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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-25

of gaping, sneeze, and you will find that you have accomplished like result. If you want to make person decidedly un- comfortable, gaze long and intently at that individuals foot Your victim will immediately become restless and embar- rassed. If woman she will hide her feet beneath her skirts If z man he will, after f1dgeting around bit, immediately proceed to make g. close examination of his pedal extremeties In order to ascertain what the trouble is. This is good il- lustration of the hypnotic power of an objective suggestion"
 Nearly every one who lives in the south has attended, as spectator, one or more revival meetings among the negroes. If the colored "parson' is good preacher he works upon the highly emotional na- lures of his audience until one of his con- gregaton gets happy and begins to shout. Immediately others of his hearers get busy, and in very short time the whole bunch has "got the spirit" Sew eral years ago I put an old darkey evangelist next and ever after that he carried with him "shouter" to start the others going. This also applies to
 
 same phenomena in ''camp meetings" Men who sell articles on the street cor ners, called in slang parlance street fakrs," recognize the value of the-"ob- 1ective suggestion" They employ what they call 'capper," whose duty 1t is to purchase, at the psychological moment, whatever wares the "fakir' is selling. This starts the crowd to buying. It was once the writer's good fortune to witness a very striking illustration of the power of objective suggestion. I was passing by a country schoolhouse. and, being a stranger in that section, I drew up my horse before the schoolhouse door in order to ask a direction.
 The school marm rushed out in a high state of excitement and recogniz- ing me as a physician, begged me to come in and help her with her pupils. Entering the school I found several of her little tots opening and shutting the fingers of their left hands and cry ing. The whole thing was started by one of the little girls being seized with a sposmatis contraction of the fiexor muscles of her left hand. She had gone to her teacher and complained that she could not stop 1t. This continued until a little boy was afflicted the same way. By the time I got there seven boys and girls were alternately opening and closing the digits of their left hands and crying, several other chil- dren crying in sympathy. all of them intensely excited and the school marm on the verge of mysteries. immediate ly ordered her to dismiss school. which she did, retaining the afflicted ones. Taking two of the oh hildren al a time I pressed hard on the nerve center that controlls the action of the 1exor digitorum muscles, talking to them in a soothing but firm voice the while. Soon all of the twitchlng ceased. did not have tc trsgt but three. how ever for as soon as doctor twho Is an oracle in that countryl, appeared
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-25

order to try this experiment you require an assistant, bare floor and long chalk crayon. While the chicken still sleeps with it's head under It's wing, grasp it gently with both hands, gradually in- creasing the pressure until you have the fouls head firmly held in place.
 Have your assistant ready with the chalk crayon held in his hand with the point resting on the bare floor. Raise the bird gently from your lap and swing 1t from side to side very slowly, like a rocking motion, keeping up this motion for about five minutes. Always be care ful to avoid noise of any kind. It is best to have your assistant in his stocking feet. When all Is ready set your bird down in front of the crayon-not stand ing, but sitting. With one hand pressing gently on its back, remove it's head from under it's wing and place the point of its bill on the floor about one-half inch in front of the chalk crayon. Keep him in this position for fully five minutes
 Then have your assistant creep slowly backward, drawing a straight line as he goes about six feet long, laying the crayon down at the end of the line and have him remain motionless. After this has been done, very slowly withdraw your hand from the birds back. If your assistant moves the bird will come out of its trance. Remember that during this ex- pertinent every movement must be slow
 gentle and noiseless. After about To minutes your attendant may slowly and noisely withdraw and you will find that MT. Chicken will remain there staring at the line until 1t falls over from exhaus- ton. The explanation of this is simple. Tho hird heinz tame knows YOU will not hurt it. Suddenly awakening from it's sleep it finds itselm staring at white ob- ject, something 1t has never seen before For five minutes Ca long time for any bird to be quiet while awake) he stares at it. It's astonishment Is great when it sees the objeht slowly begin to move and apparently increase its length as 1t re- cedes. It Is the most marvellous, wonder full and fascinating thing MT. Chicken has ever beheld, so he continues to watch it, wondering what miracle it will next perform. have often tried this experl- ment and have my first time to fail. Dogs, cats, guinea pigs, in fact any animal can be put into a hypnotic trance, provided you can sfind some way to give sug- gestion they can understand.
 Our entire lives are made up and domi- mated by suggestion. Everything we see, as we'll as everything we hear, conveys some suggestion that has an influence upon us. Try this experiment. The next time you are in a small crowd. for in stance parlor full of people, select a moment when the attention of the entire assemblage is concentrated upon you. Be a little bit rude and gape-a great big, hearty, long drawn. out gape-and you will immediately observe that hands, fans, handkerchiefs, etc., will be placed before gaping mouths. In this case you have given your friends what Is called fin hyp- notism an objective suggestion, and they will, in nine cases out of 10. act upon it, I mean that if there are 10 people in the room at least eight of them will gape. If you are so inclined, instead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-25
"Turn on Gas" by Wireless.

From the New York Herald.
 For the first time since it has been doing business the Consolidated Gas company received yesterday an order to turn on the gas" by wireless. The mes sage came from passenger on board ths incoming Amerika of the Hambur g- American line.
 The message, which came by way Uf Sea Gate. was received when the offices of the company were first opened in the morning. It was unsigned. but it see.re definite enough to cause the dispatch { q workman to the premises indira', |. and when the sender of the mess, 3 reached her apartment. just before moo t. the range in the kitchen was ieafN {, take up It's burden where 1t had left off I the spring.
 Turn gas on 1890 Broadway l.. M. Bowker apartment" the message simply said. It was unsigned.
 Mrs. l.. M Bowker was a passenger on the Amerika, which reached her pier little after 10 o'clock. The message cnnt Mrs. Bowker about s2.50-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-25

the Texas senator was never equaled by Ben Tillman and never surpassed by Thad Stevens. He seized the leadership the first day, and a majority of his party in the Senate followed him. On the sub ject of the tariff Bailey agrees with Cor man, and he sent Millsism whirling through space. Gore, however. was much of a Roland, and preached with favor and power and effect the political economy of Morrison and Carlisle, Thurman and Mills.
 The Aldrich bill is string of abomina- tions, and if there was united democra- cy to rally under the standard of honest and constitutional taxation for public pur- poses only, the House of Representatives of the Sixty-Second Congress would con- tain more than 100 democratic majority, but both parties are split all to flinders over this tariff question. The republican, party Is full of free traders, though they have not found 1t out. The democratic party Is full of protectionists though they have not found 1t out. If the fif- teenth amendment was repealed in letter, as 1t Is in spirit, a dozen southern states would vote the republican ticket and Louisiana would be as reliably republican as Vermont; but to compensate, all the middle west except Michigan and Ohio,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-25

Y IHYPNOTIsM is a word coined in
 the English language by Braid 1 ! Q796 to 1S6W, first used by him to cover A series of phenomena described under various names. Hypnotsm, broadly and tersely defined includes mesmerism, somnambrelism, suggestive theruputics (as taught in our leading medical colleges), and Christian science. Dowie. the late leader of the Zionists, was probably the greatest hypnotist the world (not includ- ing India) has ever known True, he gave God the credit for the wonderful results he obtained, but nevertheless these results were secured through hypnosis, as by him practiced. Christian science, another name for hypnosis, obtains its results in the same way. The greatest of all earths s hypnotists are found in India among the Yogis but 1t must be remembered that these people have studied and practiced hypnosis for more than 5000 years. Spirit ulsts practice hypnotism in the name of the faith they call spiritualism, and the most successful "mediums' among them accomplish wonderful results in hypnosis. Hvsteria is a result of hypnosis and the 
 SO often seen in religious revivals, is only the antics, of hypnotized subject.
 The methods of inducing hypnosis are many. but it cannot be accomplished with out the aid of suggestion. Hypnosis, therefore. may be induced by multitude of processes, but suggestion in some form must be used
 It is absolutely impossible to hypnotize a person without that individuals CO.,
 
 must be biased in comfortable position and his mind must be in passive state. He must give the operator his undlVldeo attention and follow his suggestion. Any person who has. to only slight degree, the power of concentrating his mlno IS easily hypnotized It is a mistaken idea that hypnotic subject is being or low intellectual powers but on the contrary he must be a creature of comprehenslon I say creature for many members Of the animal kingdom can be put under the ln- fiuence of hypnosis. Any animal can be hypnotized, provided the operator can ina some means of conveying the suggestion of sleep. Take a chicken, for instance. Select some tame bird and as anything likes to be caressed. place the chicken In your lap and gently stnQke It's feathers. Tba foul. being comfortable and quiet, having no noise or moving objects near 10 attract its attention, wih soon snow signs, by its futtering eyehus' or peils sleepy. After stroking it gently for 10 or 15 minutes, slowly place its head under It's wing with one hand continuing the strok- ing motion with the other. Gradually de- crease the stroking motion and you will find that you have hypnotized your chicken. As long as you remain perfectly quiet and no noise occurs, the bird will sleep This is as far as you can go with a chicken, as 1t is not creature or in- telligence and cannot understand your language, so you cannot give It an auto- suggestion. You ean however, use an ether method known as fascination In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-25

would join the democratic party, and Ohio would be almighty doubtful Min nesota, the Dakotas, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska would be as democratic as Mississippi. and the republican party would be out of a job, for New York. Connecticut and New Jersey are bound to land in the party that is for a tariff for revenue only.
 And here I shall indulge in reminis- cence When. in 1891, the Fifty-seeond Congress convened in first regular ses- sion, the democratic party had the world in basket. The fools had crushed the knaves and their majority in the House of Representatives was the biggest by at least two score that any party ever had in that body The democrats could have mustered majority with every southern seat vacant. That is what Milsism did majority of the New England delega- ton were democrats. New Hampshire and Rhode Island sent solid democratic delegations. There was only one repub- lican from Connecticut, and most of the members from Massachusetts were dem ocrats.
 Had that Congress been convened in the spring of 1S91 Roger Q. Mills would have had no opposition as the caucus poninaa for sneaker, or had the life of
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

railway, but 1t is creeping across the northwest
prairies. 1t is L.756 miles from Winnipeg TO
Prince Rupert over the Grand Trunk Pacific route,
and trains are now runntnG betWeen Winnipeg
and Wainwright, Alberta. I0S7' miles. The time
table bears the usual legend, "sub1eCt to change
without notice." and In this case the change US
ually means the addition OF a few more stations
to the west every month or 30. Construction
from the Prince Rupert end win begin soon.
transportation facilities will give Prince Ru-
pert its excuse for being, and many industries wait
upon the completion Of the railway. The fishing
industry expects to take a Jump forward.
The salmon pack last year in the skeena river,
twelve miles south Of Prince Rupert, was value
at 81 900, 600 and gave employment II 5000 p l.
sons. This product has gone to Va 'couvor an
Victoria by water, but when the D. wa ccm.I
much of it will 90 through Prince Ru9e l..
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

are circles with streets ~radiating therefrom. Away
up on the hillside the Prince Rupert boulevard
had been mapped. 1t curves around above the
prospective city. a~rording Con paper) magnificent
views of the harbor and it's future array of ship
ping,
One can easily imagine a second or third gen.
Grafton of the pioneers who themselves are yet to
be driving in automobiles along the boulevard and
taking in the sights. There are mountains on the
opposite shore ready and willing to be looked at,
and to the northwest, through an island-stGdded
channel. is the famous Indian village of Met
lakalta.
The harbor itself mas been mapped by the Do
minion government photographic survey. 1t is
free from rocks or other distractions and Of sufi-
Client depth to AFFORD good anchorage. The en-
tray is straight, 1000 feet in width at the mar
rowest part. with a minimum depth of t~hirty-six
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

feet at low tide. A permanent wharf 500 feet
long has been constructed.
The British Columbia government isn't going
to have this new city at the mercy of a corpora
tion. 1t has taken a strong hand In the work of
development. one-quarter of all the land reverts
to the province. as also one-quarter of the water
front. after the townsite has been laid out.
The first inhabitants of this city won't have to
worry over public improvements. They will find
graded streets, sidewalks and sewers ready for
them. The provincial government appropriated
$500, 900 for early improvements and ample pro-
vision will have been made in advance for a pop
ulation of 10000 people. AS the population in
creases the IN proyements will keep we'll in ad-
vance. The gradual slope of the land, with an
occasional abrupt rise, has made the drainage
problem very easy of solution.
The town, of course, will have to wait for the
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
Making a City to Order

NEW city is to be born on the Pacific coast within a few
" months. 1t will not be of haphazard growth. 1t has been
n planned for years in advance, the lines of it's growth have
been mapped out, and 1t only remains to set a date for occu-
patton and then wait for it to be peopled.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway company, which is building a
new transcontinental line across Canada chiefly through virgin ter
rtory, is responsible for this city that is to be. 1t has been chris
tened far in advance OF its birth. The city is Prince Rupert, and it
is to be the Pacific coast terminus Of the new railroad.
Prince Rupert is $50 miles north of Vancouver and only forty
miles south of the Alaskan boundary. That is pretty far north, but
it is in the same latitude as London and its mean temperature is
about the same as Londons. BY land and sea it is protected by
mountains. Its harbor is practically land-locked, but 1t has a mile
wide roadstead for ships.
carefully. The entire north sea coast was searched and every harbor
sounded, The best way for the railroad through the mountains had
to be considered.
Further, the most available route to Yokohama and the rest OF
the Far East had to be taken into account. The choice was made
four years ago, and since then they have been making plans for the
new city. The first subdivision of the town site will be made about
May 1 and the public invited to come in and buy,
The steamship route to the new port from the Far East lies
through the Dixon entrance into Hecate strait, thence into Chatham
sound and Prince Rupert harbor. The harbor is really a strait be-
tween Digby island and Prince Rupert island and it extends fourteen
miles inland beyond the site of the new city.
The provincial government of British Columbia made a grant of
10000 acres to the railway company, which bought up $4,000 acres
of Indian reserve land. making "a 1000 acres for the city to grow in,
Probably it will need no more acreage. In fact, it will start out with
1900 acres only. but that is some space.
The work of planning Prince Rupert began in earnest in May,
1906. Since then surveying and clearing have been carried on sim
ultaneously. The land is cleared now and the town site. the 1000
acres on which the start is to be made, has been mapped out,
This town has got to grow as the law directs and not as it Wills
Streets will not follow cowpaths or Indian trails. 1t has all been
attended TO, even to laying out parks and bouleyards which may not
be needed for half a century.
One of the first steps the engineers took was to employ land
scape gardeners, who have produced a plan which combines the utni-
tartan and the artistic in city building. The landscape artists were
Brett & Hall of Boston, who laid out Mount Royal park Montreal
- II you visit Prince Rupert today you-Kin find Aset1smant hud-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

died on the waterfront. II is made up largely OF
temporary structures in which the engineers and
workmen have been housed and fed and provided
for. Many Of these structures will disappear
when the city gets its start. Your idea of the city
TO come must be had from maps.
These maps show a long waterfront broken by
several little bays. A few streets back from the
water the land ascends, at first gradually and then
abruptly.
The streets are to go up hill in curves; in fact
scarcely half OF the streets of this new city will
run in straight lines. Most of the thoroughfares
are numbered, the avenues gNlerally parallel to
the waterfront, the streets at right angles to it.
There are many familiar names, Water street,
Beach street, Main street; also a Railroad avenue,
but no Broadway appears-possibly it is too
American.
Here and there where the topography permits
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

runs northwest on the ridge OF
the bluff, is lined with forest
trees and overlooks the Mis-
souri, river bottom. At Ohio
street the boulevard twists over
to Twentieth, then runs north
to Ames. There are other
pieces of street parking that
will eventually become part OF
a finished, harmonious whole.
Such are to be found on Cen
trail boulevard north from
Twenty-sixth to Hanscom park
and from Hanscom to River
view. In all there III about
ten and a half miles of boule-
varding in what may be called
a fairly finished state.
Omaha has something over
900 acres in parks-to be ex-
act, 917.S7 acres. This in
cludes Levi Carter park, the
last donation to the Omaha
system. The original cost of
the parklands purchased by the
city was $447,264, in round
numbers. They have cost for
maintenance to January l, last,
$229,291, and the improve
ments made represent a first
cost of s349,S26. Total cost to
the city of purchasing, improv-
ing and maintaining, $1,02R-
3S1. To this must be added
salaries and incidental general
expenses since 1889, when the
parks came under control of the
first park board.
After the sale of the blocks
named, in the present bust
ness district, by the city,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

because of improved parks Will
bear statement. Eleven years
ago, before Hanscom was any
thing like 1t is today, the in
crease in value of residence
sites surrounding it was twenty
times more than the average
increase noted throughout the
city. This ratio is said to hold
good, and in some instances
bettered, wherever statistics
have been prepared on the sub
ject.
Jefferson square is a breath
ing place in the midst of busy,
dusty city life; but Elmwood is
a big outdoors stretch of hill
and dale, level sward and deep
raviDes, outside the city limits.
Riverview and Fontanelle are
almost of a size, in distantly
separated parts of the city; the
first is quite satisfactorily i'm
proved, the last in its wild state
almost entirely. Bemis is a
gem, In a high class residence
section; Miller is a big, tree
dotted lawn far from the CEN
ter, but rapidly being sur
rounded by happy, il modest,
homes. Kountze park is the
exposition site, adorned but
very little, and Deer park is a
small wildwood exhibit out on
South Central boulevard, start
ing about Fifteenth and run
ming to Twentieth. Curtiss
Turner park is, through it's
name, a memorial to an estima-
BILE young man; it is in the Up
per Farnam district, and in con-
1rosf 10 D1,,Re U;ouy na,Ir 800
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

nothing at all was done to provide for parks until 1872,
when the late A. j.. Hanscom donated the present park bearing
his name. In giving the land Mr.. Hanscom stipulated that the city
should expend on improvements $4,000 in 1873, $4,000 in each of
the next three years and $4,000 in each of the next two years, MAX
ing an expenditure of $25, 900 in five years. During the years '9OI93
$4,000 was spent for a band stand, a pavilion and a greenhouse.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

north from Thirtieth to Thirty-first; and Himebaugh park, at Deca-
tur and Fortyseventh. Both are almost as nature left them, but
in a few years the park board hopes that these, with Deer park, will
be as pleasurable in dress and getup as even Turner and Bemis.
This year the board will put the bulk of it's work OIL the new
Levi Carter park. Shore decoration will not be attempted to any
extent at this time, but probably $1O,O 900 will be spent for dredging
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

pretentious name of the parked space on Webster street between
Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth avenues. 1t gets little attention,
though, and the two curbed and seeded spaces have on them only
nine scraggy bushes, five very indifferent trees and one passabe
tree.
Florence boulevard begins at Chicago and Nineteenth streets, but
it does not as yet deserve the name of real street parking until Ames
avenue is reached. From Ames to Miller park this parkway
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11

NEW city is to be born on the Pacific coast within a
months. 1t will not be of %haphazard growth. 1t has b'
planned for years in advance, the lines of it's growth h
been mapped out, and it only remains to set a date for oc
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Schroeder Paint 4 Glass Co. Detroit, Mich.
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