The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-10-11

swset-ah, sweet and bitter!-but no
more . thing Of flesh and blood. A
phantom, q shadow. now and forever
more.
Sir William and Donald MeEbio sat
in a small calm house talking earnest
ly together. A tiny fountain sent up
it's glistening whip Of water from q
marble pool, on which water lilies
were floating. while tiny iridescent
fish swan slowly round their roots.
There was silence and fragrance in
tho pleasant remote place. the per.
fums Of exotic flowers, the grateful
green Of giant cact which rested the
eye. Concealed electric lights shed
their radiance upon fern, flower. and
sparkling water, and both men felt
that here was a place for condolences.
and q At spot In which matters Of i'm.
port might be unfolded.
Both men were smoking, and in the
still, warm air the delicate grey
spirals from the thick Turkish cigar.
cites rose with q fantastic grace OF
curve that only the pencil Of a Flax.
man could have given its true value.
II am all attention, Sir William"
Megbie said.
well then, I will put the thing to
you in . nut shell, and as simply as
possible. When you come to the dem.
onstration 1T my house in a few days
time you will be able to gather all the
details and have them explained to
you. am going to give you a simple,
broad statement here and now. For
years I have been investigating the
nature Of thought. have been seek.
Ing to discover what thought really is
how it takes place. what is it, me
chanical. as we'll ~ its psychical. val.
ue. Now, I claim that I have discover.
cd the active principle Of thought; l
have discovered how to measure It,
how to harness it, so to speak, how to
use It In fact, just as other investiga.
tors In the past have harnessed and
utilized electricity"
Megbie started. IL think I see," he
said, hurriedly. II think I See some.
thing; but 70 on, Sir William-go
ont"
Gouldesbrough smiled, pleased with
the agitation the man who sat by him
showed 50 plainly.
He went IN. Hitherto that which
observes-1 mean the power OF
thought-has lever been able, strictly
speaking, to observe itself. 1t can
never look on at itself from the out.
side, or view itself as one of the mul.
titude OF things that come under its
review. It is itself the origin of
vision, and the eye cannot see it's own
power Of seeing. l have altered all
this. Thought is a fluid just as cleo.
tricity is; or n may say that it is a
peculiar form of motion just as light
Is. The brain is the machine that ere.
ates the motion. I have discovered
that the brain gives OF definite rays
or vibrations, which rise from it as
steam rises from a boiling pot. That
Is the reason why one brain can act
upon another-can influence another.
1t explains personal magnetism, hyp-
notism, and SO on. What l have done
is this: I have perfected a means by
which these rays can be collected and
controlled. l can place an apparatus
upon your head which will collect the
thought vibrations as you think and
produce them"
"And then, Sir William"
Then I car conduct those rays
along a wire for any distance In the
form Of an electric current. Finally,
by means Of a series of sensitive in.
struments, which l will show you at
the forthcoming demonstrations, I
can transmit these vibrations into
actual pictures or words, and throw
them upon a screen for all the world
to see. That Is to say. In actual
words, whatever any one is thinking
IL reproduced exactly as he thinks 1t
without his having the power to pre-.
vent 1t. Thought, which has hitherto
been locked up in the brain of the
thinker. and only reaches us through
his words, with whatever modification
he likes to make, will now be absolute.
~ naked and bare"
There vas a silence Of q minute or
two a. Sir William stopped speaking.
ITO Be continued.)