The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-19
KENTUCKY MIND READER
ovpEATs FIGURES AND WORDS
THOUGHT OF BY OTHERS.

- Glasgow, KY, or rather discovered him
If accidentally, not long since. He is
uTavius TAYLOR, the son of DR.. F. J. Taylor,
GLASGOW physician. His age is 10 years
nd some account Of his doings has been
soDt 10 the Courier-JournaI by DR.. P. c.
-,,tnhin. another Of Glasgow's physicians,
rbo Is familiar with the young mans case,
md has made study of mind reading, as
I-an as what is called muscle reading" by
oarformers who claim TO be guided by the
thrills of the muscles of the subject.
Dr Sutphin gives some speculations at
~ on the alleged distinction between
ND reading and muscle reading, and ar
80 at the conclusion that, though there
nov he trickery 6nd imposture used by some
neople. there Is such thing as mind read
r., and no such thing as muscle reading
Ne Guotes from Stuart Cumberland, an
Togllsh mind reader, who claimed that he
80 gnided by the muscles, and who, in a
,orf6Tmance before the Khedive of Egypt,
PIvrote word thought of the name of the
Ihsdiyes son, Abbas) on a piece of paper,
in arabic a language Of which he knew
nothing. and this without moments hest
tston.
cumberland said this was muscle reading,
hit DR.. Sutphin details a similar test with
Young Taylor which, he claims, shows the
mind must bear its part IN such test as
yrell as the muscles. He is willing to say
that some things may be done by muscle
reading, but that others cannot. DR.. Suit
phin, in his account of young Taylor's per-
Torrance, says:
I'VE NAV concede all that Mr.. Cumber.
land says of muscle reading, may agree that
all his feats were performed by it, yet,
when it is attempted to include all mind
reading in this, then it will be found that
this cannot be done. There is much of
mind reading, indeed, that could not be ex-
pained, nor, in fact, be accomplished by
muscle reading, This is fully proved by
lately developed mind reader here in the
place in which | live-a young man, Fla
vius Taylor, 10 years of age, son of DIR. F.
] TAYLOR, prominent physician and PEN
sion medical examiner. 1t is not improba-
bic that in nearly every instance the gift of
mind reading has been of accidental discov-
cry on the part Of the one possessing it, and
thus it was accidentally made known to
young Taylor.
HIS FIRST ATTEMPT.
Several months ago an itinerant mind
reader exhibited in this place, and young
Taylor attended his performance Return
ing home, he playfully remarked to a young
man who had accompanied him that be
thought he would make a good mind reader,
and that if the other would blindfold him
and hide something he would find it for
him. To have little amusement he was
duly blindfolded and told to find book that
had been hidden in an adjacent room. He
grasped the hand of the young man who
had hidden the book, but was utterly sur
prised 10 find that not only the book, but
also its place of concealment, were impressed
on bis mind. He readily took the young
man to the place where the book was and
handed it to him.
after this there were more or less fre-
duent tests of his powers in finding things
thus, while all hidden articles are always
promptly located by him. Intermingled
with these tests were others, such as willing
him TO do certain things. Say, for instance,
that it was willed for him to take particu-
lar flower of a number of flowers in a vase
in the room, and to hand it to a certain
young lady present; to remove the watch
from the pocket of certain gentleman and
to put IL into that of another certain gentle
man; to go TO library and take out some
particular volume in IL, and turn to GER
tain page and paragraph or sentence in it,
and so on of other requests of this sort
''All these were readily and accurately
done by him down to the minutest particu,
lar of the wish. Mr.. Cumberland, however,
processes to have done things quite equal to
this by muscle reading, being directed in
kept inclosed in his. In this wry, he says,
be only followed direction, and knew moth
ing really of the mind, and only did as the
tremors directed. He did, in other words.
precisely what the hand he was holding
would have done, directed by the individual
In this of course, there WAS no mind read
ing, but guidance only by muscle signal
ing.
Suppose, however, it was required to take
hold of the hand and next tell any partcu-
lar thought of the mind-not find ANYTHING
or do anything that the hand of the indi-
vidual might do, but simply to take the
hand and say, not act out, what the thought
was-then this could only be gotten direct
from the mind, and in no other way, as
mere muscle reading, in this case, would
simply be impossible. In this case, it would
be necessary to see thought itself, to tell
what it was, which the thrill of the muscles
would not admit of. And yet young Taylor
can do this. He has been mentally re-
quested, for instance, to play certain air
on the organ, one OF number played by
him. When catching hold Of the hand to
know what it was, he would go to the organ
and play it, using both hands for the pur-
pose Had he been playing by direction only
Of the muscles Of the hand, he could not
have let go the hand before beginning to
play and played with both hands.
SOME OF THE TESTS.
but he has done better even than this.
Any figure, or any number of figures being
thought of he has readily announced what
II or they were, calling them out singly or
IL combination as desired For instance
suppose that the figures ), 3 and s were sep
arately thought Of Then these were
promptly told out one by one and announced
slngly as thought of; or, suppose again
these were thought of as 53S, then this
number or 53S, would be told Some time
ago knowing that he did not understand
Latin, | inprovised a short Latin sentence
- Est mlhi vOluntas ut legis mean men
'um-and asked him to tell me what it
was. This was made out slowly, but quite
accurately, the words being spelled out,
letter by letter. 1t is proper to say, too.
that these were called out at once without
gong over the alphabet and getting at
taeLn IN this way; one by one on the order
u TIE table rapping' Nothing was said,
really more than to call out the letter in
tnelr proper order.
without mentioning other feats of this
!4uu5 man, the question next occurs, Upon
nao other ground can we explain this tell
Ing OF figures and calling out Latin than
TPoh the silent impress of mind upon mind
RS US Is the explanation, in fact, that young
1ayI9r gives OF his mind reading as it is
Iolel, or that he only interprets everything
~ IMPRESSION. He knows nothing of mus
, o-9 Leadlng, feels nothing of the sort, sees
aYtnIhg, hears nothing is not aware even Of
~ Partcular exaltati0n of the perception,
81 o.. SIMPLY hnds certain thoughts or wishes
- H1otner Impressed on him
his great difficulty, he saws, is to get a
mr.