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HIS
TELEPATHIC
WOOING
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By JAMES BUCKHAM
(® by Short Story Fub Co.)
OCTOR AMSDEN was utterly
and hopelessly In love with
beautiful Miriam Foote, But,
in spite of his six feet of splen-
did manhood—or, perhaps, because of
them-—the young doctor was 80 timid
tn the presence of the fair sex, and
particularly in the presence of the fas-
cinating Miriam, that he could no more
bring himself’ to uttér a syllable of
sentiment to that young woman than
he could walk up to the venerable and
dignified president of the State Medi-
cal association and tweak his nose!
The two things seemed equally pre-
posterous and impossible.
At this juncture of affairs, curiously
encugh, there fell into the hands of
Doctor Amsden a book that offered a
magical solution of the problem that
perplexed him—viz., how to make love
to the woman who had ensnared his
heart, without being conscious of do-
ing it. This book was called “The Law
of Psychic Phenomena,” and its cen-
tral theory was that the “subjective
mind,” or soul, of any person, by a
process of autosuggestion, may enter
into communication with the subjec-
tive mind of another person, at any
distance whatsoever. A condition of
sleep, either cataleptic or natural, Is
induced by the agent In himself; but
previously to falling to sleep he must
concentrate. his whole mental energy
and will power upon the determination
to convey a certain image, or message,
or both to the subjective mind of the
person with whom he wishes to com-
municate. Then away goes his spirit
—his phantasm—while he is buried In
unconscious slumber, appears In his
very image to the person designated,
and delivers the message with his very
volce and manner. Truly, a marvel-
ous theory, and of untold significance
to timid lovers and bashful solicitors
of every kind.
According this theory, Doctor
Amsden, in order to make telepathic
Miriam Foote, need simply
on a certain night, with
determination to send his
phantasm to the young woman with an
That was
to
love to
drop to sleep,
a strong
eloquent plea of affection.
all. It was not even necessary for him
to furnish the general! substance, in-
troduction, or any portion of this glow-
ing address. He need simply specify
that it should be passionate and rich
in verbal volor—ordering a proposal
much as he would a dinner at a first
class hotel, with confidence
that at the proper time It would be
served In proper form To be sure,
this method of wooing was not in strict
accordance with the: traditional eti-
quette of such affalrs. It might even
be considered that this proposal by a
sort of phantasmal proxy was hardly
fair to the object of the experiment. A
ghost is, after all, but a ghost, whether
it be attached to tenement or
be simply a spirit at large, and even
the most heavenly minded young wom-
an might cherish a prejudice In favor
of a fleshly lover. On the other hand,
however, the choice Iay not between
two methods of wooing, but between
this and none at alt; how easy,
how delightful a method of making a
proposal of marriage. It could all be
performed, like a painful surgical op
eration, during merciful sleep. Then
the lover when next he met the lady
in his every-day person would know
by her manner whether she had ac
cepted or rejected him. The more
Doctor Amsden considered this fasei-
nating project the more trivial seemed
his scruples against its fulfillment.
Indeed, he asked himself judicially,
was {t not a fundamental doctrine of
metaphysics that only the soul was
real, and so-called matter was simply
the shadow cast Dy the spirit? This
being the case, jhis vulgarly named
ghost was In reality no ghost at all,
while his bodily presence was the real
phantasm,
Having arrived at this comfortable,
though to the lay mind slightly ab
struse, conclusion, Amsden wavered no
longer. “1 will do it,” he sald, jump.
ing to his feet, “I will do it tonight—
no--no, a few daye must be given to
subduing the flesh and concentrating
the energies of the subjective mind.
On Saturday evening, at the time eof
my regular weekly call, I will make an
end to this painful uancertainty.
Though 1 cannot but hope "that she
looks upon my suit with favor, I shall
never dare to broach the subject of
love openly in the flesh. My ghost—
or, at least, what Is vulgarly known
as a ghost—shall speak, and I will
abide by the result.”
On his return from dinner that eve
ning Doctor Amsden locked all the
doors and darkened all the windows
of his apartments. Then, after smok-
ing a meditative cigar, he went to bed,
It was barely eight o'clock In the eve
ning when his head touched the pil
low, but as he had planned to send his
image to Miss Foote at precisely nine
o'clock, before that young lady should
‘have retired to her chamber, he
wished to have ample time to get him-
self to sleep. Besides, he was really
tired and drowsy, which was certainly
a favorable condition for his experi
ment. He had feared ‘that he would
be excited and nervous; but already
the suggestion of sleep which he had
istantly reiterating for the
was beginning to tell upon
= The formula, “I am about
sleep; I am becoming sleepy,
was having a most magical
perfect
a bodily
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Doctor Amsdem dropped Into the
misty chasm of slumber In less than
fifteen minutes after getting to bed.
But that fifteen minutes had been
spent In strenuous command, on the
part of the objective mind, that the
subjective mind should go, at precisely
nine o'clock, to the home of Miss
Foote, present itself in the exact and
correct Image of the lover, and make
an ardent appeal to the affections of
the lady.
In about two hours Amsden awoke,
bathed In perspiration, and feeling
thoroughly exhausted. He was not
conscious of having dreamed at all,
and yet it seemed to him as If he had
Just shaken off a most horrible night
mare. He rose from his bed and con-
sulted his watch. It was just ten
o'clock, “Thank heaven,” he cried,
“I did not wake before the time!” He
went back to bed, and fell Instantly
Into the deep slumber of complete ex-
haustion, from which he did not wake
until! late the next morning.
For two days he did not see Miss
Foote. Then he summoned up cour
age to call upon her, She came down-
stairs looking pale and anxious, and
the moment that Amsden's eyes fell
upen her hig heart began to throb with
suffocating violence. Undoubtedly his
experiment had succeeded as far as
the proposal © was concerned—but
should his attitude be that of the ac-
cepted or rejected lover?
Hardly noticing his stammering ex-
pressions of solicitude for her altered
looks, Miriam led the way into the
drawing room, and, motioning him to
a chair, seated herself In a dim corner
at the other side of the room. Then,
with her blue eyes lowered and her fin-
gers twisting nervously, she sald:
“Doctor Amsden; I you an
apology. When you called two nights
ago and asked me to be your wife |
was too much agitated to answer you.
To tell the truth,” she continued, red-
dening a little, “the eloquence of your
words, thelr poetry and melody,
surprised and overcame me
could not answer you
When 1 left you
owe
80
as
and walked to the
when looked up and found
gon
lke a spirit (here Miss
while
feeling as though
to sand and
floor) with-
word of good-by, I feared that
wh
dribbling
out a
I had mortally
you would never come back to—"
not angry
my ghost—because I left like a ghost?
You wanted me bs
why?
“I—I think You ought to know,” sald
the girl, blushing.
And the next
den was kneeling at her feet.
“I did It in a no, 1
mean that—I mean this is a
I ought to explain”
“No, don’t try. | understand.”
Miriam softly.
offended you
“Then You were because
to come
CK
dream-
shoulder. She was crying a
she suffered her lover's
11e9t
FRRLHE
arms to slip
bling hand she pressed her own.
conceivable!
And even
done anything so easy and so utterly
delightful in his whole life
It was true that Miriam
derstand, but Amsden felt that at such
a juncture any explanations would he
delicate,
To his eredit it sald,
that on one occasion before
riage he attempted to confess
Miriam all the circumstances of his
proposal ; but while he was still strug.
gling with his introduction she stopped
him with a pre-emptory gesture.
“I don’t understand a word about
subjective and objective minds” she
sal, In a wounded volce. “All I know
is that you made me the most beaut!
ful proposal I had ever heard—I mean
Imagined-—but of course If you want
to take It back by saying that you
were not responsible at the time"
Whereupon Amsden was obliged to
consume two delightful hours in as-
suring his sweetheart that he was a
blundering fool, and that his meta.
physical nonsense, translated, meant
that it was his best self that had
made that eloquent proposal, and that
he was only afraid his every-day self
was not one-tenth good enough for her.
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Historic Trees Fall
Under Axes of Indians
Oliver Wendell Holmes’ “Woodman
spare that tree” ls a metaphor espe
cially adaptable at the moment to the
ax of the Mexican Indian, which is
slowly but surely destroying one of the
finest groves of great and historic trees
on the North American continent, little
known, but rivaling in beauty the big
trees of Sequola National park in Call.
fornia. .
The grove Is 30 miles from the Olty
of Mexico and consists of about 1,000
cypress trees, the smallest of them 40
feet about the base. Nazahualcoyotl,
the poet king and last ruler of the
once flourishing kingdom of Texcoco,
who was born In 1403, selected the spot
as his favorite garden. There still re
main the great majority of them, but
with systematic regularity they are be.
ing leveled by neighboring Indians in
want of firewood. Contrary to the
Mexican government's usual prompt
ness and policy of preserving all his
toric monuments the forestry depart
ment is allowing one of the botanleal
wonders of the country, perhaps In the
world, to slowly deteriorate.
HAASAN,
Affection Is sweet reward.
WHO SAID
“l am not a Virginian but
an American”
HAP Patrick Henry lived [0 years
later than he did, would we have
clung to his assertion that he was a
citizen of the United States, rathe:
than of Virginia?
It was on this question of whether
the citizens of the United States were
citizens of the nation or of the state
in which they lived that the Civil war
was fought and finally decided In
favor of those helding to the theory
here enunciated by Patrick Henry,
Of course, Patrick Henry lived be-
fore the real development of the na-
tion Into states, They were hut loose-
ly organized colonies before the Revo-
lutionary war and their structure had
not changed greatly before death
claimed the renowned orator. Had
Patrick Henry lived later in the his.
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BBREVIATED
STORY
tory of his country It is quite likely
that his Intense love for Virginia
would have caused him to alter the
declaration quoted above,
Patrick Henry was born in Virginia
In 1736. He was given a good educa-
tion and in 1760 he was admitted to
the bar of his native state. Henry's
ability soon became evident, No other
public speaker of his time could sur-
pass him in his hold upon his audience
and his Impassioned addresses played
a prominent part In lining up the col-
onists against the British, He was
one of the most bitter opponents of
the Stamp Act and it was his repeated
speeches against it that made its en-
forcement practically impossible,
The declaration best remem-
bered of this orator is the famous one:
“I know not what course others may
take; but as for me give me liberty or
give me death.”
Patrick Henry died in 1790. —Wayne
D, McMurray.
(® George Matthew Adams.)
sesso Proms —
Sign for Manuscript
MS means manuscript. MSS is sim-
ply the plural, meaning more than one,
M.M. means Maelzel's Metronome. It
Is wrong to suppose that it stands for
Metronome Mark, although of course
the letters may be so Interpreted, but
then they stand for a number of other
words
one
nlso,
—
MOST WELCOME
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
A
——
FAME, pass me by, and, wealth, elude
My eager grasp, and what's all that?
The stare Is often only rude,
And greatness only wondered at.
I would be great another way,
S80 great that other men would say,
“I never knew a man so kind,
For such a friend you seldom find.”
Yes, wealth, elude my eager hand,
And will it matter, after all?
Who builds upon the golden sand
May only build a house to fall,
I would be rich another way,
So rich that other men would say,
“Though Httle is the wealth he
spends, .
No mortal has so many friends”
Yes, wealth, elude, fame, pass me hy,
Though both a man may well desire
But let me know that always I
Am welcome at another's fire.
I would be famous in a way,
So famous other men would say,
“Though Croesus
host,
He Is the one they welcome most”
Me
come, a king
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Xo days ago 1 was a
brown pencil, hale and hearty and
of full stature, with my name, “Writs.
easy, No. 6,” printed on my sleek side
In letters of purest gold. I hadn't a
single care In the world, and my heart
was full of love for all human beings
~for was it not to humans that I
owed ny lovely shape, my long sturdy
bar of unbroken lead and my soft, firm
wood?
Today I am
stump without
a miserable abandoned
even a point,
cruelly hacked off, even
the capital W,
For a woman tried to sharpen me
to
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matter with the
that I fainted from
and awoke a scraggy
At pain and
cast
of my former self
And a confirmed hater.
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woman
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MENTAL ATMOSPHERE
gard to your idea of peace of
apart from wealth
you will soon or late discover
that the mental atmosphere in which
you move from day to day has a great
to do with your happiness,
You cannot
lightful
mind,
quite and
deal
those de
peace, joy
requently to the
experience
of
seasons
souls
|
are all about you, walting for you to
clasp them in your hands, press them
own.
You may grope for a solution of life's
problems year after year, but you will
not find it until you climb to the hill-
tops and get In a cleaner atmosphere
which has a mystic way of its own
In clearing the vision and lightening
the heart, even when the skies all
ACROSS THE WAY
Sui
The young lady across the way says
she always has stood and always will
ttand for the open window In China.
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around you are hung with sombrous
Rray curtains.
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living in a
where mind substance is purified and
molded into unusual forms, which in
rough right
their sim and beauty arouse
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the admiration of the world,
You may have priceless talents, but
they eannot long
atmosp!
rose, they must have the }
shine, pure rain and
velop their full sweetness:
an atm
proper growth
You may
survive In a tainted
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the dew,
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and devel
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ninds and burnish it by constant use
and rubbing, it will sicken, mildew an¢
n which life
to despair.
If you would have understanding. i
frank interest in accomplishment, two
or three good friends and success
measure, you must
continvously In an
and
uncorrupted
live
through this world will
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Mother's
Is life worth living? 1 think that
Question has been answered for good
and all. The cost has been more than
doubled. and we still hang on.—Louls-
{ ville Courier-Journal
SAVORY FOODS
FLANK steak, when carefully pre.
pared, makes a most appetizing
dish. Pound the meat until the fibers
are well broken, rub with three table
spooafuls of butter or cooking oll;
when the oil is absorbed fry in a hot
iron frying pan. Place the browned
meat in a casserole, rinse out the pan
with two tablespoonfuls of boiling wa-
ter and pour it over the meat Add
one bayleaf, one clove of garlle, two
tenspoonfuls of salt, two tablespoon
fuls each of minced celery, green pep
per and carrot. Add two cupfuls of
boiling water and in the last half hour
of cooking six medium-sized potatoes,
Cook two and one-half hours. Thicken
with a tablespoonful of flour mixed
with a little cold water,
Savory Casserole of Mutton,
Cut a slice of mutton from the mid
dle pagt of the leg of a yearling
have the slice two Inches thick. Re
move the bone and fill the cavity with
minced onion or celery. Dredge with
flour and salt and pepper. Prepare i»
the bottom of casserole a rich gravy
of one cupful of brown stock, one-half
cupfal of currant Jelly, a dozen
chopped olives, six peppercorns, three
whole cloves, one tablespoonful of
lemon julce. Thicken when bolling
with one tablespoonful of flour mixed
with a little water, to a paste. Lay
into this the round of mutton. spread
ool Book
the top with beef marrow, cover the
casserole and bake for an hour and a
half In a moderate oven,
Fowl Supreme.
Clean and cut up a six-pound fowl,
leaving the breast In one piece, Add
salt and steam one and one-hal? hours
Remove the breast, leaving the re
mainder of the meat to cook. Place
the breast skin-side up In a casserole
without water. Put on the cover and
cook one hour. De not remove the
cover while cooking, as the steam es
capes and also the flavor and the ment
will be toughened. Cut the dark meat
into cubes and add to a pint of white
sauce. Place the breast on a serving
dish with a head of cooked ecaulifiow-
er; surround with sauce and garnish
with toast points,
Chicken and Spinach Soup.
Wash und pick over two pounds +f
spinach and cook In one-half capful of
butter until tender.” Add one-half cup
ful of flour, mixed with salt and pep
per to season. When thick rad
through a colander and add two quart;
of chicken stock, When it comes to
a boll serve In cups garnished with
whipped cream,
Blushing Apples.
Cook after washing and coring good
flavored apples. Fill the centers with
cinnamon candles, basting during the
Toi Mor west.
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