St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-14

with ii3 people. OF course the condi-
tons were not as hard as those en-
countered by the mesmerists whose sub
jectS are placed before a large au-
dience. Most of my trials have been in
private"
The Cincinnati Times-Star gives the
following account of an exhibition by
Earle of his hypnotic powers in the
presence of dozen newspaper men the
other day: 'EarIe's subject was Hap
ny Jack Levi. of New Richmond. a
country lad, who has created comment
among his home people by his ability to
remain under water long time. Two
minutes is the time claimed. Levi new
er swan stroke in his life, but has
crossed the Ohio river at various times
by crawling and hopping along the bot
tom-dlvlng to the surface at intervals
for long breath of air. This was but
the second time that Billy Earle had
placed Happy jack in trance. and
under the influence of the mesmer;c
spell he complained that his eyes hurt
him. The contraction of the muscles
of the eyes of the subject va
ries.' observed the professor
as he stroked tho pain away.
The longer Happy jack renamed at
sea the better subject he became. He
is not of athletic build, and when he
was laid in cataleptic state, with his
head on one chair and his heels on an
other, SkepticiSm received sorry blow.
Such feat would have been physical
lmppossiibility for Happy Jack The
sight OF a curled paper and the inform a.
ton that it was snake sent Happy
Jack across the room like streak of
lightning. In his mad flight he struck
the sharp side of desk, and he was
caught Just as he was about to plunge
through glass door. After the seance
was over Happy jacks leg hurt lit
tie, the result of that collision with the
desk. and that was the only physical
discomfort he suffered. He lid not
know how he had received 1t. A needle
driven into the nose of Happy jack
did not make him vince, and the same
sharp instrument was run through his
tongue, and yet he made no comment.
When the needle was withdrawn from
his tongue little drop of crimson
showed that there was no delusion
about it.
THAT is the first time Eve ever
known subject to bleed remarked
Earle. The pricking of the nose was
not attended by any such natural re-
suit. Happy jack put up his dukes
and fought several rounds with an old
time enemy. Twice he was floored, and
went down ike ton OF coal.
&c, that was soaker,' he declared
as he scrambled to his feet after the last
knock-dOwn and wiped the blood from
bis face. Carrying out suggestion of
one of the staff, the subject was asked:
." Can you play ball?' And his reply
was decidedly affirmative Yes, in
deed
DO you think you can catch Tony
Mullane" was the next query.
'He thought so, and went through the
motions of putting Oh gloves. Adjust
ing his figurative mask, Happy jack
posed in true catcher's style and Earle
went1nto the box. Several hot ones
were tossed in and Jack let one or two
imaginative wild pitches get away and
he growled:
why don't you keep 'em up?'
The ball game ended with the dis
aiding of the catcher. He had finger
knocked out. There was agony depicted
on his face as he sucked the injured
member and threw off the gloves ang-
rlly. The exhibition amused Earle as
much as 1T did those in the audience.
One more feat deserving of mention was
Jacks dive into the river to save a boy
frhm drowning. He was caught to save
his head from tanning into the hard
floor. He crawled around the bottom
of the river until he found the drown
ing boy and brought him to shore In
his dive he hit a splinter and COM
planned that he'd run into "a snag,' and
when he was Informed it was only
splinter he asked: How in the mischief
could hit splinter in the water
That was query which brought q
roar of laughter from the house,
''When Happy jack was brought
around he looked sheepish and said he
felt that way. He spent the last ten
minutes of his trance talking to his
mother with his face turned to corner
of the room. Mesmerism is not the line
Billy Earle expects to follow. He will
appear as developer of spiritual me-
diums. He has several subjects now
under COL troll. One is fair official OF
the Psychic club. According to one
trance medium Earle has an Indian
spirit on his staff. This is Running
Deer, and the defunct warrior has an
nounced that Billy is much help to the
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