WA very hostile 70 al
oocGit phenomena, s7d who Il tie letter
s0oa2ed re roz1d3y fos ny ia;eres: u tbszo-
Eaet Mrs. s. ah,oz.t DISK e; TIE 6oo, q
hex roo-a ca the oxF received TIE letter.
Hal u jest A4n6ed her iae ezve.cD cos-