The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-18
LIFE LESSON TAUGHT
BY MATURE SINGER"
Something About the Man
Who AnnihiIates SO-Called
Natural Laws.
PERFORMANCE UNIQUE
Says Only Precaution That He
Takes Against Danger
Is Mental One.
PERFORMANCE UNIQUE
BY J. CECIL ALTER.

BY J. CECIL ALTER.
Under the guise Of entertaining at
the Orpheum theater this week is a
mature singer who has big life
lesson or two for every thinking per-
son, and while many of the scientists
of the city who witnessed the private
demonstration of this Charles Kellogg
Saturday morning arc very strongly of
the opinion that the best part of the
; man and the act must be read between
| the lines. the exhibition he gives OF an,
Initiating many of the older so-calle ed
| laws of nature is truly WONDERFUL
performance.
The man is indeed in tune with the
| infinite, it would seem ahri while he
does not attempt 10 explain 1t. neither
docs Maxwell, Lodge, Edison or any
other scientist who has given him
Exploratory analysis. He would ap-
pear 10 be one of those "freaks Of ma.
turev which Kimball, Edison, Burbank
and Burroughs tell us is really not. an
abuormality at all, but in his partlc-
nlar line he comes far nearer TO be-
ing the normal man. The rest OF us
are abnormal, ont of tune, out of har-
mony with our little universe, because
does
This does not refer to his limitations
of the birds and animals voices, for
in this he has been birthmarlled y by
having no uvula, no tonsils, two extra
cart ilage rings in his larynX, a horI-
zontal depth Of mouth of five and one
half inches and lips that are not con
nected to his jaws by ligaments; but
he truly wonderful part of the exhibit,
|, ,.rth hcI a
his harmonizing himself with the good
and true "a the universe, as he says, so
as to be friends with the animals and
to exercise proper dominion over all
sorts Of bodily harm and evil,
Says Nothing to Fear.
Mr.. kellogg, with his wife, sleeps
on the bare ground, unprotected, in arc
tic weather, among hungry beasts. and
in the tropical morasses among poison
Gus reptiles and wide. .mouthed ali
gators, and never once in all his life
has he taken any other than a mental
precaution against harm. and never
once have his ffriends, the wild
beasts, molosted him.
"Aren't you afraid Of rheumatism,
il not the animals, he was asked.
"No," he replied, "rheumatism
doesp Il come from getting cold or wet;
often get wet and cold; rheumatism
is caused by inharDonious surroundings
in the mental atmosphere; / have never
had it. 1t used to fill me with poison
when L would see a preacher cough, for
TO get sick was to me crime, aud to
eat meat, actually chew up one of
God = creatures, made me more ven
omous than some animals, but those
things do not bother me any more; j
know better now than TO fill my sys-
tenn with the poison of anger or re-
venge. for [ have too often seen the
as men. If we let an angry man breathe
into glass tube, cork the tube quick
ly. and let guinea pig 1nhale the poi
son breath it Will die almost instant
ly; also it we scrape the e1udation
from any parts OF the body of an angry
person and feed this to any small ami
NAL it will usually die from the poison.
Effects of Poison.
"Our bodies are poisoned by excite
ment, worry, fear, anxiety, passion and
anger, and is it, then, any wonder
that one gets sick who knows nothing
less about the wonderful power of
goods
'What would be the result if ]
should accidentally step on Il viper
and make him angry' Well, now, if
/ should explain this TO you, Mr.. Kel-
logg said, 'y0u might not understand
me, but / will say that such an occur.
renee is quite improbable to my mind
il I represent or reflect nothing but
good in MI that I do il is. TO me, i'm
possible to think that harm can come
either to me or 70 any Of God e crea-
lures through me. An angry snake is |
what we call bad though and VIC
must replace il with "a good thought. -
Mr.. Kellogg says his father at twen.
" years Of age vas burned from his |
eyes to his feet by stream of molten
metal and the flesh came off to the
bones III places, yet be was healed, Mr.. |
Kellogg states, by his own spiritual un-
erstsnding or the powers in nature,
and lived fifty useful years afterward
Perhaps the nature singer owes his pc
culIar dominion over MANY OF the
things that harm others to this ssmc
spiritual sense Of things; he does not
know, he says. His apparently trans
,endental memory for the intricacios OF
the notes Of birds is suggested as an
Indication that he is in yerv close
touch with the infinite source of all
dehs, Tor lie says to memorize the bird
'alls was as natural 10 him as it was TO
peak
DnT ICE nEDA DoTl4TNI0,