Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-02-03
READS MINDS like BOOKS.
J. Randall Brown Tells of His Re
marka6le NeWs-GatheriDg Faculty.
Tarries in Chicago While on a Tour.
Beginning Of His Fame Marked
by His Exhibition Before Rush
Medical Professors.

Chicago News
NiuG-Rcader J. Randall Brown. with his
basgage well pasted over with foreign no.
tel aud railway lab-ls. reached Chicaeo the
other day ON a "trip around Che world.
Away back jn 1S-S Brown. then q pale
faced strip ing. was reporter on q local
paper Without his ever dreaming VI iJ
Reporter Brown wis, perhaps. one of The
~T-fTr 500 men who ever orIa- rie-t-
ca the profession The idea of adding t'
the news altering faculty SIS &C. commonly
exists the Eift OF m.nd-reatluS IS dis
tinct advance in newspaper work. such
an equipmect as would re 40 the service of
"a voung newspaper man who had the face
uIty eli reading minds is beyond anything
The big asotr, poutan Gaiies have been able
10 make prac ticahie. and they spend hum
dr.ds of thousands Of dollars ON news
every year.
Reeortcr Brown. with "a glorious destiny
before him ju the department OF mter-
view ms permitted himself To- De diverted
from newspaper work. and this is how DE
explained 81 to a Daily News man the
other dav The rarty was discussirg Prof.
Rorerberg's s-ei sht-oi-h1ud tricks and
snecul1tire ON the limits Co c1niurers art
when Tho subject Of clairvoyonce came mp.
I'll was "a c'airvcylnt." said Mr.. Brown.
"tbat fret sent me into the mind reading
business. was q Chicago reporter at the
time one day yOuUE fellow OF the name
OF curtis % reporter on the Same paper,
cot nm aesirnment TO write Up this clair
I-c,rrr The fellow took a liking TO cur
sis who was "a bright. amiable boy and
invited him 90 dinner Curtis took me
aiong-
saThe clairvoyaut gave us an iuustration
~ his mowers. TIE demonstration greatly
impressed Curtis and he kept talking of
tho wonderful things all the way home.
Il can do everything that clairvoyont did
ann % lot he can't do. I have the oldest
gifts in the way OF mind reading you ever
hear Of.
81 doubt &c. said Curtis. Give US an
Illustration Of what YOU can do
IL took his hand and Immediately eur
r,nt was established ana I read what he
was thinking about. He was greatly sur
prisod and cot me 90 repeat the experiment
with others They were a." SUGGEST u''
and finally q few weeks AFTER j was IN
duced to- give q pub.ic exhibition OF mind
reading at the sherman House. Curtis
who IS better known to-day as Wi-lmm j..
Curtis The washington corr spondent ol
Az CHICAGO Record. got the t3cu'j OF
Husb Medical college Interested t'ol-
r7crrv NJ. Lyman wisnessed Che eNhi'i'i'h.
wrote it up GA the Chic1Eo Medical jour i"i
md spoke OF me n t1ticri'S t.rms. I'D "
uttle while was famous. /, was easy 20
earn Blk sums o. money those DAYS ln any
wrv that Interested tie p0'Ic' Hno as my
performance was q novelty / WIS success
f.. from The start
cone aav early iu isi,. q, oHc or my eN-
t,h,tiors in Cbicker,ng Hail. NrW YORK.
a vounc man came TO- see me saying "o
.,,c.rb+ rc possessed NEc Sits 90 those
tbat made people marvel q, me. ne S'l"
,,.. ,,r,o ,-a= Bishop ard L told him to
60 ahead and see what DE coo.o uo- 'i'
-, ~ once. and every test DC undcr-
.ook was successful Later lhi- yo"NE
r.rlow became known as w. lrvins h'SHop,
ono OF .he greatest mind-readerS ever
known 20 science.
And what does Niuc-Rcodfr bfoWA 3c-
cor,niishq ne is modest ard doeSH iN'
N talk Of his own achievements. ''e
must lcarn &c from tho evidence oil ms own
s,.b, ana hearing that Mr. Brown reads
trs ,rsxpresscd thought OF other people
,fl.e r. reader would take in the contents
OF ncwsparc~. Norc than l'.,'. nc v'"
draw. tho picture or Image one N,,S o." JUS
,.,io1 a~.. INT, De has been able 10 do ot %
-, or thirty miles from the person
VINO acted as SUBJECT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i'N w IKE
Ana low was this possible IN IN
-,,f,.,.1 ,yi~e connected the two mon. ana
Over mis- means Of communication came
an, ,.,.,-.s.,' vibrations th1t formed I'm the
brain or Inc mirs-roader Che imase OF the
,,s,,, me subject" was thinking about
TvD,aaationg There IS roHo. say The eN-
re An they know IS that there is
forc, in nature which science has been
rral,.s TO define or classify. THIS force "a
ssi6 10 he better understood IN India
where FOR r,cvc than $3.50 ys7-'s ocoEit.<n