The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-27

into his face and complaining of pain
at the seat of the brain. The slightest
noise during the experiments distracted
him, and perhaps accounted for SINE
failures which would have otherwise
been successes. Following are the OBJ
posite views with regard to this partieu-
lar phase of psychic phenomenal:
WHAT PROF. HYSLoP SAYS.
'The man was evidently well edueated,
ard showed prepoSSessing manners and
gcntiemanly department. He was refined
in bearing, apparently honest, and inno-
cent Of any disposition to cheat or de-
ceiVe. He had q definite theory of what
mind reading is namely, that VisuaEZinS
the thing transferred is necessary to sue
cess. This was explained before the per-
Torrance, and in manner we'll calcu-
lated to disarm all SUSPICION of triclkery.
In fact, there was nothing in the mans
pretensions that would suggest fraud Of
any kind as possible, especially as he
makes no charges for his experiments.
81 shall first describe his work, and
then indicate the facts coming under my
observation and recorded at the time.
An accurate description of the per-
Torrance would be that YOU write down
on paper out of sight a number of three
or five digits, reverse the digits, and sub
tract the smaller from the larger and
the man tells you the difference, and this
quite invariably. If YOU write down the
name OF some one he will draw the face
of this person IS you gaze at 1t while
he may be sitting fifteen feet distant
81 was the first to try the experiment.
wrote the numbers sos, reversed the
disits, making it sos. and put down the
difference. In a short time he men
toned the number .297, which was correct.
then wrote down 7G4 and 49, with The
oliference 297 and the answer almost i'm
medately was that the difference was the
same as before, which was correct. /
then wrote down 931 and 1S9 with the
difference 1872, and he named 594, which
was false. / then tried a number with
five digits and the success was tie same.
The second trial with five Gigits was
total failure, but the third was signal
success.
'Ihe first face drawn was that of
President Mckinley, after his name had
been written down out of sight by Il.
lady in the audience. The name %
gentleman present was thought of, and
the man drew his face correctly.
SUSPECTED TRICKERY.
Now I must say this account Of the
experiments is entirely misleading. It is
not complete enough to form a correct
conception of what was really done. I
did not discover at the time what the
secret of the case was. though 1 suspect
ed tTickery from the conditions imposed
by the man for his success. I saw that
his OWE theory was based upon the visu-
alization Of what was written Gown, and
that it ought not to be necessary to take
the difference between reversed numbers
Also the condition that the face or Cb-
iect thought of by the agent should be
familiar to the percipient se:nled alb urd
for any genuine mind reading. Hence
kept notes as carefully as the situation
allowed, and the following is a true &C
count of the affair:
In my first experiment I wrGte the
numbers down and took their difference
outside the room where I could not be
seen by the man I was care rul not to
cd. When he began to Try the mind
reading he first guessed tne fisuee
after telling me to conc nitrate my mind
on the first figure CT the difference, ask
ing me to thus suggest it to him. I
SAID 1t was not right and he cue =sed the
hgure z and / acknowledged it, when he
Immediately gave the number 297. This
was correct.
4 then held the pad so that he could
not see the face OF it ard Wr3te down
the numbers 764 and 467 with the differ
ence 2sI, and received the prompt answer
that the difference was the same as be-
fore, which was correct. 7 then turned
my back on him and wrote the numbers
down out of his sight, and be re ort
again to guessing the first figure and
naming the number promptly after it.
AS noted in the first case Of this kind
the third experiment, he made here a
complete failure. In the fifth he he'd
his hands over his eyes, but failed COM
pletely.
In the sixth he also held his hand over
his eyes, though L did not keep my back
On him, SO that the numbers were not
written down out of sight, ex -ept to all