The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-18

him found that he could translate any
sentence In English, Spanish or Greek.
merely on hearing II spoken. although
he had not hitherto studied those Lam
guages. After thorough examination,
however. II was found that all of these
feats were due merely to mental telep-
athy. He generally failed to give the
proper answers unless ms questioners
mind was fixed upon the same answers
before he gave them. 1t was quite
natural that they should do so. hence he
unconsciously baffled everyone for a
long time. He also could repeat equally
well anything that his mother hap
pened to be thinking about. 1t was
very difficult matter to teach him to
read. When his mother looked upon
the page at the same time he pro-
nounced the words as they met her eyes.
not as he saw themseh. Upon the ad-
vice of the doctors the mother has since
striven to break him Of these mind
reading tendencies. for fear that his
intellect might become permanently de-
pendent upon hers. From this case 1t
would appear that Thought reading can
be innate in some persons and is not
necessarily cultivated. That the moth
er had the most marked influence over
the child's mind would suggest that the
telepathic affinity might be due to phys
Illogical causes.
ANOTHER ODD CASE.
Another case of mind reading. or
rather prophetic vision, on the part or
q child Is that Of an English girl who
on being taken to q 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 In early childhood,
and during her ATTENDANCE at school
Recently, on leaving school, her moth
er took her to travel in countries which
she had never visited before. and with
which she was In no way indirectly IA
miliar. One day while staying at a re-
sort on the Lake at Thourne they heard
that by climbing q certain hill. pre-
viously unknown to them, they might
enjoy a beautiful view of the surround
ing landscape. The walk to the hilltop
was by way of narrow path. Dur
ing the entire ascent the young Iady
was struck with her apparent famil-
iarity with every tree or other object
passed. Finally she became SO posi-
tive that she had been there before
that she told her mother, as u means
of proof, that on reaching the top they
would pass a tree bearing an odd notice
printed on a sheet OF tin. On reach
ing the place specified, both. the tree
and notice were found, exactly as de-
scribed. In addition to full testimony
from the young lady herself. the So
ciety has that Of her mother, who car
robOrates 1t in every detail. This case
appears to be an excellent one for the
osophists to use as evidence that per-
sans souls have previously inhabited
the earth in different bodies. sometimes
those of the lower animals.
YANKEE GHOSTS TAME. -
There are as many cases reported
from America as from other countries,
but they are not generally as striking
as those concerning foreign subjects,
which seems to show that Americans
are not as progressive In this matter as
they should be. One Of the strangest OF
the American apparitions was seen by
a man living at Lima, Ind. who was a
large stockholder In a bank at Cold
water Mich. In the middle OF one
night he was awakened by supposed
explosion. arose and walked all through
the city to place it, but found that he
was mistaken. The next day he heard
that the bank at Coldwater, in the 9TH
er state, had been robbed at the same
hour of his dream, the safe being blown
open with dynamite. His money was
doubtless uppermost in his thought be-
IOTe kOlHs W SittD duu ucticc .tuc, 'SS-
tablishment Of q telepathic or telegra- j
phic line between his mind and the
money vault. .
From rs branch in this country the
society has also received testimony re-
garding the supposed medical value Of
hypnotism. This includes the case of a
young New York school teacher who
from witnessing an accident received q
severe mental shock, resulting In para
lysis Of the face and limbs. BY making
hypnotic passes over the afflicted parts
a physician made 1t possible for her to
walk about in less than three weeks.
At the same time she recovered her
senses and did not remember anything
which had happened since the day Of
her fright, which she called "yester-
day." On her further recovery the doc
tor found that she was what hypnOtists
call "a sensitive" She could feel his
presence when he was not visible and
could distinguish objects held between
her hand and his, by their tastes coming
to her mouth. Water over which hyp.
motto passes had previously been made
tasted to her like mineral water, and
could be distinguished from other
water not so treated.