Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-03-05
From Wednesdays Daily.
McEWEN ENTERTAINMENT.
Gave Mind Reading and Hyp-
motto Tests at the Opera
House Last Evening.

McEwen. the mind reader ard hyp-
nOtist, WAS greeted with u gOOd
sixetl audience at the opera hOuas
last evening, and after the perform
nnc.. 1t H. safe to say that many EN-
tertained entirely different views IN
hypnOtism from those held wien
they entered the opera house.
The frat part III the entertainment
was devoted to Unildrending tests.
Mr.. AicEwen did not claim t" he Ahle
10 explain how minhrea''ing was
done, hut gave some tests Uf his
powers II that line that convinced
the audience that his utn'irea ding
was not u fake. lie called Il class III
about ten men from the audience.
and selecting tour III them sent them
Into the audience with instruc tions
that each secure two articles, NJ
wo articles from the same person.
After receiving the articles all four
were inst ructed to conceal their arti-
c!es in the salue place. lie wns then
bitnGful,lei, and taking hold of the
hand of one of the four he led him to
the place Of cOncealneEt, running
down the narrow isle at rapid
rate. Then he took hold of the hand
of each one of the four and returned
each article to the person from
whom it was borrowed. Other tests
were equally mystifyi"g. and his
success In accomplishing thes. feat
was greeted with great applause.
The second part Of the entertain.
ment was n,esmerism and ny pn"tisn,
and Mr.. McEwem gave a very clear
explanation of this work. He does
not claim to hypnotize ~ person
against his will. aid says that n
person who does claim that knew
ingly tells Il falsehOOd. He said he
could not mcsmerize or hypnOtfse'
pprsOns unless they were willing and
assisted him. He said that hNpn0-
tism IL not mind over mind. but mind
owe, matter. For these tests Mr..
McEwen asked for class Of young
men from II 10 q wears M age.
These hi, said were young, subjective
minds. that would more readily
yield and lend themselves to the nc.
c,.mplishlnent of the work.
1t was difficult to secure the num-
Der of young men required and sever
n! older ones went up on the stage.
1t was as he said, the older ONES did
not yield. but the Younger ones by
his assistance were soon fast asleep.
Other tests were made. some vtrv
amusing, but all interesting. The
entertainment concluded with test
in which Mr.. VeIlum. member o'
his company, was placed in cata'
leptic state, his body becoming rigid
from head to foot. He was then
suspended bet ween two chairs, his
head and shoulders resting ON one
and his feet on the Other, and three
n,en sat on. him and his body sus-
tanned the heavy weight. Mr.. Me-
Even announced that he would give
a performance this evening far ex-
ceiling that Of last night. Al soon
as the old p'pjudices in regard to
hypnOtism would leave tine minds,
much better results would be OBJ
tanned. There Ia no doubt but there
will he Il large attendance tonight.
NcEweD, the hypnot,st. at
noon. today placed Mr.. Vellum,
q member Oi his company. in
a cataleptic sleep, and placed him in
the show window OF l.. u. Browns
drug store. OF course it excited the
curiosity Of large crowds VIII" have
fingered around the store. all after
noon. The young man will he
awakened at the opera house this
evening. A great many were skepti.
cal in regard to the man being asleep
as he was a member Of McEwen's
company A local physician was
given permission to apply t.st to
awaken the sleeper. The physician
said the test was very effective in
restoring unconscious persons es-
pecialiy ca taleptics, tOcOnsciOusness.
but the experiment failed. and the
young man will undoubtedly remain
III that condition until awakened by
McEwen at the opera house IA
annOunced.