The Cairo bulletin., 1910-01-03
SIXTH SENSE WINS
Blind Student Absorbs Words as
They Are Read.
Takes Difficult Course in Medicine ana
Surgery without Study Through
Telepathy-can Read Minds
of His Friends.

Chicago. Blind from birth. but ahie
to take the difficult course OF red'-
cine and surgery without study
through telepathy, is THE remarN'toie
assertion made by J. w. Bolotih'
student in the Chicago college OF Mea-
icine and Surgery. Bolotin youns
Russian, asserts that through a siAth
sense, which he cannot explain, ne
can read the minds of Wis friends ana
classmates and in thft manner ac-
quire from them the knowledge theS
obtained through hardy study
II, Wolk, room matte Of the mystic
rious blind student, declared that after
completing his studies for an evening
Bolotin, even though lro converse ion
had passed between | them, would be
more familiar with the subject WNeh
he had been reading than himself
lake, as Bolotin lis called b. ms
friends, does not believe his poWer IS
! anything supernatural, or anything
beyond what any mbn could do 4 ne
would think instead Of being superb
cial. The unusual fmental powers OF
the young blind Student have made
( him the marvel of The medical school
He has only recently matrieulated, and
! the students and faculty are astoInc
cd at his gift.
In the dssectins room the core
! spondent was direIted by student re
| the man who doesn't have TO study
who was at that moment the center
OF an admiring grbup TALKING with him
over his ability ito read their minds
He instantly redognized the CORE
| spondent as a stranger and storret
him In the middle of his request fol
an interview to tell him he knew he
wanted to make Ian appointment afte'
the class had adjourned A few min
utes later he carIe down the stairs tC
the entrance with his partner, Or
| Wolk, and without hesitation said
There's the man over there waiting
for us
Seated on a bench in The cornef o
the locker room of the school he tolt
the reporter of his struggle to prorur'
| knowledge. to learn not only the r2gu
lar sciences a medicine, but his spe
cialty of osteopathy
II don't want charity or sympathy
he said. Il am better Off and nap
pier than majny people who are no
blind | have always earned my OWL
living and expect to be able to keeI
on doing so.
Tie correspondent was preparing +
ask if he pr9fessed to- read the mind
Of others WEon DR. Bolotn broke il
with Well there's nothing supetuat
ural or uncauny about that. dom
claim 10 be On expert at mind readins
and there are only a few persons wit
whom am successful. Tho Who'll
thing is very largely a matter Of men
} Dry and sound reasoning, anyway
! With Wollx here get along very MIC,
y. We have been associated and liz
> derstand each other thoroughly"
Is it true that Wolk reads to hin
self and you understand what he /
reading?"
Yes said both men at once. wv
do that" said Wolk q will ST clos
s to DR. Bolotin and 20 over the tex
and the next day he will appear I
class and make better showing tha
do"
"Wolk and myself have known cac
other since childhood He always sal
he would be physician ! absorbe
. the same ambition from him. VIE
We used to play together / soc
learned what Wolk was thinkiI
about, He soon went to school ar
used to tell me what he was studyin
, He used to sit by my side and read.
soon found out that could tell VIII
he was reading. At first it was nor {
ways connected, but as the years we
by | got so that whatever was
Wolk's mind would flash throuf
o mine When he decided to at
4 medicine | became possessed Ct q
same ambition, we entered the q
caGo College of Medicine and Serge
&c few weeks ago and | intend - Il
.a Wolks mind until finish the course
Wolk corroborated every atatare
made by Bolotin TO test TIER clain
n further the correspondent asked Wo
q 70 read story from all aftemot
newspaper, which he did without ,
' tering a sound Whcahc he'd irish
Bolotin said; You have read sho
4 the Greek navy rehois. He then We
on to give the details OF the dispat
from Athens
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