The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-03-19

They count silently. Eight kings threatened to-.
At this point the operator stops by setting down the
three. then takes up the two with sharp twist,
"It is black card" says the young woman. 1T
seems TO be the deuce of spades" Both begin to
count, Eight kings threatened to nine.
Here the operator stops picking up the card with
Sharp dab Of his fingers against the board
Red this time" says the young woman. "I plainly
sec the nine OF hearts" And so 1t goes. through the
list The price OF success, according TO all mind
readers, Is constant drill in the count Once this Is
perfected occult wonders easy.
The adding of four columns of figures Of four ng-
each is another clover example OF what may be
done with the silent counting. a volunteer from the
audience writes the figures the board and the
bindfoded medium adds them, down and
The process is the in the bill test the signals
being given with taps of the chalk and the way In
which the ngures written. The first signal Is
given by the operator In drawing the line under the
figures. secondary code is necessary to Indicate
the amount carried each time
The usual practice in winding up this test is mind
reading of figures pointed out by the operator He
points 10 various numbers, occasionally to blank
spot In succession, and the young woman calls them
on. This is dono by prearranged rotation such as
"threc, nine, four, two nothing there eight one six
nauSht. two, nothing there five sovcn" any other
system The operator, of course follows this mem
orized table in pointing He has several tricks at
hand TO I'LL up a gap in the rotation, Suppose for
Instance that there happens he six ON the board
Aften she has Identified the zone" correctly he turns
TO tho audience with wink as IL planning some sly
trick, then writes "slX" In a vacnnt pncc Sho
Immediately names It aud the audience smiles dc.
ligbtedly
The calling of figures that are pointed ont nv sone
person from the audience usually worked In con-
nectlon with the above, does not depend upon tbe
counting process, but upon the quick eye aud iudg.
ment of the operator. Just as the coniuror s allie
10 FORCE cnrd, the operator know how to udge
where the wAycring pointer is going to land b, rho
way tho volunteer advances it, 4 code of signals
does the rest such "any one" amy at all nony
one at all mo difference" take your choice" ond
others.
Another OF the favorlte tests which rely upop J,
meinorized rotation is the Knights tour in chess
The blackboard ls marked into Sixty.fou souares
4unoered from Iett to right The problem Is to
start the knight anywhere take It over the hoard
WIN It's proper move, no square to he omitted and
no square TO be crossed more than twice The oper
ator permits the audience 10 name the square from
which the start Is to be made then follows the dlrec
tionS OF the medium" with the chalk 1t make,
not the slightest difference where the start is made
for the system is rotary and when the sequence r
once learned can be picked up at any point Their
arc a number Of tables this being the best
l, is, 3S, 30, GO. "a, ca A. So 49, g. 20 g. o. 90 IL
6S 81 g. 80, 80, 81, l. 2 81 49, 2S, IS. 80 a. 30 %
f6 36 21 3S H. 81. IL. 51 81 81, 80. 40 49, s. H. j.
10 %, 10, 81. 49, 80 SO, G3 IS ST. 16 g. IL . H.
II the start should be made at 6. for instance the
system would simply turn the and run on
from II to 1, is, %, go