Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1903-11-25

trombIed violently, but as 1 spoka a.
) ~ quickly became quiet reco,n,...
at once that my experiment wa, y
succeed and so proceeded with r.V,,s
ed confidence.
Sleep, said 1. Sleep deeply. No,.
deeply still touched her ewes ll,t.
ly with the tips of my fingers, and th..
closed. DO as bid you,' l contipuss
Come; follow me- l walked acro~-
the room, and the girl followed. a..
phanie uttered a cry OF astopisbmon.
mingled with pleasure, but at a sIs.
from me she became silent again. IN.
girl sat down in chair, and stood -
front of her.
"'You are asleep l said. You ara
asleep, but you are awake You sao
me- Open your eyes and look AT ma
closely Slowly the eyes opened. Ana
the little one gazed at me. so Toos
at me well. VIII you know me again,
Speak! Answer! You can speak
II fancied / could hear the he,,,
beats Of those in the room as tbov
waited breathlessly for their ghost /,
speak. At first the girl merely looked
long and earnestly into my face. bu,
presently the lips trembled, and sav
that there was an effort to speak.
"'Speakl Answerp l said again
more commandingly. You see mai
VIII you always know me againP
"Yes.'
"She spoke. 1t was but one word I'm,
to my auditors a hypnotized material.
lied spirit had been compelled to SPEAK
You may imagine their interest in what
should say or do next.
"'You know how you came herey
said I.
Eyes
"You can come againP
"'Yes
"'You will come again IL wlshY
Yes
4" Then listen. Listen and remember
Remember and do. Come again. Come
tomorrow. When the CLOCK chimes i2
come again. But come at the Ginning
of the bell in the daytime-not in the
night. You are not afraid of the llghtY
"'No.'
"'Then you will Gomez This time
there was no answer | touched the
eyelids again, and they dropped and
closed. so. Sleep said I. Sleep deep.
ly. Now you are asleep Listen! Lis
ten and obey! Come tomorrow when
the clock chimes - in the daytime
Come at that hour and in the daytime
Comet Now. answer. VIII you conner
"'Yes'
"'That will do. Now turn whence
you came Immediately and swiftly
she turned and glded away out Of our
sight | was at once surrounded by
my friends, congratulated on my sue.
cess and at the same time criticised
because | had not asked more impor.
tant questions. In answer to this I
declared that we should treat this splr.
II as we would any hypnotic subject
At the first experiment too much should
not be expected. Monosyllables were
all that we had been able to obtain by
way of speech. but we had charged
this spirit TO appear TO us In broad
daylight. A hypnotized living person
would obey such an injunction, Il
would be a great achievement to com
pei a ghost to do so. To this they
agreed aud went off to bed satisfied
that the experiment promised to be
great success.
"At the noon hour on the next day
we were all assembled, impatient FOR
the denouement. The town clock had
scarcely chimed before our little maid
en- appeared. She came into the room
with apparent nervousness and glanced
timidly about. Finally her eyes rested
on me, and instantly she ran lightly
to me, jumped into my lap and cried:
~ know you. You told me to come,
and 50 | came
Just then another person entered
the room, young woman in the gaTo
Of trained nurse.
"I am so glad have found you
Rosie said she, taking the child on
my knee. What made you run awayY
"The mystery was solved. We were
dealing not with a ghost, but with
child who was an invalid because OF
nervous disease from which she SUI
fered. She was a little somnambulst
During the previous year she and her
parents had lived in the house now oe
cupied by my friends, and it had been
her nightly habit TO come into the
room where we had seen her and to
kneel at her mothers side to say her
prayers. One night there had been
party, and while dressed in the pretU
little frOck In which she had visited
us she had suffered from her first SELF
ure. To indicate TO you how deep an
impression upon the mind may be,
have no doubt that II was because on
that night. being taken away from the
room while III. she had not. as usual
said her prayers; that during her SOM
nambulistic walks she dressed herself
In her party frOck again and came over
TO say her prayers. This is especially
plausible because about the same time
the mother had been taken III and FOR
some months had been In a sanitarium
so that after that party night the Ut
tie one had never knelt at her mothers
side -