Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-01-29

wrong SC # would not be right to take
your money!"
You can't rfshtfufiy take my money.
Tor am 'mind-reader' enough to know
you are tryiRgsto bluff me. So pass on"
He passed on, but had not proceeded
far until again interrupted him, thus:
You are now thinking of another
man in order to throw me OF the track.
can also name the other man, the one
you are now thinking of. So confident
am that Twill back that test also
with rs25:''-
Again he tried to bluff me by telling
me that he could not conscientiously
take my money; to this quite agreed.
He aknew that 1 was right in both in
stances, but to have acknowledged it
would have been to commit himself.
Now here comes an interesting part
and additional proof of the accuracy of
'mindFeaaiag. under favorable cir
cumstances.
AFTER the gentleman left i wrote
down the two names, handed them to
my roommate to Keep for future refer
ence. He, too. was of. the 'hdoubting
Thomas" class. He said, f'Do you really
think YOU are right?''
No, do not think it; 1 know 1t. In
fact, I am in So passive a Condition for
mental impressions that i can con.
vince you of the accuracy and RELIABLE
ity by speaking, =at once, any name you
Will eoneentratesyou mind upon"
III &c, you," said he. Il have the
name 80 3-s%,=
so have l.. The name you are think
ing of is just plain Jim Smith
good guesser," said he.
(Since then I have learned not to
WASTE time ON a skeptic.)
I'D like to. try you again, but I'll
choose mitch more difficult name for
you to get. | am ready" II
$50 am 7. You tried to throw me off
fhy-guard- by yeHf.- feaiaElss,-Yo are
thinking of my~name"
That's right said the skeptlc, ...but
do not consider it good test. You
do not say. whether it was your full
name or not, whether with title or not.
You should be definite"
YOU can be fully satisfied on 4hat
point You hold in you mind merely
the na1ne4'Ed Warman. $3.50" 81
We'll. you we're sure enough right
ih~both cases. 1 wonder said the
skeptfc,- -yuu were rigf1t on -t+re-two
held by our friend, or, H-hecreally, had
two names in his mind
About three months after this occur
renee the gentleman who, related the
story called again, saying, THAT young
man of whom 1 spoke is about to ap-
pear before the higher Mccarthy
courts; hence-there- is no need of
further secrecy" a.1.1E.l :t-2~I 81
My roommate. produced the Slip OF
paper containing the two names that
Ehad written, but the gentleman Said:
L need4no' proof Iknew that nighti
that you were correct -
oETkese are but few of many success.
full .ands. therefore, satisfactory esser
called tests. All attempts have been
successful because no attempt has
ever. been made by. me unless the Gle
ment of success (passivity) was pres.
ent:" For that reason the instances
have been. com paratipely Tara * so.
have been the results
The ssensitized plate, or the negative
of the, photographer. is no more i'm
pressible, no more accurate than is, the-
negative of the brain; but it. is more
readily adjusted to conditions. y ! fac''
None should doubt the power of the
mind in making mental Impressions
after the recent developments In New
Yorke 4 wherein ethougltawaves were.
photographed. -Four, ell-knpwn scien;-
fists held their fingers on an inccIooSed
photographic plate. and while So doing
co once tl3 the mind intently ON Ar
ball of surgeon S gauze lying upon the.
floor When the plate was developed
the object ewas plainly Visible ~ I'nf 80 =
! Copyright, 1867, by Joseph B. Bowies) Z
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