The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-15

vloia's spirit like a pinioned bird sud oeniy set free; the attorneys .stimulat- eo Dy their victory, and anxious to retrieve cause and reputation in sec emotions but additionally stirred to the centre of his being by his exper- ience In Prentice's library and the ut terances. of the Justice. One com
 ment in particular frequently. occur red:
 Then I should say. MT. Brookfieid that for you the obligation of clean and unself1sh thinking was, doubly imperative"
 Brookfield was aware of the threat ening paralysis of too much self-ex- animation, aware also that Of late he mad been dangerously given to an in- irrespective habit. Yet he further in- dulged 1t in the light of Prentice's warning, in order to ascertain to his moral satisfaction the character of his thinking. Was it clean Was it sufficiently unselhsh If
 And that sudden onre of his head ache? Reports ands pretended rec ords of all demonstrations of that kind had found no receptive faith in
 him. What explained it?
 That he could question negro boy
 whose objective faculties were inhibi- ted by hypnosis and get from that boy reading of another persons
 
 self and to 8 scientific adviser: That the subjective mind of the negro boy was in communication directly and in- directly with other minds, through channels of affinity previously and va riously established, was probable. For similar phenomena such was the sci entific explanation by the most atl- vanced students of, the subject Brookffeld himself was prepared to believe that an individual subjective mind set free from its objective ;custo- dian of hypnosis was in flowing com
 nunication1 with the common ,subjec- tive mind of humanity. But to ex- plain or even grant the purposive pro- lection of a thought puzzled him. 1t was easy for him, at this stage of his special education, to admit that Pfen- tice's author friend ; had read, the thought of the Justice. in which was held picture of the author going to his telephone; easy to understand that such reading had suggested the action to an inert sleeper; but that g thought could be projected and be compell- ing order was more than startling-it was intellectually revolutionary. Yet there was the fact of his oWr headache being banished at command! 1! What accomplished that, if it was not a projected force? Yet if a force what was the means of it's communi- cation? For Brookheld could imagine no force transmitted except: through material vehicle or medium. But as- to be the ether-that predicated. inter- planetary. intermolecular, all-pene- trattng substance. Assume that me- dium, or suppose still another and fn- CT ether. devoted to the transmission of thought alone. What stirs it's atoms? WRat agitates- and .propels them in seeming currents or direc- tions? -,-7- -,-7a -s-ss.se= :.;,s .s.s ,-s-
 Brookfeld related the headache inci- dent to Dr. Monroe. That gentleman said: "A cure by suggestion" But this explanation Brookfleld refused. He admitted a degree of susceptibil- ity permitting an instantaneous cure of a headache would be. most abnor- mai. He also combated the implica- tion of hypnosis which Monroe offered in his inquiries as to whether the Jus ttce- had looked at him steadily during the interview, had established any mo- notony of tone. and the like.
 Brookfield had not been hypnotized tenable =.
 The more he considered it the more convinced he became that there must exist mental force that is dynamic a force that certain minds can con- sciously direct. What was the char acter of a mind capable of command ing this power. What was it's essen tial endowment? What was the need ed degree of development?
 Brookf1eld had never before know ingly met such a man as Prentice Could that uncanny power of his be cultivated in other men? Imagine it in the hands of one vicious or crim- inally disposed! Brookfield felt that he, like Hamlet, could accuse himself of such things that "'twere- better his mother had not borne him.; yet his own power as a hypnotist had been cultivated and perceptibly increased. CT tension. resulting. perhaps, in a trifiing recurrence of his headaches.
 Again he recalled remark by the Justice: 'The investigation constantly opens new mental heights, and every man Is i'll in some manner who lives habitually on a lower plane than that of the light he sees" fs..7
 Did the answer to his fear of the power in improper hands lie in that explanation of Prentice's? Did the power come only to men who lived up to their highest light, and. if once acquired. did it desert them when they willingly and habttua1ly aband- oned their standard?
 The thought Of this possibility in- fiuenced Brookfield. He formed no resolutions as to plainer living, or higher thinking, but the presence of the idea itself acted as a constant monitor. One by ono indulgences were foregone: unwholesome topics were dismissed from conversation and from mind; a conscious tonic, physi- | cal and mental regime was gradually established.
 One evening after dinner Brookfield was in the library with the ladies. | Viola and her mother were quietly | some intricacy of knitting; l Helen was endeavoring to interest in big sofa by the fireplace. A grate | of gleaming anthracite was shaping l and reshaping faces in its bed, as it always did for him. He had an inn pulse to call Helen's attention to these ] pictures. and he foresaw with un- 1 usual distinctness. even for him, the l position he would like her to take beside him on the sofa-leaning for | ward as he pointed out the faces in | the coals, one elbow on her knee, her chin in the supporting hand At that l Helen laid the magazine she 1 had been reading on the table, came l over to his side, and assumed the position. he had mentally seen her 1 take. t<-; .@s
 What are you looking at, Jack ?"
 Her very words stepped Indian | fashion into the mental footprints of | his thoughts.
 Brookf1eld answered her, tracing the | forms in the fire, and speak | ing in an easy and natural under ! tone; but his thoughts were busy with | the strange coincidence that had just | occurred. That thore was any dyna- | mic force in her own thinking, noth- l Tyr- A-I