The herald., 1895-12-01
Wants Headlights on the Trac.
ton Company's Cars
MARRIAGES OF CONVENIENCE
Challenges Professor TyndsIl to q Very
Plain Test
Tie Says That There Is No Such Thing a
Hind Readlng--New School
Houses

reckon the Los Angeles Traction COM
pany as ono Of surprising potentia!ity.
1t was not enough for 1t to compel the
patient patrons OF the Third street car
line to carry step ladders Of their own ;
the diaboliism needed the elimi stion
of headlights to make IL q complete pub
lie nuisance; and the headlights were
eliminated in the morning hours. And
the public howls and the milk men and
the bakers and other honest folk who are
abroad IN the carly morning see visions
OF moving monsters, and would fam curse
their fractious runaway horses and the
miraculous Traction com pany, and the
general public will look on as soon as
thereis any light on the subject to make
it visible.
The Herald is to DO praised for its
charitable work, and the good women of
the city who are working with it In the
cause of charity deserve commendation
for their zeal and unrequited labor for
TIE poor.
Among the late we'll meant illusions
are few that l want to oriticise, especial
ly the story relating TO tho love affairs OF
George Washington. We are told that h
was an unsuccessful sutton for the hand
and heart of one Virginia maiden after
another to the mum her of half a dozen at
least. before he won Martha GUSTS. We
are told that one young woman, a Miss
Fauntleroy, rejected him, and that years
afterwards she stood by an open window
to witness II triumphaf procession In his
honor, and was SO overcome by remorse
or envy or jealousy of Martha Washing
ton or an unsatislied longing for notoriety
that she fell a
The article is evidently intended to
show that the young women who rejected
the great and good WASHINGTON we're very
foolish for 30 doing, and that young wo-
men should be very careful to choose
me en- OF marked abilit wand big check
books. As long as the majority OF man.
kind are taught that the capture of big
matrimonial game and the multiplication
OF that species are the highest duties OF
rational creatures, We may expect evils
of all sorts to breed as now without sps-
CIal attention.
Away down in his heart everyone knows
That whoever marries for money or a
title or position Or influence is as much a
prostitute as is the deDizen Of the crib or
the bagnio The chief differences arc the
higher price paid and the lifelong crime
sworn to be carried out in consideration.
marrying well" and SETTLING down."
Down" is not unusually the proper
term for one or both parties at interest.
Many people who are good enough TO
sneer at the Vanderbilt and Astorbuilt
tribes and their European allies are none
too good to condone similar unhoiv
alliances arragned for in the home mar
ket. They are of the ilk who imprison
dealers in Louisiana lottery tickets dur
Ing the week and sell lottery tickets at
church fairs at night and on Sunday.
They are apt to condone prostitution
ifSpf "a henavnr is Hranead
tioned by the county clerk and sanctified
by the holy words Of minister, which
are translsted into mummery.
They know that the only proper motive
for marriage is that rarely real thing
called love, whether the proposal come
hey sweep, from the duke of Marlborough
or his hickey, from the prince OF Wales or
any other advehturer, or from u plain,
good man with an honest heart.
What are generally called common wo-
men OF tue town are not the most COM
mon by any means, nor is their influence
for evil feather s weight in comparison
with that Of tie gilded. titled, Lifelong,
breeding, swelling breed.
4 = 4
Reverence for one Alex J. McIvor Tyn-
DALI mind-reader ard collector of rare
coins, new and DID, seems 10 be the chief
business of the busy as well as the unem-
lever in mind rea ding. telepat thought
transferencs and ciaiivoyance, l desire
to make few remarks. l know nothing
of any physical phenomena that cannot
be accounted Tor by chemical and physl
cal laws. 1t will not do to tell me thet
mind reading or psyChical influence ena-
bles man to drive around in the dark. find
hammer and drive u tack with it. Every
thought in the mind is made of a COM
blnatlon OF elementary ideas conveyed
by the nerves of sight. hearing, feeling,
tasting and smell ng. Nerves convey to
the brain the most elementary IDEAS of
color, form, texture and composition.
Tney cannot convey thoughts, any more
than there is thought in a telegraph
wire. Neither can thought be conveyed
from one mind to another by any posi-
BILE means. Each receives, or fails to re-
ceive, the elementary signs of thought
commonly apreed upon, Interprets them
in fashion which is absolutely his own,
and which distinguishes him from all
other things in the universe. Each indi.
vidual Is but the sum OF his elementary
I'm IMPRESSIONS. or sense impressions, and
his thoughts thereon. BY using various
signs OF signals already agreed upon,
we can give sense impressions which may
be translated into thought, or about
which one may or must think Except
Ing such natural conyulsions as laughing,
crying, etc.. all signs must 90 agreed
upon to be nderstood by the observer.
leOple may sometimes be so deeply in
tarested in the same thing that one may
accidentally guess what another is think
ing about. That Is not mind reading; it
Is mere guesswork. AS the nerves of the
human body can convey to the mind
nothing whatever but sense impr essions,
and the only outward conveyances they
are capable OF is mere motion, which
may Or may not result in sense impress
sion for another being, and as thought
itself is seated in the mind and cannot
be transferred, hold that mind reading,
other than mere guesswork, is an pos
sibility; that Tyndall's sO-called gilt is
but trick which in most cases requires
confederate, perhaps in all cases. TO
put each mans faith to the test, | make
the following offe':
Professor Tyndall:must be blipdfolded
according to my direction: he may hold
my forehead or left hand or both while
write with my right hand; for every word
t. at he reads" correctly l will give him
$40 to be used for Dis charitable purposes:
for each failure he is to give me $40 for
my charitable purposes. This test must
be performed IN the open air and in the
light of day. There must be present nei
ther thick curtains nor dark corners nor
,nusty, lamps nor aids, nor abetters, nor
confederates of either party to the contest.
Plenty OF with sses may bs chosen by lot.
The time may be any day after Z o. M.
and before the DUSK of evening.
This oger holds 60 ID for Frof. Tyndall
or any other human being. can be
FOUND at "a Lyon street, city.
l have enough space to remark that
busy people would buy many more maga-