Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-17
OCCULT PHENOMENA.
MARVELLOUS MIND READING BY A
 MERE CHILD.

Boy of Five Years Rivals the Most
 Successful Mind Readers Record.
 Thought Heading That Seems to Be In-
 nate-P Prophetic Visions.
 Not even the best informed readers in this country hear of the many weird and strange cases investigated by the famous Society For Psychical Research that mystic assembly which holds regular seances i'll Westminster town hall, London This society now has quite an extensive American branch, which is rapidly growing in numbers. It includes many of our we'll known sci entists and literary men and women The writer had the good fortune to be granted an interview with one of these American members few days ago, who acquainted him with the very latest and most striking cases now under consider ation.
 The society attention has lately been called to cases of thought reading by young children whose ages would dis pose of theories pointing to premeditat- ed trickery. One of the most interesting of these cases was that of child who, when only ,, promised to rival the feats of the most successful mind readers on record. So noteworthy is his case that numerous foreign doctors and special ists have examned him, deyoting re- ports to the phenomenon. The boy has excellent health, and his parents are en- tirely free from nervous disorders of any kind When his mother began to teach him the multiplication table, she found that he could say it as we'll as she herself, although he had never looked at it before. He gave correct an swers to the most complicated problems ill 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 it spoken, although he had not hitherto studied those languages.
 After thorough examination. how ever, it was found that all of these feats were due merely to mental telep- athy. He generally failed to give the proper answers unless his questioner's mind was fixed upon the same answers before he gave them. It was quite nat ural that they should do so; hence he nneonseiously baffled every one for long time. He also could repeat equally we'll anything that his mother happened to be thinking about. It was a very difficult matter to teach him to read. When his mother looked upon the page at the same time, be pronounced the words as they met her eyes, not as he saw them himself. Upon the advice of the doctors the mother has since striven to break him of these mind reading tend eifcies for fear that his intellect might become permanently dependent upon hers From this case it would appear that thought reading can be innate in some persons and is not necessarily cul- tivated. That the mother had the most marked influence over the child s mind would suggest that the telepathic affini- ty might be due to physiological causes.
 Another case of mind reading, or rather prophetic vision, on the part of a l child is that of an English girl who, on 1 being taken to a strange place or on seeing strange objects, frequently ex- perienced the sensation that she had seen them before. The faculty was no- ticed by her parents i'll 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 of Thourne, they heard that by climbing a certain hill previously unknown to them they might enjoy 8 beautiful view of the surrounding land scape. The walk to the hilltop was by way of narrow path During the en- tire ascent the young lady was struck with her apparent familiarity with ey- cry tree or other object passed. Finally she became so positive that she had been there before that she told her mother as a means of proof that on reaching the top they would pass tree bearing an odd notice printed on sheet of tn. On reaching the place specified both the tree and notice were found exactly as described. h addition to full testimony from the young lady herself, the society has that of her mother, who corrobo- rates it in every detail This case ap- pears to be all excellent one for theoso- phists to use as evidence that persons souls have previously inhabited the earth in different bodies, sometimes those of the lower animals. Washing ton Star.
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