Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-12-28
SPIRIT PRIZE TEST,
|u.,.iolan win Seek SIS, 900 Of
Jared For Counting Oranges
has TWO GIRL MEDIUMS.

a.lis.es He Can rum"
3 Contest With Young Women Of
a.-.,kable Powers-ons Who Never
-, Greenwich Described Fire There
70 two young women patients Of Dr..
Fox of New York are the medt
~ he says they are, it is time for
~ Metropolitan Psychical society Of
w York to begin counting out the
.SooO II has offered to one who could
u, the number of oranges spilled on a
esnIs behind him or her. The doctor
~ heen treating patients for hypnotic
-,9pestion for the past four years, and
= much success has he had In making
o. Emma Monroe and Miss Marga-
~ Marx do the mentally superior
..w that he is convinced 1t win be q
|.hsne to take the money.
The test is expected to prove wheth-
!, there is such thing as cOmmunica-
|,ion with the spirit world. Here 1t Is,
q announced by the officers Of the
Metropolitan Psychical society:
when a medium announces that a spirit
4. a the room that can see we will noise
k.auy spill a few oranges upon table
hehInd the medium, SO that she cannot
~ them. We will also keep our own
- in another direction, 30 that we do
m see them, thus eliminating the Queg-
Hon Of telepathy. But the spirit. who il
a the room and sees the oranges, can
communicate the number to the medium
m the spirit does this often enough to
render coincidence improbable, the me-
Alum will be presented with the money.
That DR.. Fox Is firmly convinced Of
he powers of these young women is
apparent to any one who talks with
him. For some time prior to four years
ago he was junior physician at the
Manhattan State Hospital For the In
sane, and he told a reporter for the
New York World the other day that
h was there he first became interested
ln what is commonly known as spiritu-
alism.
zone of the head physicians told
me-" he said, "of a man in the hospital
who was undoubtedly a mailman In
many respects, but that he had fore
told the assassination Of President Nc
Kinley on the very morning that it &C.
CURED He not only gave the hour,
but described the assassin and the spot
where II was to occur. OF course such
q marvellous feat could not be explain
ed away as an instance Of mental telep-
athy. had been deeply interested In
hypnotism, and this story made me
more so.
after leaving the hospital / treated
many Of my patients by hypnotic sug-
gestion. OF course there are many
physicians who do the same thing
nowadays.
Certain little phenomena that have
noticed while administering the treat
ment have tempted me to experiment,
and some Of the things I have proved
to my own satisfaction I hesitate to
Alk about because fear win be mis-
understood and branded as a crank or
faker l venture to say, however,
that have discovered so called clair
VOyant powers In at least 06 per cent
q the patients have experimental
with that simply cannot be accounted
fOr on any ground yet known to sci
ence.
Two young women that / have re-
Gently been treating and whom l had
10 mind when called on Secretary
DAVIS Of the Metropolitan Psychic so
eley are Miss Margaret Marx and Miss
Emma Monroe, both Of 215 West For
V-second street, New York. Only re-
Gently have been treating Miss Marx,
ana one day when 1 had caused her to
pass from deep sleep to a somnam-
Oulsuc sleep l told her to transport
asEself to Greenwich, Conn, a town
NEW she had never visited.
she described the streets, houses
aha certain familiar figures in the
wWn. Up TO that point 1t was posi-
Ole mat she was telling what was in
ny mind know the town well. But
suouenly she exclaimed that there vas
: nfe IN Greenwich and described It,
thought her mind had wandered.
wi mat afternoon l read in the news
papefs that a big fire had broken out
= greenwich at the very time I was
eAperlmenting on her.
n experience with Miss Monroe
=, - been equally remarkable. Some
$50 49, ago | was treating her by hyp-
~ - suggestion for a stomach from
. =, ana seeing that she was a good
st | ordered her to transport
- L TO the apartment OF a friend
49,. ssal me what he was doing. She
:. ,oeu his room infinitely and told
-, ne color Of the clothes he wore.
So go l accounted for It all as an In
80 CT mental telepathy.
80 "a course what she said was IN INV
49, -, and she was at that moment
-, eV under my control mentally.
! Naea she said he was seated BIZ
n.s oW reading Three Weeks /
,sed' did not know that he
-. tne book, and don't know
IT, nad even heard OF It Mt the
m As soon as I left her / called
-. Ano-G George Rohan-on the tele-
-. IN, "a, asked him how he liked
- weeks That's funny he re-
~ have It in my hand now
Ho,- .e Just started on II today.
7 $500 you know I was raad,Dg a. y