Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-12-15
TEI.EPATHY TALES.
DAVID cHElsTlE MURRAY ON MIND
 ACTING UPON MIND.

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 The Novelist Believes Tbat the Existence
 of Telepathy Has Been Scientifically
 Established His Curious Personal Ex-
 perienccs.
 A writer like David Christie Mur ray, who has talken all life for the field of his art as novelist and draws upon the whole planet for his illustrations, must hayo had rich experiences in tho domain which the Psyehieal lnyestiga- tion society has chosen for its own. But he does not overload his hooks with ma torial of this kind, nor is his conversa- ton much weighted with the burden of things between heaven and earth that we do not usually dream of. And yet when prompted to do so he can speak on thcse subjects not only with knowl- edge, but also with oloquGnco. He is tit- ted to do ihis, first, by his fino mental organization, for he has been psyehical- ly sensitive since boyhood, and next ny tho many psyellieal experiences which have fallen to his lot during q long active and adventurous life, lived among many poople aud many parts of the world llo does not of course, believe ill the alterations of .soccultism, but ho Is convinced that beneath tho ordina- ry experiences of life, pereeptible to tho senses, there exist spiritual phenomena which will repay investigation and which science is only now beginning to learn.
 Ono day recently MT. Murray talked to Boston Herald man oil tho special subject of telepathy, and after showing from his own personal experiences how mind may act upon mind at distance, independently of the ordinary means of intercommunication, he went on to say:
 "Hero is a case in point. My eldest brother, who died ill 1885, was at sea as midshipman on board merchant vessel He sailed under drunken cap tain, who behaved to him with horrible cruelty. He got the seeds of consump- tion on that voyage. While he was at sea my mother was nursing her uncle, James Withers Marsh, and in the very hour of his death the old man, who had been tendorly attached to my brother, sat up and said aloud: Lot the lad alone Have you no howels?' My mother asked him what he was thinking of, and he cried, That captain is ill treating poor Jack horribly.
 ''The first officer, MT. Mundy, took command of the ship whom Captain Gregory died i'll dolirium tremens and was buried at the Azores. Mundy brought my brother homo, and ho was told the story of the old mans dying words. He produced his own notebook and showed that on the day of tho old man E death he had made an entry, be- cause he intended to indiot the captain for his cruelty on their return to Brit ish port What Is most singular is that when he came to work out the differ ence of latitude he found the entry in his private log and the time of tho old man. s words eoincided to moment Thore arc thousands of such instances reported, and 1t seems to mo quite idle to dismiss them as more coinGidences. Coincidence has very long arm indeed, especially in drama and fiction. But 1 think it hardly reaches so far as that
 NOb NtIl ttllS dSb, 1Al. NluIldJ resumed, T had n very curious personal experience Two people had boen dining with me-ono n very dear and intimate personal friend, the other q comparative stranger. When they had left me, l dis tinctly heard personal conversation within my own mind. do not pretend that the words would have been audible to anybody olsc That would be non sense But heard it within my mind and recognized tho voices of the two men. They discussed my own character and tho action had taken about cer- tain matter at that time. Tho compara- tive stranger was critical and unfriend ly, and my old friend fought my cause with great warmth. l questioned him afterward, and he assured me that such d conversation had taken place as he and his convive had driven i'll the car riage to tho club from my house. '
 The novelist was here asked whether he had met with any cases of the action of a dead on q living mind. He replied, speaking i'll an impressive and reverent tono of voice: ''I am profoundly eonyinc- cd, though donot want to bo regarded as q madman, that after his death my father assisted me ill my literary work For year or two was profoundly con scious of it, and l wroto as if 1 was ab- solutely under his eyo, and with all as surance of his sympathy and aid that, however conveyed, was absolute.
 ''I had all allusion to this kind of in. fluenee, " MT. Murray continued, ''in my book, Rainbow Gold Thero is a dialogue there with a great strong man who has committed some dreadful crime and is repenting of it, and the question between the takers is as to whether there is any knowledge of us on the part of the dead And old Armstrong, q practical minded Scotchman, remarks that he cannot conceive of the souls of Burns and Shakespeare as spending their time in knocking devil knocks at the ta- bles of noodles like pair of domented postmen But, says ho, you can fan ey the spirit of mother saying to the master seraph, ''I have been behaving pretty well of late, and I would like to go back to Castle Garfield and have look at the lad I left behind me, and the master seraph says. Go to the poor creature, gol' And you feel her near