Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-08-06

AS for the doctor, his appearance was
even more disappointing and removed
from all romance. His tall, spare,
awkward figure, surmounted by
narrow, ill-shaped head, and pale, ca
daverous face, was hardly calculated to
produces very favorable impression.
The music ceased and DR.. Kellogg
spoke few Introductory words in quiet
manner and with no Barnum-like effort
for effect. He announced that before
exposing, according to his promise, the
hollow swindles of so-called hypnotizers
and spiritualists he would produce GER
tain genuine and incontestable pheno-
mena through the creation, in his sub
iect, of an artificial sleep.
With slight sign to the orchestra,
who Immediately commenced a low and
tremulous paniment, the doctor,
without further preamble, extended
both his hands toward Olivia.
For few moments she gave no sign;
the audience, breathless with interest,
sat in perfect silence, with all eyes fixed
upon The stage Then, all at once, the
magic seemed to work. Struck by the
magnetic current, Olivia rose suddenly
from her seat The change in her ex-
preston was complete; her features
| seemed cast in tragical immobility; her
| look was one of vague, yet deep, aston
ishment and terror; her eyes were fixed
upon kellogg, but seemed to go through
him and find in the distance beyond
some threatening, unearthly vision.
Truly miracle, if small one, had Oc-
Cured. Olivia, whose looks but few
moments before had little to save them
from positive plainness, seemed now
possessed of striking and sinister beau
ty, expressive though it was of intense,
incurable anguish. A glance at the doc
tor showed thatsin his appearance, too,
no less change had ia ken place. He
was no longer the obsequiOUs, courteous
harsh servant, the untiring seeker after
knowledge, tearing the veil of mystery
with brutal strength and prepared to
drag out by the heart-strings the black
est problems of life. His figure seemed
to gain in dignity, his lips were firmly
compressed, and from his eyes, under
the shade of their frowning brows, a
wicked CLEAN shone forth. His whole
bearing seemed to express rancorous
anger, tempered to some extent with
ironical pity for the poor woman before
him. At each gesture of his hands
Olivia sunk still further into her phan-
tom sleep. The carriage of her body
was that of one no longer possessed of
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the even glide of somnambulist, as if
walking upon air. She would draw
back as if attempting to escape, and
then advance again with short, convul-
sive steps, her bosom heaving with
hard, mechanical deep-drawn breaths.
Suddenly cry of horror rang through
the building.
From some concealed pocket about
his person kellogg had taken long
thin dagger, and lifting it on high SO as
to give force to the blow, had plunged
it into the bare flesh of Olivia arm
Leaning far forward from his box, Lord
Warner, Mortified by the suddenness of
this cruel act, looked upon the scene
with eyes full of anger and disgust.
Lady Warner on the other hand, main
tanned the same calmness which had
marked her since her entrance, the on
ly visible sign of her emotion being that
she clutched the edge of the box be-
fore her with a nervous grasp and a
rythmical beating of her well gloved
fingers.
The most unmoved of all was Olivia
herself. Not sign did she give of any
pain experienced from the cruel stab
Her flesh, even around the dagger's
wound maintained its marble whiteness,
and her whole form could still only be
likened to statue of night.
A long murmur of stupefaction ran
through the audience, to whom it was
visible relief when the doctor followed
up his barbarous experiment with more
gentle and poetical illustrations of his
wonderful power.
Having gently drawn the dagger from
the bloodless wound. the doctor waved
his hands, and Olivia commenced to
| on low and
full, but sweet to degree, and their eff
feet was duly heightened by the orches-
tra's soft accompaniment. At another
sudden signal from the mesmerist the
song was broken off abruptly, ending
with plaintive chord sounding almost
like cry of depair. 1t seemed as if
the interruption sundered every tie
which bound her to reality; as if her
mind were wandering in all the I'M
certainty of great sadness. Her eye
lids opened, her eyes looked upward
like those of a Madonna and seemed to
overflow with the indefnable grief of a
SOUL
| The orchestra, whose part, no doubt,
in the performance had been carefully
rehearsed, followed with its strains
the air changed to the theme of fan
tastic dance, and before long the body
of the mesmerized girl swayed to and
fro in perfect accompaniment with the
music. The time quickened, and the
notes grew louder, and soon Olivia, her
features still cast in the same sleep-like
repose, was dancing with all the grace
and abandon of an eastern dancing girl.
At another movement of the doctor
hand the end came as suddenly as when
she sung, and her limbs again assumed
their former trance-like languor.
Vociferous applause broke out over
the entire theater and continued until
the doctor once more faced the footlights
and made a second speech.
Thanks, he explained, to the con-
centration Of magnetic currents, and
thanks, still more to the prolonged in
tensity of her exaltation, Mdlle Olivia
had just entered upon the most acute
condition of lucidity She would now,
should the audience wish it, read any
passage from closed book, or private
manuscript; name and describe any
hidden object; and indicate the secret
thoughts Of any of their number who
would place herself in direct commune