Evening journal., 1897-10-26
MlNp.REAnERs.
niyrtined Their Friends. Hat Were
Not Credited with Cicverness.


mystined Their Friends. Hat Were
Not Credited with Cicvcrness.
The Morris brothers announced one
evening that they had made an impor-
tant discovery. They we're mind-read-
ers.
1--WE have been making experiments"
said Will Morris. "and we find that
either Of us can read what is in the
others mind"
perhaps you can read what is in my
mind" suggested Mrs. Poole, one Of the
neighbors. who had dropped in 10 spend
the evening.
mo, but n you will tell il TO Ernest |
viii take hold of his hand and The mes
sage will be communicated from him to
me. and viii tell you exactly what you
said"
Il don't believe it-unless Ernest
whispers it 10 YOU"
"All right. I'll convince you. I'll go
iuto the dining-room and remain there
until I'm called. You give him some
message anything. so il isn't too loug.
and then I'll come back and wen clasp
hands and I'll know what you said"
BY this time the others in the COM
pany were interested, and the young
women were beginning to ask; why.
how can he do it?"
win Morris went into the dining
room, and Mrs. Poole, leading Ernest
into secluded corner of the room,
whispered to him;
life IS reali Life Is earnesti
And the grave IS not iis goal.
Then she called for VIII TO return.
He came in and extended his wrist to
Ernest. who took hold Of it firmly. VIII
closed his eyes and made some horrible
grimaces. showing that he was concen-
trating his mind and straining his nerv-
ous system. Ernest looked upward with
calm and rapt expression on his face.
After a full minute Of silence win be:
gan and repeated the couplet. rather
brokenly. but without mistake.
Wonderful" said every one
"Do you suppose you could read mine
the same way?" asked one of the young
Cr girls.
VIII told her candidly that he was
afraid she was not good subjective
agent" whatever that may have been.
hut that he was willing 10 hold her hand
ten or fifteen minutes TO ilnd out
Mrs. Poole was not satisfied with the
exhibition. She suspected trickery.
In order TO make sure that Ernest did
rot wink at VIII or give him some other
sign by an expression of the face, she
asked that both be blindfolded. and
that viii be taken into the kitchen and
guarded.
The mind-readers were willing. In
spite OF all precautions taken by Mrs,
Poole. the second experiment was more
successful than the first. VIII repeated
a long sentence, which had been whis-
pered 10 Ernest. Then the blindfOld
was removed from Ernest. and he was
given certain cards bearing names and
dates. He would receive one of these
cards and gaze at it and, in few min
utes. win would repeat the name orthe
date.
The company was convinced. VIII
was a mind-reader sure enough. The
two brothers, however, merely laughed
when they were complimented on The
performance, and said IL was easy
enough, if one had the gift.
They gave frequent exhibitions after
that, always in private, until they be
gan to have something more than q
neighborhood reputation. To avoid toe
much notoriety, they told their friends
one evening just how the mind reading
was done.
The two brothers had studied elec
tricity and played at telegraph evei
since they were small boys. They un
derstood the Morse system thoroughly
When Ernest wished to send message
from his mind to Wits mind he simply
tapped out the dots and dashes on hi
brothers wrist.
"Pshawl We might have known,
said the company, and the brothers re
ceived no credit whatever for their clev