The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-12
Some Personal Experiences
 in 7eLepathy in Real Life,

act he makes his living writing editorials
 tor ,t. the newspapers. He shrinks from public One morning at the beginning of the sea- s,,l IUn as We were rehearsing, this man who ilfes on the Hudson River, called me at s:3O in the morning by telephone I got from my .'sa nea 10 answer 1t. He said: 'Ts there any
 oe 1ing ags the matter with the Chicago company lo1 The Witching Hour q" which was then iEenearsing in New York. told him no He
 said he called me as he was under the im- precision there was some trouble there With my knowledge of his powers the call was one aia not elect to- disregard. took an early
 rehearn1ne sh.o NeW w,sn Y9rk & The company was
 Jackson, who was to have played the comedy part A search for Jackson resulted in the
 Hotel where he had committed suicide that
 morning. That afternoon, as matter of courtesy, I dent. whereupon he said T had not fore seen anything of gravity; 1t is 2 pity. but ! trouble at the top of his head: he was taking a drug--it was cocaine" Investigatfon prov
 this to be true Jackson was addicted to go, l the profession. nor in any way in touch, with it. as have said before. and I believe had never heard of Jackson previously alThe power of this man Is So established in nay opinion that it ceases to be a matter of wonderment. seldom make any demand pathic pictures come to him, however, and he interrupts our ordinary conversation to | tell me these impressions. Some times they are laughably trivial. as for example one time he said: Your mother has mashed the first finger of her right hand" Communi- cation with St. Louis. where my mother lives, proved this to be fact. Another time he said. Your father has had some trouble with the teeth of his right upper 5aw.' Com- had just lost one. At the time of these
 two incidents my friend had hever met the St. Louis branch of my family and was not
 in communication, directly or indirectly, with them.
 This man makes no use of his powers for any advantage to himself He Is a man Of elevated religious ideals. I think it is his
 belief that any attempt to use his ability
 sordidly would result in it's disappearance. am quite sure it is his belief that any spe- cisl 'overindulgennce physically, as to food and drink would impair It.
 l. l am telling, of course, only what know ksk skeptic in this matter said to me the oth- ! Sf @day:
 If all this is so Thomas, what would pre- went aamans who had Eeen arrested with put ting his mind on Judge and Jury and hteral- Ky thinking himself out of jall?"
 At present the general public will not ae- cept the idea that there can be anything telepathic unless convincing tests accom- | pany the demonstrations. That is the reason the average are received with such skepti- cisfn. My experiences with Bishop were what impelled me to make use of the telepathic idea for a play and I have made a study read all the works upon the subject, includ- ing those of Hyslop Funk. and others, pu. the man have referred to, who lives near me on the Hudson River, believe to pc capable of even greater feats of teiepatpic power than I have witnessed. Of them AiL however the incident of the death of JACK son, the actor. was the most sensational ~