Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-02-20
THE MAGIC SPECS
BY MAURICE SMILEY.


ways had u prediction for expert
ments which my friends called fan
tastic. AS / put the finishing pol
ish on a particularly delicate job, an
not ashamed to say that | tremble'
as | sat on the verge Of failure or sue
cess II knew not which 1t would be
II my skill and patience were to b
rewarded with success, ! should have
mastered one Of the most interesting
secrets in the world and invested my
self with a power which would be o.
tremendous value TO me.
IT, on the other hand, all my toll
and science were to so for naught
the disappointment would assume the
proportions of calamity.
Which would 1t be?
| poised in my hand the glasses
which had just put into an ordinary
commercial frame. They were not
to outward appearances, different
from the high grade optical lenses
made for special cases. But they
held, or they did not hold, power FOL
which the human race longed from
time immemorial--not, as Bobble
BurEs sang: ITO see themselves as
others see Them" but to see Others as
they really are.
Think of being able to know FOR
sure, through the agency of some In
ner vision, that saw beneath the out
er shell, the real, exact, inner sort OF
beings our fellow men are. What
lot of mistakes it would keep us from
making! 1t would be money in our
pockets and peace in our hearts every
day of our lives.
Without entering into scientific de-
tails or optical technicalities, | may
briefly explain that had been for
years working to produce lens
which, operating along strict scientific
principles, would link psychics and op-
tics together, developing the so-called
sixth sense through the forces which
lies at the base of the various phenom-
ena associated with what is vulgarly
y
application of optics Invested those
hoped to produce of the fantastic char
acter of the crystal phenomena In a
word, my lens, if a success, would ad-
dress itself to the inner ego-vision and
the wearer of these innocent looking
glasses would see the men and wom-
en- about him, not as they appeared to
others; not possibly as they appeared
to themselves, but as they really were.
Nothing could be hidden from the all
penetrating gaze directed through
these lenses.
Do you wonder that / was nervous
as sat there in my library, eager and
yet afraid to put the great secret to
the test? My friends had chaffed me
for dreamer; even my wife regarded
the whole matter as rubbish. What
a triumph l should have over them all
If l had solved the secret! If had
failed, no one should ever be the
wiser.
With sudden crossing of the men.
my nose. A curious exaltation stole
over me as l stared out of the win.
dow. This sensation was succeeded
by one of drowsiness and then
seemed to be'drinking oceans of chlor-
oform and inhaling whole atmospheres
of ether that infinitely exhilarated me
and then lulled me to the most deli.
cious languor.
awoke feeling as though l had
rested for week. longed to try the
glasses on subject, but there was no
one in the house save the maid. My
wife had gone to church and re-
solved to put the minister to the first
test. / wanted to give the glasses a
fair trial, arguing that they would be
subjected to less strain If leveled at
a preacher, for If anybody ought to ap-
pear just what he really is it is a gen.
tleman of the cloth. But was from
Missouri.
was late for the service, but NO
one noticed my unobtrusive entrance.
JOOh scat WOAA ~ ChO AV@A CALM
looked at the minister though my un-
aided eyes as he stood there at the
fine, manly, courageous, I'm
dependent sort of fellow he appeared
When he announced his text thought
he must intend to give somebody some
hard knocks
Then slipped the glasses upon my
nose.
Heavens! Was it new minister
who had slid into the pulpit during the
instant was wiping the glasses? This
man bore an outward resemblance to
The Rev. DR.. p. Founder Eut It was
only superficisl. 1t was ass IL an inner
man, some astral shape, was shining
the skeleton of the man we
knew. He looked to me like a sancti-
politician and saw the astral
ingers reach cut and touch the pulses
If the wealthy and prominent mem
Ders of the congregation. When the
pulses beat angrily, or even tluttered
he qualified his denuncia-
ions Of the purse-proud ana uncharita-
Bile. He gave them just about as much
IS they would stand, and when they
wouldn't stand any more he shifted
easily of to the thriftlessness and in
Of the poor which were
for so much OF their mis-
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