The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-01-09
It should be remembered that "mel-

tai telegrapny is an act Oh NOliIiou,
while thought transference" often oc
ours without the knowledge OF the
person from whom it escapes, and Its
escape is ofttimes regretted. The
following illustrations will make clear
my point:
Some years ago, in Chicago, l would
occasionally dine with one of my pub
fishers at one of the popular restau-
rants. In playful mood he would
toss a coin to ascertain who would
pay for the dinner. AS often as he
looked at the coin after tossing and
then said, head or tall so often he
was elected to pay. Why? Because l.,
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. | used to credit
you with being a good guesser, but |
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 l shall not look
at the coin after toss it"
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 yolitioned.
Another instance-only one of hun
dreds of similar nature. Wife and
| were in Victoria, B. c. The chair
man of an entertainment committee
called to pay me a sum of money for
services rendered 1t was in coin. |
placed it in 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 nonsensically
about a peculiar house across the way
talking merely for talk sake in or
der to divert my mind from the hid
10, p,1t; in n CrIl1r Ri or
in the tWinkling of an eye, | merely
thought, Now wouldn't it be funny
if she would walk across the room and
put her hand behind my trunk"
As quick as 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 transference,
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 we'll expressed in a
portion of that familiar poem
Thoughts Are Things
They follow the law OF the universe
Each thing must create its kind;
And they speed Ger the track to bring
us back
Whatever went out from our mind.
Some one has said: No 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 is
so far beneath him that he cannot
reach it--eyen 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)