Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-31
THoUGHT-REApING EASY
II You Follow Plan Of the Wizard Who
Has Astonished London.

Mr.. FAINT Abbott, the clever wizard who
in the Chrcnicle Il few days ago. let TN:
public into some OF the secrets seer S,, ..
lished MS promised phamphlet on til"
subject, with the interrogatory title or
Can you Lancg?" Those who !, wan ai ITO 70
mystify their friends can i1,, get IL at ''e
'o Wlsh his wv Wife co. Nine. Olivia, the
beautiful WITCH Mr.. Abbott has been
giving public exhibitions IN LONDON anu o
has entertained and baffied thousands.
He has performed many apparently won,
derfu tricks that probably he would
have had no difficulty in convincing ere
Dubious people that he and his wife were
blessed with some occult powers; but he
has never put forward any such claim,
nor allowed it IN be inferred that he re-
lied on anything but an all-sufticing CODE
1t would be unfair to disclose the Alb
bott code as set out in the pamphlet.
But at leas; it is permissible to illustrate
how it works Take the trick i'll which
three figures blindfoided. with her hack
L., the board. In connection with tins
Mr.. Abbot gives the following useful
hint:
with all blackboard experiments tho
feeder" must appear TO be talking 10
the gentleman who is assisting him, ana
in that way convey the message 10 his
medium.
Some one writes, say. the following
sum:
81 g.
Directly all the figures are down." re
marks Mr.. Abbott, " the feeder must
have ready the total of she first column
16-to transmit to his medium. Before
the person who has written the figures
has time to draw the line the feeder
says to him 4 please draw line. or
stands for l and please" for g.
The medium Is listening for the code.
and calls out, Put down and carry l.
You are ready with the second column.
and say to the writer. i please, put down
6 and carry L. Your medium knows that
down and carry L.
Then you have the last column ready
to send her, and you say. : asked the
many more columns there are to add
The gentleman at the board advances
and asks the question OF the medium,
only one more column to add, sir. ptr.
down - The answer to that sum is
1866
Then Mr.. Abbott shows how easily the
what figure on the board is indicated
when 1t ds merely tapped by her partner.
THE audience are bewildered. and never
sTamme has been prearranged." Mr.. Alb
bott arrangeS that his medium shall an
swer in this Order-2.932, nothing there,
"a nothing there, 81, nothing there.
3977, nothing there" Sometimes he will
slightly vary the order.
MIR. 'Abbott's code can be made to cover
almost every conceivable thing. We give
just the first three signs:
'I' means figure 1 or letter "A"
Go" meIns figure 2 or letter "B."
Can" means figure or letter &C.
So:
II want to know his initial?"-"A"
Go and tell this letter''-"B."
Can you tell this one?"-"C.;'
Take the months of the year:
T. is January.
Go is February.
Can" is March.
So:
Can you tell this gentleman the month
he was born in?''-"March.'
In the same way the code is extended
TO colorS, to metals, to Christian names,
to relatives. to cards. to countries. and
to articles.
In the matter of dates nothing could be
simpler. For example: Tell the date"
means 1900.
So:
Il tell the date-19O1.
Co tell the datc-l90o
Can tell the date-19OS
1t should be explained that there is
nothing cumbersome about Mr.. Abbott'S
II One fancies all the while that he is
saying Aye"
However. enough has been said to
make clear the simplicity of the Abbott
code: And if there still be any one who
fancies that "Zanciging' depends upon
some mysterious force he cannot do bet
ter than study this pamphlet.