The Washington times., 1906-04-22

" wonderful things-read aloJc the
/ number of your wascn. tell ycur
name. answer questions and the
like. You have seen the most as.onish-
ing things done with -,ards. You have
r1arveled. Many OF these performances
are undouhtedl, tricks: some people
think all OF them are tricks Khaldah.
a New York adept in the profession
tells how some OF these tricks are done
Write q number-any single number
from / to o. directs Khaldah- lou
write it. Now write under It three
other numbers Now under this write
the name OF some great man-Abraham
Lincoln. Chauncey NJ. Depew. Roose-
velt. anv one. Haze you done III AesE
Well. now call I'D 1884 Morningside- and
when YOU get an answer ask the per
son who replies TO please tell YOU what
YOU have written on that PAPER
Khaldah stands at the other side Of
the room. twenty feet at least from the
telephone. You call the designated
number and a voice answers. Please
tell me what I have just written on a
sheet Of paper I hold in my hand. you
saw. and the distant voice replies with
out hesitation. ''s-s-4-7. Napoleon Bona
parte." You almost drop the receiver
and stazger away from the phone The
distant oracle has told you exactly
what 7ou wrote on the paper.
MarvelinE. you look AZ the talL sal
low Egyptian with the brown eyes.
heavy brows and .antalizinE smile. who
regards you with amusement Is he
man Or
"weu?" asks Khsldah.
"He-he told me exactly what I had
written you say But how on earth
could he?"
You are certain there was no col
fusion between the man who answered
YOU and me-" SAYS Khaldah- THAT is.
that while I NAV know who he is-and
no doubt do. OF 1 should not have given
YOU that particular number 20 call I'd
I had no chance TO tell him over the
phone what 10 say? You wrote the
numbers and the name yourself and YOU
called the man yourself Are you sat
fsfied that what l say about thought
Iransference is true7
More than satisfied" you stammer-
I'm astonished-
Then wouldn't you be more aston
ished.'' continues the Egyptian. TO be
told that the whole thing is trick
a trick? Impossible. How could
is be?''
The easiest thing in the world You
see. the man at the other end Of the
phone had been told by me what TO
say"
But when7"
About an hour before you came in"
But how could he tell what was
going to write before wrote It? You
don't tell me what TO write
Strange as it may seem 10 you"
says Khaldah. I not only told you,
but forced you to write certain num-
bers and a certain name If you had
written anything else the other man
would not have been able to tell you
It's all a trick And the trick consists
in my being able to force you. against
your will. to write certain numbers
and the name desired"
II you believe this explanation. and
you have to- although you are not real
ly quite convinced. you are still more
startled by Khaldah's next statement
And by this very trick, If you Will
think. you Will see that ! prove there
is such thing as thought transference.
Otherwise how could / force you to write
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written?
'Of course. the forcing OF card on
a person from a full deck is an easy
matter, and merely a matter of manip-
ulation. Any half-rate magician can do
that without much trouble. But when
II comes to giving u person a pencil
and piece Of paper, and making him
write certain things. IL is a question
OF transferring your ideas, your de
sire. to him II is not so easy as you
may think. having seen the trick per-
formed
Then you believe that the cxhibi-
tions of thought transference. mind
reading and the like that are so often
brought to public attention are gen
uine?''
RhaIdah laughs He is mind reader
himself by profession and some of the
things he can do are absolutely in
capable OF explanation. apparently.
But. unlike the majority of such people
who give public exhibitions Of theiI
powers, he does not profess 70 rely
solely on supernatural attainments fol
his success He is always quite will
ing to expose" about two out Of every
three things that he does and to tel
you candidIy that they are tricks.
mo" he said. ''the mind reading s&
hibitions that are given in public are
all tricks 1 do not believe genuine
BIT OF mind reading has ever been seer
on a public pltform, unless you cal
suggestion mind reading That is. ii il
possible for the performer TO sugges'
certain things 20 his subjects and make