River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-01-09

was elected to pay. Why? Because I,
being in a passive mood, received
from him by thought transference,"
the knowledge of the result as soon as
his mind had centered upon it.
This occurred scores of times and
he marveled at the fact of my accu-
racy, until one day he said: Il have
made a discovery. l used to credit
you with being good guesser, but l
am now convinced that you did not
guess, you knew. Yes, you knew the
result as soon as / did. You are a
mind reader To-day | shall not look
at the coin after | toss il"
He tossed it. | paid for the dinner.
Ever after that it was matter OF
guess work. This was not mental
telegraphy" because he did not send
me the thought; it was not volitioned.
Another instance-only one of hun
dreds of a similar nature. Wife and
l were in Victoria, B. G. The chair
man of an entertainment committee
called to pay me sum of money for
NNAA'
placed it in a newspaper and dropped
it back Of my trunk, temporarily.
When my wife entered the room
said: you are a good mind reader.
If within two minutes you find that
coin I'll give you S., but the test Will
not be according to rule, as | am not
going to concentrate my mind upon
it for one moment; in fact am going
to withhold my thought from it and
direct it into another channel"
Mrs. Warman stood perfectly still,
became passive to catch any stray
thought regarding the money. look
ed out of the window and began talk
ing increasingly and nonsenslcally
about a peculiar house across the way
talking merely for talk sake in or
der to divert my mind from the hid
den coin, But in an unguarded moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, | merely
thought, Nov wouldn't it be funny
if she would walk across the room and
put her hand behind my trunk"
AS quick as a flash / renewed my
talk about that house, but alas, too
late. In that second of time Mrs.
Warman caught the thought that es-
capped in that unguarded moment, act
ed upon the impulse, crossed the
room, reached back of the trunk and
lifted the money from its hiding place.
This, too, was thought transfereEce, .
not mental telegraphy.'
The transference of thought, volt
tional and otherwise, is an established
fact. Our minds are batteries where
positive and negative thoughts are
stored. These batteries are forever
receiving and giving forth thoughts
which are continually acting and re-
acting upon ourselves and our asso-
ciates. This is well expressed in a
portion of that familiar poem,
Thoughts Are Things"
They follow the law of the universe
Each thing must create it's kind
| And they speed Ger the track to bring
us back
Whatever went out from our mind.
Some one has said: mo man in the
world ever attempted to injure an
other without being injured in return
some way, some how, some time.
The only weapon of offense that Ma
ture seems to recognize is the boom
erang. 1t is only our own grist that
comes back to us through the mill OF
| life. Nature keeps her books admira
bly,. She puts down every item, she
closes all accounts finally, but she
does not always balance her books at
| the end of the month.
To the man that IS calm, revenge ie
so far beneath him that he cannot
reach it-even by STOPPING. When in
jured he does not retaliate; he wraps
around him the royal robes of calm
ness and then goes quietly on his way
| Copyright, 1907, by Joseph B. Bowles)