The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-01-30
TELEPATHY TALES.
DAVID CHRISTIE MURRAY o" MIND
ACTING UPON MIND.


of Tciepathy Has Been Scientifically
EstabIished-His Curious Personal Ex-
perienccs.
A writer like David Christie Muir
ray, who has taken all life for the field
Of his art as novelist and draws upon
The whole planet for his illukrations,
must have had rich experiences in the
domain which the Psychical Investiga-
ton society has chosen for its own. But
he does not overload his books with ma
terial Of this kind, nor is his converse
tion 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 these subjects not only with knowl-
edge, but also with eloquence. He is fit
ted to do this, first, by his fine mental
organization, for he has been psychical-
ly sensitive since boyhood, and next by
the many psychical experiences which
have fallen to his lot during long,
active and adventurous life, lived among
many people and many parts of the
world. He does not, of course believe
in the alterations Of "occultism, but
ho is convinced that beneath the ordina-
ry experiences of life, perceptible to the
senses, there exist spiritual phenomena
which will repay investigation and
which science is only now beginning to
learn.
One day recently Mr.. Murray talked
to Boston Herald man on the special
subject Of telepathy, and after showing
from his own personal experiences how
mind may act upon mind at a distance,
independently of tho ordinary means of
ntercommunication, he went on to say:
'Here is a case in point. My eldest
brother, who died in 1865, was at sea
as midshipman on board a merchant
vessel. He sailed under drunken cap
tain, who behaved to him with horrible
cruelty He got the seeds of consump-
ton on that voyage. While he was at
sea my mother was nursing her uncle,
James Withors Marsh, and in the very
hour of his death the old man, who had
been tenderly attached to my brother,
sat up and said aloud: Let the lad
alone. Have you no bowels?' My mother
asked him what he was thinking of, and
he cried, That captain is i'll treating
poor Jack horribly.
1.-THE first officer, Mr.. Mundy, took
command of the ship when Captain
Gregory died in delirium tremens and
was buried at the Azores. Mundy
brought my brother homo, and he was
told the story of the old mans dying
words. He produced his own notebook
and showed that on the day Of the old
mans death he had made an entry, be-
cause he intended to indict 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 the old
mans words conceded to a moment
There are thousands of such instances
reported, aid it seems to me quite idle
to dismiss them as mere condolences.
Coincidence has very long arm indeed,
especially in drama and fiction. But !
think it hardly reaches SO far as that
"Not very long ago." Mr.. Murray
resumed, "Ihad very curious personal
experience. Two people had been dining
with me-one very dear and intimate
personal friend. the other comparative
stranger. When they had left me, dis
tinctly heard q personal conversation
within my own mind. / do not pretend
that the words would have been audible
to anybody else. That would be nom
sense. But heard IL within my mind
and recognized the voices of the two
men, They discussed my own character
and the action had taken about GER
tain matter at that time. The oompara-
tive stranger was critical and unfriend.
ly, and my old friend fought my cause
with great warmth. questioned him
afterward, and he assured me that such
a conversation had taken place as he
and his convive had driven in the car
riage to the club from my house 1"
The novelist was hero asked whether
he had met with any cases of the action
of dead ON living mind. He replied,
speaking in an impressive and reverent
tone Of voice: "I am profoundly convinc-
ed, though do not want to be regarded
as q madman, that after his death my
father assisted me in my literary work
For year or two Twas profoundly con-
scious of it, and wrote as if was alb
solutely under his eye. and with an as
surance of his sympathy and aid that
however conveyed, was absolute.
II had an allusion to this h ad Of in
fuence," Mr.. Murray continued, 'in
my book, Rainbow Gold Th,re is q
dialogue there with great strong man
who has committed some dreadful crime
and 10 ranantinU NJ ~ and tho uuaetiou