The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-02-16

times on that evening in different man
ner. Sometimes the back of the cards
were held and a selection made of one
card and the result was always the
same the card selected by the party
and known only to the person so select
ing it was in each event selected by
the party and known only to the person
so selecting it was in each event select
ed by the dog. One thing that struck
me was this; a stranger standing by
while the cards were passing for selec-
ton was requested to select one of
the cards in his mind, and when he
said that he had made the selection
the cards were let down and carefully
gone over by the dog, but the dog failed
to make the selection. l was standing
by this man at the time, and probably
not ten feet away when he whispered
to me that he had selected the five of
hearts. On the dogs failure to see the
card, Myers said: There is something
wrong and asked the man to name the
card that he had selected. He did so
naming the five of hearts. We then
went carefully through the deck and
in the deckfound that the card was not
in the deck, and had not been during the
evening. In all these experiences the
cards were not touched by the person
making the selection; the card being
selected an retained only in the mind.
LAS I said, 1 cannot explain it, and
don't undertake to explain it. 1 never
have seen anything like it before, and
that the tests made were fair is not
doubted in my own mind"
NUMBER OF WITNESSES.
Another prominent Stark county at
torney writes:
II have seen the dog you refer to in
Alliance, at the Russell house, and was
considerably entertained by the per-
formance of the feat you speak Of. l
gave the matter no further investiga-
tion than seeing him some six or eight
times in succession pick out a card
which some person had selected men
tally, and this was done in succession
without any mistake. Some gentleman
whose name do not know, apparently
travelling man, and myself, in order
to test the matter, agreen that we would
select a certain card, but woul inform
his owner of a different one. The dog
upon trial picked out the card that we
thought of and not the card we named
to the owner. 1 have no explanation to
offer, only that if it is a trick it is a
very clever one, as we could discover no
means of communication between the
dog and the master"
j. Palmer O'Neil, the we'll known
Pittsburgher, has this to say about Tom
''I cannot give you a scientific expla-
nation of the performance of the phe-
nomenal dog. have talked with sew
eral experts about the mental action of
this animals brain, and the most sat
isfactory conclusion in my opinion is
that this dog possesses the power of tel
epathy or has a sixth sense. A gentle
man tells me he once saw a horse do
the same thing on a stage, but that he
thought in that case it was a trick in
the deck of cards. There is no trick in
what Tom does. have seen him pick
out the right card time and again, and
1 have examined the deck and konw
there is no trick or deception about the
work. / saw him confused on one occa-
sion when two persons concentrated
their minds on different cards at the
same time. Also when I shifted my
mind quickly from one card to another.
On this occasion Tom did not attempt to
get the card. His owner said: I never
saw him act that way before con-
fessed to what had done. but the dog
would do nothing more for me that
day."