The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-21

up from the entrance. The old man had
stood IN the portion Of the church furth-
est from the door, at which end there
was no opening. The church was I'M
doubleday empty when they entered It.
She carried a vivid memory OF the old
mans face and dress, and when she
reached the house of her friend she AT
once Identified his photograph. which the
family had In their possession. The so
ciety has detailed evidence of the entire
occurrence.
The society's attention has lately been
called TO cases OF thought reading by
young children whose ages would dispose
Of theories pointing to premeditated trick
cry. one OF the most Interesting OF these
cases was that of a child, who, when only
5, promised TO rival the feats of the most
successful mind readers on record. So
noteworthy Is his case that numerous for
eign doctors and specialists have examin-
ed him, devoting reports to the phenome-
non. The boy has excellent health and his
parents are entirely free from nervous
disorders of any kind When his mother
began TO teach him the multiplication Ia
BILE she found that he could say II as well
she herself. although he had never
looked at Il before. lie gave correct an
sWcrs to the most complicated problems
IN mental arithmetic without pause. Some
of those who examined him found that he
could translate any sentence IN English,
Spanish or Greek merely on hearing 1t
spoken, although he had not hitherto stud
led those languages.
After thorough examination, however, II
was found that all OF these feats were
due merely to mental telepathy. He gener-
ally failed to give the proper answers un-
less his questiOner's mind was fixed upon
the same answers before he gave them.
II was quite natural that they should 90
so, hence he uncOnsciously baiiled every
one for a long time. He also could re-
peat equally we'll anything that his mother
happened to be thinking about 1t was a
very difficult matter to teach him to reaG.
When his mother looked upon the page
words as they met her eyes, not as he
saw them himself. Upon the advice or
the doctors the mother has since striveu
to break him OF these mind reading ten
denotes for fear that his intellect might
become permanently dependent upon hers.
From this case IL would appear thar
persons and is not necessarily cultivated.
That the mother had the most marked
influence over the child's mind would sug-
gest that the telepathic affinity might be
due TO physiological causes.
Another case Of mind reading, or rather
prophetic vision, on the part Of child IS
that Of an English girl who, on being
taken to a strange place, or on seeing
the sensation that she had seen them be-
fore. The facilities Vas noticed by her
parents in early childhood. and during
her attendance at school, Recently, on
leaving school. her mother took her to
travel in countries which she had never
visited before, and with which she was
in no way Indirectly familiar. One day
while staying at a resort on the Lake or
Thourne, they heard that by climbing a
certain hill, previously unknown to them,
they might enjoy beautiful view TO the
surrounding landscape The walk to the
hill top was by way of a narrow path
During the entire ascent the young lady
was struck with her apparent familiarity
with every tree or other object passed /
Finally she became so positive that she
had been there before that she told her
mother, as means of proof, that on reach
ing the top they would pass a tree bear
ing an odd notice printed on a sheet of
tin. on reaching the place specified, both
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as described. In addition to fun testimo-
ny from the young lady herself the So
ciety has that Of her mother, who corrob-
CRATES II In detail. This case appears to
be an excellent one for theosophists to
use as evidence that persons souls have
previously inhabitated the earth in diff
rent bodies, sometimes those OF the Bwer
animals.
There are as many cases reported from
America as from other countries but they
are not generally as striking as those con-
corning foreign subjects, probably for the
reason that Americans as rule are not |
generally visionary. One of the strangest |
of these apparitions was seen by a man |
living at Lima. Ind. who was a large |
stockholder in a bank at Coldwater. Mich. |
In the middle of one night he was awak- /
ened oy supposed explosion, arose and |
walked all through the city to locate it, /
but found that the bank at Coldwater. |
in the other state. had been robbed at the |
same hour of his dream, the safe being /
blown open with dynamite. His money 4
was doubtless uppermost in his thoughts |
going to sleep, and hence the establish 4
ment of a telepathetic or telegraphic line /
between his mind and the money vault.
From its branch in this country the So
ciety has also received testimony regard |
ing the supposed medical value of hyp-
notism. This includes the case of a young
New York school teacher, who from wit
Messing an accident received a severe men
tai stock resulting. in paralysis Of the
face and limbs. BY making hypnotic pass
es over the afflicted parts q physician
made II possible for her to walk about in
less than three weeks. At the same time
she recovered her senses and did not re-
member anything which had happened
since the day Of her fright, which she
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