The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-19
TOPICS OF THE TOWN
Lumber Jacks Have Left for
Their Camps.
IT HAPPENED TO MAGUlRE
Why John Wouldn't Buy a War Cry
and What 1t Did to Him-Not So
Many skeptics Regarding
Hypnotism Now.

Missoula, Sept. 1S.-The lumber jacks
who have been so numerous in town
for two or three weeks have nearly all
gone and in another day or two there
will be none of them left. They have
had a little breathing spell and have
gone to the logging camps for the win
ter. In 10 days the logging operations
will be in full blast and nothing more
will be seen of the lumber jack till he
comes out of the timber in the spring.
He hibernates, but his winter is not
spent in idleness. 1t is his busy season.
and when he shows up again in the
spring he will have a big roll. He isn't
like fellow who doesn't know what to
do with it, either. He has more fun dur
ing his spring vacation than Jim Brown
OF Butte does when he gets after a
boodler. But he is a good fellow, and
this part of the state counldn'r get
along without him.
1t isn't often that your uncle John
Mcguire is taken off his pins, but once
in while he gets a crack in the solar
plexus that shortens his breath Tor a
while, and that is just what happened
to him the other evening. He was
standing at the Normandie bar with q
party of friends, drinking mineral
water, when a Salvation Army girl
came in with copies of the War CRY.
Now John has a grievance against the
war Cry. Some years ago, in it's de-
scription of Butte, this enterprising
journal printed Johns picture. 1t was
the famous group of miners, in which
John and two of his theatrical friends
are disguised but feebly in miners
working attire, and John didn't relish
the advertising that it gave him. When
the lassie approached him the other
night with the request: please buy a
War Cry!" John replied mo, L haven't
had any use for the War Cry since it
published my picture" The girl looked
at him inquiringly and then asked:
Were you a Salvationist them" John
turned pale and the bartender tainted
dead away.
There are not as many skeptics re-
garding the hypnotic powers as there
were a week ago. While the opera
house entertainments of last week did
not, perhaps, convince many of the
genuineness of the power, the little Sc
ance that DR.. Flint gave the Elks at
their social session Saturday night
brought conviction to most of those who
witnessed it. There was certainly no
question as to the absolute control the
doctor had over MS SUBJECTS during the
little exhibition that he gave. 1t was
a satisfactory and complete demonstra-
ton of the mysterious effects of this
wonderful power, and those who wit
messed it were more than satisfied. The
hypnotism was not of the peculiar type
that is popularity supposed to charac-
teriZe Elks social sessions, either.
Speaking of hypnotism, it is not gem
orally know here that Rabbi Eisenberg
is hypnotist of no mean powers. The
rabbi is known to possess remarkable
ability in many lines, but the fact of
his hypnotic accomplishments was not
known to many till it was announced
in a conversation the other night. The
gentleman is thorough believer in the
art or science or whatever 1t is, and
has written a book upon the subject
that is to be found IN many medical
libraries.
]. NJ. Lucy and Jack Hayes are both
believers in hypnotism. They practice
1T considerably themselves. There is
this difference however, between their
hypnotism and that of DIR. Flint-their
subjects never wake I'D and the doctor
arouses his when he is through with
them.