The herald., 1895-12-01
He Has Mystified the
Public for These
Many Years
HIS WILD CARRIAGE DRIVE
Is One of the Things Professor Bell
Says He Will Tell Him How II Is
D0ne.-The Two Men Who Are
to Meet in Mental Contest

are attracting q wider and closer atten-
tion on the part of intelligent people
than, possibly, ever before in the world S
history. The so-called standard philos.
ophy, the mode of motion philosophy.
the philosophy of Huxley and Helmholtz
is not Imp:egnabe. Ccrcbration is
concrete and cannot contradict itself,
consequently uan cannot think of moth
ing and yet the idea underlying the tern
nothing is indispensable to all dis
cussion. The universe is composed of
something and nothing and that nothing
is as important in the constitution of
things as something. This is forci bly, IL
lustrated in the science of mathematics.
| The symbol of nothing, the cipher, is as
| valuable as the nine signi 6cant digits
| taken together. This is seen in every de-
partment OF nature. Thus, form depends
upon outline, and this is made possible
only by matters relating to space. which
| if there is such a thing, is no such a
| thing nothing.
| 1t is claimed that around the true phi
Iosophy enunciated by the teacher OF the
| occult there is pantheistic halo, but it
| is of that gracious acceptable form which
preserves the souls entity and individ-
ualty after its separation from the gross
er body, and 1t is this tnat makes it SO
generally acceptable to the conscientious
student. 1t is a form that addresses
itself to the common sense of all. A
better philosophy, it is claimed awaits
acce ptance and one has but to sip to wish
TO drink and drink deeply.
So long as these things have not yet
been fully laid down on Il scientific basis
AID no particular recognized school or
cult establish ed, each division has its
oiot oln, ,,@,4 hnir COLI
each fully believing that he is right ana
to a certain extent admitting the creed
of others, but in his own belief adds to
or takes from it at will. No end OF
trickery and quackery has been intro
duced and to such an extent has this
been done that 1t is now hard TO distin-
guish genuine phenomena from fakes.
With these facts in view the conetst be-
tween Professor Tyndal and Professor
Bell at Music hall Monday night is at
tractiug consid arable attention.
Professor Tyndall is widely known not
only in the United States but in Europe.
He has beyond doubt performed many
feats which border on the mysterious.
He was recently challenged by 4 Profess
sor Bell. who claims that he can explain
how these things are done, bv what
power or by what gift. ind-reader Tyn-
dali has mystifed a great many people,
and if Professor Bell can explain away
these things he will have something to
say that will be Listened to with a great
! degree OF interest by large numper of
people.
Professor Tyndall is the son OF an emf
neDt London physician ana has been be-
| fore the public many years. When inter-
viewed at his rooms IN Hotel Ramona ne
| said:
OF my work the public ought to be
| quite familiar without my repeating il.
However, since you ask it. here are some
zf b.,t + hat A,nn to- hnV
can do, | would rather not attempt to
! tell, for really | do not know what |
could do. By that | mean that / am not
yet fully convinced as to the limit OF
| my powers. OF course the one test which
| make and with which the public is
most familiar is my blind folded carriage
drive. 1t is a fact-the public may be-
lieve M or not; it is nevertheless true
! that | cannot even drive span of
( horses. | mean by that statement that
am not at all skilled in the handling
o! the rsins and would never undertake
| to drive out for pleasure. Yet, as tie
people have several times seen. | enter
| the carriage blind folded, take the lines
and whip and skilfully guide the team
thorugh the crowded streets. Not only
this, but | drive to the spot selected by
| the committee and find the hidden ar
starting point. / use the whip freely
and 20 with such dash as to have my
! drives characterized as Tyndall's wild
drives. Nexs Monday Professor Bell will
occupy the carriage as my guest, and thai
| night at Music Hall he will explain how
| | do it. l shall be as much interested in
| his explanation as l am sure the public
| will be. Another circum stance of which
the people of Les Angeles are quite
! familiar is the Danson case. Dsnson,
under my influence, not only confessed
but told where the hidden property could
be found. Such a thing might be new
TO the people here, but II is not TO me.
There is scarcely city III the country
| that | have visited and in which / have
not done equally good work in discover
ing guilty criminals and recovering
stolen or lost porperty. l believe that in
largely brought into use in crimia and
such cases. only few days ago the DIS.
patches told OF case in San Francisco
where 4 Judge issued q warrant baseu on
/ information furnished by medium.
I This is in marked contrast to q court
| decision few years ago which was to the
! effect that because man was a spiritual
! ist it did not necessarily follow that he
was insane. These matters are becoming
/ better understood with each passing year.
! Men skilled in science and students have
given a great deal of thought and study
| to the various phenomena, II you see lit
| TO call them such, and L hope Professor
Bell will have some new facts to present
| when ne meets Inc in Music Hall Mon.
! day night.
/ "Of my own powers and doings it would
I seem out of place for me to SPEAK. Some
! of the most wonderful things which |
have done have been outside OF Los An
! geles, yet | shall con.:ne my remarks, 3"
| continued Professor Tyndall, Ito such as
! are matter of record here. II l told the
| people here OF nv work in convicting
Grim inals in other cities, of locating lost
relatives. finding lost property. directing Z
/ peoples business affairs anc the other
remarkable things l have done, they
! might say, 'Oh, We only have his word
for it, But what I have done here is
well known and can hardly be ques.
toned. The tests which / have made
| before the audiences in this city are
only samples OF what can be done in pri-
vate life. Ii a man comes on the stage in
the Los Angeles theater and while | am
| blIndfolded hides Il certain piece OF prop
crty, | take his hand and by his simply
| thinking of where he hid that article
LEAD him directly to the spot. 1t neces-
sarily follows that l had the power, by
some means or other, of fading that
, property. Many persons look upon such
! things as something to be done in a thea
ter as an exhibition. AS a matter of ia ct
the same powers can be used in private
life and made equally effective.
How do [ think Professor Bell will
| explain my powers? Well, that is a sub.
| lect | would rather not discuss just now.
1 am considerably interested in it my
self but at present can only say We hall