Smyrna times., 1902-01-01
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A Story of Hypn0tism.


broadway. kept by jolly, light eyed.
light haired. fat German lady. the wild
ov of a professor" Nine. Steinberg.
As for myself. | was quiet, old fash
toned teacher of languages, and the
Mace suited me. Among my pupils
was the daughter of a rich widow.
living in Washington square, which
was the height of fashionable as
piration in those days. My depart
ment was instruction in the German
language. and in Ella Cameron found
a pupil so completely and naturally
imbued with the mysticism deemed pc
culiar 10 the Germans and the orientals
that | found she grasped the instinct
Of that grandly expressive language as
an infant learning its mother tongue.
There was German blood somewhere
in the long pedigree of Elias ances-
tors
Ella Cameron had inherited sufficient
of the natural Scotch intellectual force
70 give her balance without bunting
the subtle sensibilities of her mind.
One day there came to our house
foreign gentleman to board No one
knew his nationality. and to this day
am ignorant of it. He spoke English
Aurntlv and automatically correct but
with such an accent as he might have
learned bv being educated abroad; yet
no was not an Englishman, for he said
so His German was perfection, his
French Partisan. his Italian and Span
ish a marvel. As for his age. he might
have been thirty or he might have been
fifty.
Naturally enough, with our asslmllat-
ing tastes. education and pursuits, ana
+brourh the kind Intervention of Nine.
Steinberg. Paul Stolberg and l became
soon acquainted and then intimate.
"Creot men" he would say, ARE but
the embodiment of an abstraction and
as purely accidental as anything With
in the meaning of the word
These and similar enunclatlons he
would give utterance to. not IN any
dogmatic or self sufficient spirit, but
simply as stating the result of his STUDY
and experience.
Most cultivated and educated persons
l have met have possessed hobbies ol
some sort. and Stalbergs hobby was
the collection of crystals His collec
tion. however, was certainly the tinest
l ever saw. containing specimens ol
quartz, spar and other minerals an'
even the diamond in various forms
They were arranged in his cabinet un
der glass and numbered several hun
dred. Besides these. he had in anothe
case a collection of magnets. comprls
ing about fifty. and also of all sizes
Such q curious concentration of taste
surprised me, and | remarked upon II
asking why he had selected two sue
diverse objects for collection.
Not so diverse as you think, M
dear friend" said ne. ''fOr | at leas
think that where two powers, appal
emily different in form and character
produce the same results, if exercise
in the same manner there must be col
sanguinity somewhere"
"The magnet attracts" said l, IAN
the crystal. excited by friction, will d
the same. but so will a glass bottle or
stick of sealing wax"
He smiled and. going to his cryst;
cabinet. selected from it one of the Ia
ger ones Then he said as he returne
to my side. sit easily in your cha
while show you something else IL
crystal will do and mark your sens
tons" | took an easy position, restir
my hands on the arms of the chair, al
waited.
Seating himself directly in front
me, he raised the crystal with bo
hands, and at about a distance of S
inches from my person drew it slo'
ly, perpendirularly, before me, from n
head to my feet. AS he did so | L
ticed a sensation as of light bree
blowing upon me- The operation W
repeated, and this time felt q pleasa
drOwsness creep over me, the c(
wind still blew upon me, and | seem
to see nothing but the crystal. whi
assumed a larger appearance and
came luminous at the angles. A thi
pass and it occurred to me that
would mention this luminous appe
ance, which was increasing. but
1rying to do so | found | could I
speak and move, and. with a dim far
that was rude to fall asleep unC
such circumstances became inser
bic.
When l became conscious. the W
dow was open and the cool Octo
i wind blowing upon me. My foreh'
was wet. and my chair had been wht
ed in front of the window Stolb
sat by me, and observed that he 10
ed paler than usual and anxious.
What is the matter?" said l.
Nothing" he replied. 81 do not c
TO wait until you should come natur;
out of your coma. so I used phys
means to awaken you. What do
think Of the power of the crystal no.
l replied that l had never heard @
before and described my sensations
MIN, but he did not pay much at
IA fiOn and bic mind caamad dictrauUl