Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-25

tired of them. 1 have assisted them in
seanceS, and some of the hypnotists
with whom ] have Travelled Have also
posed as mediums and given cabinet
tests. l believe there is little of leSiti-
mate work and l have never in my life
seen a manifestation which I could not
reproduce with the aid of parapherna-
/ liza furnished by the eastern supply
! houses. In Los Angeles today there is
q representative of a firm in Chi
cago, which is one of the leading
houses manufacturing splritualistic and
| hypnotic paraphernalia.
| The agent has done a thriving busi-
ness in the past, though the demand
, for high-class paraphernala is not
nearly so great in Los Angeles as in
any large city of the east.
To the uninitiated the works of a
fake hypnotist or spiritualist seem per-
fectly straight, but in most cases it is
the subject and not the hypnotist upon
whom the success of a performance de-
pends.
1 have known subjects to travel 1900
to 1000 miles to take part in some par
ticular test, and at one time 1 went
from San Francisco to Australia to take
part in one of Kennedys exhibitions.
One would think that a person must
be really hypnotized before he could
stand having pins stuck in him, but
SuCI is llOI lHe case. L call SUCK pins
in myself any time without pain.
If the flesh is pinched tight and the
pin is run through there is very little
pain. If you want blood to flow pull
the pin out quickly and if you do not
want it to come pull it out slowly. The
pain is only in the first two layers of
tissue and as soon as the pin has gone
beyond that there is no feeling.
In burning the arms of subjects.
IXh 1echf ..te a. -
used, the portion of the body to be
burned is covered before the perform
ance begins with a strong solution of
slippery elm. This solution forms a
film which burns the same as flesh,
and except in a very few instances the
flesh is not touched at all.
Never Was Hypnotzed
have taken this seven-day sleep
about twenty times and of course I
have never been hypnotized in any of
them. have had many interesting eX-
periences. The first one was in Janu-
airy, 1896, at Milwaukee, Wis.
The police thought my life was in
danger and they tried to stop it, but
the professor declared that if l was
moved out of the place and taken to
the station it was at the risk of the
police This was the first time seven
day sleep had been tried. The siX-day
| sleep had been tried, but six was the
| limit of previous subjects. The police
allowed me to stay, but there We're all
ways two of them watching me. Six
| men We're on duty from the police de.
! partment and there We're also several
| physicians who had been detailed by
| the Milwaukee Medical society to
! watch me constantly
After thirty-two hours of constant
watching, the watchers declared that
| the sleep was undoubtedly genuine and
| after Il careful and searching inVesti-
! cation by the physicians, in which
! SOME of the most severe tests known
We're tried in order to make me finch,
/ they left.
During the entire thirty-two hours I
| did not dare take even a snatch of
J sleep, and of course no nourishment
| passed my lips. IT was the most pain
! full experience / ever had. The pro-
fessor. who was a Russian. thought the
sleep was genuine, but had a partner
who knew better and after the watch
ers went away he brought me soup
every night and watched while 1 got
snatches Of sleep. / slept for nineteen
| hours before | went into the so-called
| sleep, but after it was over l slept
| from 10 o'clock at night until late the
next afternoon.
Does the Burial Act
have been buried several times,
and once l came near not coming out
alive, but under most conditions this
| is easier than the other sleep test.
/ was put in u coffin and the coffin
was inserted six feet into the earth
There was a tube coming down from
the top so that people could see. II
was about the size of a stoVe-pipe, and
there was also tube connecting with
the foot of the coffin and running
above ground I'm a place about eight
feet from the coffin. This was a two-
inch pipe, but II gave room enough for
direct current of air through the
| coffin.
1t was far enough away from people
TO be able to sleep without them de-
tecting Il, so that this was really
easier than when / was I'm plain sight
OF everyone. On a three-day sleep ]
never eat anything, but when 1 waf
underground for seven days they tieo
food 10 a string and sent Il down al
night through the tube
The only time when L was near th'
, death nOint was IN Missouri when {