The Washington times., 1912-05-16
THE TIMES DAILY SERIAL STORY
Behind the Curtain"
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CHARLES STEPHENS
Copyright, The Frank A. Munsey Col
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house, when lost control of my own
I personality and became, for space,
| the Hon Arthur Tremlett.
words, When he told me that night al
| supper that he had "the power to let
| half of the world know how. the other
| half lives" the power to take the ny.
man heart, brain, and soul ana hoid
them up, bare, for the rest of the world
to look at; marvel at laugh at-ano
If we believe Mrs: Anselm: there wa. was
| tain and II we believe her brief de-
scription of 1t, this machine was. In the
| essentials of It's appearance, a mixture
graph. Mrs. Anselm also tells US OF a
| number OF little poles around the edge
| of the ease Inside this case, or body,
| we're a number of wax cylinders and
These, when the machine was in motion,
| sparkled
It is clear from Mrs. Anselm's mar
rative, that the machine was electrical
personally am ready to believe that he
! had found a means OF receiving ana
| transmitting-what shall say?-tele-
BroRf. BoR"iS Alexander Wes z Graham seIi invented
| a means of receiving and transmitting
sound by electrical undulations, and
| also as Signor Marconi has made prac-
tical the exchange of signals by She
This is as near as my limited vocabu-
larry and more limited science can come
to an expression Of my my belief, belief; But IL
and the electrical undulation are-or
may be-very different things to what
| we are pleased to call "telegraphic"
we do not know. Apparently, Marcus
Bellair did know. There, believe, was
the basic secret Of his power. II we
knew the nature Of the telepathic wave
cred. the rest might be easy. But, as
II is, we can only consider what, accord
ing to the testimony, he was able to ac-
complish with 1t.
jects to his study and acquired infor-
nation on remote and often irrelevant
subjects, as In the case Of the prisoner
who had voted seven times. etc, we
this machine he was able to take rec.
ords on wax of a persons conscious.
ness That he could read these records
himself. as one may read q phono'
also certain.
From personal experience, know tina
he was able to transmit these records I,
a person not directly in contact witt
the machine or its connections. Take
for instance, the incident when ! va
seated in a room directly over the stud!
where the machine was; take, also, tn
case OF the German, Holstein, who wa
influenced to play what was proba6l!
, an ordinary phonograph record at q dis
tance of twenty feet from the Thinl
Behind the Curtain. The death of Hol
stein I set aside as purely accidental.
Il Whether Bellair could transmit
t mental record or message, to anyon
, farther removed from the machine
without the aid of direct and materia
contact, does not appear. 1t Is possibi
: that this experiment had not reache
! that stage of perfection. 1t is no
oh h-y ha faS
witnesses that he was able to transmi
a mental record, or message, even b.
wire, beyond the immediate confines o
the house. Indeed, the only instanc
at all by wire Is when he used stee
, , headpiece when reading the mental rec
; ord of his visitor. Ford.
. That, OF course, brings me to the irr
' portant point. But before we go an
I further, let US make sure that tn
: Thing Behind the Curtain was perfect
, ed to that stage where 1t could receiV
3 and record mental waves at almost an
r distance, although by different methods
e that, in order to get a more accurat
Y and intense record, he adjusted the stct
= band, which might well be called tn
thinking cap" and took the wave
;, over a short wire and with the aid c
. an electrical current to aid a sluggis
mind in delivering itself.
. But in the case of Ford, Mrs. Anseln
whom I have closely examined on IN
:, point tells me that she IL sure NJ
Ford had nothing on his head, and tina
> there was nothing peculiar about tn
; | chair in which he sat. We must allo
= in this case that the record OF Ford
inner consciousness-his conscience,
q YOU like-was received by waves.
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