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Washington Mans Machine For
Recording Thought.
TELEPATHY A LA PHONOGRAPH.

MOI Only upon uma be1nEB, nut
Also Upon Beasts-A Queer Freak
In Telepathy Which Would Seem
When Professor Crookes Of England,
one of the greatest scientists of the age,
announced a few weeks ago his belief
i'll thought transference as an establish.
ed fact, it came as a great surprise to
those who regarded such assertions as
an evidence of belief in the occult. But
Mr.. Henry Ridgely Evans Of Washing
ton, a gentleman who has conducted
much investigation of the subject, as.
serts that there are hundreds Of the
most intelligent men of our age who not
only believe in telepathy, but have dem
onstrated it's existence by facts which
will admit Of no dispute, and that the
transference of mental impressions
must receive acceptance at the hands Of
scientific men.
Mr.. Evans gives it as his opinion that
it is likely that the conductor of tele-
pathio force is the luminiferous ether,
believed to be more elastic than any
other form Of matter and to exist
throughout all known space. He thinks
that thoughts may set up atomic dis.
turbances in the brain and these be car
ried through space to a receiving brain
by some especial affinity and advances
the assertion that unlike the suns rays
or waves Of sound, which radiate equal
ly in all directions, but constantly grow
weaker in intensity, the telepathic rays
appear to go like a bullet from a gun to
one particular object. Mr.. Evans gives
as an example Of his personal experience
in this line an incident which occurred
in the fall OF 1890.
At that date he was travelling from
Washington to Baltimore by the Balti-
more and Potomac road, and when op-
posite jackson Grove the cars struck
some object, then suddenly came to a
standstili. 1t was found that an aged
farmer, who lived near the place, had
been killed, his head being completely
severed from the shoulders and re-
manning standing upright in a pool Of
blood. Mr.. Evans reached Baltimore
about 2 that evening, went to the office
Of The News, where he wrote up a
graphic account Of the accident, then
returned home about l. He did not rise
till late the next morning, and going
down to breakfast saw, for the first
time since his arrival, his brother, who
had slept in an adjoining room.
II had a most peculiar dream last
night" remarked the brother. II
thought l was taking a trip out to
Mount Washington, and that while en-
route we ran over and decapitated an
aged farmer who lived in that part of
the country. l remember seeing the
head standing upright in a pool Of
blood As there had been nc commune
cation between the gentlemen the only
way to account for such an occurrence
was by the transmission of thought.
Mr.. Julius Emnner, Al electrician
o residing in Washington, claims to
have a machine which will record
thought just as the phonograph regis
tiers the sounds Of the voice. The in
strument is fashioned somewhat on the
same order as the photograph and oper-
ates in the same amer The arrange
ment ia such that the electric current is
used for making the impression. The
two poles Of the battery are placed in
communication with the brain by put
ting them at the back Of the head and
the wire runs down to the recorder,
which ia q delicate needle making an
impression IN q waxen surface, the mo-
tions Of this needle corresponding to
the vibrations Of thought, just as the
needle making the record in the phono
graph responds to the vibrations Of
sound.
To read the record impressed upon
the cylinder in tiny wavelike lines it is
necessary to put the two poles to the
base Of another PERSONS brain and set
i, the machine in motion. The reimpres-
sion of the thought waves will be re-
ceived into the mind, just as the sound
waves are sent back from the phono-
graph to the ear. Hence it is possible
to record thoughts and to read those
which have been taken down from an
others brain. Mi. Emnner claims to
have recorded and read not only the
ideas floating through the mind of q
human being. but the emotions Of a dog
which he teased into q at Of passion for
the sake Of experiment. With such an
instrument the human race would seem
70 have got as far down into mechan-
ism a. it 10 possible to 60. When ones
very thoughts are no longer sacred, we
have about reached the limits Of scien-
tifo investigation.
The criminal will find his lot a hard
one, It il impossible to conceal guilty
thoughts, to live owe again the details
Of q crime, and one such machine placed
before the unconscious culprit would
lag bare his soul, and all the evidences
Of his crime would be open to the
world. Mr.. Emnner believes that
thought 10 . vibration from the human
brain, just as sound Is q vibration Of
the human throat; that this vibration
propels itself In waves, which can be
impressed on 1 delicate surface and re-
impressed back into the human mind.
Hence the machine would seem to be a
veriflcation Of the theory that thought
Is projected through space, and certain
ly il 1t is susceptible to such a material
thing as a machine there lie no reason
that a delicate mechanism like another
brain may not BE- capable Of receiving
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