The Washington times., 1907-01-13


Again. when sending message DO
/ not Try TO compel a person 20 do thus
and 50. but. Instead. imDel them. l. O..
Impress them in such "a way that the
desire 10 do seems 10 emanante wholly
from them, thus giving themselves the
credit.
Thought TransfeTence.
There can be no mental biography
without ''th0ught-transfereuc but
there can be Neutrality-suspicious.
without mental biography"
II should be- remembered that "men-
tai telegraphy" is an act of voltion.
while thought transfereRce" often oc-
ours without the knowledge OF the
person from whom II escapes aud It's
escape Is oftt!mes regretted. The fol-
lowing iiustrati lions viii make clear my
pOiBt.
Some years ago. In Chicago. J would
occasionally dine with one Of my pub
fishers AZ one of the popular resJau-
rants In a playful mood he would
nav FOR the dinner. AS often as ne
looked Al the coin after tossing and
then said head or tail, SO often ne
was elected TO pay Why Because j.
him by thought transference, the
knowledge Of the result a. soon as his
mind had conferred upon II.
This occurred scores Of times and
he maryescd at the fact OF my accu-
racy, until one day he said: ~ have
made a discovery. ! used 10 credit you
with being a good guesser. but | am
new convinced that you did not guess,
you knew les, Won knew the result as
soon as / did. You are mind reader.
Today J shall not look at the coin after
/ toss Il A."
lie toss a 81. paid for the dinner.
Ever after that il was a matter OF guess
work. This was not mental telfS-
raphy' because he did not send me tht
thought. u was not vOliuoned.
Another instance-Oniy one OF nun
dreds OF "A similar nature Wife and
! were IN Victoria, b. q. The chair
man Of an entertainment committee
called 20 pay me sum OF money for
services rendered. % was ia coin.
placed iI an newspaper and dropped
30 back OF my TRUNK, temporarily. When
my wife entered the room ] said: You
are "a good mind reader II within wu
minutes you fHd that coin III give you
s.. but the test VIII not be according 10
rule. az ! am not going 10 concentrate
my mlh5 upon % FOR one moment, IN
fact, 7 ana going 20 withhold ms Thought
from it and direct iu into another chan
mel"
Mrs. Warman stood perfectly stilL be-
came passive 20 catch any stray thought
4 egaTding the money. ] looked OuJ ~ the
window and began taking urce inEly
and n0nseusiraiiy about a peculiar house
across the Way-Jalking merely for talk
sake in order 90 divert INV mind from
the hidden coin. But Ca ar uEu8rded
moment in the JWiukling IF an eve
fanny n she would walk arrpss ihF room
and put her hand behind NV trunk.
A Thought Caught in Flight.
As quick as a fash i renewed my taxi
about that house. bat alas too late
N that second OF time Mrs Warman
caught the thought that escaped in that
rnguarded moment. acted upon the I'm
pulse. crossed the room. reached back
of the trunk and lifted the money from
las hiding place. This. TOO. was
thought transference.' not mental
( biography
The tTansfereHce Of thought. voliuonai
and otherwise rs an established fact
our minds are batteries where positive
and negative thoughts are stored. These
batteries are forever receiving and Civ
ing forth thoughts which are contin-
ually acting and reacting upon ourselves
and our associates. This Is wei eN-
pressed Ia a portion of that familiar
poem, Thoughts Are Things
They follow the law Of the universe
Each thing must create its kind,
And they speed % Yer the track 10 bring
US back
Whatever went out from our mind.
Some one has said. No man in the
world ever attempted 70 iufure another
without being injured in return-sOme
way, some how some time"
The only weapon OF Offense that ma
tuFe seems 20 recognize il the boom
erang. II is only our own grist that
comes hack 10 us through the m.U Of
life. Nature keeps her books admirably
She puts down every item. she closes
all accounts finally but she does not
always balance her books az the end OF
tie month.
To the man that Is calm. revenge is
so far beneath him that ne cannot
reach it-even by STOPPING. When in
jured he does not retaliate: he wraps
around him the royal robes Of calmness
and then goes quietly on his way.
NV neat article Will deal wholly with
the subject OF mind reading"