Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-20
A HYPNOTIC SUBJECT
 TURNS ON THE LIGHT
REVEALS SOME OF THE INNER SECRETS OF THE HYPNOTISM
 FAkIR.
Subjects Ire Trained tO Resist Pain and Strange as it May Seem, They
 Succeed in Accomplishing it.

 hypnotist is put to many tests in order to convince an audience he is hypnotized. One of these is the rigid test, the subjects heels being placed on the back of one chair and his head on another The professor then stands on him, the subect hold ing himself as stiff as board
 This test looks hard, but it isn't as difficult as it looks to be. l have seen small boys try it and do it. l have done it myself thousands and thousands of times. The only thing required is little nerve and little practice. In order. however, to fool his audience the hypnOtist must choose for his subject in this test a person of comparatively small stat ] ure This makes the test seem all 1 the more remarkable.
 Then there is the test of sewing | the ears and lips together with needle and thread. I am one of the | five men in the country who can per form this feat. I learned to do this by sticking a pin in my ear. The needle is thrust through the lobe of the ear, brought down and stuck through the lower lip, and the two l ends of the thread tied There is no flow of blood, for the thread in pass ing through the flesh absorbs the blood It took me long years to master the trick, and I could not accomplish it until my lip and ear were practically paralyzed. The nerves are dead. I no longer exper- fence pain.
 The most severe test is that of burning the flesh. My forearms are a mass of scars When the professor hypnotized me l was supposed to be immune from pain. Spectators were invited ot come up and scar my flesh with the lighted ends of their cigars or cigarettes. You might think few men would take advantage of this invitation I'll venture to say the flesh of my forearms has been cau- terized over 300 times. And each time the glowing end of cigar touched my flesh I have laughed and told the person torturing me to get something hot, although I suffered agOniZing pains.
 This soaring of the flesh might seem to be as painful test as a man could call for. But it isn't. There remains the eye test, test originated for the sole purpose of fooling physicians When man is given chloroform his reflex is touched. If it doesn't respond he has enough chloroform. When the professor hypnotizes his subject he asks all those who doubt to step forward and examine the subject. Physicians quite often come upon the stage. The min ] ute a doctor opens my eyes l focus my vision on some object and stare at it. When he has lifted the lid ii .
 touches the eyeball. My reflex no longer responds to a hard jab of the finger. It took me five years of con- stant practice to harden my eyeballs. Today you can poke your finger in my eye and l feel no pain.
 There is another rigid test wherein subjects are placed in groups about the stage. When they open their eyes they are told they are race horses, and they start to run. The hypnotist yells "Stone." "Rigid." and they stop dead in their tracks In this bunch of subjects will be special man. It is his duty when the signal "Stone," is given to lose his balance and fall stiffly to the floor. Some times he falls on his face, but he dare not move a muscle until the profess sor picks him up and stands him in his tracks. This test always gets great applause. Incredulous persons have sometimes come upon the stage and taken my measurements before and after falling. There are only about ten special men in the country, and all of them are becoming nervous wrecks. One of them, Red" Leon- ard, the greatest the game ever pro duced, is right here in Chicago tend ing bar.
 The bloodless arm test is the sim plest and the least baffling. The subject places his arm on two chairs and the hypnotist makes it rigid and stands on it. He announces he will stop the circulation. The rigdity of the arm and the fact there is a heavy weight on it will drive the blood from it and whiten the skin. Then the hypnotist jumps from the arm and declares he will make the blood rush | hack aoaiuS The muscles of the arm