Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-10-10

sweet-ah, sweet and bitter!--but no
more thing of flesh and blood. A
phantom, shadow, now and forever
more
Sir William and Donald Megbie sat
in small palm house talking earnest
ly together. "A tiny fountain sent up
its 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
the pleasant remote place, the per-
fume Of exotic flowers, the grateful
green of giant cacti which rested the
eye. Concealed electric lights shed
their radiance upon fern, flower, and
sparkling water, and both men felt
that here was place for condolences,
and 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 a fantastic grace Of
curve that only the pencil Of Flax.
man could have given its true value.
II am all attention, Sir William .
Megbie said.
well, then, will put the thing to
you in nut she'll, and as simply as
possible. When you come to the dem.
onstration at my house in few days
time you will be able to gather all the
details and have them explained to
you. I am going to give you simple,
broad statement here and now. For
years l have been investigating the
nature Of thought. have been seek.
ing to discover what thought really is
how it takes place, what is It's me-
chanical, as well as its psychical. val.
ue. Now, claim that have discover.
ed the active principle Of thought; !
have discovered how to measure it,
how to harness it, so to speak, how to
use 1t in fact, just as other investiga.
tors In the past have harnessed and
utilized electricity"
Megbie started. II think see," he
said, hurriedly. II think I see some.
thing; but go on, Sir William-go
ont"
Gouldesbrough smiled, pleased with
the agitation the man who sat by him
showed so plainly.
He went on. Hitherto that which
observes-I mean the power OF
thought-has never been able, strictly
speaking, to observe itself. It can
never look on at itself from the out
side, or view itself as one of the null
titude of things that come under its
review. 1t is itself the origin 81
vision, and the eye cannot see it's own
power Of seeing. I have altered al
this. Thought is fluid just as cleo
triclty is; or one may say that it is E
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 off definite rays
or vibrations, which rise from it as
steam rises from a boiling pot. THAI
is the reason why one brain can ac
upon another-can influence another
1t explains personal magnetism, hyp
notism, and SO on. What l have done
is this: | have perfected a means b,
which these rays can be collected ant
controlled. can place an apparatu,
upon your head which will collect tn.
thought vibrations as you think ant
produce them"
And then, Sir William"
Then 1 can conduct those raw.
along wire for any distance in th,
form of an electric current. Finally
by means of a series of sensitive in
struments, which will show you a
the Forthcoming demonstrations,
can transmit these vibrations int,
actual pictures or words, and throw
them upon screen for all the worlt
to see. That is to say, in actua
words, whatever any one is thinkin,
is reproduced exactly as he thinks i
without his having the power to pre-
vent 1t. Thought, which has hilbert,
been locked up in the brain of tn,
thinker, and only reaches us through
his words, with whatever modification
he likes to, make, will now be absolute
ly naked and bare"
There was a silence of a minute o
two as Sir William stopped speaking
Ito Be continued.)