Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21
told her that each time I tried the

/ told her that each time I tried the
telepncne, the coal oeice had closed.
But say, the promises / had made about
ordering that coal next morning were
cOrkers; but so help me Moses, it
didn't forget it again. / never thought
of it until | stepped in the house at
noon, and then | thought of that coal.
1t actually made me perspire and
began thinking up all kinds of fairy
tales. / intended to slaughter the
truth in cold blood, but fortunately Lay
wife must have had something else on
her mind. for she never mentioned
coal. l started to the Office at noon
thinking of that coal, intending to or
der it tie first thing, but | met
couple Of friends and the coal was side
tracked again. | never thought of the
thing again until a coal wagon passed
me about three o'clock as | was COM
ing down street. Ny hair stood on
end. l wss On my way to the Office, so
l just kept repeating the order that
intended to send; it ran as follows:
Send to John Murns, 100 Blank street,
40 bushels of nut coal-send at once.'
l repeated this time and again men
tally. When | reached the office a fell
low stood in the doorway waiting TO
see me. We commenced talking and |
forgot that coal again. never thought
of it until the six o'clock whistles be-
gan to blow / rushed to the telephone
box The coal Office was still open, but
the wire was busy. | grabbed my hat
and chased around three blocks to the
office. There was no one but the clerk
and he was just getting ready to close.
| gasped out my order. He looked at
me in a rather curious way and said:
The coal has been delivered
Something wrong about that"
said l.
Il think not" he said; here is the
order" and he read, John Burns, 100
Blank street, 40 bushels nut coal-send
at once
| was somewhat confused. 'Who
gave the order?" l asked.
Il don't know that; all l know is
that here is the order" he replied.
when did you get the order?'' l in
CURED.
1T is dated O'clock" was his an
swer.
The whole thing flashed upon me at
once-mental telepathy.
| thanked him for his promptnesS in
sending the coal, and started home in
a more cheerful state Of mind than
| had been in the two evenings before.
This was my solution of the strange
order: My thoughts being upon coal,
and coal from that particular company,
unconsciously communicated itself to
Mr.. Smith. who receives the orders.
On that particular afternoon, about
three O'clock when | was so earnestly
and intensely thinking of the coal and
running the order over in detail in my
mind, Smith, no doubt was at the desk
and in receptive condition-that Is,
his mind was not concentrated upon
any thing in Particularly intensity
of thought directed toward him, made
an invisible connection from mind to
mind, just as if connected with tele-
graph wire and acting under telepathic
influence, ne had written down my or
der just as | had thought it. This was
the solution and a great triumph for
telepathy it was.
q concluded that | would make re-
port Of this matter to the British Asso-
citation of Psychical Research, which
concerns itself about occurrences Of
that nature.
when | arrived home, | found my
wife standing in the doorway Sne
informed me with a smile CT satisfac-
ton, that the man had at last brought
the ccal'
Ives, my dear I replied, with ami
nation, and the bringing CT the coal,
as simple as it seems, has proven a
great psychic theory
she locked at me in astonishment
DO you know how that coal got here
how they got our order? ] asked.
@" i certainly do, was her answer
Gould she have guessed it? | re-
membered that | had talked with her
several times upon the subject of
thought transference
81 just supposed. she continued
that you, like every other masculine
chump, would forget that coal aga.n, so
about three o'clock l just went up to
the grCcers and telephoned over for it
myself-that's how they got the order
But still this don't hurt the tele-
pathy theory-well, boys let's all have
another smoke"
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