Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1909-01-14
PRIZE TEST,
Physician Will Seek $1,000 Of
fered For Counting Oranges.
HAS TWO GIRL MEDIUMS.
Believes He Can Fulfill Requirements
of Contest With Young Women of
Remarkable Powers-One Who Never
Saw Greenwich Described Fire There.

III two young women patients of DR..
A. ]. Fox of New York are the medi-
ums he says they are, 1t is time for
the Metropolitan Psychical society of
New York to begin counting out the
$1,000 it has offered to one who could
tell the number of oranges xpilled on Il
table behind him or her The doctor
has been treating patients for hypnotic
suggestion for the past four years, and
so much success has he had in making
Miss Emma Monroe and Miss Marga
ret Marx do the mentally superior
mali that he Is convinced 1t will be a
shame to take the money.
The test is expected to prove wheth-
er there is such a thing as communica-
tion with the spirit world. Here it is,
as announced by the officers of the
Metropolitan Psychical society:
When a medium announces that spirit
is in the room that can see we will noise
lessly spill few oranges upon a table
behind the medium, so that she cannot
see them. We will also keep our own
eyes in another direction, so that we do
not see them. thus eliminating the ques-
tion of telepathy. But the spirit. who is
in the room and sees the oranges, can
communicate the number to the medium.
If the spirit does this often enough to
render coincidence improbable, the me
dunn will be presented with the money.
That Dr. Fox is firmly convinced of
the 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 n reporter for the
New York World the other day that
it was there he first became interested
in what is commonly known as spiritu-
alism.
"One of the head physicians told
me-" he said. "of man in the hospital
who was undoubtedly n madman in
many respects. but that he had fore
told the assassination of President Me
Kinley on the very morning that 1t oc-
CURED. He not only gave the hour,
but described the assassin and the spot
where it was to occur. OF course such
a marvellous feat could not be explain
ed away as an instance of mental telep-
athy l 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. or 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 l have proved
to my own satisfaction l hesitate to
talk about because fear l will be mis-
understood and branded as a crank or
n faker. l venture to say, however,
that l have discovered so called clair
voyant powers in at least % per cent
of the patients l have experimental
with that simply cannot be accounted
for on any ground yet known to sci
encc.
"Two young women that l have re-
Gently been treating and whom | had
I'm mind when | called on Secretary
Davis of the Metropolitan Psychic so
ciety are Miss Margaret Marx and Miss
Emma Monroe, both of 215 West For
ty-second street, New York. Only re
Gently | have been treating Miss Marx,
and one day when l had caused her to
pass from n deep sleep to a Somnam-
bulistlc sleep l told her to transport
herself To Greenwich. Conn, town
knew she had never visited.
"She described the streets, houses
and certain familiar figures In the
town. Up to that point it was posi-
bic that she was telling what was In
my mind. | know the town well. But
suddenly she exclaimed that there was
n fire in Greenwich and described it.
| thought her mind had wandered,
but that afternoon l read in the news
papers that big fire had broken out
in Greenwich at the very time I was
experimenting on her.
MY experience with Miss Monroe
has been equally remarkable. Some
time ago | was treating her by hyr
motto suggestion for a stomach trou-
BILE. and, seeing that she was 4 good
subject, | ordered her to transport
| herself to the apartment of friend
and tell me what he was doing. She
described his room minutely and told
me the color of the clothes he wore.
Again accounted for it all as an in
stance OF mental telepathy.
"Of course what she said was in my
mind, and she was ut that moment
absolutely under my control mentally.
But when she said he was seated by
window reading Three Weeks !
marveled. l did not know that he
owned the book, and | don't know
that | had even heard of it at the
time. AS soon rs l left her | called
my friend-Georgc Rohan-On the tele
phone and asked him how he liked
Three Weeks That's funny he re-
piled. L have it in my hand now
and have just started on it today
How did you know l was reading itY
told him what Miss Monroe had said
and he was startled"
DR.. Fox said he had planned to give
private exhibition Mt his home soon
of the powers of Miss Marx. Miss
| Monroe, Miss Anna Silver and Others
of his patients. Then he will notify
the Metropolitan Psychical society
| that he is ready to compete for the
rich prize it has offered. Secretary
| W. S. Davis of the society said that
| he would arrange the test whenever
| Dr. Fox was ready for IT,
| Smart Set English.